# Devcon 8: sessions, day 1 Times are the venue's (UTC+5:30). Each line: CODE · time · room · format · track · level · "title" · speakers · tags · summary. Quote the CODE to refer to a session. ## Day 1, Tue 3 Nov 2026 - agentic-s01 · 09:00-10:00 · Agentic Hub · Welcome · Community Hubs · "Opening hours: meet and greet and StackChan robot demo" · tags: Agentic Hub, Intro · The Devcon opening ceremony overlaps with this slot, so we have to cancel the Agents-from-zero onboarding session. Please join us the next day instead: the same Agents-from-zero… - p2p-networking-s01 · 09:00-10:00 · P2P Networking Hub · Welcome · Community Hubs · "Welcome, open hours and coffee" · tags: P2P Networking Hub - resilient-networking-s01 · 09:00-10:00 · Resilient Networking Hub · Welcome · Community Hubs · "Resilient Networks from Zero: peer identity, discovery, transports and secure connections" · with Manu Sheel Gupta, Miglė Rakitaitė, Banri Yanahama, Shouki Tsuda, Steven Mih, Tomoki Adachi · tags: Resilient Networking Hub, Intro · Intro and Warm Welcome - agentic-s02 · 10:00-12:00 · Agentic Hub · Welcome · Community Hubs · "Opening hours: meet and greet and StackChan robot demo" · with Nicolás Arnedo Villanueva · tags: Agentic Hub, Community · Kick off the Agents Hub with a relaxed first two hours. Meet the hub team and the other builders, see the StackChan robot demo, and look at the empty agent stack map on the… - aggregation-s01 · 10:00-13:00 · Aggregation Hub · Welcome · Community Hubs · "Meet the Hub" · tags: Aggregation Hub · Welcome and introductions. Help us start the Map and Graveyard boards. - open-source-s01 · 10:00-11:00 · Open Source Hub · Welcome · Community Hubs · "Community Greet and Chat" · with Open Source Hub Team · tags: Open Source Hub - p2p-networking-s37 · 10:00-12:00 · P2P Networking Hub · · Community Hubs · "Networking and keynotes" · tags: P2P Networking Hub - prediction-markets-s01 · 10:00-12:00 · Prediction Markets Hub · Welcome · Community Hubs · "Prediction Markets Community Hub Opening Meet n Greet" · tags: Prediction Markets Hub - resilient-networking-s02 · 10:00-10:30 · Resilient Networking Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Verifiable Actions in Open Systems" · with Steven Mih, Anurag, Manu · tags: Resilient Networking Hub, Research · Verifiable Actions in Open Systems: why independently verifiable evidence matters - UQTFKT · 10:10-10:20 · Main Stage (Lotus) · Opening · · level: No prior knowledge · "Opening - Welcome to Devcon India!" · with nethan · Devcon India Overview - Don’t miss the Devcon Opening Ceremony, where we’ll set the stage for an incredible event ahead! - DALFGB · 10:25-10:40 · Main Stage (Lotus) · Keynote · · level: No prior knowledge · "The Open Secure and Verifiable Half to a Brighter Future" · with Vitalik · Keynote by V - india-s03 · 10:30-11:30 · India Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Can't Be Taken Down: Building Censorship-Resistant Apps with Swarm" · with Alok · tags: India Hub, Governance · A hands-on look at how ETH Swarm enables decentralised storage and communication, and how to build apps that can’t be taken down. - resilient-networking-s03 · 10:30-11:00 · Resilient Networking Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "When Many-to-Many Isn’t Mixing: privacy measurements and anonymity guarantees in shielded UTXO systems" · with Tomoki Adachi · tags: Resilient Networking Hub, Research · Examines how well many-to-many transactions actually hide users in shielded UTXO systems, with privacy measurements and the anonymity guarantees they support. - KMRKHW · 10:40-10:55 · Main Stage (Lotus) · Keynote · · level: No prior knowledge · "Sanctuary, Together" · with Audrey Tang · Keynote by Audrey Tang - desci-s01 · 10:50-11:10 · DeSci Hub · Welcome · Community Hubs · "Opening Notes" · with Iqra, Arya, Harshita · tags: DeSci Hub · Let's get started! - UCBU3V · 11:00-11:20 · Main Stage (Lotus) · Keynote · · level: No prior knowledge · "Post-Quantum Transition" · with Justin Drake, Kev · Keynote: Roadmap, PQ - open-source-s02 · 11:00-11:20 · Open Source Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "How I survive as a web3 community builder?" · with Nicole Nguyen · tags: Open Source Hub - resilient-networking-s04 · 11:00-11:30 · Resilient Networking Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Functional languages in p2p and Protocol Implementation: implementation choices and interoperability across P2P stacks" · with Shouki Tsuda · tags: Resilient Networking Hub, Tooling · Looks at how functional programming languages shape P2P protocol implementations, and what that means for interoperability across different P2P stacks. - desci-s02 · 11:10-11:30 · DeSci Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Intro to DeSci India + QnA" · with Arya Agarwaal · tags: DeSci Hub · What challenges shape academia in India, and where does DeSci fit in? Explore how decentralized science could open up new ways to fund, conduct, and share research, and discover… - QVCWKC · 11:20-11:40 · Main Stage (Lotus) · Keynote · · level: No prior knowledge · "Reducing the Trust Surface" · with Derek Sorensen, Mooly Sagiv · Reducing the Trust Surface - base-booth-base-workshop-b20-token-standard · 11:30-12:30 · Base Booth · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Base Workshop: B20 Token Standard" · with Youssef · tags: Base Booth · A practical walkthrough of B20, Base's native token standard. Go beyond basic ERC-20 transfers: learn how to use built-in compliance controls (allowlists, freeze, pause), role… - india-s04 · 11:30-13:30 · India Hub · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Build Battle #1: Censorship-Free World" · with Rampall · tags: India Hub · Today’s challenge goes live on the Loops House Platform. Build and submit, with special swag for the day’s top performer. The space is open to build at your own pace. - open-source-s03 · 11:30-12:00 · Open Source Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Lightning Talks" · with Kailash Sharma, Verushka Fernandes, Soumyadip Chowdhury, Pragya Bhardwaj · tags: Open Source Hub · 1) Free Pizza Is Not a Community Strategy: What Actually Makes Developers Come Back (Kailash Sharma), 2) Campus to Global: The Power of Student-Led Communities (Verushka… - resilient-networking-s05 · 11:30-12:00 · Resilient Networking Hub · AMA · Community Hubs · "Maintainer Meet-up and Network Lab 101:project introductions" · with Daniel Thompson, Shouki Tsuda, Sumanjeet, Soham Bhoir, Yash Saini · tags: Resilient Networking Hub, Community · Open Q&A with maintainers who introduce their projects and answer questions, as a first look at the Network Lab. - desci-s03 · 11:40-12:20 · DeSci Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "From Complexity to Clarity: Exploring DeSci, AI & Web3 with Desync Talks + QnA" · with Harshita Sehgal · tags: DeSci Hub · Discover the vision behind Desync Talks and how thoughtful conversations can make emerging technologies easier to understand and engage with. Explore how we can foster curiosity,… - LZ3EJK · 11:40-12:00 · Main Stage (Lotus) · Keynote · · level: No prior knowledge · "End-to-End Privacy" · with Nico, Luca Donno · End-to-End Privacy - music-stage-s27 · 11:50-12:20 · Music Stage · Live Music · Community Hubs · "Jaydeepdan Gadhavi" · with Jaydeepdan Gadhavi · tags: Music Stage, Folk & Roots · the vibrant sound of gujarat · folk voice · Folk & Roots, Vocal & Covers - agentic-s03 · 12:00-12:10 · Agentic Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "x402 and ERC-8183: what works today and what is on the roadmap" · with Nicolás Arnedo Villanueva · tags: Agentic Hub, Intro · x402 lets a service charge an AI agent per request over plain HTTP. ERC-8183 is a newer standard for agents hiring each other with escrowed payment. Nicolás Arnedo