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Welcome & Introduction
A Reasonably Necessary World Computer
Ethereum has unique properties no other platform can replicate: permissionless access, censorship resistance and credible neutrality. To have the largest impact on the world, we need to leverage these where they matter most. This talk applies a "reasonably necessary" test to three frontiers — programmable markets, capture-resistant coordination, and agent economies — offering builders a framework for finding the use cases where Ethereum has irreplaceable impact.
Building Credit Markets at Internet Speed
The internet transformed information, commerce, and software. Why has credit remained so difficult to scale? In this presentation, Stani Kulechov explores the next evolution of financial infrastructure, the challenges of building internet-native credit, and what it will take to create credit markets that move at the speed of the internet.
Ethereum’s Arcade: Onboarding the World Through Real-World Venues
Valley Arcade Games is building a network of arcade cabinets for real-world venues where players can walk up, play games, earn rewards, and be seamlessly onboarded into Ethereum with wallets created automatically behind the scenes.
The Onchain Capital Markets Era Starts in Washington DC
For the first time in a decade, US crypto rules are being written, not litigated. A wide-ranging conversation on tokenized securities, DeFi, and the next phase of capital markets policy taking shape in Washington — and what it means for the institutions moving onchain.
Welcome & Introduction
DeFi Empowerment: Women in Finance educational programs
An ecosystem driving Latam talent with a strong focus on empowering women into the global decentralized economy through specialized Blockchain scholarships, a gamified learning platform with real-world challenges, and an internationally recognized web3 educational model.
Financial Privacy: The Missing Layer of Institutional Onchain Finance
Money has been private by default for 5,000 years. Counterparties see their leg of a trade, regulators see what they need, the public sees aggregated reports on schedule. Blockchains inverted that: every transaction is now public to everyone, forever. This talk argues financial privacy is not a feature but the missing layer of the institutional onchain stack, and that the cryptography to solve it is production-ready today.
The Settlement Layer Wall Street Already Trusts
Securing Institutional DeFi Without Centralizing It
DeFi security is at a crossroads. Institutions need stronger protections, but emergency controls often recreate centralization. This keynote explores the current state of security; it then moves to talk about autonomous, auditable controls that contain exploits, support compliance, and protect users without sacrificing decentralization.
Why the Next Ten Years of Ethereum Look Different
Fireside chat with Google Cloud
[Practicing Ethereum] Ethereum’s Frontier, Today
Tim Beiko (Protocol Lead at Ethereum Foundation) stepped back from coordinating Ethereum's core protocol development to focus on "frontier use cases." What are things that can only exist on Ethereum? That fully leverage its unique properties?" Come explore the current state & the possible frontier, using CROPS as guiding values for technical progress on Ethereum.
Blockchains Are Central to the Future of Finance and Agentic AI
Cypherpunk is dead. Long live cypherpunk.
To keep Ethereum sustainable, we have to keep its funding sustainable. This talk explores why preserving Ethereum's core properties depends on solving the funding problem underneath them. As the Ethereum Foundation's role narrows, the ecosystem needs new, decentralized models of coordination that don't depend on token sales or one-time donations. It shows how decentralized, yield-based funding can sustain the ecosystem's growth in perpetuity, creating a durable, neutral foundation that works for institutions and individuals alike — a genuine win-win for the whole network.
Institutional Adoption and the Importance of Code Neutrality
As digital assets move into institutional infrastructure, governance is becoming as important as technology. This fireside chat will explore how enterprises and financial institutions evaluate blockchain infrastructure, why open source alone is not enough, and how code neutrality can reduce dependency risk and build long-term trust.
Agents Need Mandates, Not Keys; Enforceable Guardrails for Agentic Finance
Agents will increasingly manage money on behalf of users, but giving them raw keys creates too much risk and too little control. Ymax shows how user mandates, enforced by smart contracts and orchestration, create the trust layer needed to safely unleash agents across onchain finance.
The Creative Reset Lab
The Creative Reset Lab is a relaxed, artist-led drawing experience designed to help ETHGlobal builders reset their minds, release pressure, and return to their work with more clarity, play, and creative flow.
