Well, the conference has ended now, so I want to ask what became of Yago's talk? Did it happen? What did he say?
Yes, it happened. I caught the last 20 minutes or so, plus a bit of the QA session afterwards. There was a lot of interest in this talk, and a crowd of people stuck around for quite a while asking Yago questions after the talk.
Hopefully someone else who was there, or Yago, can correct me if I'm wrong about any of the following, but key points as I recall them were:
1) This will be a "zone" located somewhere in the Carribean within a "host" country.
2) Details are being finalized and will be announced around November.
3) The philosophy is to provide as small a government as possible, with as many gov services as possible run as an "opt-in".
4) No taxation (I may have missed some details on this).
5) The initial physical area of this zone will be roughly the size of Manhattan.
6) The financing model is currently to lease land to residents. Leases may be long (99yr was mentioned). Outright land sales may happen eventually, though will likely consist of relatively large blocks. The philosophy is to create a prosperous region that will experience an increase in land values naturally.
7) Cryptocurrencies will be explicit legal, which Yago actually noted was a bit of an "ideological blemish", since it was indeed specifically acknowledging a legal currency (or basket thereof).
8.) The host country will not allow the zone to have a military, though it will have an armed security force.
9) The host country will not allow the zone to have a "foreign policy" per se.
10) The zone will not be able to grant full citizenship; only the host country can grant internationally recognized citizenship.
Disclaimer: I didn't take notes and was only there for half the talk. I may be remembering things wrong and/or may not have sufficient context for accurate statements.