Vega Protocol’s Barney Mannerings & Dave Hrycyszyn — Democratising Financial Derivatives



Vega are building an open blockchain and protocol for performant leveraged derivatives trading on any underlying asset. Vega brings the benefits of bitcoin and other crypto-assets to financial derivatives — permissionless trading, censorship resistance, and independence from middle men.



Barney Mannerings and Dave Hrycyszyn will present on the design and implementation of the Vega Protocol, from the importance of the opportunity to the unique challenges of building a professional quality decentralised trading, risk management, and settlement platform.



About Barney:

Barney has built trading systems for numerous top banks and exchanges, worked with and written software for bitcoin and blockchain for 5 years, and founded a payments startup in 2016.



About Dave:

Dave has led software projects for some of the world's largest organisations. His code is used by hundreds of millions of people.



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Doors open at 18:00hrs

Presentations start at 18:30hrs

Followed by networking over drinks and pizza



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With thanks to our group sponsors, eToro



eToro is a global investment platform which offers stocks, indices, ETFs, currencies and cryptocurrencies to over 9 million clients.



As one of the largest cryptocurrency platforms in the world, eToro allows clients to invest in three seperate ways. Firstly you can manually buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, XRP, Bitcoin Cash, Stellar, NEO, Ethereum Classic and Dash. Secondly, for those with a lack of experience or time, clients can automatically copy the trades of eToro’s most successful experts. Lastly, for those who want to invest in a selection of cryptos, this is made possible with eToro’s Crypto CopyFund which contains cryptos based on market capitalisation.



For more info, please visit www.eToro.com



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And some more for our venue sponsors, We Work



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Please note: We welcome all of our innovative founders to share their ideas at Coinscrum and also love our sponsors to bits.



However, their presentations or services provided do not infer any kind of endorsement by Coinscrum, its organisers or Scrumline Ltd of any possible investment opportunity via their products and services or in any related ICO (Initial Coin Offering).



Crypto-tokens are a high risk investment and you should always carry out your own thorough research and due diligence before deciding whether or not to invest yourself.



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