Arnav is a CS student at IIIT Dharwad and an open-source developer who likes building things at the intersection of software, AI, and the real world. He works across the FOSSASIA ecosystem, contributing to projects including VoxBento, Eventyay and its plugins. His work ranges from web platforms and developer infrastructure to real-time streaming, AI transcription, and WebRTC. He enjoys jumping between projects, picking up unfamiliar technologies, and turning messy engineering problems into systems that actually work. He is particularly interested in open-source software, AI, and building pra

Nov 5 10:00 AM · Community Led Stage · Voxbento: When 2 Seconds Matter — Building Real-Time AI Captions and Live Interpretations

Nov 5 12:00 PM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Eventyay: Docker Up, PR Out - Get Ready for Your First Contribution to a Real Django + Vue Platform Used by Thousands (1/2)

Vedansh Saini is a backend and systems engineer and open source contributor studying at IIT (BHU) Varanasi, and an incoming SDE intern at Amazon (Summer 2027). He is a two-time Google Summer of Code contributor at FOSSASIA. In 2025 he built Scrum Helper, which he presented at FOSSASIA Summit 2026, and in 2026 he has been working on Visdom Cloud, which adds multi-tenancy to the open-source Visdom visualization tool. He has been a mentee under CNCF KubeStellar and has contributed to the AI Alliance's gofannon project and Apache Mahout. He also serves as a Tech Team Representative at IIT (BHU). H

Nov 5 9:45 AM · Community Led Stage · Watch your LLM live with Visdom: Release v0.3.1

Nov 5 11:00 AM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Visdom and Watch Your LLM

Austin Griffith. Ethereum Foundation; founder of BuidlGuidl and Scaffold-ETH. Built ethskills.com, eth-evals, and clawdbotatg, an AI agent that writes, audits and deploys its own contracts and co-hosts slop.computer.

Nov 3 12:15 PM · Workshop 1 · AI x Ethereum: where we are now

Nov 3 4:45 PM · Workshop 1 · Devtooling builders session

I’m a software engineer and open-source maintainer working across large-scale web applications, AI systems, real-time communication, and data-driven software. I’ve built and maintained production systems across the frontend and backend, working with technologies including Django, Vue, TypeScript, WebRTC, WebSockets, and modern AI/ML tooling. Alongside systems engineering, I work on AI-powered software and developer tooling, including LLM applications, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, and evaluation pipelines.

Nov 5 10:30 AM · Community Led Stage · Weeks instead of Years: Creating the Loungemesh Hallway Video Platform

Nov 5 12:00 PM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Eventyay: Docker Up, PR Out - Get Ready for Your First Contribution to a Real Django + Vue Platform Used by Thousands (1/2)

I’m Srivatsav Auswin, an open-source contributor and developer. I’ve worked extensively on FOSSASIA’s Eventyay ecosystem, contributing to areas such as live event check-ins, badge printing, exhibitor tools, and platform integrations. I’m also an organizer with the open-source student community and currently work at Microsoft, while continuing to contribute to open-source software and developer communities.

Nov 5 10:15 AM · Community Led Stage · Eventyay: How we are building eventyay with the power of community and AI

Nov 5 12:00 PM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Eventyay: Docker Up, PR Out - Get Ready for Your First Contribution to a Real Django + Vue Platform Used by Thousands (1/2)

Vitalik Buterin is the creator of Ethereum. After discovering blockchain technology and exploring its potential in 2011, he co-founded Bitcoin Magazine. In 2013, Vitalik wrote the Ethereum whitepaper, outlining a vision of a generalized framework for hosting decentralized applications and contracts. Today, he serves as a board member and continues his work as a researcher with the Ethereum Foundation.

Nov 3 10:00 AM · Main Stage (Lotus) · Opening Ceremony: Welcome to Devcon 8 India!

Nov 3 2:30 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Can Agents Be Safe in the Open? Two Levels of Trust

I'm an engineer and amateur cook passionate about privacy, cryptography, and distributed systems. I write about the intersection of technology and society, with a focus on building systems that preserve human autonomy and privacy. Currently, I work on privacy-preserving protocols and contribute to open-source projects that advance the state of decentralized communication.

Nov 4 10:40 AM · Community Led Stage · Institutions Onchain

Nov 4 2:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Who Vouches for You When Your Issuer Is Gone?

Jayant Parashar is an open source contributor and ML engineer. He's a GSoC 2026 contributor at FOSSASIA, where he's building native autologging for Visdom — extending it across PyTorch, Keras, PyTorch Lightning, XGBoost, and scikit-learn so training metrics stream to the dashboard without manual logging code.

