Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jul 9, 2026

"The Adversary Is Always Watching: What Can We Learn From Communities Living Under Surveillance" by Ramy Raoof Halim [The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy This keynote is a personal reflection on what privacy means in practice for people living under surveillance, censorship, conflict, and political repression. Drawing from over fifteen years of work supporting civil society organizations, journalists, activists, and communities at risk across Africa, Southwest Asia, and other regions, the talk will explore how privacy moves beyond an individual right and becomes a condition for participation, safety, dignity, and democratic life. Rather than focusing primarily on technical solutions, the keynote will examine privacy through lived experience and the consequences of its absence. Ramy Raoof Halim is a renowned technologist, security researcher and advisor who works with human-rights defenders, activists communities, and journalists in high-risk environments worldwide. Over the last 15 years, he has contributed to numerous high-profile investigations of state-sponsored surveillance, cyberattacks, and censorship in different regions, as well as to civic litigation to hold governments, tech and telecom companies to account. Ramy has worked on digital security, threat research, and infrastructure resilience on behalf of organizations including the European Union, Open Technology Fund, Amnesty International, Citizen Lab, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, and the International Committee of the Red Cross. He also served on the board of the Tor Project from 2017-2021. He is currently a fellow with Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) focusing on surveillance and technology in the MENA region, examining how emerging technologies, spyware, and digital repression enable human rights abuses. His contributions have been internationally recognized, including with the 2023 Burke Distinguished Journalism Award, the 2017 Heroes of Human Rights and Communications Surveillance Award from Access Now, and the Deutsche Welle Bobs Award in 2016. He was named among the World Top 100 Info Security Influencers in 2016 by CISO Platform in India, and was featured in Newsweek’s Digital Power Index in 2012.

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jul 9, 2026

“Perspectives on Neocypherpunk” fireside chat with Paul Dylan-Ennis [University College Dublin] and Rachel Rose O'Leary [DarkFi]. Contrasting the lunarpunk framing of "neocypherpunk," as coined by lunar_mining, with the more CROPS- focused implications of the term popularized by polar. Speakers Paul Dylan-Ennis — University College Dublin https://people.ucd.ie/paul.dylanennis X: https://x.com/dylanennis Rachel Rose O'Leary — DarkFi https://dark.fi/ X: https://x.com/rachel_rose_o Follow Web3Privacy Now: 🌐 https://new.web3privacy.info 𝕏 https://x.com/web3privacy 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/web3privacy.info 📸 https://www.instagram.com/web3privacy_now/ 🎤 Neocypherpunk Summit: https://s26ber.web3privacy.info/

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jul 9, 2026

“Power, Protocols and Public Interests in Governing the Decentralized Web” panel discussion with Sebastian Vogelsang, Caroline Paulick-Thiel, Rose Regina Lawrence, Bariş Paksoy Moderated by: Will Scott This panel brings together strategists and builders working on decentralized governance from different angles. Caroline Paulick-Thiel, of Politics for Tomorrow, designs participatory processes that help public institutions navigate complex transformation, bringing a governance design lens to decentralization. Rose Regina Lawrence, of OpenArchive, trains frontline human rights defenders, bringing real-world experience on decentralization's role in securely archiving and verifying evidence for accountability. Sebastian Vogelsang, cofounder of Eurosky and creator of the Flashes app, builds decentralized social infrastructure on the AT Protocol, arguing Europe can reduce its dependence on Big Tech platforms through open protocols and distributed identity. Barış Paksoy brings an investigative journalism perspective from Correctiv, grounding the conversation in accountability and what decentralized systems mean for transparency in practice. Moderated by Will Scott of Protocol Labs, who brings a builder's perspective on decentralized infrastructure at scale, the panel will discuss what decentralized governance actually requires: not just new protocols, but new institutions, security practices, and accountability mechanisms that can hold up under real political and legal pressure. Panelists Sebastian Vogelsang — Eurosky, Flashes https://eurosky.social/ https://flashes.blue/ Caroline Paulick-Thiel — Politics for Tomorrow https://politicsfortomorrow.eu/ Rose Regina Lawrence — OpenArchive https://open-archive.org/ Barış Paksoy — CORRECTIV https://correctiv.org/ X: https://x.com/mbarispaksoy Moderated by Will Scott — Protocol Labs https://protocol.ai/ X: https://x.com/willscott Follow Web3Privacy Now: 🌐 https://new.web3privacy.info 𝕏 https://x.com/web3privacy 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/web3privacy.info 📸 https://www.instagram.com/web3privacy_now/ 🎤 Neocypherpunk Summit: https://s26ber.web3privacy.info/

Isabela Fernandes

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jul 9, 2026

20 years of the Tor Project: How an anonymity tool became public interest infrastructure Isabela Fernandes [Tor Executive Director] When Tor was founded in 2006, its mission sounded almost utopian: to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free, open-source anonymity and privacy technologies. Two decades later, the mission hasn't changed — but the world has. Internet shutdowns and systemic censorship affected more than half the world's population in 2025, as governments tighten their grip on the technology people rely on for a free, open internet. Wikipedia In this talk, Isabela Fernandes, Executive Director since 2018, traces how a tool built by volunteers became civic infrastructure, relied on by everyone from human rights advocates bypassing surveillance and censorship to ordinary people just accessing the open web — all while staying true to a model built on collaboration and community rather than competition. She'll also look ahead: as shutdowns and censorship escalate globally, what does it take to keep anonymity infrastructure resilient, funded, and recognized not as a luxury, but as a public good. Speaker Isabela Fernandes — Tor Project https://www.torproject.org/ Follow Web3Privacy Now: 🌐 https://new.web3privacy.info 𝕏 https://x.com/web3privacy 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/web3privacy.info 📸 https://www.instagram.com/web3privacy_now/ 🎤 Neocypherpunk Summit: https://s26ber.web3privacy.info/ Subscribe for more talks on privacy, cryptography, digital rights, decentralized infrastructure, and the future of the open web.

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jul 9, 2026

“Stewarding Resilient, Free & Open Digital Infrastructures” Xavier Damman, Matthias Kirschner, Florian Glatz, Tara Merk Moderated by: Joshua Dávila From cooperative funding models enabling innovations in collective ownership, to local hosting and political/legal advocacy, there are many pathways to support sustainable FOSS infrastructures. Maintaining and scaling these infrastructures are vital to ensuring censorship resistance and digital freedom, especially as demands for compute and data storage escalate. Panelists: Xavier Damman, Matthias Kirschner, Florian Glatz, Tara Merk Moderator: Joshua Dávila Panelists Xavier Damman — Open Collective https://opencollective.com/ X: https://x.com/xdamman Matthias Kirschner — Free Software Foundation Europe https://fsfe.org/ Florian Glatz — Common Ground https://www.commonground.cg/ X: https://x.com/heckerhut Tara Merk — Open Future https://openfuture.eu/ Moderated by Joshua Dávila X: https://x.com/TBSocialist Follow Web3Privacy Now: 🌐 https://new.web3privacy.info 𝕏 https://x.com/web3privacy 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/web3privacy.info 📸 https://www.instagram.com/web3privacy_now/ 🎤 Neocypherpunk Summit: https://s26ber.web3privacy.info/ Subscribe for more talks on privacy, cryptography, digital rights, decentralized infrastructure, and the future of the open web.

