Talks

Cosmoverse 2024 • Dubai

Token Portals: Bridging the Great Chain Divide

Polaris is a new token portal designed to enhance cross-chain trading by providing better user experience, asset breadth, and privacy for decentralized exchanges.

Staking Summit • Bangkok

Bitcoin's Secret Roadmap to Become a Proof of Stake Chain in the Next 20 Years

Bitcoin must transition to proof of stake to ensure its long-term security and sustainability amidst decreasing block rewards and competition from alternative payment networks.

Solana Breakpoint 2024 • Singapore

Product Keynote: Polaris Cross-Chain Router

Polaris is a new token portal designed to streamline cross-chain trading by aggregating liquidity and simplifying user experience across multiple blockchain ecosystems.

Sunny Aggarwal of Osmosis on Urbitchain

Urban Native Blockchain offers a novel structure for decentralized identity and resource allocation, leveraging NFTs and a hierarchical system to rethink traditional blockchain incentive designs.

Devmos • New York City

DEVMOS 2024: Opening Remarks

Devmos aims to provide a collaborative platform for developers in the Cosmos ecosystem to share insights on core technologies like IBC, Cosmos SDK, and performance enhancement.

Appchain Day 2024 • Denver

Smart Accounts in Blockchain

App chains offer unique advantages like scalability, vertical integration, and sovereignty, enabling tailored solutions that enhance user experience and operational efficiency beyond generalized blockchains.

xDay2023 • Bucharest

Account Abstraction The Key(s) to Onboarding the Masses

Account abstraction can enhance the user experience in crypto by allowing for flexible, secure transaction methods and seamless interaction across different blockchain ecosystems.

Urbit Assembly • Lisbon

Urbit-native Blockchain

Imagining an Urbit-native blockchain involves creating a decentralized system that integrates Urbit identities, enhances economic interactions, and fosters community-driven governance without relying on external tokens.

Cosmoverse 2023 • Istanbul

The Interchain Account Hub

Osmosis aims to revolutionize decentralized finance by introducing smart accounts that enhance user experience, security, and interoperability across blockchain platforms, addressing key challenges faced by existing wallets.

Modular Summit • Paris

Osmosis: The Modular Liquidity Hub

Osmosis is enhancing its role as a liquidity hub in the Cosmos ecosystem by integrating with modular chains and developing innovative bridging solutions like Hyperlane and protocol-owned TIA.

Osmocon 2023 • Paris

Osmosis: State of the Union

I outlined the advancements and future direction of Osmosis, highlighting key updates to the trading engine, cross-chain swaps, and a focus on user experience and security.

EthCC • Paris

Mesh Security: Why we don't need L2s

Mesh security in the Cosmos ecosystem enables economic interdependence among sovereign blockchains through bilateral restaking, fostering a decentralized network that contrasts with hierarchical blockchain models.

Avalanche Summit II • Barcelona

The Mesh Approach of Blockchains

The mesh approach of blockchains fosters interoperability and economic security across diverse systems, drawing parallels with human civilization's evolution towards decentralized cooperation.

Gateway to Cosmos • Prague

The Terra Supernova: A 1 Year Retrospective

The talk reflects on the impact of the Terra crash on the Cosmos ecosystem, emphasizing community resilience and the need for innovative stablecoin solutions in decentralized finance.

IBC Summit • Austin

IBC Beyond Token Transfers

IBC is evolving beyond token transfers, enabling innovative protocols like interchain accounts, governance participation, and cross-chain swaps, enhancing functionality in the Cosmos ecosystem.

Shared Security Summit 2023 • Denver

Mesh Security

Mesh Security enables decentralized blockchains to communicate and share security in a scalable manner, fostering a network of sovereign chains rather than relying on centralized L1s or L2s.

Nebular Summit • Paris

Exploring the Wild West of Osmosis MEV

I discussed the growing importance of miner extractable value (MEV) in the Osmosis ecosystem, emphasizing strategies to minimize bad MEV and internalize good MEV for OSMO stakers.

