Sovereignists vs. Globalists
11-15, 12:30–12:40 (Asia/Bangkok), Stage 4

Sovereignists vs. Globalists is the real battle we should be fighting.

Fundamentally the goal of the space is to be Sovereign. I think very few people came into the space with the idea that well we should all rely on a single, one World government to control everything we do. But rather how do we give users a choice about what kind of systems they actually interact with on a day-to-day basis.

What we should be thinking about when building truly decentralized truly resilient systems, is how to

Adrian wrote his graduate thesis on censorship-resistant e-voting on Ethereum in 2016. In early 2017 he joined Cosmos as the 3rd core dev and built out the Cosmos stack. Before Anoma & Namada, Adrian co-founded with Awa and Christopher Cryptium Labs, one of the the first PoS validators in the world (acquired) and Metastate, an R&D org that focused on distributed systems, cryptography as well as PLT.