Thread by @ChainLinkGod

1/ #SmartCon #1 MEGA THREAD

During the conference, I live-tweeted each presentation on the main stage covering the main points of each presenter

If you missed the event or simply want to refill your brain with alpha, here is a thread of the presentations in chronological order

2/ Begin we begin, here are some thread summaries of the most notable announcements at the event

Day 1:

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423419613543501825

Day 2:

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423779140533067778

Day 3:

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424145011197693956

Major alpha leaks right here

3/ State of Crypto Markets 2021

We will be going through the state of crypto markets in H1 2021 covering DeFi, NFT and exchanges. We will also have a sneak peek on what is expected in H2 2021.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423253413245030403?s=20

4/ Slowly then Suddenly? Transforming the Enterprise

Organizational change and digital transformation doesn't come easily. But these corporate stalwarts are pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423260196193771520?s=20

5/ Going from Zero to One with Axie Infinity

Fireside chat with the co-founder and chief operating officer of the NFT game leading the "play to earn" revolution.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423275399685890058?s=20

6/ Polygon Presentation

Details about Polygon network

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423280026946924547?s=20

7/ Sergey Nazarov and Special Guest Jonathan Ehrenfeld Solé, Strategy Director at SWIFT

Join Sergey Nazarov and a guest for an exclusive fireside chat.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423285387867262987?s=20

8/ Aave as a Cross-chain DeFi Protocol

The founder of Aave, Stani Kulechov shares his insights on how the Aave Protocol evolved into a cross-chain protocol governed by its users and whats up next.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423296798639083520?s=20

9/ World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer 2021

Top DeFi protocol Aave joined the World Economic Forum's list of Technology Pioneers this year—founder Stani Kulechov sits down with the WEF's Sheila Warren.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423300740445982726?s=20

10/ Building an Internet Economy Fit for the Digital Euro

IE.F MD Clark Parsons will discuss how the IEF fights for a competitive Internet economy, giving a preview of the findings of a joint study on the Digital Euro

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423309364719349765?s=20

11/ CBDC's and the Blockchain

What specific problems are CBDCs solving and what might these solutions might look like? We hear from academics from the EU and US on the current state of CBDCs

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423312761455476738?s=20

12/ Keynote by Chainlink Labs' Sergey Nazarov

An exclusive keynote by Chainlink Co-founder Sergey Nazarov

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423324908713517067?s=20

13/ Fireside Chat with Sergey Nazarov and Alex Mashinsky

Join us for an fireside chat with Sergey Nazarov Co-founder of Chainlink and Alex Mashinsky CEO of Celsius Network

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423349916349263884?s=20

14/ Use Cases of Chainlink Keepers

Hear from top DeFi projects that are using Chainlink Keepers to securely automate their smart contract operations and key functions.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423356407181545473?s=20

15/ Keynote by Ari Juels on Fair Sequencing Services

Exclusive insights from Chainlink Labs' chief scientist.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423362827356495873?s=20

16/ Introduction to the Smart Contract Research Forum

Rich Brown kicks off the Smart Contract Research Forum, highlighting the latest research and development in smart contracts.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423366390052884481?s=20

17/ Privacy and the Evolution of SNARKS

SCRF discusses the evolution of this technology, critical design decisions, and implementation challenges with two of the top ZK researchers in this area.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423369283061485570?s=20

18/ Governance and the 'Dexit' to Community

Decentralization, the tensions between the efficiencies of the firm and the egalatarian ideals of the DAO are explored in this panel

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423380428744888323?s=20

19/ DECO: Liberating Offchain Data and Preserving User Privacy

Ryan Berkun CEO of Teller Labs along with Fan Zhang and Lorenz Breidenback of Chainlink Labs discuss benefits and use cases of Deco for DeFi and beyond

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423390147156926467?s=20

20/ If You Love It Set It Free: The Realities of Decentralized Power Transfer

The Synthetix Foundation dissolved itself a year ago, handing over control to a series of DAOs. Did it achieve its aims? How difficult was it to transfer power?