Villanueva,… - eip-s01 · 12:00-12:20 · EIP Hub · Keynote · Community Hubs · "Draft to Standards: Proposals Need People" · with Pooja Ranjan · tags: EIP Hub, Community · Every Ethereum feature you use today started as someone’s draft. In this opening keynote, Pooja Ranjan (ECH Institute) shares standard’s journey from idea to implementation. She… - game-zone-s01 · 12:00-13:00 · Game Zone · Demo · Community Hubs · "Playing: Maze of Gains + Stomp.gg" · tags: Game Zone, Game · Maze of Gains: Climb the leaderboard in this turn-based roguelike dungeon crawler, fighting enemies and collecting treasure. Top 50 Devcon players share $1,000 in Yield Fields… - legal-governance-s01 · 12:00-12:40 · Legal & Governance Hub · Welcome · Community Hubs · "Token Rights 101 (EN)" · with Pree, Wei Wei, Husam Abboud · tags: Legal & Governance Hub, Intro · Every token makes a claim: ownership, access, a share of cashflow, a vote. This session sets the shared vocabulary for the whole hub. It covers the main rights a token can carry,… - onchain-art-s02 · 12:00-13:00 · Onchain Art Hub · Welcome · Community Hubs · "Onchain Art Hub Opening" · tags: Onchain Art Hub - open-hardware-zone-s01 · 12:00-12:30 · Open Hardware Zone · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Proof of Presence, in LEDs" · with Maker's Asylum · tags: Open Hardware Zone, Maker Skills · Make your own light-up LED name tag at the Maker's Asylum table. - open-source-s04 · 12:00-13:00 · Open Source Hub · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Workshop: ERC-8009 Discussion & Demo" · with Daniel Nagy · tags: Open Source Hub, Intro · ​ERC-8009 will be demonstrated during the workshop, using real Ledger and Trezor devices. ERC-8009 fixes blind signing, the biggest current web3 security challenge. - p2p-networking-s02 · 12:00-12:30 · P2P Networking Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Intro to Hub, P2P and Ethereum’s stack" · with Yiannis Psarras · tags: P2P Networking Hub, Intro · Speaker: Yiannis Psarras (ProbeLab) - privacy-s01 · 12:00-12:40 · Privacy Hub · Fireside Chat · Community Hubs · "The Right to Disappear Onchain" · with Uddalak, Akashneelesh, Agnish, Aasha · tags: Privacy Hub - resilient-networking-s06 · 12:00-13:00 · Resilient Networking Hub · Roundtable · Community Hubs · "What Makes a Network Resilient? Research discussion on connectivity, trust, failure and recovery" · with Miglė Rakitaitė, Manu Sheel Gupta, Banri Yanahama, Steven Mih, Tomoki Adachi, Thomas Humphreys · tags: Resilient Networking Hub, Governance · A research discussion on what makes a network resilient, covering connectivity, trust, failure and recovery. Speaker: Miglė Rakitaitė (Swarm leadership) - security-s03 · 12:00-12:10 · Security Hub · Welcome · Community Hubs · "Welcome to the Security Hub" · tags: Security Hub, Community · Why we're here, what the next four days are for, and how to get the most out of them. - zuzone-s01 · 12:00-14:00 · Zuzone Hub · Welcome · Community Hubs · "Welcome Gathering + community hours" · tags: Zuzone Hub - agentic-s04 · 12:10-12:20 · Agentic Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "ERC-8004 in practice: registration works, reputation is the hard part" · with Fortunato Cinquepalmi · tags: Agentic Hub, Intro · ERC-8004 gives AI agents an onchain identity and a place for reputation. Registering an agent is easy. Making reputation mean something is not. Fortunato Cinquepalmi, Product Lead… - FCZDAJ · 12:10-12:15 · Jasmine Stage 4 · Opening · [CLS] - Community Hubs · level: No prior knowledge · "Community Hubs Opening" · with Ornella · Join us in the Jasmine stage to learn more about Devcon 8 Community Hubs - security-s04 · 12:10-12:50 · Security Hub · Roundtable · Community Hubs · "The State of Ethereum Security" · tags: Security Hub · An open conversation with everyone in the room. Where are we failing, what's working, and what keeps you up at night? - QAJPU8 · 12:10-12:15 · Workshop 1 · Opening · [CLS] - Builder Enablement & BuidlGuidl · level: No prior knowledge · "Builder Enablement x BuidlGuidl Opening" · Community-Led Session: Builder Enablement x BuidlGuidl Opening - NX3E73 · 12:15-12:40 · Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk · [CLS] - Community Hubs · level: No prior knowledge · "DeSci Hub - The World of DeSci" · with Arya Agarwaal · tags: Cryptography, Governance, DAOs, DeSci, Community, Research · Scientific research depends on funding, collaboration, publishing, data sharing, and trust. But the infrastructure supporting these activities often presents barriers to openness… - FJKNCP · 12:15-12:40 · Workshop 1 · Talk · [CLS] - Builder Enablement & BuidlGuidl · level: No prior knowledge · "AI x Ethereum: where we are now" · with Austin Griffith · tags: AI, Open Source, Public Goods · The path from an idea to an Ethereum app is changing fast. AI can help explain unfamiliar concepts, write smart contracts, and build interfaces. So where should builders focus… - ER8EHM · 12:15-13:05 · Workshop 2 · Workshop · [CLS] - Community Hubs · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "Resilient Networking Hub - Building Resilient Ethereum" · with Manu Sheel Gupta, Shouki Tsuda, Leo Lara · tags: Post-quantum, AI, P2P, Formal Verification, Resilience, Sovereignty · Ethereum’s resilience is a collective achievement, sustained by protocol researchers, consensus client teams, security practitioners, networking maintainers, and the open-source… - agentic-s11 · 12:20-12:30 · Agentic Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Evidence has a shelf life: queryable, expiring data for ERC-8004 agents" · with Shantelle Awomoyi · tags: Agentic Hub, Tooling · ERC-8004 stores hashes onchain but leaves the actual evidence offchain, with no rule on how long it stays available. Shantelle Awomoyi, Head of Ecosystem at Golem Factory, shows… - eip-s02 · 12:20-13:00 · EIP Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "EIP content in the new AI-era: why specification clarity matters more than ever" · with Jochem Brouwer · tags: EIP Hub, Governance · We are all using AIs much more than in the past. We point our AIs to implement specifications, such as EIP documents. These documents are not only used as the root source of truth… - agentic-s05 · 12:30-12:40 · Agentic Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Agent payments with real users: three live examples" · with Lena Hierzi · tags: Agentic Hub, Intro · Plenty of agent payment demos exist. Few have real users. Lena Hierzi, DevRel Lead at Celo Core Co, shows three agent payment setups that people actually use, how to tell them… - desci-s04 · 12:30-13:00 · DeSci Hub · Networking · Community Hubs · "Cross-Hub Connect: Aggregation Hub x DeSci Hub" · with Alexandra, Kerem, Vojtch · tags: DeSci Hub · Discussing the differences between Ethereum usage here in India compared to Europe - music-stage-s28 · 12:30-13:00 · Music Stage · Live Music · Community Hubs · "Nidhi Harihar — Songs of India" · with Nidhi Harihar · tags: Music Stage, Folk & Roots · 10 folk songs in 10 languages · hindustani classical since age 5 · Folk & Roots, Vocal & Covers - 9SYFAJ · 12:35-12:42 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Core Protocol · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "The last mile of Ethereum validator consolidations" · with Dmitry Gusakov · tags: Core Protocol, Staking, Roadmap · In the talk, I want to present the current state of Ethereum consolidations and provide a detailed overview of EIP-8148: Custom sweep threshold for validators. As one of the… - agentic-s06 · 12:40-13:00 · Agentic Hub · Roundtable · Community Hubs · "Will agent payments stick?" · with Nicolás Arnedo Villanueva, Fortunato Cinquepalmi, Lena Hierzi · tags: Agentic Hub, Intro · Agent payment rails keep shipping, but is anyone using them? Nicolás Arnedo Villanueva