A high-level introduction to cryptoland with the aim to sketch out what people are getting so excited about (beyond the rollercoaster of Bitcoin price). Covering blockchains, cryptocurrencies, ICOs, DApps, DAOs and more.
Blockchain - Use Cases for The Nigerian Economy and Potential Legal RisksRilwan Shittu
It is not uncommon for people to misconceive the use, relevance or applicability of new and emerging technologies - this has been the case with the Blockchain technology as a lot of people only have a vague or inaccurate understanding of what it really means and what it can do. Some have even gone as far as saying “Blockchain is the future” and “Blockchain will save Nigeria”, etc.
This article presents a practical overview of how the technology works; the potential use cases in the Nigerian economy; the legal risks and the role of regulatory agencies in aiding the adoption and growth of the technology.
Read more below:
How to Create Blockchain Products by Slice.Market CTOProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Intro to blockchain concepts, public/private keys, signing transactions, wallets,
-Product challenges unique to blockchain
-Metamask and other tools that people currently use to interact with the Ethereum blockchain
-Common design and product considerations when making a blockchain product
Webinar: Blockchain – A Revolution You Can’t Stop | by IntellectsoftIntellectsoft
More Details:
Intellectsoft Software Development Company: intellectsoft.net
Blockchain Consulting & Development Lab: blockchain.intellectsoft.net
Watch the Webinar - https://youtu.be/2av_goSQVVo?list=PLMifjE1aUsLMMLnvZKwH1Y3WPjFb13p-f
The revolutionary invention of blockchain is still a controversial topic, and Intellectsoft software development company is about to bring clarity in it. Being the leader in blockchain developing and consulting, it explains in simpler words the elegance of using this brand-new technology as a business decision. Specifically, the company facilitates the understanding of blockchain by both offering the readers essential facts about the innovation and creating applicable recommendations for further practical implementation.
To start with, Intellectsoft provides an overview of blockchain essentials, investigating the nature of this technology along with its structural elements. As a result, a key concepts of blockchain, including digital fingerprinting and access keys, are no longer a mystery for readers. Furthermore, the opportunities of Smart Contracts and mining are explained. In these sections, Intellectsoft already illustrates previously presented theoretical assumptions with practical examples. And the overview achieves a higher clarity, which facilitates the task of developing a blockchain decision for anyone interested. Then, the presentation proceeds to the question of blockchain real-time applications. This includes providing the list of industries that can benefit the most from the innovation and the real advantages their representatives can gain. The special attention is paid to financial services, government, and healthcare, among others. Finally, after describing the major differences between private and public blockchain, Intellectsoft creates recommendations for those interested in the implementation of this decision into business. And after reading, you will get much closer to the decision whether blockchain really deserves its place in your business practice specifically.
Blockchain for Land Records and Real EstateJohn Mirkovic
An in-depth presentation on why and how blockchain technology can be applied to keeping government records of real estate transactions. Information on how bitcoin and blockchains function.
Blockchain - Use Cases for The Nigerian Economy and Potential Legal RisksRilwan Shittu
It is not uncommon for people to misconceive the use, relevance or applicability of new and emerging technologies - this has been the case with the Blockchain technology as a lot of people only have a vague or inaccurate understanding of what it really means and what it can do. Some have even gone as far as saying “Blockchain is the future” and “Blockchain will save Nigeria”, etc.
This article presents a practical overview of how the technology works; the potential use cases in the Nigerian economy; the legal risks and the role of regulatory agencies in aiding the adoption and growth of the technology.
Read more below:
How to Create Blockchain Products by Slice.Market CTOProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Intro to blockchain concepts, public/private keys, signing transactions, wallets,
-Product challenges unique to blockchain
-Metamask and other tools that people currently use to interact with the Ethereum blockchain
-Common design and product considerations when making a blockchain product
Webinar: Blockchain – A Revolution You Can’t Stop | by IntellectsoftIntellectsoft
More Details:
Intellectsoft Software Development Company: intellectsoft.net
Blockchain Consulting & Development Lab: blockchain.intellectsoft.net
Watch the Webinar - https://youtu.be/2av_goSQVVo?list=PLMifjE1aUsLMMLnvZKwH1Y3WPjFb13p-f
The revolutionary invention of blockchain is still a controversial topic, and Intellectsoft software development company is about to bring clarity in it. Being the leader in blockchain developing and consulting, it explains in simpler words the elegance of using this brand-new technology as a business decision. Specifically, the company facilitates the understanding of blockchain by both offering the readers essential facts about the innovation and creating applicable recommendations for further practical implementation.
