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Description
Jarrad delivers this inspiring talk while at Blockchain World Conference in Bangkok; December 2017. He discusses his vision of Status and how he aims to drive mass adoption of Ethereum via easy to use yet secure platforms on the decentralized web.
A
B
B
The
very
social
fabric
that
underpins
our
society
is
going
to
undergo
a
massive
upgrade,
we're
gonna
move
away
from
trusted
intermediaries
and
paper-based
systems
into
a
world
of
trustless
machines
and
smart
contracts
before
I.
Talk
about
that
I
think,
what's
kind
of
important
is
to
address.
What's
happened
over
the
past
year,
we've
seen
a
lot
of
value,
a
huge
growth
in
the
community
and
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
new
interests,
and
it's
kind
of
important
to
sort
of
step
back
and
just.
B
Step
back
and
pause
what
has
been
driving
this
and
I
really
think
one
of
the
major
contributors
to
this
has
been
the
ERC
20
standard
Johanns,
who
actually
knows
what
esc
20
is:
okay,
great
cool
for
those
who
don't
know,
esc
20
is
a
token
standard.
It
was
created
by
just
a
few
handfuls
of
people
and
what's
really
powerful
about
this.
B
B
B
This
is
an
identity
standard
that
will
prove
that
will
probably
mean
that
logging
into
a
website
will
just
completely
disappear.
It
could
even
mean
that,
if
fully
realized,
redundant,
form-filling
on
paper
could
also
disappear.
I
could
also
mean
that
why
I
lines
at
immigration,
for
example,
to
get
much
shorter
because
things
just
take
less
time
and
ultimately
it
could
even
be
your
passport
now.
B
So
I
tend
to
think
a
lot
about
okay,
so
we're
creating
these
three
standards
at
the
moment,
they're
really
only
focusing
on
basic
infrastructure,
but
what
happens
when
we
start
to
to
go
beyond
that?
What
happens
when
we
start
creating
smart
contracts?
It's
a
to
replace
Outlawz,
replace
our
policies.
B
What
does
the
world
look
like
when
just
an
individual,
even
a
small
child,
has
the
power
to
write
a
smart
contract
that
can
fundamentally
change
the
way
we
socially
organize
to
play
globally
in
15
seconds
or
less
for
anybody
to
use?
What
does
that
will
look
like,
and
how
do
we
operate?
An
own
you
see
what's
happening
now
is
not
unlike
the
discovery
and
founding
of
the
United
States
or
any
nation
state.
For
that
matter,
you
see
our
generation.
B
We
don't
have
the
luxury
of
moving
to
a
new
land
and
experimenting
socially
sure,
there's
things
like
liberland
or
seasteading,
which
are
trying
to
make
new
spaces,
but
really
the
best
place
for
us
to
do.
This
kind
of
experimentation
is
the
digital
landscape
or
the
Internet,
and
it's
quite
interesting
because
there's
some
loose
parallels,
we
can
draw
from
how
we
as
humans,
have
entered
a
physical
space
and
built
our
civilizations.
B
So
in
the
super
early
days,
when
computers
weren't
really
networked,
but
they
were
still
a
bit
Kurtis
around
the
homes
we
had
to
call
up,
like
literally
with
our
modems
and
call
another
person's
house
to
access
the
computer
and
they'll
be
running
a
thing
called
a
BBS
or
a
bulletin
board
system.
You
could
leave
a
message
there
hang
up
and
then
someone
else
could
come
along
I'm
all
you'd
be
calling
them
directly
and
have
a
sort
of
network
connection
between
two
people.
B
Then
we
started
to
see
something
that
looked
a
little
more
like
feudal
villages
and
today,
more
like
kingdoms,
I
hear
we
have
the
client-server
model,
that's
inherently
baked
into
the
web
and
has
a
lot
of
parallels
with
these.
For
example,
services
offer
their
service
for
free
with
the
costs
of
harvesting
or
data
selling
new
advertisements
and
making
you
a
better
customer
not
because
they're
inherently
evil.
B
So
this
is
where
things
start
to
get
really
interesting,
because
with
blockchains
and
web
3.0
we
can
basically
take
the
lawlessness
of
this
internet
landscape
and
we
can
overlay
it
with
a
thin
layer
of
order.
We
know
that
longer
needs
it's
inherently
peer-to-peer
and
we
no
longer
need
the
trusted
intermediaries
to
do
anything
so
going
back
to
this
idea
of
creating
smart
contracts
to
do
laws
and
policies.