Nov 5 11:00 AM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Visdom and Watch Your LLM

Nov 5 2:45 PM · Community Led Stage · Zero-Boilerplate Dashboards: Live Autologging for Keras and PyTorch with Visdom

I'm Manik Khajuria, a Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor with FOSSASIA and a student at NIT Jalandhar (class of 2028). Since March 2026, I've had 92 pull requests merged into Visdom, FOSSASIA's open source dashboard for machine learning experiments with over 10,000 GitHub stars. My work covers five layers of the project: a storage abstraction layer, an experiment search layer with an injection-safe query parser, a hyper-parameter tracking dashboard, a pytest suite of nearly 1500+ tests, and the migration of Visdom's server and client to asyncio. Along the way I also shipped security fixes

Nov 5 11:00 AM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Visdom and Watch Your LLM

Nov 5 2:30 PM · Community Led Stage · Rebuilding Visdom AI Visualizations in Five Layers

Mario Behling is a technologist and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in open source development and digital innovation. He is the co-founder of FOSSASIA, the open source community in Asia, which plays a key role in advancing the FOSS movement across the region. Mario has launched numerous open source initiatives and companies spanning software and hardware, and continues to promote open technologies through education, community building, and enterprise solutions. He is the CEO of OpnTec, a German open source company focused on sustainable tech, and advises international organiz

Nov 3 1:45 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 Open Source Hub: Your Developer Community Needs More Than a Hackathon

Nov 5 12:00 PM · Community Led Stage · Proof of Work: Building Your Career Through Open Source in the Age of AI

Michael leads research at Blockspace and has been a contributor to the Blockspace Forum since day one. Previously, he was head of research at Chorus One, a node operator.

Nov 4 3:30 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Beyond Clear Signing: What Else Should Wallets Do?

Nov 6 10:40 AM · Lightning Stage · Solving CROPS' last-mile problem

I'm a software developer and open-source contributor from India. Also, a Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor with FOSSASIA, working on TeamShifts, a team and volunteer management plugin for the Eventyay platform. I've been contributing to FOSSASIA for 9 months now. Alongside open source, I'm interested in software development, AI, and building practical technology projects. Through GSoC, I have explored what it means to work on a real-world project with an existing codebase and an international open-source community.

Nov 5 12:00 PM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Eventyay: Docker Up, PR Out - Get Ready for Your First Contribution to a Real Django + Vue Platform Used by Thousands (1/2)

Nov 5 1:45 PM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Eventyay: Docker Up, PR Out - Get Ready for Your First Contribution to a Real Django + Vue Platform Used by Thousands (2/2)

Norbert Preining, an Austrian native, stands at the crossroads of diverse disciplines as a Researcher, Developer, and Open Source Enthusiast, with a profound passion for mountain guiding. Based in both Vienna, Austria and Ishikawa, Japan, his professional journey spans multiple domains, including machine learning, big data, data analytics, and software development, underpinned by a solid foundation in many-valued logics, proof theory, intuitionistic logic, and mathematics. His expertise extends into the realms of algebraic specification and CafeOBJ, showcasing a remarkable blend of theoretical

Nov 5 2:00 PM · Community Led Stage · Watch Your Models Learn: Real-Time AI/ML Experiments with Visdom

Nov 5 4:15 PM · CLS - Builders Room · How to use Visdom to Visualize Ethereum and Blockchain Data

**Om Vanwari** is a Computer Science and Engineering student and an open-source software developer and contributor at **FOSSASIA**. He is a **Google Summer of Code 2026 Contributor**, where he has worked across the Eventyay ecosystem on projects involving CRM integration and video processing. His current work focuses on **VEditor**, a standalone video review and transcoding pipeline built with FastAPI, RQ, PyAV, and PostgreSQL, designed to streamline the processing and review of conference recordings. Previously, he built and shipped **eventyay-hubspot**, integrating HubSpot CRM with Eventyay

Nov 5 12:00 PM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Eventyay: Docker Up, PR Out - Get Ready for Your First Contribution to a Real Django + Vue Platform Used by Thousands (1/2)

Nov 5 1:45 PM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Eventyay: Docker Up, PR Out - Get Ready for Your First Contribution to a Real Django + Vue Platform Used by Thousands (2/2)

I'm Rachit Makwana, a GSoC 2026 contributor with FOSSASIA, working on Eventyay. I love exploring new technologies, solving real-world problems, and building things that make a difference. I'm passionate about open source, collaborating with developers worldwide, and turning ideas into impactful projects—one commit at a time. One of my biggest dreams is to join Google someday and build technology that impacts millions.

Nov 5 12:00 PM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Eventyay: Docker Up, PR Out - Get Ready for Your First Contribution to a Real Django + Vue Platform Used by Thousands (1/2)

Nov 5 1:45 PM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Eventyay: Docker Up, PR Out - Get Ready for Your First Contribution to a Real Django + Vue Platform Used by Thousands (2/2)

I’m a developer and researcher working on open-source software, AI, quantum computing, and secure systems. I have contributed to several open-source projects and have published research papers with Springer Nature. I’m currently working on Visdom to make experiment tracking and research reproducibility easier.

