Harmony in 2026: Blue Metaverse & 10,000 DAO & ZK Scholars - Stephen Tse

ETHDenver 2022 · February 2022 · 21:01

Harmony founder Stephen Tse lays out his roadmap for the protocol's metaverse ambitions, large-scale DAO tooling, and a zero-knowledge research scholars program. The talk covers how Harmony intends to combine sharding-based scaling with these initiatives over the years ahead.

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From ETHDenver 2022, hosted by ETH Denver.

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[Music] prototype [Applause] uh morning everyone we're here today to announce the blue

metaphors harmony metaphors to think about how to build a future together with so many different communities we got the a apes all blue to come here and ask what can we do at denver how can we think about all the future games using cross-chain nft using the bridge that you can put your asset put your apes put your new nft profiles into so many different places in our life let's marry technology with culture let's do digital festival together

let's put all the asset that we have and time share with the community fractionalize the ownership we are committed to put all our aids and the asset to share with our ecosystem partner these apes belong to you we'll always hold on to it so that we'll think about what to do let's give you a few ideas we have so many creative briefs branding exercise to come up with what about this profile that you want to be part of your life what games will you design to use this asset so not only having fun with apes and

banana we think that profiles and galleries and when you enter a different part of the metaverse how do you show up with your digital identity how we look what kind of how many identities that you are associated with that will be in the gallery in the games in the festival that represent you in the future but you know our favorite right sevi kingdom today we are announcing our partner to using

apes as their hero as the profiles as a game master let's go divide kingdom is not just our favorite but the top games on blockchain it's actually number one in blockchain game volume to think about what would be it look like as part of the portal to the blue metaphors what kind of gameplay what kind of profiles what kind of heroes that you want and as you guys know as apes and hopefully many of the future nft you own the full

copyright license and derived work to just create together but so much more that we can do we are the top 10 in the wallets that on the blockchain to onboard users top 6 in our developer growth in the community at one point 70 of the game 5 volume with many other games in our ecosystem so let's go let's go and the network growth is super critical as well we designed this network to be scalable secure not just in terms of the sake but in general how many people care about it

and we put and we openly committed to the resources that only works through the grants with all the developers coming in just bringing more people bringing the developers for the future the 300 million grants is all for you we already formed so many dials out of 35 of them with 40 million already 110 governors already using multisay understanding what critical of the governance system that will really sustain this development so many apps and games and

more showcase coming where are we going next towards 2026 is what we roll out the four year plan we know bridges are critical we know we have a big launch this year to talk about the blue because that's where the hundreds of millions of users will come in where the culture meets the technology in every part of our life we also know that building the scalable blockchain through zero knowledge proof is what we will commit fully to whether ck evm like clients we need to start today but we should have it in coming years

where we're going next is this network started with us with the team with this community but it's all going to be dials so we committed to only two numbers we want to bring in hundreds of thousands of scholars into the space they've already started you see so many people wearing blue t-shirt colors scholars at denver we've done it in san francisco lisbon will keep doing it until there are millions of the people that come build with us ten thousand thousand that's how committed we are to it not only the fact that we want to put all our territory into into this ten thousand dollars the governance of it

the future of this is all going to be sustained because now is the right structure that the community owns fully what they build and their direction where they're going we already have more than 160 grantees building this ecosystem we literally give out 40 great 40 million grand in less than nine months that we really believe that if we believe something let's go fully into it don't hold back this is our future we are the pioneers if you believe in something show up and just go fully into it with the taos or ck that's how strong our commitment is the ten thousand dollars seems silly

people laugh at us people can't ask us how many we have we only know where we're going we're going to fully commit to this ten thousand thousand initiative because partners already come in because they know that we want to have them fully on what they want to build the africa dial we committed two millions to them and they get started within weeks of hosting events talks education series helping score our grants because they know that they they now they have a full continent that they will own and build a future with heard out bringing women scholar developers blue dow helping everyone to come thinking about the financial

metamorphism but the biggest style that we want to announce today is the zk dao so let's do it guys if you are developers come talk to us we announcing the 1 million zk dial today and with 10 million grand that we want to finish this year please sign up come on we have the 10 million grants will follow with investment because we don't believe it's just a few projects in zk that we can just acquire or build internally we really want to bring in 10 000

scholars just doing zk it's very hard we think we did it the last few weeks asking people to do homework again imagine that you don't need to pay for the school or does all the homework you actually do homework to make money to keep on this journey and when you finish we have a standard fifty thousand dollars a launch grant but for zk we're gonna double it hundred thousand dollars so come on come take it come take it as a grand freeway uh as an equity-free way of building your future because there's so much wherever you build today with the zero knowledge proofs

