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SESSION AGENDA - NOW LIVE 🎉 With Ethereum emerging out of a white-hot summer fueled by manic growth in decentralized finance, its protocol now faces an unprecedented, game-changing upgrade. What does it all mean? To answer that, we have an all-star speaker lineup. Join us for invest:ethereum economy on Wednesday Oct. 14, 2020 to hear what the industry’s leading voices have to say about the Eth 2.0 era and how the ever-evolving ecosystem of DeFi, stablecoins, NFTs and decentralized exchanges will adapt to it.   EXCLUSIVE RATE: We’re offering $50 in savings to our most loyal readers. Register for $49 until Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. ET.  VIEW FULL AGENDA FEATURED SESSIONS Don’t miss these Main Stage conversations with some of the most respected players in the field.  9:00 a.m. ET  Eth 2.0 and the Road Ahead, with Vitalik Buterin  12:30 p.m. ET  Fireside Chat with CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert   REGISTER TODAY BREAKOUT SESSIONS Learn more about Etheruem’s historic transition – past, present and future – and how it will impact traders and investors alike. 10:00 a.m. ET  A New Age: A Primer on Eth 2.0 Monetary Policy and Game Theory Essential to evaluating any Ethereum investment opportunity is understanding the workings of Eth 2.0's new monetary policy and how its ecosystem participants will be incentivized to play together. Delphi Digital's Alex Gedevani dives into the supply curve and game theory characteristics underlying this new system. 10:30 a.m. ET  Stake It or Farm It? Making Your Money Work for You Ethereum has introduced new ways for people to get their money to work for them. Whether it's securing or participating in a network, or creating other interest from your money, new rewards and incentives abound for those willing to engage. We look at how to manage risks, optimize rewards and build a portfolio. 5:00 p.m. ET  Can There Be Only One? "Eth Killers," Chain Interoperability and Composability Does Eth 2.0 and the emergence of layer 2 solutions mean the "Eth Killer" narrative is dead? How much design space is there for better-performing chains? Can on-chain protocols add enough composability to the stack? And what orders of magnitude of performance can newer blockchains and networks deliver? 5:30 p.m. ET Future of the Front End: Winning the Race for the DeFi User The emergence of new infrastructure like automated market-makers, portfolio managers and aggregation tools has kick-started an arms race for end users. We explore how these products are lowering barriers to entry in the Ethereum economy, where and how value will accrue with these platforms and the growing migration of centralized exchanges looking to get in on the act. Don’t miss these sessions and more. View full agenda here.   REGISTER TODAY UNLOCKED  Attend this hands-on interactive track designed to build and hone crypto skill sets. Leave equipped with timely, actionable and practical tools around aggregation tools, taxes, staking pools and more. 11:00 a.m. ET Unlocked: BTC on Ethereum - Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too Want to participate in the DeFi economy but still determined to HODL your bitcoins forever? Tokenizing your bitcoin on Ethereum gives you a chance to have your cake and eat it, too. Learn about creative ways to generate yield (and the risks involved!) while still HODLing on. 1:00 p.m. ET Unlocked: Fair Launch or Free Lunch? DeFi and Proof of Stake Legal Roundtable Yield farming. Automated market-making. Proof-of-stake. "Fair launches." We're witnessing breakneck-pace innovation across the ecosystem, and the legal considerations associated with these developments make yesterday's crypto legal debates seem like small beer. We break down the forthcoming pain points for which investors and entrepreneurs should be preparing themselves. 2:00 p.m. ET Unlocked: Custody and Wallets for Eth 2.0 Some would argue that wallets are to crypto as browsers are to the internet, in that a wallet is the primary interface between the user and the broader crypto economy. As such, choosing a wallet with functionality that meets your needs and risk tolerance is a critical decision. We take a look at how wallets serve as the on-ramp to the DeFi world and how they're impacted by Eth2. 5:30 p.m. ET Unlocked: Decentralized Staking Pools There's more than one way to skin a cat, and there's more than one way to stake your ETH - even if you're not holding the 32 ETH required to run your own validator node. We take a look at two decentralized staking pool services and explore the pros and cons of  these vis-a-vis a traditional staking-as-a-service platform. View all Unlocked sessions.  REGISTER TODAY TRADE SECRETS New products. Investment theses. Market intelligence. Trade Secrets offers an exclusive look into Eth 2.0 market developments 2:30 p.m. ET Trade Secrets: 2020 - The Year of ETH Options 2020 has been a breakout year for ETH options trading. Darius Sit of Singapore-based QCP Capital examines this surge in interest and identifies the key noteworthy trends. 3:30 p.m. ET  Trade Secrets: The Bear Case for Eth 2.0 Vishal Shah of Alpha5 argues that while DeFi will continue to evolve, its course will be undetermined by Eth 2.0 upgrades and that traditional central limit order books won't be supplanted by decentralized alternatives anytime soon.  View all Trade Secrets sessions.  REGISTER TODAY Copyright © 2020 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.  Our mailing address is:  250 Park Avenue South New York, NY, 10003, US  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences here.