What
happens
when
we
start
to
disintermediate
our
institutions?
B
I'm,
not
sure
sure,
but
it
is
kind
of
an
interesting
thought
process
and
maybe
they'll
end
up
looking
like
virtual
nation
states
or
stateless
Nations.
Now
this
might
sound
really
far-fetched
to
you.
But
if
you
look
at
how
our
apps
are
currently
developing,
our
apps
have
monthly
active
users
that
are
in
comparison
with
our
best
stat
nation-states.
B
A
B
So
this
idea
of
mass
adoption
is
is
something
that
I
spent
a
lot
of
time
thinking
about,
and
what
I
concern
myself
with
is
how
we
can
take
this
alien
kind
of
forum
blockchain
and
make
it
as
usable
for
the
average
user.
How
can
we
onboard
people
on
mass
in
a
way
that
feels
familiar
and
they
they're
almost
unaware
that
they're
using
such
an
advanced
technology
and
that's
what
stateís
is
really?
Is
it's
an
it's
a
full
light,
client
and
aetherium
ethereum
node
that
you
actually
run
on
your
device?
B
We
kind
of
imagine
it
being
something
like
an
operating
system,
but
it
has
some
cool
features,
one
as
being
the
wallets
to
manage
your
assets
and
sign
transactions.
This
sort
of
chats,
which
kind
of
like
tabs
as
well,
because
you
can
also
access
dash-
and
with
this
you
can,
you
can
basically
capture
the
conversation
that
comes
around
the
meeting
of
our
minds
and
ultimately
signing
some
kind
of
social
contract
or
a
smart
contract.
In
our
case.
B
Okay,
Oh,
so
how
we
do
this,
we
accomplished
it
using
web
3,
as
you
may
know,
that
ethereum
is
a
blockchain
I
think
we're
all
kind
of
familiar
with
this.
We
use
the
protocol
called
the
light
client
protocol,
which
allows
us
to
have
the
same
decentralized
securities,
but
without
having
to
download
the
entire
blockchain
state.
As
you
can
imagine,
it's
quite
taxing
on
a
phone,
but
there's
often
there's
two
other
protocols
that
are
in
the
ethereum
web
stack,
which
some
people
don't
aren't
really
aware
of.
One
of
those
is
called
whisper,
ansi,
decentralize
messaging
service.
B
B
But
the
purpose
of
building
on
top
of
these
technologies
is
because,
as
soon
as
you
create
any
sort
of
centralization
between
the
clients
and
the
the
application,
you
lose
some
really
interesting
properties.
Basically,
you
revert
to
this
sort
of
feudal,
Kingdom,
sort
of
architecture
back
to
the
sort
of
client-server
model
and
we're
really
trying
to
stay
away
from
that,
because.
B
B
At
the
same
time,
everyone
has
basically
got
a
net
and
they're
catching
these
little
butterflies
and
they're,
pulling
them
out
and
then
trying
to
I.
Don't
know,
look
at
them
and
open
them
up
and
if
they
can't
open
them
up,
then
they
just
kind
of
release
them
and
it
continues
to
fly
eventually.
The
the
butterfly
goes
along
and
it
dies.
It
may
amount
no
even
reached
its
destination.
B
So
that's
what
we
can
that's
what's
actually
happening
in
whisper,
more
or
less.
While
it's
also
happening.
Everyone
else
is
also
throwing
up
more
butterflies
as
sort
of
smokescreen.
So
you
essentially
get
this
network
of
information,
that's
kind
of
very
resistant
sort
of
dragnet
surveillance,
it's
very
difficult
to
really
see
who
is
sending
one
message
and
where
it's
actually
coming
from.
B
But
I
mean
this
does
introduce
some
really
interesting
problems,
for
example
I'm.
If
a
recipient
is
offline,
then
this
butterfly
is
just
gonna
keep
going
out
there
and
just
gonna
keep
on
Don,
which
is
which
is
quite
terrible,
and
obviously
you
can't
have
a
really
good
conversation
that
way.
So
how
do
we
resolve
this.
B
Yes,
so
so
we
resolve
this
by
using
so
basically
in
other
nodes
in
the
network
called
status
nodes.
These
actors
offer
what
we
call
offline
inboxes.
Basically,
this
they
just
capture
these
these
butterflies
and
they
can
hold
onto
them
for
you,
but
they
can
also
read
other
messages
and
communicate
with
external
services.
So
things
like
push
notifications,
you
know
when
you're
on
any
kind
of
instant
messenger.
