Seoul and Singapore Host Crypto Leaders at Epoch Summit

Blockchain infrastructure conference at two events in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region Age Summit It brought together amazing speakers from leading crypto projects to discuss the future of the space.

One One-day event held in Seoul Within the scope of Korea Blockchain Week and Two-day conference in SingaporeAt the Epoch Summit, speakers from projects such as Consensys, Lido, Uniswap, Worldcoin, Berachain and Mantle came together to explore blockchain infrastructure in the APAC region and beyond.

A41 CEO John Park opened the conference in Singapore. in question He said the goal of the event was to “cover open finance, stateless money, or how people are trying to imagine the future with less reliance on government or companies using blockchain.” To do this, he explained, the conference explores the broader blockchain infrastructure landscape beyond A41’s focus on liquid staking, with speakers covering topics such as zero-knowledge technology, account abstraction, and dark pools.

In a speech on the subject The Future of Block Building“We need to focus on L1 because we’ve neglected it for too long,” said Max Resnick, Head of Research at the Special Mechanisms Group. “The best thing to do would be to focus all our attention on scaling L1, making it faster, making it more competitive with some new blockchains, and leveraging network effects,” he added.

Francesco Andreolí, President of ConsenSys Developer Community, was praised “Personalised experiences” enabled by Snaps, third-party applications for the Web3 wallet MetaMask. “You’ll have different customized journeys, pre-configured wallets so people don’t even know what they’re doing at what level,” he said.

Meanwhile, Worldcoin’s Head of Blockchain, Remco Bloeman, took to the stage in Singapore. to dispute How securely multi-party computing (SMPC) can be used to scale data privacy. “We quickly approached linear MPC in a semi-decent scenario, mostly because it gave us the performance we needed,” Bloeman explained. He added that to address the “soft trust assumption” inherent in semi-honest MPC, Worldcoin is turning to trusted execution environments (TEEs) for verification.

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes at Epoch’s Seoul event discussed We see how high-frequency traders perform arbitrage between centralized and decentralized exchanges by taking advantage of the latency of DEX price oracles. “Typically most DEXs have a one to five second lag time on oracle updates, which means you are always behind the Binances of the world,” he said.

Although this continues, he explained, DEXs “will never be price makers.” “This is a delayed arbitrage game.” He argued that the pendulum will only swing towards DEXs after “more and more people are de-platforming CEXs because they have the wrong passport and need somewhere else to trade”.

To talk decryptA41 CEO John Park looked forward to a “more technical” focus at next year’s edition of the conference, saying: “We want people coming to Epoch this year to experience how things are evolving.”

He explained that getting an overview of technical progress in blockchain through research papers can be a “burden” and that the Epoch Summit offers an opportunity for “face-to-face” discussion. “I think people can flesh it out and experience it and then learn about it,” he added.