Encode London Conference and Hackathon
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Join us for more hacking in London. Co-hosted with Cambridge and Oxford Blockchain Societies, this dynamic three-day event will showcase top research and projects from London and worldwide. Developers and entrepreneurs will innovate at the intersection of AI and blockchain technology!
Co-Hosts
Societies Joining Us
Our Venue
🏃♂️ 2-minute walk from Hoxton Station!
🏃♂️ 15-minute walk from Old Street Station!
🗣️ Speakers
Research Conference Speakers
Hackathon Speakers
🖇️ Judges and Mentors
🗓️ Schedule
The event will be split into two halves: a research conference and a dedicated hackathon about the research topics explored, offering a unique blend of academic insights and hands-on building experiences!
Friday 25th October
Conference
11:00 Doors Open
12:00 Kick off
12:00 - 13:00 Nibbles
13:00 - 13:20 Alan Turing Institute: AI for Cyberdefence - Overpromise and Underdeliver? by Vasilis Mavroudis
13:20 - 13:40 xTrace - Verifiable and Privacy Preserving Search Technology by Felix Meng
13:40 - 14:00 From Research to Reality: Deploying LLMs and Multimodal Models at Scale by Madalina Buzau
14:00-14:20 Panel Discussion
14:40 - 15:00 Geometry: ZK for identity: design patterns and future directions by Nicolas Mohnblatt
15:00 - 15:20 Technical University Munich: Insights into TEE Research and Deployment Framework for Blockchain Scalability, by Filip Rezabek
15:20 - 15:40 Flashbots: Mitigating MEV with FHE - Blind Arbitrage on Ethereum, by Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach
15:40-16:00 Panel Discussion
16:00 - 16:20 University of Turin: On technology supporting privacy, censorship resistance, and freedom of expression: a case study, by Andrea Bracciali
16:20 - 16:40 DLT Science Foundation: Systemisation of Knowledge: Design, Vulnerabilities and Security Measures of Cryptocurrency Wallets, by Yimika Erinle
16:40-17:00 Panel Discussion
17:00 - 17:20 Onyx by JPMorgan Chase & Co: Web3 - A new era for social commerce, by George Kassis
17:40 - 18:00 Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance: Overview of CCAF digital assets research, by Keith Bear
19:30 - 20:00 Nibbles
Hackathon
11:00 Doors Open
12:00 Kick Off
12:00 - 13:00 Nibbles
12:15 Team Formation
12:30 - 13:00 Nillion Workshop by José Cabrero-Holgueras
13:00 - 13:30 Stellar Workshop by Chris Anatalio
13:30 - 13:45 Compass: The Easiest Way to Build, Test, and Execute in DeFi by Lukas Scheucher
13:45 - 14:00 Envio: Why Is Blockchain Data So Slow? Let’s Fix That by JonJon Clark
14:30 - 15:00 Flare Workshop by Filip Koprivec
15:00 - 15:30 KRNL: Building Cross-Chain dApps with KRNL by Tahir Mahmood
15:30 - 16:00 Nethermind: Blockchain Innovations: Robotics, Cryptography, Finance, and Game-Changing Ideas by Finn Casey Fierro
16:00 - 16:15 Koii: Deploy a dApp and Custom Token in 15 minutes on Koii! by Avinash Pilay
16:15 - 16:30 Starkware: Intro to Cairo by Michael Zaikin
16:30 - 17:00 DFINITY: Introduction to ICP by Moritz Fuller
17:00 - 17:15 Blocksense Workshop by Magnus Ahmad
17:30 - 18:00 Flock.io Workshop by Jiahao Sun
18:00 - 18:30 API3: The Price Feed Oracle Fast Lane - Oracle Extractable Value by Billy Campana
19:30 - 20:00 Nibbles
20:00 Onwards Hacking!
Saturday 26th October
Conference
10:00 - 11:00 Society Lightning Round Pt 1
11:00 - 11:20 Common Prefix: BitVM2 Bridge: Enabling arbitrary-function Layer 2 protocols on Bitcoin, by Zeta Avarikioti
11:20 - 11:40 Starkware: General Computation on Bitcoin by Michael Zaikin
11:40 - 12:00 DFINITY Conference Talk by Yvonne-Anne Pignolet
12:00 - 13:00 Nibbles
12:00 - 12:20 Mysten Labs: Walrus - An Efficient Decentralized Storage Network, by Giacomo Giuliari
12:20 - 12:40 KRNL: Decentralized Execution Sharding for Enhanced Smart Contract Functionality by Asim Ahmad
12:40 - 13:00 Cybersecurity Research Group, University of Southampton: Rational Proof of Space: Improving Efficiency and Security, by George Giamouridis
13:20 - 14:00 Society Lightening Round Pt 2
14:00 - 14:20 Dune Analytics: Exploring Sequencing Rules in Ethereum by Dias Alymbekov
14:20 - 14:40 Maven 11: The Security Spectrum in Application Specific Sequencing by Mads Mathiesen
14:40 - 15:00 Nethermind: The Sequencer Dilemma - Balancing Decentralization and Power in Rollups by Denisa Diaconescu
15:00 - 15:20 LSE: The Economic Limits of Permissionless Consensus by Andrew Lewis-Pye
15:20 - 15:40 Flare: Security in Decentralized Oracles: Challenges and Solutions by Horia Magureanu
15:40 - 16:00 API3: Revolutionizing DeFI with MEV aware Oracles by Billy Campana
16:00 - 16:20 Extropy: Auditing Zero Knowledge Applications and Protocols, by Laurence Kirk
16:20 - 16:40 Formal Land: Interactive theorem proving for Solidity by Guillaume Claret
16:40 - 17:00 Nethermind: Clear - a Formal Verification framework for smart contracts in Lean by Julian Sutherland
19:30 - 20:00 Nibbles
Hackathon
9:00 - 10:00 Nibbles
10:00 - 13:00 Hacking
13:00 - 14:00 Nibbles
14:00 - 19:30 Hacking
19:30 - 20:00 Nibbles
20:00 Onwards Hacking
Sunday 27th October
Hackathon
9:00 Nibbles
11:00 Submissions Due (No late submissions will be accepted)
12:00 - 13:00 Nibbles
12:00 - 14:00 Judging
14:00 - 15:00 Finale and Prizegiving
15:30 Doors Close
🛠️ Tracks
Ready to build? We've got an exciting lineup of tracks covering everything from DeFi and Gaming to AI and Cross-Chain!
🌟 KRNL: $5,000+
🔵 RSS3: $2,500 in tokens
🔲 API3: $3,000
🐟 KOII: $4,000 USDC + 3,000 $KOII
🔶 Envio: $5,000+ in prizes
🦸 Superteam UK: $10,000 USDC + grants
☀️ Flare: $20,000
🚀 Flock.io: $4,500
♾️ DFINITY: $15,000 in development grants
⚡️ Nethermind: $10,000
🧩 RNDM: $10,000
◼️ Blocksense $2,000
🌐 Nillion: $5,000
🧭 Compass Labs: 2000+ in ARB + $1,000 USDC + mystery prizes
💫 Stellar: $30,000 in XLM
🪙 BASE & Stand With Crypto UK: $5,000+
Want to get a head start? 👀 Check our website here for more details on our bounties.
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