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Kuala Lumpur is home to some of the world's best known Ethereum projects and it is the mission of ETHKL to be a meeting place to learn about Ethereum and similar blockchain technology powering some of today's most interesting innovations.
Sometimes referred to as Web 3.0, Ethereum smart contracts permit trust-less interaction and enable parties to exchange digital assets with confidence and undertake complex transactions knowing that the transaction is governed by a set of clearly defined rules.
Upcoming events (1)
See all- Architecting Anti-Fragile Trust: A Builder's Perspective on Surviving the PolycrRojak SS15 Subang Jaya, Subang Jaya
This ad hoc meetup session features Roger Qiu, who will share his perspective shaped by direct encounters with the fragility of global digital systems:
Our global digital systems are dangerously brittle. This isn't a theoretical risk; it's a painful reality, as I recently experienced while navigating the monolithic digital borders of both the US and Malaysia. These systems are non-modular, rife with single points of failure, and unprepared for the shocks of a "polycrisis" world defined by conflict, climate events, and pandemics.
Using my personal experience as a starting point, we will deconstruct the architectural flaws common to both our national identity systems and the core protocols of Web 2.0. We will explore the deep "tail risks" we are all inheriting.
The second half of the talk will shift from deconstruction to construction. I will share a set of first-principles for building truly resilient, sovereign, and verifiable systems. We will use our own research and architectural explorations as a case study in applying these principles, inviting a community-wide discussion on how we can all design for a world of cascading failures.
---Roger Qiu is the CEO of Matrix AI. As a systems architect and first-principles thinker, he has spent over a decade researching the deep structures of digital trust. His work, informed by direct experience with the fragility of global digital systems, focuses on exploring and promoting architectural patterns for resilient, sovereign, and verifiable infrastructure to meet the challenges of our "polycrisis" world.
