# ETHTaipei x Vitalik Buterin: Panel - "From Taiwan to Global Ethereum Ecosystem"

- Speakers: [Vitalik Buterin](https://streameth.org/speakers/vitalik-buterin)
- Channel: [ETHTaipei](https://streameth.org/ethtaipei)
- Date: 2023-10-07
- Duration: 46:00
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-zMQZStrWxfQ
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMQZStrWxfQ

## Description

From Taiwan to Global Ethereum Ecosystem

Panelists: 
* Vitalik Buterin: Vitalik Buterin gained worldwide recognition for co-founding Ethereum, a groundbreaking blockchain platform, in 2015. He drinks sugar-free green tea.
* Aya Miyaguchi: Aya Miyaguchi is the Executive Director and Eclectic Dreamer of the Ethereum Foundation.  Aya’s goal is to help Ethereum maintain its soul as an Infinite Garden, or a decentralized creative space that is open-source, inclusive and permissionless.
* Chih-Cheng Liang: Chih-Cheng Liang serves as a Research Engineer on the Privacy and Scaling Explorations team at the Ethereum Foundation. He has been an active participant in the Ethereum community since April 2016, and his journey into technical research commenced in 2017. His contributions span across various domains, from the Ethereum consensus protocol (Casper) to rollups and ZKEVM. His areas of interest encompass zero-knowledge proofs, applied cryptography, public good funding, and economics in a broader sense.
* Yenwen Feng: cofounded Perpetual Protocol (Decentralized Perpetual Contract Protocol)
* Martinet Lee: Martinet is the Head of Developer Relations of Quantstamp. He has experience in auditing Layer 1s, Smart Contracts (Defi, NFTs, Bridges), has wide range of understanding in different topics in blockchain, and has a background in both software security and hardware security. Aside from Quantstamp, He also serves as a lecturer at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and is one of the cohosts of ETHTaipei (a developer focused hackathon and conference). Martinet graduated with a masters degree in computer science from University of Waterloo and a master degree in electronics engineering from National Chiao Tung University.