Gateway to Cosmos • Prague

Post-Terra Q&A with Cryptocito

The discussion centers on the recent turmoil in the crypto space, particularly around the UST collapse, and how Osmosis and the Cosmos ecosystem are adapting through governance changes and liquidity strategies.

Classifying MEV

Classifying MEV involves understanding the unique powers of block proposers to manipulate blockchain transactions and proposing solutions to reduce their unilateral control for a fairer system.

Cosmos Conversation • Online

Threshold Decrypted Transactions: Thwarting Front-Running and Enabling Privacy at the Protocol Level

I propose using threshold decryption and joint proposals in Tendermint to effectively combat front running and censorship, greatly reducing miner extractable value (MEV) in blockchain systems.

Online

Fungible Staking Derivatives Design Walkthrough

The design of fungible staking derivatives in the Cosmos SDK addresses multi-token rewards and ensures fair distribution while maintaining simplicity and usability across decentralized finance applications.

Ethereum Classic Summit • Vancouver

A Peripheral Observer and Fan’s View of Ethereum Classic

I propose that Ethereum Classic should adopt a more conservative roadmap towards Proof of Stake, focusing first on scalability through sidechains before transitioning from Proof of Work.

Devcon5 • Osaka

Conservative Approach to a Radical Roadmap

I propose a conservative roadmap for Ethereum 2.0, emphasizing the importance of sharding over proof of stake, and advocating for application-specific shards to enhance scalability and efficiency.

Interledger Summit • San Francisco

Cosmos ❤️ Interledger

Cosmos and Interledger enable unique interoperability and asset transfer experiences across blockchains, differing in their approach to value versus asset transfers.

BUIDL ASIA 2019 (Day 1) : Presentation by Sunny Aggarwal

The vision of Cosmos aims to create an interchain ecosystem that combines the sovereignty of independent blockchains with the interoperability and composability of a unified network.

EDCON 2019 • Toronto

Building a Plasma Chain with the Cosmos SDK

The interchain vision promotes specialized blockchains with connectivity, enabling diverse security models and applications while addressing the limitations of centralized systems like Ethereum.

Intro to the Cosmos Network

Cosmos aims to create an interconnected ecosystem of application-specific blockchains, enabling economic integration without political centralization, while prioritizing scalability, sovereignty, and sustainability.

Web3 Festival • Shanghai

Hands-On Intro to the Cosmos SDK - Building Your First Dapp in Go

The Cosmos SDK enables developers to easily create application-specific blockchains, simplifying the process with a modular framework and support for Go, rather than relying on Ethereum's Solidity.

EDCON 2018 • Toronto

Cosmos Interoperability via Interblockchain Communication

Inter-blockchain communication (IBC) enables seamless asset transfers and interactions across diverse blockchain networks, facilitating interoperability through efficient protocols and decentralized hubs.

Advanced Digital Innovation Summit • Vancouver

Architecting Internet of Blockchains Slides

Presentation slides from the Advanced Digital Innovation Summit in Vancouver on building an interconnected network of blockchain systems.

Bitcoin Association of Greece • Greece

MoneroLink

A presentation to the Bitcoin Association of Greece analyzing the MoneroLink whitepaper and its implications for Monero's anonymity claims.

Storj Whitepaper Presentation

A whitepaper presentation on Storj.io, an open source project building a decentralized, secure cloud storage service that removes centralization risks from traditional providers like Dropbox and Amazon.

IOTA Tangle Whitepaper Presentation

A whitepaper presentation on IOTA's Tangle technology, explaining its block-less distributed ledger that enables feeless transactions for IoT applications.

Princeton IEEE Chapter Meeting

iSTEM Presentation — Princeton IEEE

A presentation to IEEE Princeton Chapter about NJ-iSTEM organization, updating them on progress and seeking additional support and funding.