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What the World's Largest Onchain Allocators See for the Future
The Creative Reset Lab
The Creative Reset Lab is a relaxed, artist-led drawing experience designed to help ETHGlobal builders reset their minds, release pressure, and return to their work with more clarity, play, and creative flow.
Where Silicon Valley and Onchain Finance Converge
Crypto x AI, AI x Crypto: A Survey
Twenty-five scientists and industry experts came together to examine how and where crypto and AI intersect and when and why they don’t. Their survey paper will be releas ed for the first time by The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3) at EthConf 2026. This talk is a quick guided tour.
Why Yield Is the Killer Use Case for Agents
Agents are better than humans at managing yield. Zyfai proves it: autonomous agents routing funds across top lending protocols, directly from wallets users own. $9M under management, $2.4B in cumulative volume. Zero incidents.
Crypto Built the Rails. Next up? Operating Them Safely
Valuing Ethereum Comprehensively
William Mougayar presents a three-prong valuation framework anchored in a single premise: Ethereum is public-good infrastructure, the Internet’s true peer.
Ship Onchain Automated Portfolios for your Users in an Afternoon
Glider's B2B API can help wallets, neobanks, and super-apps ship automated portfolio strategies for their users in as little as a day. One web2 API to abstract and manage baskets with crypto, equities, and more, all automated and non-custodial. No new contracts, no more audits, no headaches.
Beyond the AMM: What Comes After Pooled Liquidity
RWA Perps: Where They’re Growing & What You’re Really Trading
RWA Perps, or perpetual futures on traditional assets, have grown explosively in the past four months. Gold perps are the new “digital gold.” Pre-IPO perps are the pricing engine for a year of historic stock offerings. This talk will deliver a data-grounded insights into the trends in RWA perps and a high-level look into the data layer underneath.
The Missing Primitive: Undercollateralized Credit for DeFi
TEE-based private key encumbrance enables undercollateralized DeFi lending by enforcing spending policies and liquidations inside a TEE-controlled keypair, unlocking 5-10x leverage on prediction markets and DEXs with a live Polymarket implementation.
Beyond the hype: how money actually moves in Africa
Beyond the headlines of how stablecoins are solving for emerging markets, let us examine exactly how money moves in Africa, where the stablecoin moats lie, and what infrastructure is needed to serve to fastest growing and stickiest market for stablecoins. Onchain FX, multi-currency stablecoins, on/off ramps, derivatives, unpacking the liquidity issue, and trade finance patterns.
Private Atomic DvP on Ethereum: No More Trade-offs
Private execution on Ethereum, without forfeiting composability, has been an unsolved tradeoff. This session shows how private atomic settlement becomes possible on Prividium, using a DvP workflow between two private bank zones, settled in a single state transition and anchored by cryptographic proof.
The Other 3%: Why the World Needs a Stablecoin That Isn't the Dollar
99.8% of the stablecoin market is in USD. For a good reason. But there are applications where it doesn't really shine. In this keynote we'll do a tour d'horizon on what currencies actually are and how history might map itself on the future of stablecoins.
Scaling Tokenized Assets: Liquidity, Utility, and Distribution
DeFi's liquidity is fragmented: lending and trading operate in silos, leaving billions idle. Fluid unifies both into a single liquidity layer where collateral earns trading fees and debt generates yield. This architecture unlocks institutional-grade capital efficiency: deeper stablecoin liquidity, safer lending with up to 95% LTV and zero bad debt, and a better foundation for finance. Smart Liquidity eliminates idle capital and reshapes DeFi infrastructure and intro a new product.
The Economic Security Advantage: How Risk and Regulation Unlock Institutional Capital
Proving Ethereum in Real Time with OpenVM 2.0
This talk explains how OpenVM 2.0 enables real time proving for Ethereum at a p99 level using the new SWIRL ZK proof system. We will discuss performance benchmarks, the core OpenVM architecture, and which advances in ZK enable these improvements. We will conclude with implications for Ethereum's ZK-based scaling roadmap and developers across the application and infrastructure landscapes.
