EthCC 3 – Flash Loans and Elbow Bumps

This episode was recorded at the third annual Ethereum Community Conference in Paris last week and we were joined by Gonçalo Sá, Co-founder of ConsenSys Diligence, Jérôme de Tychey, President of Ethereum France, and Cassidy Daly, Token Designer at Centrifuge. We discussed the issues surrounding centralization and DeFi in token governance, the security complexities of composability attacks like the ones we saw recently which leveraged flash loans, and of course, the coronavirus.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Gonçalo and Cassidy discuss their talks at the EthCC event
• The current points of interest around centralization in DeFi
• Defining ecosystem decentralization guidelines
• Issues with token governance in DAOs
• Security complexities of comparability attacks and the recent flash loans
• How the Ethereum community is improving response times to attacks
• EthCC, hugs and coronavirus

Episode links:

• Ethereum Community Conference 3
• EthCC - Twitter
• Jérôme de Tychey: “Opening Speech” at EthCC
• Jérôme de Tychey: “Closing Speech” at EthCC
• Friederike Ernst: “Prediction Markets” at EthCC
• Cassidy Daly & Abbey Titcomb: “Putting the 'De' back in 'DeFi'” at EthCC
• Cassidy Daly: “The Gateway for Real-World Assets into the Blockchain Multiverse” at EthCC
• Gonçalo Sá Twitter
• Jérôme de Tychey Twitter
• Cassidy Daly Twitter

This episode is hosted by Sebastien Couture & Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/episodes/bonus-ethcc-3