Weekly Web3 Hack 🤖 Show and tell night

Join us this Wednesday as people in the Web3 Melbourne community give presentations sharing some of the stuff they love or are involved in!

Simon and Johnathan from the Loki Project will be demonstrating the alpha release of Lokinet, a new onion routing network that utilises the blockchain as a self-regulating mechanism. Loki is a Melbourne grown privacy project aiming to create the worlds first decentralised, end to end encrypted, offline retrieval capable private messenger, as well as a next generation onion network and anonymous cryptocurrency.

Tom Nash will talk about Blocknative Assist, a simple code library used to immediately add usability enhancements to a dapp. He will demonstrate some of Assist's functionality, and show how it can be implemented in both current and future dapps. Assist is an embeddable widget that translates complex blockchain technology into clear, relatable, human terms.

Liam will be giving a five minute crash-course on MimbleWimble: an experimental blockchain protocol that allows zero-knowledge proof transactions in a more private, scalable and lightweight package than possible with other technologies. MimbleWimble has the potential to provide scaling opportunities for existing blockchains like Bitcoin & Ethereum, as well as be used to create entirely new privacy focused blockchains.

About the Web3 Weekly Hack:

Are you interested in Web3 technologies like blockchains, smart contracts and other decentralised systems? Do you want to meet other curious people or even learn to build on Web3 tech?

Well you’ve found the perfect entry point. The Web3 Weekly Hack is an informal gathering of Melbourne’s Web3 devs, hobbyists and learners. There’s no real agenda unless otherwise stated, it's a self directed evening of discussion, coding and fun. We like to sound out our ideas, interrogate problems and build funky stuff.

Hosted by Tom Nash and Alexander Ramsey, founders of Flex Dapps, a sharp Web3 consultancy that works with reputable clients like the Australian Red Cross and RMIT Online. Tom is a software engineer who has been working with Smart Contracts and Ethereum since November 2016 and Alex has a background in startups and building odd things.

We are limited to 30 registrations per hack as the core community of 10-25 Web3 Wizards aren’t usually represented on the attending list and we want to ensure the event will still fit inside the venue. If you want to find a community of people whose purpose is to build and learn instead of speculate, then it’s right here.

At the Web3 Weekly Hack you can do things like:

• Find high quality information and start your journey into Web3
• Find people who can introduce you to the broader Australian community.
• Learn how to set up your environment for Smart Contract development
• Learn best practises for developing, like automated tests (they’re super fun trust me) and automatic migrations
• Receive a high level overviews of what’s possible on Ethereum and the challenges you might face in a project
• Make friends!

Check out our Learning resources: https://github.com/Web3-Melbourne/learning-resources
Supported by flexdapps (http://flexdapps.com/), typehuman (http://typehuman.com/), consensys (http://consensys.net/) and RMIT University (https://www.rmit.edu.au/)

Also please join the Discord group where we chat about meetups past, present and future, as well as a bunch of other things like hackathons/news/general scheming: https://discord.gg/HVS7BVE