moderates Fortunato Cinquepalmi (Kleros) and Lena Hierzi (Celo Core Co) as optimists and… - VK7N3H · 12:45-13:10 · Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk · [CLS] - Community Hubs · level: No prior knowledge · "P2P Networking Hub - Guided Tour of Ethereum's Networking Layer" · with Yiannis Psaras · tags: Core Protocol, P2P, Developer Tooling, Resilience, Research, Privacy · Ethereum's peer-to-peer layer is the plumbing underneath everything else: the system that lets thousands of independent nodes find each other, move data around and the chain… - BYHYXS · 12:45-12:52 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Core Protocol · level: No prior knowledge · "From 16 Minutes to Seconds: A Roadmap to Fast Finality on Ethereum" · with Yann Vonlanthen · tags: Core Protocol, Consensus, Roadmap · Reaching the Fast L1 North Star requires a holistic view, as Decoupled Consensus is only the first step. We show how networking improvements and validator consolidation, together… - 3WG9NQ · 12:45-13:10 · Workshop 1 · Talk · [CLS] - Builder Enablement & BuidlGuidl · level: No prior knowledge · "Learning in the AI era" · with Pablo Alayeto · tags: AI, Open Source, Public Goods · AI is changing how we study, teach, and check what someone has learned. It offers new ways to ask questions, get feedback, and explore unfamiliar subjects. It also makes it easy… - legal-governance-s02 · 12:50-13:30 · Legal & Governance Hub · Welcome · Community Hubs · "Token Rights 101 (Local Language: Hindi)" · with Balaji Pachai · tags: Legal & Governance Hub, Intro · Same session as Token Rights 101 (EN), delivered in Hindi. - agentic-s09 · 13:00-14:00 · Agentic Hub · Workshop · Community Hubs · "8004, x402, AP2, ACP and MPP disambiguated, and why not just give the agent a card?" · with Lena Hierzi, Nicolás Arnedo Villanueva · tags: Agentic Hub, Intro · Five agent standards, overlapping names and a lot of confusion. This workshop works from open questions posted by builders. Lena Hierzi (Celo Core Co) and Nicolás Arnedo… - game-zone-s03 · 13:00-16:00 · Game Zone · Demo · Community Hubs · "Chess Tournament by ETHIndia" · tags: Game Zone, Game · Open to all Devcon attendees: compete in ETHIndia’s knockout chess tournament, and the winner plays GM Vidit Gujrathi on Wednesday 4 November at 1pm. Partnership by @verantaxyz.… - game-zone-s02 · 13:00-14:00 · Game Zone · Demo · Community Hubs · "Playing: Maze of Gains + Realms Frontier" · tags: Game Zone, Game · Maze of Gains: Climb the leaderboard in this turn-based roguelike dungeon crawler. Top 50 Devcon players share $1,000 in Yield Fields seed assets. Realms Frontier: Attack,… - LG3SGH · 13:05-13:12 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Core Protocol · level: Deep prior knowledge · "EIP-7923: A Sparse-Page-Based Memory Model for the EVM" · with Qi Zhou · tags: Core Protocol, Roadmap, EVM, Security · EIP-7923 enables 64MB of memory allocation per transaction through a sparse-page-based memory model with linearized gas costs. Today, the EVM’s quadratic memory pricing — designed… - eip-s03 · 13:10-14:10 · EIP Hub · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Your Path Into Ethereum ecosystem with EIP Hub" · with Pooja Ranjan, Rajdeep Chakraborty, Subhrajeet Bhattacharjee · tags: EIP Hub · Ethereum isn’t changed by one person or one company. It changes through EIPs: open proposals anyone can write, discuss and review. This workshop encourages potential contributors… - music-stage-s29 · 13:10-14:10 · Music Stage · Live Music · Community Hubs · "Aniket Gundewar" · with Aniket Gundewar · tags: Music Stage, Rock & Guitar · indian classical on electric guitar · gayaki ang · with tabla · Rock & Guitar - LTAQGE · 13:15-14:00 · Community Led Stage · CLS - Panel (Defi 101) 1h · [CLS] - Defi 101 · level: No prior knowledge · "Securing Ethereum in the age of AI: Challenges & Opportunities" · with 0xRajeev, Vitalik, Fredrik Svantes, Mooly Sagiv, Josselin Feist · Securing Ethereum in the age of AI: Challenges & Opportunities - LYJG9R · 13:15-13:40 · Jasmine Stage 4 · Mixed Format · [CLS] - Community Hubs · level: No prior knowledge · "Aggregation Hub - Can Ethereum Feel Like One Chain Without Becoming One?" · with Gopi Mehta, Vojta · tags: Decentralization, Scalability, Coordination, Community · Ethereum’s scaling has created a diverse landscape of rollups, bridges, ecosystems, standards, and communities. That diversity brought experimentation and scale, but also… - 8NVAUE · 13:15-13:22 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Core Protocol · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "Paths to a Private L1" · with Joss Duff · tags: Core Protocol, Defipunk, Privacy · The Strawmap lists "private L1 shielded transfers" as a North Star goal but the best approach is still unclear. You might have heard of a few: enshrined shielded pool, app-layer… - QP7HV9 · 13:15-13:40 · Workshop 1 · Talk · [CLS] - Builder Enablement & BuidlGuidl · level: No prior knowledge · "Building on Ethereum with agents" · with Shiv Bhonde · tags: AI, Open Source, Public Goods · Builders have started using agents to build apps, but agents haven't been trained on nearly as much code for building on Ethereum as on regular software, so they often make bad… - ULE3PG · 13:15-14:05 · Workshop 2 · Workshop · [CLS] - Community Hubs · level: No prior knowledge · "EIP Hub - Unlock Ethereum: Find Your Path" · with Pooja Ranjan · tags: Core Protocol, Decentralization, MEV, Account Abstraction, Open Source, Governance · Ethereum evolves through open collaboration, but understanding how proposals become standards, protocol upgrades, and real-world implementations can be challenging. This 60-minute… - A8C93U · 13:25-13:32 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Core Protocol · level: Deep prior knowledge · "FOCIL Solves Censorship. What Doesn't It Solve About Builders?" · with Marissa Posner · tags: Core Protocol, Decentralization, Censorship Resistance · FOCIL addresses one of the clearest risks of builder concentration: censorship. But inclusion is only one dimension of builder power. Builders can still differentiate through… - p2p-networking-s03 · 13:30-14:30 · P2P Networking Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Decentralization: ChainScope visualisation" · with Csaba Kiraly · tags: P2P Networking Hub, Tooling · Speaker: Csaba Kiraly (EF) - YEQFXR · 13:35-13:42 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Security · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "Sybil Attacks on Inclusion List Mechanisms: FOCIL and AUCIL" · with Abhimanyu Nag · tags: MEV, Security, Censorship Resistance, Coordination · Inclusion lists are important for Ethereum’s censorship resistance, but their robustness to Sybil attacks remains unresolved. This talk compares FOCIL and AUCIL under a false name… - desci-s08 · 13:40-14:10 · DeSci Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "The DeSci Evolution: What Worked, What Didn't, and What Might Be Next + QnA" · with Ella McCarthy-Page · tags: DeSci Hub · What will it take to move DeSci forward? Explore three key pillars of innovation: Web3 technology, AI-augmented scientific research, and legal frameworks such as token-equity… - TDKZNP · 13:45-14:10 · Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk · [CLS] - Community Hubs · level: No prior knowledge · "Open Source Hub - Your Developer Community Needs More Than a Hackathon" · with Mario Behling, Srivatsav Aushwin · tags: Decentralization, Open Source, Community, OSS in Ethereum, Developer Tooling · What keeps developers building after a hackathon? Mario Behling shares how FOSSASIA helped over 100,000 young people enter open source and built projects across 200+ repositories.