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| Andreas Corusa | Sustainable Futures | Blockchain Meets the Grid: Mapping Opportunities for builders exploring real-world energy systems | Germany’s energy transition is complex—and full of untapped potential for new technologies. This talk offers a hands-on orientation for developers and founders: Where are real-world applications working? What’s blocking progress? Based on market research and systems design, we map out opportunities in a sector ready for change. | Germany’s energy transition is one of the most ambitious infrastructure transformations on the planet – and also one of the most complex. While blockchain is often hailed as a key enabler for decentralization and transparency, real-world applications in the energy sector remain fragmented and rare. |
In this session, energy analyst Andreas Corusa (Head of AI Innovation at B.A.U.M. Consult) and systems designer Bernd Riedel (Founder of Ellery Studio and Speculative Futures Berlin) join forces to map the current state of blockchain in the energy space. Based on the study “A Market Overview of Blockchain in the Energy Sector” and design research from the energy atlas "Sun, Wind & Wires", we explore where things are stuck, what’s actually working, and how developers and founders can meaningfully plug into the system.
Expect a hands-on orientation into the German energy landscape, lessons learned from pilot projects, and a systems view on where digital infrastructure meets physical flows. This is a talk for anyone who wants to build for the future—but grounded in reality. | | Jerome de Tychey | Core & EVM | TBA | tba | tba | | Aleksejs Ivashuk | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | Blockchain & Legal Identification Gaps | A talk provided by a stateless person representing Apatride Network, a stateless-led organisation, on the potential of blockchain in addressing wide gaps and inequities in legal identification documentation | According to the World Bank a billion people in the world lack legal identification. That is a billion people with a trace of proof of who they are, without assured access to basic human rights. This number does not include millions of others who are issued inferior forms of legal identification in the form of sub-citizenships, alien passports, non-citizenships, refugee and stateless identification papers, and many other forms of unequal proof of identity. The problem is rooted in how proof of identification is still issued and owned by a centralized authority—the state. An authority that time and time proves to be fragile, corrupt, unpredictably unethical, incompetent, malicious, and otherwise human—all too human.
The problem is clear. The potential solutions, not so much. Theoretically, decentralized self-sovereign identification could alleviate the aforementioned problem, but in practice we are yet to see how that could be possible. What is essential is to draw lessons from the vulnerable populations that ended up on the wrong side of state security and lost their legal identification, or had it degraded. Blockchain solutions can play an important role in realisation of identity sovereignty independent of state control, generating a healthier environment in securing identification. This may also in the interests of each society to secure a more stable, corruption-free environment where abuse of power of legal identification is mitigated. | | mf (michiel) | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | the new Cypherpunk generation | What's being a cypherpunk in the 2020s? Is our old manifesto from the early 1990s still relevant 30 years later? Our socio-economic environment has changed; where before computers were for a select few, we have now embraced digitalisation on masse.
How can you play a part in today's environment? A talk for builders, not limited to coders. | In the fight against a surveillance capitalistic world, we need to organise ourselves to avoid the pitfalls and deviate our track towards an evolved 1984. As we become more advanced, how do we ensure we don't become the Goliath we all fight against?
Let's not hide behind big brands claiming to be cypherpunks; let's not feel comfortable building the infrastructure nobody will use. Cypherpunks care about open-source AND usability. A tool nobody uses is time and effort spent in vain.
We don't need millions in VC funds; we need millions utilising our software. We need millions of people choosing cryptographic tools, especially those who don't understand the mathematics behind it.
This talk will go over historical cypherpunks and current-age crypto-anarchism alongside a starting point for those who are keen to get involved no matter what their skill set entails. | | Alexander Forshtat | Core & EVM | Native Account Abstraction with EIP-7701 | EIP-7701 introduces Native Account Abstraction to the EVM while requiring only a small number of changes to the Ethereum protocol. Millions of accounts that are relying on ERC-4337 for Account Abstraction will have a clear and simple migration path, which helps avoid fragmentation. This talk covers how EIP-7701 works, why it matters, and what it unlocks in the future. | | | Dominik Harz | Core & EVM | Combining Bitcoin and Ethereum via Hybrid L2s | What if we could create a single L2 with native bridges to Ethereum and Bitcoin? We present Hybrid L2s: An L2 combining Bitcoin and Ethereum, extending the OP stack with BitVM (fraud proofs on Bitcoin), validity proofs, Bitcoin-staking with extractable one-time signature schemes, and hybrid DA with blobs and Bitcoin. | In this talk, we explore new technologies enabling native Bitcoin bridges (BitVM), settlement on multiple L1s with BTC-staking finality and validity proofs, trade-offs in DA, and opportunities for Ethereum with Hybrid L2s. With the emergence of BitVM, we can build drastically better BTC bridges that reduce trust from a (super)-majority quorum to a 1-of-N assumption. However, BitVM relies on stateless light clients that are hard to build for Ethereum. Hence, we apply a trick for constructing the Hybrid L2: The L2 bridge finality on Bitcoin and Ethereum is a fusion of validity proofs of the L2 and BTC-staking with extractable one-time signatures (OTS). Validity proofs prevent malicious parties from committing safety violations. OTS introduces slashing of equivocation directly on Bitcoin. With BitVM, validity proofs, and BTC-staking, we can support native bridges to Bitcoin and Ethereum on a single L2. | | Maciej Zygmunt | Core & EVM | Overview of DA solutions landscape | Ethereum faces critical challenges in Data Availability (DA), crucial for scalability. This brief session rapidly explores the DA problem, introduces alternative solutions like Celestia, and discusses essential trade-offs, especially regarding security implications when adopting external solutions. | At L2BEAT, we research and analyze all Layer-2 and Data Availability (DA) solutions extensively. Through our daily work, we've identified recurring challenges in scalability, security, and integration complexity within Ethereum's ecosystem. My motivation for this talk is driven by these firsthand insights and the importance of clearly understanding trade-offs when considering external DA solutions like Celestia. The aim is to provide concise knowledge, empowering the community to navigate these issues effectively. | | Baki Er | Impact DeFi | Revolutionizing Ethereum UX: A Self-Custodial Finance Takeover | EIP7212, 7702, 7683, and 7579 unlock self-custodial DeFi apps capable of replacing centralized exchanges and TradFi. This talk explores how eliminating seed phrases, abstracting chains, and embedding curated DeFi yields seamlessly unify real-world payments, tokenized assets, and daily finance—highlighting mainstream-ready user experiences rather than technical EIP intricacies. | Description I'm the co-founder of Clave, where we're pioneering the implementation of EIP-7212 and actively integrating EIPs 7702, 7683, and 7579. Our mission is to create a streamlined, curated app-layer experience that seamlessly brings users on-chain—shielding them from complexities like network switching, gas fees, and fragmented liquidity. Coming from Turkey, a country with high crypto adoption driven mainly by centralized exchanges, my life goal is to democratize the benefits of DeFi, delivering genuine financial sovereignty and empowerment to everyday users in emerging markets. | | Kevin Jones | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | Rapidly Prototyping on Ethereum at Light Speed | Ready to turn your Ethereum development into a sonic boom of productivity while sticking to the ethos of web3? Join as we dive into the wild world of rapid prototyping on Ethereum, where we'll uncover the secret sauce behind shipping blockchain products faster than you can say "yolo to prod". | In this talk we will look at a number of things you will need to ship a production quality decentralized application on Ethereum. Covering topics like...
