Real Life Security Threats and How to Avoid Them
March 15, 2021
Mark S. Miller will give a presentation on SES and how it can reduce a supply chain risk.
Fireside Chat: Figment + Agoric
February 18, 2021
Join us for the fireside chat with Gavin Birch of Figment to discuss how we're working to make DeFi more accessible, secure, and faster to build on.
COSMOS - Stargate Upgrade Launch Party
February 17, 2021
Dean Tribble will be speaking at 11 pm PST.
Pillar Series: Agoric and MetaMask on Securing Web3
January 21, 2021
Join Mark S. Miller (Chief Scientist at Agoric) and Dan Finlay (Lead Developer at MetaMask) in a conversation about securing Web3 infrastructure. The two will discuss the role of Agoric's SES technology in the MetaMask wallet and how it lays the groundwork for the extensible internet in a capability-first security architecture.
Cosmos UniFi DAO Demo Day
January 13, 2021
Demo Day to present Cosmos DeFi projects. Dean Tribble will be unveiling new, faster functionality of Agoric for developers and ecosystem participants.
Interchain Conversations II
December 12 - 13, 2020
The conversations fostered during this conference will become fodder for future innovations coming out of Cosmos and its extended ecosystems. Dean Tribble will speak about Agoric public chain and economy Dec 12 at 6 pm PT.
Hack the Orb: the Agoric and Chainlink Hackathon
November 6 - 21, 2020
Level up your JavaScript skills during a two-week online hackathon focused on the power of decentralized finance. Using Chainlink’s market-leading oracle solution and the Agoric smart contract platform, developers can Hack the Orb for a chance to win!
TC39 Meeting
November 16 - 19, 2020
TC39 is the committee maintaining and evolving the JavaScript standard. The committee includes developers, implementors, and more, both from industry and academia. Agoric's delegates include Mark S. Miller, Chip Morningstar, Kris Kowal and Dean Tribble.
Agoric Pillar Series: Agoric on Stablecoin Economics
November 18, 2020
Stablecoins - a Foundational DeFi Primitive. DeFi is exploding, fueled by the ease of composing financial primitives. Stablecoins sit as the foundation of the DeFi stack. This talk by our economist Bill Tulloh provides a gentle introduction to the economics behind stablecoins, and the role they play in fueling DeFi growth.
Behind the Chain: Decentralization, Privacy and Security
November 13, 2020
Join our Chief Scientist Mark S. Miller on the Sperax panel talk Friday, Nov 12 at 10 am PST / 1 pm EST.
HackAtom V
October 16 - 30, 2020
HackAtom V is the fifth online Cosmos hackathon to have been launched. With Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) just over the horizon, come and build your Interchain-composable concept right before IBC goes into production.
DeFi Workshop - Smart Contracts in JavaScript
October 16, 2020
This event hosted by Dean Tribble (CEO) will highlight how Agoric solves DeFi’s largest problems: user fund security and lack of true composability.
Dystopia Labs: Liquidity 2020
October 16, 2020
Dean Tribble will present at 8:30 PT 'Exploring Pre-Built, Reusable Governance Components'
Code With Us - Building a Composable DeFi Contract
September 11, 2020
Dive into DeFi on the Agoric smart contract platform. Kate Sills will walk you through building an “over-the-counter” market maker. The example introduces the key concepts of safe smart contracts on Agoric, and shows how to combine DeFi legos to rapidly produce a new DeFi dapp.
Smart Contract Summit #0
August 28 - 29, 2020
Smart Contract Virtual Summit #0 (SmartCon) is the premier conference dedicated to gathering decentralized finance (DeFi) developers, enterprises, dApp builders, node operators, researchers, and the community pioneering the furthest reaches of the wider smart contract and DeFi frontier. Dean Tribble will be presenting there.
Filecoin Ignite
July 6, 2020
A series of events gathering the community, to learn, show, and build together.
