​Join us at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 for a special edition of our Whitepaper Reading roundtable, hosted at the Hong Kong Ethereum Community Hub. Designed by builders, for builders. We’ll dissect emerging Web3 protocols, primitives and design choices.

​Topics:

​1. Hegotá Upgrade (EIP-8081):

​Ethereum's next upgrade. We'll discuss what's scheduled for inclusion, what's being considered, and the design trade-offs behind proposals like FOCIL (Fork-choice enforced Inclusion Lists) — a mechanism aimed at improving censorship resistance by shifting inclusion responsibilities away from block proposers.

​Link: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8081

​Summary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11BJ9QbQZBnnbN9HScqDcDxn5_ksPLR3qeD8TJ5H22HU/edit?tab=t.0

​2. Bulk.Trade

​Sol based perp DEX built on a custom validator client architecture. BULK introduces 20ms matching ticks, sub-40ms trade finality, and gasless execution — aiming to bring CEX-level performance to an on-chain order book. We'll discuss the architecture, how it compares to existing perps DEXs, and whether decoupled execution layers are the future of on-chain derivatives.

​Link: https://docs.bulk.trade

​Summary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XbPxchkounFbF8fF8MDNhcqywRd0k3RwFkUQlJq9_w4

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​Session Led by: Thank you ShuenRui from Impossible Finance, Kuala Lumpur Whitepaper Reading Club Chapter Organizers.

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​Format:

• ​A casual, discussion-driven format (not a panel or pitch)

• ​Key takeaways from selected whitepapers or technical docs

• ​Honest builder-to-builder conversations

• ​Open questions, strong opinions and real-world context

• ​No need to pre-read — curiosity > preparation

​Whether you’re a developer, founder, researcher or protocol operator, this is a space to think out loud, challenge assumptions and learn from peers in the Ethereum and broader Web3 ecosystem.

​🗓️ Date: 13th February 2026 (Friday)

​🕒 Time: 12-3pm

​📍 Location: Hong Kong Ethereum Com
munity Hub

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​About Hong Kong Ethereum Community Hub

​Asia's first Ethereum Community Hub, launched by the Ethereum Foundation's Ethereum Everywhere team and run by SNZ & ETHTAO. Based in Hong Kong - a global financial gateway - we connect East and West, Web2 and Web3, through daily co-working, events, workshops, and community gatherings. An open space for builders, researchers, artists, and innovators, and a key node in the global Ethereum Community Hub network.

​To connect and catalyze Ethereum's growth in Asia. Leveraging Hong Kong's role as a financial and innovation hub, we bridge Eastern and Western ecosystems and foster dialogue between traditional finance and decentralized protocols. We support real-world blockchain solutions through education, events, and collaboration.

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​​​​​​​​About Whitepaper Reading Club

​​​​​​​The Whitepaper Reading Club is a community of 700 engineers, founders, core-devs, researchers, across Singapore, Malaysia, San Francisco and New York who come together to read and discuss blockchain papers (website). ​​We create summaries for each paper (summaries) and have held 70+ sessions since 2023.​​Bittensor (Jul 2025)

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