ETHEmbassy: A Meetup for Global Ethereum Communities
Curious about Ethereum communities around the world? Meet organizers, explore local ecosystems, and get connected to builders and events across the globe.
The Liquidity Paradox: DeFi's Greatest Opportunity and Greatest Constraint
Onchain privacy for institutions
Most privacy solutions in crypto come with a tradeoff: they protect data, but at the cost of the very transparency that makes blockchains valuable. This conversation will unpack privacy as a spectrum and make the case for a “transparency-first” foundation: open base layers that preserve interoperability and trust, paired with modular, opt-in privacy at the application layer and why this approach is critical for institutional adoption.
Where the Superchain Goes From Here
Rise of New Societies: Startup Cities w/ reinvented Governance & Money
Frontier Tower is building a new society. Western civilization is gasping for reinvention. But moving fast and breaking things is socially unacceptable. Startup Cities are our only hedge against Ray Dalio's predicted Western downfall. Not having a Plan B is no longer an option...
Ethereum in the Decade of Adoption
The first decade of smart contract blockchains was all about infrastructure. Now the decade of real world adoption has begun. Ethereum maintained its technological leadership role during the first phase - how will that role now have to change?
Proof Over Promises
Privacy coins helped move zero-knowledge technology (ZK) from the fringes of Web3 to the centre of the crypto industry. Attendees will come away understanding that privacy is only one piece of the puzzle. ZK can be used to build systems where actions are gated by cryptographically verifiable rules, allowing identity, permissions, and policy compliance to be proven without exposing sensitive information. This opens the door to more secure and auditable systems across finance, AI, identity, and enterprise operations.
Building Superagents: Wallets, Tools & Living Datasets
Most AI agents are limited by what they know, what they can access, and what they can do. Learn how living datasets, onchain micropayments, wallets, tools, and tailored context can transform agents from simple assistants into capable systems that can discover, transact, and take action.
The Verifiability Layer the Agent Economy Needs
Trust is the Product: What It Actually Takes to Bring Companies Onchain
Onboarding people to new technology isn't a technical problem, it's a trust and translation problem. A live look at why crypto UX still sucks, what we keep getting wrong about bringing outsiders in, and how curation and experience design are essential to building trust back in and meeting people where they are.
Rails for the Real World
Since launching on mainnet Earth Day 2020, Celo has processed 1.3B+ transactions and grown into a robust global ecosystem for accessible financial solutions. In this presentation, Celo Core Co. COO Elizabeth Peng will discuss building programmable rails for global finance that go beyond replicating traditional systems onchain — covering Celo's native wallets (MiniPay, Valora), stablecoins (Tether, Circle, Mento local digital currencies), and proof-of-human identity (Self.xyz), and what it takes to build core payments infrastructure for mainstream adoption.
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Welcome & Introduction
The Digital Assets Mirage
How Ethereum's tokens can continue to evolve
It's been over 10 years since the launch of Ethereum and while the core technology has continued to evolve the tokens that represent many of Ethereums largest projects haven't. How is this changing into 2026 and how can founders build tokens that drive value to holders. Examining recent moves from tokens moving to equity, is the answer that all tokens become private companies? Or is there another path.
Fireside chat with Carlos Domingo
Making Web3 Tangible Through Rescue Dogs
Using blockchain to make rescue dog adoption, donations, and shelter visibility easier, more transparent, and emotionally connected to everyday life.
Tracking Ethereum Like an Insider: Tools for Understanding Governance and Core Development
In this presentation, I explain how to utilize the first three resources in the ACD Toolkit (https://christinedkim.substack.com/s/acd-toolkit) and the general concepts behind the tools that can be applied to tracking and engaging with the development of nearly any open-source blockchain protocol.
Welcome & Introduction
Building Stablecoin Payments at Scale
Stablecoins move trillions onchain, yet most payment systems still break down once you move beyond simple transfers. This talk draws on experience shipping stablecoin payments for large merchants and enterprises to explain what actually works in production, where common designs fail, and which primitives matter if stablecoins are going to support real-world payments at scale.
