Join us at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 for a special edition of the Whitepaper Reading roundtable, hosted at the Hong Kong Ethereum Community Hub. Designed by builders, for builders. We’ll dissect emerging Web3 protocols, primitives and design choices.
Topics:
1. Hegotá Upgrade (EIP-8081):
Ethereum’s next upgrade. We’ll discuss what’s scheduled for inclusion, what’s being considered, and the design trade-offs behind proposals like FOCIL (Fork-choice enforced Inclusion Lists) — a mechanism aimed at improving censorship resistance by shifting inclusion responsibilities away from block proposers.
Link: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8081
Summary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11BJ9QbQZBnnbN9HScqDcDxn5_ksPLR3qeD8TJ5H22HU/edit?tab=t.0
2. Bulk.Trade
Sol based perp DEX built on a custom validator client architecture. BULK introduces 20ms matching ticks, sub-40ms trade finality, and gasless execution — aiming to bring CEX-level performance to an on-chain order book. We’ll discuss the architecture, how it compares to existing perps DEXs, and whether decoupled execution layers are the future of on-chain derivatives.
Link: https://docs.bulk.trade
Summary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XbPxchkounFbF8fF8MDNhcqywRd0k3RwFkUQlJq9_w4
Session Led by: Thank you ShuenRui from Impossible Finance, Kuala Lumpur Whitepaper Reading Club Chapter Organizers.
Format:
- A casual, discussion-driven format (not a panel or pitch)
- Key takeaways from selected whitepapers or technical docs
- Honest builder-to-builder conversations
- Open questions, strong opinions and real-world context
- No need to pre-read — curiosity > preparation
Whether you’re a developer, founder, researcher or protocol operator, this is a space to think out loud, challenge assumptions and learn from peers in the Ethereum and broader Web3 ecosystem.
✨ This is a side event for Consensus Hong Kong 2026
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🗓 Friday, February 13, 2026
🕔 Time: 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM HKT
📍 Hong Kong
✨ The Whitepaper Reading Club is a community of 600 passionate engineers, founders, core-devs, students, researchers, in Singapore, Malaysia and Bangkok and New York who come together every month to read and discuss blockchain papers. We create detailed and easy to understand summaries for each paper and have held 50+ sessions since June 2023, covering topics from Account Abstraction, Parallel Chains, EIPs, Bitcoin Ecosystem to AIXCrypto.
✨ Hong Kong Ethereum Community Hub is Asia’s first Ethereum Community Hub, launched by the Ethereum Foundation’s Ethereum Everywhere team and run by SNZ & ETHTAO. Based in Hong Kong – a global financial gateway – we connect East and West, Web2 and Web3, through daily co-working, events, workshops, and community gatherings. An open space for builders, researchers, artists, and innovators, and a key node in the global Ethereum Community Hub network.
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