Deconstructing RChain With Greg

Silicon Valley Ethereum Meetup is proud to be hosting a very special evening with Greg Meredith, President of the RChain Cooperative [0]. I learned of this project a few years back from a good friend that had the pleasure of personally hearing Greg speak, and immediately informed me that I ought to give the project a hard look. There are a great deal of firsts associated with this endeavor. I am particularly impressed by its embracing of formal methods and having at its core a correct by construction model for smart contracts that are executed within the Rho VM.

Greg will talk about RChain as a unique combination of a decentralized global database and computer. Demonstrating how rholang is the next generation query and coordination language, commonly thought of as a smart contracting language. And he will unpack the considerable enrichment of query semantics that come from the Operational Semantics in Logical Form algorithm, showcasing why this query semantics needs to be the province of humanity and not in the hands of a few centralized corporations.

Greg Meredith—President of the RChain Cooperative

Lucius Gregory (Greg) Meredith is the president of the RChain Cooperative, a blockchain company devoted to providing a scalable blockchain to serve humanity in its expanding need to coordinate and cooperate to address the swift and dramatic challenges it will be facing in climate change and other related consequences of our approach to being human on planet Earth.

Greg worked to establish RChain because he believes that we are witnessing a transformation of our way of being one of many, the emergence of an e pluribus unum 2.0. If the Internet has been the harbinger of this shift, the blockchain is its manager. Decentralization is really about finding a new center on a scale-invariant axis reconciling the wisdom of the collective and the wisdom of the individual.

Greg is a mathematician, and the discoverer of the rho-calculus, a co-inventor of the LADL algorithm, and the inventor of the ToGL approach to graph theory. Previously he has worked as Principal Architect of Microsoft's BizTalk Process Orchestration, Principal Architect of Microsoft's Highwire offering as well as Principal Architect of ATM Network management solution for ATT/NCR and Co-designer and developer of MCC's Rosette/ESS technology.

All levels of experience within the crypto ecosystem are highly welcomed at our events, and no previous blockchain experience is necessary.

Silicon Valley Ethereum meetup is sponsored by the Decentralization Foundation [1], a non-profit devoted towards the advancement and promotion of these enabling technologies.

[0] https://www.rchain.coop/
[1] https://d24n.org/