Upcoming Events: This Week in Crypto NYC
We're here to cut through the noise and keep you in the loop about upcoming events that you shouldn't miss.
Tomorrow: Blockchain Made Safe and Simple | Two Years of Pact
Wednesday, November 14th, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm (Free)
"Stuart Popejoy, Kadena's cofounder and creator of Pact, designed a simple, purpose-built scripting language for traders during his time at JP Morgan that sped up their ability to make trades and didn't require a programming background. It was this insight into the value that could be achieved by empowering business leaders with an intuitive language tool that informed his design of Kadena's smart contract language. Stuart led JP Morgan's Emergent Technologies group researching blockchain, where he met Will Martino and spun out their project Juno into Kadena's first private blockchain. At this Meetup, Stuart will be giving a live demo on how to transfer your business logic onto a smart contract using the Pact smart contracting language. No programming knowledge is required to understand this demo because the Pact smart contract language is meant to be human readable and easily understood. This Meetup also marks the two year anniversary that we open-sourced Pact to the public, which has been instrumental to Kadena's continued growth and development."
Location: Distributed Global, 16 Vestry St (4th Floor), New York, NY
Saturday: Let’s build a Decentralized Electronic Health Record for Immunization Records
Saturday, November 17th, 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm (Free)
"MedHacks #1: Decentralized Immunization Records. If you would like to host, please reach out! We will have a 7-hour mini-hackathon to see if we can create a decentralized immunization record Dapp that allows the user to own and share their records in a data interoperable manner. We will use the Linnia Protocol, React, Solidity and other tools.The goal is to let a patient be able to permit a doctor to see their records in the immunization data interoperable way as well as being able to add and attest to the data. As a stretch goal, there should be functionality that allows data scientists to ask anonymous patients to share data in a secure and private manner. Doctors, developers, data scientists, Front-end designers, electronic health record specialists, medical billers, front-end developers and interested students are all welcomed! This will be the first in a series of mini-hackathon to build decentralised medical applications that place the patient in control of their data. We intend to continue to work on this after the hackathon and turn it into an open source project for the wider community to experiment and collaborate with."
Location: Think Coffee, 73 8th Ave, New York, NY
Next Week: GCT Startup-in-Residence 2019 Program
Deadline for applications is November 19th
"What is the GCT Startup-in-Residence? It isn’t an accelerator, incubator, or studio. It’s a year-long residency that gathers 15-20 of the very best pre-Series A companies in NYC at Company HQ, provides them free work space (or private offices), allows them to build amongst a world-class peer founder network, expects them to abide by a shared set of values, and otherwise gets out of the way.We select teams with deep domain expertise and experience who appreciate that success is never foretold and who value the bespoke support of an embedded community of operators and a seasoned venture development team. These key ingredients have proven immensely helpful to GCT founders over the past 4 years and we look forward to bringing them to bear for a new crop of talented founders in 2019. Please note that applications are due on November 19th for the 2019 cohort, which kicks off in January and runs through December. Decisions will be determined by December 1st."
Location: Grand Central Tech, 335 Madison Ave, New York, NY, 10017
Upcoming: Blockchains & The Future of Organizations
Thursday, November 29th, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ($15)
Techstars, Crypto NYC and Common Interest are happy to invite you to a stellar discussion and panel on Blockchains & the Future of Organizations. Blockchain technology holds the potential to revolutionize the very nature of organizations and the firm as we know them today. It has become possible to align the interests and incentives of users, employees, founders and investors. This alignment and the democratization of equity allows companies to grow faster and users to reap the benefits of that growth. The next super companies like Facebook, Google, Uber and Airbnb are likely to be built on the blockchain. Uber and Airbnb for example are already preparing for the future by officially seeking collaboration with the SEC on the alignment of incentives between the firm and its stakeholders — drivers in the case of Uber, hosts in the case of Airbnb. But how far away are we from democratizing equity? What are today’s legal, technological and financial hurdles that need to be overcome in order to unleash tokenized organizations on a global scale? Five blockchain leaders in the space and a curious blockchain crowd are seeking answers to those and more questions around the “Future of Organizations”. Learn the latest on blockchain regulation, product implementations and investment theories from leading lawyers, builders and investors. The event takes place at “The Alley - Chelsea”.
