Devcon is the gathering for the global Ethereum community to build and use decentralized systems. It's a conference for builders of all kinds, with content ranging from the deeply technical to the profoundly human. Each edition moves to a new region and brings together developers, researchers, community organizers, students, and creators from around the world
Nov 3–6, 2026Mumbai, India382 sessions · 11 stagesdevcon.org/en
- 10:00 AM
Main Stage (Lotus) · Opening
Opening Ceremony: Welcome to Devcon 8 India!
nethan, Vitalik
- 12:00 PM
Community Led Stage · CLS - Panel (Defi 101) 1h
Wallet Security: Past, Present & Future
- 12:00 PM
Music stage · Experience
Sounya Sharma [originals + bollywood covers]
- 12:10 PM
Jasmine Stage 4 · Opening
🛖 Community Hubs Opening
- 12:10 PM
Workshop 1 · Opening
Builder Enablement x BuidlGuidl Opening
- 12:15 PM
Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk
🛖 DeSci Hub - The World of DeSci
Arya Agarwaal
- 12:15 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
The last mile of Ethereum validator consolidations
Dmitry Gusakov
- 12:15 PM
Workshop 1 · Talk
AI x Ethereum: where we are now
Austin Griffith
- 12:15 PM
Workshop 2 · Workshop
🛖 Resilient Networking Hub - Building Resilient Ethereum
Manu Sheel Gupta, Shouki Tsuda
- 12:25 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
From 16 Minutes to Seconds: A Roadmap to Fast Finality on Ethereum
Yann Vonlanthen
- 12:30 PM
Music stage · Experience
Adegbenga [classic bollywood hindi set]
- 12:35 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
Fast Confirmation Rule: 13 second cofirmations
Julian Ma
- 12:45 PM
Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk
🛖 P2P Networking Hub - Guided Tour of Ethereum's Networking Layer
Yiannis Psaras
- 12:45 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
EIP-7923: A Sparse-Page-Based Memory Model for the EVM
Qi Zhou
- 12:45 PM
Workshop 1 · Talk
Learning in the AI era
Pablo Alayeto
- 12:55 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
End-to-end formally verifying OpenVM
Yi Sun
- 1:00 PM
Community Led Stage · CLS - Panel (Defi 101) 1h
Securing Ethereum in the age of AI: Challenges & Opportunities
- 1:00 PM
Music stage · Experience
🎼 🎻 OSO — the long table
- 1:05 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
Paths to a Private L1
Joss Duff
- 1:15 PM
Jasmine Stage 4 · Mixed Format
🛖 Aggregation Hub - Can Ethereum Feel Like One Chain Without Becoming One?
Gopi Mehta, Vojta
- 1:15 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
Encrypt The Mempool
Justin Florentine
- 1:15 PM
Workshop 1 · Talk
Building on Ethereum with agents
Shiv Bhonde
- 1:15 PM
Workshop 2 · Workshop
🛖 EIP Hub - Unlock Ethereum: Find Your Path
Pooja Ranjan
- 1:25 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
FOCIL Solves Censorship. What Doesn't It Solve About Builders?
Marissa Posner
- 1:35 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
Sybil Attacks on Inclusion List Mechanisms: FOCIL and AUCIL
Abhimanyu Nag
- 1:45 PM
Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk
🛖 Open Source Hub: Your Developer Community Needs More Than a Hackathon
Mario Behling
- 1:45 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
AMPO: Mechanisms with minimal trust
Keating
- 1:45 PM
Workshop 1 · Talk
ETH Evals: testing agents on Ethereum
Rinat Akhunianov
- 2:00 PM
Lotus Stage 1 · Mixed Format
Blockchain Privacy
Asha Shankar
- 2:00 PM
Lotus Stage 2 · Talk
Civic AI for Self-Governing Communities
Audrey Tang
- 2:00 PM
Lotus Stage 3 · Talk
Funding the Ethereum Kernel: What Qualifies, What It Costs, and What Comes First
Martin Hansen
- 2:30 PM
Lotus Stage 1 · Talk
Naming the Harm: A privacy threat vocabulary for Ethereum builders
msooseth, dactylic
- 2:30 PM
Lotus Stage 2 · Mixed Format
Can Agents Be Safe in the Open? Two Levels of Trust
Audrey Tang, Vitalik
- 2:30 PM
Lotus Stage 3 · Talk
Why Web3 Needs Archaeologists To Survive
Sara Polak
- 3:00 PM
Community Led Stage · CLS - Panel (Defi 101) 1h
Decentralized Coordination & Responsible Disclosure with Millions at Stake
- 3:00 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
Wait! Reentracies are good now?