To start with, Intellectsoft provides an overview of blockchain essentials, investigating the nature of this technology along with its structural elements. As a result, a key concepts of blockchain, including digital fingerprinting and access keys, are no longer a mystery for readers. Furthermore, the opportunities of Smart Contracts and mining are explained. In these sections, Intellectsoft already illustrates previously presented theoretical assumptions with practical examples. And the overview achieves a higher clarity, which facilitates the task of developing a blockchain decision for anyone interested. Then, the presentation proceeds to the question of blockchain real-time applications. This includes providing the list of industries that can benefit the most from the innovation and the real advantages their representatives can gain. The special attention is paid to financial services, government, and healthcare, among others. Finally, after describing the major differences between private and public blockchain, Intellectsoft creates recommendations for those interested in the implementation of this decision into business. And after reading, you will get much closer to the decision whether blockchain really deserves its place in your business practice specifically.
Blockchain for Land Records and Real EstateJohn Mirkovic
An in-depth presentation on why and how blockchain technology can be applied to keeping government records of real estate transactions. Information on how bitcoin and blockchains function.
Blockchain FinTech App | Land RegistryBahaa Farouk
An application for blockchain in FinTech, which employing blockchain to automate and prevent any fraud transaction in the land and/or property registration process.
Eris Industries - American Banker presentation deck. Preston Byrne
Eris Industries' deck (and a recording of the talk) describing our view of where the blockchain space is going in the next couple of years. Any questions, ping Preston directly.
Tapping the trust value of the blockchain - showAlex Todd
Introduction to blockchain technology and exploration of the implications of migrating trust to automated applications and infrastructure on creating business value and established business models. Includes tools product managers can use to begin evaluating the business implications of blockchain technology on their business.
Unbundling Of Financial Services: The Blockchain(s) RevolutionGeorge Samuel Samman
This is a deck which talks about blockchain(s) and their use cases, It is based off of some o the best thought in the space and looks at why banking and financial services will be changed.
Everything you've been told about blockchains is wrong: the "killer app" isn't any particular implementation, but the database design itself. In this presentation I explain how the permissioned blockchain design pioneered by Eris Industries actually addresses the problems and use-cases everyone's said blockchains can solve, but hasn't actually used them to solve.
Hint: it's not because of "decentralisation."
2018 has been a roller-coaster ride for blockchain technology mostly at the hands of cryptocurrencies – blockchain’s main beneficiary. Extreme price volatility, unsuccessful ICOs, fraud, cyber security issues, and negative press around cryptocurrency would have all but killed most emerging technologies. But not blockchain.
Blockchain is entering into a new evolutionary phase with the help of tech giants like IBM, Amazon and Google who recognize the wider applicability of blockchain as a game changer in data storage, commerce, and security. Even cryptocurrency is showing promising signs as it moves out of the domain of overnight Bitcoin millionaires (and more who have lost fortunes when speculating on cryptocurrencies) to risk averse financial heavyweights such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. Like the Internet, e-commerce, social media, and cloud computing before it, blockchain is on a fast track to become a ubiquitous technology.
Business of Decentralized Finance: Economics, Finance, and Business aspects o...Sam Ghosh
Decentralized Finance or DeFi is a prominent use case of blockchain and crypto technologies. It is a rapidly growing sector and new business models are coming up every day. The dynamism of the sector makes understanding and tracking the sector challenging. Apart from that, most discussion around the sector is very technical in nature and can be hard to decipher. There is a need for learning materials that cover the fundamentals of DeFi in simple language without becoming esoteric.