Today,
if
you've
got
your
phone
in
your
pocket
or
in
your
purse,
you
feel
a
vibrate.
B
That's
a
push
notification,
and
this
is
how
we
achieve
that
and
then,
when,
if
the
sender
goes
offline
and
the
recipient
comes
online,
they
can
basically
can
resync
with
this
particular
node
and
for
both
the
sender
and
the
recipient.
There's,
basically,
no
there's
no
skipping
of
a
beat.
They
can
see
that
they
can
rebuild
the
chat
history,
they
can
send
messages
to
and
from
each
other,
and
it
behaves
just
like
a
normal
user
experience
that
you
would
expect.
B
B
For
example,
if
you
have
a
hashtag
of
Inuit,
you
have
offering
a
service
to
sell
like
coffee
beans,
you'll,
create
this
status
and
then
you'll
send
it
to
to
your
nearest
friends.
While
that
happens,
they
are
also
collecting
their
messages
from
their
own
friends,
and
there
are
basically
all
caching
them
and
then
on
a
periodic
basis.
They
take
the
top
sort
of
20%
of
the
the
content
that
they
see
and
they
share
that
with
everybody
else.
So.
B
When
we
do
this,
we
also
sign
every
time
that
there's
this
content,
that's
kind
of
jumping
ship,
and
this
allows
us
to
build
what
we
call
trains
chains
of
trust.
This
becomes
very
interesting
for
moderation
and
then
finding
out
what
kind
of
content
or
who's
providing
you
content
that
you're
actually
interested
in,
and
this
allows
us
to
build
a
very
sort
of
base
layer
of
reputation
that'll.
B
So
you
can
basically
change
the
network
topology,
so
you're
receiving
information
that
you
actually
care
about
faster,
while
at
the
same
time,
kind
of
excluding
things
that
maybe
you
are
interested
in,
whether
they're
nefarious
or
not.
Not
what
your
social
circles
for
it,
particularly
interested
in.
B
Something
that
that's
more
or
less
it
from
me,
I
guess.
The
main
purpose
of
this
talk
is
not
really
to
talk
about
status
so
much
but
more
to
talk
about
this
sort
of
broadening
of
horizons,
getting
stepping
back
a
little
bit
away
from
sort
of
the
finance
sort
of
sort
of
side
and
thinking
about
where
we
go
going
in
the
future.
I
hope
that's
been
helpful
and
thank
you
very
much.
C
B
Great
question
so
one
of
the
in
India
theorems
case
they
have
a
decentralized
file.
Storage
protocol
called
swarm.
That's
actually
part
of
ethereum,
so
in
this
case
it's
kind
of
like
you're
downloading
it
from
nowhere
and
everywhere.
When
you,
when
you
upload
a
file,
you're,
actually
uploading
it
to
the
the
network
and
what
it
does.
Is
it
propagates
out
your
your
particular
file
everywhere
and
there's
sort
of
like
Commerce
receipts
kind
of
chain
that
gets
built
up
from
that?
D
B
D
B
Are
we
trying
to
build
so?
The
important
thing
here
is
to
sort
of
distant
what
you're
actually
disintermediating
with
blockchains
is
like
the
logic
and
you're
moving
trusts,
because
once
you
have
in
whatever
you
social
agreement
is
in
a
smart
contract,
then
it's
very
its
corruption
resistant.
No,
you
can
really
change
it.
So
there's
that
that
one
aspect
of
it,
if
it's
on
a
server,
then
you
have,
you
basically
are
susceptible
to
that
kind
of
attack
where
things
can
be
changed.
B
But
if
the
ISP
you're
the
internet
provider
that
you
connect
into,
if
they
change
anything,
you
can
cryptographically
prove
that
something's
not
correct.
So
that's
one
aspect
of
it.
Another
thing
you'd
be
really
interested
in
is
this
idea
called
mesh
Nets
or
mesh
networks,
and
some
mesh
networks
is
basically
this
idea
that
you
can
connect.
B
You
can
put
your
phone
into
ad
hoc
Wi-Fi
mode
and
basically,
what
I
do
it'll
kind
of
like
do
a
peer-to-peer
network
between
phones,
so
a
really
interesting
applications
called
fire
chat
and
that
was
used
in
a
couple
of
riots
and
couple
of
protests
and
these
sort
of
things
the
problem
with
that
is
at
the
moment.
This
technology
is
not
scalable
you,
so
you
can
only
really
do
it
in
a
very
localized
area,
but
I
think
as
that
technology
matures
that'll,
probably
change
as
well.