As previously announced by ETHGlobal, the first-ever Pragma summit kicked off the wider ETHGlobal Tokyo hackathon on Thursday as a “hub for high-quality talks and as a forum of discussion for builders and leaders from the Ethereum ecosystem and beyond.” The event, emceed by Kartik Talwar of ETHGlobal, featured on-stage interviews with Aya Miyaguchi of the Ethereum Foundation, Juan Benet of Protocol Labs, The Network State author and bitcoin proponent Balaji Srinivasan, and Stani Kulechov of Aave Companies. Product announcements were also made by several featured speakers.
First-Ever ‘Pragma’ Summit Lands in Tokyo
On April 13, Ethereum proponents from around the globe converged on Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, at the Digital Garage, to engage in on-stage interviews, product announcements, and networking. The application-only Pragma event is said to be the first ever in-person version of such summits for ETHGlobal, and kicked off the wider ETHGlobal Tokyo hackathon which lasts until Sunday, April 16.
Kartik Talwar, co-founder of ETHGlobal, began the series of interviews by inviting Aya Miyaguchi, the executive director at the Ethereum Foundation, to the stage.
Miyaguchi commented on the general culture in Japan, saying people are very humble and “there are a lot of talented developers, but it’s not embraced enough. Like, acknowledged enough. It’s like, okay, at a company … management makes the decisions and they tell developers what to build.” She emphasized:
But the Ethereum way is that you need to include these developers in the idea generation, brainstorming stage.
Miyaguchi went on to note: “One thing Japan is very good at … They are good at team work.” The executive director says this is a real strength and that Japanese are diligent to learn new things like programming languages, but events like the hackathon and the Ethereum community can “teach or inspire” a new way of openness outside of the traditional cultural constraints.
Juan Benet of Protocol Labs spoke on the creation of IPFS, preserving archives on blockchains, and future possibilities for various blockchain transformations, stating:
My prediction is that most of these chains are going to recombine in super interesting ways … some L1s [layer one] will turn into L2s, some L2s will turn into L1s, and it won’t matter that much in the long term.
He noted that blockchains should be able to scale much more…
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