Stories from Bangkok: Devcon SEA Scholars Program

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Across antithetic disciplines and geographies, builders are exploring however Ethereum fits into their enactment and communities. The Devcon SEA Scholars Program brought unneurotic 93 of these individuals successful Bangkok who are bridging Ethereum with different worlds and pushing Ethereum's boundaries.

This assemblage of builders, thinkers, and creators was selected from implicit 800 applicants representing 86 countries. The programme consisted of 4 categories: (1) Ethereum Community Organizers; (2) Law Students & Legal Professionals; (3) Artists and Sci-fi Writers, and (4) Other Builders. Each class was guided by a mentor and included a bid of online gatherings starring up to Devcon. After attending Devcon for the archetypal clip – with fiscal enactment for those who needed it – the Scholars created "Learning Artifacts" to papers their experiences and reflections, immoderate of which are highlighted below.

Meet The Scholars

Antonio Rodríguez-Ynyesto

Antonio is an concern technologies and robotics technologist from Spain who took portion successful the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Study Group. In Bangkok, Antonio participated successful a CTF/scavenger hunt organized by the Red Guild. In his Learning Artifact, helium discusses the real-world information challenges progressive successful the game.

Botao "Amber" Hu

Botao "Amber" is simply a societal mixed world researcher and experiential futures designer. Amber describes his Learning Artifact, FungiSync, arsenic a mixed world participatory ritual show inspired by the mycorrhizal web "Wood Wide Web" to foster quality plurality and corporate wisdom. FungiSync was displayed arsenic an interactive creation installation astatine the Devcon venue, and attendees straight participated successful it.

Celic Torres

Celic is the Lead counsel astatine Ethereum México & Ethereum Cinco de Mayo. She is presently pursuing a master's grade successful law, wherever she is conducting probe connected the taxation implications of cryptocurrencies and their imaginable arsenic a instrumentality for fiscal inclusion. In her Learning Artifact, Celic explores the challenges of taxing crypto-assets crossed jurisdictions and argues for specialized taxation authorities to code ineligible uncertainties and forestall misalignment with existing frameworks.

Facundo Trotz

Facundo is simply a lawyer specializing successful web3, and his existent relation astatine Kleros, a decentralized quality solution system, involves crafting the 'laws' that usher its jurors, assisting governments successful leveraging Kleros to decentralize justice, and formulating governance frameworks for associated DAOs. In his Learning Artifact, Facundo discusses the challenges of defining and achieving "full decentralization" nether regulatory frameworks.

Liliia Tulupenko

Over the past 4 years, Liliia worked astatine Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation, starring each authorities communications related to crypto regularisation efforts. She is passionate astir exploring blockchain-based authorities solutions and has discussed Ethereum's imaginable for improving nationalist services, highlighting opportunities that beryllium for Ukraine successful her Learning Artifact.

Ryuta Aoki

Ryuta is an artist, creator director, conceptual designer, strategy architect, bundle engineer, entrepreneur, and societal sculptor based successful Tokyo. Ryuta describes his Learning Artifact, SOTOROJI, arsenic portion of a bid of spatial devices that pb from the mean to the extraordinary, utilizing the modern societal affordance of "seeing a QR codification and scanning it with a camera," conscionable arsenic soto-roji (the outer garden) successful the Japanese beverage ceremonial serves arsenic a abstraction starring to a satellite of profound subtlety. SOTOROJI was featured arsenic an creation portion astatine the Devcon venue, viewed by thousands of attendees.

Kim Sheng Kai

Kim Sheng Kai is simply a contented writer and the assemblage manager of ETHKL, a Malaysia-based Ethereum community. Kim Sheng Kai's Learning Artifact covers antithetic ways to lend to the Ethereum ecosystem, stories from hosting ETH SEA Day, and the travel to increasing the ETHKL community.

Tanja Mladenovic

Tanja is the co-founder of ETH Belgrade. She describes ETH Belgrade arsenic much than conscionable a section conference; done hackathons, meetups, a task program, and a university, ETH Belgrade nurtures the maturation of the Ethereum assemblage worldwide. In her Learning Artifact, Tanja discusses observations from the Ethereum communities she visited connected her roadworthy to Devcon and "doing things that don't scale."