Talk #1: Building a high-throughput blockchain platform for applications Description - What is blockchain and short overview on consensus algorithms Overview of Zilliqa - Introduction to sharding in public blockchains - Introduction to smart contracts and why we developer our own smart contract language, Scilla - Short introduction to applications development - How to get started? Speaker Profile Jun Hao is a developer on weekdays and security geek on weekend. His experiences spanned over multiple computer science domains including blockchain, web security, trusted computing, and program analysis. At Zilliqa, he has co-developed a world-first public blockchain platform that uses sharding to scale. He is also the co-founder of 2 cybersecurity interest groups, Edgis and NUS Greyhats. Edison leads a team of application developers at Aqilliz, a blockchain solutions provider that create trust, transparency, and convenience for the rapidly growing platform economy. Edison and his team worked on Proton, a digital advertising reconciliation platform and HG Exchange, a private equities member-based exchange. Edison holds a M.Sc from CMU, and enjoys software engineering, blockchain and cybersecurity Supported by The HANGAR by NUS Enterprise — the campus hub for entrepreneurs Event Page: https://www.meetup.com/NUSHackers/events/264619942/ Produced by Engineers.SG Recorded by: NUS Hackers Help us caption & translate this video! https://amara.org/v/wiSF/

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