Abstract Bangkok.

By Argent.

Join us for another round of Abstract: The leading conference on Account Abstraction!

11 NOV 2024  1:30pm - 7pm

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At Abstract, we're stripping away the noise to focus on what really matters: real innovation in account abstraction. Expect meaningful conversations, genuine connections, and insights that truly drive Ethereum forward. No fluff—just real people sharing breakthroughs, collaborating with industry rivals, and diving into workshops that are shaping the future of user experience. Come join us and be part of something impactful.

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Speakers

Vitalik is Ethereum's co-founder and a key advocate for account abstraction. He authored several EIPs on AA, including EIP-2938, EIP-4337 and EIP-7702, aiming to enhance blockchain user experience and security. Vitalik's work on AA seeks to make crypto wallets more flexible and user-friendly.

Vitalik Buterin
Co-Founder of Ethereum

Henri is the head of ecosystem at the Starknet Foundation. He holds two M.Sc. in Electronical Engineering and in Business Administration. He has been involved in the blockchain space for several years and has taught M.Sc students about Bitcoin and Ethereum at ESILV Paris. He's a strong advocate of meeting users where they are and making it easy for them to user crypto.

Henri Lieutaud
Head of Ecosystem at Starknet Foundation

Kurt is the Co-Founder of Rhinestone, an infrastructure and tooling provider for modular smart accounts. Prior to Rhinestone, he was Product Lead for one of Europe’s largest B2C marketplace’s with a decentralised workforce where he built ML systems to solve pricing, merchandising and demand & supply matching.

Kurt Larsen
Co-Founder of Rhinestone

Ivo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ambire. He is a recognized expert in web3 and crypto, with extensive experience in blockchain development. As the CEO of Ambire Wallet, he leads a team of skilled developers and designers in building innovative products for the blockchain space.

Ivo Georgiev
Co-Founder and CEO at Ambire

Julien has been a long-term advocate of account abstraction and is well-know for his blogpost series “WTF is Account Abstraction”.

Julien holds a PhD in Physics with a focus on Quantum Information and Quantum Cryptography.

Julien Niset
Co-Founder & CSO at Argent

Prior to his time at Polygon, he worked as a research scientist at Meta, where he led the development of Winterfell, a highly performant general-purpose STARK prover. Bobbin has been active in Web3 since 2018. His focus and passion have always been building of open-source components fundamental to zero-knowledge tech to ensure a decentralized, private future of the web.

Bobbin Threadbare
Co-Founder at Polygon & Polygon Miden Lead

Dan Hannum is a veteran builder and operator in Web3. Previously, Dan served as COO of ZenLedger, the leading crypto tax software platform. He has vast experience in fundraising and investor relations having raised 30M+ from some of the leading investors across SaaS, FinTech and Crypto including Mark Cuban and Gary V. He led business development and secured partnerships with leading crypto organizations and protocols such as Ledger, CoinGecko, eToro, Abra, BlockDaemon, Algorand, Avalanche, Uniswap and Aave. Dan is an active participant across Web3 including DeFi, NFTs and DAOs. Previously, Dan led business development teams at Hawke Media, the fastest growing digital marketing agency in the US.

Daniel Hannum
CEO of GasHawk

Nicolas spent five years at Oberthur, a leader in embedded digital security, specializing in card systems. After that, he founded Ubinity to focus on smartcard operating systems. Later, he co-founded BT Chip with the aim of creating an open-standard, secure-element-based hardware wallet, which laid the foundation for the first Ledger wallet.

Nicolas Bacca
Co-Founder of Ledger

Itamar is the co-founder and CEO of Argent since 2018. With Argent, Itamar aims to make interacting with cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance more accessible to mainstream users. Prior to his foray into the crypto space, he founded Peak, a brain training app acquired in 2016. Itamar is an active figure in the cryptocurrency and blockchain startup ecosystem.

Itamar Lesuisse
Co-Founder & CEO at Argent

Rahul is a senior product manager at Aztec Labs looking after its unique execution environment that ensures programmable privacy, AA, and tons of unique features that Aztec VM brings. Previously Rahul was an engineer at Reddit’s crypto team building a wallet used by 40M+ users.