Dominic Bruetsch
- 3:00 PM
Lotus Stage 1 · Talk
Handling Private State Bloat: Pruning Nullifiers and the Privacy-Scalability Trade-Off
Preston Vander Vos
- 3:00 PM
Lotus Stage 2 · Mixed Format
Kohaku : privacy for everyone, by default
Nico, Vitalik
- 3:00 PM
Lotus Stage 3 · Lightning Talk
Connecting Funders and Builders
Thomas Humphreys
- 3:00 PM
Music stage · Experience
itscharann [house music · 10 years behind the decks]
- 3:10 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
1,014 or 1.014: what breaks in tokenized asset feeds
Bianca Buzea
- 3:10 PM
Lotus Stage 3 · Lightning Talk
The state of distributed open source funding and what needs to happen next
Otto Kekalainen
- 3:15 PM
Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk
🛖 Security Hub - How Do We Coordinate Ethereum Security?
Anamarija, Sem Bloom, Griff Green
- 3:15 PM
Workshop 1 · Workshop
Human + AI Solidity CTF: bring your own agent
Carlos Sánchez, Damian Martinelli
- 3:20 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
Stablecoins Are Permissionless Until They Touch Fiat: Making the Last Mile an Open Market
Chibuotu Amadi
- 3:20 PM
Lotus Stage 3 · Lightning Talk
The History of Ethereum Grant Funding, Built on Open Data
Rashmi V Abbigeri
- 3:30 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
Enterprise Ethereum's Last Mile: A Practitioner's View
Sudhir Upadhyay, Monik Raj Behera
- 3:30 PM
Lotus Stage 1 · Talk
Private State, Public Network: The Tradeoffs Behind Privacy
Zachary Williamson
- 3:30 PM
Lotus Stage 2 · Talk
Universal Connectivity Credits & other insights from GIGA (UNICEF+ITU)
Christopher Fabian
- 3:30 PM
Lotus Stage 3 · Talk
Diversifying Funding for Digital Public Goods: are Frontier Research Contractors the answer?
Raul Romanutti
- 3:40 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
What it takes to ship an onchain credit card to non-crypto users
Yash Saraswat
- 3:45 PM
Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk
🛖 India Hub - Indian Builder Ecosystem
Rishikesh Kale
- 4:00 PM
Community Led Stage · CLS - Panel (Defi 101) 1h
State of Web3 Security: Is the Worst Behind us or Ahead?
- 4:00 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
Permission, Not Possession: Setting Agent Wallet Defaults Before They Harden
Francesco Andreoli
- 4:00 PM
Lotus Stage 1 · Talk
What a Modern Privacy Protocol Needs
Mike McCabe
- 4:00 PM
Lotus Stage 2 · Talk
Programmable Cadastral Institutions: Land Rights and Sovereign Data for Informal Settlements
Charlie Fisher, Clara G
- 4:00 PM
Lotus Stage 3 · Talk
From Mass Commerce to Regenerative Local Stewardship: Building Real-World ReFi Infrastructure
Atsushi Hayashi(Atsu)
- 4:00 PM
Music stage · Experience
Ekant [open-format · house / commercial / bollywood / hip-hop]
- 4:10 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
Nobody Verifies What Your Agent Reads
Denham
- 4:15 PM
Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk
🛖 Agentic Hub - Can We Trust the Machines? A Live Trial
Lena Hierzi, Fortunato, András Arányi
- 4:20 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
There's a Critical Bug in x402 markets: A Study of 1200 merchants in an unfair agentic market
Zaryab
- 4:30 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
8004: Bring Agents On Chain
YQ
- 4:30 PM
Lotus Stage 1 · Talk
Curing Compliance Psychosis
jimjim
- 4:30 PM
Lotus Stage 2 · Talk
ATProto and Bluesky: The Personal Data Server vs the Collectivist State Machine
Edmund Edgar
- 4:30 PM
Lotus Stage 3 · Talk
GainForest: How we can ensure equitable and regenerative intelligence for nature conservation?
David Dao
- 4:40 PM
Lightning Stage · Lightning Talk
Agents in the Shell: TEE-Attested AI as On-Chain Oracles
Lin Oshitani
- 4:45 PM
Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk
🛖 Privacy Hub - Privacy is normal
Chandresh
- 4:45 PM
Workshop 1 · Mixed Format
Devtooling builders session
Austin Griffith
- 5:00 PM
Lotus Stage 1 · Talk
Privacy's HTTPS Moment
Ameen
- 5:00 PM
Lotus Stage 2 · Talk
Digital Rights in DPIs — Limitations and Lessons for Equitable Futures
Abhineet Nayyar
- 5:00 PM
Lotus Stage 3 · Talk
A DAO Shipped an Aircraft: What It Takes to Coordinate Atoms with Tokens
Thomas Garrison
- 5:00 PM
Music stage · Experience
🎼 🔊 OSO — open decks
- 5:15 PM
Jasmine Stage 4 · Talk
🛖 Prediction Market Community Hub
Devansh Mehta