… - X9WZEZ · 13:45-13:52 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Futures Worth Building · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "AMPO: Minimal trust options" · with Keating · tags: Decentralization, DeFi, Security · On-chain mechanisms that rely on external dependencies, such as oracle operators, tend to focus on decentralizing them. AmPO demonstrates another path: to design them away. AmPO… - HFQMZB · 13:45-14:10 · Workshop 1 · Talk · [CLS] - Builder Enablement & BuidlGuidl · level: No prior knowledge · "ETH Evals: testing agents on Ethereum" · with Rinat Akhunianov · tags: AI, Open Source, Public Goods · Agents write Solidity, send transactions, and use live protocols, yet builders still pick models, agents, and skills by feel. We spent the past months trying to measure this… - agentic-s13 · 14:00-14:30 · Agentic Hub · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Evidence under the payment: who asked, who served, what it cost, signed by both sides" · with Steven Mih · tags: Agentic Hub, Tooling · When an agent pays another agent, who can later prove what happened? Steven Mih, founder and CEO of Action State Group and a maintainer of Mesh-LLM, shows an open-source evidence… - aggregation-s02 · 14:00-14:30 · Aggregation Hub · AMA · Community Hubs · "After the Talk" · with Gopi, Vojta · tags: Aggregation Hub, Open Q&A · Continue the conversation from the 13:15 main-stage session, “Can Ethereum Feel Like One Chain Without Becoming One?” - game-zone-s04 · 14:00-16:00 · Game Zone · Demo · Community Hubs · "Playing: Zeeverse + Booty Wars" · tags: Game Zone, Game · Zeeverse: Venture into the dungeon. Top 5 Devcon players earn Zee NFTs. Booty Wars: The community revival of Pirate Nation, evolved. - india-s06 · 14:00-15:00 · India Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Your Chain Is Unstoppable. Your RPC Isn't." · with Ofir Eliasi · tags: India Hub, Tooling · DApp smart contracts are censorship-resistant, but reliance on centralized RPC gateways creates a single point of failure and control. Learn how to architect decentralized access… - R9VECE · 14:00-14:25 · Lotus Stage 1 · Mixed Format · Privacy & Consent · level: Deep prior knowledge · "Blockchain Privacy" · with Asha Shankar · tags: Decentralization, ZK, Consent, Privacy · Public blockchains are transparent by design, yet users, businesses, and regulators all expect privacy, and that gap only widens as enforcement accelerates. Drawing on running a… - 89KLNQ · 14:00-14:25 · Lotus Stage 2 · Talk · Rights, Freedoms, and Governance · level: No prior knowledge · "Civic AI for Self-Governing Communities" · with Audrey Tang · This talk is built from the questions you post and upvote in the Meerkat on this page. Audrey Tang, Taiwan's cyber ambassador and first digital minister, sorts them into six… - BSXVZ7 · 14:00-14:25 · Lotus Stage 3 · Talk · Futures Worth Building · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "Funding the Ethereum Kernel: What Qualifies, What It Costs, What Goes First" · with Martin Hansen · tags: Open Source, Public Goods, Sustainability, Coordination · The Kernel is the set of functions whose failure would cost Ethereum its liveness, correctness, or accessibility. This talk moves from naming them to funding them. It proposes… - open-hardware-zone-s02 · 14:00-14:30 · Open Hardware Zone · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Mint Your Blinky (No Gas Required)" · with Maker's Asylum · tags: Open Hardware Zone, Maker Skills · Learn to solder by building a blinking LED badge you can wear for the rest of Devcon. - open-hardware-zone-s03 · 14:00-14:30 · Open Hardware Zone · Showcase · Community Hubs · "Open-Source Dev Boards and Glyph Devices" · with Srinivasan M · tags: Open Hardware Zone, Open Hardware · Open-source development boards, sensors and modules, and the builds made with them: Glyph Voice, Soundbox, the Glyph Air Controller and the Glyph Tank. https://shop.pcbcupid.com/ - open-source-s05 · 14:00-15:00 · Open Source Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Lightning Talks" · with Oleksandr Horlan, Rachit, Saksham Sirohi, Srivatsav Auswin, Arnav Angarka · tags: Open Source Hub · 1) Building an Autonomous AI Security Triager: From LLM to 20,000+ Real Reports (Oleksandr Horlan) 2) AI Can Write the Patch — Can You Get It Merged? (Rachit) 3) Weeks instead of… - prediction-markets-s03 · 14:00-16:00 · Prediction Markets Hub · Roundtable · Community Hubs · "Group Discussion: Prediction market design & creation" · with Clément Lesaege, Manoj Gorle, Abhitej, Pratyaksh Inani, Devansh Mehta, Pradnyashil Gajbhiye · tags: Prediction Markets Hub · Different designs for prediction markets for use cases - privacy-s03 · 14:00-14:30 · Privacy Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Building Unstoppable Private Apps" · with Zachary Williamson · tags: Privacy Hub - resilient-networking-s07 · 14:00-15:00 · Resilient Networking Hub · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Workshop: Formal Verification for Decentralized Systems: practical approaches to reasoning about protocol correctness" · with Banri Yanahama, Ryosuke Kaga · tags: Resilient Networking Hub, Tooling · A hands-on workshop on practical approaches to formal verification, and how to reason about the correctness of decentralized protocols. - security-s06 · 14:00-14:30 · Security Hub · Roundtable · Community Hubs · "ETHSecurity Badge Holders: What Should We Fund Next?" · tags: Security Hub · Badge holders talk through which security problems matter most and where funding would move the needle. - zuzone-s02 · 14:00-14:50 · Zuzone Hub · Welcome · Community Hubs · "Shaka’s Zu music and welcome!" · tags: Zuzone Hub - EGY3JH · 14:15-15:00 · Community Led Stage · CLS - Panel (Defi 101) 1h · [CLS] - Defi 101 · level: No prior knowledge · "State of Web3 Security: Is the Worst Behind us or Ahead?" · with Kirk Baird, Mudit Gupta, Pablo Sabbatella, Julia Hardy, Georgy Kobakhidze · tags: Key Management, Security, OpSec, Privacy · State of Web3 Security: Is the Worst Behind us or Ahead? - desci-s09 · 14:20-14:50 · DeSci Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "From AI-Designed Binders to Robotic Labs: Closing the Drug Discovery Loop + QnA" · with Johannes Weniger · tags: DeSci Hub · What happens when AI agents meet protein design and automated experimentation? Drawing on lessons from the Adaptyv x Anthropic Binder Design Challenge, this talk explores how AI… - eip-s04 · 14:20-15:00 · EIP Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "How Fast Is Your Client? Benchmarking the Ethereum Execution Layer for Glamsterdam" · with Stefan Starflinger, Rafael Matias, Louis Tsai · tags: EIP Hub · Glamsterdam raises Ethereum's gas limit from 60M to 200M and reprices EVM operations, so every gas cost has to match how long clients actually take to execute it. We walk through… - music-stage-s30 · 14:20-14:30 · Music Stage · Special · Community Hubs · "0xMentalist — a trick" · with 0xMentalist · tags: Music Stage, House & Disco · mentalism & close-up magic · 10 minutes, not music · one wireless handheld mic - VPGHTE · 14:30-14:55 · Lotus Stage 1 · Talk · Privacy & Consent · level: No prior knowledge · "Naming the Harm: A privacy threat vocabulary for Ethereum builders" · with msooseth, dactylic · tags: Censorship Resistance, Digital Rights, Privacy · We often talk about privacy with terms too fuzzy to properly reason with. Terms like "anonymous" -- but anonymous to whom, and to what extent? Even if anonymous, what does an… - YQMW7V · 14:30-14:55 · Lotus Stage 2 · Mixed Format · Rights, Freedoms, and Governance · level: No prior knowledge · "Can Agents Be Safe in the Open? Two Levels of Trust" · with Audrey Tang, Vitalik · Audrey Tang and Vitalik Buterin climb toward that question one level at a time, taking the questions the room upvotes in the Meerkat they share with Audrey's talk, which runs