Devcon VI brought the Ethereum ecosystem to South America, to Bogotá, Colombia. Devcon keeps growing, and with over 6,000 attendees and contributors, around 350 speakers, and 9 talk rooms, it was the biggest Devcon yet. Rumors has it that it was also the best Devcon ever.

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Right now, the DAO ecosystem is built around one-token-one-vote or one-cpu-one-vote schemes. With strong sybil resistence, the ecosystem could move to DAOs built on one-human-one-vote. This unlocks more democratic use cases like: - quadratic funding - quadratic voting - Gini coefficient measurements - UBI - one-person-one-vote DAOs - data collectives - sybil resistant airdrops + more Learn about the current landscape of sybil resistance techniques in web3.

Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin.co — Where builders & funders come together to build the open web.  Gitcoin has delivered $60mm worth of value to OSS devs in the last several years. He has a BS in Computer Science, 15 years of engineering leadership experience in Open Source Software and Web Startups. Kevin is a community organizer in the Boulder Colorado Tech Scene.

Kevin Owocki

1 Human 1 Vote Money Legos 🔜 More Democratic DAOs 🧱🤝✨

In the summer 2021, MakerDAO implemented voting delegation. How does it work and how did it affect their governance?

Emilie Raffo is a founding partner and the sales director of ChainSecurity, a top-tier blockchain security company specialized in smart contract audits. ChainSecurity served many large DeFi protocols such as MakerDAO, Compound, Curve and others.
She is also a 2021 best-selling author in Switzerland. Her book "le Futur des Espèces" explains blockchain, cryptocurrency and smart contracts to the novice, and explores how these technologies  can foster innovations in monetary policy & governance.

Emilie Raffo

Facilitator of the Data Insights Core Unit at MakerDAO & organiser of ETHGathering

Tadeo

2022 statistics on MakerDAO voter delegation

A few creative and undervalued smart contract design patterns that could help you build more effectivelly.

Distributed systems Ph. D. ▪︎ Smart Contract Engineer @ OpenZeppelin ▪︎ #Ethereum Magician ▪︎ @graphprotocol advocate

Hadrien Croubois

5 Smart Contract Patterns I Wish More Devs Would Use

Sidechains, Plasma, Rollups, Valdiums, AnyTrust, PoS chains, Crypto Exchanges, all have one thing in common: the bridge. This talk provides an overview on the trust assumptions, threat model, security goals and solutions associated with the humble bridge smart contract. As we will see, rollups emerged because of the scalability bottlenecks faced by Ethereum, but the product-market fit is solving the operational security issues for bridging funds from Ethereum to an off-chain system.

Patrick has spent most of his adult life working on cryptocurrencies and his time was split across academic research and industry. Over the years, he has worked on transaction delivery, layer-2 protocols, atomic swaps, consensus protocols, and applied cryptography. Before Infura, he was an Assistant Professor at King’s College London and an accomplished researcher at UCL, UIUC and NCL.

Patrick McCorry

A Better Mental Model for Rollups, Plasma, and Validating Bridges

As Ethereum looks ahead to its transition to a fully to a proof-of-stake consensus protocol, the topic of Ethereum’s supply distribution matters more than ever to network stakeholders. This is because under PoS, the amount of ETH users control directly determines how much influence they can have over the network’s consensus building process and the amount of rewards they can earn from staking. This talk dives into how distributed ETH supply on Ethereum has become over the last 7 years.

Christine Kim, Galaxy Digital, Research Associate  Prior to Galaxy, I worked for three years at a crypto media company called CoinDesk as an analyst and tech reporter, mainly covering developments on Ethereum. I’m passionate about producing data-driven insights about the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. My research focusses primarily on the protocol-level development and future roadmap of Ethereum.

