The Beras Go Corporate - TOKEN2049 Dubai 2024

okay holy A lot of people in here I thought you would all miss your flight and make it easy on us today um but yeah I guess the bear is out of the cage and be chain and Google are collaborating and working together and we'll tell you a little bit more about that today um before we get into that uh Adrian why don't you tell us about yourself yeah I do you have the slides or I guess do we have the slides or we don't have the slides there we go oh perfect uh yeah I nice to meet you everyone my name is Adrian I'm web 3 principal architect uh at Google I've been in crypto for around eight years I started in cyber security and then I joined consensus as head of engineering I stayed there for about four years and at Google Now I help the web 3 strategy and you'll see that we do quite quite a lot um and we want to really make it easy with the community to create web three projects on Google Cloud Adam yeah uh pleasure to meet you all uh virtually and in person uh I'm Adam I lead corporate development at bar chain what that really means is wherever they need someone without a bare mask on to work with web two organizations they usually usually uh tap me in uh before bar chain I led uh the business at third web and prior to third web I was at Adrian's competitor AWS on their venture capital and startup team for five years um so we'll we'll jump right into why we're here today and that's to announce a collaboration uh to accelerate the bar chain ecosystem with uh Google Cloud uh through this multi-pronged relationship um developers will now more easily be able to build applications on bar chain um so maybe you can tell us a bit more about ver chain there that happy to do that um so yeah what is bar chain a lot of you may have heard that and and you'll see me looking at these notes today that's just so I comply with Google's terms and conditions as part of the arrangement we've got here so uh bar chain is a evm compatible layer one built on the Cosmos SDK and powered by proof of liquidity um you'll hear how founder Smokey talk a little bit more about bar chain later today so I won't get too technical but the typical blockchain tril consists of three pillars uh real users developers and capital formation and bar chain transforms this into the proof of liquidity flywheel uh proof of liquidity aligns incentives between liquidity and security at the protocol level um driving value to protocols building on the on the network and rewarding the users that contribute the most to the ecosystem uh you may have played around with our testnet which launched earlier this year uh I think the data shows that it is the most active testet in history with over 9 million active users and 130 million plus transactions and it really showed what uh proof of liquidity uh can do and we're excited to see what this enables and unlocks in the years to come and when our main net launches later this year so what do we uh hope to achieve with bar chain uh well in order for crypto to have real adoption you need real applications that require this technology to be built on chain otherwise people will just uh defer to your traditional you know web to Google Cloud Solutions uh and that's why we're excited here today to tell you a little bit more about that uh with bar chain we hope to turbocharge the next 0o to one onchain applications and help them bootstrap their liquidity and user base through proof of liquidity ultimately accelerating their goto market and escape velocity and I think you'll see that our community is one of the most active insane mimic all these adjectives kind of apply we've already got over 200 applications building on bar chain on the test net uh gearing up for mayet and that's only going to grow um we have one of the strongest brands in in the ecosystem and you're probably wondering you know why is Google up here with a blockchain inspired by bong Bears smoking weed nfts so I'll hand it off to you Adrian to tell us a little but more about that yeah sure I so actually Google is doing a lot in web 3 right I even having spent around eight years in crypto I was actually super surprised when I see everything they do and how crypto native they are I within and that's everything you see on the slide here within alphabet there is a lot of things that are happening it's really Google Cloud that is leading the crypto strategy we have dedicated resources we have more than 100 FTE working on web 3 uh today we have dedicated products maybe you know about our blockchain uh noes maybe you know our blockchain data sets uh we basically index the data from around 20 different chains we ingest the data we put that in bigquery for free to use by any developers and so on and so soon we're also going to add Vera chain as part of this uh data sets but what's really interesting is that it's heavily used by the industry already even if not many people know about it I suggest you take a look at about that the blockchain big query data sets uh a lot of big users are are using that it's not really for the small Builders but U um is quite interesting the second pillar is Google labs they are working on cutting edge Technologies such as zero knowledge rollups and Google search integration and maybe you've seen couple of weeks ago now when you search on Google search uh your your addresses you can see the balances right we cover around seven chains and that's pretty cool right and that's Google Labs basically behind the scene enabling that kind of features the third pillar and to me is really the most important one and the reason why I join Google is that we run validators at scale right like we run validators on ethereum on polygon on Aptos on all these kind of networks soon we'll run also uh for bar chain when they go live uh but it's very important because it shows that we have skin in the game right and that's a very big differentiated with other companies that you might think about we have skin in the game we run validators we