Rahul Kothari
Product Manager at Aztec Network

Jamie Newton
Product Manager at Starknet Foundation

Head of Developer Relations at Particle Network. Full-time DevRel for three years, originally starting at 16 years old. Dedicated towards enabling developers to shape the future of a consumer-facing Web3 ecosystem

Ethan Francis
Head of Developer Relations at Particle Network

Gerald Goldstein
Co-Founder & CTO at Argent

Maths and economics backgrounds. Rollup and ZK aficionado. Participant to Ethereum and Starknet governance process.

Elias Tazartes
Co-Founder & CEO at Kakarot zkEVM

Ernesto García is Smart Contract Engineer at OpenZeppelin, one of the leading blockchain security companies. He’s a maintainer of the most-trusted Solidity libraries for web3.

Ernesto Garcia
Smart Contract Engineer at Open Zeppelin

Jérôme de Tychey is the president of Ethereum-France and CEO of Cometh. He is the host of EthCC, the largest blockchain event in Europe. He previously held leadership positions at Ledger, ConsenSys and Ernst & Young. Jerome is also an associate professor in economics at CNAM, an engineering school in Paris.

Jérôme de Tychey
CEO at Cometh & President of Ethereum France

Derek Chiang is the founder and CEO of ZeroDev, a provider of embeddable & programmable smart (AA) wallets.  Derek contributed to the spec and reference implementation of ERC-4337, and ZeroDev built the first modular AA wallet known as “Kernel” which is currently the most widely deployed AA wallet.

Derek Chiang
Founder & CEO at ZeroDev

Jeff is a Co-founder of Curvegrid, a blockchain software company founded in Tokyo, Japan in 2017. Curvegrid's MultiBaas blockchain middleware makes it easy and cost effective to build on blockchain. Jeff is a regular mentor at ETHGlobal hackathons and occasional contributor to go-ethereum. Previously, Jeff worked in financial services and enterprise data storage.

Jeff Wentworth
Co-founder of Curvegrid

Rafi is a co-founder and development lead at Clave. He is a full stack developer and has prior experience of project coordination for the US Army Corps of Engineers. He’s coming from an engineering background and mainly focusing on cutting edge technologies regarding blockchain ecosystem.

Rafi Ersözlü
Co-Founder & Head of Development at Clave

Igor Yalovoy is a seasoned software engineer with over 20 years of professional experience and deep expertise in Solidity. At Balancer, he played a pivotal role in developing smart contracts, successfully managing over $1 billion in assets. Prior to that, Igor co-founded Babylon Finance, where he served as CTO. Before embarking on these ventures, Igor was a core developer at OpenZeppelin, where he was instrumental in securing tens of billions of dollars for leading crypto organizations.

Igor Yalovoy
Head of Smart Contrat Engineering at Kinto

Arik is the VP of Technology at Fireblocks, leading the technology research and innovation with focus on cryptography, blockchain, security and AI research. Fireblocks provides a suite of applications to manage digital asset operations and a complete development platform to build business on the blockchain. Notably the Fireblocks MPC wallet technology has secured trillions of dollars.

Arik Galansky
VP Technology at Fireblocks

Valentin Seehausen is a DevRel at Safe and a board member of the Digital Euro Association. He is passionate about teaching, blockchain technology, technical writing, and a bankless society with sound money. He graduated in Pluralist Economics, worked as a fullstack engineer for 5+ and a Solidity engineer for 3+ years.

Valentin Seehausen
Senior DevRel Engineer at Safe

Yenwen Feng
Co-founder of Nekodex

Sung Hong is Sr. Director of Product and GTM at Magic, the leading wallet-as-a-service provider. Magic pioneered wallet abstraction in 2018, onboarding over 35 million wallets and 190,000 developers. Magic helped to create invisible wallet experiences for web3 trailblazers like Polymarket, Helium, WalletConnect and Immutable, as well as Fortune 500 brands like Forbes, Naver and Mattel.

Sung Hong
Senior Director of Product Management at Magic

Ankit Chiplunkar
Head of Research at OneBalance

Timothée Delabrouille
Exploration Engineer at StarkWare

Tanishk is a Founding Engineer at Rhinestone, where he is building Omni Accounts, leveraging Resource Lock Modules to deliver a trustless, chain-abstracted user experience.
 