Christine Kim

A Breakdown of Ethereum Supply Distribution Since Genesis

The L2 ecosystem needs standards!  We formed a L2 standards working group as an EEA Community Project, managed by OASIS.  We will provide a quick overview of L2 standards discussion topics thus far.  Others in the L2 ecosystem are invited to join and participate in existing discussions or raise new topics. https://github.com/eea-oasis/L2

Advisor at Ethereum Foundation for Enterprise Community. Dan is an engineer who likes to work with people. An open source veteran, Dan helped bring Node.js to the Enterprise and has worked with the Node.js Foundation, LF, CNCF, OSI, and now the EEA. Dan has founded 3 tech companies: Cor.dev, NodeSource, and The Node Firm.

Dan Shaw

Tas works on enterprise ecosystem development and ecosystem support at EF.  He is co-chair of the EEA Community Projects Project Governing Board.

Tas Dienes

A Layer 2 Standards Working Group

We propose a new mechanism for multi-dimensional resource pricing in blockchains. Currently, many blockchain systems operate with either fixed transaction fees or fixed relative prices of different resources (e.g., compute, memory, storage). Our proposed mechanism prices resources independently and automatically in a way that maximizes some utility set by the protocol designer.

Researcher at Bain Capital Crypto & MIT PhD student

Theo Diamandis

A Mechanism for Pricing Non-fungible Resources: Toward Multi-dimensional Fee Markets

"The concept of the commons is not that of a resource; a commons comes from a different way of being in the world where it is not production which counts, but bodily use... established by custom."  At KERNEL, we've spent 2 years establishing customs which embody regenerative ways of living, both internally and in web3 projects.  We'd welcome sharing KERNEL customs in an interactive workshop, where we get to know each other & our commons through 4 words: trust, value, freedom, and giving.

Paul currently stewards the KERNEL Gaming Guild, a community of the most talented individuals in the web3 space. He has been developing games since 2004, and has always been interested in the intersection of game design and new tech.  
He is CTO / Co-Founder of OP Games, a game platform company building Arcadia.fun.  Arcadia is built using open-source game legos, helping game developers create more sustainable economies in the coming metaverse.

Paul Gadi

Sachin

co-founder at Gitcoin. currently focused on KERNEL, a web3 educational web which brings together 200 incredible peers, 3 times a year for a unique experience. the primary orientation is around deepening generative relationships amongst incredible peers.

Vivek Singh

A More Regenerative, Interactive Commons

Trading on decentralised exchanges is missing a key primitive, **privacy**. In traditional markets, an OTC desk enables large orders to trade without moving the price on chain this is missing and everyone can see everything. ZKP's deployed in production allow us to implement private trading on Ethereum. This talk looks into: 1. How to uses ZKP's to give privacy on Ethereum 2. How to build a private dollar cost averaging smart contract using Aztec Connect 3. A code walkthrough and a demo

Jan Beneš

Joe Andrews

A new DeFi Primitive - Private Trading with Aztec Connect

I’ll cover frameworks and useful tools to help emerging DeFi product development teams: 1. understand how to set product strategy and establish protocol + user-level goals 2. build an MVP 3. conduct 'what if' analyses – using simulation-based modeling to optimize incentives 4. use a data-driven approach to understand product market fit – tracking the right on/off-chain metrics to identify growth levers 5. understand common web3 nuances that can impact UX

Alim is a Product Manager at Element Finance. In 2019, he co-founded the DeFi Toronto meetup which has grown to over 2,000 members worldwide. In 2017, he helped to launch one of Canada's first industrial-scale crypto-mining companies. On the academic front, he teaches part-time as an Adjunct Professor in the Blockchain Development Program at George Brown College. He recently authored a chapter titled 'Token Economies' in The Emerald Handbook of Blockchain for Business (published March 2021).

Alim Khamisa

A Playbook for Product Development in DeFi

We tell the story of deploying a real-world solution using SNARKs as a core primitive; highlighting many cutting edge SNARKs and their limitations in the hope to identify opportunities for the community to make Ethereum more SNARK friendly, creating a diverse ecosystem where SNARKs built upon a variety of unique primitives can thrive.

