Nicolás Arqueros, CTO @Emurgo.io (Brooklyn, New York) "Cardano for non-technical people"

1. Emurgo
Unblocked: beyond the crypto
Presenter:
Nicolás Arqueros - CTO, Emurgo

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Cardano is a blockchain
that seeks to deliver more
advanced features than
any protocol previously
developed.
What is Cardano?
brief recap

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Topics
• Working Philosophy
• Technical Superiority
• Launch (important dates)

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THE
PROGRAMME
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Research
Working
Philosophy
Peer Review High Assurance And
Formal Verification

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Topics
• Working Philosophy
• Technical Superiority
• Launch
1. The industry has
some problems
2. Enter Cardano
a. Scalability
b. Interoperability
c. Sustainability
3. Next level Smart
Contracts

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The
Industry
has
Some
Problems

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Business
ScalabilityAmount of transactions,
blockchain size and network

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Business
ScalabilityAmount of transactions,
blockchain size and network
Ethereum-blockchain
size has exceeded 1TB

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Business
HacksSmart Contracts are dangerous!
Parity Freeze
Parity’s multisig wallet
The DAO
Input Overflow (April
2018)
And many others…
Over 350 million
dollars LOST

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Business
Funding?
Development needs money
Projects had to move from
Bitcoin to Ethereum for funding
reasons.
But the funding is only for token
based projects, not protocol.

12. Enter
Cardano

13. Scalability
*Ouroboros
Hydra
(Performance
via Sharding)
Ouroboros
(First provably
secure PoS)
Ouroboros
Praos
(Practicality)
Ouroboros
Genesis
(Proof of stake
solved!)
Peerreview
Research
* Under research

14. Interoperability
Sidechains
Authentication
and compliance
using Metadata(Other blockchains)
(Traditional industries like
banking)

15. Sustainability
Community
Governance by using
Liquid Democracy
Integrated with the protocol
for treasury and voting.

16. Next Level
Smart Contracts

17. Smart Contracts
• Formal Verification
• K-Framework (KEVM, IELE)
• Plutus
• Marlowe

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Smart
Contract
Testnet Deployed

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When
mainnet...

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Early next year!

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