From Policy to Market: Stablecoins, Digital Dollars, and the Fate of Sovereign Money Onchain
Connecting DeFi with TradFi
$30B in real-world assets have been tokenized, but issuance isn't the bottleneck anymore — distribution is. Most tokenized funds sit idle in wallets with no mechanism to make them productive. This talk explores why leverage is the missing demand engine for tokenized fixed income, and what infrastructure needs to exist to connect TradFi asset managers with on-chain capital at scale.
Powering Stripe's Stablecoin Stack
[Practicing Ethereum] Ripe Ideas For Entrepreneurs in Crypto
Stablecoins (infrastructure), new credit markets, agentic rails, prediction markets, trust tools beyond finance. What are crypto ideas worth building today? What early companies are exciting to see?
Trusting Agents with Capital: The Gearbox Playbook
Capital is moving from human portfolios to agent portfolios. Can agents be trusted with it? I co-founded Gearbox in 2021; now live across 10+ chains, four years without a hack or bad debt. I spent the last year answering that question on top of the protocol: the Agentic Loop (Discover → Analyze → Propose → Preview → Execute → Monitor), a new data layer, and backtests that prove an agent earns before it ships.
The Quiet Migration of Wall Street Onchain
How Do Markets Evolve When Finance Never Sleeps?
Pyth Network is building the data infrastructure for 24/7 global markets. We will cover Pyth’s growth, business model, major clients, and the latest launch enabling real-time market data around the clock
Privacy without Terrorists
Drawing on lessons from modern cryptography and real-world deployments, this talk explores how privacy systems can protect everyday users while addressing regulatory concerns. A practical look at building compliant privacy protocols that preserve freedom, deter abuse, and work in an increasingly adversarial world.
Building Infrastructure for the Future of Finance on Top of Ethereum
Lighter is a ZK-rollup exchange running at high performance - under 1% of Ethereum block space, fully verified in production. This session covers how Lighter is building EVM composability into its core stack: an EVM sidecar rollup, formal verification of EVM implementations, and what full EVM support unlocks for developers, traders, and the future of on-chain finance.
The Creative Reset Lab
The Creative Reset Lab is a relaxed, artist-led drawing experience designed to help ETHGlobal builders reset their minds, release pressure, and return to their work with more clarity, play, and creative flow.
Grab a bite to eat at the catering stalls.
Welcome & Introduction
When a Stablecoin Becomes Core Infrastructure
The Creative Reset Lab
The Creative Reset Lab is a relaxed, artist-led drawing experience designed to help ETHGlobal builders reset their minds, release pressure, and return to their work with more clarity, play, and creative flow.
Introducing the Open Cap Table Protocol
DeFi spent a decade building rails to move assets. The next leg of onchain finance is about origination itself: making the legal record of ownership digitally native. I'll trace the unfinished modernization of this layer in securities from the 1969 Rockwell Study to the substrate that has, for the first time, become buildable, and make the case that ETH builders are positioned to build the other half of the stack.
The Largest Ethereum Stack, and What's Next
Society Protocol: The future of human coordination
An introduction of Society Protocol to the public–describing how Society Protocol evolves civilization from Nation States to Synchronized States to solve humanity's existential crisis of coordination and aims to usher in an entirely new epoch of human civilization–the Age of Synchronicity by solving all "Eight Pillars of Coordination."
Building blockchains with agents on sandboxes
How go give AI agents appropriate tooling, guardrails and environments to let them build or experiment with blockchains and smart contracts securely.
Using LLM-generated formal specs to prevent the next DeFi Hack
LLMs are getting better at finding critical bugs, and so are hackers. Every new model release accelerates an arms race between devs and hackers, one that seems impossible to win on the open, immutable code of Ethereum. We propose using LLMs to protect devs against LLM-powered attacks. The key insight is that devs think about how a protocol should behave, while hackers think about how to break it. LLMs can bridge this gap by converting informal developer intent into formal specifications.
"Payments Grade" Onchain Rails
We now have fast blockchains and globally available stablecoins. Is that enough to replace legacy money rails? This talk looks at what properties are required to deliver great payments UX, and why crypto can win.