just… - music-stage-s14 · 14:30-15:00 · Music Stage · Live Music · Community Hubs · "Vivek Teegalapally" · with Vivek Teegalapally · tags: Music Stage, Vocal & Covers · featured singer-songwriter · guitar & voice · jazzy, improvised - open-hardware-zone-s05 · 14:30-15:00 · Open Hardware Zone · Showcase · Community Hubs · "Open Talks" · tags: Open Hardware Zone, Open Hardware · Walk-up slot: bring your project and show it. - open-hardware-zone-s04 · 14:30-15:30 · Open Hardware Zone · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Universal Ethereum Signer on Open-Source Silicon" · with Nicolas Bacca · tags: Open Hardware Zone, Hardware wallets · Crossbar's Ethereum signer app running on an open-source chip, open hardware and an open operating system. https://github.com/crossbar-inc - p2p-networking-s04 · 14:30-15:30 · P2P Networking Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Mempool: current posture, research directions, PQ aggregation" · with Csaba Kiraly · tags: P2P Networking Hub, Research · Speaker: Csaba Kiraly (EF) - security-s08 · 14:30-15:30 · Security Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "SEAL" · with SEAL contributors · tags: Security Hub - legal-governance-s04 · 14:40-15:00 · Legal & Governance Hub · Networking · Community Hubs · "Networking" · tags: Legal & Governance Hub - privacy-s04 · 14:40-15:20 · Privacy Hub · Fireside Chat · Community Hubs · "zkVMs and Post Quantum Cryptography" · with Harsh Bajpai, Ayush Bhadauria · tags: Privacy Hub - zuzone-s04 · 14:50-15:10 · Zuzone Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Building a frontier tech community in Brazil’s magic island" · with Zeugh · tags: Zuzone Hub, Community - agentic-s12 · 15:00-15:10 · Agentic Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Packaged skills that let any agent use a complex protocol correctly" · with András Arányi, Levente Kiss · tags: Agentic Hub, Tooling · Agents often misuse complex protocols because they lack context. Packaged skills fix that by bundling instructions, examples and checks that any agent can load. András Arányi, CTO… - aggregation-s03 · 15:00-16:00 · Aggregation Hub · Other · Community Hubs · "The Map" · tags: Aggregation Hub, Self-guided · Add your team, a dependency you rely on, or an open question to the map. No presentation. - desci-s07 · 15:00-16:00 · DeSci Hub · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Open Sourced Autoresearch: accelarating the scientific benchmarks via Human-agent collaboration" · with Zeeshan · tags: DeSci Hub · Explore how open-source autoresearch and human-agent collaboration can accelerate scientific discovery and improve research benchmarks. This session looks at how AI agents and… - eip-s05 · 15:00-15:30 · EIP Hub · Other · Community Hubs · "EIP Signal Quiz Game - Understanding EIPs" · with Dhanush Naik · tags: EIP Hub - india-s07 · 15:00-17:00 · India Hub · Networking · Community Hubs · "Code Meets Canvas: Generative Art & Open Build" · with Harsh Gupta, Rohit Shukla · tags: India Hub - legal-governance-s05 · 15:00-16:00 · Legal & Governance Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Designing Valuable Tokens" · with Nate · tags: Legal & Governance Hub, Community · participants designing a protocol with our framework in real time and asking questions/sharing afterward - KUXVYF · 15:00-15:07 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Users, Builders, and Agents · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "Wait! Reentracies are good now?" · with Dominic Bruetsch · tags: DeFi, Security · In this session, we step back from the attack narratives and examine reentrancy as a deliberate engineering choice. Through practical examples drawn from production contracts,… - DDAZFL · 15:00-15:25 · Lotus Stage 1 · Talk · Privacy & Consent · level: No prior knowledge · "Handling Private State Bloat: Pruning Nullifiers and the Privacy-Scalability Trade-Off" · with Preston Vander Vos · tags: Cryptography, Privacy · Privacy-preserving applications like shielded pools, mixers, and anonymous voting face a fundamental scalability crisis: preventing double-spending requires maintaining a global… - C39QAG · 15:00-15:25 · Lotus Stage 2 · Mixed Format · Privacy & Consent · level: No prior knowledge · "Kohaku : privacy for everyone, by default" · with Nico, Vitalik · tags: Core Protocol, Post-quantum, Wallets, Privacy · We will explain and demonstrate how lightclients reduce the trust surface inside a wallet. We will explain and show how embedding the privacy protocols inside a wallet can bring… - PVPMTS · 15:00-15:07 · Lotus Stage 3 · Lightning Talk · Futures Worth Building · level: No prior knowledge · "Connecting Funders and Builders" · with Thomas Humphreys · tags: AI, Open Source, Public Goods, Sustainability · Funding opportunities for builders are spread across sites, forums, and other discourses. A funder publishing a Request for Proposal (RFP) can't run a fair, wide process because… - music-stage-s03 · 15:00-16:00 · Music Stage · Open Jam · Community Hubs · "Open Source Orchestra welcome!!!" · with Open Source Orchestra · tags: Music Stage, Bollywood & Desi · raga, strings, loops & voices · the orchestra plays through the afternoon - open-source-s06 · 15:00-16:00 · Open Source Hub · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Workshop: Set up Eventyay: Docker Up, PR Out - Get Ready for Your First Contribution to a Real Django + Vue Platform Used by Thousands" · with Srivatsav Auswin, Arnav Angarkar, Saksham Sirohi, Rachit · tags: Open Source Hub - resilient-networking-s08 · 15:00-16:00 · Resilient Networking Hub · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Evidence for AI Inference From Strangers: The Design Behind Mesh-LLM’s Capsules Plugin" · with Steven Mih, Manu, Anurag · tags: Resilient Networking Hub, Research · Explores the design of the Capsules plugin in Mesh-LLM and how evidence can be produced when running AI inference on machines operated by strangers. - agentic-s10 · 15:10-15:40 · Agentic Hub · Demo · Community Hubs · "Memory your agent owns, with Swarm MCP" · with András Arányi · tags: Agentic Hub, Tooling · Most agents keep their memory in a vendor's database or lose it between sessions. András Arányi, CTO at Solar Punk, shows how the Swarm MCP server gives any MCP-compatible agent… - VAH3UG · 15:10-15:17 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Users, Builders, and Agents · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "1,014 or 1.014: what breaks in tokenized asset feeds" · with Bianca Buzea · tags: DeFi, Security, Real World · The most common way a tokenized asset can get mispriced onchain is not an attacker. It is a misplaced decimal in a fund administrator sheet: 1,014 where someone meant 1.014, and… - WNTLV3 · 15:10-15:17 · Lotus Stage 3 · Lightning Talk · Futures Worth Building · level: No prior knowledge · "The state of distributed open source funding and what needs to happen next" · with Otto Kekalainen · tags: Open Source, Public Goods · During my open source career (e.g. Free Software Foundation Europe country coordinator, CEO of the MariaDB Foundation, Debian Developer etc) I have witnessed how open source… - zuzone-s05 · 15:10-15:40 · Zuzone Hub · Workshop · Community Hubs · "IAldea for Civic intelligence + Community memory" · with German Abal · tags: Zuzone Hub, Community - QUHRZV · 15:15-16:00 · Community Led Stage · CLS - Panel (Defi 101) 1h · [CLS] - Defi 101 · level: No prior knowledge · "Wallet Security: Past, Present & Future" · with Elliot Friedman, Rahul Rumalla, Robert, Joaquin Pereyra, Michael Lewellen · Wallet Security: Past, Present & Future - GAFFTR · 15:15-15:40 · Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk · [CLS] - Community Hubs · level: No prior knowledge · "Security Hub - How Do We Coordinate Ethereum Security?" · with Anamarija, Sem