I studied mathematics and computer science at the University of California Santa Barbara. From then until now I have worked on applied cryptography in the blockchain context. I lead applied cryptography at Edge & Node and the SnarkForce, where we apply bleeding edge cryptography including SNARKs to The Graph Network.

Jackson Blazensky

I'm a Senior Cryptographer at Semiotic Labs. I am currently developing cryptography solutions for The Graph protocol as a core dev. Before that I was a Senior Principal Anti-Tamper Security Engineer at Northrop Grumman and before that I was doing cyber security R&D at Sandia National Labs. I have an MSEE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I studied cryptography.

Severiano Sisneros

A SNARKs Tale: A Story of Building SNARK Solutions on Mainnet

zkSNARKs are becoming a cornerstone of decentralised technologies. Yet they are often considered impenetrable to newcomers. We will present an update on the ZoKrates toolbox, a set of tools aimed at making developing zkSNARK applications easier using a high-level language instead of handcrafted circuits.

Thibaut Schaeffer

A ZoKrates Update

This talk discusses the limitations of externally owned accounts (EOAs), use cases for account abstraction, and how to join the account abstraction revolution.

Dror Tirosh

Liraz

Account Abstraction: Making Accounts Smarter

An overview of how native account abstraction looks on StarkNet.

Marto has been working at OpenZeppelin before it was cool. He currently leads the OpenZeppelin Contracts for Cairo project.

Martin Triay

Account Abstraction on StarkNet

Account Abstraction: Experts agree, if we don't have Account Abstraction, then Ethereum is at stake!
Your private key wallet will soon be a thing of the past. Account Abstraction promises to put programmability into every Ethereum wallet, and unlock new frontiers for both developers and users. 
How will Ethereum be different, when every wallet upgrades to a smart wallet? What will it take to get there?  What commercial use-cases emerge?  What other parts of Ethereum does AA touch?

David Hoffman

Julien is co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Argent. He holds a PhD in Physics with a focus on Quantum Information and Quantum Cryptography. Julien is the author of three patents: for quantum random number generation, distribution and use in novel cryptographic schemes. He previously founded  a startup working on Ultra-Fast Quantum Random Number Generators, then worked in the security in IoT.

Julien Niset

Member of the go-ethereum team. Maintains several specifications, including `ethereum/execution-apis`. Co-author of EIP-3074.

lightclient

Vitalik Buterin

Yoav Weiss

Account Abstraction Panel

Open-source design unconference and working groups helping to drive improved User Experience and usability standards forward for the decentralized eco-system.
Enable cross pollination of fresh perspectives and emerging UX methodologies. Bringing together developers and designers in the ecosystem working at the various layers of the Web3 Tech Stack to share their unique solutions and encourage interoperability amongst various systems.

Aqeel Mohammad is a Product Strategist, and Design specialist focused on leading market adoption and consistent user experiences across Web 3. He has extensive experience leading human centered design organizations with a focus on strategy, product definition, and business transformation. Notable projects include leading design and product efforts for the Lighthouse and Nimbus consensus clients along with community development efforts including Devcon, Devconnect, and Web3 UX Unconference.

Aqeel Mohammad

Adoption Day

Seaport is a marketplace protocol for buying and selling NFTs. While it powers OpenSea in a horizontal capacity, Seaport is open source and allows marketplaces to share a pool of liquidity – enabling project-specific, bespoke vertical marketplaces. Since launch, it’s helped spur innovation across emerging NFT verticals, including ENS names, in-game purchases, etc. This workshop will explore advanced techniques and use cases for the Seaport protocol.

0age is the Head of Protocol Development at OpenSea, where he oversees the protocol development of the entire OpenSea platform. He is the author of Seaport, a new open-source protocol powering NFT marketplaces like OpenSea. Prior to OpenSea, 0age was the CTO of Dharma Labs (acquired by OpenSea).