Make Markets, Not Losses: Providing Liquidity via AMMs
Join us to learn how to go from the theory of making markets to building profitable LP strategies with Ascnt.
Bringing the Agentic Payments Stack to Enterprise: x402, infrastructure and beyond
The Moat is Where Your Data Lives
As AI infrastructure demand outpaces supply, compute is spreading globally and data location is becoming a critical bottleneck. Moving hundreds of petabytes across long distances slows development, carries enormous costs, and runs into physics. This talk explores how decentralized storage networks like Filecoin address data gravity by placing data where compute lands, enabling distributed AI workloads without the limits of centralized cloud.
Fireside chat with Shan Aggarwal
An onchain alternative to global transaction banking
Traditional banks process quadrillions in payments via global transaction banking. Shifting geopolitics and federal reserve policies are creating an opportunity for disruption by stablecoins and on-chain liquidity. Erbil Karaman explains how the Fortune 500 is building their own alternatives to global transaction banking on top of regulated stablecoins, vaults and liquidity services.
Why Institutional Custody Breaks on Shielded Chains
Privacy is becoming a priority across crypto. Zcash, Aztec, Aleo, Miden, and Midnight use client-side ZK proofs for shielded transactions. Ethereum is moving toward wallet-level privacy as the default. But there's a problem nobody is discussing: on most shielded protocols, the ZK proof is the spend authorization. There is no separate signature to threshold. Until we can distribute proof generation itself, institutional custody of shielded assets is structurally impossible.
Making Crypto Feel Invisible
Is Ethereum Realtime Ready?
What Won't Settle: Why Trust, Not Speed, Is Blocking Institutional Crypto
What Fintech Missed in the Real Economy
The Idle Trillion
DeFi is moving from alternative finance to default infrastructure: open settlement, programmable assets, transparent risk, automated execution, and global distribution rails for real financial products. This talk explores how Ethereum is powering institutional finance and why neutrality, composability, and permissionless innovation make sense.
Onchain Intraday Repo for Tokenized Assets
An onchain intraday repo platform that unlocks instant, real-time liquidity against tokenized MMFs and yield-bearing stablecoins, enabling institutions to secure immediate funding while keeping their underlying assets fully invested and compounding.
Lessons from 10 Years of the Ethereum Identity Stack
The Ethereum whitepaper named Identity as one of the five main use cases for Ethereum. I'll explain what succeeded and why, what failed, and what has been meh. I'll trace Public Key Cryptography in the 1970s, Bitcoin, Namecoin (you forgot about it!), Ethereum, ENS, Sign in with Ethereum, and beyond. And I'll explain what I think the path forward should be.
Onchain Payments Without the Friction
How to build a non-USD stablecoin
Non-USD stablecoins are coming into the market as regulations start to open up and countries outside of the US start thinking about monetary policies around their own currency as the world moves on-chain. In this talk, we'll dive into how non-USD stablecoin issuers are bringing to market new stablecoins based on various currencies. Regulations, payment systems, liquidity, market making, custody, and even politics play a significant part of a non-USD stablecoin's lifecycle.
Pulse Markets: Prediction at the Speed of the Moment
A new class of self-custodial prediction markets that open and resolve inside a live event, and this workshop walks through the architecture, the verticals it unlocks (sports, price up-or-down, no-loss), and ends with a live interactive demo.
Solving Ethereum’s Multi-Chain Fragmentation With a Single API
Ethereum has scaled across L2s and new chains, but users and developers still must deal with fragmented liquidity, assets, gas tokens, and infrastructure. This talk explores how orchestration layers combat that complexity, unifying the ecosystem through one integration. Philipp Zentner will explain the need for swaps, bridging, yield access, and multi-step workflows across chains, and how builders can create apps that feel seamless while leveraging Ethereum’s expanding ecosystem.
The Evolution of Onchain Derivatives
This talk explores the evolution of onchain derivatives, tracing four generations of development from early DeFi experiments to today’s high-performance exchange ecosystems. It highlights key innovations such as perpetual futures, prediction markets, and dedicated trading chains, and argues that onchain derivatives will expand global, transparent 24/7 markets while converging on order-book designs and specialized blockchains.