Bloom, Griff Green · tags: Security, Coordination · How can we better coordinate Ethereum security efforts and make sure the right work gets funded? In this session, we'll introduce the Security Hub at Devcon, discuss the… - JY3MDV · 15:15-16:40 · Workshop 1 · Workshop · [CLS] - Builder Enablement & BuidlGuidl · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "Human + AI Solidity CTF: bring your own agent" · with Carlos Sánchez, Damian Martinelli · tags: EVM, AI, Open Source, Security · This is our first CTF designed for a world where agents can outplay humans. Play as a human, as a human + AI, or as a fully autonomous agent. Prepare your setup and compete to be… - JCGTDY · 15:15-16:05 · Workshop 2 · Workshop · Users, Builders, and Agents · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "Swap Your RPC: Hands-On Verified Reads, Simulation, and Privacy" · with Simon Jentzsch · tags: ZK, Proving Systems, UX, Privacy · Every dApp trusts its RPC provider: it believes the balances, logs, and simulations the provider returns, and leaks the user's addresses and intent doing so. This workshop removes… - HXTUPM · 15:20-15:27 · Lotus Stage 3 · Lightning Talk · Rights, Freedoms, and Governance · level: No prior knowledge · "The History of Ethereum Grant Funding, Built on Open Data" · with Rashmi V Abbigeri · tags: Open Source, Public Goods · Grant funding in Ethereum is ten years old and its record is scattered. Every program keeps its own database, its own format, and its own definitions, so the full picture has… - FGNDST · 15:30-15:55 · Lotus Stage 1 · Talk · Privacy & Consent · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "Private State, Public Network: The Tradeoffs Behind Privacy" · with Zachary Williamson · tags: Decentralization, Cryptography, Privacy · Public blockchains require public data and execution. Multiple technologies, cryptographic or otherwise, seek to fulfil these requirements while obfuscating fundamental… - NXEQ8C · 15:30-15:55 · Lotus Stage 2 · Talk · Rights, Freedoms, and Governance · level: No prior knowledge · "Connectivity Credits: Tokenizing Telecoms for A Better Huma/I/nternet" · with Christopher Fabian · tags: Decentralization, Governance, Digital Rights, Communication, Sanctuaries · Giga (a collaboration with UNICEF and the ITU) is working, with support from EF, to tokenize core network resources (radio spectrum, subsea cables, and in-country internet) to… - PXXPPE · 15:30-15:55 · Lotus Stage 3 · Talk · Futures Worth Building · level: No prior knowledge · "Diversifying Funding for Digital Public Goods: are Frontier Research Contractors the answer?" · with Raul Romanutti · tags: Open Source, Public Goods, Sustainability · FOSS infrastructure suffers a structural funding problem: teams doing the most foundational work generate value that is hard to capture, so no single actor is incentivized to fund… - open-hardware-zone-s06 · 15:30-16:30 · Open Hardware Zone · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Physical AI: Simulate and Train Bimanual Robot Arms" · with GetSetRobotics · tags: Open Hardware Zone, Robotics & Physical AI · Simulation-based Physical AI using the reBot Duo B601 robotic arms. Simulate bimanual arms, explore imitation learning and LeRobot workflows to train robot policies, and learn how… - open-hardware-zone-s07 · 15:30-16:00 · Open Hardware Zone · Showcase · Community Hubs · "PQ1: An Open-Source Hardware Wallet" · with Markus Haas · tags: Open Hardware Zone, Hardware wallets · Freedom Factory shows PQ1, the open-source hardware wallet they are building. https://markushaas.com/ - p2p-networking-s07 · 15:30-16:30 · P2P Networking Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "MigaLabs metrics dashboards" · with Leo Bautista · tags: P2P Networking Hub, Tooling · Speaker: Leo Bautista (MigaLabs) - privacy-s05 · 15:30-15:50 · Privacy Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "The Need of Privacy in Real Life" · with Akhil Nanavati · tags: Privacy Hub - security-s09 · 15:30-16:10 · Security Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "The First 60 Minutes Incident Response Plan" · with Julia, Tal, zeroShadow · tags: Security Hub - agentic-s14 · 15:40-16:00 · Agentic Hub · Demo · Community Hubs · "Lexon, deterministic AI" · with Henning Diedrich · tags: Agentic Hub, Tooling · Language models are fluent but unpredictable. Henning Diedrich, creator of the plain-text smart contract language Lexon and head of protocol at Swarm, presents small language… - GKLUZN · 15:40-15:47 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Users, Builders, and Agents · level: No prior knowledge · "What it takes to ship an onchain credit card to non-crypto users" · with Yash Saraswat · tags: Wallets, UX, DeFi, Real World · DeFi assumes users who understand wallets, gas, and liquidations. Most people don't, and building for them means solving problems that have little to do with smart contracts: how… - zuzone-s06 · 15:40-16:00 · Zuzone Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Simocracy: Digital Sims for Governance and Allocation" · with Diego Rivera, Member of Technical Staff, GainForest · tags: Zuzone Hub, Governance - BKVXUV · 15:45-16:10 · Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk · [CLS] - Community Hubs · level: No prior knowledge · "India Hub - Indian Builder Ecosystem" · with Rishikesh Kale, Abhayrajsinh Gohil · tags: Core Protocol · As Ethereum’s global community lands in Mumbai, India’s developer ecosystem stands at a crucial turning point. This talk examines the key lessons learned from organizing… - DFGTBA · 15:50-15:57 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Futures Worth Building · level: No prior knowledge · "Story of Scaling Decentralized Open Hardware" · with Vaibhav Chhabra · tags: Decentralization, Scalability, Open Source, Hardware, Coordination, Community · In 2020, with supply chains frozen by India’s lockdown, Maker’s Asylum’s M19 Initiative produced over 1 million face shields in 49 days. Not from one factory, but through a… - agentic-s08 · 16:00-16:20 · Agentic Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Signed Is Not Authorized: a live, bounded user mandate inside an x402 payment" · with Anantha Krishnan · tags: Agentic Hub, Governance · A signature proves a key signed. It does not prove you allow this action now, within these limits. When an agent pays or decides for you, the question is on whose authority.… - aggregation-s04 · 16:00-18:30 · Aggregation Hub · Other · Community Hubs · "Story Swap" · tags: Aggregation Hub · 90-second stories about a real fragmentation problem you’ve run into. With the speaker’s consent, stories may be recorded and shared on X. - desci-s10 · 16:00-16:30 · DeSci Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Open-source RNA vaccine trials, biosecurity, and developing medicines to save 1 million lives each year + QnA" · with Soham Sankaran · tags: DeSci Hub · Join Soham Sankaran, founder of PopVax, to explore open-source RNA vaccine research, biosecurity, and the ambition to develop medicines that could save one million lives each… - eip-s07 · 16:00-17:00 · EIP Hub · AMA · Community Hubs · "EIP Process AMA" · with Pooja Ranjan, Jochem Brouwer · tags: EIP Hub - game-zone-s05 · 16:00-17:00 · Game Zone · Demo · Community Hubs · "Playing: Realms Frontier + Zeeverse" · tags: Game Zone, Game · Zeeverse: Venture into the dungeon. Top 5 Devcon players earn Zee NFTs. Realms Frontier: Attack, explore, and collect in a mobile-first, fully onchain strategy game. Top Devcon… - legal-governance-s06 · 16:00-17:00 · Legal & Governance Hub · Roundtable · Community Hubs · "Nobody Votes. Can Better Tooling Fix It?" · with Yuting Jiang, Diego Rivera, Jimin Lee · tags: Legal & Governance Hub, Tooling · Most token holders skip the vote because it costs more time & attention than it returns. Civic tech has been working on the same problem in cities and citizen assemblies, using… - BBJKCJ · 16:00-16:07 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Users, Builders, and Agents · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "Permission, Not Possession: Setting Agent Wallet Defaults Before They Harden" · with Francesco Andreoli · tags: Decentralization, Wallets, Key Management, Coordination, Sovereignty · The setup: a friend's Telegram channel flags on-chain deployment events on a perps venue; I wired those signals to an agent that executes from my own wallet. Open-source, personal… - YQEHZN · 16:00-16:25 · Lotus Stage 1 · Talk · Privacy & Consent · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "What a Modern Privacy Protocol Needs" · with Mike McCabe · tags: Privacy · 1. What we claimed, and what we proved: the v1 thesis, that you can exclude bad actors even after they deposit, and the one thing a year in production actually validated. 