 Hello, everyone. Welcome to the slash Tokyo. I'm one of the community members. I'm so glad I'm so excited to be here So let me introduce myself briefly. My name is ties of song I'm a serial entrepreneur for last 20 years and Especially in these days I'm very eager to support the young entrepreneurs In the world so currently we are supporting in almost 100 startups who is Developing the cutting edge technologies to change the world better so I Sound that could you introduce yourself? Oh, sure. Thank you Sorry, I'm just so excited to be here. Yeah First of all, thank you very much for having me here It's very it's my honor to be at this very exciting event My name is I am yeah, good. See I I am executive director of the ethereum foundation and I Just briefly explain my little background in the industry. I've been in this crypto currency industry or crypto industry Or blocks an industry for a while since 2013 And then my original interest was the potential of the technology in social impact and specifically in financial inclusion was my original interest such as microfinance and And then I just joined the ethereum foundation Officially last month and then supporting ethereum community and also foundations activities So what what is the purpose of the mission of the foundation the mission of foundation is support So ethereum is one of the technology in blockchain Yeah, and the mission of the foundation is it's also creative founded by Vitalik and some others and Vitalik is the creator of ethereum and then he's very young, right? The same generation with the stash. Yes. Yes. He is he's 24 Wow, and then maybe he looks younger but so That the mission of the foundation is support ethereum platform And also its research and development As well as education and community activities So the way you organize this event is very you said this this is organized by all student volunteers So ethereum community is very unique Decentralized structure. Uh-huh the foundation itself is also very decentralized. Oh, wow. That's good Yes, and the technology itself is also decentralized so everything is kind of a reflection of the technology but we also The technology is really supported by the community So this is really the exact Atmosphere that yeah, the same kind of yeah, the reason why that the beauty that the decentralized architecture is Very attractive for us is The in my opinion, it's a matter of the ownership sense of ownership So, you know, if it is a centralized and top-down approach only some manager or leaders Have a sense of ownership and all others are for just a followers So they it's very hard for them to get the ownership. This is ours. This is mine It's very difficult, but on the hand decentralized Community-based bottom-up approach kind of organization or the technology architecture So everybody can feel that this is mine. This is ours and they contributed to each other. So that's why So especially in these days that this kind of that decentralized Everything is very becoming very popular especially for young generation. Yes So that's exactly the reason why there are a lot of different technologies and platforms in Blockchain now and the reason why I decided to support ethereum Among all others is the philosophy The philosophy that's in the technology, but also how we organize everything And then it's like I said it's it was created by metallic But his vision was already in the beginning that this is that this is going to be open source You can all participate. Anyone can actually contribute to make the technology better And then so every day community members Suggest ideas And then we can all work together. It's not ours It's created by some and in the foundation, but it's it's everyone Everybody you are the one who is going to make this better working together with us And we are going to be just the supporter of the whole Idea and that's where we believe we can make the biggest impact Instead of like trying to control everything. Yes When it comes to that kind of subject I have a four-year-old boy and I'm always Asking to myself that if I die tomorrow What kind of message I will give to my son? So, you know only one phrase or so and it's very difficult question to answer But but I'm always asking to myself that kind of things because I'm very passionate to updating that Education system to the new one from the traditional one so And then I come up I came up with one idea that If if I can tell my son only one phrase I will I will tell this kind of things We can change the world you can change the world Because the reason why I selected that phrase is that Of course if I could tell many phrase I like to tell many things, but if I choose only one The sense that I like to tell I like to share the sense that we can change the world and you can change the world Then if he really feel really believe that he can change the world by himself Then they he will start Trying very hard to Create any kind of things and walking very hard by himself But otherwise if he hasn't doesn't have that kind of feeling he doesn't Do any kind of creative things by himself. So I like him to to To live his own life and enjoy his life. That's all my message as a parent so that's why I chose the message and I Feel the slash community the same kind of things everybody every blonde is every partners We can do something we can change if we Get together and combine our power. We can change the society. We can change People's mindset. So that's why I love that this atmosphere Yeah, so I have joined many conferences and the exhibitions in the world But most of the cases that it's a very centralized run owned by the government or owned by the company And the day are promoting and they spend a lot of money and creating a great atmosphere, but completely different So that slash is a very special to me. That's because I I can feel that kind of sense Yes, so until today and this is my first experience at slash and and then I just Students talking to you right before this talk. That was very I used to be a teacher In Japan. Oh, I have very strange back then But so I do care about education and then I have similar to you. I have very broad Definition of education. This is the part of it has to be part of the education and I just I'm feeling this excitement I don't know how many of you guys are actually volunteers Working here. I'm pretty sure Please raise your hands. Oh Bront is a very busy to walk Yes Oh, yes, but but I just thought this is really the opportunity for them to participate To organize this it's it's such an exciting feeling and and then I was just thinking I you know Like we were supposed to talk about blockchain little but I thought out. This is the exact The part of the board that we want to we want to create within blockchain because again, like it's it's It's the community it's people and we want to give the power back to Every single person and then let them believe they can be the chain part of the chains Which I didn't growing up in Japan. I Wasn't told that I could change the world and then just just to believe that or The message that you want to send to your son With it it does it does Impact his life if he can actually stop believing that now and but it is too everyone can be part of the change and and then The reason why I like the technology that I'm in is it is giving the power Back to everyone like it's not the central big companies or a big group I