BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Lisbon BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:WEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231029T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:WET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230613T164358Z UID:F3E9D02C-C44C-4555-A638-2D63A19E17B3 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20230602T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20230602T160000 DESCRIPTION:Standardized Governance - An Ethereum Improvement Proposal Stud y\n\nSince the introduction of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)\, the Et hereum blockchain has become the home for a continuously growing number of different protocols.\n\nWith one of the main objectives of these protocol s being complete decentralization\, much like the blockchain itself\, gove rnance processes have become a common and almost necessary feature of any project required to drive the development and growth of a protocol\, remov ing the capability of unilateral decision making from a single individual or entity\, and instead allowing the entire community to partake in said d ecisions by voting on proposals that can affect the inner workings of the protocol itself.\n\nWith so many protocols being developed\, a possible go vernance standard does bring multiple advantages to the Ethereum ecosystem \, allowing easier implementation and support by DApps\, which can make it much easier for the user to follow and participate on proposals from diff erent protocols by creating easy to use applications that provide easy acc ess to multiple different protocols\, which ultimately aids the growth of the community of any given project.\n\nIn Ethereum\, said standards are fi rst presented as an EIP (Ethereum Improvement Proposal)\, and as of time o f writing\, there is still no standard governance improvement proposal tha t aims at generalizing and standardizing governance smart contracts.\n\nAs such\, the main objective of this presentation is to dive in some of the research done on current Ethereum governance protocols\, including their i nner workings and common traits\, some of the unique elements found on som e of the protocols that have the potential to limit the creation of a stan dard\, and finally evaluate and discuss the possibility of a governance EI P aimed at standardizing the most most common governance processes and sma rt contracts while not limiting the functionalities of current and future projects nor inhibiting future innovations.\n\n* Please ignore the event t ime zone on this webpage's "Date and Time" section (because it is wrong an d we cannot correct it). The event takes place at 3p.m. Lisbon time (UTC+0 1:00 Lisbon).\n\nCo-sponsored by: IEEE Portugal Blockchain Group\n\nSpeake r(s): Henrique Chuva\, \n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/36127 3 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/361273 ORGANIZER:blockchain+home.series@ieee-pt.org SEQUENCE:12 SUMMARY:IEEE@HOME BLOCKCHAIN SERIES 2023: Standardized Governance - An Ethe reum Improvement Proposal Study URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/361273 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><div>\n<div class="copy-paste-block"><strong> Standardized Governance - An Ethereum Improvement Proposal Study</strong>< /div>\n<div class="copy-paste-block">&nbsp\;</div>\n<div class="copy-paste -block">Since the introduction of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)\, the Ethereum blockchain has become the home for a continuously growing number of different protocols.</div>\n<div class="copy-paste-block">&nbsp\;</div >\n<div class="copy-paste-block">With one of the main objectives of these protocols being complete decentralization\, much like the blockchain itsel f\, governance processes have become a common and almost necessary feature of any project required to drive the development and growth of a protocol \, removing the capability of unilateral decision making from a single ind ividual or entity\, and instead allowing the entire community to partake i n said decisions by voting on proposals that can affect the inner workings of the protocol itself.</div>\n<div class="copy-paste-block">&nbsp\;</div >\n<div class="copy-paste-block">With so many protocols being developed\, a possible governance standard does bring multiple advantages to the Ether eum ecosystem\, allowing easier implementation and support by DApps\, whic h can make it much easier for the user to follow and participate on propos als from different protocols by creating easy to use applications that pro vide easy access to multiple different protocols\, which ultimately aids t he growth of the community of any given project.</div>\n<div class="copy-p aste-block">&nbsp\;</div>\n<div class="copy-paste-block">In Ethereum\, sai d standards are first presented as an EIP (Ethereum Improvement Proposal)\ , and as of time of writing\, there is still no standard governance improv ement proposal that aims at generalizing and standardizing governance smar t contracts.</div>\n<div class="copy-paste-block">&nbsp\;</div>\n<div clas s="copy-paste-block">As such\, the main objective of this presentation is to dive in some of the research done on current Ethereum governance protoc ols\, including their inner workings and common traits\, some of the uniqu e elements found on some of the protocols that have the potential to limit the creation of a standard\, and finally evaluate and discuss the possibi lity of a governance EIP aimed at standardizing the most most common gover nance processes and smart contracts while not limiting the functionalities of current and future projects nor inhibiting future innovations.</div>\n <div class="copy-paste-block">&nbsp\;</div>\n<div class="copy-paste-block" >* Please ignore the event time zone on this webpage's "Date and Time" sec tion (because it is wrong and we cannot correct it). The event takes place at 3p.m. Lisbon time (UTC+01:00 Lisbon).</div>\n</div> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR