Epic Web3 – events in AI and Web3 industries

Starkware plans to cut gas costs by roughly 90% with Starknet’s Volition💰

Wanna build like them?

Then be sure to visit the keynote by Ben Goebel, Exploration Engineer @ Starkware, at Epic ETH Infra day during ETHDenver

📍March 1st, Denver

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35% of businesses have adopted AI. 77% of devices in use feature some form of AI

Seems like everyone is using AI now.

So how can you implement it too?

Learn at Epic AI Dev Summit - a practical online conference for AI apps and infrastructure developers.

It’ll show you how to utilize AI effectively and be on top of the game.

Discover how to develop AI apps and LLMs, craft your own AI Agents, amplify your coding skills with AI, utilize vector databases, work with RAG, and more.

With:
Thomas Scialom, AI Research Scientist from Meta's Llama-2
Yujian Tang, Developer Advocate @ Zilliz
Or Gorodissky, VP R&D @ D-ID
Akshaya Aradhya, Senior Director Of Engineering @ GitHub Copilot
Yuval Belfer, Developer Advocate @ AI21 Labs

And many other great speakers

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What are the best types of events to attract developers to your project?

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Top 3 features of Layers 3. From Vince Yang, Co-founder @ zk.Link

🏘 Layer 3 is built on top of Layer 2. It processes and posts transactions, and in some implementations, it can interact directly with Layer 1.

zk.Link Nexus is one of the Layers 3. It uses zk-SNARKs and can integrate with diverse general-purpose zk-rollups.

👮 Layer 3s need to inherit security from Layer 1s and 2s, address challenges in achieving state consistency, and be competitive in terms of performance and cost-effectiveness to gain adoption.

📊 Layer 3s is gonna compete with Layer 2s because they face the same problems: limited developers, limited attention, and limited bandwidth.

Layer 3 has to come with very obvious advantages that solve real problems of developers because Layer 2s in general have a bigger voice and have a bigger ecosystem. Hence, Layer 3s have to be competitive in terms of performance and cost.

Without data availability your project is outdated.

How to implement it?

Learn at Epic ETH Day @ ETHDenver!

Don't miss your chance to visit keynotes from Celestia, Consensys, Polygon, Oasis, StarkWare, NEAR and Taiko!

📍March 1st, Denver

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3 key takeaways from the podcast on the future of crypto with Raza Rython, Head of Devrel @ Scroll:

📊The transaction finality and processing phases on networks like Scroll can be game-changers for developers looking at Layer 2 solutions.

🏘Community-focused initiatives like events and hackathons are pivotal in fostering growth and innovation within the Web3 space.

🔐Advancements in ZK roll-ups are unlocking new realms of possibility, especially in on-chain gaming, promising a blend of performance, security, and deeper user engagement.

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🚀Is the era of offline events over?

Discover the future of crypto with Raza Rython, the Head of Devrel Scroll with sigma hosts @latenightalex and @ayyyeandy

- Top ways to onboard more developers.
- What’s the future of gaming in Web3?
- Why EVM-compatibility is a must!
- What's next for virtual machines?

Don't miss out on these insights! Tune in to learn, grow, and stay ahead in the tech game.

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3 lessons from ​Dave Weisiger, Head of Devrel @ Taiko on scaling Layer 2s:

🛜We need a composable shared network of horizontal Layer 2s that share the same security and share the same bridge and have good bridging between them.

🤖New precompiles can enhance L2 functionality in the context of Ethereum scaling.

🏍New type of rollups will increase scalability. Booster roll-up is a roll-up that executes transactions as if they were executing it on the L1, except it's doing it on L2.

3 ways for Web3 to help AI

🖥Federated Learning: This method trains AI models on distributed data sets without sharing the data itself. Models are updated locally, and only aggregated model parameters are shared across nodes.

🔗Blockchain-based AI: Blockchain technology can provide a secure and tamper-proof infrastructure for managing data and AI models in a decentralized manner.

🔒Distributed and zero-knowledge Machine Learning: DML and ZKML techniques distribute the training and inference of AI models across multiple nodes, minimizing the reliance on centralized servers.

The future of virtual machines in Web3

The space will diverge into two different kinds of architecture:

The first one is general-purpose architectures like RISC and WASM.

The second one is blockchain-specific architectures like the FuelVM and EVM.

The blockchain virtual machines will win because we can extract much more performance out of the machine.

After all, it's designed around what we're using blockchains for, which is things like assets.

From Nick Dodson, CEO & Co-founder @ Fuel

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Why is it important to stay EVM-compatible?

How to attract devs to the ecosystem?

Is gaming driving the bull market?

Find out on Epic Web3 Podcast!

Featuring Raza Rython, Head of DevRel from Scroll

(a teaser of the upcoming episode)

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If you’re not using AI in your Web3 project, you’re falling behind

NEAR Protocol launched AI Marketplace last November.

Zerion uses AI in antifraud systems.

The Graph AI automates the process of creating and updating price models.