Diffusion Digital: EXPLORING THE JOURNEY FROM WEB 2 TO WEB 3
May 28, 2020
Join some of the world’s most exciting elements of the Web 3 ecosystem, for a one-day virtual demo day and more - made up of pitches, talks, panels, and live Q&A. Mark S. Miller will be part of the panel on 'Building for Interoperability in Web3'
Game of Zones
April 25 - May 22, 2020
Cosmos team kicking off another series of adversarial testnet challenges designed to prepare the Cosmos ecosystem for the upcoming launch of the IBC module.
Gitcoin Virtual Cross-Chain Hackathon
April 20 - May 18, 2020
Build real-world applications with Agoric, Band Protocol, and Cosmos.
Consensus: Distributed
May 11 - 13, 2020
Agoric team will be attending remotely.
Ready Layer One
May 4 - 6, 2020
This is an interactive, immersive virtual event which contains talks, workshops and rants by everyone from well-known speakers to community-sourced contributors.
Internet Identity Workshop
April 28 - April 30, 2020
Agoric team will be attending remotely.
TC39 Meeting
March 31 - April 2, 2020 Cupertino, California
TC39 is the committee maintaining and evolving the Javascript standard. The committee includes developers, implementors, and more, both from industry and academia. Agoric's representatives include Mark S. Miller, Chip Morningstar, and Dean Tribble.
Developer Relations Conference
March 9 - 10, 2020 San Jose, California
Tatyana Roberts will be attending.
Hyperledger Global Forum
March 3 - 6, 2020 Phoenix, Arizona
Hyperledger’s annual conference gathers industry leaders from a myriad of industries and verticals to further the awareness, education, adoption and advancement of enterprise blockchain technologies. Agoric's economist Bill Tulloh is attending.
Qcon London 2020
March 2, 2020 London, UK
Kate Sills will discuss how to minimize the risks of running third-party JavaScript. She’ll go over POLA, the Principle of Least Authority, and how object capabilities can help to grant specific, limited resources to third-party code.
The Stanford Blockchain Conference 2020
February 19 - 21, 2020 Stanford University, California
This conference explores methods of security engineering and risk management in blockchain systems. Agoric team will be present.
Learn about Binance chain, TrustWallet, Tellor, Agoric, and Cosmos
December 12, 2019 San Francisco, California
Learn about the latest in Cosmos and see a presentation on IBC from Cosmos/Agoric.
CodeX Weekly Meeting at Stanford University
December 12, 2019 Stanford University, California
Kate Sills will discuss Zoe, Agoric's framework for building smart contracts, including building mechanisms such as auctions, swaps, and decentralized exchanges. Zoe guarantees that users of a smart contract will either get what they said they wanted or get a full refund, even if the smart contract is buggy or malicious.
Blockchain for Social Good: Women Leading The Blockchain Revolution
December 11, 2019 San Francisco, California
Tatyana Roberts will be part of the panel discussion on whether the blockchain technology can solve global social problems.
Making JavaScript Safe and Secure
December 5, 2019 San Francisco, California
It’s TC39 committee week at Salesforce and we decided to throw a little JavaScript party.
DeFi Hackathon
November 1 - 3, 2019 Terra Gallery, San Francisco
The DeFi Hackathon is a three-day event that leverages open source software and decentralized networks to transform traditional financial products into trustless and transparent solutions without intermediaries. Agoric and Cosmos will do a workshop on IBC protocol.
Composable Smart Contracts - Introducing the Agoric Contract Framework
November 1, 2019 Technical Stage, San Francisco Marriott Marquis
How do we build a vibrant decentralized economy? We must build a network of businesses and institutions in code. Agoric’s smart contract system supports the security and reuse needed for developers to create a cross-chain economy of digital assets. Don't miss Dean's talk at 10 am on the Technical Stage.
Protocol Battle: Enabling Rapid Application Development & Adoption
October 30, 2019 San Francisco, California
Hear Dash, Tezos and Kate Sills from Agoric discuss what makes a successful protocol and special tools they've built for developers.
Incrementally Smarter and Secure Contracts
October 29, 2019 San Francisco, California
Join the teams from Agoric and Protocol Labs as we dive deep into the world of Smart Contracts. Held in the Long Now Foundation’s stunning Interval space the educational evening will focus on increasing secure cooperation online.
