MIP-18: Road to Devcon

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Welcome to MIP-18 Presenting a new format of MIP for the Road to Devcon. Devcon is an Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Agenda We're bringing this meetup with the same theme as Devcon: CROPS/acc ⚡️ 12 PM: Doors open 12:30 PM: Aakash, Music Performance Opportunity at Devcon 8 A session about the Devcon Music Stage, and this year's new Open-Source, Programmable Music format. Explore how builders, musicians, and artists can collaborate, connect with global and local artists, and showcase how Indian music fits into Devcon's cultural vision. Aakash is the Committee Member of the Devcon Music Space, helping introduce the cultural side of Devcon through music initiatives. Follow Aakash on X 12:50 PM: Viraj, Proving an AI Ran Correctly - Without Revealing the Model or Your Data Verifiable inference lets you prove an ML model produced a given output, while keeping the model weights private (the provider's IP) and the input private (the user's data). Using an EZKL pipeline as the running example, this talk covers what's actually provable today, the cost/latency reality, and why this matters for private, censorship-resistant AI on Ethereum. Viraj is a full stack software engineer, he builds identity and trust infrastructure for AI agents. Follow Viraj on X 1:10 PM: Raj, Privacy in Payments with a Usecase This talk gives insights on payment protocols to make it easier for cross chain payments and a abstraction layer that will keep your payments private and only send the info that is necessary for the completing the payment. Raj is building Stableyard, a payment protocol, and Dopepay which makes everyday crypto payments easy for people. Follow Raj on X 1:30 PM: Networking Tea / Coffee will provided to everyone at the venue. 2 PM: Doors close Follow Aakash on XFollow Viraj on XFollow Raj on X Follow ETHMumbai on: X | TelegramFollow Devcon on: X | Telegram