# Breakout Session on P2P Technologies Introductory Remarks

- Channel: [Devcon](https://streameth.org/devcon)
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Duration: 07:29
- Topics: p2p, swarm, ethereum, devcon3
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-taVNa1fq83c
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taVNa1fq83c

## Description

The Breakout Session on P2P Technologies, Blockchains in Data and Communication took place from 10:20 – 16:30 on November 4th in the breakout room of Devcon3 in Cancun.

From the Original Announcement:
This special breakout session allows us to go more in-depth, investigating the interplay of blockchains and p2p communications. We begin with talks about Swarm’s accounting system used to incentivise generic service networks, Swarm’s routing network used for direct node-to-node communication and we will have a demonstration of the swarm network used for p2p live video streaming. We will address questions of scalability, of on-chain vs off-chain service provision and we will outline a general development roadmap for these types of services as we work towards realising the web3 vision.