in products that's why we're very serious in putting down three words that you can think of zero knowledge proof is really making all the data structure about the state very succinct so there is scale so think about the product where where it sucks now that it couldn't scale that zk will solve all of this in coming years you guys know about privacy how to think about the mixer how to think about the like lines that would hide the stay the last one is fairness where does the randomness come in when you need to have the lottery when you need to do the voting that do the count for you so all these products we list

out very clearly that we think this year next year we'll have the right product market fit come take our hundred thousand dollars launch grant so that when you build this product there are already millions of users waiting for you to use it it's not just an idea there will be users coming think about if you can figure out the anonymous authentication it's not just complete web3 every product out there instead of working with google login id and apple login id it should work with your next product so the zero knowledge um dao also have the z zero knowledge university course that we think that it would be best to start with the assignment so that we

will help with the ta we already finished with a series of 200 people sign up we want you to sign up at denver we think that the next series is going to be great talking about bridge like clients data availability we want to study together with you this is the frontier of stuff that we are learning at the same time with you so today we are also launching

the blue dial for blue to fly butterfly the dancer the metamorphism as an analogy of our struggle in the world so many of us go through with their own personal struggle with their family financial struggle or holding a community together that's why we launched this new dial called blue dial to actually bring all the communities together beyond harmony beyond a few ideas to know that there's so much love to share around but how did it started we finally going to be signing many books here today the author is here

please stand up all right and so many women scholar come here today because of the book because of this idea so let me tell you how we started it's less about the technology you're building it's less about the artwork most important things about the people and people having the ownership the agency to realize her passion and i

think that is the true we have this video and the pop-up party at times square we show at the billboard just a few of us show up in cold winter time square and some of us believe that there's a bigger story than just nft at nyc they've come together with a few people that want to put the book together and also create a community that's how it got started and now it's a book and we also announcing today so many announcements right that harmony want to commit one million dollars to this blue dial they're doing so incredible at this

event they really want to bring the best people and i personally met with each of them to hear the story the struggle is real we call it the metamorphism metamorphosis the change change is constant but that's too passive a way to put it change is inevitable but that's just a destiny that's just a state of world that's so detached and passive for beyond journey and control we think that change is invincible change is invincible guys it's really in your hands we all come

from different paths and struggles with this blue dial we think that there's a bigger story to tell more than technology how each of us is connected to this way that metamorphosis change is invincible if you put in your own hands open your heart that there are many things that we can do it together the new creator economy isn't built with walls it's connected by bridges it's a giant social experiment on how to build wealth we don't need permission to participate we just need the desire to create something bigger than ourselves we are in the midst of radical change

and with radical change will come radical markets markets that don't care where you come from what race you are what your past is all that matters is what you can create the community that supports me gets to live in my world see what i see by removing barriers and building bridges we can create wealth in harmony yeah radical social change this is a video that got everyone by our community so believe that the future is

more than just the idea of blockchain or few bridges it's about creating wealth the lowercase age with yourself with your families with your own community the values to yourself and we are doing so much all throughout the events now because meeting the people that believe in this mission touches so much of our heart that we have so much to do together and here's what happened in san francisco then make this smaller look at this

the best wallet i must say we're all waiting for it that's the portal to the blue metaphors the best wallet that you can ask your family to try anyone to onboard not only all the features but you love the beats the design the ux right that's where it counts that's where the next 100 million users even come in so let's go one wallet timeless we also started with this new design thought that as you look at it what's special about it is not just a refresh of our brand but the fact that we do it with the design dial that let the

community finally i don't need to look at the fonts and the pixel and say approving each of the pixel it's gonna be beautiful we think that the message to the world has to be through much more way of telling it visually telling it with entertainment telling it with the story that they can understand and here's a new design on our website that you can go through also merchandise people love our blue color stuff you see so many blue here because like many of us really believe that we just want to hug each other we just want to wear stuff that really represent your identity here we have it there's a revolution happening right in

front of our eyes that will radically change the world around us and it all began with one simple idea if you want to live in a world that you love you must build it it started as a spark and the world let it spread like wildfire can't show you the video so you have to watch it yourself my talk now it's on harmony dot one slash blue that's all we got this is where the blue metaphors come in guys let's go we have the demo few days ago let's do it one more party on sunday the closing party we are co-hosting it come have fun because that's where we bond together

that's it for you guys one last thing one more here we are announcing ada rising partnering with us so let's go they have 160 million users partner with us to think about what will be the future of metaphors culture marrying technology part of our lives can't wait to tell you the whole campaigns but let's do it guys thank you everyone