EthCC, the annual conference of Ethereum builders in Europe, hits Brussels this year, taking place at The Square Meeting Centre from July 8-11. Protocol Labs will kick things off July 8 at with a PL Meetup at the heart of the city. PL Meetups are recurring events held alongside major conferences around the world. They provide guests a chance to catch up with fellow PL members and make new connections over drinks, good food and great conversations. Join us!
📆 July 8, 2024
⏱️ 6:30-9:30pm GMT+2
📍 Brussels, Belgium (register for location)
PL Meetup is just one of many EthCC side events hosted by Protocol Labs teams this year in Brussels. Below, you can find a list of others. (All times are GMT+2.)
FIL Brussels will bring the Filecoin community together from July 8-11 for an exploration into the realms of decentralized AI, DePIN, and compute.
Edge City and Architect Systems will co-host Building Innovation Protopias: Crecimiento, an event exploring the future of crypto-enabled economic development globally, on July 8 from 2-6pm
Orange DAO is hosting an afternoon mixer on July 8 from 4:30-6:30pm for core members and Orange founders from Orange DAO.
Zama is taking over coffee shop at EthCC this year and rebranding it The CoFHE Shop. On July 9, it will host the Zama Afterwork Party from 6-11pm.
Impossible Cloud and POKT will co-host the Infra 3.0: Brussels DePIN Deep Dive on July 9 from 12-4pm, with support from Filecoin Foundation.
Fluence and Ramo have brought together a strong roster of speakers for DePIN Day Brussels on July 10 from 10am-6:10pm.
Payy will bring its ZK Wine Tasting to Brussels. Join zk cryptographers, DeFi builders, L1/2/3/4 maxis, and more on July 10, from 5-8pm.
Celestia will co-host Modular Summit 3.0 (with an impressive lineup of speakers) on July 11-13 with Maven 11. Register here.
IPFS Camp returns! Join fellow builders, operators, researchers from July 11-13 at Radisson Grand Place in making the internet more open, efficient, and secure.
ETHGlobal Brussels will bring together 1,500 builders from July 12-14 for a hackathon with $475,000 in prizes. On July 11, meet the ETHGlobal community at a happy hour from 6-8:30pm at the EGG Brussels.
Find all the teams in the PL Directory.
Make the most of your time at EthCC with IRL Gatherings at EthCC to link up with others in the PL network.
LabWeek Field Building, which ran from June 10-16, brought together close to 400 leaders, pioneers and builders to field build in four main track: neurotech, human-AI cooperation, biotech & longevity, and extended reality. There were more than 50 talks and workshops, co-curated by Foresight Institute. Most were recorded, so if you didn’t make it to Edge Esmeralda, the pop-up event city in Healdsburg, CA, organized by Edge City, keep an eye on the Protocol Labs YouTube channel, where we’ll be uploading recordings every day over the next few weeks.
What it is: RariMe is a self-custody identity wallet. Built by the Rarimo protocol community, it lets you use your passport to generate zero-knowledge proofs verifying your age, citizenship, and humanity without revealing your identity or any other personal data.
Why it's a big deal: Before RariMe, there was no way that dApps or protocols could verify the age or citizenship of users without encroaching on their privacy.
By allowing users to prove new characteristics about themselves while remaining anonymous, RariMe unlocks a series of previously impossible use cases. The first new use case to go live will be a series of programmable airdrops, including a humanitarian aid-drop for Ukrainian citizens. RMO token will also be distributed exclusively through RariMe, and any protocol can use it for anti-sybil measures.
Big Picture: Rarimo is ZK social protocol. It allows users to make their digital identity data private but verifiable. Prior to RariMe, the Rarimo community launched Freedom Tool, an anti-surveillance voting solution whereby citizens use passport ZK proofs to prove their eligibility to vote without revealing their identity. The solution was used by Russian Opposition to challenge the legitimacy of Vladimir Putin’s electoral victory, and by Iranian NGOs to help Iranian dissidents safely protest the presidential elections.
We're delighted to introduce the latest addition to Protocol Labs:
Rumi — An AI-powered video conferencing tool that allows in-meeting, interactive summaries, insights and action items, giving you the tools you need to be effective during and after your meetings. Learn more here.
Bluesky shipped personalized Starter Packs last week. Starter Packs enable users to invite friends and recommend custom feeds and users to enhance community building. Access and create them via the new Starter Packs tab on user profiles.
Lilypad has officially launched its incentivized testnet, IncentiveNet, inviting participants to engage with the platform and earn Lilybit_ rewards. This testnet — running continuously until the official launch of Lilypad on mainnet, expected in Q4 2024 — aims to stress-test Lilypad's infrastructure while providing users with an opportunity to explore features and provide feedback.
Talent Protocol and Celo have joined forces to bring the latest Take Off cohort to EthCC. Take Off is a scholarship program created by Talent Protocol that provides high-potential individuals a life-changing opportunity to grow, learn, and connect with other web3 builders.
Have a suggestion for the next PL Updates newsletter? We’d love to hear from you! Contact Richard Chang at richard.chang@protocol.ai.
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