... and last but not least Scaffold-ETH to bring it all together in an easy to navigate toolkit. | | Laurence Kirk | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | Essential Maths for Zero Knowledge Proofs | A workshop for beginners explaining the essential maths needed to understand zero knowledge proofs.It is intended to to make ZKP technology more accessible and reduce the barriers to entry for working in the area. | The workshop will cover
Drawing from research studies conducted since 2018 across wallets, dApps, DeFi protocols, and blockchain infrastructure, this talk unpacks how design can become a crucial layer of trust. Through real-world insights and case studies, we’ll explore what signals make users feel safe, where their trust breaks down, and how clear, human-centred design can empower them to participate confidently in web3. | | Qi Zhou | Sustainable Futures | Soul Gas Token: Driving Mass Adoption with Non-Transferable Gas Solutions for Web2 to Web3 Onboarding | Soul Gas Token is a non-transferable, value-less gas token built on OP Stack. It enables users to pay gas fees without upfront costs, removing Sybil incentives and allowing large-scale airdrops. Compatible with ETH wallets, it lowers entry barriers for Web2 users and supports mass adoption of Web3. | Achieving mass adoption of Web3 requires innovative solutions to lower the entry barriers for Web2 users, especially the challenge of acquiring cryptocurrencies like ETH for transaction fees. Traditional airdrop methods often fall short due to Sybil attacks, which create unnecessary selling pressure and fail to effectively incentivize genuine, organic users. As a result, the scale of airdrops remains limited to a few million accounts—negligible compared to the vast Web2 user base.
To address this, we introduce Soul Gas Token, a non-transferable, value-less gas token designed to ease the transition to Web3. By airdropping Soul Gas Token, users can pay gas fees without upfront costs, enabling a frictionless entry into the decentralized ecosystem and fostering border adoption. The non-transferable nature of the token removes incentives for Sybil attackers, enabling large-scale airdrops to potentially hundreds of millions of users..
We developed the Soul Gas Token on OP Stack, full compatible with existing ETH wallets. For an L2 transaction, the fee will first be deducted from the user's Soul Gas Token balance. If the balance is insufficient, the system will then draw from the user's native balance. To account for the additional processing cost of Soul Gas Token, the intrinsic gas cost may be slightly higher than that of traditional transactions.
By addressing these challenges, Soul Gas Token positions itself as a pioneering tool to simplify Web3 access and accelerate mass adoption. | | cheeky gorilla | | Protocol Guild: Sustaining Ethereum's Future | Protocol Guild is a collective funding mechanism supporting over 180 Ethereum mainnet contributors, including researchers and developers. By ensuring stable funding for these essential roles, Protocol Guild enables contributors to focus on core software maintenance, scalability, | Protocol Guild is a collective funding mechanism for +180 Ethereum mainnet contributors: researchers, client devs, coordinators, and support. Their ongoing work is fundamental to the maintenance of core software, scaling and security, and network upgrades.
We believe that core contributors shouldn't have to choose between this crucial stewardship work and financial incentives available elsewhere. When this work has stable funding, the entire ecosystem benefits. | | Alon Muroch | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | Make Ethereum One Chain Again | The calls to unify Ethereum are being answered! It’s time to end the developer exodus; how are based technologies and the upcoming upgrades like cross-chain intents reducing inefficiencies and improving UX? By offering developers practical tools to make Ethereum one chain again. This talk will explore new tools and paradigms to help developers build out the based ecosystem. | SSV Network is the leading DVT implementation, securing over 2M ETH. Alon (SSV Labs Founder) has a keen insight into the complexities of validators. The based movement is gaining traction, and validators are at the forefront of this revolution. From based sequencing to based applications, we'll explore how to make Ethereum one chain again by enabling validators to do more by providing practical tools and infrastructure for developers. | | Daniel Vaculík Joachim Schwerin Karam Alhamad (Zendetta) | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | Evolution of a DAO: Did Blockchain Invent Decentralization, or Just Rediscover It? | Is blockchain based DAO a revolution in governance or is it just a natural form of governance being rediscovered through blockchain? Let’s embark on a journey, where we’ll look into why humans tend to self-organize, and why the invention of blockchain is such a revolution in reshaping the way humans govern themselves. | Network states and nation states are concepts which seem very distant, yet their goals are very similar. They both aim to enable and harness coordination between individuals to decide what public good is and how such defined public good should be maintained.
The goal of this panel is to bring together representatives of both worlds, cyberpunk and public administration, to open up a conversation between seemingly incompatible worlds and explore what we can learn from each other to improve the world we live in. | | Noah Jelich | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | Killing with Keyboards – How Your Digital Footprint Can Be Weaponized | Killing with Keyboards explores real-world scenarios where digital traces—social media posts, blockchain transactions, leaked metadata—become vulnerabilities exploited by hackers, corporations, and state actors. Learn how adversaries think, how data leaks occur, and how to fortify your online presence against those who weaponize information. | Some key takeways:
Your digital footprint is a weapon—against you. Every post, comment, and transaction creates a breadcrumb trail that can be exploited. Understanding how these traces accumulate is the first step to defending yourself.
