We're happy to announce a half-day event in Foster City on Oct 22nd with Vitalik Buterin, Juan Benet, Fred Ehrsam, Alessandro Chiesa, Jae Kwon, and more.



Vitalik (https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin?lang=en)will talk about the mauve paper, including its proof-of-stake consensus and scalability features. He will review the economic incentives of the mauve paper (http://vitalik.ca/files/mauve_paper3.html), including the effective interest and inflation rates.



Juan Benet (https://twitter.com/juanbenet?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) will present Filecoin (http://filecoin.io/), including economic mechanisms to ensure long-term storage in IPFS (https://ipfs.io/). He will also give an update on IPFS. Juan is the founder of IPFS and Filecoin.



Fred Ehrsam (https://twitter.com/fehrsam) will speak on protocol tokens (such as Filecoin!) which implement decentralized protocols with economic incentives. Fred is a co-founder of Coinbase.



Alessandro Chiesa (http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alexch/) will present the "State of the SNARK"; he'll talk on the current state of succinct zero knowledge argument constructions. He will also discuss plans for the libsnark (https://github.com/scipr-lab/libsnark) library. Alessandro is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley.



Jae Kwon (https://twitter.com/jaekwon) will give a brief analysis of the Mauve paper and the proof-of-stake mechanisms it provides. Jae is the founder of Tendermint (http://tendermint.com/).



Lunch will be provided.