Intents are a new model for describing an outcome. If a transaction explicitly refers to how an action should be performed, an intent refers to what the desired outcome of that action should be.

At EthCC[5] in Paris held in July 19 - 21, 2022, Gisli presented the digital Euro and the Monerium IBAN. The journey started by asking the fundamental question "what if your wallet was your bank account?"

At Iceland Travel Tech 2022, which is a part of the Icelandic Innovation week, Gisli presented how Monerium is solving the last mile problem for partners such as WIN.

Current blockchain architectures are limited by the blockchain trilemma, which states that only two of the following properties can be achieved; decentralization, security and scalability. As a result, scalability can only be achieved by sacrificing either decentralization or security. A new architecture, which breaks the monolithic design into specialized components of consensus, execution and data availability, reverses the blockchain trilemma. Based on this new understanding, is it conceivable that blockchains, will be able to support the world's economic activity without scarifying important properties?

In this presentation, given at the University of Iceland, Gisli Kristjansson talks about some of the more interesting applications of DeFi in combination with Monerium's product offering.

Decentralized Finance or DeFi all the rage now pulling in billions of dollars into shaky smart contracts over the period of hours. Keeping track of food-finance protocols is certinaly a full time job. I spent a weekend to get a lay of the land and this here is the result. Enjoy.

Gísli Kristjánsson is a co-founder of Monerium, a company making a fiat currency token on the Ethereum blockchain. This talk was recorded at the April conference weekend in Iceland by the Icelandic Blockchain Foundation

Bitcoin was the initial implementation of a blockchain protocol and although other protocols have emerged Bitcoin serves well as a foundational layer for understanding how these protocols work. I created this deck to use as talking points when ELI5 :) This is an interactive deck. Use the arrow buttons to go down and then to the right.