This book is trying to create a general framework for DeFi platforms by presenting complex concepts around DeFi in simple language with case-studies from various DeFi Platforms - How does the Instadapp platform work? How does the Maker platform work? How does Uniswap mine liquidity? How does the Matic token create value for Polygon? How does governance work in Curve Finance? Tokenomics of Shushiswap? Cash-flows in Convex Finance? …..Apart from giving a taste of real DeFi platforms, these case studies will help you compare different technologies and business models.
This book is for techies who want to get into DeFi but are struggling to understand the business models and for business folks who want to understand DeFi but are struggling with the technical vocabulary.
This book does not assume any prior knowledge of blockchain and crypto technologies and contains a primer on these topics.
Get the book on Amazon Kindle
USA : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09T2ND42B
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09T2ND42B
Germany: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B09T2ND42B
France: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B09T2ND42B
Spain: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B09T2ND42B
Italy: https://www.amazon.it/dp/B09T2ND42B
Netherlands: https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B09T2ND42B
Japan: https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B09T2ND42B
Brazil: https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B09T2ND42B
Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09T2ND42B
Mexico: https://www.amazon.com.mx/dp/B09T2ND42B
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09T2ND42B
India: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B09T2ND42B
This book is a derivation of the popular Udemy course with the same name.
https://www.udemy.com/course/business-of-decentralized-finance-defi/?referralCode=A642642AEFE52E7BAB6E
Blockchain Application Design and Development, and the Case of Programmable M...Ingo Weber
Slides from my CLOSER 2021 keynote ( https://www.insticc.org/node/TechnicalProgram/closer/2021/presentationDetails/1390 )
Blockchain has emerged as a decentralized platform for managing digital assets and executing 'smart contracts', i.e., user-defined code. While blockchain's suitability for a given use case should always be scrutinized, it does have the potential to disrupt many of the connection points between individuals, companies, and government entities. In this keynote talk, I will provide an overview of what architects and developers need to know in order to build blockchain-based applications, and how it relates to the cloud and software services. Among others, I will cover blockchain-as-a-service concepts, as well as architectural concerns and model-driven engineering for blockchain applications, the latter also in relation to collaborative business processes. To highlight some of the challenges, I will discuss insights from a project on "programmable money", i.e., blockchain-based money for conditional payments where the money itself checks whether it can be spent in a certain way at the point of payment. Finally, I will touch on insights into current adoption of blockchain.
Bitcoin Protocols 1.0 and 2.0 Explained in the Series: Blockchain: The Inform...Melanie Swan
We should think about the blockchain as another class of thing like the Internet – a comprehensive information technology with tiered technical levels and multiple classes of applications for any form of asset registry, inventory, and exchange, including every area of finance, economics, and money; hard assets (physical property); and intangible assets (votes, ideas, reputation, intention, health data, information, etc.). In fact the blockchain concept is even more, it is a new organizing paradigm.
– Melanie Swan, Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies
Introduction to blockchain & cryptocurrenciesAurobindo Nayak
This was an intro session on blockchain and cryptocurrencies. If you want to view the webinar for this talk checkout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl5mVI7jEK0
These slides were presented at Darefest 2016 in Antwerp. The presentation explains the evolution of cryptocurrency and the next steps towards full decentralisation.
For more info or to book your own session, visit www.bite.be
Cryptocitizen: Smart Contracts, Pluralistic Morality, and Blockchain SocietyMelanie Swan
Blockchain technology is not just about registering wills and IP on blockchains, and bank transfers taking less than 3 days to settle, philosophically blockchains invite a new level of thinking about what it is to be a cryptocitizen and possibilities for societal design
Evaluating the potential of blockchain technology to radically transform business
[Feel free to download the presentation if you'd like to view it offline]
Blockchain Technology and Its Application in LibrariesNabi Hasan
Background
Blockchain: Conceptual Understanding
What is Blockchain Technology?
The Three Pillars of Blockchain Technology
Why is Blockchain Popular?
What is Distributed Ledger?
Blockchain for Enterprise Application Developer
Possible Areas of Implimention of Blockchain Technology in Libraries
DWeb and Civil Society: An Introduction For MakersTechSoup
Recorded by TechSoup on September 13, 2023.
https://events.techsoup.org/e/mbuuw2/
Blockchain, Decentralization, Cryptocurrencies, and DApps. We hear these terms every day, but what do they really mean? And, more importantly, how can they be used in Civil Society?
