Blockchain and cryptocurrency fans have discovered new methods to come back collectively amid the worldwide coronavirus lockdown. A crypto convent
Blockchain and cryptocurrency fans have discovered new methods to come back collectively amid the worldwide coronavirus lockdown. A crypto convention known as BlockDown 2020 is scheduled to happen within the digital realm this month, with massive identify personalities from the blockchain neighborhood set to look as digital 3D avatars.
Notable attendees on the docket embody Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao, Stellar co-founder Jed McCaleb, and NEO founder Da Hongfei. Additionally showing can be Roger Ver, government chairman of Bitcoin.com, and Erik Voorhees, CEO and founding father of Shapeshift.
Musician-turned-crypto-innovator Akon will headline the occasion. The American-Senegalese chart-topper lately launched the whitepaper for his upcoming cryptocurrency mission Akoin. It will likely be constructed on prime of the Stellar (XLM) blockchain.
The convention is about to final your complete day, and can embody stay fireplace chats hosted in a digital 3D area. Reside AMAs and Q&As will happen, and attendees can be free to community with different individuals in digital area. They’ll even have the chance to pitch enterprise concepts to Akon immediately.
BlockDown 2020 is the creation of EAK Digital, a specialist PR company with a heavy concentrate on blockchain and cryptocurrency. EAK Digital CEO Erhan Korhaliller mentioned:
“Now we have labored tirelessly to faucet into our community to arrange the most effective audio system within the business, in addition to limitless calls with completely different digital occasion software program firms to search out the proper mixture for an occasion on this scale.”
Korhaliller mentioned some firms have been hesitant to embrace the idea of internet hosting in a digital area, however he’s “trying ahead to showcasing them the last word 3D blockchain convention expertise and altering their notion of digital occasions.”
BlockDown 2020 follows a newly emergent development within the cryptocurrency area seeing occasion organizers defy the worldwide coronavirus lockdown by internet hosting conferences in a digital area. Between March 31st and April 4th, the digital blockchain realm of Decentraland (LAND) performed host to every week of video games, occasions and speeches centered round blockchain expertise.