WAGMI conference, Jan 2025

Sven

Sven

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Evolutionn is out, yay! ... Yay? ... Hmm, what did Quantum Explorer say recently?

The fear I have is that in a year from now I'll have built the best project out there, with smart contracts, way ahead of the projects valued in billions and no one will care.
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Let's not let that happen!

I secured a speaker slot at WAGMI https://wagmi.miami/ but I need your help.

My idea is to present Evolution as a new truly decentralized, yet scalable Web 3 platform that offers exciting new capabilities to developers, combined with funding opportunities for promising startups building on that platform through the Dash Investment Foundation (DIF).

I truly think this is a powerful combination that will find a captive audience at the conference and has the potential to bring real-world use cases to Dash. It is also the kind of event where Dash should have a presence if we want to regain relevance.

What do I need?

1) Help preparing

I'm not going to speak as a developer, and this is not a developer audience. I'll be speaking in front of investors, entrepreneurs, the crypto-curious. People who want to know "What can this thing do for me?" and not what SDK or framework it is built with. So who can help me to put together a high-level overview:

  • What is Evolution?
  • What other Web3 / Defi platforms is it most similar to?
  • How is it better than those other solutions?
  • What main benefits does offer? Why should a business care?
  • How does it scale?
  • How much does it cost to run at scale on Evolution?
  • What does the road map look like?

The timing is tight. X-mas and New Years is around the corner and I'll have to submit slides a few days before the conference starts on Jan 22. I'm hoping that someone (@QuantumExplorer?) could work with me directly, not just posting random tidbits here on the forum. Who has the knowledge and is willing to help?

2) Travel

The conference is in Miami. I live in Berlin. I used my connections to get the speaker slot for free and I'm willing to donate my time prepping and delivering the presentation. I'm not as excited about paying travel expenses on top of that. I could charge it to the DIF, but the DIF doesn't have a marketing budget and it's not really our remit to promote Evolution. I was thinking of this as outside my role as a DIF supervisor.

It's too late for the Dec budget cycle and posting a proposal in Jan to see if the community supports this would be to late for the conference. So I'm willing to front travel and would post a proposal for reimbursement later. But I'd like some feedback if you guys find this valuable and, if you are an MNO, if you would support such a proposal.
 
I 😍 the idea @Sven and you'll have my full support for the reimbursement of the travel and accommodation and whatever else is needed.
The thing that you have a slot there as a speaker is a big advantage.
Not the best person to respond on the questions above but I'm sure the community @thedesertlynx or even someone from the DCG can help you go through it.
 
Sounds great, Sven. I think you'll be the perfect presenter to this audience.

I'm happy to give you my thoughts on what Evo/Platform is and how it can be valuable to devs and entrepreneurs. Personally I think the (eventual) best value from Platform will be storing critical financial (DeFi) data like Dash-native equities, loan agreements, credit scores, etc. However, if we're lucky, Platform will be usable enough that it will compete with the very large web2 service provider market (e.g. hosted database, cloud functions, web hosting, BaaS, PaaS, etc).
 
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I'm sure the community @thedesertlynx or even someone from the DCG can help you go through it.
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Update:

I got officially added to the speaker roster:
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They also put me on the agenda
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Somehow, they put as title "The World’s First Ownerless & Memberless Investment Fund: For Dash Users, By Dash Users". I gave them a different working title, but apparently they took the headline from the DIF website. My talk will not focus on the DIF, so I'll get that updated on Monday. The slot is pretty late, not ideal, but I guess beggars can't be choosers - unless you're a real celebrity whose talk helps sell tickets, these slots normally sell for upwards of $80,000! Have a look:
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I also wrote our DIF portfolio companies, it looks like I'll be meeting some there and I'm sure there will be plenty of opportunities to spread the word about Dash Evolution outside the stage.

Travel is booked. Paid hotel in Dash on Travala, they announce all crypto sales on Telegram, so you can see it here: https://t.me/travala/990810 Set to go!