Zero Age

Advanced Seaport Techniques

The story of Alice in her journey of making her smart contract upgradeable. She starts with a very naive approach, and quickly bumps into the fundamental problems of proxies: using CALL vs DELEGATECALL, the execution context, storage collisions, the importance of tooling, etc. As her system grows in complexity, her proxy architecture iterates and becomes more and more sophisticated, finally arriving to a very powerful, elegant and easy to use architecture: The Router Proxy.

Die hard Etherean. 15 years in software development. 5 years in Ethereum app layer development. Creator of the Ethernaut CTF game. Founder of the EthernautDAO. Ex Aragon and OpenZeppelin. Currently core contributor at Synthetix, as well as forming devs and helping teams grow via the EthernautDAO.

Alejandro Santander

Alice in Proxyland

(1) Multi-VM Support: AltLayer enables Ethereum with on-demand EVM/WASM execution layer. (2) Elastic Scalability: To handle surge requests on Ethereum, AltLayer enables dApps to quickly spin off custom execution layer (flash layers) to serve users, with near-instant finality(<2s), low gas fees (<0.01USD) and high throughput(~2,000 tps).  (3) Ubiquitous Verification: To embrace decentralization, AltLayer runs multiple block producers/verifiers including commodity machines, browsers for users.

Dr. Yaoqi Jia is the founder of AltLayer, an elastic and versatile scaling protocol for Web3. Before 2022, he was the director of Parity Asia, which provides blockchain infrastructure (say OpenEthereum) for the decentralised Web. He’s selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, 2019. Prior to that, he was the co-founder and CTO of Zilliqa. He got his Ph.D. in 2017 and his work was published in CCS, Usenix Security and other top-tier conferences.

Yaoqi

AltLayer: Runtime Execution and Elastic Scaling Layer for Ethereum

In order to maximize staking participation post-merge, we need to provide capital markets for blockspace demand. This can come in the form of Yield Tokenization (e.g. Swivel, Element), blockspace reservations (e.g. Eden Network), or direct exchanges (e.g. Alkimiya), however composable infrastructure is necessary. With composable infrastructure on the capital markets layer, we can create interesting instruments such as combined staking+lending+options products, and derivative stablecoins.

Founder @ Swivel
DeFi @ Gitcoin Kernel & Steward @ Gitcoin DAO
MOBA Degenerate, Contributor/Author of EIP-4626, EIP-5095

Julian Traversa

Amplifying Consensus Participation with Blockspace Markets

Escape hatches are meant to be a way to exit assets or state from a rollup in the hopefully unlikely event that sequencers are offline. In this talk, we review which projects have these hatches and what plans are publicly available for future rollups or versions of these rollups. We list some ideas that these, and other rollups, may implement or adopt in the future, for more robust and secure rollups. The suggestions will be rooted in our concern for security and the issues presented by bridges.

I'm the Head of L2 Scaling at Quantstamp. I have been interested in scaling solutions since Lightning was discussed and the Plasma white paper was written. I'm particularly interested in making sure these systems are as secure as they are scalable, and I have looked over several such systems during my time at Quantstamp. I also have a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, where I studied graph algorithms. Other research interests include formal methods and complexity theory.

Jan Gorzny

An Overview and Wishlist for Rollup Escape Hatches

The talk will give an exhaustive overview of the different AMM algorithms currently deployed on major distributed ledgers, as well as the underlying intuition behind their design. Building up from the basic principles of AMM design, the talk will then cover the algorithmic mechanisms used in the various different algorithms including Constant Sum, Constant Product (Uniswap V2), Uniswap V3, KyberSwap, StableSwap (Curve), CryptoSwap (Curve V2), Solidly Stable pairs, Clipper, Dodo, and RFQ systems.

Coming from a background in artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning, Matt now leads development of the order routing algorithm and smart contracts for odos.xyz

Matt Deible

An Overview of AMM Mechanisms

Semaphore is a protocol, designed to be a simple and generic privacy layer for Ethereum DApps. Using zero knowledge, Ethereum users can prove their membership of a group and send signals such as votes or endorsements without revealing their original identity. The talk will describe the protocol, the main concepts and some use cases. A simple demo will also likely be used to show how Semaphore can be used to create DApps and solve real problems in the ecosystem.

