Meetup: Building Your Own Blockchain with the Substrate Blockchain Framework
When:
Monday, Mar 09, 2020 12:00p -
2:30p
Monday, Mar 09, 2020 12:00p -
2:30p
Where:
CIC - Mosaic Room - 3rd Floor
245 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Tech
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-substrate-meetup-tickets-96072101241
Web3 Foundation Tech Ed team lead will give the audience an overview on Polkadot & Substrate, new exciting projects!
About this Event
Introduction to Substrate
12:00 - 12:45PM - Part 1
In the first half of the meetup, we'll discuss the basics of Substrate. Substrate allows anyone to create their own blockchain, setting parameters as they see fit. It also comes with a set of modules, FRAME, which allow you to customize the blockchain with minimal to no coding. If you want add a smart contracts module - just import it! If you want to add a module for on-chain governance - just import it! Building your blockchain with Substrate also allows you to easily join the Polkadot or Kusama networks as a parachain, enjoying the ability to communicate with other parachains as a shard in the larger ecosystem.
We'll also discuss a few projects that are already being built on Substrate. This half of the meetup will be relatively non-technical.
12:45 - 1:00 PM - PureStake Presentation
1:00 - 1:30 PM - Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:15 PM - Part 2
After a short break, we'll take a deeper dive into Substrate, generating and running our own blockchain with parameters of our choosing.
This half of the meetup will go more in-depth in regards to the codebase and will be rather technical.
2:15 - 2:30 PM - Q&A and Closing
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ABOUT BILL LABOON - TECH ED TEAM LEAD
Bill Laboon is the Technical Education Lead for the Web3 Foundation in Zug, Switzerland, where he helps people understand blockchain technology. He is also a Lecturer (currently on a leave of absence) in the Computer Science Department of the University of Pittsburgh, after fifteen years in the software industry. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on a variety of topics, including blockchain technology, improving software quality, and the ethics of software development. He is the author of two books: A Friendly Introduction to Software Testing, an undergraduate textbook; and Strength in Numbers, a near-future novel set in a world in which cryptocurrency has entirely eliminated traditional money.
