Making Sense of Layer 2 by Josh Stark (Devcon4)

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This talk will be a high level overview of the state-of-the-art in "Layer 2" scaling tech. The goal is to give the audience a comparative understanding of techniques like state channels, plasma (and its various flavours), sidechains, etc. Introduce a basic taxonomy of layer 2 tech
-What are the similarities and differences between them?
-Comparative analysis - what is each technique good at and bad at?
-Defining and explaining jargon used to discuss this tech
-Distinguishing between "safety net preserving" techniques (plasma, state channels) and others (sidechains)

Speaker(s): Josh Stark
Skill level: Intermediate
Track: Scalability
Keywords: l2, layer2

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