Recall that that this memory that my father my dad Told me the message very interesting message always when I was a kid When I came back from school and when he was there. Oh, oh welcome back Taiso Hey, what did you what did you learn at the school? he frequently ask that question to me and Oh, I I learned today. I learned math mathematics and like this and that oh That's cool, but Taiso listen Don't trust teachers He said and I was so surprised What what what why why are you telling me like that? No, sometimes the teacher tells a lie to you. So you should not trust completely So don't trust teachers. So I was so I was always wondering why he was Telling that kind of thing why he was asking me that what did you learn and they don't trust the teacher and so on and so until I grew up I Couldn't understand Why he he did like that, but when I become a dad father of my son One day I could I could understand it's because he That his his main message was He liked to tell me That you should think by yourself Don't stop thinking Biosytec it's a it's a matter of critical thinking right, but so the reason why he told that message that like a weird expression like a don't trust don't trust teachers or something like that is that He'd like to make a big impact to me big impression to me. So that's why he Did a very creative way that don't trust the teachers. So that's why I made clearly memorize it so It's if he told me that you should you should do the critical thinking or use the thing by yourself or something like that I will forget of maybe but I'm Memorizing very clearly is that he he chose the very interesting phrase like that. So So that's why but the thanks to that my dad I I could get critical thinking very nicely. So that's why I could be Yeah, in a true sense, I could be the entrepreneur, you know entrepreneurs or innovators creators Artists they have a critical thinking and the critical views and they will bring that Some new things in a different approach different angle So I think that that is a very this important That's kind of skills or mindset and so on and when I met beat a lake I Felt that kind of strong sense of Critical thinking and create create a very new things which is very good to the society so In a sense, I'm very happy and but very passionate to be the part of the the ethereum community and In a sense that the decentralized Movement so yeah, such is actually obviously the decentralized movement and Isriam is also same. So but I think I'm sure that this kind of movement will pop up From now on in the many places Yes So You pointed out the good point So we are a collection of researchers and developers within the foundation of also in the community but It's actually It's not just math and science It's it's all about I Don't think we talk ever thought he created something perfect Like like it was a start and it he created ethereum. That was the improvement version of Bitcoin When he just wanted to ask along people like what do you what do you think about Bitcoin and then people's response and feedback how We can include and then that's that's how ethereum was born and so it wasn't like he He wanted to be perfect in the beginning. This is this is going to be the start and then we have to keep Being creative and what if now like so everyone is using Ethereum now to create their own talk and yeah That's why we are here to talk about talking economy. So now it's more popular and While people started using this technology more It's that the system has to include Because it's it's kind of too Too slow to process now And then It's okay, but could you hey the water please Sorry, I should have brought a bottle and then so they have to come up. It's very creative idea Scaling how to scale ethereum to make it quicker Dereka Could you send me could you give us the water please? Oh, thank you Yeah, take your time So So blockchain is all about the decentralization if you want to make most out of it But if you want to make the process the transaction quicker You kind of have to compromise the decentralization But ethereum didn't want to the metallic didn't want to So they have to be very they have to be very creative How can we Scale without compromising the decentralization without compromising this. Yes, that's the key right and then Among all others that the ethereum was the one who was very stubborn We're not gonna Go with a quick solution This is gonna take a while. We need everyone's brain to work together But we will make this happen scale the ethereum platform Without compromising the decentralization because if we miss the decentralization Our main goal to Create this the whole world of decentralization Is not going to be accomplished you know, it's it is very kind of stubborn way to Proceed because if you talk to investors they care about all you have to make your product work very quick Yeah, actually that the today's the issues of the the blockchain technologies is Scalability and also the efficiency of the computation And productivity and so on so there are some solutions like a sidechain or the lightning networks or Plasma and so So what what is the exciting latest project to solve those issues? So latest project those are Especially Exactly what you mentioned They're shot. They're there is charting and also Plasma you mentioned those are the two main scalability solutions that are being developed with ethereum and then I Was just in Taipei before coming to Tokyo. There was a charting workshop Mm-hmm, and then it's not again. It's not just within the foundation group We you found good contributors in the community. Oh these group are actually doing a job Doing research on charting and then this person individual is actually doing a job You know like Providing new idea to charting and then we just collected those community members in Taipei and They did the workshop and it's it's another example of how we work with the community members I see I'm sorry. I'm it's okay Yeah, um tonight that you have out the the workshop no the lecture yes, so we will have Most first Ethan community meetup The first community meetup in Japan to meet up. Oh, wow. That's in in Japan in Japan It's been happening in the world and then it is not us who is organizing this. It's the community members And again, we only support community members not us organizing everything. I see. Yeah, so there will be a meetup at Tokyo University collecting researchers and developers and the interested group and then The plan is to have more of those events in the future So we'd love to have anyone who is interested to learn a little bit more about if him And then there are a lot of great projects out there for doing great thing. It's Something like education you mentioned Blockchain can be used for that too Yeah, yeah, so unfortunately that it's that tonight's Meetup is already free books, but maybe I'm sure that they will they continue That this those kind of we meet up and events The summer in Tokyo. So if you're interested in the blockchain or the Ethereum and the latest projects, please join us So it's a one of the hottest area in the world Bringing a new innovations to the world. So definitely a very exciting Interesting guys the crazy guys are there. So you should be connected So the main of course the such committee will be connected to those network so that we can Accelerate those innovations. So the stay tuned. Thank you very much. Thank you very much