# Web3 is becoming asynchronous. Can we live with it? Sergey Gorbunov

- Channel: [Ethereum Denver](https://streameth.org/ethereum-denver)
- Date: 2023-10-07
- Duration: 19:23
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-D84FkfBzDe0
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D84FkfBzDe0

## Description

As we scale the number of blockchains, layer-2s, and data-availability layers, we introduce asynchronous communication between them. How should developers think about dApp architectures in this world? How will users interact across all these layers? In this talk, we will describe emerging development paradigms that will help build dApps that span the whole of web3, work in asynchronous models, and simplify user experiences.

Sergey Gorbunov
Co-Founder
Axelar
Sergey is a co-founder and CEO of Axelar, a decentralized blockchain interoperability network. He received a Ph.D. from MIT, where he was a Microsoft Ph.D. fellow. His Ph.D. dissertation was on designing cryptographic tools for the cloud using lattice-based cryptography, for which he received the Sprowls Doctoral Thesis Award for best thesis in CS at MIT. Sergey is a co-author of many cryptographic protocols, standards and systems. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo and was on the founding team of Algorand, where he worked on the core platform design and development and led the cryptography group.

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