help decentralization the different networks and so on and uh recently we even launched an igen layer operator on the main net and that's very cool I'm very excited about that uh so if you want to you know delegate maybe you you you can um and yeah as I said we're also going to do the barain validator as soon as they go live I on the Play Store front that there also a lot of things happening we work with the web3 Community to help create the right Frameworks to distribute the web 3 apps at scale uh the distribution of these web three apps um the first step that we did is we enabled nfts on the Play Store we know it's not enough but it's a good first step and we're excited to see how it goes and what are the next step going to be uh lastly um Google is doing a lot of investments in web 3 space you're actually one of the largest uh uh corporate investors in web 3 and not many people know about it but we actually investing in fire blocks and there is a small typo here it's not right written uh and we also invested in board Apes in yugul laabs so I didn't put my t-shirt but uh I really like this one so I yeah that's it for the short intro back to Bar chain partnership maybe Adam you can you know tell us a bit more about the partnership collaboration yeah thanks Adrian so today we have a few interesting initiatives that we'll be announcing the first is a new initiative by the bar chain Foundation to fund a Global Research chair to drive the advancement and usage of proof of liquidity uh Google's always on The Cutting Edge of new cloud computing technology and gpus and machine learning and uh likewise we're joining forces to uh incentivize and find someone from a top university globally to help us uh you know innovate with proof of liquidity so be chain foundation will be providing $100,000 usdc to a selected team or individual and Google Cloud will provide up to $100,000 in Cloud credits to offset the research and development costs associated with that this QR code should take you to that page so you can start um reading up more about that you know we encourage people to apply tell your friends at universities to apply and we're excited to see what you build uh next up you know everyone's probably you know you know heard of Friends building a startup or going through an accelerator and Google cloud is usually by their side helping them with tailored resources and credits likewise we are launching an incubator based in Dubai called builda Bara uh we'll be sharing more about that soon so I suggest you follow our Twitter for information about that or check out our website and click on the foundation link uh like you know you probably familiar with already we'll be providing tailored programming mentorship master classes and anyone who goes through the Builder Bar accelerator could qualify up for $200,000 in credits to help them build and go to market quicker and then you know I'll hand it off to Adrian to tell a little bit more about some of the product Integrations and this is just the start so we'll tease a few here today and then we'll have more to come in the coming weeks all right yeah sure so so in term of integration right the goal is really to make it easy for developers to build on the bar chain uh ecosystem so we have two main integration the first one is that we will have a oneclick deploy node for the bar chain ecosystem and two we make the data from bar chain available on big query to be easily used by developers so for the first one imagine you need to you know your project you need to uh run a node for bur chain you can go on the Google Cloud MK Marketplace and in one click you can deploy this nde it's going to be managed on your behalf so you don't have to do any complex configuration you don't have to do any any kind of Maintenance so that's going to be very easy for the developers on the second one on the data side and it's very interesting you can let's say that you have a project and you need to access historical data or you need to do a complex query on on something you don't have data right like maybe you don't have the data for the for for your query then you can use the big query blockchain data set for Barra chain to do that you don't have to pay for the indexing you don't have to pay for the storage because Google is absorbing for this cost you just pay for your query adoc that you need and that that's how people are are actually using this bigquery data sets today um and that's very helpful for for a lot of different use cases um uh Google already has around 20 chain CH in this blockchain initiative and we're very excited to have B chain very soon as well um yeah I think that that's about it maybe you have a yeah I'll just let the slide sit on the screen a little bit longer if anyone wants to take a cute little picture of this bear here I mean a bong bear with a Google logo who would have thought to see it but you know just shows what a collaboration this is going to turn out to be um so you know in summary uh we made a few announcements today there may be more coming throughout the week and the coming month uh we announced a new research chair program that we're jointly going to fund uh builda Bara startup incubator based in Dubai is going to be launching soon powered by Google Cloud uh you'll be able to deploy a node from Google Cloud to Bar chain from their Cloud Marketplace in one click and all bar chain data will be indexed within big qu query and easy for you to uh build with and then Adrien also mentioned that when we uh go to mainnet Google will be part of our validator set and help us secure the network um you know I don't think we have too much more to share today I know you probably all are in this room waiting for the next speaker where maybe you'll learn about the benefits of drinking grizzly bear milk or you know bathing in that milk or something but uh we're excited for that talk just as much as you are and appreciate you all being here today so thank you for your time how was that thank you man