ETHDenver goes past cringe to utility, tradition and past

As ETHDenver attracts to a detailed, builders throughout Web3 go away with new concepts, developments and utilities led by a singular and multi-hyphenated tradition and group enthusiastic about every part from wallets to providers, privateness, dank sharding, folks music, video video games and artwork.

ETHDenver attracts closely on its distinctive tradition

Cringe apart, individuals coming collectively irl is cool. To all of the haters:

The cringe track is now the costliest Tune A Day to promote in public sale.

5.5 eth, with slightly below a day to go.

Because of @CupOJoseph for the large swing! And let’s examine if @k06a comes again swinging! pic.twitter.com/1DlzwTKMuf

— jonathan @ EthDenver (@songadaymann) March 5, 2023

Privateness swimming pools and zero-knowledge roll-ups dominate tech-side

On the sidelines of ETHDenver, Ameen Soleiman revealed the launch of Privateness Swimming pools, a follow-up to the banned mixer Twister Money, which has been sanctioned by the US authorities and its founder imprisoned in Holland because of its affiliation with North Korean hacking teams. Soleiman, who goes by @ameensol on Twitter, claims that Privateness Swimming pools will allow customers to conduct personal and principally untraceable transactions whereas additionally discouraging illegal actions equivalent to cash laundering.

13/ Our demo is reside – https://t.co/Nt4b2Tgx1D

Now, customers have the choice to assist regulators isolate illicit funds, with out revealing their total transaction historical past.

Let’s watch a quick video of it in motion: pic.twitter.com/An9lWx6jfr

— ameen.eth (@ameensol) March 4, 2023

Zero-knowledge Ethereum Digital Machine (zkEVM) rollups additionally dominated a number of ETHDenver meetups. Polygon showcased their newest zkEVM rollup and even gave out some free Polygon swag. On what to anticipate from Polygon’s zk rollup, see starcrypto’s abstract of Jordi Baylina‘s latest engineering and technical clarification.

Come and say hello and seize some cool swag @EthereumDenver #ETHDenver #zkDeFi #zkEVM @0xPolygonZK @0xPolygonDeFi pic.twitter.com/Hmr2DF9rav

— 0VIX (@0vixProtocol) March 3, 2023

ERC-4337: Ethereum Basis to announce new customary for account abstraction at ETHDenver

The Ethereum blockchain has deployed a brand new function known as “account abstraction” that might make it simpler for customers to recuperate their crypto in the event that they lose their personal keys. This new customary, known as ERC-4337, was deployed by way of a sensible contract known as EntryPoint and has already undergone a safety audit. Launched throughout Walletcon within the week previous ETHDenver, the brand new account abstractions customary is an enormous enchancment on the order of magnitude downside.

The rumors are true… ERC-4337 has been deployed on mainnet 🚀

🔍 Safety audit by @OpenZeppelin
🛠️ Bundlers and paymasters by @stackup_fi, @AlchemyPlatform, @biconomy , @etherspot, @candidewallet, @blocknative & extra
🏗️ $300K in grants by @ethereum pic.twitter.com/WOjMvaZe6M

— erc4337 (@erc4337) March 2, 2023

LensProtocol doubles down on Web3

“I’d like to see entrepreneurs constructing small use circumstances and iterating. Many concepts will fail however the level is to construct quick, preserve iterating and studying. Lens makes it simpler and fewer dangerous to experiment,” mentioned Stani Kulechov, founding father of Lens Protocol, a decentralized social media enterprise geared toward connecting customers with their “digital roots.”

ETHDenver noticed the rise of DeFi approaches to all kinds of Web2 issues, social media possession and id being just one.

Curiosity in L1s and DeFi protocols proceed

“Filecoin is the world’s largest decentralized storage community! Amassing that amount of {hardware} around the globe isn’t any small activity,” mentioned FileCoin Founder Colin Evran throughout a presentation at ETHDenver.

In Feb., FileCoin’s FIL token elevated by greater than 30%, led by curiosity in EVM’s and interoperability layer-1 protocols. Filecoin’s addition of a digital machine will remodel the community right into a fully-fledged layer 1 blockchain. In September, the community unveiled the FVM launch on the FIL Singapore convention, promising that the software program platform would assist a variety of user-programmable purposes equivalent to perpetual storage, storage replication, restore automation, and liquid staking by means of block rewards. Moreover, FVM has the potential to allow the creation of data-centric decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), which might allow pay-per-view transactions and the event of Web3 video games, amongst different use circumstances.

And it wouldn’t be ETHDenver with out SBF bathroom paper

The bathroom paper at ETH Denver. Good. pic.twitter.com/L7H2MVfUhs

— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) March 3, 2023