In this first in a series of webinars, Gloria Kimbwala will take you through the fundamentals and answer questions like:
What is the Decentralized Web and why is it important for Makers?
What are blockchains?
How does blockchain technology enable decentralization?
How do you buy/sell/store/send cryptocurrencies?
What are protocols and DApps?
How can you create ethical DApps that factor in all groups within society?
The session will cover the answers to these questions and more.
Blockchain - Primer for City CIOs v05 01 22.pdfssusera441c2
Blockchain primary for city government chief information officers. Originally prepared for the Cities Leadership Forum hosted by Cities Institute, Philadelphia March 2022.
How to raise $100M for your healthcare startup via ICO: Breaking the myths of...VSee
Telehealth Failures & Secrets to Success Conference 2017 by VSee
Speaker: Danny Yang & Tim Swanson
CEO of BlockSeer & Director of Post Oak Labs
More info at: vsee.com/conference
Blockchain FinTech App | Land RegistryBahaa Farouk
An application for blockchain in FinTech, which employing blockchain to automate and prevent any fraud transaction in the land and/or property registration process.
Eris Industries - American Banker presentation deck. Preston Byrne
Eris Industries' deck (and a recording of the talk) describing our view of where the blockchain space is going in the next couple of years. Any questions, ping Preston directly.
Tapping the trust value of the blockchain - showAlex Todd
Introduction to blockchain technology and exploration of the implications of migrating trust to automated applications and infrastructure on creating business value and established business models. Includes tools product managers can use to begin evaluating the business implications of blockchain technology on their business.
Unbundling Of Financial Services: The Blockchain(s) RevolutionGeorge Samuel Samman
This is a deck which talks about blockchain(s) and their use cases, It is based off of some o the best thought in the space and looks at why banking and financial services will be changed.
Everything you've been told about blockchains is wrong: the "killer app" isn't any particular implementation, but the database design itself. In this presentation I explain how the permissioned blockchain design pioneered by Eris Industries actually addresses the problems and use-cases everyone's said blockchains can solve, but hasn't actually used them to solve.
Hint: it's not because of "decentralisation."
2018 has been a roller-coaster ride for blockchain technology mostly at the hands of cryptocurrencies – blockchain’s main beneficiary. Extreme price volatility, unsuccessful ICOs, fraud, cyber security issues, and negative press around cryptocurrency would have all but killed most emerging technologies. But not blockchain.
Blockchain is entering into a new evolutionary phase with the help of tech giants like IBM, Amazon and Google who recognize the wider applicability of blockchain as a game changer in data storage, commerce, and security. Even cryptocurrency is showing promising signs as it moves out of the domain of overnight Bitcoin millionaires (and more who have lost fortunes when speculating on cryptocurrencies) to risk averse financial heavyweights such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. Like the Internet, e-commerce, social media, and cloud computing before it, blockchain is on a fast track to become a ubiquitous technology.
Business of Decentralized Finance: Economics, Finance, and Business aspects o...Sam Ghosh
Decentralized Finance or DeFi is a prominent use case of blockchain and crypto technologies. It is a rapidly growing sector and new business models are coming up every day. The dynamism of the sector makes understanding and tracking the sector challenging. Apart from that, most discussion around the sector is very technical in nature and can be hard to decipher. There is a need for learning materials that cover the fundamentals of DeFi in simple language without becoming esoteric.
This book is trying to create a general framework for DeFi platforms by presenting complex concepts around DeFi in simple language with case-studies from various DeFi Platforms - How does the Instadapp platform work? How does the Maker platform work? How does Uniswap mine liquidity? How does the Matic token create value for Polygon? How does governance work in Curve Finance? Tokenomics of Shushiswap? Cash-flows in Convex Finance? …..Apart from giving a taste of real DeFi platforms, these case studies will help you compare different technologies and business models.
This book is for techies who want to get into DeFi but are struggling to understand the business models and for business folks who want to understand DeFi but are struggling with the technical vocabulary.
This book does not assume any prior knowledge of blockchain and crypto technologies and contains a primer on these topics.
