Track 1: How EOSIO can help solve LATAM’s problems

Since it was the first time the EOS Community Conference was hosted in Brazil, a South American and 3rd-world country, we wanted to dedicate the first track of the conference to educate and call attention to the problems we face and how blockchain, specifically EOSIO, can solve them.

Lecture II — The State of Blockchain in LATAM

Speaker: Alberto Guerrero [CEO — EOS Venezuela]

Alberto gave an overview of the economic situation in Venezuela and why blockchain is so relevant for Latin America, promoving alternative methods of payment with freedom and transparency.

Alberto also presented FamilyEOS, a project using EOSIO, dedicated to helping low-income families in Venezuela go through the country’s crisis.

Lecture III — Mutual Loan

Speaker: Sebastian Valdecantos [EOS Argentina]

Continuing on the momentum on why EOSIO can bring a lot of change to the LATAM ecosystem, Sebastian enlighted us about the concept of mutual loan and community currencies.

He explained Moneda Par, a project he has been working on with EOS Argentina. Moneda Par is establishing community currencies with zero interest rates, amid local communities suffering from Argentina’s economic recession.

Panel A — Approaches do Stablecoins

Host: Matías Romeo [EOS Argentina]

Participants:

– Myles Snider [Greymass]

– Alex Melikhov [Equilibrium]

– Jun Dam [100x & Bitcash]

Myles started a project called the stablecoin index to compare all current stablecoins, and was interested in stablecoins since BitShares old days. Alex is the CEO of Equilibrium, a framework to create stablecoins backed by digital assets. Jun is the founder of Bitcash, a collateralized stablecoin system.

Together with the host Matías, they enlightened the audience about the specifics of stablecoins, compared their project’s models and other project models, and told the importance of stablecoins in blokchain.