SF Blockchain Week 2019
October 28 - November 3, 2019 San Francisco & Berkeley, California
We are excited to participate and sponsor SFBW19 this year. We will be attending CESC, presenting at Epicenter and supporting DeFi Hackathon. Check out the full list of all the events we are participating at and attending during SFBW19.
A Chain Reaction: Launching the Interchain Interoperability Standard (IBC)
October 21, 2019 Berlin, Germany
Join Agoric, Cosmos and others for an overview of one of the most important developments in blockchain, an interoperability standard.
Diffusion2019
October 19 - 20, 2019 Berlin, Germany
Our CEO Dean Tribble will be participating at the hackathon and will do a technical presentation on Agoric stack. Don't miss Agoric & Cosmos workshop on blockchain interoperability using IBC on Saturday 19th Oct at 3 pm.
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Smart Contracts
October 11, 2019 University of Pennsylvania Law School
Bill Tulloh will be participating at this workshop. It will be a closed-door conference on smart contracts, which will mix attendees from industry, faculty in law and computer science, and practicing lawyers.
Devcon
October 8 - 11, 2019 Osaka, Japan
Our software engineer Kate Sills will be speaking as part of a panel on State of Blockchain Governance Oct 11, 9 am - 12 pm Room B10
Cryptoeconomic Systems Field Building Summit
October 5 - 6, 2019 MIT Media Lab
The goal of the event is to bring together the technical areas of cryptography, protocol engineering and distributed systems research with insights from the domains of economics, law, complex systems and philosophy to crystallize a mature communal scholarly ecosystem. Our economist Bill Tulloh will be attending.
Build on Cosmos - Learn about Agoric, Lino Network and more
September 11, 2019 San Francisco, California
In this meetup Cosmos will share several teams building on the Cosmos. Mark Miller will present the work we do at Agoric and how we integrate with Cosmos.
ActivityPub Conference
September 7-8, 2019 Prague, Czech Republic
A conference about the present and future of ActivityPub, the world’s leading federated social web standard. Mark Miller will speak about ocaps and erights, with an emphasis on building cooperative social worlds.
Can Blockchains Provide Rule of Law?
September 5, 2019 San Francisco, California
Join us at our next Speaker Series event with Protocol Labs. Learn about the history of smart contracts and whether blockchains can provide the rule of law.
Distributed Programming for a Decentralized World
July 15, 2019 San Francisco
This talk is part of the Speaker Series presented by Agoric and Protocol Labs to bring in-depth understanding on secure distributed programming practices. We will be organizing these educational events monthly, so follow us for updates on future events. Our goal is to increase secure cooperation online: to allow the trade of digital assets, make agreements, form smart contracts and interact safely.
Qcon New York 2019
June 26, 2019 New York City
As part of their 21st Century Languages track, our engineer Kate Sills will present JavaScript Object Capabilities.There’s a JavaScript package for everything. But installing a random package is a security nightmare: the installed package can access your data and send it over the network without anyone ever knowing.
But there’s hope! This talk will discuss how to minimize the risks of running third-party JavaScript. We’ll go over POLA, the Principle of Least Authority,and how object capabilities can help us grant specific, limited resources to third-party code. We’ll also cover the current efforts to enforce security boundaries in JavaScript: SES (Secure ECMAScript) and Realms.
Zcon1
June 23, 2019, Split, Croatia
Dean Tribble will speak on "Agoric, Smart Contracts, and Confidentiality"
HackAtom: Berlin
June 15-16, 2019, Berlin
We demoed our integration with Cosmos, running “Swingset” on a Cosmos chain. In order to show our full stack, we built a simple pixel marketplace that uses our Electronic Rights Protocol and provides the ability to color, buy, and sell pixels as well as create further abstractions.
Interchain Conversations
June 13-14 2019, Berlin
Dean Tribble and Brian Warner gave a talk on the Agoric “Swingset” Platform.
