Costanza Gallo - How Swarm makes crypto cypherpunk again

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yeah okay so hi everyone my name is Costanza and I will be talking about how worm makes ethereum cyberp Punk again before I start some background about me I'm a COR member at the worm Network at the centralized storage and communication system in December 2023 when balic published mum cyber Punk again I I was at the most cyberp Punk event if you know it 37 through3 and I was there with an amazing group of cyberp punk women so at 2 a.m.

still at the conference venue me and my girlfriend start reading the blog post and we didn't B an eye at the fact that make etherum cyberp Punk again means that ethereum is not cyber Punk anymore vitalic said what we all knew in heart between a mimic coin or an open bar at a side event crypto lost the cyberp punk EOS we need to find it again so today I will explore those three questions what is cyberp punk why is ethereum losing cyberp Punk EOS and how can we make ethereum cyberp

Punk again so let me ask you beforehand how many of you have read the cyberp punk Manifesto by ER Judes raise your hands don't be shy cool and how many of you identify a cyberpank that's better um what if I tell you that this is also cyberp Punk that is a picture of me in 1993 right when the cyberpunk manifesto got published um this is because I identify a cyber Punk since I was a child you see my father was a sacal cartoonist and a political activist and that means two

things first of all is phone our landline was under surveillance so many times um it was like back in the '90s early 2000s so it was very e the spot and so just because they were monitoring him they were also monitoring me in privacy is a political matter it is not a human rights matter so the debate is on the line of you need privacy that's because you're a criminal that's a criminal um so since I didn't have privacy in my own communication with my own father I realized early on that privacy has to be by default otherwise

it can be taken away and the second thing I realize is that freedom of speech is very important this is because as a sacal Cartoonist it was the subject of chancellorship so many times it was threatened and it was infuriating because how can someone else decide if he can publish a cartoon like the most innocent thing ever um funny story is that whenever they wanted to transfer him they would send the police to every news agent in the country but by the time that they will get there the newspapers got sold out so that was a big win for him and also and in real life proof that distribute distributed

system works so where am I getting with that six-year-old Costanza was cyberp Punk children are cyber Punk this is because they understand basic human rights and if they can do that it's because privacy and freedom are so basic that even children can understand them and it is us the grown ups that forgot about it and Technology should come to protect what should be a human rights so what is cyberp punk privacy is cyberp punk chip resistance is cyberp punk users in control of the data is cyberp

punk breaking from centralized players who can make and break the rules a technology for everyone so that everyone can have digital freedoms is cyberp punk open source and no barriers to entries is cyberp punk a borderless technology available to everyone is cyberp punk a technology that is Unstoppable is cyberp punk you can stop me talking you can stop recoding so a technology that doesn't rely on the whim of someone is cyber Punk cyber Punk this is what is supposed to be like it is not sexy it is not

getting reach fast cyberpunk is staying true to our core values so the initial version of crypto is something that six-year-old cyberp Punk conans would have loved a free and open society and this free and open Society had three key values Unstoppable privacy preserving and permissionless that was the initial premise of ethereum and of ethereum Sol Trinity ethereum as the wor CPU whisper as the communication layer and swarmm as the storage layer and that was for a web tree that

valued privacy in the word of Eric udes Defender privacy with cryptography anonymous forwarding system digital signatures and electronic money it's not about the technology it's about what you can do with the technology to make her happy so look around today crypto projects how many of those projects actually embed those values no are centralized some defi projects rely on less than optimal infrastructure some projects transor IP addresses in some countries in order to comply with

Regulators some projects don't Implement optimal cryptography some projects are closed source that goes against all the principles of Open Source privacy ownership transship resistance that def find the Cyber Punk itos and a word that will make her happy is a place where you have privacy and you have freedom and indeed you have secure communication extreme privacy by default decentralized censorship resistance data and Unstoppable Computing those were the building blocks for the world to come now 10 years after etherum started we are still not there

but that's okay because revolutions don't happen overnight it take times missteps uh bulls and bears to push through the to push through and make the dreams come true and we have gone a long way since the initial uh cyber Punk vision of ethereum and we are just at the last mile we are not only anymore just a financial ecosystem we're in a full stack replacement for centralized tax we're even building things that centralized tax doesn't have and we need to build our ecosystem with that in mind to make the Cyber Punk Vision come true so vitalic say that today we have

the tools we need and most of the tools we will ever have to build applications that are cyberpunk and user friendly and so we should go out and do it and my childood dream came true because warm is one of those tools so we should go out and do it so how can worm make cyber Punk make ethereum cyberp Punk again to answer those questions we'll see a high level overview of what worm is and we will see how it is the missing piece of crypto how there is no web tree without worm there is no cyber Punk without worm what is worm worm is a decentralized communication and storage system there

is a few key elements that worm used to make web three cyberp Punk first of all B noes SW is a peer-to-peer Network there is no Central node controlling the entire network so each one of us can run own nodes when you join the not the network by default your notes get ass sign an address that is randomly generated there are four type of notes um depending what you want to build I would advise to go with the obviously the full note that allows you to have full participation in the network and to also enjoy the incentives the second thing is Chunks so in swarm

when you upload a content from a file to a website the content is split into chunks and those chunks are split across the networks two important things to note each funks is addressable on the network via an ash and each hun of data is distributed to more than one node in a redant Way by default also when you upload a file you can also decide to encrypt it finally Academia routing so the notes communicate with each other using the Academia routing this is how it

works um Alice want to send a message to Dave but she's not connected to Dave she doesn't know Dave so she doesn't know how but she is connected to Bob so she asks Bob now Bob doesn't know Dave either so but he knows Carol so Bob ask Carol and Carol finally knows Dave so in this way Alice communicate to Dave and to everyone else in the network and by following this connectivity pattern uh it ensures that not Dave not anyone else knows that the request comes from Alice and also Alice doesn't know who is storing her

data so in other words this communication strategy has the benefit of anonymity for both the senders as well as the receivers and this gives anonymity at the network level and plausible deniability okay but how does this make are happy or how does this make warm the missing pie to make ethereum cyberp Punk again thanks to chunks nod and cademia routing ND don't know we they're storing and this gives them plausible deniability so this means that node

operators cannot be held accountable for the content that they're storing so there is no middleman sorship so what does it mean you can prevent people from Asen the content you can't theplatform people and you have privacy by default but I'm actually going to want up my statement it is not just privacy by default uh this communication strategy can Implement zero leaks communication meaning that no one and I mean no one can intercept it so that will make conans free to communicate with her friends about her

Elementary School dramas without anyone listening to her it also means not the platforming by default it is transship resistant that means that no Central Power can decide to silence you to stop you to block your applications or can prevent people in some countries from accessing your applications so that's it this is um the current missing piece in the web space and what we need to implement in order to make the theum ecosystem cyberpunk again thank you [Applause]