Wrapping up the conference from the train back home as good as I can (on-train wifi is spurious and seems to rate-limit youtube and social media).
Notable talks:
"Ethereum Protocol Fellowship: Becoming a core developer"
Mario Havel of the Ethereum Foundation talked about the fourth cohort of the EF fellowship for protocol level development. The application period for this round is over, but access to the program is permissionless and you can run along the selected participants and receive support and benefits if you have an interesting project to contribute.
"Real-time monitoring of your validators. For you and the ETH network!"
Emmanuel Nalepa (Ethereum Foundation Fellow / Kiln) showcased the software they developed for monitoring validator health and performance. Cool stuff, I can use that!
"ETHcc meets QPL - a meeting between crypto and quantum"
A panel discussion of math and quantum geeks Fabrizio Genovese, Justin Drake, Stefano Goioso and Matty Hoban. Most of the discussion went over my head, but my key takeaways were: one-shot signatures could be another important cryptographic primitive for crypto, and while real quantum devices are still scarce a lot of computational optimizations have trickled down from the work on quantum computing to traditional math.
As indicated yesterday, I was getting fed up by the conference topics and decided to quit in the afternoon. Instead, I headed over across the Seine to https://impactblockchainconference.org/, a parallel conference under the "blockchain for good" umbrella for two panel discussions and an nft exhibition.
Summing it up, EthCC[6] has been a great experience and I want to applaud organizers, team, speakers and volunteers for what they have put together! If I would be asked for critical feedback, my only advise would be to not grow any bigger, as the vast amount of content from conference and side events combined was overwhelming.
For your reference, here are playlists for all the recordings grouped by room: