IN THIS UPDATE

• Predictions for 2023: A Technology Perspective
• Applied Blockchain Podcast #2 - David Engel from StarkWare
• StarkWare Sessions 23 | The Future of Enterprise Finance
• Upcoming Events
• Opinion: Coinbase Launches Base

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Predictions for 2023: A Technology Perspective

One of our roles as technologists is to make technology understandable so that individuals and organisations can make informed decisions. Blockchain technology continues evolving and redefining how we think about money, ownership of physical and digital assets, identity, and community.

In 2015 we began adopting blockchain technology and recommending it to our clients, initially banks, because of the technical efficiencies that we saw. No other technology enables the digital exchange of value in a technically secure manner (when used correctly) with so few actors and steps. This remains our North Star. We believe that technological efficiency brings value, and history demonstrates that it is very difficult to stop once efficiency is understood.

Click to read the full report and see our predictions for 2023.

APPLIED BLOCKCHAIN PODCAST #2

StarkWare is one of the most exciting companies in the space, founded by Eli Ben-Sasson, inventor of ZK Starks, the quantum resistant zero-knowledge proof.

In this episode of the Applied Blockchain Podcast, Adi Ben-Ari is at the StarkWare Sessions 2023 event in Tel Aviv, where he speaks with David Engel, Head of Business Development at StarkWare.

David shares how he got started in Web3 at Amazon and then StarkWare, what is meant by layers 1,2 and 3, how they work and examples of their use cases.

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StarkWare Sessions 23 | The Future of Enterprise Finance

At the StarkWare Sessions 2023 event in Tel-Aviv, Adi Ben-Ari, Founder and CEO of Applied Blockchain, joined an expert panel moderated by David Engel of StarkWare. They discussed enterprise finance and how some enterprises are now re-engaging with the technology.

Applied Blockchain previously attended StarkWare Sessions in Tel Aviv in 2019, when there was barely a platform. Our team was back this year, this time as a sponsor and speaker, to be part of the ZK rollup revolution.

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ETH Denver

Shawn Derouard, Solution Architect at Applied Blockchain will attend ETHDenver, the world's largest and longest-running ETH event. The community-owned innovation festival includes a buildathon, conference, workshops, and more.

If you plan to be in Denver March 1st-6th please reach out to Shawn on LinkedIn.

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ETH Porto

We are proud to support Porto’s first ETH event ETHPorto, which includes a 48-hour Hackathon, workshops, and a conference.

There will be dedicated workshops with skilled mentors, including our very own CTO, Francesco Canessa, to assist and advise participants with their challenges.

Francesco will deliver a workshop titled ‘Exploring the Eth blockchain with Web3.py’.

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OPINION: Coinbase Launches Base

When we first read about Coinbase launching it’s own L2 (“Base”) we were very excited. Coinbase is an amazing business, with over 100m registered crypto users.

We thought: this is exactly what we’ve been waiting for and predicting. Centralised exchanges using the newly available technology to make their platforms more secure: Having their own L2 where exchange trades can be executed at scale with a great UX and self-custody, where users have technical guarantees that their assets are safe. This is how we prevent another FTX.

That’s not exactly what Coinbase has done...

‍Adi Ben-Ari on LinkedIn: Coinbase Launches Layer 2 Blockchain Base to Provide On-Ramp for Ethereum,… | 42 comments

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