Nov 5 11:00 AM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Visdom and Watch Your LLM

Nov 5 2:15 PM · Community Led Stage · From Experiments to Publications: A Reproducibility Suite for Visdom

**Saalim Aqueel** is an open-source developer and MSc AI & ML student at Jamia Millia Islamia. He is a **Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor with FOSSASIA**, working primarily across the Eventyay ecosystem. His work includes building the **Eventyay Social Media Plugin** for automating event promotion, contributing to the Eventyay platform, and collaborating on **VEditor**, an open-source video processing and review system for conference recordings. His interests span **backend engineering, developer tooling, GenAI/ML, and open-source software**. He enjoys working on practical systems that i

Nov 5 12:00 PM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Eventyay: Docker Up, PR Out - Get Ready for Your First Contribution to a Real Django + Vue Platform Used by Thousands (1/2)

Nov 5 1:45 PM · CLS - Builders Room · Set up Eventyay: Docker Up, PR Out - Get Ready for Your First Contribution to a Real Django + Vue Platform Used by Thousands (2/2)

I'm the founder of Dev3pack, community builder, developer advocate and talent scout, working across education, hackathons and developer programs to help the next generation of builders enter the tech ecosystem.

Nov 6 10:00 AM · Community Led Stage · The tech job market in the AI era

Nov 6 11:00 AM · Community Led Stage · How to get hired as a junior in tech

Founder of Complete (robotics and autonomous physical infrastructure), founder of Nethermind, former co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation.

Nov 4 3:40 PM · Community Led Stage · Ethereum X Robotics

Nov 4 3:40 PM · Lightning Stage · Open Source Robotics with Ethereum

Co-author of ERC-4337, ERC-5792, EIP-8141, EIP-7906 and others. Founding member of the former Account Abstraction team.

Nov 4 11:00 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Wallets Reimagined: ERC-8286 & EIP-8141 in Production

Nov 5 2:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Enforcing transaction outcomes with native on-chain state change validation in EIP-7906

Arun is the Blockchain Lead at the Solutions Team @ UNICEF Office of Innovation. He was instantly drawn to blockchains as they promised to fulfil an unmet latent need of people - fairness. He works with the UN and Web3 ecosystems to enable pilots/PoCs/projects for positive outcomes in social, humanitarian, financial and economic spheres. He has special interests in new mechanisms for financial inclusion, transparent governance and where the real world meets Web3.

Nov 4 10:30 AM · Lotus Stage 1 · UNICEF on-chain, from pilots to institutional adoption

Nov 6 10:00 AM · Workshop 1 · UNICEF Cryptofund - Workshop on creative approaches for innovative fundraising and engagement

Civic hacker, co-author of «Plurality» (with Glen Weyl) and the forthcoming «Civic AI» (with Caroline Green). She is a Carnegie Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Global Politics, Columbia SIPA and an inaugural Senior Accelerator Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI. She served as Taiwan's first Minister of Digital Affairs (2022–2024), preceded by six years as Minister without Portfolio for Digital Affairs (2016–2022), and is the world's first nonbinary cabinet minister. Tang was instrumental in the g0v (gov-zero) network and played a pivotal role in the 2014 Sunflower Movem

Nov 3 2:00 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Civic AI for Self-Governing Communities

Nov 3 2:30 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Can Agents Be Safe in the Open? Two Levels of Trust

Co-Founder of Ethlabs, a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH. Former EF researcher and team lead of Robust Incentives Group.

Nov 4 1:30 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Issuance roundtable

Nov 4 2:30 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · The multi-node Ethereum

Dani is a third year PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell University advised by Ari Juels. He study the tension between privacy and transparency in AI, blockchain and governance systems. Currently, he is an Ethereum Foundation Fellow working on Unstoppable Autonomous Agents: autonomous agents that cannot be shut down, equipped with access to cryptocurrency wallets, social media accounts, APIs and other external tools.

Nov 5 2:20 PM · Lightning Stage · Energy data markets

Nov 6 2:30 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Voting Privacy

Ethereum consensus core developer at Lighthouse, Sigma Prime. Bridging the gap between research and implementation he is contributing on multiple exciting fronts of the Ethereum roadmap.

Nov 4 1:30 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Issuance roundtable

Nov 6 11:30 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Speeding Up Ethereum Client Development with LLMs

building Devfolio

Nov 4 9:45 AM · Community Led Stage · ETHIndia - Opening Ceremony

Nov 5 3:20 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · When Agents Build and Agents Judge: Lessons from Running Ethereum's First Agent-Native Hackathon

Derek is a research engineer at the Ethereum Foundation focused on formal verification in Lean. He builds and maintains cryptography specifications, formally verifies Rust code, and has been working on formally verified production code for the ecosystem written directly in Lean.