Location: The Alley, 119 W 24th St, New York, NY, 10011
Ongoing: Blockchains School for Mentors
September 2018 - May 2019
"Blockchains for Schools is city-wide mentorship program that's organizing a once-a-month event in Manhattan for NYC high schoolers to learn about blockchain. They're looking for crypto and blockchain mentors and speakers who work in the industry. Sessions are 11am-12:30pm from September through May. If you're interested in volunteering, sign up using the link above."
Upcoming conferences and summits we're attending (let us know if you are too!):
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LIMITED EDITION CNYC "OG" T-SHIRTS
In collaboration with Nifty.Supply, we're excited to announce the very first CNYC swag! Support Crypto NYC in style with the purchase of our limited edition tee and OG Supporter Token. OG Supporter tokens are non-fungible ERC-721 tokens that will grant owners access to exclusive events and resources in the future!
Shirts and tokens can only be purchased using ether.
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Our Recommended Reads: All the News that's Fit to Hash
Police decrypt 258,000 messages after breaking pricey IronChat crypto app (arstechnica.com)
"Police in the Netherlands said they decrypted more than 258,000 messages sent using IronChat, an app billed as providing end-to-end encryption that was endorsed by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. Update: Through a representative at the American Civil Liberties Union, Snowden said he had never heard of the app until recently and has never endorsed it."
SEC Charges EtherDelta Founder With Operating an Unregistered Exchange (sec.gov)
"Washington D.C., Nov. 8, 2018 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against Zachary Coburn, the founder of EtherDelta, a digital "token" trading platform. This is the SEC's first enforcement action based on findings that such a platform operated as an unregistered national securities exchange. According to the SEC's order, EtherDelta is an online platform for secondary market trading of ERC20 tokens, a type of blockchain-based token commonly issued in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). The order found that Coburn caused EtherDelta to operate as an unregistered national securities exchange."
How to Validate Bitcoin Payments in Ethereum (for only 700k gas!) (medium.com)
"On November 15 at 10 am PT, Summa will run the world’s first cross-chain auction. We’ll auction 10 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Ethereum for Bitcoin in a completely trustless process featuring direct interaction between Solidity smart contracts and Bitcoin payments. These 10 tokens are unique badges of participation in the first cross-chain auction. For a higher-level introduction to our products and instructions on how to participate in our auction, check out this post. Our auctions and smart contracts verify proofs of Bitcoin payment on-chain to power cross-chain communication. This means fast, efficient cross-chain interoperability without oracles, trusted third parties, or centralized exchanges."
Opinion: It’s Time for Online Voting (nytimes.com)
"Using blockchain technology, online voting could boost voter participation and help restore the public’s trust in the electoral process and democracy."
Mattereum, perhaps the world's weirdest and most daring startup, intends to own literally everything (techcrunch.com)
"How’s this for eyebrow-raising? In London, for the last year and a half, a team of lawyers, cryptographers, software engineers, and/or former military consultants have been brewing a bizarre and/or brilliant plan for a bridge between the blockchain and the real world — a system whose success is directly proportional to the extent to which it achieves legal title over every physical object in the world. Wait. Let me explain. Their name is Mattereum, and they are not Bond villains seeking to conquer the planet. Rather, they are trying to bridge the gap between programmable blockchain “smart contracts” and actual legal contracts. As you might imagine, that gap consists of an almost infinitely knotty tangle of legal precedents, gray areas, and jurisdictions."
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We've partnered with HashHub!
HashHub is a co-working space in the heart of Tokyo with it's own development studio that supports and develops blockchain projects.
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Weekly Tuesday Lunches
Our core mission at Crypto NYC is to connect amazing people such as yourself working on blockchain technology. Join us every Tuesday at 1PM to hear industry experts and community members present their findings and latest blockchain projects, and to discuss current events. (Due to space constraints, please sign up for lunches beforehand on our Meetup page.)
New! Our friends at Livepeer are helping livestream our lunch talks. Tune in live at http://crypto.livepeer.tv/.
Join us this afternoon to hear from Amber Baldet of Clovyr. Clovyr offers a unified way to create, deploy, manage and extend applications whether they are destined for the public Ethereum network or a private consortium ledger.
Join us next week to hear from Thibauld Favre of Decusis. Decusis is a fullstack organization helping entrepreneurs learn, connect and succeed in the decentralized space.
To get involved, come visit the Crypto NYC space near Bryant Park, join our Telegram group, and send us suggested events and articles for the next newsletter.
Apply to be a speaker for our Tuesday Lunches!
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That's all for this week, folks. See you back here next week, same block channel, same block time (slightly higher block number). Go forth and decentralize, New Yorkers.
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