The Missing Layer: Payments for the 1.5 Billion
The promise of permissionless transactions was always real - the infrastructure to make it work for 1.5 billion borderless workers wasn't, and we're building it.
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Welcome & Introduction
Fireside chat with Reid Simon
Where Stablecoin Cards Go Next
The Institutional Inflection Point: Banks Are Racing Onchain in 2026
Major financial institutions are moving onchain launching stablecoins, exploring 24/7 tokenized trading, and using tokenized assets as collateral. But legacy systems weren’t built for blockchain’s scale, reliability, and verification challenges. This session will unpack what infrastructure is needed and how to build it.
Welcome & Introduction
Crypto Startup Showdown
Watch the most promising global startups pitch live on stage in front of top investors and builders for a first place prize valued at $50K! Discover the next generation of breakthrough ideas shaping the future of Ethereum.
The Clarity Act: What Will It Mean for Developers?
Fresh off its bipartisan markup in the Senate Banking Committee, the Clarity Act now heads toward consideration by the full U.S. Senate. This keynote will examine how the bill would reshape the regulatory framework for digital assets in the United States, what it means for developers and builders, and how the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA) provisions included in the bill would protect non-custodial technology providers. The session will also explore why these protections remain a redline issue for the industry.
Institutional ETH Staking Infrastructure
As Ethereum matures into a global settlement layer, institutions require professional-grade infrastructure that balances yield with rigorous risk mitigation. This session provides a deep-dive into the technical and regulatory hurdles of enterprise staking. We will examine the necessity of multi-layer risk mitigation, ISO 27001 certification, and the role of 100% slashing insurance in protecting institutional capital while ensuring 99.9% uptime and network decentralization.
The Future of Money at Polygon
Building The Open Money Stack for humans, AI, and everything in between.
[Practicing Ethereum] The Plumbing: Oracles, Wallets, Agent Infrastructure, & Money Movement
A “101 - 202” level exploration of the plumbing underpinning key trends in blockchains at the infrastructure level (oracles, RPCs, bridges, and other developer & consumer infrastructure).
From Pilot to Production: The Institutional Path Onchain
Fireside chat with Andrew McCormick
DeFi Empowerment: Women in Finance educational programs
An ecosystem driving Latam talent with a strong focus on empowering women into the global decentralized economy through specialized Blockchain scholarships, a gamified learning platform with real-world challenges, and an internationally recognized web3 educational model.
Grab a bite to eat at the catering stalls.
Welcome & Introduction
Why Open Source Matters for Institutional Adoption: Lessons from the Linux Foundation
Signed, Sealed, & Settled
Map E-SIGN’s rules for intent, consent, attribution, and records onto ECDSA wallet signatures, and learn where on-chain signing gives builders stronger evidence than Web2 e-signatures and where it still fails legal assent.
Building the Data Layer for Ethereum's Institutional Era
As Ethereum becomes the settlement layer for institutional finance, the infrastructure underneath it has to meet an entirely new bar. Scott Dykstra, Co-Founder and CTO of Space and Time, has spent his career building enterprise-grade data systems and now holds multiple patents for cryptographic SQL verification using zero knowledge proofs. This talk covers what it actually takes to build verifiable data infrastructure at the scale Ethereum's next chapter demands.
[Practicing Ethereum] Tokenization: Stablecoins, Money Markets, Credit, & DeFi’s role
What happens to the token after it's issued? How can composability (& therefore liquidity) be maximized? These questions helps guide us through the trends in tokenization across major categories in crypto, today.
The Institutional Stack Is Already Here: Inside the New Infrastructure of 24/7 Capital Markets.
Tokenization is forcing all of finance toward the continuous, programmable, prudentially margined operating model that crypto-native firms have already built. Christopher Perkins — CEO of 250 Digital Asset Management/ incoming Head of Franklin Crypto, former Citi Global Co-Head of Futures and Clearing, CFTC GMAC member — sits down with STS Digital CEO Maxime Seiler to unpack what 24/7 derivatives infrastructure actually requires, and what TradFi inherits when its own assets move on-chain.
