Explore the innovative power of Web3 technology, the agenda for the 2024 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival Layer1+Layer2 themed forum is revealed!

On April 7, the "Infrastructure: Layer1+Layer2" themed forum will be held at the main venue of the 2024 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival. The guests attending the Layer1 session in the morning have been officially announced, including (the following guests are listed in no particular order) Avery Ching, Co-founder and CTO of Aptos Labs, Dato Fadzli Shah, Co-founder of Zetrix, Lily Liu, President of Solana Foundation, Scott Stuart, Co-founder of Kava, Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner of Dragonfly Capital, Anthony Blackburn, Head of Growth at Gunzilla Games, Kai Xu, COO of MEET48, Illia Polosukhin, Co-founder of NEAR Protocol, Amos Zhang, early builder of NEAR and Founder of MetaWeb Ventures, Max Rebol, CEO and Managing Partner of Harbour Industrial Capital, among others, who will focus on topics such as "Layer1 Development Trends," "Sustainable Ecosystem Building for Public Chains," and "Phenomenal Applications Now and in the Future," delivering keynote speeches on issues of greatest concern to users and developers.

As an important technological innovation direction in blockchain, Layer2 effectively reduces costs and increases efficiency for blockchain network transaction processing capabilities by building a network layer on top of Layer1 networks. This not only lays a solid foundation for the large-scale application of blockchain but also provides greater imaginative space for the future development of the Web3 industry.

In the afternoon of April 7, the "Infrastructure: Layer1+Layer2" themed forum will focus on Layer2, inviting globally renowned project leaders, investors, and other senior professionals to engage in in-depth discussions on the development trends, application scenarios, and industry impacts of Layer2 technology.

Eli Ben Sasson, CEO and Co-founder of StarkWare, a star project in the field of blockchain scalability and privacy protection, will deliver the keynote speech for this Layer2 themed forum, analyzing the development trends and opportunities of Layer2 in conjunction with the technological advancements and achievements StarkWare has made over the past year. Sam Seo, Representative Director of Klaytn Foundation, Sreeram Kannan, CEO of Eigenlayer, and Smokey, Co-founder of Berachain, will also be keynote speakers, sharing their technical insights.

Additionally, this Layer2 themed forum will feature roundtable discussions on topics such as Layer2 ecosystem services and applications, new technological trends in Layer2, and BTC Layer2, inviting technical experts, investors, and corporate representatives to interpret hot topics in the Layer2 sector from multiple perspectives.

In the roundtable discussion on Layer2 ecosystem services and applications, Ross Zhang, Managing Partner of SNZ Capital, will serve as the host, exploring the application potential of the Layer2 ecosystem with Tom Ngo, CEO of Metis, Terence, Founder of Taiko, Leona, Founder of IntMax, Leo Fan, Founder of Cysic, YQ, Founder of AltLayer, and Angel Xu, Co-founder of Zircuit, based on their project practice experiences.

In recent years, the growth momentum of new forces in Layer2 should not be underestimated, injecting strong impetus into the development of this field. Keith Chen, Managing Partner of SNZ Capital, will discuss new trends in the technological development of Layer2 with Dong Mo, Co-founder of Brevis, Daniel Marin, CEO of Nexus, Georgi Koreli, Founder of Hinkal, Fubiao Xia, Co-founder of PADO Labs, and Dennis Song, CSO of Mind Network, among other new forces in Layer2.

In the VC roundtable, representative investment institutions from Asia, Europe, North America, and the Middle East will provide a global perspective on Web3 investment trends. Ryan Chen, Managing Partner of HashKey Capital, Lasse Clausen, Founding Partner of 1kx, Alexander Pack, Managing Partner of HackVC, Vineek Budki, Managing Partner and CEO of Cypher Capital, and Gavin Wang, Chief Investment Officer of SNZ Capital, will share the characteristics and trends of Web3 industry development in different regions and discuss investment strategies.

Over the past year, Bitcoin Layer2 has made significant progress, and the popularity of the inscription concept has injected new vitality into the development of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Rena Shah, Vice President of Product at Stacks Ecosystem, Cipher, Co-founder of Cell Studio, Eason, CEO of TerpLayer, Blue, Partner and CTO of Slowmist, and Jan Camenisch, CTO of DFINITY Foundation will conduct in-depth discussions on the development of Bitcoin Layer2, exploring its potential and opportunities.

Moreover, the "Web3 Infrastructure" themed forum, which will be held on the morning of April 7 at the sub-venue three of the 2024 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, will also gather a number of technical experts: (the following guests are listed in no particular order) Miguel Palencia, Co-founder of Qtum, will share in his keynote speech how to provide developers with a more flexible and secure development environment to promote innovation and development in Web3 applications; Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs, will delve into the role of Layer 2 technology in Web3 infrastructure and how to optimize the performance and user experience of Web3 applications through its technology; Wu Ming, Co-founder and CTO of Conflux, will share the latest achievements of Conflux in technological innovation and ecosystem building, and how to promote the landing and popularization of Web3 applications through its platform; Da Hongfei, Founder of Neo, will discuss the development and innovation trends of Layer1 technology at the beginning of this cycle and share his long-term exploration experience and outlook in the public chain sector; Rishi Ramchandani, Head of Web3 at Google Cloud Asia Pacific, will share how Google Cloud provides stable and secure cloud services for Web3 applications and elaborate on the transformations and rich application scenarios brought by generative AI to the Web3 industry; Shai Wyborski, Core Developer of Kaspa and Co-author of GHOSTDAG, will explore Kaspa's consensus mechanism and how to solve the impossible triangle problem, as well as how Kaspa can achieve throughput comparable to VISA after the Rust launch; Anurag Arjun, Co-founder of Avail, will share new methods for solving fragmentation, Rollup scaling, and interoperability issues in Web3.

In the roundtable discussion segment, Wu Xiao, Founder of ChainIDE and Ethereum Riyadh Executive Committee member, will serve as the host, engaging with Sarah, Head of Business Development for BNBChain in the Asia Pacific, Mingshi Song, Strategic Head of Astar, Emi Yoshikawa, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Ripple, Kenny Li, Co-founder of Manta Network, and other well-known project representatives to explore the contributions of blockchain ecosystem platforms to Web3 infrastructure, and how to leverage their robust ecosystems and rich application scenarios to address interoperability and scalability issues in Web3 applications, promoting innovation and development in Web3 applications.