The organizers also gave me a discount code for the Dash community:
DASH30
gets you 30% off the ticket price. So if any of you OGs, whales and Dash fans want to meet up in person, learn about the latest and greatest in the blockchain space and show a bigger Dash presence, come and join!
 
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Now, the talk itself:

Like all solo speaking slots, it's 15 minutes. It shouldn't come across as a sales pitch. If we want to have a chance at similar future engagements, we need to show the organizer that we can excite the audience, offer some general insights, thought leadership. So I'm planning this basic structure:
  1. What is the problem currently in Web3 / dApp space?
  2. How does Dash Evolution solve this problem?
  3. How can Dash (DIF) help you launch a business based on Evolution?
That leaves only 5 minutes for each block, so it needs to be concise and impactful. I'm all set to talk about 3. any time, and Joel and Pshenmic helped me get a better grasp of 2. Thanks guys!

The way I understand it, is Evo is a decentralized structured database. Permissionless, indexed, fast and cheap to query. Unlike Filecoin or STORJ that just dump files, Evo is kind of like SQL or MongoDB on the blockchain, but doesn't need a 3rd-party indexer or other trusted middleman. If that's accurate, does someone have a basic diagram of the Evo structure that I can put in my slides? Just the main components, not full of geek speak. Or could anyone help me make one?

What with the term "data contract" I often hear around Evo? I understand how smart contracts work on Ethereum's EVM, but Dash doesn't have those yet. I also know SQL - data in, data out. Simple. So what's with the "contract" part in data contracts, is it like defining the table structure in SQL?

What I could use some more support with is 1. An effective way to show why what Evo solves is a big problem. I'd love to show some real-life cases where some project failed trying to do something on other platforms because data was too slow / expensive / trusted. Either they couldn't build what they wanted or maybe someone got scammed by a malicious trusted validator etc. Mark Karpeles from Mt. Gox is a keynote speaker. Can I take a jab at Mt.Gox or does that case make no sense in this context? Better examples?

Or any "What if you could ..." scenarios, even without specific examples of failure. Things that aren't possible in Web3 today on Solana, Avalanche, Ethereum that would be possible on Dash Evo. The more relatable to "normal" non-dev people the better.

Any help is highly appreciated. If we make this thing rock, it helps all of us!
 
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Sven said:
What with the term "data contract" I often hear around Evo? I understand how smart contracts work on Ethereum's EVM, but Dash doesn't have those yet. I also know SQL - data in, data out. Simple. So what's with the "contract" part in data contracts, is it like defining the table structure in SQL?
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Yes - that is what it is approximately. In terms of analogy you could refer to SQL, where DDL stands for “Data Definition Language” and represents the subset of SQL syntax for describing the database schema. One could say that the "database schema" from the SQL world corresponds to the "data contract" term in Evolution technology. You could go further into detail with the analogy of DDL subset of SQL, because DDL allows to create and update database objects, such as tables, indexes, or views, but also stored procedures, and triggers. They are all declared in the "database schema", but the stored procedures and triggers are functional using some executable environment. These functional/executable types would in "data contract" terms of Evo correspond to "smart contract". That is why one could claim that the data structure (data contracts) is more fundamental, and than the execution environment for procedures (smart contracts) will be a "mere extension" of the data contract framework by these executable objects associated with an executable environment called virtual machine. In other words data contract defines schema for all types of objects including executable smart contracts.
 
Sven said:
What I could use some more support with is 1. An effective way to show why what Evo solves is a big problem. I'd love to show some real-life cases where some project failed trying to do something on other platforms because data was too slow / expensive / trusted.
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Here I would definitely go for the usernames data contract and the decentralized solution to identities and contacts that might be actually feasible in practice for many applications. All identity or username solutions out there are either trusted, leaking or not capable of protecting privacy, or both. It is actually part of Android DashPay already. I don't have more time right now, but others might elaborate on this more.
 
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All identity or username solutions out there are either trusted, leaking or not capable of protecting privacy, or both.
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Can anyone help me make an overview of this please? You know those feature tables where several competitors are compared along a few different features and only one has a row of all checkmarks? Or at least give me their names and respective shortcomings, I can make the actual table myself, but I need help with the content.
 
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