# Washington DC Meetup **URL:** \ **Category:** Meetups\ **Created:** [18 December 2018 15:33 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/washington-dc-meetup/18694 "2018-12-18T15:33:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ZCryt0Knight](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/zcryt0knight/32/9097_2.png) [@ZCryt0Knight](https://forum.cardano.org/u/ZCryt0Knight)\ **Post date:** [18 December 2018 15:33 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/washington-dc-meetup/18694/1 "2018-12-18T15:33:59Z")
Come join us for the first Cardano meetup of 2019 in Washington, DC. Sign up here: > **[Cardano Presentation/Discussion](https://www.meetup.com/Cardano-Blockchain-Washington-DC/events/257296881/)** > > Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 6:00 PM: Mark your calendars for the first Cardano meetup of 2019!We will have a short presentation on Cardano's ecosystem followed by a Q&A session and a general discussion.We may ---
**Author:** ![Donnybaseball](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/donnybaseball/32/8064_2.png) [@Donnybaseball](https://forum.cardano.org/u/Donnybaseball)\ **Post date:** [18 December 2018 16:00 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/washington-dc-meetup/18694/2 "2018-12-18T16:00:06Z")
Nice. If something doesn’t come up for me I’ll try to get down. Be fun to meet in person. ---
**Author:** ![ZCryt0Knight](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/zcryt0knight/32/9097_2.png) [@ZCryt0Knight](https://forum.cardano.org/u/ZCryt0Knight)\ **Post date:** [16 January 2019 00:11 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/washington-dc-meetup/18694/3 "2019-01-16T00:11:52Z")
Just wanted to remind you that the Washington, DC Cardano meetup is a little more than a week away. Please note the change in the date. We moved it to January 23rd. Location and time remain the same. ---
**Author:** ![YeJi.Kim](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/yeji.kim/32/17258_2.png) [@YeJi.Kim](https://forum.cardano.org/u/YeJi.Kim)\ **Post date:** [17 January 2019 17:34 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/washington-dc-meetup/18694/4 "2019-01-17T17:34:51Z")
Thank you for holding a meetup in Washington DC! Community team will promote this event in our channels soon 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ZCryt0Knight](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/zcryt0knight/32/9097_2.png) [@ZCryt0Knight](https://forum.cardano.org/u/ZCryt0Knight)\ **Post date:** [17 January 2019 17:38 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/washington-dc-meetup/18694/5 "2019-01-17T17:38:57Z")
Thank you @YeJi.Kim ---
**Author:** ![ZCryt0Knight](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/zcryt0knight/32/9097_2.png) [@ZCryt0Knight](https://forum.cardano.org/u/ZCryt0Knight)\ **Post date:** [24 January 2019 20:14 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/washington-dc-meetup/18694/6 "2019-01-24T20:14:07Z")
Hi all, We had a great meetup yesterday in DC. Kudos to @vantuz-subhuman, who stayed up late to take questions from the audience. Here is the video of the event. Enjoy! Here is the summary of the main topics covered in the meetup: 1. Working Philosophy -Research -Peer Review -Formal Verification 2. Technical Superiority -Industry Problems -Scalability, Interoperability, Sustainability -Smart Contracts (K-Framework, Plutus, Marlowe) -Cardano Architecture [SL vs. CL] 3. Roadmap -Byron [Bootstrap Era. Impemented] -Shelley [Decentralization] -Goguen [Computation Layer] 4. Presentation + Q&A Session [video with timestamps]: [0:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=40s) - Presentation “What’s Cardano” [15:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=930s) - When Shelley? (Unfortunately, some part is lost here) [18:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=1110s) - End of answer about formal verification [20:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=1205s) - Incentives and ROI on staking? [26:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=1606s) - Is it possible to change reward formula later? [28:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=1716s) - How total amount of stake in the system affects rewards? [32:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=1950s) - Do we need to register to run a staking pool? [34:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=2060s) - How much ADA you need to create a pool? How pool creation will work at all? [39:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=2395s) - What’s the hardware requirement to run a pool? [42:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=2556s) - Are all these details about requirements already documented somewhere? Stake pool documentation telegram group. [45:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=2746s) - What are the languages we can use now for smart-contracts? Solidity (KEVM), IELE, Plutus, general and custom languages, k-framework, etc. [49:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=2985s) - More details about KEVM and multiple chains on Cardano-CL. Testnets webpage, Remix for IELE, porting from Solidity, etc. [53:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=3185s) - Custom tokens on Cardano? Smart-contract tokens on Cardano-CL vs “1st class citizen tokens” on Cardano-SL. [58:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=3532s) - When Goguen? [1:00:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=3616s) - Is ADA used as GAS to run smart-contracts? GAS models in existing used VMs. IELE semantics (yellow paper). [1:04:21](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=3861s) - Difference between IELE and KEVM? Cardano-CL. [1:06:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=4003s) - Multiple blockchains and layers in Cardano explained. [1:09:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=4198s) - Continued explanation of multiple blockchains and side-chain transfers. [1:12:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=4370s) - Creating custom sidechains. Do you need to use language from k-framework for this? [1:18:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=4739s) - If you connect Bitcoin as sidechain to Cardano - can you have it on Cardano-SL then? How sidechain assets will be represented in Cardano at all? [1:23:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOSK5jQJoY&t=4980s) - end of Q&A ---
**Author:** ![Donnybaseball](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/donnybaseball/32/8064_2.png) [@Donnybaseball](https://forum.cardano.org/u/Donnybaseball)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2019 05:10 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/washington-dc-meetup/18694/7 "2019-01-25T05:10:12Z")
Nice! Wish I was there. I’ll get to the next one.