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jul 9, 2026

“From Platform Brutality to Streaming Alternatives” by Geert Lovink from Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Are you still stuck on the platform -- or ready to move beyond it? Yes, we are living through an accelerationist, techno-authoritarian phase of the internet, but that is precisely why we need to identify the exits already taking shape. We will map the cracks in the system: decentralized infrastructures, collective digital practices, and emergent cultures of autonomy that challenge the regime of “cloud rent” and passive usership. What would it mean to reclaim agency beyond endless swiping and prompting? How can we turn doomscrolling into coordination, and platforms into terrains we either reshape or abandon? This talk explores both practical and speculative strategies to overcome platform dependency, rebuild the digital commons, and develop a network culture that is once again participatory, resilient, and free. Speaker Geert Lovink — Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences https://networkcultures.org/ https://www.hva.nl/ X: https://x.com/glovink Follow Web3Privacy Now: 🌐 https://new.web3privacy.info 𝕏 https://x.com/web3privacy 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/web3privacy.info 📸 https://www.instagram.com/web3privacy_now/ 🎤 Neocypherpunk Summit: https://s26ber.web3privacy.info/ Subscribe for more talks on privacy, cryptography, digital rights, decentralized infrastructure, and the future of the open web.

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jul 9, 2026

Once in a Lifetime | Cade Diehm [New Design Congress] An Adam Curtis documentary delivered on a stage with visuals, exhibits and receipts: an analysis of the 2025 collapse, who caused it, and a concrete framework for what replaces the institution and why. The audience for this talk has the technical and financial capacity to build those alternatives and lie at night wondering, "how did we get here?". Speaker Cade Diehm — New Design Congress https://newdesigncongress.org/ Follow Web3Privacy Now: 🌐 https://new.web3privacy.info 𝕏 https://x.com/web3privacy 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/web3privacy.info 📸 https://www.instagram.com/web3privacy_now/ 🎤 Neocypherpunk Summit: https://s26ber.web3privacy.info/ Subscribe for more talks on privacy, cryptography, digital rights, decentralized infrastructure, and the future of the open web.

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jul 9, 2026

“Building the Stack: Self-Hosted, Mesh and Decentralized Infrastructure in Practice” Adam Burns, Bradley Clark Royes, Liz Steininger, Calle Moderated by: Beth McCarthy Uniting technical and cultural perspectives on stewarding p2p, self-hosted, and decentralized technologies, from a diverse panel of builders with expertise spanning "the stack". From the networked level (Adam's work with wireless networks at Freifunk) to infrastructure (Bradley's AI compute node and Liz's cryptographically secure storage) to protocol (Calle's OS bitcoin protocols Cashu and Bitchat), "the stack" designs itself toward secure self-sovereignty. This panel explores the unique challenges of each use case, and the tensions that can arise from contradictions in intent and implementation across levels of the stack – for example, accessibility and openness vs. privacy. Identifying and understanding these points of tension and interdependence through a systemic lens empowers us to build more resilient infrastructure, from tooling to hardware to the community of contributors to maintain it. Speakers Adam Burns — free2air, Dyne X: https://x.com/free2air Bradley Clark Royes — Foresight Institute https://foresight.org/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyclarkroyes/ Liz Steininger — Least Authority, Private Storage https://leastauthority.com/ X: https://x.com/lizstininger Calle — Bitchat, Cashu X: https://x.com/callebtc Cashu: https://cashu.space/ Moderated by Beth McCarthy — Web3Privacy Now X: https://x.com/ontologymachine Follow Web3Privacy Now: 🌐 https://new.web3privacy.info 𝕏 https://x.com/web3privacy 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/web3privacy.info 📸 https://www.instagram.com/web3privacy_now/ 🎤 Neocypherpunk Summit: https://s26ber.web3privacy.info/ Subscribe for more talks on privacy, cryptography, digital rights, decentralized infrastructure, and the future of the open web.

Viktor Tron, Mario Havel

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jul 9, 2026

The Decentralization Stack: Where Are We Still Lying to Ourselves? Meinhard Benn, Viktor Tron, Mario Havel, Kyle den Hartog Moderated by: Migle Rakitaite A cross-stack panel asking the question most decks tiptoe around: what actually breaks if a single company disappears? Infrastructure builders from storage, compute, identity, and frontend sat down for an honest conversation about which parts of the stack are genuinely decentralized — and which parts everyone hopes nobody looks at too closely. No roadmaps. No token plugs. Panelists: Viktor Tron, Mario Havel, Kyle den Hartog, Meinhard Benn Moderator: Migle Rakitaite Speakers Viktor Tron — Swarm https://www.ethswarm.org/ X: https://x.com/zeligf Mario Havel — Ethereum Foundation X: https://x.com/TMIYChao Kyle den Hartog X: https://x.com/PryvitKyle Meinhard Benn — Freedom Browser Moderated by Migle Rakitaite — Web3Privacy Now X: https://x.com/rakymnft Follow Web3Privacy Now: 🌐 https://new.web3privacy.info 𝕏 https://x.com/web3privacy 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/web3privacy.info 📸 https://www.instagram.com/web3privacy_now/ 🎤 Neocypherpunk Summit: https://s26ber.web3privacy.info/ Subscribe for more talks on privacy, cryptography, digital rights, decentralized infrastructure, and the future of the open web.

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jul 9, 2026

Decentralization Theatre | Migle Rakitaite [Swarm Foundation, WinPrivacy] October 2025: AWS went down — and so did Coinbase, MetaMask, Base, and half of “decentralized” crypto. Migle’s talk was an honest audit of where the stack actually breaks — frontends, gateways, RPCs, DNS — and why fixing it requires the one thing the industry is bad at: working together instead of pretending we’re not all building the same thing. Speaker Migle Rakitaite — Swarm Foundation, WinPrivacy Swarm Foundation: https://www.ethswarm.org/ WinPrivacy: https://winprivacy.net/ X: https://x.com/miglerak Follow Web3Privacy Now: 🌐 https://new.web3privacy.info 𝕏 https://x.com/web3privacy 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/web3privacy.info 📸 https://www.instagram.com/web3privacy_now/ 🎤 Neocypherpunk Summit: https://s26ber.web3privacy.info/ Subscribe for more talks on privacy, cryptography, digital rights, decentralized infrastructure, and the future of the open web.

Jaya Klara Brekke

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jul 9, 2026

Deviant Slop: Power and Control in AI | Jaya Klara Brekke, Alessandro Longo, Alistair Alexander Moderated by: Susanna Davies-Crook As AI-generated content floods the internet with sameness, this panel asks what it means to stay deliberately weird. Alessandro Longo looks at glitches and unexpected readings of AI-generated images, while Alistair Alexander and Jaya Klara Brekke offer practical tooling and pathways for challenging tech power structures. Susanna Davies-Crook frames the discussion around alterity and subculture, considering how intervention and appropriation can be used counter-culturally, and what aesthetic resistance might look like. Panelists: Jaya Klara Brekke, Alessandro Longo, Alistair Alexander Moderator: Susanna Davies-Crook Panelists Jaya Klara Brekke — Nym https://nym.com/ X: https://x.com/jayapapaya Alessandro Longo X: https://x.com/lx_alex Alistair Alexander — Sociality https://sociality.dev/ X: https://x.com/alistair1969 Moderated by Susanna Davies-Crook X: https://x.com/sdc_etc Follow Web3Privacy Now: 🌐 https://new.web3privacy.info 𝕏 https://x.com/web3privacy 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/web3privacy.info 📸 https://www.instagram.com/web3privacy_now/ 🎤 Neocypherpunk Summit: https://s26ber.web3privacy.info/