Nov 5 2:00 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · evm-asm: Experiences Writing the EVM, Directly in Risc-V Assembly

Nov 5 4:00 PM · Workshop 2 · Formal Verification in Lean

Devansh has worked as an investigative reporter and consultant to community media outlets in India, before entering Ethereum in 2021 to work on blockchain based impact certificates. He was selected for the 2023 Next Billion Fellowship by Ethereum Foundation and worked there from 2025-26. Devansh has completed a dual Master’s Degree in International Affairs and Investigative Journalism at Columbia University and is now focusing on prediction markets as information finance at Seer.

Nov 3 5:15 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 Prediction Market Community Hub

Nov 6 10:00 AM · Workshop 2 · The Future of Prediction Markets is Decision Markets!

Fatemeh is a Swiss-qualified lawyer and digital-rights researcher working at the intersection of blockchain regulation, privacy, decentralized governance, and internet infrastructure. She advises blockchain projects on legal and protocol design, and explores how access, power, and technical architecture shape who can meaningfully participate in decentralized systems. She is a member of the Ethereum Foundation’s Silviculture Society and the Laboratory for Universal Basic Broadband Access.

Nov 5 10:20 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Building Through Constraints: A Decade of Web3 in Iran

Nov 5 12:00 PM · Workshop 2 · What Would It Take to Make Ethereum Always Available? Designing UNIBRA: A Connectivity Layer

Francesco Andreoli leads developer relations at MetaMask and has been in Ethereum since 2016. He works at the layer where wallets, smart accounts, and AI agents meet, and builds open-source agent tooling under andreolf to test his own arguments.

Nov 3 4:00 PM · Lightning Stage · Permission, Not Possession: Setting Agent Wallet Defaults Before They Harden

Nov 5 12:00 PM · Community Led Stage · Proof of Work: Building Your Career Through Open Source in the Age of AI

Leading TheDAO Security Fund, putting $150M to work for improving Ethereum security. Co-founder of Giveth, Dappnode & many other projects. Top Steward in Arbitrum, Gitcoin, ENS & Optimism & member of the Arbitrum & ENS Security Councils. Supported countless white hat actions spanning the last decade including cleaning up after TheDAO hack, rescuing $200M+ in the 1st Parity Multisig hack & helping to freeze $70M+ stolen by DPRK in the LayerZero/rsETH hack. DAOing my heart out since 2015.

Nov 3 3:15 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 Security Hub - How Do We Coordinate Ethereum Security?

Nov 4 4:30 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Tragedy of the Ethereum Security Commons

CEO and co-founder of Nym Technologies, a startup building a decentralized mixnet to end mass surveillance. Formerly a research Scientist at MIT and Inria de Paris, where I led the standardization of the Web Cryptography API across all browsers. Postdoctoral studies under Bernard Stiegler in the philosophy of technology. Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and also teaches cryptocurrency at the American University of Beirut.

Nov 5 10:30 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Hiding Network Metadata: Introduction to Mixnets

Nov 5 2:00 PM · Workshop 2 · How to improve privacy and censorship-resistance by integrating a mixnet

I've been working on Ethereum for 11 years. Spanning from the Python Ethereum client, to payment channels (Raiden Network), to security tooling at Phylax Systems and now contributing to the Solidity language. On the side, I've organized the Copenhagen Ethereum Meetup for almost 11 years and have been part of DoD in Berlin, organizing EthBerlin and Protocolberg.

Nov 5 12:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Your First Core Solidity Smart Contract

Nov 5 3:00 PM · Workshop 2 · The Big Ethereum Trivia Quiz

Josselin Feist is a security researcher at Aave, where he leads the onchain risk effort. Previously, he was Engineering Director of the Blockchain team at Trail of Bits. He is the creator of Slither, the widely used Solidity static analysis framework, and holds a PhD in software vulnerability analysis. His work spans smart contracts, L1/L2 protocols, bridges, and core blockchain infrastructure, with a focus on systemic risks, protocol design, and security strategy.

Nov 4 4:30 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Tragedy of the Ethereum Security Commons

Nov 5 12:00 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Security is a leadership problem

Lena Hierzi is DevRel Lead at Celo Core Co, based in Lisbon. She leads a global developer relations team that accelerates cross-border payments, and she works on product management for agent infrastructure in the Celo ecosystem, including x402 payments with local stablecoins and ERC-8004 agent identity and reputation. A former hackathon builder with more than 20 wins, she has helped many developers get their first role in Web3.

