The Senior Technical Program Manager at #dfinity Foundation, Dieter M. Sommer, was recently invited to give a seminar on Blockchain, Interoperability & Integrations, hosted by Duke Kunshan University ‍ ‍

The seminar was attended by professors from prestigious institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Duke University and Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa, along with students from MIT, Duke and Duke-Kunshan University.

Scholars including Dr. Thomas Hardjono, CTO of Connection Science and Technical Director of the MIT Trust-Data Consortium at MIT in Cambridge and key contributor to the blockchain standard at IETF Internet Engineering Task Force, Dr. Luyao Zhang, Assistant Professor of Economics and Senior Research Scientist at the Data Science Research Center of Duke Kunshan University and Founder and Chairman of SciEcon CIC, and other students affiliated with MIT, Duke Kunshan University and Duke University.

Key topics included:

How to connect the Internet computer to Web2 via HTTPS outcalls (Web3 – Web2) in an oracle-less way

The main X-Chain integration approaches (Web3 – Web3) and their evaluation in terms of decentralization

The talk included an overview of the main approaches for X-Chain integration (Web3 Web3) and their assessment in terms of decentralization. The approaches analyzed ranged from trusted party-based approaches on the centralized side of the spectrum to the integration of the IC at the protocol level with Bitcoin and Ethereum on the decentralized side of the spectrum.

What makes the IC's method of integration the most decentralized of all are the following two properties: (1) being trustless, that is, requiring no additional trust assumptions beyond those of the integrated systems; and (2) be implemented 100% on-chain, i.e. no additional off-chain components are required, which would introduce a dependency on new off-chain systems likely running in the public cloud.

As we work to implement a fully decentralized internet, it is critical to collaborate with universities and other academic institutions. We believe such collaborations are key to advancing technology and driving innovation

We are grateful to Luyao Zhang, Ph.D., Thomas Hardjono, Zesen Zhuang, xintong wu, Yulin Liu, Ph.D., Michael Peterer, Xinyu Tian, Wanlin (Jenny) Deng, Rafael Belchior, and all attendees who attended this seminar good luck

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