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jul 9, 2026

Politics of Gen AI | Marek Tuszynski [Tactical Tech] Marek Tuszynski, founder of Tactical Tech, has spent three decades probing what it means to live in a "quantified society," and with generative AI he sees the stakes shifting again — particularly around AI-driven profiling for political and social persuasion, which can shape opinion without needing paid ads at all. He'll ask who actually controls AI and why we need regulation built around transparency and accountability as these systems risk deepening inequality and undermining democracy, connecting this to Tactical Tech's "Supercharged Human?" initiative building critical AI literacy for teens and educators across Europe — equipping the next generation to question AI's narratives of inevitability before it becomes invisible infrastructure. Speaker Marek Tuszynski — Tactical Tech https://tacticaltech.org/ https://superchargedhuman.eu/ X: https://x.com/Info_Activism Follow Web3Privacy Now: 🌐 https://new.web3privacy.info 𝕏 https://x.com/web3privacy 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/web3privacy.info 📸 https://www.instagram.com/web3privacy_now/ 🎤 Neocypherpunk Summit: https://s26ber.web3privacy.info/ Subscribe for more talks on privacy, cryptography, digital rights, decentralized infrastructure, and the future of the open web.

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jul 9, 2026

Privacy vs 'Progress' - The Case of Cashless Society | Brett Scott [Author] Brett Scott has spent years tracking the slow-motion shift from cash to digital payments, and the industry coalitions, "war on cash" narratives, and convenienc…Brett Scott has spent years tracking the slow-motion shift from cash to digital payments, and the industry coalitions, "war on cash" narratives, and convenience-framing that drive it. He argues cashless infrastructure isn't a neutral upgrade, but a system handing banks, card networks, and big tech unprecedented visibility into daily life. In this talk, Scott turns to what's at stake when cash disappears: privacy as a default, not a privilege. Cash lets you transact without a corporate intermediary logging the who, what, when, and where of your life. Lose it, and every purchase becomes data — tracked, stored, monetizable, weaponizable. He'll challenge the "progress" narrative behind cashlessness, asking who benefits from framing surveillance as convenience, and what we quietly give up once there's no longer an option to simply pay and walk away. Speaker Brett Scott — Author https://brettscott.substack.com/ https://alteredstatesof.money/ X: https://x.com/suitpossum Follow Web3Privacy Now: 🌐 https://new.web3privacy.info 𝕏 https://x.com/web3privacy 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/web3privacy.info 📸 https://www.instagram.com/web3privacy_now/ 🎤 Neocypherpunk Summit: https://s26ber.web3privacy.info/ Subscribe for more talks on privacy, cryptography, digital rights, decentralized infrastructure, and the future of the open web.

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jul 9, 2026

Investigating the Kill Cloud | Tatiana Bazzichelli [Disruption Network Lab] & Jonas Frankki Tatiana Bazzichelli and Jonas Frankki (Disruption Network Lab) will speak about the Disruption Network Institute: Investigating the Kill Cloud - a unique hub that enables whistleblowers, investigative journalists and artists to investigate the future of war, autonomous weapons and A.I. Founded in 2014 in Berlin, Disruption Network Lab builds networks of trust to expose systems of power and injustice through research, conferences and collective discussions. Whistleblowers have been crucial to the public understanding of how wars are being waged, and what the consequences are for civilians around the world. The increasing military reliance on remote warfare and drone strikes, and the available global surveillance apparatus - The Kill Cloud - is merging the military cloud with the civilian one. The Disruption Network Institute builds on a decade of networking by the Disruption Network Lab, in connecting whistleblowers, researchers, journalists, artists & activists through conferences and publications, creating a much-needed space for whistleblowers and others to build on their knowledge and experiences. The second round of fellowships (2025-2026) focuses on AI, Big Tech & Militarisation. Bazzichelli and Frankki will share the background of the Institute and give more details on the ongoing investigations. Speakers Tatiana Bazzichelli — Disruption Network Lab https://www.disruptionlab.org/ X: https://x.com/disruptionlab Jonas Frankki — Disruption Network Lab https://www.disruptionlab.org/ Follow Web3Privacy Now: 🌐 https://new.web3privacy.info 𝕏 https://x.com/web3privacy 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/web3privacy.info 📸 https://www.instagram.com/web3privacy_now/ 🎤 Neocypherpunk Summit: https://s26ber.web3privacy.info/ Subscribe for more talks on privacy, cryptography, digital rights, decentralized infrastructure, and the future of the open web.

Afri Schoedon

ETHBerlin · Feb 9, 2026

Keynote #1: Collective, Non-Profit, Private | Afri Schoedon | Web3Privacy Now, Berlin, 2024 https://web3privacy.info/ https://dod.ngo/

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jan 9, 2026

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Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jan 9, 2026

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Leona Hioki

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Jan 9, 2026

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ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

In this presentation, we describe in detail how non-local redundancy is implemented in the Swarm peer-to-peer network. Among other things, we show how to apply classic Reed-Solomon erasure codes to files in Swarm, discuss security levels of data availability and derive their respective parameterisations, describe a construct that enables cross-neighbourhood redundancy for singleton chunks to complete erasure coding, and explore alternative retrieval strategies applicable to erasure-coded files and their impact on latency as well as price of retrieval. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

Decentralized storage promises data permanence, censorship resistance, and trustless access—but poor UX is holding it back. While protocols like IPFS, Arweave, and Filecoin provide the technical backbone for decentralized file storage, users and developers struggle with complex retrieval, unclear incentives, and unreliable access. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

Costanza Gallo, Ann Brody

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

This talk would explore the original cypherpunk ethos from an Anthropological lens discuss how it can evolve to stay relevant by considering the evolving global scenarios: to remain relevant, cypherpunk principles must expand beyond technical resistance alone and engage with broader societal concerns from a social science lens. It will argue for reframing privacy and censorship resistance as essential to collective safety and freedom, and for cypherpunk values to break from web3 discourse and gain a central place in the broad mainstream discourse. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

Hudson Jameson

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

An often overlooked element of securing your digital assets is determining how paranoid you should be. Many times users go down rabbit holes of complicated schemes to backup and protect their wallets which ultimately causes complications when they need to access them. However, there are situations where you may be in a position of power or public identification that you need to go deeper. Do you need to secure your assets like Vitalik does or like my Mom does? Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

Manu Alzuru

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

In a world increasingly divided by extremes, the traditional structures of governance and political ideology no longer seem to offer the solutions we need. This talk will explore the potential of decentralized systems and cryptography to create new models for governance that break away from conventional dichotomies. Drawing from my experiences with pop-up cities, experiments in trust networks, and the growing need for decentralized approaches to communication and coordination, I will explore how peer-to-peer networks, zero-knowledge technologies, and open-source principles can build more transparent, resilient, and inclusive societies. We’ll discuss the philosophical implications of decentralized governance, and how these systems can transcend the binary conflict between the extreme left and right by focusing on common values of trust, security, and privacy. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

