The best of things are last minute, and our next meet-up is happening this Friday (it's the 19th of July, people!).
Builders from Celo, Ramp, and Ethworks will discuss building blockchains for social good and blockchain accessibility. Marek from Celo will talk about making a full-stack cryptocurrency in a fully permission-less way. Szymon from Ramp will talk about ideal ways of onramping people to blockchains. Marek from EthWorks and Universal Login will continue the topic of perfect onboarding via better wallets.
To spice things up, we will do a lit debate about the month's scoop - Facebook's Libra - is it good, is it wrong, is it ugly. So, who you're meeting?
Marek Olszewski - co-founder and CTO at Celo. He is also an MIT Ph.D. alumnus and has worked at Google and Microsoft.
Celo’s purpose is to empower anyone with a smartphone worldwide to access financial services and send money to phone numbers. It aims to provide a simple experience, even for those unfamiliar with cryptocurrencies. The project takes a full-stack approach, building both a protocol and applications that use it. Check more about them here: https://celo.org/
Szymon Sypniewicz - co-founder and CEO at Ramp. He worked in several legal firms and led research efforts in a consulting firm focused on SEZs.
Ramp builds a tool for connecting the open distributed ledgers with the closed financial systems. They are working on creating a meshed, easily accessible connection between those two systems without needing a trusted third party. Check more about them here: www.ramp.network
Marek Kirejczyk - co-founder and CEO of Universal Login & EthWorks.
Universal Login is a design pattern that aims to solve some of the most burning usability and security problems of Ethereum and bring mass adoption closer at hand. UL is an open-source project brought by EthWorks, a one-stop shop for projects looking for Ethereum solutions. Check out more about them here: https://ethworks.io