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423398481549434881?s=20

21/ Klaytn Tech Stack for NFT

Klaytn is a high-performance public blockchain featuring 1-second finality and 4,000 TPS. Its compatibility with EVM enables Solidity-based smart contracts.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423616368419606533?s=20

22/ Globalising Finance: DeFi for the Rest of the World

DeFi is supposed to bring more new people into the system than before. We hear from a clutch of projects with diverse and global userbases.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423621427706560521?s=20

23/ Keynote by dForce's Mindao Yang

Exclusive insights from the founder and chief executive of one of Asia's largest DeFi networks.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423628978200268804?s=20

24/ Scaling Talent: Growing Global Developer Communities

Developer adoption is the key to a healthy ecosystem. But challenges abound, from funding to cultural factors. Our panel discusses the global talent graph.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423634229322076165?s=20

25/ Making New Markets: Disrupting Finance, Payments and Property

Blockchains have refashioned markets, from token swaps to real estate. Our panel have built platforms that are at the center of this shift.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423641816893517829?s=20

26/ Fireside Chat with Solana's Anatoly Yakovenko

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko joins Chainlink Labs' Johann Eid in conversation.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423648843279724548?s=20

27/ Fireside with Fidelity's Raghav Chawla

A discussion about Fidelity Labs' work on blockchains and decentralized infrastructure in financial services.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423653751055818755?s=20

28/ Fairer Cover: Boosting Farmers' Climate-Change Resilience in East Africa

Etherisc and ACRE Africa have used a community grant to build accessible and affordable crop insurance for smallholders using parametric smart contracts.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423660394707505167?s=20

29/ Building the Trust Layer of the Internet

Exclusive insights from the co-founder and chief executive of the energy-efficient, enterprise-grade blockchain, Hedera Hashgraph.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423666688168390658?s=20

30/ A New Green World: Blockchain for Social Good

Join us for a discussion on how smart contract systems help increase planetary resilience and incentive sustainability

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423671846034042880?s=20

31/ Meet the Startups from the UNICEF Innovation Fund

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423678559365652483?s=20

32/ Innovation in Parametric Insurance

Creating innovation with parametric insurance and blockchain

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423687255294545922?s=20

33/ Keynote by Flexa's Tyler Spalding

Exclusive insights from the co-founder of the global leader of pure digital payments.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423693183679037441?s=20

34/ Launching Chainlink Node using AWS Quickstart, a turnkey solution.

Chainlink AWS Quickstart for Chainlink nodes, which provides a quick way to launch a node on AWS.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423698280223965185?s=20

35/ Open and Programmable Finance with Avalanche

Avalanche ushers in a new era of finance defined by velocity, efficient use of capital, security against bad actors, and preservation of network value.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423705710605398020?s=20

36/ Making Open Data a Public Good via The Graph

The Internet was not created to monetize data or sell people ads, but that is what the Internet has become because that is what it is incentivized to do. Learn how Web3 is changing this...

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423711036360724485?s=20

37/ Enabling an ownership economy with confidential, data tokenization

In this talk, we’ll explore how combining NFTs and privacy-preserving technology can enable you to control and extract more value from data-backed NFTs.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423715731770724353?s=20

38/ Keynote by Offchain Labs' Ed Felten

Exclusive insights from the co-founder and chief scientist of the builder of Arbitrum, a leading Ethereum scaling solution.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423720737597104131?s=20

39/ Startup Growth Fast

An introduction to the growth of DeFi and growing products.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423725866056519683?s=20

40/ Keynote by PureStake's Derek Yoo on the Moonbeam Network

Exclusive insight from the chief executive of PureStake, the development company building on the Moonbeam Network.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423733359960682496?s=20

41/ An Optimistic Build

Tips and tricks for building and deploying your L1 contracts on Optimism.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423740936597639169?s=20

42/ Decentralized Climate Data, Parametric Insurance, and Oracles: How Smart Contracts and Blockchain Can Help Farmers and Businesses Fight Climate Change

Join Arbol CEO & dClimate's Sid Jha on how smart contracts and oracles can help businesses adapt...

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423746018328281089?s=20

43/ Sergey with Special Guest

Join Sergey for a fireside chat with a special guest

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423752248446705668?s=20

44/ Keynote by Binance Smart Chain's Julian Tan

Perspective and highlights from the BSC dev community and how key projects are using Chainlink.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423978665877016576?s=20

45/ DeFi Distributed: Building Up and Down the DeFi Stack

From algorithmic stablecoins to yield-farming strategies, our panel represents a snapshot of the "money Legos" that make up today's DeFi ecosystem.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423984062272655361?s=20

46/ Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Introducing Tracer DAO

Tracer is a smart contract derivative infrastructure that traces digital and real-world assets, enabling people and firms to more reliably manage risk.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423991950718296069?s=20

47/ Keynote by WanXiang Blockchain Labs' Yu Du

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1423996507531870213?s=20

48/ Keynote by Nervos' Daniel Lv

Exclusive insights from the co-founder of the Nervos network.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424002231917899776?s=20