Blockchain Software Engineer. Working on usable, open, decentralized technologies for a real user-centric web.

Cedoor

Anonymous Signalling on Ethereum

Recent efforts have made it possible to write zero-knowledge proofs without having deep expertise in cryptography. Nevertheless, these proofs can be subtly wrong and result in situations where the application erroneously “verifies” bogus information from an attacker. In this talk, we will give an overview of our research that can be used to reason about the correctness of zero-knowledge proofs and highlight some of the open-source tools that Veridise has developed to find bugs in ZK circuits.

I am a current PhD student at UT Austin as well as the CTO and a co-founder of Veridise. My work focuses on developing automated techniques to verify and identify bugs in various locations in the blockchain stack.

Jon Stephens

Are Your Zero-Knowledge Proofs Correct?

I have always say and believe that art reflects what happens in society.  From Renaissance to Cryptopunks, I am going to take you on a journey of the history of art, and why after the covid19 NFTs became popular, even though they were actually created in 2012 with the colored coins. Based on my own experience as the 1st female cryptoartist in Colombia, we will learn with what I like to call my"street" experience and discover the power of a female in a men dominated space.

Im the first female artist in Colombia. I paint in one line trace because we're all connected by one trace, and if you are connected to your soul you can shine brighter. I am a civil engineer, convinced that the bridges that we need to build to make the world a better place are physical and between people. I exhibit my NFTs at Expo Dubai and coming soon at Times Square. I have been feature in Forbes, Bloomberg, Elle UK, Vogue magazine among other important press mediums.

Soy Fira

Art Reflects What Happens in Society

Smart contract wallets (SCW) have a potential to streaml UX and increase compatibility of asset and dapp contracts.  Well positioned SCW can overcome needs for devs to integrate increasing number of standards. Instead SCWs can improve composability between dapps and decrease the amount of TXs needed, enabling dev to focus on core features rather than handling custom or niche cases of asset contracts.  PWN Safe is an example of such wallet enabling selfcustody of lending collateral.

Josef is an active member of [Parallel Polis](https://paralelnipolis.cz/en), the base of the Prague cypherpunk community and the HQ of the Institute of Cryptoanarchy. At the IoC he is occasionally organinzing Ethereum meetups (since 2016). He is also the founder and maintainer of the local nonconformist hackerspace [Bordel](https://bordel.space).

Josef J

Naim

Asset Rights Abstractions - a Case for Smart Contract Wallets

A panel discussing approaches to auditing the zkEVM.

Barry Whitehat

Auditing Strategy for zkEVM

A session for those interested in the latest developments in Autonomous Worlds and fully on-chain games, including demos of cutting-edge projects, a panel with Optimism co-founder Kevin Ho and Dark Forest creator gubsheep, and an introduction to MUD — the open-source engine for building Autonomous Worlds. More info here: https://0xparc.notion.site/Autonomous-Worlds-SLS-612ff18a99f54594806776971b5a8ec6

Game developer at @latticexyz working on Sky Strife.
Previously game developer at @darkforest_eth.

Andy

Arthur Baer

Flynn Calcutt

building ZK rollups for games at the 0xPARC AW Residency

Fraser

Co-founder and dungeon designer @movingcastles_

cyberspace vintner and digital physicist.

Justin Glibert

Commercial lead at Asphodel. Working on economic design and mechanisms for Autonomous Worlds.

Lethe

Omar Mezenner

Ops, startups, higher ed + tech, outdoor activities.

Remy

Autonomous Worlds Self Led Session

Formal verification can be a huge boon to smart contract security as it checks all possible execution paths. Unfortunately, even verified code can be faulty if the formal specification contains mistakes. "Bad" proofs can lead to false confidence in the code and premature deployment. This talk will discuss different types of "bad" proofs and how to avoid them.