Get the book on Amazon Kindle
USA : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09T2ND42B
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09T2ND42B
Germany: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B09T2ND42B
France: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B09T2ND42B
Spain: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B09T2ND42B
Italy: https://www.amazon.it/dp/B09T2ND42B
Netherlands: https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B09T2ND42B
Japan: https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B09T2ND42B
Brazil: https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B09T2ND42B
Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09T2ND42B
Mexico: https://www.amazon.com.mx/dp/B09T2ND42B
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09T2ND42B
India: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B09T2ND42B
This book is a derivation of the popular Udemy course with the same name.
https://www.udemy.com/course/business-of-decentralized-finance-defi/?referralCode=A642642AEFE52E7BAB6E
Blockchain Application Design and Development, and the Case of Programmable M...Ingo Weber
Slides from my CLOSER 2021 keynote ( https://www.insticc.org/node/TechnicalProgram/closer/2021/presentationDetails/1390 )
Blockchain has emerged as a decentralized platform for managing digital assets and executing 'smart contracts', i.e., user-defined code. While blockchain's suitability for a given use case should always be scrutinized, it does have the potential to disrupt many of the connection points between individuals, companies, and government entities. In this keynote talk, I will provide an overview of what architects and developers need to know in order to build blockchain-based applications, and how it relates to the cloud and software services. Among others, I will cover blockchain-as-a-service concepts, as well as architectural concerns and model-driven engineering for blockchain applications, the latter also in relation to collaborative business processes. To highlight some of the challenges, I will discuss insights from a project on "programmable money", i.e., blockchain-based money for conditional payments where the money itself checks whether it can be spent in a certain way at the point of payment. Finally, I will touch on insights into current adoption of blockchain.
Bitcoin Protocols 1.0 and 2.0 Explained in the Series: Blockchain: The Inform...Melanie Swan
We should think about the blockchain as another class of thing like the Internet – a comprehensive information technology with tiered technical levels and multiple classes of applications for any form of asset registry, inventory, and exchange, including every area of finance, economics, and money; hard assets (physical property); and intangible assets (votes, ideas, reputation, intention, health data, information, etc.). In fact the blockchain concept is even more, it is a new organizing paradigm.
– Melanie Swan, Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies
Introduction to blockchain & cryptocurrenciesAurobindo Nayak
This was an intro session on blockchain and cryptocurrencies. If you want to view the webinar for this talk checkout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl5mVI7jEK0
These slides were presented at Darefest 2016 in Antwerp. The presentation explains the evolution of cryptocurrency and the next steps towards full decentralisation.
For more info or to book your own session, visit www.bite.be
Cryptocitizen: Smart Contracts, Pluralistic Morality, and Blockchain SocietyMelanie Swan
Blockchain technology is not just about registering wills and IP on blockchains, and bank transfers taking less than 3 days to settle, philosophically blockchains invite a new level of thinking about what it is to be a cryptocitizen and possibilities for societal design
Evaluating the potential of blockchain technology to radically transform business
[Feel free to download the presentation if you'd like to view it offline]
Blockchain Technology and Its Application in LibrariesNabi Hasan
Background
Blockchain: Conceptual Understanding
What is Blockchain Technology?
The Three Pillars of Blockchain Technology
Why is Blockchain Popular?
What is Distributed Ledger?
Blockchain for Enterprise Application Developer
Possible Areas of Implimention of Blockchain Technology in Libraries
DWeb and Civil Society: An Introduction For MakersTechSoup
Recorded by TechSoup on September 13, 2023.
https://events.techsoup.org/e/mbuuw2/
Blockchain, Decentralization, Cryptocurrencies, and DApps. We hear these terms every day, but what do they really mean? And, more importantly, how can they be used in Civil Society?
In this first in a series of webinars, Gloria Kimbwala will take you through the fundamentals and answer questions like:
What is the Decentralized Web and why is it important for Makers?
What are blockchains?
How does blockchain technology enable decentralization?
How do you buy/sell/store/send cryptocurrencies?
What are protocols and DApps?
How can you create ethical DApps that factor in all groups within society?
The session will cover the answers to these questions and more.
Blockchain - Primer for City CIOs v05 01 22.pdfssusera441c2
Blockchain primary for city government chief information officers. Originally prepared for the Cities Leadership Forum hosted by Cities Institute, Philadelphia March 2022.
