BlueYard is excited to be hosting an afternoon of intimate workshops and conversations around EthCC 4 in Paris on Wednesday, July 21st from 15:00–18:30:

• 15:00–15:45 Illuminating the Dark Forest: an overview of MEV and its future — a conversation led by Flashbots
• 16:00–16:45 The evolution of and an outlook on web3 infrastructure — a conversation led by Protocol Labs, Radicle and the Graph
• 17:00–17:45 Broadening access, new assets and products: what’s next in DeFi — a conversation led by Violet Protocol and Centrifuge
• 17:45–18:30 Wrap-up conversation and drinks

Capacity is limited, so kindly let us know via this typeform if…

We are living in a time where humanity seems to be approaching a fork in the road at an ever accelerating pace: One path leads to a tangible potential for prosperity and peace for all based on technological progress, increasingly liberal and open societies engaged in free global trade with less incentives for violence and war, and deploying technology to master our largest planetary challenges; another path leads to eventual self destruction based on the unravelling of lighthouse democracies, irrevocable harm to our planet, the collapse of civil dialogue, eroding national and global institutions, ever increasing economic inequality and world-destroying…

We are living in a time where humanity seems to be approaching a fork in the road at an ever accelerating pace: One path leads to a tangible potential for prosperity and peace for all based on technological progress, increasingly liberal and open societies engaged in free global trade with less incentives for violence and war, and deploying technology to master our largest planetary challenges; another path leads to eventual self destruction based on the unravelling of lighthouse democracies, irrevocable harm to our planet, the collapse of civil dialogue, eroding national and global institutions, ever increasing economic inequality and world-destroying…

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We are living in a time where humanity seems to be approaching a fork in the road at an ever accelerating pace: One path leads to a tangible potential for prosperity and peace for all based on technological progress, increasingly liberal and open societies engaged in free global trade with less incentives for violence and war, and deploying technology to master our largest planetary challenges; another path leads to eventual self destruction based on the unravelling of lighthouse democracies, irrevocable harm to our planet, the collapse of civil dialogue, eroding national…