Our next ETHEREUM DEV NL meetup will be hosted by Blocklab in Rotterdam (at CIC; next to Rotterdam Central Station). We hope to see you all on December 4th. Our host [BlockLab] has informed us they will make sure there will be plenty of pizza and drinks!!



Address and directions:

CIC Rotterdam [A-Building]

Stationsplein 45, 4th floor

3013 AK Rotterdam



With Public transportation: When you exit the Central station from the front, the 'Groot Handelsgebouw' will be located on your right side. CIC Rotterdam is located on the 4th floor of the Groot Handelsgebouw.



By Car: If you are coming by car, there is a parking garage under the building navigate to Conradstraat, Rotterdam for the entrance of the parking garage. Once parked you can take the elevator from the A-part of the building to the 4th floor.



Introduction by our host Blocklab



By: Ilhan Ünlü (Blocklab)

BlockLab puts blockchain technology into practice. Rooted in the Port and the City of Rotterdam BlockLab develops use cases with alliances of engineers, developers, system players and end users. BlockLab's focus is on energy and logistics – the first being Rotterdam’s biggest challenge, the latter our greatest strength. Capacity building and internationalization are supportive tracks. BlockLab is a subsidiary of the Port of Rotterdam, co-founded by the City of Rotterdam. As a Smart Industries Fieldlab BlockLab is embedded in a regional innovation ecosystem; with the Port Authority BlockLab unlocks a global network; BlockLab also participates in the Dutch Blockchain Coalition. is a subsidiary of the Port of Rotterdam, co-founded by the City of Rotterdam.



Building on top of Ethereum protocols and projects like 0x, Raiden and Gnosis



By: Walter Thoen (Flashboys B.V.)

Flashboys has built a few proof of concepts on top of Ethereum-based protocols and projects like 0x, Raiden and Gnosis. In this presentation they will show some of these projects and share their experiences.



Building an Ethereum block explorer



By: Dave Hoogendoorn & Emiel van der Hoek (openAware BV)

Why would you build another block explorer? What does it take to build a block explorer? In addition to answering these questions, this presentation will go into some of the technical details and challenges that were encountered during this project, such as setting up nodes, selecting the right RPC-calls, and various performance bottlenecks.



Plus 3 x 15 Minute Lightning Talks



• INTEGRATING BUSINESS NETWORKS | by UNCHAIN.IO

Blockchain as a shared business process & embedding it in an organization.



• BUILDING MARKET PLACES ON TOP OF ETHEREUM | by SWARM CITY

The Swarm City API as a generic DApp accelerator.

Keywords: Ethereum, IPFS, Whisper, Smart contracts, Websockets & Docker.



• BUILDING THE FUTURE OF CHARITY | by Giveth

How Giveth brings transparency to charity with LiquidPledging contracts.



Show and Tell



Like every time, we'll also have room for a number of mini-talks: 5-minute demos, or even just pitches for a project you’re working on, or planning to work on. No slides required.



Want to present too? Message Emiel by using the Organizers Contact button in the left navigation bar (or at the top in the mobile web app).



New to development on Ethereum?



We welcome new people to the meetup, we do ask however that you do some effort beforehand to familiarise yourself with Ethereum. These videos are a good start:



Gavin Wood, Ethereum for dummies



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_LK0t_qaPo



Vitalik Buterin, Understanding the Ethereum Blockchain protocol...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjwr-7PgpN8



... and the updated 2017 edition: Ethereum in 25 minutes



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCzyDLanA7s



Building a distributed application (dapp) for web developers: backend contract code



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seU7DykOxfc



User interaction in a Dapp browser



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPpi9BPkRbo



Javascript frontend



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij5tGo8cp80