Attackers don’t need to hack your system if they can hack you. Social engineering, open-source intelligence (OSINT), and metadata leaks are often more effective than brute-force technical exploits.
Small leaks lead to big consequences. A single offhand forum post, a book review, or an outdated profile can be the missing puzzle piece that links your online alias to your real identity.
The adversary isn’t always who you expect. From state actors to financially motivated cybercriminals, your threat model depends on who has a reason to target you—and what they can gain.
Security is a process, not a product. No tool or technology alone will keep you safe. True security comes from understanding how attacks unfold and developing habits that minimize exposure. | | Filip Rezabek | Core & EVM | A New Frontier in Confidential Computing: SpaceTEEs and L2 Security | The talk explores the challenges of the L2s communicating with L1, including the finalization limitations, security risks, and attack vectors. We focus on spaceTEE and how it can enhance the pre-confirmations and security for its users and L2s. | This talk will explore the challenges of L2s communicating with L1, including finalization limitations, security risks, and attack vectors. A key focus will be on how robust L1 (Spacecoin) can support L2s, improving both efficiency and security for its users. Additionally, the role of TEEs (especially SpaceTEE) in enhancing pre-confirmations and securing cross-layer interactions will be discussed, highlighting their potential to address critical scalability and trust issues.
As a part of the interaction of L2s with L1, they can communicate with the robust infrastructure of spaceTEEs that can provide an attestation that a certain data transition is valid. | | Eylon | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | Fixing Decentralized governance with Futarchy | Conditional Funding Markets (CFMs), new implementation of prediction markets for capital allocation. This presentation explores recent CFMs implementations (Uniswap, Optimism), analyzes their limitations, and demonstrates why information markets and Futarchy are the most viable path for scalable, decentralized governance. | Polymarket’s success brought prediction markets into the overton window, paving the way for more nuanced implementation of Futarchy—one such product is Conditional Funding Markets (CFMs) which uses prediction markets to fund KPI bound proposals. CFMs are already being deployed in several of the biggest DAOs in the ecosystem, including Uniswap, Optimism, Zksync, and more.
The core guiding principle behind CFMs is encapsulated in this famous quote by economic and political commentator Thomas Sowell: “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
In this talk, we will examine recent implementations, discuss their challenges, extract lessons from each experiment, and explore how to extend CFMs to all crypto protocols—potentially revolutionizing decentralized governance for the better. | | Pierre Urban | Sustainable Futures | Mykorhizní budocunost | Mykorhiza je symbióza mezi houbami a kořeny rostlin – neviditelná síť, která propojuje les. Přenáší vodu, živiny i informace. Funguje bez hierarchie, distribuovaně a regenerativně – jako Web3 nebo kreativita. Síla není v kontrole, ale v propojení. Budoucnost navrhujeme jako ekosystém, ne jako pyramidu. | | | Maya Dotan | Core & EVM | The Future of Proving With Stwo | Learn about StarkWare’s Stwo prover: 10-1000x faster zk-proofs, client-side proving, and soon real-time Ethereum block proofs. We’ll cover how Stwo scales Starknet as a Layer 2 zk-rollup and outline the privacy roadmap, including full zero-knowledge support and seamless verification of Noir proofs. | Join us for an exclusive deep dive into the cutting-edge advancements in proving technology developed at StarkWare through the Stwo prover. We’ll showcase the latest state-of-the-art benchmarks and unveil our roadmap for achieving a 10-100x improvement in performance over the coming months. We’ll explore the transformative potential of client-side proving in Stwo—bringing cryptographic proofs directly to user devices to unlock functionalities that were previously impractical due to computational constraints. This breakthrough paves the way for a more decentralized and scalable Starknet. As a Layer 2 zk-rollup over Ethereum, Starknet is designed to scale Ethereum in a secure, efficient, and decentralized way—bringing massive improvements in throughput without compromising on security. The innovations in Stwo will accelerate this vision, enhancing Starknet’s ability to deliver low-cost, high-speed transactions while inheriting Ethereum’s security guarantees. In the near future, Stwo will even make it possible to generate validity proofs for entire Ethereum blocks in real time—paving the way for unprecedented scalability and trustless verification. We’ll also outline Starknet’s privacy roadmap, including our plans to make Stwo fully zero-knowledge and how users can leverage zk on Starknet today through seamless verification of Noir proofs. These advancements will unlock new possibilities for both developers and users, bringing enhanced security, privacy, and decentralization to the ecosystem. | | Mariia Yatskovska | Impact DeFi | The Solver Competition: Master the Ultimate Algorithm Battle & Become a Solver | I’ll walk the audience through the Solver Competition—covering its purpose, how batch auctions work, and how anyone can become a solver, including what’s required to get started. I’ll also share clear data and examples to help everyone explore the topic in more depth. | My talk will have two parts: First, I’ll explain how batch auctions work for DEXes — specifically intent-based ones — covering their benefits, impact on the DeFi space, and the role of decentralization.
The second part will focus on how to become a solver in these auctions and what their role is. | | Janmajaya mall | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | The encrypted computer | The encrypted computer has its RAM and execution encrypted - it's a virtual black box. Whatever program it runs, the only thing one can learn are its outputs.
The talk will explore viable paths to build the encrypted computer. We'll start with FHE and explore its efficiency, obstacles, and our learning. We'll then explore promising approaches to program obfuscation (local mixing, MPB, etc.) | The encrypted computer has its RAM and execution encrypted - it's a virtual black box. Whatever program it runs, the only thing one can learn are its outputs.
The talk will explore viable paths to build the encrypted computer. We'll start with FHE and explore its efficiency, research obstacles, and our learnings from implementing a risc-v FHE virtual machine. We'll also consider a few open questions - the ones we're currently investigating.
We'll then explore promising approaches to practical & secure program obfuscation. We'll start with the most exotic but the most practical approach: local mixing. We'll share what we've learnt from our experiments and what answered questions are left to make the scheme secure and usable.
We'll then dive into other less practical approaches (matrix branching programs, etc.) that have chances to become practical if some key problem can be solved. We'll discuss the key problems.
