A hackathon and weekly Summits throughout October

At the beginning of October, we invited the Ethereum community to join us at ETHOnline, ETHGlobal’s largest event of 2020.

Now that the month has concluded, we can say it was amazing to see the community participate throughout the month. ETHOnline was an event completely different from anything we’ve done before, made successful by the wholehearted support by the Ethereum community.

Read on for summaries of the Summits, Hackathon, and more on what the ETHGlobal team will be bringing the community next.

ETHOnline Summits

This was a series of weekly summits held every Friday that focused on different areas of the Ethereum Ecosystem. If you missed any of the talks, playlists of the talks are linked below. …

Reproduced from this thread. “FALSE SEQUENTIALITY” credit to Danny Ryan.

The eth1 >> eth2 naming convention implies SEQUENTIALITY: aka things are strictly ordered. In reality, there will be some overlap during the transition — and that’s ok. #serenity (disclaimer: phases not set to a timescale, this is a possible future, not official)

Key Points: — ETH1x: existing user data, your favorite dapps will continue to exist unchanged until Phase 1.5. — Deposit contract state bootstraps Phase 0 Genesis from ETH1x

Phase 0: Once enough ETH is sent to the contract, the Beacon Chain will begin. Validators will only be responsible for running the BC itself. Client teams will use this time to harden their clients, improve performance, and start implementing future phases. …

The permissionless nature of Ethereum has costs — but it’s necessary & beneficial

TLDR;

Ethereum is technically, socially, and politically permissionless — meaning anyone can access these layers. Though this openness introduces costs to the community, it is what makes Ethereum such a dynamic ecosystem. We must always remember this reality and not be dissuaded or distracted from what we are building: a global arena for cooperative games.

Introduction

In their “Ethereum is a Dark Forest” article, Dan Robinson and Georgios Konstantopoulos drew a comparison between Ethereum’s adversarial environment and the concept of a “dark forest.” …

A summary of ETHGlobal’s first online, long-form event

It’s been a few weeks since the HackMoney Finale and we are still taking it all in. As ETHGlobal’s first online, long-form event, we were entering into a new environment at the same time as hackers. Suffice it to say, HackMoney blew past our expectations. Here are some high level metrics:

• > 300 hackers submitted projects
• 65 countries were represented in hacker applications
• 120 projects were submitted (check out every project in the the HackMoney Showcase)

HackMoney was only possible with the support of an amazing group of elite sponsors. They make it possible for our team to run an event that is free for attendees with rich programming and support for hackers along the way. …

Welcome to Survey Spotlight, where we take responses to the
ETHGlobal developer survey and expand them into a blog post.
Spotlight #3 features Vitalik Buterin and a few of his survey responses.

Vitalik is the inventor and one of the cofounders of Ethereum. Currently, he works with the Ethereum 2.0 (Serenity) team as a protocol researcher.

Haven’t filled out the survey yet yourself? 👉 ETHGlobal Developer Survey

Everyone who completes it is eligible to win:

• 💰 1 of 10 prizes of 100 DAI -
• ✈️ 1 of 3 free return flights to an ETHGlobal event
• 🎟 1 of 2 free tickets to Devcon…

Welcome to Survey Spotlight, where we take responses to the ETHGlobal developer survey and expand them into a blog post. Spotlight #2 features Aparna Krishnan and a few of her survey responses.

Aparna is a cofounder of Opyn, a recently launched platform for DeFi protection and risk management. Previously, she was the co-founder of Mechanism Labs — an open source blockchain research lab. Aparna also founded Blockchain at Berkeley, and was awarded a Thiel Fellowship in 2018.

Haven’t filled out the survey yet yourself? 👉 ETHGlobal Developer Survey

Everyone who completes it is eligible to win:

• 💰 1 of 10 prizes of 100 DAI…

Welcome to Survey Spotlight, where we take a response to the ETHGlobal developer survey and expand them into a blog post. Spotlight #1 features Austin Griffith and a few of his responses.

If you haven’t already, please share your perspective and background: ETHGlobal Developer Survey

While you may know him as the guy behind the Burner Wallet, Austin had been tinkering with Ethereum for a while before that. He is currently working with the Ethereum Foundation to strengthen the developer ecosystem. Let’s explore some of his responses!

When the lightbulb goes off and you have a great idea for something to build, what are your next steps? …

The third ETHDenver hackathon took place over February 14–16, resulting in an amazing assortment of projects submitted by hackers. For the second year running, the organisers constructed a pop-up economy for a few days that let attendees transact with vendors or donate to charities. Splunk and Whiteblock worked together to support and visualise this payment network. Watch the video below or read on to see how it all worked.