Uri is a Developer Advocate and Software Developer at Certora. Uri fell in love with blockchain in 2018 after doing a research project as an undergraduate student at the Technion. He joined Certora right after graduation.

Uri Kirstein

Bad Proofs in Formal Verification

The next iteration of “the web” is not going to build itself - and people in developing countries are not going to participate in this (r)evolution without some guidance and financial support.  See what can be achieved by handing out scholarships to students in developing countries and guiding them in their learning process towards becoming proficient in the web3 ecosystem.

Born in former Yugoslavia in 1988 Left for Germany as a refugee in 1992 Finished studying Industrial Engineering in Germany in 2013 Finished a PhD in Machine Learning in 2019 Involved in Bitcoin and Ethereum since 2016, attended devcon IV in Prague in 2018 Worked as a Data Scientist until the end of 2021 Started inat scholarship in 2022 to finance and educate students in Bosnia and Hercegovina

Denis Vuckovac

Balkanize Learn2Earn - Educating & Financing the Next Batch of Web3 Developers in the Balkans

This panel invites 3 of the leading bridge protocols to debate the various tradeoffs that have emerged between different cross chain bridge designs, including pros and cons, and security considerations. Panelists include the founders of Across (Hart Lambur), Hop (Chris Whinfrey), Succinct (Uma Roy), and will be moderated by Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet).

Co-founder of Hop Protocol Author of the Hop Whitepaper: https://hop.exchange/whitepaper.pdf Previously co-founder of Authereum and Level K Audited Open Zeppelin, dYdX, Augur, Decentraland, and more Started the first Ethereum meetup in Boston

Chris Whinfrey

Hart is the Co-Founder of Risk Labs, the foundation supporting the UMA and Across protocols. UMA is an optimistic oracle (OO) that can provide and verify arbitrary data on-chain. Across is a cross-chain bridge that is secured by UMA's optimistic oracle.
Hart studied computer science before working as an interest rate trader at Goldman Sachs through the financial crisis. In 2013. He now leads a team of researchers at Risk Labs.

Hart Lambur

Floating through the Ether, reading math papers, writing DeFi research @GauntletNetwork, techno lover.

Tarun Chitra

Building proof of consensus at succinct.xyz

Uma Roy

Battle of the Bridges: Untangling the Tradeoffs of Various Bridge Designs

In this session, we will discuss the need for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging and how it affects builder communities. We will also learn actional ways to be a better accomplice to diverse builders, colleagues, and communities. This workshop will address ways to attract, retain, and promote diverse talent as well as advocate for diverse perspectives in policy and personal spaces.

Gloria is a Builder Relations expert for Gitcoin's events team where she recently lead Gitcoin’s DEI Grants round in GR14. She is passionately using technology to empower people economically and to amplify marginalized voices. She also enjoys creating and amplifying web3 ecosystems built on inclusivity and diversity.  She serves as the Technical Advisor on the Board of Directors for the Black Women Blockchain Council,  and runs the  “Ask Gloria” advice column in Reinvented Magazine.

Gloria Kimbwala

Be a Superhero!  Tangible Actions to Support Diverse Builders and Show Allyship in Web3 Communities

So you have been trusted with safeguarding a project along with other members of your community, congratulations! But, alas, the first transaction from a developer on the team comes in. How do you proceed? Can you blindly trust the developer? Should you? It's tempting to just see what other multisig members do and roll along, right? In this talk we'll go over what you can do to verify what a transaction will actually do, and what tools you have at your disposal for this. No coding required!

Santiago joined the Ethereum dev space in 2017. He has worked as Director of Development and Security Reseacher at OpenZeppelin, has contributed to multiple open source projects, and wrote the book "Ethereum for Web Developers". He's also a councilmember for TheGraph. 
Prior to web3, he worked for over 10 years on software development, focusing on disease surveillance and disaster response. He was also a TA at University of Buenos Aires, where he got his Masters in Computer Science.

Santiago Palladino

Being a Responsible Multisig Signer (Verify, Don't Trust!)

