06-01, 14:30–14:55 (Europe/Prague), Leaf Stage
Crypto's true potential is far greater than just moving 0s and 1s on a digital roulette table. To counter the increasingly insular financialization of the ecosystem we propose building an open infrastructure for crypto-native commerce for physical items.
The commerce protocol we introduce will be locked open at all levels with the aim of building for the common good. To do this, we will present an L2-like construction tailored for managing merchant and customer data. We will compare this to other protocol and infrastructure projects such as the ONDC, OpenBazzar and BTCPay Server. We will also explore how to preserve privacy while generating proofs of purchase and how these proofs could be used to build reputation and attribution systems. The result will be a system that when coupled with crypto as currency allows customers and merchants to regain sovereignty over their data and commercial interactions online and IRL.
Martin Becze created ethereum js and eWASM. He was an early developer of the Ethereum protocol with a special interest in the VM and object capabilities. He has also contributed to the IPFS, Dfinity and Guix ecosystems.
Mu has spent 15+ years organising in collectives and cooperatives at work, at home and at leisure. For the past decade she has worked in the field of decentralisation and privacy enhancing technologies while living and organising in cooperative housing and creating radical media. As a consequence, she is interested in pragmatic solutions that are (to some extent) anti-fragile and don’t rely on altruism.