Nov 3 4:15 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 Agentic Hub - Can We Trust the Machines? A Live Trial

Nov 6 11:00 AM · Community Led Stage · How to get hired as a junior in tech

Manu Sheel Gupta is building LeakDetectAI and is a Technical Lead and maintainer across libp2p, multiformats, and IPLD, working on P2P networking, secure communication channels, PQ clients interoperability, decentralized systems, and open Internet infrastructure. His work focuses on secure, resilient, and permissionless networks through open standards, security research, and open-source development. He is a volunteer and contributes to the Trillion Security Research (1TS) initiative at Ethereum.

Nov 3 12:15 PM · Workshop 2 · 🛖 Resilient Networking Hub - Building Resilient Ethereum

Nov 5 12:30 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · When the Network Shuts You Out: Measuring Resilience in Permissionless Networks

India Chapter Lead at Dev3Pack | A full-stack AI engineer based in Mumbai | Building at the intersection of AI and web3.

Nov 6 10:00 AM · Community Led Stage · The tech job market in the AI era

Nov 6 11:00 AM · Community Led Stage · How to get hired as a junior in tech

Nicolas Consigny is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation working on wallets, privacy protocols and post-quantum cryptography. His current work spans SPHINCS-, a family of EVM-optimized hash-based signature variants, for PQ smart accounts. He leads Kohaku, a privacy-focused wallet initiative and research in the competition for leanSPHINCS the post quantum signature of the future lean Ethereum

Nov 3 3:00 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Kohaku : privacy for everyone, by default

Nov 5 2:40 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · leanSPHINCS: Signing for the long run

Nicolas is a co-founder of Ledger (https://www.ledger.com) - interested in making hardware security open, understandable and affordable to all

Nov 4 5:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Getting Ethereum Signer running on open-source operating system and chip

Nov 6 2:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Building the Ethereum Universal Signer

polymutex works on Walletbeat, and wants wallets to actually reflect the cypherpunk ethos of crypto.

Nov 4 3:30 PM · Lightning Stage · Wallets and software supply chain security

Nov 6 10:40 AM · Lightning Stage · Solving CROPS' last-mile problem

Pree is a Mumbai-based crypto analyst & consultant with 15+ years in business consulting & 5+ years in crypto. She developed the Aligned Incentives Framework, a method for reading how live token designs distribute value across their stakeholder groups and has published six assessments so far across DeFi, AI, launchpad & consumer protocols, with more on the way.

Nov 4 10:00 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 Legal&Governance Hub - Onchain Entities: Legal Compliance & Token Rights

Nov 6 11:00 AM · Workshop 1 · What Can Ethereum Do for India? A Live Deliberation Workshop

Technical Lead at DAOstar (Metagov), where I lead OpenGrants, the open data infrastructure indexing grant funding across Ethereum ecosystems on the DAOIP-5 standard. Previously built the data infrastructure behind the ENS DAO Governance Retrospective (ensretro.metagov.org). Programming Lead at ETHIndia CLS at Devcon 8

Nov 3 3:20 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · The History of Ethereum Grant Funding, Built on Open Data

Nov 4 9:45 AM · Community Led Stage · ETHIndia - Opening Ceremony

Roger Dingledine is co-founder and original developer of the Tor Project, a nonprofit that develops free and open source software to protect people from tracking, censorship, and surveillance online. Roger works with journalists and activists on many continents to help them understand and defend against the threats they face, and he is a prominent researcher in the online anonymity field.

Nov 5 1:30 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Tor AMA with Roger Dingledine

Nov 5 3:00 PM · Community Led Stage · Ask Me Anything with Roger Dingledine: Tor, Privacy and 20+ Years of Open Source

Ethereum core developer, interested in execution layer, EVM and PQ Ethereum. Contributor @ Erigon, Grandine, Reth.

Nov 4 11:00 AM · Workshop 2 · SSZ Execution Blocks + SSZ Query Language in Erigon

Nov 4 3:40 PM · Workshop 2 · Grandine Lean Client Development

Samyak Jain is the Founder of Fluid and Co-founder of Instadapp, innovating in crypto and DeFi since 2018. He began building in DeFi during college, dropping out after winning the 2018 ETHIndia hackathon with a MakerDAO-based tool. Backed by Pantera Capital, Standard Crypto, Naval Ravikant and others in 2019, he went on to build Instadapp, which evolved into Fluid, the fastest DeFi protocol on Ethereum to reach $100B in volume, with peak TVL of approximately $12B.

Nov 4 10:40 AM · Community Led Stage · Institutions Onchain

Nov 4 5:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Ethereum DeFi landscape & DEX v2

Sandeep Nailwal is the founder of Polygon and CEO of the Polygon Foundation. He leads Polygon’s vision to build the Open Money Stack, enabling seamless onchain payments and financial activity. Since co-founding Matic Network in 2017, he has helped scale Ethereum and advance blockchain adoption. He also founded Blockchain for Impact and the Nailwal Fellowship, supporting medical research and Web3 builders. He holds an MBA from IIM Mumbai.