How to raise $100M for your healthcare startup via ICO: Breaking the myths of...VSee
Telehealth Failures & Secrets to Success Conference 2017 by VSee
Speaker: Danny Yang & Tim Swanson
CEO of BlockSeer & Director of Post Oak Labs
More info at: vsee.com/conference
I present this to government departments to help understand blockchain technology and how governments are using it as well as the opportunities that blockchain start-ups could have.
Blockchain and BPM - Reflections on Four Years of Research and ApplicationsIngo Weber
In this keynote, delivered at the Blockchain Forum of BPM 2019, I summarized and reflected on research on BPM and blockchain over the last four years, including model-driven engineering, process execution, and analysis and process mining. I also covered selected use cases and applications, as well as recent insights on adoption. The keynote closed with a discussion of open research questions.
Exploring the tech and legal side of Blockchain. A peek behind the curtain of how it works. Presented by Susan Goldsmith and Ash Yadav at whartonclubnj event.
8 Decimal Capital Enterprise Solution OverviewRemi Gai
Read 8 Decimal’s latest deck for a comprehensive overview of enterprise blockchain solutions and to learn about its past, present and future developments. The deck also covers numerous use-cases and case studies of blockchain enterprise implementation, including IBM, OpenBazaar, ecommerce, retail, supply chain management, Tradelens, and energy management, among others, to name a few.
Recent developments of public and private blockchains (DLTs) are described. The differences are indicated and confronted with the needs of financial institutions. The ecosystems of Blockchain, Ethereum, Digital Assets Holding and 3Rcev with their DLTs are shown. Next the working of smart contracts are presented followed by the issues and dilemmas that blockchains and smart contracts present for financial institutions. Finally attention is paid to preferred policies of monetary and regulatory authorities.
Differences between public and private blockchains are described. Attention is paid to different recent DLT approaches and confronted with the needs of banks and other financial institutions. Special attention is paid to smart contracts and the issues and dilemma's for financial institutions and monetary authorities.
Block chains and crypto currencies - introductionInitio
Objectives and knowledge sharing
• What is blockchain? Why should we care?
• Cryptography: Shared secrets and the Blockchain
• Protocols: What’s in those blocks ?!
• Ethereum
• Bitcoin
• Hyperledger
VCs have for the most part retreated from investing in Bitcoin and Blockchain. The appetite for blockchain products however has only increased. Corporations have formed consortiums such as R3 and the Hyperledger Project to learn more about the technology. Numerous enterprises have rolled out internal pilots to test and explore the applications of blockchain.
At Thomvest, we believe blockchain adoption is about to take off - making it a prime time for VCs to begin making early stage bets.
Take a look at our most recent research report which delves into the current state of blockchain.
How Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies Redefining Financial Instruments in Finance Kellton Tech Solutions Ltd
Join this webinar to learn how distributed ledger technologies - Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies innovating the traditional financial services industry with a transformative impact.
Blockchain - Primer for City CIOs v03 28 22ssusera441c2
High level primer (explainer) for city CIOs interested in understand what is distributed ledger technology or blockchain, government use cases and concerns or considerations for adoption.
Blockchain- Use Cases for the Nigerian Economy and Potential Legal RisksDamilola A. Oyebayo
It is not uncommon for people to misconceive the use, relevance or applicability of new and emerging technologies - this has been the case with the Blockchain technology as a lot of people only have a vague or inaccurate understanding of what it really means and what it can do. Some have even gone as far as saying “Blockchain is the future” and “Blockchain will save Nigeria”, etc.
This article presents a practical overview of how the technology works; the potential use cases in the Nigerian economy; the legal risks and the role of regulatory agencies in aiding the adoption and growth of the technology.
Read more below:
Presentation on blockchains for Webbdagarna in Gothenburg, Sweden and for BISS (Brightlands Smart Services Campus) in Heerlen, the Netherlands in September 2016
When consumer products get switched on, brands will be able to deploy new IoT-based applications and services throughout the full product lifecycle. But what role will blockchains play in this, and is the hype about its potential justified?