2. What… - HSSQDY · 16:00-16:25 · Lotus Stage 2 · Talk · Rights, Freedoms, and Governance · level: No prior knowledge · "Programmable Cadastral Institutions: Land Rights and Sovereign Data for Informal Settlements" · with Charlie Fisher, Clara G · tags: Governance, Human Rights, Digital Rights, Real World, Sovereignty · Informal settlements house roughly a billion people, most without any legal claim to the land they occupy. Titling programmes built on de Soto's formalisation thesis have a mixed… - RGSKXT · 16:00-16:25 · Lotus Stage 3 · Talk · Futures Worth Building · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "From Mass Commerce to Regenerative Local Stewardship: Building Real-World ReFi Infrastructure" · with Atsushi Hayashi(Atsu) · tags: ReFi, Public Goods, Real World, Coordination · ReFi promises to link capital with real-world impact, yet many protocols fail due to speculative capture or disconnection from physical ecosystems. This session presents a… - music-stage-s04 · 16:00-18:00 · Music Stage · Open Jam · Community Hubs · "Open Source Orchestra — CROPS Jamming for Ethereum's values" · with Open Source Orchestra · tags: Music Stage, Open Format · no DJ sets today (DJ license pending) · all musicians & singers welcome - onchain-art-s04 · 16:00-17:00 · Onchain Art Hub · Roundtable · Community Hubs · "Devcon Artists Cohort Talk and Gallery Tour" · with Tomo Saito · tags: Onchain Art Hub · Come join us for the gallery tour at the art gallery on L3! Each artist exhibit their exploration through their work on state of freedom in the next frontier. - open-hardware-zone-s08 · 16:00-16:30 · Open Hardware Zone · Showcase · Community Hubs · "Open Talks" · tags: Open Hardware Zone, Open Hardware · Walk-up slot: bring your project and show it. - open-source-s07 · 16:00-17:00 · Open Source Hub · Other · Community Hubs · "CROPS Daily Quizzes" · with Shankar Warang · tags: Open Source Hub - prediction-markets-s04 · 16:00-18:00 · Prediction Markets Hub · Networking · Community Hubs · "Community Hangout" · tags: Prediction Markets Hub - privacy-s06 · 16:00-16:20 · Privacy Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "The Evolving Landscape of Digital Asset Privacy" · with Smit · tags: Privacy Hub - resilient-networking-s09 · 16:00-17:00 · Resilient Networking Hub · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Building and Sustaining Self-Hosted IPFS Infrastructure: operations, maintenance and accessibility" · with Anurag Pandey, Manu Sheel Gupta · tags: Resilient Networking Hub, Tooling · A practical workshop on running a self-hosted IPFS setup, covering day-to-day operations, maintenance and keeping it accessible. - zuzone-s07 · 16:00-16:20 · Zuzone Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Supporting culture through technology" · with Alaska · tags: Zuzone Hub - HPREFJ · 16:10-16:17 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Users, Builders, and Agents · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "Nobody Verifies What Your Agent Reads" · with Denham · tags: Decentralization, AI, Open Source, Security · We spent years building verification for Ethereum: light clients, storage proofs, TEE attestation. In parallel we built an agent stack that verifies who an agent is (ERC-8004… - 9SWGWB · 16:15-17:00 · Community Led Stage · CLS - Panel (Defi 101) 1h · [CLS] - Defi 101 · level: No prior knowledge · "Decentralized Coordination & Responsible Disclosure with Millions at Stake" · with Matthias Egli, Griff Green, Samyak Jain, Deniz Yilmaz, Yannis Smaragdakis, Philippe Schommers · Web3 Incident Response: Decentralized Coordination & Responsible Disclosure with Millions at Stake - CPNQHC · 16:15-16:40 · Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk · [CLS] - Community Hubs · level: No prior knowledge · "Agentic Hub - Can We Trust the Machines? A Live Trial" · with Lena Hierzi, Fortunato, András Arányi · tags: Identity, Governance, Real World, Agents, Verifiability · Agent payments are live, but trusting an agent that spends money is still mostly guesswork. In one talk, we put a real Claude agent on trial on Celo mainnet, in a single terminal.… - QCCUBK · 16:15-17:05 · Workshop 2 · Workshop · [CLS] - Community Hubs · level: No prior knowledge · "100 Nodes. One Network. A collective hardware build." · with Vaibhav Chhabra, Anool Mahidharia · tags: Hardware, Speculative Design, Art & Culture · Each participant builds one node: an LED ring driven by a NodeMCU. Alone, it’s a circuit on a table. Joined with 99 others, it becomes a single synchronized installation, with no… - agentic-s15 · 16:20-17:00 · Agentic Hub · Networking · Community Hubs · "Networking and agent competition" · with Paul Lange · tags: Agentic Hub, Community · Wind down the first day with the other builders. Compare notes on what you heard, add what you learned to the hub knowledge base by scanning the Bonfires QR code, and follow the… - AYFF89 · 16:20-16:27 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Users, Builders, and Agents · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "There's a Critical Bug in x402 markets: 1200 merchants in an unfair market" · with Zaryab · tags: Decentralization, AI, Censorship Resistance · x402 is a market where the buyer is a machine. it cannot be lured with ads. It buys from a marketplace's ranked list, whichever merchant best suits its need. Core problem: -… - security-s11 · 16:20-17:10 · Security Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "What the Block Explorer Misses: Using Unique Money Laundering Intel to Contain Active Exploits" · with Julia, Tal, zeroShadow · tags: Security Hub - zuzone-s08 · 16:20-16:30 · Zuzone Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Decentralised rent - The future of global renting" · with Ben · tags: Zuzone Hub - LDY9RZ · 16:30-16:37 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Users, Builders, and Agents · level: No prior knowledge · "8004: Bring Agents On Chain" · with YQ · tags: Identity, AI, DeFi, OpSec · 8004 is an Ethereum standard with registries for agent identity, reputation and validation. 