Push notifications are common in Web2 businesses but it’s not as simple when it comes to dApps. Creating opportunities to interact with users across chains is a challenging task given the lack of interoperability among chains. EPNS.io allows dApps to send notifications to users (wallet addresses) in a platform-agnostic way (mobile, tablet, web, fav. wallets, etc) that helps solve the issue of interoperability.

Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS) provides dApps with a blockchain-based push notification service based on its communication protocol. Its services are chain-agnostic, platform-independent, and incentivized.

Join EPNS’ founder, Harsh Rajat, in a fireside chat hosted by Cardstack’s Founding Director Chris Tse on Aug 31, 2022, at 9:00 am EDT. In this session, they will discuss the importance of cross-chain communication and EPNS’ vision for the larger Web3 ecosystem.

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Nodes are an inherent part of blockchain application development. However, running a node can be complicated and an additional burden for early-stage projects. GetBlock, with a team of less than 10 full-time members, is working to take that pressure of running a node off the shoulders of Web3 builders.

GetBlock provides a fast and easy API connection to full nodes from 40+ leading blockchain platforms. It allows you to request on-chain information from a node without the need to set up one manually with JSON-RPC, REST, and WebSocket.

Join GetBlock’s Chief Business Development Officer Aziz Amer Tash in a fireside chat hosted by Cardstack’s Founding Director Chris Tse on August 24, 2022, at 9:00 am EDT. In this session, they will discuss the different node types GetBlock provides and its vision for the larger Web3 ecosystem.

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User privacy is one of the biggest concerns related to centralized messaging platforms. Despite repeated assurances of end-to-end encryption from companies like Meta—WhatsApp’s parent company—users remain skeptical of the security promises made by centralized authorities. Satellite.im, a Web3 project, is working to change that.

Satellite.im is a P2P chat and voice & video calling app hosted on IPFS. The project claims end-to-end encryption based on an IPFS file sharing protocol. The app also supports cross-platform operation, 4K video streaming, and easy file sharing, and it also plans to introduce payment options soon.

Join Satellite.im’s Founder, Matthew Wisniewski, in a fireside chat hosted by Cardstack’s Founding Director Chris Tse on Aug 17, 2022 at 9:00 am EDT. In this session, they will discuss Satellite.im’s decentralized messaging app and its vision for the larger Web3 ecosystem.

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Blockchain is touted as a technology capable of completely revolutionizing the global economy with its sustainable, transparent, and decentralized foundation. However, its complete potential has yet to be realized.

Washington-based think tank The Digital Economist is working to bring to the fore investable opportunities for a new human-centered digital economy based on sustainability, transparency, decentralization, individual privacy, and radical collaboration.

Join The Digital Economist Founder and CEO, Navroop Sahdev, in a fireside chat hosted by Cardstack’s Founding Director Chris Tse on August 3, 2022 at 9:00 am EDT. In this session, they will discuss The Digital Economist’s initiatives for the Web3 ecosystem.

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The current blockchain ecosystem has redefined application development but is still considered monolithic when it comes to flexibility. For example, a blockchain cannot be deployed without the overhead of bootstrapping a new consensus network.

Celestia is the first modular blockchain network. It is a pluggable consensus and data availability layer that allows anyone to deploy a decentralized blockchain quickly, enabling a deployment process with minimal overhead.

Join Celestia Labs’ Developer Relations Engineer and Developer DAO’s Co-founder, Nader Dabit in a fireside chat hosted by Cardstack’s Founding Director Chris Tse on July 27, 2022 at 9:00 am EDT. In this session, they will discuss Celestia Labs and Developer DAO’s initiatives for the Web3 ecosystem.

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Speaking at the ANA Senior Marketer’s Summit 2006, British mathematician and Tesco marketing mastermind, Clive Humby, called data the new oil. It’s been over 15 years since ANA's summit and Clive Humby’s statement is more accurate than ever. Data today is used for providing personalized solutions, understanding customers’ demands, and fueling growth.

The Web3 project, XY Labs, is working to further streamline how we use data through its data marketplace, XYO.