But following all trends is hard. Especially if you’re new to AI.

That’s why we made Epic AI Dev Summit - a practical online conference for AI apps and infrastructure developers.

It’ll show you how to utilize AI effectively and be on top of the game.

Book your ticket here. Hurry the number is limited:
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- Thomas Scialom, PhD — AI Research Scientist, Llama-2 lead Meta
- Akshaya Aradhya — Senior Director Of Engineering GitHub
- Julien SIMON — Chief Evangelist Hugging Face
- Daron Yondem — Azure Application Innovation Tech Lead Microsoft
- Sophia Xing — Head of Product, AI/ML Inworld AI
- Yujian Tang — Developer Advocate Zilliz
- Hassen Dhrif, PhD — Senior Director of AI Writer
- Eran Yahav — CTO Tabnine
- James Le - Head of Developer Experience Twelve Labs
- Goga Lampropoulou — Senior Engineering Director Persado
- Igor Akimov - AI Solutions Product Lead Wrike
- Frank Munz — Principal Technical Marketing Engineer Databricks
- Tobias Zwingmann — Partner RAPYD.AI
- Parth Shah - Director of Engineering Primer.ai
- Zhe Zhang — Head of Open Source Engineering Anyscale
- Andrew Mende — Senior ML Product Manager Booking.com
- John Alexander — Director of Technical Marketing Domino Data Lab
- Stepan Gershuni — VC Principal cyber•Fund
- Shivam Trivedi — Solutions Architect Glean
- Anand M — Director Data Engineering & Analytics AppZen

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Best programming language for blockchain?💻

Nick Dodson, CEO & Co-founder Fuel Labs, on why they developed Sway Language and how they will grow it

From Epic Web3 Podcast with chad hosts Alex Pisarevski & Andy Cavanaugh

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Top Web3 Trends in 2024🌟

From Bogdan Habic, Co-Founder and CTO at Tenderly

📊Ethereum scalability improves

With the Cancun-Deneb upgrade and EIP-4844, also known as Proto-Danksharding, just around the corner, the scalability and efficiency of the Ethereum network will greatly increase.

It’s the first step in increasing the network’s number of transactions per second, allowing for higher traffic. It will also introduce several EIPs to lower the cost of on-chain data storage, optimize block space, and improve the structure of cross-chain bridges.

💻RaaS and Appchains

As we witness the greater proliferation of open-source, modular development frameworks and stacks for building blockchain solutions like the OP stack, Arbitrum Orbit, Polygon Superchain, Avalanche Subnets, and Cosmos SDK, combined with the previously mentioned and important Ethereum upgrade, we’re on the side that will see an ever greater number of application-specific chains or rollups springing to action which will further greatly support Ethereum scalability and the overall blockchain ecosystem.

⛓Multichain interoperability

Web3 is already multichain due to EVM interoperability, connectivity, and network effect.

"We strongly believe that we will have many rollups and appchains that will further contribute to the multichain future through EVM interoperability. This will also positively impact the scalability part of the trilemma without sacrificing the security aspect of it."

Why Rust and Solidity are not efficient for blockchain development?
From Nick Dodson, CEO and co-founder of Fuel

💰Solidity has a lot of shortcomings. Firstly, it was designed in a very fragmented way.

Secondly, It was launched very early to solve a problem, which was "How do we build things on Ethereum?".

But it wasn't really holistically designed for either security or just application design, safe application design in general.

🦀Rust and its toolchain are primarily designed for CPUs, not blockchains. Using a systems language for blockchain doesn't feel good.

The toolchain's optimizations and checks are designed for CPU-specific features like caching, which are useless for blockchain, making the toolchain unsuitable for this purpose.

What's the future of the virtual machines?

Only EVM will survive? Or we're going to see a lot of VMs?

Learn from Nick Dodson, co-founder and CEO @ Fuel

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3 insights from Near’s workshop on data availability from ETH Infra Day

Data availability is data that is stored on a network is accessible and retrievable by all network participants.

🚗The main challenge is throughput. If you do it with a lot of participants in a decentralized manner, you run into the problem that not everybody will be able to download all the data.

🧮Data availability is important for rollups. it allows them to trustlessly verify the correctness of computations performed off-chain

💰Using DA is cheaper. For example, Near's data availability layer is 1000x cheaper than posting data directly to Ethereum.

Monolithic design is DEAD?
From Nick Dodson, CEO & co-founder Fuel Labs (with our awesome hosts Alex Pisarevski and Andy Cavanaugh)

The new Epic Web3 Podcast is OUT. Check it out below:
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Why is data availability important for rollups?

Keynote from Firat Sertgoz, Engineering Manager at NEAR

Monolithic blockchain design is dead? Modular blockchains are going to take over 2024?

The new Epic Web3 Podcast with Nick Dodson, Co-founder and CEO of Fuel Labs is live now!

In this episode:

- How to design a scalable blockchain?
- Why Rust and Solidity are not good for onchain?
- What trends to look out for in 2024?

Listen below!
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