The intention of the talk is to convey that there are viable paths to finally build "the encrypted computer". Although there exist many open questions, none of them seem far fetched. We can solve them. | | Dorian Vincileoni | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | Forefront of crypto adoption / exchanges | tba | tba | | Valentin Boureaud | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | Disinformation Defender - AI Image Battle | This talk explores how cutting-edge AI technologies can challenge our ability to establish truth. Through a game designed to challenge players, the primary objective is to assess their sensitivity to accurately identify AI-generated images. By presenting players with a series of increasingly complex images, the game not only assesses their perceptual abilities but also serves as an educational too | The interplay between AI and the difficulty of discerning truth in digital media has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. As AI technologies advance, they are rapidly transforming how digital content is created, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between real and synthetic content. This is particularly concerning in a world where misinformation and digital manipulation are becoming widespread, influencing everything from public discourse to personal beliefs. Our interest in this topic stems from a deep concern about how these technologies are transforming the way we consume and trust information. As someone who closely follows developments in AI and its societal impact, we have noted the increasing difficulty distinguishing authentic media from synthetic media. Therefore, we designed an interactive experience allowing players to test their ability to recognize AI-generated content. By creating a game that challenges users to identify increasingly complex synthetic images, we aim to raise awareness and inform our interaction with AI-generated media. Through this project, we seek to better understand human reactions to AI and its implications, and to understand how games can serve as effective platforms for public education. Analyzing trends in player accuracy and response times provides valuable insights into the processes underlying our interactions with digital content, helping us develop strategies to combat misinformation. Ultimately, this work aims to spark conversations about the need for critical media literacy in the age of AI, equipping everyone with the tools they need to navigate a rapidly evolving digital landscape. | | Brenda Loya | Sustainable Futures | Trustless Carbon Markets: Oracles for Validating Environmental Impact | Decentralized carbon markets enable transparent, trustless trading of carbon credits, but their success hinges on reliable oracles to validate environmental impact claims. This talk explores how decentralized oracles ensure data integrity, prevent fraud,and enhance ReFi protocol. | Decentralized carbon markets offer a groundbreaking approach to addressing climate change by enabling transparent, trustless trading of carbon credits. However, their success relies on robust oracle solutions that can accurately validate environmental impact claims. Without reliable data feeds, the core promises of transparency, fraud prevention, and impact measurement remain unfulfilled. This talk explores how oracles serve as a critical link between real-world environmental data and smart contracts, ensuring the authenticity and integrity of carbon credit validation. Key challenges in tracking renewable energy outputs, verifying carbon sequestration, and preventing fraud or double counting will be examined.
By leveraging Tellor’s decentralized oracle network, we’ll demonstrate how cryptoeconomic incentives and dispute mechanisms provide tamper-proof, verifiable data feeds that enhance the credibility of ReFi (Regenerative Finance) protocols. This session will outline practical solutions to current data integrity issues and showcase how trustless, transparent oracle solutions can empower Ethereum-based carbon markets to scale effectively and combat climate change. | | Tereza Bízková | Sustainable Futures | Solarpunk Needs Better Stories, Not Just Better Tech | If Bitcoin has its pizza, Satoshi, and El Salvador, what does Solarpunk have?
Humans connect with stories, names, and real-world examples—not just ideas. Without these totems, Solarpunk risks staying merely a niche aesthetic. This talk explores what’s missing, how to bridge inspiration with impact, and how to craft stronger narratives to ground regeneration in the real world. | Bitcoin has Satoshi, pizza, and El Salvador. Ethereum has the DAO hack, Vitalik, and DeFi Summer. But what does Solarpunk have?
Humans connect with stories, names, and real-world examples—not just ideas. Without these totems, Solarpunk risks staying a niche aesthetic rather than a movement that drives real change.
This talk explores what’s missing, how to bridge inspiration with impact, and how projects can craft narratives that ground regeneration in the real world. Drawing from lessons in ReFi, Web3, and community-driven initiatives, it will outline practical ways to shape stories that help Solarpunk move beyond concept and into culture. | | Andrew Koller | Impact DeFi | Onboarding Users, Not Just Holders: Scaling DeFi for Mass Adoption | While millions hold crypto, few actively use it onchain. The gap stems from three key barriers: simplicity, security, and liquidity. Despite Ethereum’s advancements and L2 growth, DeFi remains complex. Bridging holders to users requires better UX, seamless interoperability, and scalable infrastructure to unlock the next wave of onchain adoption. | Ethereum has established itself as the most secure and decentralized smart contract platform. The expansion of Layer 2 (L2) solutions has made transactions more efficient, and upgrades like EIP-4844 have proven that lower fees and improved usability lead to real adoption. However, DeFi still falls short in making participation intuitive for new users while remaining efficient for experienced ones. DeFi’s next phase isn’t just about more transactions—it’s about transforming passive holders into active participants. Solving these challenges is key to unlocking the full potential of onchain finance. | | Elias Tazartes Cat McGee Maya Dotan Michel Abdalla Leo Sizaret | Impact DeFi | Client-Side Proving – Unlocking the Next Generation of Private, Verifiable Applications | This panel explores the expanding frontier of client-side ZK applications— zk-identity, proof of humanity, zkLogin, zkMail, private payments, decentralized trading, and even provable AI—highlighting how local proof generation is revolutionizing user sovereignty, privacy, and security. | As zero-knowledge (ZK) technologies move from research to real-world deployment, client-side proving emerges as a pivotal capability for unlocking entirely new paradigms in both on-chain and off-chain computation. This panel explores the expanding frontier of client-side ZK applications— zk-identity, proof of humanity, zkLogin, zkMail, private payments, decentralized trading, and even provable AI—highlighting how local proof generation is revolutionizing user sovereignty, privacy, and security. We will explore the diverse landscape of proving systems available today, contrasting the leading approaches such as SNARKs, STARKs, and emerging paradigms such as recursive proofs and hybrid models, and combinations with TEEs. By dissecting their respective performance characteristics, cryptographic assumptions, hardware requirements, and developer tooling, we aim to illuminate the design tradeoffs facing builders in this space. We'll discuss advances in browser-based proving, mobile optimization to push the boundaries of what’s feasible directly on user devices—shifting the locus of trust and computation away from centralized servers and towards the edges of the network. | | Shantanu Sontakke | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | Wicked Attack Vectors in Smart Contracts | This will be a talk explaining 20 different Attack Vectors in a Fun and Interesting Way, which Auditors and Devs alike can check like an audit checklist in order to secure their smart contracts from Hacks. | The talk will contain 20 Wicked attack vectors in the form of an Easy to Understand Checklist that Devs and Auditors can use in order to secure and safeguard their smart contracts. | | Isla vrn.eth | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | D/ACC The Swiss Way | Panel with Vitalik, Isla, Veronica and 1-2 others exploring the Swiss societal and governance models and talking about why Zuitzerland is building a permanent zuzalu hub in Switzerland / what we learned during our pop-up village in May and what might be possible with this society sandbox experiment.
