Web3 Dev Huddle: Educate & Buidl
Keynote Address I by Yat Siu, Co-founder at Animoca Brands
Description
On September 17, 2024, HackQuest, NTU Singapore, Open Campus, and KIP Protocol hosted the inaugural Web3 Dev Huddle: Educate & Buidl at NTU Singapore's Innovation Port.
This conference was one of the first event series dedicated to developers and educators in the Web3 space. It was made possible by the support of sponsors and partners including Open Campus, KIP Protocol, Road to Dev Con at Ethereum Foundation, Wormhole, Hash Global, Telos, Arbitrum, Mantle, Vara, Morph, MegaETH, XION, AIA Chain, and SevenX Ventures.
The Web3 Dev Huddle connected aspiring Web3 talents with industry and academic experts through panels, sessions, and a career fair. Attendees networked with startups, VCs, and peers, explored career opportunities, and enjoyed exclusive swag, lunch, and refreshments.
Speaker List
Venture Capital
Yat Siu
Co-founder at Animoca Brands
Maria SHen
General Partner at Electric Capital
Ecosystem
Skylar Weaver
Devcon & Devconnect Lead at Ethereum Foundation
Shuyao Kong
Co-founder at MegaETH
Azeem Khan
Co-founder at Morph
Burnt Banksy
Founder at XION
Prabal Banerjee
Co-founder at Avail
Dave Bean
COO at Vara Network
Mark Veer
Head of BD at Mantle
Shan Han
Core Contributor at Open Campus
Pauline Barnades-Moore
DevRel at Wormhole
Web3 and AI
Julian Peh
Co-founder at KIP Protocol
Dr. Jennifer Dodgson
Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer at KIP Protoco
Education
Will Fan
Founder at NewCampus, Core Contributor at Open Campus
Dr. Ernie Teo
Senior Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Dr. Raja Zahilah Raja Mohd
Senior Lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
Prof. Emiliano Pagnotta
Associate Professor of Finance, Digital Business Research Peak Co-lead at SMU
Agenda & Recaps
Keynote Address I: Unlocking the Future of Web3
Panel I: Higher Education – Web3 Education in Southeast Asia Universities
Keynote Address II: Advancing Web3 Ecosystems
Panel II: Blockchain Ecosystem – Onboarding Developers to Web3 (Part I)
Keynote Address III: Empowering Builders Through Protocols
Panel III: Blockchain Ecosystem – Onboarding Developers to Web3 (Part II)
Keynote Address IV: Driving Innovation in Decentralized Finance
Sponsors & Strategic Partners
Open Campus
Open Campus is a DAO and community-led protocol building a decentralized education ecosystem. Open Campus is building the decentralized infrastructure for education through EDU Chain, the first L3 blockchain built for education.For more information, please visit opencampus.xyz.
KIP Protocol
KIP Protocol is an open source Web3 framework designed to facilitate the creation, management and monetization of decentralized Knowledge Assets for AI applications, to kickstart KnowledgeFi. KIP Protocol empowers AI value-creators to connect up their expertise - whether this lies in data production, model training, app design or elsewhere - and enjoy transparent accounting and revenue shares.
Ethereum Foundation
The EF is a non-profit that supports Ethereum. We work alongside the wider ecosystem to improve the protocol, grow our community, and advocate for Ethereum.
Wormhole
Wormhole is the leading interoperability platform powering multichain applications and bridges at scale.
Mantle
Mantle Network is an L2 scalability solution built on Ethereum. At its core, Mantle was built with a modular architecture that combines an optimistic roll-up protocol with an innovative data availability solution. This allows Mantle Network to inherit security from Ethereum and offer cheaper and more accessible data availability.For more information, please visit https://www.mantle.xyz/.
Vara Network
Vara is one of several environments facilitated by Gear Foundation for developers to build decentralized applications. Vara provides an advanced and secure platform for developers looking to develop the next generation of decentralized applications. Vara Network offers low transaction costs, gas fee rebates, staking, participation in governance, validator, nominator, and ambassador programs. For more information, please visit https://vara.network/.