Gavin Wood

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

Blockchain tech can be more than just a ledger: it can be a scalable global computing network, moving away from transaction-centric blockchain design into a decentralised computer one, changing usage patterns, development patterns and tooling. The Join-Accumulate Machine (JAM) is a new protocol aiming to make the usage of blockchain core radically un-opinionated, and to enhance the scalability and efficiency of blockchain networks. By enabling parallel data processing and reducing redundancy, JAM enables seamless collaboration between different applications, storing all application states in a shared environment. This approach facilitates more efficient data accumulation and consensus mechanisms, leading to improved performance and resource utilization. The adoption of JAM represents a significant advancement in blockchain technology: offering a pathway toward more scalable and robust decentralized systems. It is a forward-looking discussion on the future of Web3: showing blockchains can go beyond transactions, enabling decentralized computing with continuous execution flow. Gavin will provide an update on the latest developments on JAM, including achieved milestones by teams working around the JAM Implementer’s Prize, the JAM toaster and JAM tart, an exciting onchain Execution of DOOM which showcases JAM’s potential, and how to apply any application onchain: even those that don't resemble a blockchain/L2. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

Jaya Klara Brekke

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

The public and private are not opposites, they are complementary: privacy is needed to sustain the security and integrity of people as well as infrastructure that serve the public good. This workshop will demo working code for running Libp2p traffic through Nym, built with the Nym Rust SDK. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

Ira Nezhynska

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

This design workshop is for developers-turned-founders who are launching their product to market and want to set it up for successful early adoption among non-technical users. After a few exercises and a bit of theory, you'll leave home fully equipped with tactics and knowledge to: - communicate your hyper-complex product with clarity to those who don't (and don't need to) understand your tech in order to start using it daily and refer it to their friends - differentiate your product not with the features (aka, tech race) but through user aspirations and what matters in their lives - use symbols and styles to trigger a wider range of emotional and sensorial responses from the first interaction moment. This workshop is a blend of product reputation reverse-engineering, user research, storytelling and visual communication. Please, note, that this workshop is NOT for those who: - are deep in the lab/experimentation mode and are not emotionally ready to turn their tech innovation into a product on the market. - are developing dev tools. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

We will explore the dynamic intersection of delegation and DAOs, concepts driving the future of decentralized governance. Delegation enables more efficient decision-making and distribution of power within DAOs but comes with its risks and challenges both from the delegate and delegator sides. We will dive into how delegation structures work in DAOs and the challenges they pose to traditional hierarchical models from a legal perspective, examining possible legal risks in governance delegation and how to mitigate them. We'll look at real-world examples of successful DAOs and how they leverage delegation to foster innovation, transparency, and collaboration in the decentralized ecosystem, analyzing the particular role of delegates in these ecosystems, and legal measures taken by those ecosystems. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

Waku is a generalized peer-to-peer (P2P) communication protocol stack built on libp2p. It provides secure, decentralized messaging and is used by projects like Status, Railgun, and The Graph. An emerging idea is a Waku-based service marketplace, where developers can pay independent providers to deliver infrastructure services, such as querying historic messages, directly to their users off-chain. Using a marketplace instead of running their own nodes reduces complexity for dapp developers, avoids single points of failure, and improves decentralization. Additionally, users could interact with the marketplace directly, choosing providers without relying on the dApp developer. Marketplace consumers would maintain a reputation system to filter out providers with poor service. The marketplace concept is still in early stages. This talk presents the idea, outlines key challenges, and invites technical feedback. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

We develop and apply epistemic tests to various decentralized governance methods as well as to study the impact of participation. These tests probe the ability to reach a correct outcome when there is one. We find that partial abstention is a strong governance method from an epistemic standpoint compared to alternatives such as various forms of “transfer delegation” in which voters explicitly transfer some or all of their voting rights to others. We make a stronger case for multi-step transfer delegation than is present in previous work but also demonstrate that transfer delegation has inherent epistemic weaknesses. We show that enhanced direct participation, voters exercising their own voting rights, can have a variety of epistemic impacts, some very negative. We identify governance conditions under which additional direct participation is guaranteed to do no epistemic harm and is likely to increase the probability of making correct decisions. In light of the epistemic challenges of voting-based decentralized governance, we consider the possible supplementary use of prediction markets, auctions, and AI agents to improve outcomes. All these results are significant because epistemic performance matters if entities such as DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) wish to compete with organizations that are more centralized. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

Blockchains today are decentralized networks of fat servers. Rollups also operate on fat servers for sequencing and proving. The vast majority of users of these systems run thin clients that always interact through these servers, an architecture that (1) fails to leverage the local compute capability (2) rely on (decentralised) middlemen for interaction, necessitating transaction fees for middlemen incentivisation. This talk introduces coordination-avoidance as a paradigm shift in decentralized computing. Instead of enforcing global consensus, coordination-avoidance enables direct P2P execution among users that operate local-first clients. This paradigm unlocks a new design space for applications that benefit from decentralization, high responsiveness, and safety at the same time. I will discuss how DRP (Distributed Real-time Programs), a new Internet protocol, constructs a new kind of BFT state from consensus-free P2P networks. This approach enables applications with novel economic models that are impractical for any existing client-server architectures, regardless if the servers are decentralised. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

This talk explores the similarities and distinctions between data availability (DA), confirmation, and settlement layers. While these layers are often discussed as separate components, they frequently function as variations of a consensus protocol. We’ll dive deep into the technical properties each layer requires and the consensus optimizations each one prioritizes. Using real-world examples—including CometBFT, HotShot, EigenDA, Gasper, and Ethereum 3-Slot Finality—we’ll evaluate whether these layers are truly distinct or simply different approaches to the same underlying concept. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

Current DAG-based BFT protocols face a critical trade-off: certified DAGs provide strong security guarantees but require additional rounds of communication to progress the DAG construction, while uncertified DAGs achieve lower latency at the cost of either reduced resistance to adversarial behaviour or higher communication costs. We present Starfish, a partially synchronous DAG-based BFT protocol that achieves the security properties of certified DAGs, the efficiency of uncertified approaches and linear amortized communication complexity. The key innovation is Encoded Cordial Dissemination, a push-based dissemination strategy that combines Reed-Solomon erasure coding with Data Availability Certificates (DACs). Each of the $n=3f+1$ validators disseminates complete transaction data for its own blocks while distributing encoded shards for others' blocks, enabling efficient data reconstruction with just $f+1$ shards. Building on the previous uncertified DAG BFT commit rule, Starfish extends it to efficiently verify data availability through committed leader blocks serving as DACs. For large enough transaction data, this design allows Starfish to achieve $O(n)$ amortized communication complexity per committed transaction byte. Experimental evaluation against state-of-the-art DAG BFT protocols demonstrates Starfish's robust performance under steady-state and Byzantine scenarios. Our results show that strong Byzantine fault tolerance, high performance, and low communication complexity can coexist in DAG BFT protocols, making Starfish particularly suitable for large-scale distributed ledger deployments. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

Moderation in peer-to-peer networks is often seen as incompatible with decentralization. Healthy, resilient distributed systems need tools to reduce spam and harmful behavior - without central authorities. Starting from an overview of existing approaches, we move into specific considerations for for peer-to-peer code collaboration tool radicle. How can cryptographic identities and social trust graphs enable collaborative moderation, reputation management, and abuse mitigation, all while preserving permissionless participation? None of this can be discussed without exploring the philosophical tension between openness and governance in decentralized content networks. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

