Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community.
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Hyperledger Performance and Scale Working Group Guest Presentation: Fast-HotStuff Consensus Protocol
Join the Performance and Scale Working Group for a talk by Mohammad Jalalzai from UBC on “Fast-HotStuff Consensus Protocol.” The HotStuff protocol is a recent breakthrough in Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus that enjoys both responsiveness and linear view change. It creatively adds an additional round to classic BFT protocols (such as PBFT) using two rounds. Despite its great advantages, HotStuff has a few limitations. First, the additional round of communication during normal cases results in higher latency. Second, the current version of HotStuff is vulnerable to certain performance attacks. This talk will cover a proposed new two-round BFT protocol called Fast-HotStuff, which enjoys responsiveness and efficient view change that is comparable to linear view change in terms of performance. Fast-HotStuff has lower latency and is more robust against the performance attacks that HotStuff is susceptible to.
For more information on the meeting, which is Tuesday, November 9, at :00 AM EST, go here.
Hyperledger In-depth: An hour with Poste Italiane
Learn how Poste Italiane is embracing SSI to develop the new generation of digital identity services that will help citizens to preserve their privacy while using online services. In this session, Emiliano Vernini and Rosario De Chiara of Poste Italiane will provide a deep dive into the technological solution, the UX and a possible business model.
Tune in on Wednesday, November 10, at 9:00 AM EST. For more information and to register, go here.
Agri-D CONVENTION
Agri-D 2021 CONVENTION is a one day online conference and exhibition dedicated to blockchain and DLT in agriculture and the food supply chain. Registration is free for the conference, which is taking place on November 12. Sessions will include a panel on “Supporting the Future Towards Ethical & Resilient Food Systems” moderated by Hyperledger Foundation’s Julian Gordon with panelists Anthony Day from IBM, Levine Naidoo from IBM Sterling, Marieke de Ruyter de Wildt from The New Fork, and Srivatsa Sreenivasarao fromTraceX. In addition, there will be discussion on “DLT Innovation & Digital Transformation in the Agri-Food Sector” with Karen Ottoni of Hyperledger Foundation as well as Poojah Sanghvi from Accenture, Linda Goetze from Blockchain Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. Milly Perry of DAO 4 DAO Institute.
For more information, go here.
Virtual Meetups
See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.