BiTA Symposium Spring 2019
May 9, 2019, Atlanta, GA
CEO Dean Tribble presented on Smart Contracts at the Blockchain in Transport Alliance Spring Symposium.
The Association of Private Enterprise Education: 44th Annual Meetings
April 8, 2019, Nassau, Bahamas
Bill Tulloh presented on Crypto-Commerce - From Currencies to Contracts on The Prospects for Sound Money and Private Governance panel
Alchemist Blockchain Techstars Accelerator
February 5, 2019, New York City
We're pleased to share that our very own Michael Jablon will be a mentor at the Alchemist Blockchain Techstars Accelerator program in New York City starting this week. The Accelerator program will grow and support ten hand-picked companies whose founders are passionate about building a more open internet and financial system.
Stanford Blockchain Conference 2019 (formerly BPASE)
January 30 - February 1, 2019, Stanford University
Dean Tribble presented a solution to the train-hotel problem at the Stanford Blockchain Conference. The train-hotel problem comes from Andrew Miller and demonstrates a difficulty with cross-shard communication. In the problem, we want to get a train ticket AND a hotel reservation - if we don’t get both, we want neither. The talk is up on Youtube and slides can be found here (slides in pdf).</p>
OCAP 2018 : Object-Capability Languages, Systems, and Applications
During SPLASH, November 4-9, Boston
Mark Miller and Bill Tulloh organized a workshop on object-capabilities. Marc Stiegler gave the keynote speech on the "Lost Wisdom of the Ancients", the patterns that have historically been helpful for user interface security. JF Paradis from SalesForce presented on Salesforce’s use of a JavaScript ocap security kernel in its Locker Service in an ecosystem of over 5 million developers.
Research and Practice on Blockchain
October 27, Fargo, ND
Our resident economist, Bill Tulloh, spoke on "A Principal-Agent Approach to Securing Smart Contracts". Professor Jason Potts live tweeted it here, here, and here.
Web3 Summit
October 23 14:15 – 14:45, Berlin
Dean Tribble spoke on "The Duality of Smart Contracts and Electronic Rights". Watch the official video here
Blockchain Governance, Law and Policy Panel
October 11 6pm, San Francisco
Kate Sills discussed governance on a panel with Vlad Zamfir, Professor Oliver Goodenough, and Tony Lai.
SFBW - Agoric at SF Cryptocurrency Devs
October 10 7pm, San Francisco
Mark Miller spoke about the Agoric approach to smart contracts. SF Cryptocurrency Devs is an engineers-only developer meetup for blockchain engineers seeking to learn about the innovation surrounding new and emerging applications of cryptography to digital currencies. Watch the official video.
SFBW Epicenter - Authority in Smart Contracts
October 8th 2:20PM - 2:45PM, Stage - Titans of Tech
Dean Tribble (CEO) spoke about the problems with identity-based access control and how to handle authority in smart contracts.
TC39
September 25-27, NYC
Our Chief Scientist Mark Miller attended the regular meeting of the JavaScript standards committee.
Rebooting the Web of Trust
September 26-28, Toronto
Kate Sills, our Community Lead, attended the premier event for decentralized identity.
ETHBerlin
September 7-9, Berlin
Agoric sponsored ETHBerlin, an Ethereum hackathon. Dean Tribble and Kate Sills had a blast meeting more of the Ethereum community and learning about upcoming projects.
SecurEth Smart Contract Security Unconference
September 6, Berlin
Dean Tribble attended this meeting on smart contract security.
Centre for Independent Studies Consilium
August 9-11, Australia
Kate Sills spoke about smart contracts at this annual gathering of Australian politicians and heads of industry.
Decentralized Web Summit
July 31-August 2, San Francisco
Brian Warner spoke on “Fearless Cooperation: Giving eval() to your worst enemy for fun and profit.” (Video, Slides)
TC39
July 24-27, Redmond, WA
At the TC39 meeting, Mark Miller presented on the results of the Realms shim security review. Realms is a standards track proposal for JavaScript that SES builds on.
Zcon0
June 26-28, Montreal
Dean Tribble and Mark Miller led a workshop on smart contracts.