49/ Randomness in your Smart Contracts

Learn the uses of randomness, what difficulties exist in bringing them onto a blockchain, and how Chainlink VRF is helping users with a provably fair RNG.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424006155601211400?s=20

50/ Evolution of the Metaverse: Building Bridges to the Real World

From LaMello Ball to digital DeFi pets, NFTs are crossing over to the mainstream. Our panel represents a diverse array of projects gunning for mainstream adoption.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424010173882851333?s=20

51/ Expanding DeFi’s Global Footprint

Effective strategies to increase DeFi accessibility globally – from implementing multi-chain solutions to re-envisioning how the category defines “user interface.”

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424019468972216327?s=20

52/ All Roads Lead to Decentralization with Alex Mashinsky

Celsius aims to bring the next 100m people into crypto by offering a new level of financial services that all act in the best interest of the user.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424025018443264010?s=20

53/ Risk Premium: Opportunities for the Next Wave of Institutions on DeFi

As DeFi grows ever more mainstream, institutions need help assessing the risks and opportunities in the space. Our panel is building the tools to do just that.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424031114214080516?s=20

54/ DeFi for Financial Institutions

Discussion around technical and functional innovations that we think will take defi from 100bn in TVL to 10 trillion in TVL over the next decade.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424039188303794184?s=20

55/ Introducing the Node as a Service Platform

Introducing NaaS: an automated, open-source platform powered by Chainlink node operators for seamless deployment of Chainlink nodes.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424041533867642885?s=20

56/ Data Feeds for Smart Contracts

Exclusive insights on data feeds from Chainlink Labs' head of data products.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424043299761922054?s=20

57/ How to become a Chainlink node operator w/ LinkRiver

This panel hosted by LinkRiver answers FAQs about Chainlink node operations and gives insights into their recently announced Chainlink Community Grant project.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424045816738500609?s=20

58/ You Are What You Ingest: Why High-Quality Data Matters to Smart Contracts

The old computer-science saying goes: garbage-in, garbage-out. High-quality data is critical to high-functioning smart contracts. Our panel analyzes the issue.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424047966067691527?s=20

59/ Introduction to the Chainlink Grants Program

As the Chainlink Network enters a new stage of growth, we continually support it through the Chainlink Community Grant Programs. Hear from the grant recipients.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424055413788475401?s=20

60/ Chainlink Grant Recipients Roundtable

The Chainlink grant program deploys resources toward the creation of developer tooling, the addition of high-quality data, and the launching of key services

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424059194290819081?s=20

61/ Filecoin Accelerator: From Hackathon to Mainnet

These previous Chainlink Hackathon finalists have been accepted into the Filecoin accelerator. Learn about the journey from hackathon to mainnet.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424067023500312577?s=20

62/ Audius and the Future of Music.

Learn how Audius built a decentralized streaming platform with 5 million monthly active users completely new to crypto.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424074376995999746?s=20

63/ Building the Future Creator Economy

A conversation with creators building tokenized communities new to crypto. Featuring Alliestrasza ($ALLIE), Jack Johnson ($PSTL) and Matthew Chaim (SongCamp).

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424081994091171848?s=20

64/ Keynote with Diwaker Gupta of Hiro Systems

Exclusive insights from the head of engineering of Hiro, the company building developer tools to build an internet on Bitcoin.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424089566168764421?s=20

65/ A Just and Fair World with LexisNexis

Join Richard McFarland of LexisNexis and William Herkelrath of Chainlink Labs as they discuss bringing LexisNexis data on-chain via the Chainlink Network.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424101891756027905?s=20

66/ Keynote by Bancor's Mark Richardson

An exclusive keynote from Mark Richardson Senior Research Associate at Bancor.

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424107024279773186?s=20

67/ Keynote by Chainlink Labs' Ben Chan

Chainlink Labs' VP of Engineering Ben Chan shares the future of Crosschain Interoperability and Programmable Token Bridges

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1424112003799343106?s=20

68/ #SmartCon had two concurrent stages running at the same time so unfortunately I wasn't able to cover them all! (and missed some listed above, I am only human/frog)

Video recordings of each presentation will be uploaded to the @Chainlink Youtube Channel in batches frens

69/ All in all, #SmartCon this year was a major success, so many announcements were released and major alpha leaks from some of the largest blockchain, DeFi, and NFT projects in the space

You can check out the largest announcements in the blog post below
blog.chain.link/smart-contract…