This white paper will show you which use cases are best suited to blockchains and how to assess whether a blockchain-based solution is really needed.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
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2. “In distributed ledger technology, we may be witnessing one
of those potential explosions of creative potential that
catalyse exceptional levels of innovation.”
- UK Government’s Chief Science Advisor
3. Blockchain can be understood as a new layer of the internet
Web 1.0: Internet of information
(HTTP, HTML, Email, Text, Hyperlink, Images)
Web 2.0: Internet of Mobile/Social
(Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Netflix)
Web 3.0: Internet of money/transactions
(blockchains, cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, tokenization)
Natively digital constructs for:
● Money
● Legal titles and rights
● Contracts & transactions
● Identity
4. Different kinds of money:
● Trusted Money
● Stable money
● Useful money
● Political or value-based money
● Branded money
The internet of money is going to change how we experience and
express value
● Digital currency that is scarce, unforgeable,
transportable, divisible, fungible
● Value based on usefulness, not authority of issuer
5. A shift from centralized to decentralized systems is happening
● Disintermediation
○ Decreases transaction costs
○ Redistributes value to participants
○ Keeps data and control at the edges
● Without
● Servers → Web 3.0
● Middlemen →Decentralized trust
7. Blockchains have powerful properties
Global Permission-less
Publicly auditable
Privacy & security
preserving
Decentralized
8. Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer digital payment system
● Introduced 2009 as a peer-to-peer digital payment system
● First app for blockchain: currency
● Trust generated through crypto-economics instead of
authority
● Use cases:
○ Digital gold: Store of value
○ Medium of transaction (like USD), “currency of the
internet”
○ Open, decentralized, permissionless → Reliable system
for people with otherwise no access to banking
● Current challenges:
○ Scalability (but
Lightning is coming)
○ Regulatory uncertainty
○ Privacy
○ Environmental concerns
9. Ethereum is a general purpose OS that allows for Smart Contracts
● Programmable blockchain
● Built-in (turing-complete) programming language
● Data stored in blockchain: Transactions and code
● Basic principle: Anyone can create an application with any rules
defined as a contract (“if this then that” - like rules)
● Smart contracts are relational software
● Decentralized trust provided on a blockchain operating system
10. Tokenization is a driving force with large scope
Scope of tokenization:
● Tangible assets
● Non-tangible assets
○ Securities and other rights
○ Natively digital assets
■ fungible assets
■ non-fungible assets
● Uniquely representing and tracking
different assets through cryptography
● Tokens on a shared infrastructure
become programmable, liquid,
divisible, transferable
There will be millions of tokens
on thousands of blockchains
11. Decentralized systems are fueled by tokens
Tokens are programmable money and can represent anything that the use-case demands, but are often used as fuel
for the network, to grant certain rights, to raise funds, and to distribute value to the participants of the ecosystem
12. FINMA (Swiss regulator) distinguishes between 3 types of tokens
● Payment tokens are synonymous with cryptocurrencies and have no further functions or links to
other development projects. Tokens may in some cases only develop the necessary functionality
and become accepted as a means of payment over a period of time (not classified as securities)
● Utility tokens are tokens which are intended to provide digital access to an application or service
(classified as securities when used as an investment vehicle)
● Asset tokens represent assets such as participations in real physical underlyings, companies, or
earnings streams, or an entitlement to dividends or interest payments. In terms of their economic
function, the tokens are analogous to equities, bonds or derivatives (classified as securities)
14. Example: Filecoin denominates the resource “data storage”
● ICO: 257 million USD
● Token powers ecosystem
● Allows for Dapp integration
● Decreases transaction costs
Source: Storifier
15. Smart Contracts enable ICOs, DApps, & DAOs
● ICO= Initial Coin Offering
○ Selling of new crypto token
○ Like Kickstarter, but getting equity along with the
product
○ IPOs for startups
● DAO = Decentralized Autonomous Organization
○ Company without management or board
○ Automation of business processes
○ Decentralized decision making
● DApp = Decentralized Application
○ Code that runs on a blockchain
○ Often behave like protocols
○ Emerging tech stack of interacting protocols
16. N-sided markets and aligned ecosystems
Other protocols
Users
Contributor role 1
● Digital micro economy, unified through common currency
● Different rules for each role (stakeholder)
● Incentive mechanisms designed to provoke favorable behavior (rewards & punishments in native token)
● Common currency ties the success of the whole ecosystem to individual interests
● Open & permissionless: Anybody can join (malicious actors lose money)
Contributor role 2
Malicious actor
APIs, services built on top
17. The token economy creates network ownership effects
● Ecosystems and protocols, not companies (no limited corporation, no shareholders, dividends…)
● Solves “cold start problem” of platforms (who would like to be the first to have a telephone? → who
wants to be the first to hold Facebook shares?)
