Co-hosted by Radius, Four Pillars, ChainLight, and Decipher
The concept of modular blockchains refers to the segmentation of core blockchain functionalities into distinct components. The year 2023 saw the introduction of projects that aimed to innovate within each segmented area. In contrast, 2024 is expected to highlight the importance of collaborations between these projects. Given the interdependency of modular blockchain projects, these collaborations will play a crucial role in the industry.
Through our interactions with industry people, we recognized the need for developers, researchers, and projects to exchange insights. As a result, we invited a wide range of teams, including industry leaders such as Celestia, Avail, Near, Initia, Herodotus, and Starknet. The aim was to gain insights into the future of modular blockchains and understand how these projects can synergize with one another.
There will be three main themes of this event: the past, present, and future of the modular blockchain ecosystem. Each project will share their thoughts related to these themes.
1. RSVP
Co-hosted by: Radius, Four Pillars, ChainLight, Decipher
Date : March 29th, 2024 11:30 AM — 6:30 PM KST
Location : 20F, 374, Gangnam-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul (Google Map, Naver Map)
2. Timeline
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11:30–12:00 | Networking
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12:00–12:30 | ChainLight
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12:30–13:00 | Celestia & Four Pillars
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13:00–13:30 | Fhenix
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13:30–14:00 | Initia
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14:00–14:30 | Avail
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14:30–15:00 | Networking
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15:00–15:30 | Scroll
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15:30–16:00 | Radius
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16:00–16:30 | Herodotus
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16:30–17:00 | Axelar
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17:00–17:30 | Near
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17:00–17:30 | Networking
3. Speakers and Topics
Chainlight: “Modular Blockchain Architecture: A Security Perspective”
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ChainLight provides tailored security solutions to secure smart contracts and help you thrive on the blockchain. And they are going to talk about potential risks of modular blockchain architecture on this event.
Check out their recent research on “Is Modular Blockchain at Risk?”
Celestia and Four Pillars: “How did Modular get here?”
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Celestia is the first modular blockchain network that makes it easy for anyone to securely launch their own blockchain. On this event, Nick from Celestia and Four Pillars would talk about the History of Modular Blockchain.
Fhenix: “FHE vs ZKP for Privacy”
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Fhenix is the first Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) powered L2 to bring computation over encrypted data to Ethereum. They are planning to present about FHE(Fully Homomorphic Encryption) and their product.
Initia: “The Future of Rollups”
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Initia introduced a highly interwoven system of modular networks, providing an unique architecture that spans the L1 orchestration layer, L2 network, and the communication protocol. It has universal consistency by eliminating fragmentation, thus facilitating a unified one-chain experience. With its rollup framework, Initia offers guided sovereignty, allowing for customization of application chain parameters while ensuring connectivity within the broader Initia ecosystem. They are going to talk about “The Future of Rollups”.
Avail: “Solving Rollup Fragmentation”
Avail is a Web3 infrastructure layer that allows modular execution layers to scale and interoperate in a trust minimized way. The problem in current blockchain system, liquidity fragmentation which can be solved by DA would be presented by this team.
Scroll: “Current state of developer experience in applied ZK”
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Scroll is building native zkEVM which has bytecode-level compatibility. Thanks to this, existing Ethereum apps can migrate onto Scroll as is. They’re going to talk about current status of Layer 2.
Radius: “Composability for Rollups”
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Radius shared sequencing layer redefines rollup decentralization with MEV protection, censorship resistance, and financial sustainability. The team is going to talk about shared sequencing layer they’re building currently.
Herodotus: “Storage proof and HDP ( Herodotus Data Processor)”
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Herodotus offers secure, on-chain data storage and proof-powered data access solutions specifically designed for smart contracts. With functionalities such as storage proofs, the platform enables synchronous access to current, historical, and cross-chain data across Ethereum layers. Its API simplifies the process for developers by mutualizing the costs associated with generating storage proofs, thereby saving significant time.
The platform supports a range of blockchains and provides versatile use cases including governance, account recovery, insurance, bridging, access to RANDAO, cross-chain lending, gaming, and implementing circuit breakers for added security.
Axelar: “Cross Chain Interoperability”
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Axelar is the programmable Web3 interoperability platform, scaling the next generation of internet applications to billions of users. Unlike other cross-chain connectors, Axelar is a proof-of-stake blockchain. They will be talking about Interoperability on this event.
Near: “Near DA & Chain Abstraction”
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NEAR is currently building the chain abstraction stack, empowering builders to create apps that scale to billions of users and across all blockchains. They will introduce concept of Chain Abstraction on this event.
