INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Ethereum community is hard at work on Ethereum 2.0, the next major upgrade of its blockchain
It is an incredibly challenging task, and the Ethereum Foundation has been completely transparent about its road map and progress
That’s why I’m excited to announce that Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake is joining us at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin.Justin
Drake will give us an update on Ethereum 2.0
He’s been working on sharding and scalability in order to better support the Ethereum ecosystem and enable new use cases.The current
version of Ethereum can only handle a dozen transactions per second
With sharding, the computing load will be partitioned, which should lead to a drastic increase in performance.And the most fascinating part
of Ethereum 2.0 is that it’s a moving target
The Ethereum community has put years of research and development in the update in order to refine how it’s going to work and how it’s
It’s a large-scale experiment of distributed development.Ethereum 2.0 will be rolled out in multiple phases in order to ensure the
finality of a transaction, construct shard chains and make sure smart contracts run properly
If that sounds complicated, Justin Drake can tell you in simple words why Ethereum is such an interesting project.Ethereum 2.0 could
transform the Ethereum blockchain into a sort of “world computer” that can execute instructions across a network of servers all around
And that’s what so exciting about it.And that’s not all
In addition to an interview on Ethereum, Justin Drake will also talk about building a blockchain startup on the Extra Crunch Stage with
other blockchain experts.He knows how important it is to build a community of developers and researchers around your blockchain project
And he can tell you about the best strategies to communicate and iterate on complicated blockchain projects.Buy your ticket to Disrupt
Berlin to listen to those discussions — and many others
The conference will take place December 11-12.In addition to panels and fireside chats, like this one, new startups will participate in the
Startup Battlefield to compete for the highly coveted Battlefield Cup.Justin lives in Cambridge, UK where he studied mathematics
He founded the Cambridge Bitcoin Meetup group in 2013, and in 2014 left his job as a programmer and FPGA engineer to study the blockchain
In 2015 he operated a Bitcoin ATM and started a company providing a web interface for OpenBazaar
He is now a researcher for the Ethereum Foundation focusing on sharding.