A DeFi and MEV enthusiast, he has spent the last two years deep in the DeFi trenches building out the HOT AMM with Valantis & Arrakis, and working as a DeFi Engineer at Nethermind.

Tanishk Goyal
Founding Engineer at Rhinestone

Daniel Pfeffer
Co-Founder & CTO at GasHawk

Shahar Kaminsky
Head of partner engineering at Matter Labs

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Agenda

Conference
Workshops
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Opening Doors

2:00 PM - 2:10 PM

Introduction & Opening

Itamar Lesuisse, Co-Founder & CEO, Argent

2:10 PM - 2:50 PM
Panel

Panel: The State of AA two years after ERC-4337

Jérôme de Tychey, CEO, Cometh
Elias Tazartes, Co-Founder & CEO, Kakarot zkEVM
Rahul Kothari, Product Manager, Aztec Labs
Jamie Newton, Product Manager, Starknet Foundation
Igor Yalovoy, Head of Smart Contract Engineering, Kinto
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Jeff Wentworth, Co-Founder, Curvegrid

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
Talk

Bringing 1B users to Ethereum with AA

Julien Niset, Co-Founder & CSO
Argent

3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Debate

Thaï boxing: Smart accounts vs. smarter EOAs

Arik Galansky, VP Technology, Fireblocks
Ivo Georgiev, Co-Founder & CEO, Ambire
vs.
Valentin Seehausen, Sr. DevRel, Safe
Rafi Ersözlü, Co-Founder & Head of Development, Clave

Nicolas Bacca, Co-Founder, Ledger

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Talk

Vitalik's latest on account abstraction

Vitalik Buterin

4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Talk

Component model for accounts: how account abstraction works in Polygon Miden

Bobbin Threadbare, Co-Founder
Polygon Miden

4:20 PM - 4:40 PM

Break & snacks

4:40 PM - 5:20 PM
Panel

Panel: From abstracting accounts to abstracting chains

Kurt Larsen, Co-Founder, Rhinestone
Daniel Pfeffer, CEO, GasHawk
Ethan Francis, Head of Developer Relations, Particle Network
Sung Hong, Senior Director of Product Management, Magic

Ankit Chiplunkar, Head of Research, OneBalance

5:20 PM - 5:40 PM
Talk

Beyond Wallets

Henri Lieutaud, Head of Ecosystem
Starknet Foundation

5:40 PM - 6:10 PM
Panel

Panel: AA in production — challenges and opportunities

Itamar Lesuisse, Co-Founder & CEO, Argent
Ivo Georgiev, Co-Founder & CEO, Ambire
Yenwen Feng, Co-Founder, Nekodex
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Derek Chiang, Founder & CEO, ZeroDev

6:10 PM - 7:00 PM

Networking & drinks

2:10 PM - 2:50 PM

Architecture walk through for chain abstraction

Let's get into the nitty gritty of escrow vs co-signer and some code walk throughs

Tanishk Goyal, Founding Engineer, Rhinestone

2:50 PM- 3:30 PM

A guided workshop to understand and implement a standard Account contract on Starknet.

Timothée Delabrouille , Exploration Engineer, StarkWare

4:00 PM - 4:40 PM

How to use OpenZeppelin Contracts Account Abstract framework

OpenZeppelin Contracts is releasing their first version of an Account Abstraction framework, designed for developers to enable developers to create novel ERC4337 contracts. After the workshop, developers will be able to start Account Abstraction projects using standard primitives provided by the OpenZeppelin team and create their own projects leveraging the ERC4337 infrastructure

Ernesto Garcia, Smart Contract Engineer, Open Zeppelin

4:40 PM - 5:20 PM

Build a telegram mini-app on top of Ethereum

Explore with us how to use the Argent Telegram Wallet SDK to easily plug into Telegram's 1B users with your Ethereum dapp

Gerald Goldstein, Co-Founder & CTO, Argent

5:20 PM - 6:00 PM

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FAQ

What is Abstract?

Abstract is the top Account Abstraction conference, hosted by Argent. It unites pioneers in the AA space to shape blockchain's future user experience.

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