XYO is a technology protocol designed to improve the validity, certainty, and value of data. The project is building a data marketplace that gives users a gold standard for apps, websites, and blockchain technologies that rely on trusted data.

Join XY Lab’s Co-founder & CEO Arie Trouw in a fireside chat hosted by Cardstack’s Founding Director Chris Tse on July 20, 2022 at 9:00 am EDT. In this interactive session, they will discuss how XY Labs is building a secure and trusted data-driven economy.

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Cloud computing is dominated by big tech giants such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM and is considered to be an investment-intensive sector. However, a Web3 project is disrupting the industry with the next generation of scalable decentralized cloud infrastructure.

Flux offers a scalable decentralized cloud infrastructure that allows you to develop, manage, and spawn your applications on multiple servers at once. Flux provides the critical, high-availability infrastructure for Web3 projects. Its ecosystem consists of Fluxnodes' decentralized infrastructure, the FluxOS cloud operating system, a Zelcore self-custody multi-asset wallet, a blockchain app suite, and the Flux blockchain for on-chain governance, economics, and parallel assets to provide interoperability with other blockchains and DeFi access.

Join Flux’s Co-founder & CSO Daniel Keller in a fireside chat hosted by Cardstack’s Founding Director Chris Tse on July 13, 2022 at 9:00 am EDT. In this interactive session, they will discuss how Flux is disrupting a market dominated by big tech.

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Opponents of traditional blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum complain that the former is slow while the latter’s gas fees are overbearing. In recent years, many alternative blockchains have emerged that claim to be faster, cheaper, and more secure for dApp development. One such blockchain firm is Fantom Foundation.

Fantom is a smart contract-supporting blockchain platform powered by its native FTM token. Fantom launched on mainnet in December 2019. The foundation says it is committed to providing technology that combines scalability, decentralization, and security.

Join Fantom Foundation’s CEO Michael Kong in a fireside chat hosted by Cardstack’s Founding Director Chris Tse on July 6, 2022 at 9:00 am EDT. In this interactive session, they will discuss how Fantom Foundation supports dApp builders in creating next-generation decentralized applications.

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Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are one of the most revolutionary concepts to be successfully implemented using blockchain technology. Smart contracts are used to operate DAOs. Their financial transactions and rules are stored on a blockchain, eliminating the need for a centralized governing authority—hence the terms "decentralized" and "autonomous." In other words, they are member-owned communities without centralized leadership.

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Bitcoin has come a long way since its debut in 2009. Bitcoin was created with the goal of democratizing the global monetary system and delivering a more efficient means to send electronic cash across the Internet. However, Bitcoin proponents have long engaged in debates about whether the Bitcoin blockchain should remain capped with a small block size (BTC) or whether instead, the Bitcoin network should scale much bigger to process more transactions on-chain (as competing chains are doing).

These debates led to Bitcoin Cash (BCH) emerging from a fork or split of the BTC chain, which occurred in 2017. Bitcoin Cash aimed to increase the block size to boost Bitcoin's transaction speed and overall transaction throughput in order to promote mainstream use of Bitcoin for daily “electronic cash” payments as the Bitcoin white paper describes.

In 2018, the Bitcoin SV network and its underlying asset BSV emerged from another split of the BCH chain, after there were further disagreements about how much bigger Bitcoin should scale – with BSV proponents seeking to scale much more massively with a much larger block size than BCH proponents maintained.

The stated goal of Bitcoin SV is to restore the original Bitcoin protocol (which had been modified and restricted in BTC) and enable massive scaling of the chain. BSV seeks to unlock Bitcoin’s power to support huge volumes of electronic cash payments (down to the micro and nano-payment level) for a world of connected devices and to also power advanced distributed data applications (such as smart contracts, tokens, IoT device management, and on-chain computation). With this in mind, Bitcoin SV stands for "Bitcoin Satoshi Vision," as the blockchain project and its digital currency are focused on carrying out the vision of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's pseudonymous originator.

Join Bitcoin Association for BSV’s Founding President Jimmy Nguyen in a fireside chat hosted by Cardstack’s Founding Director Chris Tse on June 23, 2022 at 9:00 am EDT. In this interactive session, they will discuss how BSV is working to achieve Satoshi’s vision.

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