Possibly moderated by Josef? | TBA | | Carles Cerqueda | Impact DeFi | You’re living the transition: DeFi is reshaping the global financial system | Most people don’t realize it yet, but the financial system is already running on DeFi rails,and you’re part of it. Let's explore the data-driven framework from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance that tracks how protocols are are reshaping the leading financial institutions. If you care about where DeFi is actually going, don't miss it. | As a researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, we work at the intersection of DeFi and institutional finance, to shape an adequate regulatory future reality. We want to make sure that the innovation that’s being built today leads to a more efficient transformation of global finance. I want to show the next generation of builders how their smart contracts ideas are reshaping the system and why this is a rare moment in history to understand, shape, and scale that impact before the mainstream realizes it has happened. | | Orest Tarasiuk | Core & EVM | Real-Time Proving (RTP) to Unify Ethereum | Real-time proving (RTP) using Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) solves rollup fragmentation issues prevalent today by enabling running a rollup that instantly settles on Ethereum. This also enables improved composability across existing rollups compared to current bridging solutions and improves intents (EIP-7683). While real-time ZKP generation is still years out, this is a solution that work | I am Orest, the co-founder and CTO of t1, a protocol for real-time proof generation designed to unify Ethereum. I previously was an early engineer at Scroll working on a ZKP rollup to solve for scaling the Ethereum blockchain. During my time as an engineer, I’ve learned that—while rollups scaled Ethereum—they also isolated users, fragmented liquidity and broke composability between ecosystems. Users are locked into an individual rollup ecosystem unless they use third-party bridges. Application developers must choose between low transaction costs and access to Ethereum users, applications and liquidity. This fragmentation weakens the network effects crucial for the growth of the Ethereum ecosystem. To fix this, we must achieve real-time proving in a faster and cheaper manner than what ZKPs offer. | | Antoine Sparenberg | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | Beyond theory: Real-world smart account applications that users love | A demonstration of how Argent has transformed smart account capabilities into practical features that users actively engage with. We'll show how smart accounts, paymasters, and session keys create meaningful user experiences. | This presentation will demonstrate how Argent has transformed theoretical AA capabilities into practical, user-facing features.
Through live demonstrations, we'll examine specific implementations of smart accounts, paymasters, and session keys that are currently in production and actively used by our user base. Key aspects of the demo will include:
However, the basic flow was quiet deterring to the average user and hence the second-generation or Smart Accounts started being developed, with a heavy focus on user-experience and support of dynamic functionality.
Now, we are seeing a shift again. With the advent of AI and the integration of social aspects in each application, wallets need to adapt and reform themselves to keep up with the technological advances.
In this talk, we will explore how the third evolution of wallets (Smart Profiles) should look like and how there is an urgent need to embed personhood within the wallets - leading to mass onboarding and hyper-personalization of user experiences | | Lorenz Lehmann | Core & EVM | Progress of Ethereum Scaling – Are L2s Delivering? | Layer 2 solutions promised to scale Ethereum 100x, reducing fees and increasing throughput without compromising security. But have they truly delivered on this vision? In this talk, we will examine whether L2s have lived up to their potential, exploring key developments such as EIP-4844 and its impact on data availability and transaction costs. We’ll also give an outlook into the future. | | | Dr. Maurice Chiodo | Sustainable Futures | Building ethical blockchain technologies - Doing good, while avoiding harm. | There is now a great temptation for us all to start building blockchain technologies which do good things. | But what is a "good technology", what does it mean to "do good", and how closely do these two match? It might seem extremely beneficial to convert or export a problem into something that can be worked with on a blockchain, and then "optimise" what that blockchain object does against some notion of good. Unfortunately, this can sometimes lead to important factors being overlooked or lost, and moreover could cause harm in completely unintended ways. In this talk I will discuss some of the experiences I have had working with blockchain startups, as part of the work I do in the Ethics in Mathematics Project. I will explore how, even with the very best of intentions, mathematically-powered work (such as blockchain tech) that aims to do good and help society might still have undesired, and possibly even harmful, consequences. | | Mely.eth | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | From Domains to Usernames | This talk explores why we need higher standards for identity across Web2 and Web3, and how blockchain makes this possible. ENS has evolved into a network of identity that includes both web2 domains and onchain identity ("Everything Name Service"). | Identity has transformed dramatically over the past decades. From government-issued documents to flexible online identities through platforms like Facebook and X. Today, digital identity is core to how newer generations express themselves and connect with each other. As someone who grew up at the peak of social media, I care deeply about real ownership over our identities and user-rights.
In my role as Partnerships Manager at ENS Labs, I work with ecosystems and developers to leverage ENS as the foundation for their own namespaces and user profiles. In this talk, I’ll share how ENS transforms traditional domains into universal usernames that work onchain, and why open, user-owned identity standards need to exist for the future of the internet. | | Martin Warnke | Sustainable Futures | Large Language Kabbalah | The history of Large Language Models does not rest on neurophysiology but on linguistics: LLM are grammars that produce meaning, not artificial brains. This allows to interpret effects like the notorious hallucinations and frees us from "artificial intelligence". There is even an earlier methodology: the cabalistic text interpretations from the middle ages, sharing quite a lot of characteristics. | | | Laurence Kirk | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | The Autonomous Altruist: Agentic Web3 and the Future of Public Good | This talk will delve into the transformative potential of "Autonomous Altruists" – intelligent agents to tackle the pervasive issues of information asymmetry and the need for robust community-driven solutions. I will show how to facilitate decentralised community initiatives, enabling autonomous coordination of resources and collective decision-making through DAOs. | In a post truth world tools to counter disinformation are vital, as are ways to use AI to facilitate decision making. | | Qi Zhou | Core & EVM | Introducing EIP-7907: Increase the contract code size limit with gas metering | EIP-7907 proposes raising Ethereum’s contract code size limit from 24KB to 256KB by introducing gas metering for larger contracts. This upgrade addresses developer pain from contract fragmentation under EIP-170, while maintaining DoS protection. We outline the metering design, security considerations, and how this change improves contract simplicity and maintainability. | In this talk, we introduce EIP-7907—a candidate for the Ethereum Fusaka upgrade—which proposes raising Ethereum’s contract code size limit from 24KB to 256KB, a >10x increase.