● Aligns incentives of all participants & solves agency problem
● Users and investors (and managers) become one
● Everybody tries to contribute → organic hyper-growth
Decentralized systems fueled by tokens not only elegant technical solution & fairer →
often superior from strategic business perspective
Operate at lower cost, more transparent, take better decisions & scale much faster
20. There are only 2 “killer apps” of blockchain so far
● Fundraising (USD 12 billion raised via ICOs in 2018 ytd)
● International money transfer
Up next:
● Decentralized exchanges
● Security Tokens
● Identity
21. Challenges of current blockchain technology
● Scalability
● Privacy
● Interoperability
● Volatility
● Oracles: Incorporating real-world data
● Private key loss and user experience
● Integration with existing legal frameworks (KYC/AML)
● Regulatory clarity
22. Some of the missing pieces being worked on
Data & organization
● Oracles, data markets, trusted sensors & IoT protocols
● Collaboration on encrypted data (public but privacy conserving)
● Identity, reputation
● Decentralized data storage & computing, decentralized registries and name
services, token curated lists
● Secure, interoperable, scalable infrastructure
Legal
● Legally & automatically enforceable agreements
● Tokenized certification & rights management
Tokenization & Exchange
● Fungible & non-fungible token standards
● Decentralized exchanges and atomic swap protocols
● Stablecoins & asset-backed tokens
23. Identity on the internet seems broken (was never properly architected?):
● Equifax, Cambridge Analytica etc. → data breaches seem almost unavoidable in the current system
● Sensitive personal data is held by companies and replicated across different organizational silos
● Monetized, but not properly secured by businesses; users don’t “own” their data
Native identity construct, rooted on the blockchain:
● Unified, portable, encrypted identity
● Controllable from user side: data selectively disclosed
● Automatic monetization on the users terms (handled via smart contracts & data markets)
● Attestations (by authorities or social context) instead of data itself
● No business risk for losing data
● Better (paid-for) access to data through data markets
Blockchain based identity may be the next frontier
24. We are still very early days
1994 in the
internet analogy
When we barely
had email, nobody
imagined Netflix
26. Advantages of blockchain
● Automated, programmable instant/global transactions
● Emergence of global standards for value
● Open, fluid collaboration facilitated by token-fueled ecosystems
● Cost reductions in auditing, reporting, and arbitration
● No risk of data breaches
● Accessibility: providing financial services to low income areas through lower
cost and permissionless systems
27. So what?
● Money is becoming an internet content type, potentially giving rise to a
“internet of money”
● Blockchain based networks will secure and expand on the internet (Web 3)
● It may accelerate innovation drastically
○ Adds 2+ bn people to the global economy and enables more dense, fluid
collaboration
○ Locks up latent data and capital
○ General gains in efficiency through automation and market mechanisms
○ Corrects market failures and aligns incentives
○ Catalyst for exponential technologies: e.g. AI; VR; robotics
28. Blockchain systems will have an impact across industries
Starting with financial applications...
...middlemen or gatekeepers that don’t
add any value exist
...data is not properly secured or
utilized
...multiple stakeholders that don’t trust
each other interact
...and potentially everywhere where...
...contracting costs or other
transaction costs are high
29. Things are moving fast
● The World Economic Forum estimates market
capitalization of crypto assets at USD 8tn in 2027
● Token funding has surpassed traditional early-stage
venture capital funding for the first time in Q2 2017
● Large Corporates are forming alliances (e.g.: EEA)
● Top tier VC funds, investment banks, and hedge funds
are starting to invest in tokens and blockchain