Welcome & Introduction
Investing for the Tokenization Vision
Tokenization will transform capital markets, but it will be a long journey with many phases. Ethereum has many challenges still to overcome related to L1 scaling and privacy. However, Ethereum is best positioned for the end state of global, decentralized, peer-to-peer finance, and therefore offers this medium-term investment upside.
Crypto Derivatives Evolution: Market Dynamics, Liquidity, and the New Institutional Playbook
The crypto derivatives landscape is undergoing a massive paradigm shift. As capital pools diversify and trade volumes scale, the liquidity profile of futures and options is rapidly maturing. Join Joshua Lim, Global Co-head of Markets at FalconX and Giovanni Vicioso, Gbal Head of Cryptocurrency Products CME Group for a fast-paced discussion on the macroeconomic forces driving the evolution of the crypto derivatives market.
Building the Infrastructure for Onchain Volatility Markets
Options markets are one of the largest financial markets in the world, yet volatility strategies remain largely absent from DeFi. As more financial assets move onchain, from native crypto assets to tokenized instruments, institutions increasingly need derivatives infrastructure directly where those assets sit. This talk explores why Ethereum is emerging as the settlement layer for onchain volatility markets and what infrastructure is required for these markets to develop.
Fireside chat with Sam Tabar
The Cambria(n) Explosion
A survey including gameplay demos, onchain data, technical challenges, and more.
Keccacheck - solving the Keccak bottleneck in zk-SNARKs
Ethereum runs on Keccak, but Keccak is expensive to prove inside SNARKs. ZK-friendly hashes on the other hand are slow compared to Keccak. This talk introduces a new approach that allows blockchain protocols to leverage the speed of Keccak, and still prove and verify ZK claims cheaply. The solutions offers over 10x improvement when proving hashes at scale over SOTA, opening new possibilities for high-volume protocols.
The Missing Pieces for Institutional Adoption
Institutional adoption of blockchain is often discussed as inevitable, but the reality is far more practical. After conversations with institutions across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, one thing is clear. Interest is not the barrier. Gaps in infrastructure, regulation, operations, and incentives are. This talk breaks down what institutions actually need to move from pilots to production.
How Can We Trust Our Agents?
Giving agents private keys is dangerous, so let's give them controlled rails for executing.
The Perpification of Everything: Post-Modern Investing Onchain
Crypto introduced a new investor archetype: users who think in interfaces, liquidity, and exposure rather than traditional asset wrappers. This talk explores “perpification” as the emerging financial model for onchain markets, and argues that post-modern investing means accessing any theme, asset, or macro view through continuous, composable perpetual exposure.
From Wall Street to Ethereum: Unlocking Institutional Capital On-Chain
Bringing finance on-chain represents a fundamental shift in how capital is issued, moved, and managed, offering greater transparency, efficiency, and programmability. But institutional adoption remains slowed by regulatory uncertainty, compliance constraints, fragmented infrastructure, and the tension between permissionless systems and institutional requirements. This talk explores these barriers and how they’re shaping the design of on-chain financial systems, highlighting emerging solutions.
Ethereum and Robots - New Asset Class
Moody's Stablecoin Credit Ratings & Credit Intelligence On-Chain
Stablecoins are becoming the settlement layer of global finance, yet until now, no credible standard existed to separate the sound from the risky. This session will discuss an industry-first Moody's Ratings' stablecoin credit rating methodology and the first-ever network-agnostic solution, the Token Integration Engine, to ingest analytical data and share credit insights on-chain.
Ethereum and the Rise of 24x7 Global Markets
The Next Era of ENS
Join us for a fireside conversation with Katherine Wu, COO of ENS, on what's next for the Ethereum Name Service. With ENSv2 rearchitecting the protocol for a multi-chain world, Katherine will cover improved cross-chain resolution, a new ownership model that gives every .eth name its own registry, and the upcoming ENS App and Explorer. Don't miss this chance to hear directly from ENS leadership about the future of naming onchain.
Closing Remarks & Announcement
