On the afternoon of April 14th, Kernel Ventures along with co-host iZUMi Finance hosted “Infra & Applications Onboarding The Next Billion Users” at the 2023 HongKong Web3 Festival in WanChai. The event featured speakers from the Ethereum Foundation, OKX, StarkWare, Polyhedra Network, Curve Finance, Scroll, NEAR, Celestia Labs, Meson Network and other outstanding projects. Some of the topics discussed were blockchain infrastructure, on-chain and off-chain liquidity, crypto regulation and compliance.

Welcome to Kernel Talk, this is Rose from Kernel Ventures. We are a crypto VC fund focusing on the growth of dev communities and backing the most ingenious founders in the world. Today we are at the StarkWare Sessions in Tel Aviv with Dankrad Feist — Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation who proposed the new sharding design and concept of Danksharding. Let’s learn about the next steps for Danksharding, its value add, as well as the potential for new use cases enabled by Proto-Danksharding from Dankrad.

Welcome to Kernel Talk, this is Rose from Kernel Ventures. We are a crypto VC fund focusing on the growth of dev communities and backing the most ingenious founders in the world. Today we are at the StarkWare Sessions in Tel Aviv and we have the Co-founders of Kakarot — Elias and Clément here with us talking about the the original intention of creating Kakarot zkEVM and its advantages. Let’s see whether it differs from Abdel’s perspective.

Welcome to Kernel Talk, this is Rose from Kernel Ventures. We are a crypto VC fund focusing on the growth of dev communities and backing the most ingenious founders in the world. Today we are at the StarkWare Sessions in Tel Aviv and we have the Exploration Lead of StarkWare - Abdelhamid here with us talking about the Kakarot zkEVM and the positioning of it within the StarkWare ecosystem.

Welcome to Kernel Talk, this is Rose from Kernel Ventures. We are a crypto VC fund focusing on the growth of dev communities and backing the most ingenious founders in the world. Today we are at the StarkWare Sessions in Tel Aviv and we have the Ecosystem Lead of StarkWare - Louis here with us sharing about the conception of Layer 3, the powerful and provable language Cairo as well as its future upgrade plans.

Welcome to Kernel Talk, this is Rose from Kernel Ventures. We are a crypto VC fund focusing on the growth of dev communities and backing the most ingenious founders in the world. Today we are at the StarkWare Sessions in Tel Aviv and we have the co-founder & president of StarkWare — Eli Ben-Sasson here with us. Eli is the co-inventor of zk-STARKs, and the Founding Scientist of Zcash — the first practical application of zk-SNARKs. StarkWare currently runs StarkNet — a permissionless decentralised Validity-Rollup often referred to as ZK-Rollup, operating as a Layer 2 network over Ethereum and also StarkEx — a standalone, customisable Layer 2 SaaS scalability engine. Now let’s dive in and gain some insights into StarkWare’s Layer3 plans, StarkNet’s competitive edge and its level of decentralisation as well as StarkNet’s wallet optimisation from Eli.