The current 24KB limit (imposed by EIP-170) was designed to prevent DoS attacks, as large contracts incur unbounded resource costs (e.g., disk I/O, VM preprocessing) that aren’t properly accounted for in gas fees. While effective for security, this restriction forces developers to fragment large contracts into smaller pieces, degrading UX and increasing maintenance overhead.
EIP-7907 solves this by introducing gas metering for code sizes beyond 24KB, ensuring deployers and callers pay proportionally for the resources they consume—upholding Ethereum’s "pay-for-what-you-use" gas model. We’ll detail the metering mechanism, explain why 256KB strikes the right balance for security (including p2p-layer considerations), and demonstrate how this change unlocks simpler, more maintainable contract design without reintroducing DoS risks. | | Aya Miyaguchi | Core & EVM | TBA | tba | tba | | Dalibor Cerny | Sustainable Futures | The New Story | We dream of a new story for humanity. We are convinced that the current system is failing. We need to create a system one that is kind, non-exploitative, non-extractive, respectful of the limits of people, nature and the planet. | We run an initiative that is called the New Story - a group of people aiming to change the societal paradigm in all aspects and activities of life, including education, health, law, research, housing, energy, etc. https://novypribeh.org/homepage-eng/.
– We give projects a face and a clear message. – We help them to be seen. – We increase their reach and impact. – We create blueprints. – We create a new story for humanity. – We provide an environment for their development and mentoring. – We tell the story. | | liam mcmaster | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | How Blockchain Technology Realizes Classical Philosophy | What do Plato, Rousseau, and Vitalik Buterin have in common? This thought-provoking session explores how blockchain technology is inadvertently implementing centuries-old philosophical ideas. | What do Plato, Rousseau, and Vitalik Buterin have in common? This thought-provoking session explores how blockchain technology is inadvertently implementing centuries-old philosophical ideas. Presenting how smart contracts embody social contract theory, examine how DAOs reflect classical political philosophy, and analyze how NFTs challenge our metaphysical understanding of value and ownership. Drawing from both practical Solidity examples and philosophical frameworks, this talk bridges the gap between abstract philosophical concepts and concrete blockchain implementations.
You'll learn how understanding philosophical principles can improve your smart contract design, governance systems, and token economics. | | Veronika Civinova | Sustainable Futures | Legally Sustainable: The real rights and duties in EU law | Everybody speaks about the Green Deal - but what it really is? We'll talk about colorful history and future of EU activities in ESG. Where did they come from? Where is EU going? And most importantly, what is and will be required of small and medium companies? | I'm trying to connect the world of ESG law with real life. At the level of EU, there's a lot of good stuff, wrapped in a bad format. Due to current changes in American politics, we are standing at the edge of times. What really applies now? And what will survive for the future? | | Yudi | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | Using zero knowledge proof (ZKP) to change the game ruled by OTAs and bring back the privacy of travelers | Online hotel booking platforms require personal data, raising privacy concerns. By leveraging zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) and blockchain, users can verify identity without sharing sensitive details, ensuring secure, privacy-preserving bookings. | Millions of customer data are hacked - Dutch SA fines Booking.com for delay in reporting data breach (2020) - European Union.
Problem When booking a hotel through platforms like Booking.com or Airbnb, users must submit personal information such as names, nationality, gender, and passport number. While hotels are legally required to verify this information upon check-in, booking platforms enforce their own policies requiring users to share this sensitive data, ostensibly to pass it on to hotels for verification (by manually match the name, gender and other personal information).
There is a better way by leveraging ZKP and SSI to create a booking proof (encrypt the booking information like booking ID, check-in, check-out date etc), which can be verified when guests arrive in the hotel using their phone to scan a QR code for instance. Hotel can still verify guest's ID and know who is actually checking in, but the booking platform won't be touch our sensitive information anymore. | | Anthony Leuts | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | Ownership and Governance always needs the right Incentives | Governance is the cornerstone of human civilization & we have thousands of years of historical data & precedent, yet the crypto industry is ready to throw out the baby with the bath water in its frustration with decentralized governance experimentation. The hard reality is, is that we failed to create the right incentives to build and implement good governance systems, now is the time for change. | I am the CEO of Aragon and have been working in the onchain governance vertical for 5 years. We've seen it all and have recently course corrected to offer services that actually support organizations to reach their goals while protecting token holders. | | Pietro Carta | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | Novel on-chain oracle manipulations: Proposer bribing and L2 sequencer timing | On-chain price feeds are a powerful component of DeFi. For example, Curve price feeds can be used by lending protocols to ensure over-collateralization. On-chain oracles can be especially vulnerable to manipulation and must be protected. We describe two novel on-chain oracle manipulation vectors: proposer bribing on Ethereum Mainnet, and L2 sequencer timing. | The first novel on-chain oracle manipulation vector, proposer bribing, exploits a quirk of the ethereum consensus layer to allow inexpensive control over multiple consequent blocks, even in the presence of substantial MEV. The second novel attack exploits the centralized sequencer FIFO ordering of transactions on L2s. An attacker can include two back-to-back transactions (market manipulation and de-manipulation) in consecutive blocks, which allows the attacker to perform oracle manipulation without risking of losing the manipulation capital to other actors. | | Austin Griffith | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | A developers journey: Speedrun Ethereum, Scaffold-ETH, CTF, and vibe coding onchain apps! | Speedrun the developers journey on Ethereum and build an onchain app with the BuidlGuidl. | | | Uttam Singh | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | Building High Performance onchain apps with Modern APIs & AI Tools | Learn how to build fast, efficient onchain applications using modern APIs & AI tools. This session covers transaction optimization, real-time event tracking, account abstraction, and data indexing—featuring hands-on demos to improve performance and user experience using AI tools like Cursor, Replit, ChatGPT, ai16z | Building onchain applications isn’t just about writing smart contracts—it’s about making them fast, scalable, and user-friendly. This session covers how AI and modern APIs can optimize transactions, reduce gas fees, enable real-time event tracking, and streamline account abstraction.