Rebased rollups introduce a novel paradigm blending the advantages of based and non-based rollups to provide synchronous composability, credible neutrality, and reduced latency without incurring the full cost and latency penalties associated with Ethereum-based rollups. By becoming "based on-demand" for durations shorter than a full Ethereum slot, rebased rollups efficiently utilize Ethereum’s existing proposer set to facilitate faster transaction confirmations and increased throughput. This presentation explores the technical challenges posed by current Layer 2 (L2) rollups, particularly fragmentation and loss of synchronous composability, and analyzes existing solutions including mesh and hub-based approaches, highlighting their limitations concerning credible neutrality and economic security. We present rebased rollups as a practical solution, detailing their architecture, security trade-offs, and mechanisms such as preconfirmations and dynamic attestation tracking. We conclude by outlining how rebased rollups horizontally scale economic security and transaction throughput, providing Ethereum-aligned synchronous composability with latency comparable to centralized sequencers, ultimately balancing decentralization, neutrality, performance, and cost-effectiveness for the broader Ethereum ecosystem. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

Just when we thought the biggest bottleneck in P2P networking was reaching complex consensus mechanisms or generating efficient proofs, we realized that the fundamental networking protocol stack itself is one of them. Join this session to explore the latest open proposals for optimizing GossipSub in libp2p. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

The Bybit hack earlier this year, where attackers compromised the AWS-hosted Safe frontend and tricked Bybit into signing malicious transaction resulting in the loss of $1.4 billion, highlighted a longstanding problem: the web—and by extension, (d)apps—is fundamentally built trust rather than verification. This talk will examine how IPFS can be used to distribute web applications in a way that reduces these risks. By using content addressing and local verification, developers can ensure users load exactly the code that was published, minimizing reliance on trust-based distribution. We’ll cover best practices for deploying dapps to IPFS, focusing on recent advancements to enable native IPFS support in browsers by leaning on HTTP as the foundation for interoperability. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

We propose a novel approach to blockchain security through concurrent runtime assertions - a modified EVM that enables real-time customized transaction validation alongside execution. By introducing an extended runtime environment applied to the current network's state, this system allows developers to define invariants about their protocols. These invariants are continuously verified, running in parallel to transaction execution, enabling immediate detection and prevention of security violations. Allowing for embedded security is a paradigm shift which fundamentally changes the way we approach blockchain safety, while maintaining transaction throughput through parallel validation. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

What happens when you start treating your core devs as customers, and build out specialized tooling, platforms and processes to make their work easier and their lives better? In this talk, I’ll share how the Platforms engineering team at OP Labs identified the pain points that Protocol devs face when working with the OP Stack (especially around testing and releases) and built dedicated devnets tooling, new E2E testing frameworks, and updated release pipelines to speed up our release cadence and improve our confidence in OP Stack releases and hardforks. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

Ekaterina Riazantseva

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

As the Ethereum ecosystem evolves, so do the challenges of monitoring and comparing protocol implementations. While Ethereum’s Consensus and Execution specifications serve as a foundation, each client independently defines its own metrics. This divergence complicates everything from DevOps monitoring to core development comparisons and research simulations. In this talk, we will explore the efforts behind PeerDAS and FOCIL metrics standardization, showcasing real-world examples of how unified metrics can streamline feature delivery, improve cross-client validation, and empower researchers to run consistent simulations. By highlighting the successes and pitfalls encountered while building these metrics, we will demonstrate why standardized metrics are essential to maintaining Ethereum’s robust and innovative environment. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

In this talk, we will answer all your questions regarding go-ethereum, how we view ourselves, how we think about the protocol, how to maintain criticial infrastructure, future ideas we're excited for and more. Come and bring your hardest questions! Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

Andrew Macpherson

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

Most data storage systems have a way to automatically decide the physical location that data will be stored. (That's why, for example, you don't have to calculate something about sectors and tracks when you save a file on your computer.) If you do automatic allocation in decentralised storage, then you also need to automate the system that distributes payments to the service providers — Filecoin-style manual peer to peer negotiation is not possible. What is needed is a mechanism in the sense of microeconomic theory. This mechanism needs to have good properties if it is to foster a healthy service provider population and deliver good service and efficient prices to users. I'll give an introduction to this subject in the context of the EthSwarm Protocol. In EthSwarm, as well as providing a fixed amount of capacity, service providers must buy revenue shares from a contract at a fixed price in a kind of Tullock contest. Perhaps surprisingly, even though this allocation system has nothing to do with the amount or quality of service provided, under good conditions it results in revenue share flowing to more efficient operators, resulting in more competitive pricing. Target Audience: people researching and building decentralised services Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2025

Proof-of-stake consensus protocols often rely on distributed randomness beacons (DRBs) to generate randomness for leader selection. This work analyses the manipulability of Ethereum's DRB implementation, RANDAO, in its current consensus mechanism. Even with its efficiency, RANDAO remains vulnerable to manipulation through the deliberate omission of blocks from the canonical chain. Previous research has shown that economically rational players can withhold blocks - known as a block withholding attack or selfish mixing - when the manipulated RANDAO outcome yields greater financial rewards. We introduce and evaluate a new manipulation strategy, the RANDAO forking attack. Unlike block withholding, whereby validators opt to hide a block, this strategy relies on selectively forking out an honest proposer's block to maximize transaction fee revenues and block rewards. In this paper, we draw attention to the fact that the forking attack is significantly more harmful than selfish mixing for two reasons. Firstly, it exacerbates the unfairness among validators. More importantly, it significantly undermines the reliability of the blockchain for the average user by frequently causing already published blocks to be forked out. By doing so, the attacker can fork the chain without losing slots, and we demonstrate that these are later fully compensated for. Our empirical measurements, investigating such manipulations on Ethereum mainnet, revealed no statistically significant traces of these attacks to date. Protocol Berg v2 12-13 June 2025 Berlin https://v2.protocol.berlin

Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Oct 9, 2025

Vitalik Buterin (founder of Ethereum) gave a speech + Q&A at the opening ceremony of W3PN HACKS hackathon focused on privacy, digital freedom and open-source solutions. "Using privacy protocols today requires a separate seed phrase, No multisig option, Requires opening a separate wallet, ~5 clicks to do private send / withdraw, Public broadcaster mechanism brittle, often breaks. We can do better", - Vitalik Buterin. Web3Privacy now hackathon was an anti-bounty event proposing radically different nature of web3 hackathons amplifying solution-first approach and not chasing sponsor bounties. Moreover, it enabled 28 interdisciplinary mentors shaping hackathon projects from UX/UI to privacy-open-source-fit: https://hackathon.web3privacy.info Useful links: Web3Privacy now collective: http://web3privacy.info Web3 privacy market dashboard: http://explorer.web3privacy.info Cypherpunk Congress: http://congress.web3privacy.info TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:17 Getting Serious about Ethereum privacy 24:44 Q&A Session Start 24:53 Do you know we have been working on offchain protocol to turn every file into a hash tree which you can sign and the test like time stamp and linking to other files as well. Is there something similar you already know which has been established? 26:45 How would you explain what a nullifier is and why can it be coerced easily? 29:00 Do you have an opinion on the EIP7503 wormholes and do you think there's like plausible deniability maybe possible? 30:59 You mentioned that you want to see our privacy tech stack formally verified. Obviously formal verification comes in many formats. Can you talk just what you would like to see under what paradigm to give you the confidence in the next? 33:25 Do you agree with the community's reaction to the ban of the Tornado Cash some years ago, and if not how do you to the and how do you uh prevent how do how do you prevent it in the future? 36:10 You showed a slide with a lot of things that could be paralized like the reads, the rights, etc. Were those use cases uh what you had in mind when uh Ethereum came out with with Whisper? And if so because you also uh said that offchain is good because it doesn't leak as much metadata. Is there a strong case for for the adoption of offchain peer-to-peer like I'm going to say Waku? Would Waku make sense for a bunch of those? 38:53 Talk about Waku again in back in 2021 I built a messaging app that was and using Waku and one of the interesting things is that because the node was running in browser, I didn't have to require the user to do some operation like run a node. So what do you think about? 41:39 Just wondering about governance and privacy. I know you mentioned the onchain voting as well as the fund transfers and kind of the important privacy elements there. Are there any other specific use cases around governance that get you excited and where you think it's crucial to enable privacy? 44:02 Any work on reintroducing interfaces to allow for encryption decryption keys which might be derived from a root key via a standardized API? 45:16 Is Railgun ever going to lower their quarter % fee? Do you know? 45:38 How do you see the synergy between B2B privacy and sort of like human privacy and where are the disconnects between them? 47:51 What is privacy endgame? 51:28 Can you share your perception of cypherpunk in two years? 54:15 Since you it's very important for you to keep your thoughts private and you run a local LLM, how do you deal with the your location privacy? 56:26 What's your opinion on the how privacy projects can reach product market fit? 58:17 What would be the low hanging fruit in terms of dev hours spending on privacy? 01:00:14 What are your thoughts about uh whistleblowing rights and how they intersect with privacy data? 01:01:20 What do you think about ZKTLS proof?

