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#212 Adam Perlow & Asher Manning: Zen Protocol – A Decentralized Financial System

We were joined by Founder Adam Perlow and Developer Asher Manning of Zen, a public blockchain project focused on building a decentralized financial system. The core premise of Zen is that none of the public blockchain networks are focused on financial asset. Zen is aiming to fill that gap through a bitcoin-like UTXO architecture that supports multiple asset and smart contracts to enforce complex ownership rules.

We talked through their original design choices, their use of formal verification, connection to bitcoin and vision for a fully decentralized financial system.

Topics discussed in this episode:

  • Why existing public blockchains are ill-suited for financial instruments
  • Why Zen chose to use a bitcoin-like UTXO architecture
  • How Zen uses formal verification to allow smart contracts without a virtual machine or needing gas
  • How the Active Contract Set reduces the burden on the miners
  • Walking through creating, trading and settling a call option on Zen
  • How Zen allows payments to be settled in bitcoin
  • Getting data from the outside world with oracles
  • Zen’s use of Proof-of-Work regulated by on-chain governance

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Author of four international bestsellers on business David Siegel to speak about types of tokens and tokenization of economy at ICO event London.

What types of tokens exist? How to create your own token? What consequences can tokenization have? Speaker of ICO event London, author of four international bestsellers on the Internet and business David Siegel will answer these questions. 

The topic of David’s presentation is “Token Taxonomy”. He will explain what types of tokens exist and what purposes they serve. He will give recommendations on how to design your own token and tell about ICOs and tokenization of economy as well as answering questions from the audience.

David Siegel is a globally renowned mentor. He is an expert on blockchain, decentralization, and business. Siegel started to promote the Internet back in 1994 and is one of the first bloggers in the world. Siegel is an author of five books on the Internet and business, four of which have become international bestsellers. He has been a management and strategy consultant to such major companies as NASA, Amazon, Intel, Sony, Hewlett Packard, etc.

Siegel has given dozens of professional speeches at conferences all over the world. He has written many articles on decentralization and blockchain. He is also an author of the comprehensive manual on ICOs called The ICO Handbook. Currently, he helps to launch startups based on Ethereum blockchain.

Register to ICO event London to talk to this top-class business and fintech expert.

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