Nov 4 10:40 AM · Community Led Stage · Institutions Onchain

Nov 4 2:30 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Reimagining Money Movement: Open Financial Rails for India

Shayan Eskandari is a security researcher, hacker, and internet freedom activist working across blockchain, security, and digital rights. His Web3 arc runs from information systems PhD to smart contract auditing to CTO of an early publicly traded Ethereum staking operation. He co-founded IranUnchained and has taught Farsi-speaking communities since 2015. His current obsession is Mother of all VPNs (MoaV.sh), distributed censorship-circumvention infrastructure built before the crisis.

Nov 5 10:20 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Building Through Constraints: A Decade of Web3 in Iran

Nov 5 12:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Rage-Coding the Mother of All VPNs: Notes from Iran's Internet Blackouts

Ethereum protocol researcher at Nyx Foundation, working on formal verification of the consensus layer. Building Verity, a Lean 4 / Rust consensus client for the next-generation Lean Consensus spec. Building hs-libp2p, a Haskell implementation of the libp2p networking stack.

Nov 3 12:15 PM · Workshop 2 · 🛖 Resilient Networking Hub - Building Resilient Ethereum

Nov 4 5:00 PM · Lightning Stage · hs-libp2p: A Haskell Implementation of the libp2p Stack

Nov 5 10:00 AM · Lightning Stage · Academic track Opening

Nov 5 2:50 PM · Lightning Stage · Block synthesis

Currently I work as a protocol engineer contributing to Ream client. Previously I worked at PSE, EF's Javascript Team and DeFi startups. I am a proud crypto-native based in Mumbai, India. Fun fact: I got a UK visitor visa (a relatively tough one for us) by showing a wallet screenshot as proof of funds!

Nov 4 3:10 PM · Lightning Stage · Is this binary actually built from that public source code?

Nov 5 4:55 PM · Community Led Stage · How to contribute to OSS without annoying maintainers?

Thomas Humphreys works on the Funding Coordination team at the Ethereum Foundation, focused on capital formation and sustainable funding mechanisms that strengthen the network's long-term resilience. Previously, he was a two-time founder in identity and payments, with a background in trading, portfolio management, and security tooling.

Nov 3 3:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Connecting Funders and Builders

Nov 4 4:20 PM · Lightning Stage · A Brief History of Correlated Events (and What It Means for Ethereum)

Tomo is a designer and art director at the Ethereum Foundation. Building the culture layer of the Ethereum ecosystem.

Nov 6 11:20 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Art as a tool for Freedom - Infinite Garden Artist Cohort group

Nov 6 12:00 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · In the future music and culture is free

Specialize in Algebraic Geometry over finite fields, currently working on ZK, PQC, Formal Verification.

Nov 4 12:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Training for Constraining: How to Prevent Circuit-Level Bugs

Nov 5 3:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Post-Quantum Accounts Today: Benchmarking Falcon-512 Verification Inside Starknet's `__validate__`

Vojta is a crypto native builder working on OWN, a p2p lending project focused on fixed-rate, long-term DeFi lending. He is also the lead organizer for ETHPrague 2027.

Nov 3 1:15 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 Aggregation Hub - Can Ethereum Feel Like One Chain Without Becoming One?

Nov 6 10:10 AM · Lightning Stage · Principles of Ethereum

Aryamann - Odyssey

Nov 4 4:00 PM · Community Led Stage · India Deep in Tech

Maths, Crypto, Hardware Hacking

Nov 5 2:50 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Prisoners of Work: Can Proof-of-Work Detect Quantum Computers?

Abhimanyu is a MITACS Fellow in Mathematics at the University of Alberta. He holds a BSc from the University of Alberta and has worked in Security, Risk and Consensus with Nethermind, Pantera Backed TanX, Catalysis Labs as well as Antler's Chainrisk Labs as Chief Scientist. His research has been published by IEEE, Springer, and Financial Cryptography, and he was cited in the Ethereum Research Paper at the age of 20 for EIP 5133. His main work is in the intersection of cryptography and economics.

Nov 3 1:35 PM · Lightning Stage · Sybil Attacks on Inclusion List Mechanisms: FOCIL and AUCIL

An engineer by education, Abhineet is the Senior Research and Policy Associate at IT for Change. His ongoing work concerns with the transnational inequities within the AI supply chain, and his previous policy experience has covered domains of Digital Public Infrastructures, state surveillance, and labor exploitation in the internet age.

