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Coming inDecember

ICEVM – Towards an Ethereum Virtual Machine on the Internet Computer

Dieter Sommer · Senior Technical Program Manager

The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) has been the first and is still the world's most-widely-used smart contract execution environment. The EVM features synchronous smart contract call semantics which simplifies certain aspects of smart contract implementation, but greatly impedes scalability. Currently, the EVM is the environment of choice of most DeFi dApps and therefore EVM-compatible chains can benefit from network effects resulting from easily-portable DeFi smart contracts, a large tooling ecosystem and developer community and still the largest user community. In this talk we shed some light onto what it would take to make the Internet Computer EVM compatible. We particularly consider the option of running an EVM as a smart contract on the Internet Computer. The major challenges of bringing the EVM to the Internet Computer result from the impedance mismatch between the asynchronous messaging model of the Internet Computer and the synchronous smart contract call semantics of the EVM. We present limitations of EVM architectures on the Internet Computer and potential solutions to the main challenges. This talk is intended as a starting point of a wider (technical) discussion on how to best bring an EVM to the Internet Computer.

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2022August 11th9 AM PT / 6 PM CET

Community Conversation - SNS initial token swap 2

An SNS must be decentralised from the beginning, before any tokens can be transferred. We thus require a mechanism by which the developers can, in one step, hand over the control of their dapp to an already decentralized SNS. In this talk we presents a design for a SNS launch pad that can be used for this purpose. Initially, the launch pad consists of an initial token swap where participants can exchange ICP tokens for SNS tokens to provide funding for a dapp. Join discussion on forum here

2022August 10th9 AM PT / 6 PM CET

Community Conversation - SNS initial token swap

Lara Schmid & Peter Lidwell

An SNS must be decentralised from the beginning, before any tokens can be transferred. We thus require a mechanism by which the developers can, in one step, hand over the control of their dapp to an already decentralized SNS. In this talk we presents a design for a SNS launch pad that can be used for this purpose. Initially, the launch pad consists of an initial token swap where participants can exchange ICP tokens for SNS tokens to provide funding for a dapp. Join discussion on forum here

2022June 9th10 AM PT / 7 PM CET

Community Conversation - SNS initial token swap

Lara Schmid & Peter Lidwell

An SNS must be decentralised from the beginning, before any tokens can be transferred. We thus require a mechanism by which the developers can, in one step, hand over the control of their dapp to an already decentralized SNS. In this talk we presents a design for a SNS launch pad that can be used for this purpose. Initially, the launch pad consists of an initial token swap where participants can exchange ICP tokens for SNS tokens to provide funding for a dapp. Join discussion on forum here

2022May 24th9 AM PT / 6 PM CET

Threshold ECDSA

Andrea Cerulli & Dieter Sommer

The threshold ECDSA feature will allow canisters to request ECDSA signatures, which will enable them, among other things, to perform BTC and ETH transactions. Signatures are securely generated by a distributed protocol run by the nodes of a subnet. In this talk we’ll take a closer look at how the threshold ECDSA protocol is integrated in the IC and how we plan to roll out this feature. Join discussion on forum here.

2022May 11th9 AM PT / 6 PM CET

Community Conversation - Design proposal for a simple SNS reward scheme

Lara Schmid & Björn Assmann · Senior Researchers

We would like to discuss a design proposal for a simple SNS reward scheme. Service nervous systems (SNSs) are algorithmic DAOs that will allow developers to create decentralized, token-based governance systems for their dapps on the Internet Computer. In this talk, we would like to discuss the design proposal for a first, simple SNS reward scheme. Link to discussion on forum: https://forum.dfinity.org/t/open-governance-canister-for-sns-design-proposal/10224/36

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