[Event Recap] Ethereum on Tour Beijing University Tour

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Scroll Community Event Recap: Ethereum on Tour Beijing University Tour

Date: December 4-7, 2025
Location: Beijing, China
Host: Ethereum Foundation Dev Growth Team, Academic Secretariat
Co-organizers: LXDAO, ETHPanda
Participating Universities: Peking University, Tsinghua University, University of International Business and Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Total Attendees: Nearly 500 students, faculty, developers, and researchers

Event Objectives
Bridge Ecosystem & Academia: Introduce cutting-edge topics of Ethereum and Layer 2 (e.g., Scroll) to China’s top academic circles.

1. Deepen Technical Understanding: Facilitate in-depth academic and practical dialogues on core topics like DApp evolution, digital asset protocols, and stablecoins.

2. Inspire the Builder Mindset: Guide students from theory to practice through hands-on workshops, experiencing smart contract and on-chain application development firsthand.

3. Highlight Scroll’s Practical Insights: Share Scroll’s exclusive data and perspectives on user experience and growth challenges for the next generation of mainstream DApps.

4. Nurture Community Talent: Discover and connect future researchers and developers for the Web3 ecosystem, particularly in the Rollup and ZK technology fields.

Session 1: Peking University — Focusing on the Practical Challenges of Next-Gen DApps

Date: December 4, 2025
Attendees: Over 150
Community & Growth
Scroll Core Contributor Rachel delivered a pivotal presentation titled “Practice and Thinking on the Next Generation of Mainstream DApps,” revealing a paradoxical reality of industry growth based on on-chain data:

• Remarkable Growth: Daily active wallets for global DApps surged by 485% to 24.6 million between 2024-2025.

• Critical Challenge: However, approximately 65% of new users churn after their first interaction, with 7-day retention rates generally below 20%.

• Key Insight: Rachel emphasized that current DApps remain too complex for average users. The future breakthrough lies in “making blockchain technology invisible” — building intent-driven, seamlessly cross-chain user experiences. This is precisely the foundational problem that high-performance Layer 2 networks like Scroll aim to solve.

Builders & Developer Engagement

• Industry-Academia Dialogue: During the professor roundtable, EF’s Shyam Sridhar, Scorll Contributor‘s Rachel and PKU professors discussed translating academic research strengths in formal verification and cryptography into momentum for evolving Ethereum and Layer 2 (like Scroll) infrastructure.

• Hands-on Workshop: Guided by LXDAO’s Ray, numerous students completed the full lifecycle of smart contract development—from writing and deployment to interaction. Many wrote their first line of Solidity code, marking a crucial leap from theory to practice.

Scroll-Specific Metrics

• Thought Leadership Reach: Scroll’s industry insights reached over 150 top-tier university students, faculty, and developers as a core practical session.

• Precise Audience Connection: The content directly addressed the core concern of scholars and developers regarding “bottlenecks to DApp mass adoption,” reinforcing Scroll’s positioning as a user-experience and developer-friendly Layer 2 solution.

  

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Session 2: Tsinghua University — Exploring the Protocols and Security of Digital Assets

Date: December 6, 2025
Attendees: Over 130

Community & Growth
The Tsinghua University session delved into the foundational technological bedrock of digital assets: protocols and security. It brought together over 130 students and faculty passionate about underlying technologies, featuring in-depth dialogues between EF’s Shyam Sridhar and Tsinghua scholars.

Associate Professor Liu Zhuotao systematically reviewed a decade of “Ethereum-driven” protocol research, distilling three core paradigms: programmability, verifiability, and confidentiality, and shared their cutting-edge applications in areas like cross-chain interoperability, verifiable federated learning, and AI agent collaboration. Researcher Duan Sisi explored the intersection of blockchain security and incentive mechanisms, providing a detailed analysis of novel incentive vulnerabilities like the “Ladder Attack” discovered in Ethereum’s PoS consensus, along with proposed robustness-enhancing solutions such as “Proof of Availability”.

Builders & Developer Engagement

• Strategic Industry-Academia Dialogue: The EF team held a closed-door roundtable with Tsinghua scholars, engaging in deep discussions on Ethereum’s long-term vision, consensus layer research priorities, and establishing long-term collaborative mechanisms, aiming to align academic theory more directly with protocol evolution roadmaps.

• Hands-on Development Workshop: Guided by LXDAO core contributor Ray, students completed an end-to-end development experience—from writing and deploying to interacting with a smart contract—through a “Tokenization” practical session.

Scroll-Specific Metrics

• Expanding Technical Ecosystem Influence: The session deepened discussions within a top engineering community on fundamental issues like verifiability and consensus security, which are core to the academic foundation of technologies like ZK-Rollup (e.g., Scroll), indirectly reinforcing Scroll’s recognition among technical pioneers.

• Connecting with Protocol-Layer Research Power: Established connections with leading researchers in consensus security and cryptographic protocols, attracting valuable academic attention to the long-term development of the entire Ethereum Layer 2 ecosystem.

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Session 3: Quad-University Joint Session — Deconstructing Stablecoins: Trust, Risk, and Regulation

Date: December 7, 2025
Attendees: Over 200

Community & Growth
Hosted at the University of International Business and Economics, this session successfully convened nearly 100 participants from four top universities (UIBE, Central University of Finance and Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications). It deconstructed the core digital finance topic of “stablecoins” from multidisciplinary perspectives including economics, finance, law, and information technology.

Scholars presented diverse viewpoints: from Professor Wang Qianyu’s proposed “BSA Dual-Channel Full-Process Regulatory Architecture” to Associate Professor Dai Wei’s case-study analysis of multi-dimensional risk transmission in stablecoins; from Researcher Lyu Wenzhe’s exploration of compliant stablecoin smart contract engineering to Associate Professor Li Xiaolong’s essential reflections based on the historical evolution of monetary functions. EF’s Shyam Sridhar emphasized the ecosystem’s need for multidisciplinary talent.

Builders & Developer Engagement

• Roundtable Consensus & Future Collaboration: The roundtable discussion identified several potential collaboration areas, including empirical research on tokenization efficiency, solutions using blockchain to enhance ESG data credibility, and the design of novel financial contracts based on programmable commitments.

• Development Practice Focused on Stablecoins: LXDAO’s Ray guided students in a workshop to build a decentralized stablecoin system, combining financial mechanism theory with smart contract development practice.

Scroll-Specific Metrics

• Establishing Cross-Disciplinary Brand Recognition: The event effectively reached potential future professionals in key fields like economics, finance, and law, significantly broadening the discussion and brand awareness of Scroll and Layer 2 technology in serious financial and compliance application scenarios.

• Channeling Diverse Talent into the Ecosystem: Clearly communicated the ecosystem’s urgent need for non-technical talent, attracting potential contributors with composite backgrounds in economics, policy analysis, and compliance insights to the Scroll community, thereby enriching its talent structure.