Morph
The global consumer layer powering a distribution hub for the resources builders need to launch and scale for the mass market.We're enabling real consumer applications, powering everyday transactions for everyday people.
MegaEth
We are a performance-first organization, driven by a vision to unlock the full potential of World Computer. Our mission is to create the ultimate execution layer, made possible through a hyper specialized node architecture where execution is decoupled from consensus and Ethereum is leveraged as the settlement layer. Our systems are designed to push the limits of performance, constrained only by hardware.
Telos Foundation
Telos is a growing network of networks (Layer 0) enabling Zero Knowledge technology for ultimate scalability and privacy to support all industries and applications. The expanding Telos ecosystem includes over 1.2 million accounts, hundreds of partners, and numerous dApps. Launched in 2018 Telos is known for its impeccable five-year record of zero downtime and is home to the world’s fastest Ethereum Virtual Machine, the Telos EVM. Telos is positioned to lead enterprise adoption into the world of borderless Web3 technology and decentralized solutions. For more information, please visit https://www.telos.net/.
XION
[XION](https://xion.burnt.com/) is the first walletless L1 blockchain purpose-built for consumer adoption through chain abstraction. Utilizing protocol-level implementations related to abstracted accounts, signatures, fees, interoperability, and more, XION empowers developers to build secure, intuitive, and seamless user experiences. Everyone, regardless of technical knowledge, should be able to have the same access to true ownership. The project has raised over $36M from top-tier investors including Multicoin, Animoca, Circle, Hashkey, Arrington Capital, Spartan, and more.For more information, please visit https://xion.burnt.com/.
AIA Chain
AIA Chain is an emerging payment-focused public blockchain that is fully compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Designed to optimize transaction speed and reduce costs while maintaining high security and scalability, AIA Chain utilizes its native token, AIA, and the APoS consensus mechanism to support smart contracts and cross-chain interactions. The platform's mission is to drive widespread blockchain adoption by providing efficient technical solutions for enterprises and developers globally, enabling them to launch innovative blockchain applications.As a decentralized application platform, AIA Chain operates on a global network of nodes, forming a permissionless, secure protocol layer. This robust and decentralized data layer powers the Web3 world, allowing users access to their funds, identities, and shared data in a safe and decentralized environment. By combining partition-tolerant networks, serverless computing, and distributed storage, AIA Chain emerges as a cutting-edge platform for building and running decentralized applications.For more information, please visit https://aiachain.org/en.
SevenX Ventures
SevenX Ventures is a trailblazing venture capital firm that specializes in the blockchain and crypto sectors. Founded by a team of industry experts, we focus on unearthing and nurturing groundbreaking projects within this dynamic field.
Host
HackQuest is a free, one-stop, self-guided developer education platform. HackQuest offers expert-curated learning paths with on-chain certificates co-issued by leading Web3 ecosystems including Mantle, Solana, Arbitrum, Linea, Sui, Vara, Telos and more. Community builders are supported beyond through co-learning camps, meet-ups, hackathons, and accelerator services.For more information, please visit hackquest.io.
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is one of the top research-intensive public universities in the world, with 35,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in Business, Computing & Data Science, Engineering, Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, Medicine, Science, and Graduate colleges
Open Campus is a DAO and community-led protocol building a decentralized education ecosystem. Open Campus is building the decentralized infrastructure for education through EDU Chain, the first L3 blockchain built for education. EDU Chain is bringing the five trillion-dollar education industry to the blockchain, launching a vibrant DApp ecosystem that reimagines what Learn-to-Earn means.
KIP Protocol is an open source Web3 framework designed to facilitate the creation, management and monetization of decentralized Knowledge Assets for AI applications, to kickstart KnowledgeFi. KIP Protocol empowers AI value-creators to connect up their expertise - whether this lies in data production, model training, app design or elsewhere - and enjoy transparent accounting and revenue shares.
Time
9:30 AM - 5 PM SGT, September 17th, 2024
Location
NTU Innovation Port At The Arc