A brisk jaunt through the state of the art in Solidity editor tooling, a tour of Nomic's Solidity Language Server and how we can take Solidity editor support to the next level.

Programmer and team lead at the Nomic Foundation.

John Kane

Better Solidity Support in VSCode by Hardhat

We look at the challenges of implementing various diversity-improving policies on a PoS network. Economic (dis)incentivization is a popular approach, but can be undermined by non-standard miner economics such as (cross-domain) MEV or derivatives on incentivization. As an alternative, we outline an approach to include diversity support into the consensus level without requiring changing the basic functionality of the protocol by adapting the concept of general adversary structures.

Klaus has first started working on Byzantine Consensus during his PhD in 1998, where he build a fully asynchronous consensus layer. He then explored and published in other areas of digital security including secure hardware, privacy preserving technologies, and security for critical infrastructures, before returning to further work on Byzantine fault tolerance. He currently works for Vega protocol.

Klaus Kursawe

Beyond Stake: Implementing Diversity Policies on PoS

We are seeing the emergence of a specialized role on the Ethereum network dedicated to assembling the contents of each block as the ecosystem grows and the impact of "maximum extractable value" (MEV) becomes clear. This talk investigates block building after the Merge and what considerations the move to proof-of-stake brings to the process along with what norms we should strive for to avoid dangerous centralization pressures while maximizing validator profits.

Alex Stokes is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation who believes deeply in the Ethereum vision. To achieve this vision, he has been working on scaling R&D to make the core protocol more secure and accessible to everyone. This includes tooling and testing work for the Merge, exploratory prototyping for sharding work like EIP-4844 and EIP-4895 to enable validator withdrawals after the Merge. When he is not working on Ethereum, you can find him at the nearest mountaintop.

Alex Stokes

Block building after the Merge

A workshop which goes through how to build an EVM observability application and how to interpret the data collected. This workshop aims to empower users to venture into blockchain analytics to identify arbitrage opportunities, high value projects and the centralization of protocol/DAO voting power in a protocol.

I'm a smart-contract/full stack engineer who is in love with De-Fi and blockchain in general. I have been working in the space for 3 years now and have primarily focused on building bonds-on-blockchain, derivative trading and blockchain observavability platforms. i have significant experience in the oracle space having worked with Chainlink for 2 years and have a real passion for ensuring external data arrives un-compromised and in-tact when powering blockchain-applications.

Benjamin Memisevic

Blockchain Analytics 101: Building an Indexer from Scratch

If Ethereum is a digital nation, millions of Africans will flock in masses to become citizens. Why? A fair chance to participate in an open borderless economy, and ultimately self-determination. Web3 is unleashing a generation of African talent trapped within the confines of the old gated economy. A new narrative places Africa differently through the Web3 lens. Why should Ethereum builders take African talent and markets seriously? Where are low hanging fruits for win-win scenarios?

Yoseph is an entrepreneur building at the intersection of Web3 and Africa, and focused on growing the borderless economy on the continent.
He co-founded and was CEO of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship (ehf.org), a community of 500+ top tier entrepreneurs and investors from 68 countries. He built a new immigration program with the New Zealand government, and ran it as a public-private partnership. Yoseph is from Ethiopia, and grew up in East Africa.

Yoseph Ayele

Borderless Africa - a New Narrative

Non-transferable NFTs (or soul-bound tokens) open a rich design space for enhanced social coordination and ultimately decentralization within Ethereum. If you’re interested in building a bottom-up, decentralized future, we invite you to join us in exploring non-plutocratic DAO governance, community wallet recovery, and sybil-resistance as well as potential use cases in news, science, and the creative and knowledge economy to foster consensus across difference.

Paula Berman is COO of RadicalxChange Foundation, a non-profit supporting a global movement for next-generation political economies.

Paula Berman

Puja Ohlhaver is co-author of Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul. 
She is a lawyer, entrepreneur, and social incentive design thinker, whose work has been featured in various outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired Magazine, Politico. 
She is currently a strategist at Flashbots.