Workshop and Brunch with Tagus Capital and Nethermind
You are warmly invited to Weekly Brunches, a series of events held every Saturday. These events aim to provide students with guidance, connections, and support in bringing their ideas to life over the year. The events begin with a brunch, followed by two streams of (1) entrepreneurial and (2) technical workshops. The objective is to bring together students who have diverse backgrounds but share entrepreneurial ambitions, and to support the best projects with opportunities for publication, hackathons, incubation, or other forms of implementation.
Entrepreneurial stream
Gui Silva is the General Partner at Tagus Capital that invests in companies and protocols dedicated to developing the next generation of blockchain technology infrastructure. Tagus Capital specialises in investments related to cryptoassets, blockchain, risk management, metaverse, decentralised finance (DeFi), and non-fungible tokens (NFT). They provide support and investment opportunities to entrepreneurs who are leading the way in Web3 innovation, combining Blockchain Technology with AI, ML, Quantum Computing, Reverse Computing, and Big Data.
Tagus Capital has a strong presence in university spinoff ecosystems and actively encourages collaboration and knowledge sharing among researchers at prestigious institutions such as the University of Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College, and UCL, amongst others. They also offer support to various student and professor-led initiatives in the UK and Europe that focus on blockchain technology.
Technical stream
Jorik Schellekens is the co-CTO at Nethermind, a blockchain research and software engineering company. Nethermind empowers enterprises and developers worldwide to build on decentralized systems. Their mission is to deliver pioneering research and development that enables accessible, transparent, and borderless economic and governance systems.
The "Introduction to Ethereum" workshop aims to enhance understanding of Ethereum and blockchain technology. It covers key topics including blockchain security, different blockchain models (EVM - Ethereum Virtual Machine, UTXO - Unspent Transaction Output, and general computation), consensus algorithms (Proof of Work and Proof of Stake), and their social implications. The workshop also explores advanced consensus protocols like PBFT - Practical Byzantine Fault tolerance, Tendermint, and Casper + Ghost, as well as PBS - Proposer Builder Separation and MEV - Maximal Extractable Value and their impact on blockchain technology. You will gain a solid understanding of blockchain security, implementation, consensus algorithms, the blockchain trilemma, and strategies for scaling blockchains. The workshop combines theory with practical insights.
The events are co-hosted with Cambridge Blockchain Society.
For more information, join the Weekly Brunches Telegram group.
TICKETS: to attend the workshop, please message the Weekly Brunches Telegram group
WHEN: Saturday 27 January 2024, 12 - 2pm
WHERE: King's College, Cambridge