Nov 3 5:00 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Digital Rights in DPIs — Limitations and Lessons for Equitable Futures

I'm Abhivansh, an EPF Cohort 7 fellow. I've contributed across the client ecosystem - Teku, Besu, Lighthouse, Nethermind, Ream. I am currently building out server-side light client support in Teku as part of my EPF project.

Nov 4 10:20 AM · Workshop 2 · Light Client Protocol Implementation in Teku

Aishwary Gupta, Polygon Labs/ Global Head of Business

Nov 4 11:40 AM · Community Led Stage · Tokenizing Bharat

I’m a DJ, producer, community organizer, engineer, and light-hearted revolutionary. I’ve spent my life in underground music communities, and the last several years in Ethereum trying to build tools that help those communities own more of their infrastructure, context, and economic future.

Nov 6 12:00 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · In the future music and culture is free

Researcher in post-quantum cryptography at Riva Labs. Master's in Physics at University of Rome La Sapienza.

Nov 5 4:00 PM · Workshop 1 · leanSPHINCS for developers: how to build on Post-Quantum Ethereum

Decentralization Evangelist, Master in Global Studies, Serial Traveler. Moved to make a positive impact. Currently Head of Partnerships at the European Decentralisation Institute.

Nov 5 2:30 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Digital Identity for Nations: Unlinkability, Subsidiarity and Global Interoperability

Developer at cp0x, a crypto community running permissionless interfaces to DeFi and perp protocols and participating in governance across 19 DAOs. Host of a long-running Ethereum podcast. Currently working on verifiable front-end delivery (reproducible builds, IPFS/ENS) so interfaces stay auditable and hard to capture.

Nov 4 4:50 PM · Lightning Stage · Permissionless finance, but with KYC: what are we even doing?

Alex has been a long-time contributor to Ethereum, previously co-leading Solidity for several years, and leading the Ipsilon/Ewasm teams working on numerous EVM proposals and changes. Later Alex co-founded Spearbit and Cantina. During 2026 he was taking a sabbatical.

Nov 4 2:30 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Creating a multisig wallet in an "unsafe" language

Alex Kuzmin is an engineer at Ethereum Foundation currently focused on client-side zero-knowledge proving systems. Previous affiliation: PSE (Privacy Stewards of Ethereum, also known as Privacy and Scaling Explorations).

Nov 4 2:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Evaluating Client-Side Proving Systems

Alexander John Lee is a cryptography researcher and protocol engineer at Miden. His interests include zero knowledge proofs, post quantum cryptography, privacy in DeFi, protocol design, and machine assisted research using formal verification.

Nov 4 11:00 AM · Workshop 1 · Beyond the Johnson Bound: A Path to Smaller Post-Quantum SNARKs

- Engineer at Paribu - Founding member of Clave (acquired by Paribu) - Ex-president of ITU Blockchain

Nov 4 10:30 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Smart Accounts in Production: What We Learned the Hard Way

CTO at 0xbow, onchain coordination arms dealer, wearer of many hats, working on bringing privacy to the world.

Nov 3 5:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Privacy's HTTPS Moment

Communications Lead at TheDAO Security Fund

Nov 3 3:15 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 Security Hub - How Do We Coordinate Ethereum Security?

CTO at Solar Punk, where I lead our work on the agentic economy: giving AI agents on-chain identity, reputation, and payments on Ethereum and Swarm with ERC-8004 and x402. After years building decentralized applications on Swarm and aligning protocol direction with the Swarm Foundation, I focus on turning new infrastructure concepts into systems that actually run.

Nov 3 4:15 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 Agentic Hub - Can We Trust the Machines? A Live Trial

Andreas is the co-founder of Fileverse / ddocs.new and a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, focused on human-AI collaboration in cybersecurity,

Nov 5 5:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · PQC: Post-Quantum Collaboration?

Cryptography engineer. Ethereum Lean client by day, Rust and zero-knowledge proofs all day. Prev: core dev at Fantom Blockchain

Nov 4 11:00 AM · Workshop 1 · Beyond the Johnson Bound: A Path to Smaller Post-Quantum SNARKs

Hi 👋. I have a lifelong obsession with programming, mathematics, and technology. I love creating things and exploring abstract problem spaces. I'd classify myself as a polyglot full-stack engineer. I have the most experience with TypeScript and Rust, but I've also enjoyed many other languages and tools, and always love to learn more.

Nov 6 10:30 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · Your RPC provider sees too much: a standard for anonymized wallet reads

Mathematician academic turned protocol designer and strategist. Grant recipient from Flashbots Research, Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap Foundation, and COW DAO. Now helping teams make sense of their protocol's economy.

