Justin Glibert

In the closing panel of Devcon 7 SEA, Nicholas Paul from The Long Now Foundation, Aya Miyaguchi, Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation, and Justin Glibert and Gubsheep (Brian Gu) from 0xPARC discussed the philosophy of “subtraction” in organizational design, emphasizing how creating space by letting go fosters innovation and long-term thinking, the interplay between technology and culture within Ethereum.

Main Stage

Leading Devcon and Devconnect teams with Ethereum Foundation

Skylar Weaver

Aya Miyaguchi

gubsheep is co-founder of 0xPARC and creator of the Dark Forest game.

gubsheep

Nicholas thinks about thinking. He is currently researching and realizing a new project focused on the ‘thinking’ part of ‘long-term thinking’. Before this, Nicholas helped run The Long Now Foundation—the storied nonprofit fostering long-term thinking at the timescale of 10,000 years—where he served as both Director of Development and Director of Strategy for many years. His background spans systems engineering and philosophy. He is currently a fellow at The Institute in San Francisco.

Nicholas Paul

Closing Ceremonies: Devcon Decade 0

The Programmable Cryptography CLS hosts a series of talks exploring how advanced cryptography can reshape digital infrastructure beyond blockchain and trust infrastructure. 
SCHEDULE: 10:00–10:20 AM, Justin Glibert / 10:20–10:45 AM, Vitalik Buterin / 10:45–11:10 AM, Albert Ni / 11:10–11:35 AM, Barry Whitehat / 11:35 AM–12:00 PM gubsheep

Breakout 3

Barry

Albert Ni

Vitalik Buterin

[CLS] Programmable Cryptography

CCP Games—the creators of the legendary space-based MMO EVE Online, home to millions of space merchants, pirates, and explorers—is building a new world, and it is going to live onchain and run on the EVM.

Hear from the CCP team as they discuss challenges, learnings, and open questions of building massive virtual worlds onchain—what to put onchain first? What game mechanics are best suited onchain? What are the unlocks?—as well as what EVE Frontier might bring to the Ethereum ecosystem.

Since 2004, Hilmar has led CCP Games as CEO, championing the power of virtual worlds to create meaningful social connections. Under his leadership, EVE Online pioneered innovations like player-driven economies and community governance, achieving over 20 years of continuous engagement.
Previously serving as CCP’s CTO from 2000-2005, Hilmar has been honored across the industry, shaping digital economies. Active on various boards, he holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Iceland.

Hilmar Petursson

EVE Frontier - challenges, lessons and future of building an autonomous world on Ethereum

The "secret" third affordance of Zero-Knowledge proof after 1) Privacy and 2) Succinctness is Interoperability. ZK enables us to continuously refactor data, aggregate it from different sources, and transforming it without loosing its integrity.
Starting with the Zupass project, and now with the broader adoption of the POD and GPC format, 0xPARC has been exploring using ZK for data sovereignty and creating more interoperable data ecosystem. We will cover our learnings and progress in this talk.

Stage 6

Keynote: The Universal Cryptographic Adapter

You rarely hear of issues at the networking layer of the Internet: networking companies are running utilities business: they are fungible and can be swapped if distrusted.
Most of the value captured on the Internet -- and also most abuse -- happen at the Compute and Data layer of the Web. Ethereum gave us a glimpse of a fundamentally different architecture for Compute and Data than Client/Server architecture.We think the Internet is 1/3 complete, and that programmable cryptography can finish it.

Programmable Cryptography and the future of the Internet

Different cryptographic primitives have different affordances, especially when using them in practice, and especially together. In this session, we explore a new way of interacting with PCs at a software engineering level via a LISP like programming language. This language enables creating self-verifying graphs of computation.

Breakout 2

Steward at ZK Email: https://prove.email. 

Also co-creator of ERC 7524 (PLUME Signatures) and co-creator of image provenance proofs at https://proteus.photos.

Aayush Gupta

arnaucube

Mathematician and software developer working on the implementation of cryptosystems with an eye towards zero-knowledge cryptography.