Rethink Trust 2018: Nick Edmonds, Workshop 3 -- Blockchain in Scala

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us! ----- In this workshop, Nick Edmonds, CTO and Co-Founder of Topl, will introduce you their Edda framework. Designed to be deployed as application-specific public, permissionless blockchains, Edda incorporates the first implementation of the Ouroboros Genesis consensus algorithm, allows for domain specific smart contracts, and supports complex actor types and attributes. For all the talks in RethinkTrust.org 2018: https://chief.sc/rethinktrust2018-videos Background and summary of the conference by the founder, Dr. Alexy Khrabrov: https://chiefscientist.org Next Enterprise Blockchain Engineering track By the Bay: http://scale.bythebay.io ----- Leveraging the JVM for its cross-platform capabilities along with the built-in JavaScript runtime environment the Nashorn Engine, this framework takes advantage of the concise structure of Scala in combination with the ability to write smart contracts in JavaScript, one of the most popular programming languages in the world. A blockchain created with the Edda framework can be deployed on nearly every device, with a smart contract language most developers are already familiar with. Scala’s Akka actor model provides for a highly concurrent and distributed system, important for decentralization and speed when settling transactions within a distributed network. Pattern matching, case classes, and strong typing system within Scala…