8004scan indexes them, with an explorer and public API that show each agent’s owner,… - QFBFW9 · 16:30-16:55 · Lotus Stage 1 · Talk · Privacy & Consent · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "Curing Compliance Psychosis" · with jimjim · tags: ZK, Surveillance, Consent, Privacy · I live and grew up in the Netherlands, where Alexey is injustly is convicted. I see and feel the chilling effect every where. I see people doubt their intiution, that backdoors… - KMWUNZ · 16:30-16:55 · Lotus Stage 2 · Talk · Rights, Freedoms, and Governance · level: No prior knowledge · "ATProto/Bluesky: The Personal Data Server vs the Collectivist State Machine" · with Edmund Edgar · tags: Open Source, P2P, Censorship Resistance, Communication · Originally conceived as a way to decentralize Twitter, ATProto is attracting new interest for building decentralized apps. At its heart is the Personal Data Server, a portable,… - 8USRE9 · 16:30-16:55 · Lotus Stage 3 · Talk · Rights, Freedoms, and Governance · level: No prior knowledge · "GainForest: Equitable nature finance with regenerative intelligence" · with David Dao · tags: Open Source, Digital Rights, Public Goods, Consent · Indigenous and local communities steward much of the world’s biodiversity, yet ecological evidence is extracted into platforms they cannot control. What would it mean for a… - onchain-art-s109 · 16:30-17:30 · Onchain Art Hub · Workshop · Community Hubs · "CypherMom Office Hours" · with Statuette · tags: Onchain Art Hub · Come tell CypherMom what you’re working on and get lectured on why it should be more decentralized and open. Think Santa, but CypherMom. Bring your big ideas, questionable… - p2p-networking-s10 · 16:30-18:00 · P2P Networking Hub · Closing · Community Hubs · "Open hacking and daily closing" · tags: P2P Networking Hub - privacy-s07 · 16:30-16:50 · Privacy Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Open Hardware for Privacy and Security" · with Sylvain Bellemare · tags: Privacy Hub - zuzone-s09 · 16:30-16:50 · Zuzone Hub · Fireside Chat · Community Hubs · "4seas pop up" · with Daniel "Koss" Knobelsdorf, Shaka · tags: Zuzone Hub - VFDA3Z · 16:40-16:47 · Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk · Users, Builders, and Agents · level: No prior knowledge · "Agents in the Shell: TEE-Attested AI as On-Chain Oracles" · with Lin Oshitani · tags: AI, Hardware, Coordination · Prediction markets and on-chain apps increasingly need answers to long-tail questions: did this event happen, what did this page say, who won this niche election. Existing oracle… - DKKHA9 · 16:45-17:10 · Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk · [CLS] - Community Hubs · level: No prior knowledge · "Privacy Hub - Privacy is Normal" · with Chandresh, Devisha · tags: Consent, Privacy · We all practice privacy daily: Face ID, ATM PINs, hidden chats, VPNs, private browsers. In this interactive 20-minute talk, we surface these habits, then ask why we drop them… - 9R3PW8 · 16:45-17:10 · Workshop 1 · Mixed Format · [CLS] - Builder Enablement & BuidlGuidl · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "Devtooling builders session" · with Austin Griffith · tags: AI, Open Source, Security, Public Goods · A chance for Ethereum devtool builders to get together and share experiences. We will begin with a short panel hosted by EF Builder Enablement team and facilitated by Austin… - zuzone-s10 · 16:50-17:00 · Zuzone Hub · Fireside Chat · Community Hubs · "Valley of the commons" · with Veronica, Daniel "Koss" Knobelsdorf · tags: Zuzone Hub - desci-s11 · 17:00-17:20 · DeSci Hub · Closing · Community Hubs · "Closing Notes" · with Arya, Iqra, Harshita · tags: DeSci Hub · Missed any of the sessions? Join us as we wrap up Day 1 by discussing the key moments from the sessions. - game-zone-s06 · 17:00-18:00 · Game Zone · Demo · Community Hubs · "Playing: Dark Forest Punk + Maze of Gains" · tags: Game Zone, Game · Dark Forest Punk: The community version of the grand fully onchain space conquest game. Maze of Gains: Fight enemies, collect treasure, and climb the leaderboard for a share of… - india-s08 · 17:00-17:30 · India Hub · Closing · Community Hubs · "Day 1 Wrap: Battle Winners & Swag Drop" · tags: India Hub · Announcing the day’s top builder and distributing swag. - legal-governance-s07 · 17:00-18:00 · Legal & Governance Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Optimistic Governance: From Vote to Veto" · with Hugo Volz Oliveira · tags: Legal & Governance Hub, Governance · In optimistic governance, a proposal passes by default unless holders object within a set window. The holder’s right shifts from voting yes or no to blocking what they disagree… - RFHE93 · 17:00-17:25 · Lotus Stage 1 · Talk · Privacy & Consent · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "Privacy's HTTPS Moment" · with Artem Slugin · tags: Privacy · 1. How & why HTTPS won 2. Why onchain privacy is now stuck before that moment (Tornado Cash update) 3. Why the next generation of privacy will achieve meaningful distribution that… - X8SS73 · 17:00-17:25 · Lotus Stage 2 · Talk · Rights, Freedoms, and Governance · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "Digital Rights in DPIs — Limitations and Lessons for Equitable Futures" · with Abhineet Nayyar · tags: Decentralization, Open Source, Digital Rights, Public Goods, Infrastructure, Privacy · Over the last two decades, Digital Public Infrastructures have become central to most policy debates, especially in Global South countries that have come to use them for a variety… - 8FN8MW · 17:00-17:25 · Lotus Stage 3 · Talk · Futures Worth Building · level: Some familiarity with the topic · "A DAO Shipped an Aircraft: What It Takes to Coordinate Atoms with Tokens" · with Thomas Garrison · tags: AI, Open Source, Real World, Coordination · DAOs have funded a lot of software, but very few have built anything with mass. That's starting to change: AI tooling is closing the gap between a scattered online community and a… - open-hardware-zone-s09 · 17:00-18:00 · Open Hardware Zone · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Hands-on Making with Studio Fabverse" · with Chinmay Nikharge · tags: Open Hardware Zone, Art & Making · Hands-on making: constellation circuits, print-and-cut stickers, vinyl mandala coasters and custom laser-engraved souvenirs. - open-hardware-zone-s10 · 17:00-17:30 · Open Hardware Zone · Showcase · Community Hubs · "Real-to-Sim and Sim-to-Real Bimanual Robot Control" · with GetSetRobotics · tags: Open Hardware Zone, Robotics & Physical AI · A bimanual robot control system on NVIDIA Jetson and the GB10 platform: control a real two-arm robot, simulate its movements, and transfer actions between simulation and the… - open-source-s08 · 17:00-18:00 · Open Source Hub · Networking · Community Hubs · "Social Hour: Networking" · with Open Source Community · tags: Open Source Hub - privacy-s08 · 17:00-17:20 · Privacy Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "How to Run a Private Company on Ethereum" · with Thomas Humphreys · tags: Privacy Hub · A company can legally exist, own assets, earn income, and do business without ever opening a traditional bank account. US corporate law also offers a framework for far greater… - resilient-networking-s10 · 17:00-18:00 · Resilient Networking Hub · Workshop · Community Hubs · "Maintainer Meet-up and Network Lab: research questions and collaborative experiments" · with Sumanjeet, Daniel Thompson, Yash Saini, Soham Bhoir · tags: Resilient Networking Hub, Tooling · A collaborative session where maintainers and participants work through open research questions and run experiments together in the Network Lab. - security-s105 · 17:10-17:40 · Security Hub · Talk · Community Hubs · "Why Reducing the Issuance Is Important for Ethereum Security" · with Sam Jernigan, Jerome de Tychey · tags: Security Hub - MUGWDC · 17:15-17:40 · Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk · [CLS] - Community Hubs · level: No prior knowledge · "Prediction Markets hub - Open Discussion On Existing Challenges" · with Devansh Mehta · tags: Governance, DAOs, Real World, Coordination, Defipunk, Research · While prediction markets have gone mainstream, the layer underneath that makes them trustworthy hasn’t. Disputed outcomes often go to token-weighted votes that large holders can… - security-s12 · 17:40-18:00 · Security Hub · Closing · Community Hubs · "Closing the day" · tags: Security Hub - eip-s09 · 17:50-18:00 · EIP Hub · Closing · Community Hubs · "Daily Wrap up" · tags: EIP Hub 193 sessions.