With hands-on demos, we’ll explore AI-driven tools like Cursor, Replit, ChatGPT, and ai16z to improve performance and automate key processes. Walk away with practical techniques to build smarter, faster, and more efficient dApps. | | Rica Amaral Joan de Ramon Brunet | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | Locally grounded, globally connected: The Celo Regional Council | We’ll present the Regional Council model launched in the Celo ecosystem—an innovative governance framework balancing local autonomy with global coordination. By empowering Regional DAOs with decision-making power and accountability tools, we foster decentralization, resilience, and scalable collaboration across ecosystems. | As co-leads of the Celo Regional Council, we’ve designed and implemented a governance model that gives regions real autonomy while aligning with a shared global vision. This initiative brings localized decision-making, on-chain accountability, and cross-regional collaboration to life. We’ll share lessons on balancing local action and global cohesion, which are relevant for any ecosystem rethinking its governance in pursuit of true decentralization and impact.
Our motivation is to inspire other networks and builders to rethink governance not as top-down control but as a regenerative and participatory process reflecting regional diversity while staying globally connected. | | Peter Jung | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | Fraud Prevention for {Smart} Wallets | AI in the Web3 space is experiencing a boom, primarily due to the rise of LLMs. However, a critical application of machine learning, which has long been utilized in centralized payment solutions, is fraud prevention. Each time we send money or pay using a credit card, state-of-the-art algorithms decide if the transaction should go through. But not on the chain. Let's change that. | I'll talk about AI in the Web3 space and propose a new direction that is, in my opinion, worth doing -- fraud prevention. Currently, AI is mostly synonymous with LLM-based agents who are completing prompted tasks. I'll argue that machine learning includes many disciplines besides LLMs and that we should be focusing on these as well. One of them is fraud prevention, which is widely used in the standard Web2 space. Banks, big marketplaces, games, and many others all include ML-based fraud prevention systems, which decide if the given action should be taken or not. There is no reason why users of blockchain shouldn't be protected and warned about potentially malicious actions, but at the same time keep their self-custodial wallets. I'm part of Gnosis AI and currently experimenting with the project codenamed "Safe Guard Agent", which is doing exactly that. | | George Kobakhidze | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | Security Standards Playbook: Code, Ops & Professional Practice | As Ethereum scales, ad hoc security practices leave protocols vulnerable. This session presents a “Standards Lifecycle”: from common pitfalls to best practices and emerging specs. We will discuss real‑world ERC and fuzzing case studies, code & operations security checks, and an actionable three‑step “Standards Playbook” for emerging teams. | As Ethereum scales, immature practices leaves protocols exposed. This session unveils a “Standards Lifecycle” across three pillars:
Through real‑world case studies, you’ll leave with a concise three‑step playbook to transform “ad hoc” into a repeatable, defensible security posture from day one. | | Simon Mohn | Sustainable Futures | Principles of regenerative cultures and how to build them | Applying the principles of regeneration onto social fabrics and sharing insights and practices of how to actively build such cultures. This would be a mixture of conceptual perspectives, practical tools and our own experiences with building an eco-system in and around our organisation Reinventing Society. | Principles of regenerative cultures and how to build them. Applying the principles of regeneration onto social fabrics and sharing insights and practices of how to actively build such cultures. This would be a mixture of conceptual perspectives, practical tools and our own experiences with building an eco-system in and around our organisation Reinventing Society. | | Jan Pabisiak | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | China's "Improved" Social Credit System: a step towards airtight dystopia? | The Communist Party of China has released new Guidelines on Improving the Social Credit System, setting out measures that shall be taken to enhance security and universality of the System. After few years of relative media silence on the matter of state surveillance in China, it’s time to reevaluate the stage of development of the SCS and verify, whether it poses a threat to the global community | Jan Pabisiak is the author of two scientific articles dedicated to the People's Republic of China and its unordinary practices in the sphere of state surveillance ("Dangerous, Yet Not So Unique. Characteristics of the Chinese Social Credit") and hybrid warfare ("The Specifics of historical and modern strategic movements of China in the South China Sea").
He specialises in European law and Transatlantic relations, but is also passionate about the Chinese history, having studied Sinology for one year. | | Laurence Kirk | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | Auditing Zero Knowledge Contracts | The workshop will cover
In this talk, the author of Yolc will showcase a couple of demos built in Yolc and highlight a safety feature called linear type safety that can prevent re-entrance type errors in compile time altogether! | The primary motivation behind Yolc is to strike a balance between these values for building Ethereum smart contracts, since it is:
In this presentation, the presenter will walk you through a few examples of using Yolc to build smart contracts. By the end of the talk, the presenter hopes to convince you that Yolc balances safety, expressiveness, and fun when programming on Ethereum.
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Our team has developed client-side, and on-chain implementations of FALCON and DILITHIUM, achieving a 12x gas cost reduction compared to previous implementations. We introduce ETHFALCON and ETHDILITHIUM, variants specifically tuned for Ethereum, and ZK constraints, ensuring security equivalence with existing cryptographic standards while significantly improving efficiency.
This talk presents: A breakdown of Ethereum’s vulnerabilities under quantum threats A comparison of post-quantum signature candidates and their trade-offs in blockchain environments Benchmarks of our optimized smart contract verifiers, achieving substantial gas savings The feasibility of hardware-based PQ signing solutions and their impact on security and usability The roadmap for integrating PQC into Ethereum, including its intersection with zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) By bridging PQ cryptography and Ethereum’s constraints, we provide a concrete path toward a quantum-resistant blockchain future. | | Miguel Palhas | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | A local-first approach for web3 development | web3 projects tend to suffer from a lot of developer experience pains, in ways that have actually been solved years ago through some best practices and common sense.
we'll walk through what these pains are, and how to best approach them | when building web3 products, we tend to rely heavily on public testnets, or even building directly on mainnet. often times we also rely on 3rd party services (e.g. subgraphs) which are themselves restricted to live networks, and have their own shortcomings for the development process.
