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The DDiB26 journey continued in Cape Town.
At @StellenboschUni, students joined live lectures, in person sessions and technical discussions across blockchain technology, economics and law.
With @uzh_blockchain , @The_Hashgraph and @DarBlockchain .
- Thorkil Schmidiger (Neptune Network) closed things out with a bold claim: Neptune has the privacy tech Ethereum has been chasing, built by someone who helped write the Lightning and Ethereum specs himself.
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From custody infrastructure to protocol research to grassroots crypto history, all in one building. Great way to close out the summer school.
#DDiB2026 #CryptoValley #Zug #CVLabs #UZH #Blockchain
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The UZH X Cardano Meetup during #DDiB2026 was one of the most content-packed evenings of the summer school.
🏛️ Stephen Wood (CFO, @Cardano_CF Foundation) opened with a simple idea: most systems run on trust you can't verify (you trust the bank, the bank trusts the auditor,
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studying how staking and pledging shape the network's economy long-term.
⚖️ @MauroAndreoliA (@Cardano_CF Foundation Ambassador) closed with the governance story: liquid democracy, a treasury currently sitting around 1.2 billion ADA, and the Cardano Constitution drafted with
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input from 17+ countries and now live on-chain.
Great night, great crowd, and a solid reminder that the "boring" infrastructure work (audits, monitoring, governance) is what makes the flashier stuff possible.
#Cardano #Blockchain #DDiB2026 #UZH #Web3 #CardanoFoundation #NMKR
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Blockchain was supposed to be running the financial system by now. 12 years after Ethereum, it backs less than 1% of it.
In this #DDiB2026 session, Dr Bernhard Elsner (Chief Product Officer, @digitalasset ) got into why: not regulation.
@CantonNetwork
Highlights 👇
- Delivery vs Payment as the acid test: buyer, seller, cash provider, and asset provider each get a private view, yet the trade is all-or-nothing
- A Global Synchronizer acting like connective tissue between subnets, so separate networks can transact without merging
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into one ledger
💬 A blunt reframe: Canton isn't building new crypto assets. It's rebuilding the rails under the sovereign bonds and equities that already exist
#Canton #Blockchain #Web3 #DigitalAsset #UZH #Daml #ddib26 #deepdiveintoblockchain
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