Isabela Fernandes

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Oct 9, 2025

Tor Project is at the forefront of digital human rights. Millions of journalists, human rights lawyers, democratic governments, and activists use Tor to protect sensitive data. Isabela joined the Tor Project as Project Manager in 2015. And has been the Executive Director since November 2018. She's an important voice within freedom tech. Bridging complex ecosystem of actors contributing to open-source and privacy-preserving technologies. Timecodes 00:00 - Introduction to Tor & Isabella’s Background 01:40 - Misconceptions: Dark Web & Anonymity as Crime 03:00 - Privacy as a Human Right & Democracy’s Foundation 05:55 - How to Teach Privacy: Meeting People at the Right Moment 07:55 - Real-Life Use Cases of Tor (Parents, Doctors, Activists) 12:40 - Privacy, Censorship, and Political Threats 16:10 - Integrating Tech and Social Movements 20:10 - Digital Disobedience: Resisting Big Tech 22:50 - Cryptography, Blockchain, and Community Economies 28:35 - Local Economies, Repair Culture, and Decentralization 35:00 - Future of Technology: Sustainability & Local Ownership 40:55 - Optimism & Sustaining the Fight for Rights 45:20 - The Growth of Tor: From One Email to Millions of Users 47:10 - Closing: Patience as a Tool for Resistance recorded at Funding The Commons forum, Berlin: http://fundingthecommons.io/berlin-2025 Useful links http://torproject.org http://web3privacy.info http://academy.web3privacy.info Camera & sound: https://x.com/BabyBitProd Interviewer: https://x.com/0xfarbey Let privacy be with you!

Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress · Oct 9, 2025

Vitalik Buterin (founder of Ethereum) in a Q&A Session during our W3PN Tokyo Meetup. Useful links: Web3Privacy now collective: http://web3privacy.info Web3 privacy market dashboard: http://explorer.web3privacy.info Cypherpunk Congress: http://congress.web3privacy.info TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:00:42 - Privacy from business perspective vs civilian perspective, what are your thoughts on that? 00:07:23 - So you've worked on economic incentives for about 10 years now and very successfully. How do we economically incentivize people's participation in privacy? 00:12:19 - So, what do you think that privacy on Ethereum, will enable use cases that are typically relegated to more like darknet market ? 00:14:16 - What are your thoughts on the EIP 7503? 00:16:35 - If you're making the L1 with privacy proof for that matter, how would that affect current L2s focusing on privacy to resolve that issue as in projects like Aztec, like Coti? 00:18:47 - Has the Ethereum Foundation made investments into L2s? 00:28:07 - At Zuitzerland earlier this year, one of the researchers of EF proposed that EF would have about four years of runway left currently. Well, will Ethereum be finished in four years? 00:29:58 - What are your thoughts on Peter Thiel, a.k.a. the founder of Palantir? Can you tell us about the role of the Thiel Fellowship's founding in the theory? 00:33:11 - Cypherpunk as an ethos has been around for 30 years. What does the Ethereum ecosystem can add to that, given its current developments? 00:43:25 - What do you think about one-chain analysis tools and also trap-rule calls? 00:47:09 - Any insights on building asset treasuries on chain? 00:55:16 - Bringing more money on-chain is a problem? 00:57:36 - We've built economies around proof of work and proof of stake. But what about proof of feeling or proof of ache or proof of aliveness? 01:03:48 - Negative incentives, thoughts. 01:10:26 - I'm trying to establish a new health standard where patients control their own data, but governments can still use it for training AI models. How do you see Ethereum privacy technologies helping to achieve that balance? 01:14:30 - Cypherpunk, what do you think the cryptocurrency space or the web3 spaces is bringing to the table? 01:17:34 - What is your view about having a black logo, the black Ethereum logo, meaning privacy? 01:20:01 - Expectations of the Hackathon EthTokyo, as a final question.

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2024

This talk introduces the concept of digital commons, outlines some parallels between the Linux and Ethereum projects, and how their collective output may become enclosed by commercial entities. Trent Van Epps works at the Ethereum Foundation on protocol coordination. Member of the Protocol Guild. https://protocol.berlin

Garrett MacDonald

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2024

"If a file isn't backed up, it isn't your file" preceded "Not your keys, not your crypto", but it's important to look back to the Web1 figure of speech as it applies to Web3. If you have a multi-billion dollar protocol, it's a good idea to back it up. But where should one look to for this? Garrett MacDonald - Long time contributor to the decentralized revolution. Student of physics. https://protocol.berlin

Dennis Trautwein

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2024

Web centralization and consolidation have created potential single points of failure, e.g., in areas such as content hosting, name resolution, and certification. The "Decentralized Web," led by open-source software implementations, attempts to build decentralized alternatives. The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is part of this effort and provides a fully decentralized object storage and retrieval layer. This comes with challenges, though: Decentralization can increase complexity and overhead, as well as compromise performance, scalability, and system stability. As the lead developers of IPFS, we have therefore begun to explore more hybrid approaches. In this talk, we will discuss the trade-offs, and our implemented and proposed solutions, as well as give an outlook. Dennis is Research Engineer @ProbeLab within Protocol Labs. He works on measuring the performance of Web3 network protocols, benchmarking protocols against their target performance milestones, and proposing improvements to their core design principles. https://protocol.berlin

Aliasgar Merchant

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2024

Ali will introduce CometBFT and discuss the unique features that set it apart from other blockchain protocols. You will find out why CometBFT is quickly becoming the preferred choice for decentralized applications and how it is addressing the scalability challenges in blockchain technology. During the presentation, Ali will take a deep dive into the technical details of CometBFT. You will learn about its code and architecture, and explore the cryptographic primitives that keep it secure. This part of the presentation will be especially interesting for developers and blockchain enthusiasts who want to understand the inner workings of CometBFT. Furthermore, Ali will discuss how CometBFT is contributing to the realization of decentralization in the blockchain industry. You will find out how CometBFT is enabling decentralized applications to thrive and empowering individuals to take control of their data and assets. Finally, Ali will also introduce ABCI++, its features, and its potential impact on the blockchain industry. This presentation is a must-attend for anyone interested in the latest advancements in blockchain technology. Aliasgar a Blockchain aficionado, has over five years of experience in the field of web3. He first dipped his toes into the blockchain world in 2017 with Ethereum smart contract development, before moving to the cosmos ecosystem in 2019. Currently, Aliasgar's serving as a Developer Relations Engineer at Informal Systems, where he works on CometBFT, a fork of the Tendermint consensus algorithm that powers Cosmos SDK and other Cosmos Blockchain networks. https://protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2024

Matt Ober, Pinata - "From hackathon to start-up" https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

Patrick McCorry

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2024

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Sebastian Martinez, Erik Kundt

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2024

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll learn how to use the Radicle stack to collaborate on a code project. We’ll run our own nodes, connect to peers, and grow a virtual garden together. Erik (he/they) works as a freelance artist and developer with a focus on audio / visual coding and decentralized technologies. He has worked in the area of professional music production for Native Instruments, and later on the Solidity programming language for the Ethereum Foundation. Besides these occupations, he has directed several dance, performance and documentary theater projects in their own technical fields, such as video production and mapping, VR / AR and AI. At the moment he is mainly contributing to the Radicle stack and building tools for generative artists. Sebastian Martinez, a mechanical engineer turned to the web, is currently contributing to the future of code collaboration at Radicle. Drawing on his unique experience implementing proof-of-existence solutions in the nuclear industry. From his roots in Switzerland and a personal discovery in Argentina, Sebastian's journey has shaped him into a passionate tech professional and dedicated father of two, poised to make a significant impact in the technology sphere. https://protocol.berlin

Steffen Kux

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2024

The dm3 protocol is the web3 messaging protocol focusing on encryption, decentralization, scalability, and in particular interoperability. It utilizes the essential features for a lean messaging base protocol: a registry for public keys and decentralized delivery service nodes. As an applied mathematician, Steffen started his career in 2000 in the automotive industry as a method- and software developer for mathematical and simulation software, with a particular focus on applications using mathematical optimization, numerical simulation, and artificial intelligence. https://protocol.berlin

Federico Kunze Küllmer, Daniel Burckhardt

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2024

This workshop will be led by Federico Kunze Küllmer, who was part of the core team that developed the Inter Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC). Federico is also the co-founder of Evmos, an EVM compatible blockchain that supports interoperable dApps via IBC. Federico will dive deep into the technical aspects of the IBC protocol, exploring how it enables cross-chain communication and discussing how Evmos simplifies the development of interoperable dApps. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from the speaker's firsthand experience in implementing the IBC protocol and gain valuable insights into developing successful interoperable dApps using Solidity. Federico Kunze Küllmer - Evmos Co-founder. Cosmos Core Contributor. IBC Core Engineer. Daniel Burckhardt https://protocol.berlin

Barnabas Busa

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2024

Post-Merge testnets are a beast to run, this workshop would give you an overview into all the tooling that exists to make this job easier. We would also setup a small testnet during this workshop to help familiarize with the tools. Parithosh - I am an Ethereum enthusiast with a deep love for all things servers. I incorporated Ethereum into my Master’s thesis and loved the experience so much as to make it my full time job. I currently work in the DevOps team of the Ethereum Foundation and I mainly focus on the Ethereum protocol upgrades. I’m also an avid photographer with a specific interest in Landscape and Travel photography. Barnabas Busa - Devops at Ethereum Foundation https://protocol.berlin

ETHBerlin · Sep 5, 2024

ETHBerlin04 May 24-26, 2024, CIC Innovation Campus Vitalik Buterin, Franziska Heintel, Afri Schoedon ETHBerlin04 - https://ethberlin.org A Department of Decentralization event - https://dod.ngo The video features a prominent figure in the cryptocurrency space discussing various topics related to Ethereum, its history, and its community values. The guest shares fond memories of Ethereum's early days in Berlin, including the development of test networks and the launch events. They reflect on the growth of the community from the first small gathering to thousands of participants at later events. The conversation also delves into how Berlin's political culture influences the Ethereum community's values, emphasizing open source culture and innovation over profit motives. The guest discusses their vision for Ethereum as a platform for trustworthy, free, and open internet applications that respect user privacy and collaboration needs. They touch on technological advancements like zero-knowledge proofs that address blockchain limitations such as privacy and scalability. The dialogue further explores Ethereum's evolution in response to changing technologies and world politics, highlighting the need for a coherent ecosystem where different applications work together seamlessly. The guest also reflects on their manifesto about making Ethereum cyberpunk again, advocating for an updated vision that aligns with current social and technological trends. Overall, the video is an in-depth look at Ethereum's past achievements, current state, community values, and future aspirations within the rapidly evolving world of blockchain technology.

ZuBerlin · Jun 12, 2024

Clip The video features a speaker greeting the audience and introducing the day's agenda, which will focus on reiterating the previous day's discussions about different team approaches in the crypto field. The speaker mentions an unsuccessful attempt to buy sunglasses in Berlin before moving on to the day's schedule. The morning session will provide a high-level overview of Ethereum and its latest research, while the afternoon will be workshop-oriented, addressing four to five core questions with unbiased presentations and discussions. The goal is to achieve some alignment among the various teams present on key issues, with further discussions potentially continuing at the ECC. The session starts with a topic related to subject inclusions, followed by applause.

Costanza Gallo

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2023

Will your crypto project be censored? Censorship is spreading, from Infura blocking IP addresses, to Github taking the Tornado Cash repo down. This talk will provide a legal anthropological analysis of the elements that might put a project at risk, so that you can take the necessary steps to protect your efforts. Costanza Gallo - I work for the Swarm Foundation where I recently led the project Wikipedia on Swarm, to make a web3 censorship resistant copy of Wikipedia. Prior to that, I was community manager with the Golem Network. I have a MSc in Law, Anthropology and Society from the London School of Economics, where I focused on the interplay between State Secrecy and Democratic Governance. But my passion for freedom of speech goes way back: my father was a satirical cartoonist and a political journalist, he was often the target of censorship attempts so it’s a family affair. https://protocol.berlin

Gavin Wood

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2023

The "Polkadot Ubiquitous Computer" (or just Polkadot UC), represents the public service provided by the Polkadot Network: it is a trust-free, WebAssembly-based, multicore, internet-native omnipresent virtual machine which is highly resilient to interference and corruption. The present system of allocating resources of the Polkadot Ubiquitous Computer (parachain slot auctions) is based on a model of one-core-per-parachain: this is a legacy interpretation of the Polkadot platform and is not a reflection of its present capabilities. With Polkadot's capability to adapt to its users'need, a new paradign for allocating coretime is being implemented by ecosystem teams. Coretime on the Polkadot UC is envisioned to be sold by the Polkadot System in two separate formats: Bulk Coretime and Instantaneous Coretime. When a Polkadot Core is utilized, we say it is dedicated to a "Task" rather than a "parachain". The Task to which a Core is dedicated may change at every Relay-chain block and while one predominant type of Task is to secure a Cumulus-based blockchain (i.e. a parachain), other types of Tasks are envisioned. Bulk Coretime is sold periodically on a specialised system chain known as the "Coretime-chain" and allocated in advance of its usage, whereas Instantaneous Coretime is sold on the Relay-chain immediately prior to usage on a block-by-block basis. Gavin Wood https://protocol.berlin

Alec Empire

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2022

Keynote: The Sovereign Creator Alec Empire - Atari Teenage Riot Alec Empire's talk about being an artist in web3, how to understand music and hacker culture in cyberspace, and why Ethereum will give rise to the Sovereign Creator. https://ethberlin.ooo