This creates a lot of inefficiencies: difficulty in getting test funds, long feedback loops due to needs to re-deploy all contracts at every step it also makes the communication between contracts and frontend hard to manage efficiently.
in this talk I'll walk through these pitfalls, discuss how we got here, and propose better approaches to achieve a fully reproducible local development setup, and vastly larger feedback loops | | Jordi Baylina | Core & EVM | Indistinguishable obfuscation. The tech that will solve crypto! | I'll run thru many applications that this technology will unlock. I also will explain the current state of the art of the research status of this tech. | Bitcoin bridge, automatic decripting content after a payment, DAO signatures, mltiparty computtions onchain, or prived rolloups are just some examples that this tech will enable. I'll explain how. | | Eugenio Reggianini | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | Zk validation module for contract accounts | By combining account abstraction with ZK-enabled, privacy-preserving authorization, this project addresses critical needs within the Ethereum community. Not only does it extend identity and privacy controls for on-chain activities, but it also standardizes transaction submissions and compliance through modular contract accounts. | The talk will describes the application of zk validation module for abstracted accounts that enables secure and privacy-preserving on-chain validation of off-chain data. This module will extend the existing framework for account abstraction by including on-chain mechanisms for business logic authorization, leveraging verifiable, off-chain inputs from multiple data sources. This shift will enhance Ethereum's ecosystem by providing enterprise-ready capabilities for complex business scenarios. Different use case will be illustrated: on chain voting, trading and rwa. | | Katarzyna Kiwalska | Sustainable Futures | No One Pushed Sustainability to Prod | Sustainability is stuck in staging. Everyone supports it, no one owns it. It lives in docs, not ops. Leaders want green glory, teams chase other targets. How do we stop the ESG theater and actually ship impact? Let’s talk ownership, power struggles—and what it takes to push it to prod. | After two decades in the workforce, I made a bold shift—into sustainability, right from the heart of one of Europe’s largest e-grocery players, Rohlik. I was lucky: the role gave me a front-row seat to real impact, and the chance to work with the company’s most influential decision-makers. But let’s be honest—embedding sustainability into a fast-moving business isn’t easy. Between shifting politics, conflicting priorities, and budget pressures, it’s a daily balancing act. My background in project and stakeholder management has been a game-changer—but the challenges are real, and they’re shared across the industry. I believe it’s time we start talking more openly about those struggles—and what it takes to overcome them. | | Patrick McCorry | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | ArbitrumDAO: History, Lessons & New Vision | ArbitrumDAO is one of the largest DAOs in Ethereum. We provide an overview of the past 2 years. This includes the rise of an active contributor community, several success stories and problems that have emerged. With the rise of 5 Arbitrum Aligned Entities, the AF has published a new vision to use the dedicated teams to carry out initiatives, and move into a new experiment for the "O" in DAO. | | | | Sustainable Futures | Fireside chat: Vitalik Buterin & Tim Berners-Lee | TBD | TBD | | Stephen Ajayi | Developer Ecosystem & Tooling, and UX | Hands-On AI Security: Exploring LLM Vulnerabilities and Defenses | As large language models (LLMs) rapidly integrate into critical systems, securing them against emerging threats is essential. In this session, we will explores real-world vulnerabilities—including prompt injection, data poisoning, model hallucination, and adversarial attacks—and shares practical defense strategies. Attendees will learn how to build effective threat models, apply secure-by-default | | | Lauren GIlbert | Sustainable Futures | Progress in the Developing World | Discussions about innovation often center around places where innovation is conducted - Silicon Valley, London, Singapore. | But most of the world doesn't live in those places; the average income worldwide was less than $12,000. What does innovation look like in those places? How do we spark innovation there, and how do we innovate in other places to benefit the rest of the world? | | Inna Vladimirovna Osetrova | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | Digital Dictatorship: Law, Power, and Full-Spectrum Conflict | This presentation will explore China’s evolving model of digital control, where surveillance becomes universal through the fusion of law, data infrastructure, and behavioral engineering. By merging physical, digital, and cognitive monitoring, the state transforms governance into a total system of preemptive control. | As a graduate student of statecraft and international affairs, I’m drawn to how digital systems increasingly shape global power and social order. My research focuses on the convergence of surveillance, law, and data architecture—examining how digital control evolves from passive monitoring into an active instrument of behavioral governance. | | Uttam Singh | Core & EVM | Everything you need know to Spin Up Your Own Rollup | In this talk, we will explore the fundamentals, development, and current trends in the Layer 2 and rollups ecosystem. We’ll compare various available stacks, delve into the data availability (DA) layer, and examine rollup-based architectures alongside the challenges of building your own rollup. | I’ll break down the different rollup architectures, based rollups, zk, optimistic, their trade-offs. We’ll go over popular stacks like OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, as well as data availability options like Celestia and EigenDA. Whether you’re a developer, researcher, or just curious about rollups, this session will give you a clear understanding of how to build and run your own rollup. | | Lukas | Core & EVM | Making existing protocols Post-Quantum Safe | The EVM world mostly depends on pre-quantum cryptographic technologies – not just blockchains, but also many existing protocols built on top of and around them. It will still take some time to make EVM chains post-quantum, but these other protocols can often be migrated already. This talk focuses on common problems and solutions encountered when migrating existing protocols to Post-Quantum schemes | At HOPR, we're working on an incentivized mixnet – a privacy protocol for data transport which works offchain but has an EVM-based incentivization layer. As we start to migrate HOPR towards post-quantum (PQ) cryptography, we’ve run into interesting interactions with pre-quantum EVM chains, which pose questions we believe will apply to everyone who goes down this road.
These questions include: How will security considerations have to change in a PQ world? Is PQ cryptography less practical or weaker than pre-quantum cryptography in certain contexts? Do we need to employ additional measures as a result? How does the efficiency of the protocol change when employing PQ?
This talk will explore these questions and some of our proposed solutions, which we hope can be transferred to other use cases. | | Oliver Zrno | Societal Challenges & Opportunities | Challenges to providing crypto-asset services in the EU | The talk will revolve around recent legal challenges in regards to providing crypto-asset services in the EU. Main focus will be the Markets in Crypto Assets regulation and challenges linked to providing or setting up provision of regulated crypto-asset services within its scope. | The talk will contain the following agenda: