FREE Decentralised Exchange - Dfusion/DutchX Workshop and Hackathon

High quality workshop and hackathon for our blockchain developer community brought to you by workonblockchain.com

This two-day event is made possible thanks to our amazing speakers, mentors, sponsors and organisers: Gnosis, Gnosis Ecosystem Fund, Work on Blockchain, Extropy.io and Kings College London.

About Gnosis

Redistribute the future

We believe in a redistributed future. Gnosis builds new market mechanisms to make this future possible. Through decentralized platforms [on the Ethereum blockchain], we enable the distribution of resources—from assets to incentives, and information to ideas.

Our products are interoperable, allowing you to create, trade, and hold assets. While our prediction market platform allows anyone to build customized forecasting applications, our decentralized exchange models and enable access to arbitrage-free marketplaces. Additionally, our Gnosis Safe wallet aims to set a standard for secure, user-controlled fund storage.

Our decentralized platforms and applications provide foundational infrastructure, assuring security, stability, and foresight for the longevity of blockchain-driven technologies.

About Gnosis Ecosystem Fund

The Workshop is an initiative brought to you by the the Gnosis Ecosystem Fund.

The Gnosis Ecosystem Fund empowers teams that aim to drive adoption of decentralized apps and leverage the full potential of Gnosis' products. We provide teams with funding, mentoring, and outreach support.

 

About Work on Blockchain

Work on Blockchain is a global hirirng platform for technical professionals aimed at the blockchain and DLT space. The platform launched on September 2018 and now have over 100+ vetted candidates looking for work and the number of active candidates are increasing daily, most with strong commercial blockchain experience. The platform is a valuable hiring tool to companies in search for technical experts in a “short supply and high demand market” having attracted the attention of smart blockchain developers, software engineers, researchers, architects, data scientists and CTO’s from across the world.

About Extropy

Extropy is a blockchain development company based in the UK (Oxford) focusing on Distributed Application Development, Smart Contract Auditing, Education and Research. Check out their website on www.extropy.io

Schedule: 

Breakfast and lunch will be provided on both days.

DAY ONE - Saturday 8th of December from 9:30AM to 6PM:

30 min Dfusion - Felix Leupold
30 min DutchX - Christiane Ernst
15 min What can we build on top of the DutchX and prizes - Christiane Ernst
90 min How to build on the DutchX - Angel Rodriguez & David Sato
30 min Mingling, Team building and open Q&A
#Buidl Time (time to hack)
15 min Q&A before closing time

DAY TWO - Sunday 9th of December from 9:30AM to 6PM

60 min Governing the DutchX through a DAO - Christiane Ernst
60 min Gnosis Products
15 min Q&A
#Buidl Time (time to hack)
90 min Pitch time
30 min Judges decision time on winners and prize giveaway

DutchX - the first fully decentralized exchange

The DutchX is an open, decentralized trading protocol for ERC-20 tokens using the Dutch auction mechanism for determining a fair value for tokens. Coupled with a pure on-chain design, the DutchX doubles a price oracle and is built to enable users, bots, as well as other smart contracts to exchange tokens: no strategy for participation is needed. Trading on the DutchX, users benefit from getting a fair price for their tokens through the bundling of liquidity. Additionally, all fees levied in the exchange remain in the exchange — no value is extracted!

Any decentralized application in need of exchanging tokens or integrating a price feed can make use of the DutchX. The possibilities are tremendous!

The DutchX will soon be governed by a DAO.

Check out https://slow.trade - a graphical user interface that lets you interact with the DutchX.

Listen up and take note:

During the workshop, we will first introduce the DutchX auction mechanisms and token design. We will also present a few potential DutchX use cases for developers to build on. We will then give you a hands-on walk through of the  integration steps

Bring your laptop with Node JS, Docker installed and make sure to top up your Rinkeby Eth. We are looking forward to building a dApp on top of the DutchX with you.

d.fusion — A Scalable, Fair Exchange

Conventional centralized exchange mechanisms are innately flawed. Issues with fragmented liquidity, and arbitrage trading, and front-running have clearly demonstrated that centralized exchange mechanisms do not meet the needs of a decentralized future. Self-proclaimed ‘decentralized exchanges’ exist today, but the vast majority are solely non-custodial, that is, they don’t hold customers’ funds.

Introducing d.fusion, a fully decentralized exchange that looks past these limitations. D.fusion is arbitrage-free by design, doesn’t allow systematic front-running, and can be partly operated by all participants in the network.

Our amazing speakers and mentors: 

Christiane Ernst, Product Manager - DutchX

At Gnosis, Chris is responsible for the DutchX, an open, decentralised exchange protocol for ERC20 tokens based on the Dutch auction principle.

An economist by training, Chris previously specialised in auction design. Her fields of interest also include game theory and incentive mechanisms. She strongly believes that blockchain technology will revolutionise human interaction by eliminating middlemen, and thereby decreasing transactional inefficiencies.

She is a certified Swiss Tax Expert and has extensive experience in corporate tax accounting as well as transfer pricing.

Felix Leupold, Software Engineer - d.fusion

Felix is a software engineer with a strong passion for systems design and test driven development. While receiving his Master degree at Hasso Plattner Institute, he temporarily worked for multiple large tech companies, including Google and Facebook and participated in a global Design Thinking class at Stanford University. After graduating he joined Facebook full-time, where he built end-to-end encrypted communication for Messenger and later worked on realtime-infrastructure. At Gnosis he is building a decentralised exchange, focussing on zero knowledge proofs and off-chain scalability solutions.

Angel Rodriguez, Tech Lead - DutchX

Angel is a full stack software engineer at Gnosis with a passion for decentralisation. He is particularly interested in building new mechanisms to facilitate the exchange of information and value

David Sato, Full Stack Engineer - DutchX

David is a Software Engineer and Economist by training. Having worked in over 8 different countries and for teams both big and small, David has come to find his home in the decentralized + blockchain community as a part of Gnosis' core team.

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Gnosis

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Work on Blockchain

https://www.linkedin.com/company/work-on-blockchain/

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