Jaya Klara Brekke, Chelsea Manning

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2022

Fireside Chat with Chelsea Manning and Jaya Klara Brekke, NYM Hosted and moderated by Evin McMullen, Co-founder and CEO, Disco.xyz During this fireside chat, Chelsea, Jaya and Evin will talk about all things privacy: The urgency of privacy today, cypherpunk vision, and future vision for privacy. They will also touch on the Merge, Chelsea's views on secure hardware, and the future vision for privacy as an intervention into the data economy. https://ethberlin.ooo

European Blockchain Convention · Oct 9, 2022

Currently, our personal data on Web2 is easily compromised, monetized, and even used against us, but decentralized solutions with Web3 provide consumers complete control over their data. Listen to the debate on how user sovereignty can be achieved in Web3 environment during the European Blockchain Convention 2022. --------- Speakers: Charles Walton | Avast Andra Georgescu | Distrikt Dan Ostrovsky | Identity Labs Max Chamberlin | Infinity Swap --------- Visit the European Blockchain Convention’s website: https://eblockchainconvention.com/

Ameen Soleimani

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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Chris Robison

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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Lefteris Karapetsas

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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Trent McConaghy

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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Andy Tudhope

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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Igor Barinov

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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Franziska Heintel

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

how people under monetary controls and under crumbling monetary systems are staying afloat, and how the cryptocurrency industry can build products for those who need it the most https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Tales from the field - using Ethereum for a decentralized ISP in rural America https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

Harry Halpin

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

NYM - Privacy Workshop, Harry Halpin / Claudia Diaz / Dave Hrycyszyn / Nargess /Jedrzej Stuczynski https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Nick Hynes, Oasis Labs, "The Future of Data Privacy and Security Technology" https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

CROSS COLLABORATION PANEL, Greg Markou (on behalf of ETC Labs) / Sunny Aggarwal (Cosmos) /Anthony Lusardi (ETC) / Joseph Schweitzer (EF) / Ilya Smagin (Waves) / Afri Schoeden (DoD/Goerli) https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Greg Markou, Chainsafe - "How Cross Collaboration is building ETH2.0" https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Yaz Khoury, ETC - "Quantifying Immutability in Blockchains" https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Arlyn Culwick, Blocknet - "The interchain cometh! The radical implications of having *every* blockchain in the #defi and dapp ecosystem." https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

INTEROPERABILITY PANEL, Sunny Aggarwal (Cosmos) /Igor Barinov(POA), Matt Luongo (Keep), Zaki Manian (Cosmos), Moderated by Arlyn Culwick, Blocknet https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

EG Galano, Infura - "The Path to Decentralization: Hybrid Infrastructure" https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

Pedro Gomes

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Pedro Gomes, Walletconnect, "Wallets & Web3 Providers: Best practices and security considerations" https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

ART PANEL, Stina Gustafsson (DoD) / Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield) / Sam Hart / Jonas Lund, Moderated by Burak Arikan https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Lucasz Glen, Golem, gWASM - distributing WebAssembly in a Decentralized Network https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Stephen Palley, Sentient Legal DAOs https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Philip Stehlik, Centrifuge - Combining an Ethereum dApp to a Substrate-Based Blockchain" https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Udi Werheimer & Martin Koeppleman, (Gnosis) fireside chat, Referree - Ryan Selkis, Messari https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Ana Andrianova, Akropolis - "DAOs, we started nothing: lessons for DAO design and governance from co-operatives and mutuals throughout centuries of collaboration." https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Sergey Nasarov, Chainlink - "Securely Connecting Smart Contracts to Off-chain Data and Events" https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

John Pacific/Tux, NuCypher, "Sputnik" https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

Kevin Owocki

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Kevin Owocki, Gitcoin, "The Application Alliance." https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Bernhard Mueller, ConsenSys Dilligence, Advances in Automated Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Medhi Zerouali, Sigma Prime -"Lighthouse: A security focused Ethereum 2.0 client" https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

ETH2.0 PANEL, Alex Stokes / Cayman (Chainsafe) / Protocol Lamborghini / Rene Nayman (Whiteblock) / Dean Eigenmann (Status) / Jacek Sieka (Status) https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Graham McBain, "Non-Developers Non-Developers Non-Developers" https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Catherine Tuntiserirat, Ethereum Foundation, "EF Grants update and presentation." https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Jordan Spence, MyCrypto, "Marketing that makes sense for you/your project" https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

Albert Ni

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

MEME DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT, Dean Eigenmann(Status)/Zak Cole(Whiteblock)/Joseph DeLong (PegaSys)/Ameen Soleimani (Spankchain). Moderated by MP Fernandez, DoD/Golem https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

Jaya Klara Brekke

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Jack Du Rose, Colony, Gabriel Beeby, Colony & Jaya Klara Brekke Fireside chat https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Alex Kawas, Vulcanise, “Ethereum Gossip Network: Peer Discovery and Bonding Efficiency, Security, and Privacy” https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net Video by https://www.antontal.com

Vlad Zamfir

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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Christine Kim

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

CRYPTOJOURNALISM PANEL, Christine Kim (Coindesk) / Shiv Malik(ex-Guardian, SreamR) / Joseph Schweitzer (EF) , Moderated by Helena Flack, DoD/Electric Coin Company https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net Video by https://www.antontal.com

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Shiv Malik, StreamR - "In defence of Szabo's law - political lessons from the recent past" https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net Video by https://www.antontal.com

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

Luis Cuende, AragonOne - "Your DAO as your custody solution" https://ethberlinzwei.com https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net Video by https://www.antontal.com

ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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ETHBerlin · Oct 9, 2019

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Ethereum Madrid · Oct 9, 2018

This time we travelled to Berlin where we were invited by the Private Key Meetup to present our introduction to cryptoeconomics and the stablecoin project from MakerDAO. Part One (0'52) https://goo.gl/XfV8Qg Cryptoeconomics is the fundamental layer of all blockchains and blockchain projects. It is about using economic incentives to design mechanisms that encourage people to participate in the network by behaving in a certain way, the economic way. Sandra from Ethereum Madrid will introduce the fundamentals of cryptoeconomics. Part Two (14'14) https://goo.gl/oLYzMv Using Ether or Bitcoin to operate a company or to buy products has one great disadvantage: the volatility of the currency. As it is impossible to know the price of Bitcoin or Ether for the next few days or months, it is risky to use them as a mean of exchange. A stablecoin, which price would fluctuate as much as the major fiat currencies in circulation but without the volatility of the cryptocurrencies of today, would allow the ecosystem of blockchain-based organizations to pay wages and bills, borrow or raise capital in a more predictable and reliable way. How are stablecoins issued, how do they acquire value, and how are they stabilised? How are decisions made to correct deviations and how to deal with crisis? What are the economic incentives that allow decisions to be made in favor of stability and personal profit at the same time? All of this in a decentralised fashion, while at the same time making decision-makers responsible? Laurent and Sandra from EthereumMadrid will explain the stablecoin technology developed by Maker as an illustration of the concepts of cryptoeconomics. Part Three (56'43) https://goo.gl/9MF8Ey Denis, from the Maker team, will introduce how Maker is using formal verification in their smart contracts in order to mathematically verify and prove what can and cannot be done. Visit us at: http://ethereummadrid.com Join our cyptoeconomics meetup in Madrid: http://meetu.ps/c/39bt1/twKSG/f