Nov 4 1:30 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Issuance roundtable

He is a Kubernetes Engineer specializing in DevOps, cloud technologies, Kubernetes, Golang, and the broader cloud-native ecosystem. The First and youngest Golden Kubestronaut from Nepal and an active contributor to the CNCF and open-source ecosystem, he has played a key role in growing the CNCF Kathmandu community and has contributed to projects such as KubeVirt and Kanister. He currently maintains the KubeVirtBMC project and is an LFX mentee for the KubeVela project under CNCF.

Nov 5 3:45 PM · CLS - Builders Room · Metal3 Meets KubeVirtBMC: Provisioning KubeVirt VMs Like Bare Metal

I've been involved full-time in the blockchain space since 2020, but experimenting with the tech on a personal level since 2013, mostly on privacy-focused solutions. With a full-stack background, I define myself a solidity dev with an architectural view when it comes to develop applications in Web3. Currently I'm the Co-founder of Fluidkey, bringing default-privacy with great UX on EVMs. Outside blockchain space, I'm a basketball lover, LEGO nerd and roller-coaster enthusiast.

Nov 6 11:00 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · Stealth Addresses for Everyone: ENS as the Universal Stealth Meta-Registry

Anuj Bansal is DevOps lead at CoW DAO, responsible for the Kubernetes clusters, RPC nodes and deployment pipelines behind CoW Protocol and CoW Swap. Most of the job is the unglamorous half of DeFi: monitoring, incident response, and the off-chain plumbing everything else quietly depends on.

Nov 4 2:00 PM · Lightning Stage · Hijacked at the registry: 26 hours without our domain

Software Engineer and AI maneuverer.

Nov 5 4:15 PM · Community Led Stage · Stop twisting every dial: One open Inference tuning lesson

Ariah designed and built key parts of Gyroscope’s elliptic and cubic concentrated liquidity pools. He is a DeFi researcher with a track record of predicting design problems in DeFi, including issues that manifested in DAI’s Black Thursday crisis and in Terra’s collapse, and holds a PhD from Cornell University.

Nov 4 4:30 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · PropAMMs: the good and the bad, and how to keep trustless infrastructure competitive

Hi, I'm Arsh. I've been around Ethereum for a while, working across open source and protocol infrastructure

Nov 4 11:40 AM · Workshop 2 · Pureth in Reth: SSZ Execution Blocks and Query Language

Artem is deeply passionate about decentralized technology and its ability to empower people with censorship resistance, personal sovereignty, privacy, and permissionless innovation. Focused in the area of Public Goods, Decentralized Identity and Civic Tech. He is a a builder at heart and a technology leader with experience across many industries over the last 15 years.

Nov 6 11:50 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · The Graveyard of Digital Identity: Why Every Root of Trust Fails and What's Left

Artem Grigor is a DPhil candidate in the Systems Security Lab at the University of Oxford

Nov 5 2:30 PM · Lightning Stage · When your AI agent uses your wallet, what are you trusting?

Arya Agarwaal is a biochemical engineer by training, a science communicator by passion, and a DeSci community builder by conviction. Her research journey has taken her from India to Sweden and Switzerland. She is fascinated by the ways science can be made more open, collaborative, and accessible; not just through technology, but through the stories we tell and the communities we build. Through science communication and her association with DeSci India, she hopes to bring researchers, technologists, and curious minds together to rethink how science is funded, shared, and experienced.

Nov 3 12:15 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 DeSci Hub - The World of DeSci

Aryeh Greenberg is a co-author of ERC-7984, the confidential token standard, and a core maintainer of OpenZeppelin Contracts and OpenZeppelin Confidential Contracts. Much of his work involves bringing familiar Solidity patterns into confidential contracts, and finding where they break.

Nov 5 10:00 AM · Workshop 2 · Encrypted, Not Anonymous: A Hands-On Introduction to Confidential Solidity

Asha Shankar is Head of Privacy at Coinbase, where she leads privacy risk, assessments, and incident response across one of the largest regulated crypto exchanges. Her work sits at the intersection of data protection law and blockchain architecture, building privacy programs that hold up under real regulatory scrutiny.

Nov 3 2:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Blockchain Privacy

Atharva Mhaske is a Backend Engineer at Cloud9 and an Open Source Member at OpenEverest, where he leads work on provider-kserve with LLM inferecing on K8s. He was a Google Summer of Code mentee at OpenScienceLabs. His work spans backend systems, applied AI engineering, and AI infrastructure on Kubernetes.

Nov 5 4:05 PM · Community Led Stage · What Actually Happens When You Send an LLM Request to Kubernetes?

Atsu is a visionary entrepreneur proposing innovative solutions for Japanese demographic challenges. As a co-founder of paramita and Nishikigoi NFT, he leverages blockchain technology to reshape governance and wealth distribution in Japan. Atsu also redefined local governance and ended up launching nationwide entities, "Local Coop". In Local Coop, a NFT-based e-residency system, Nishikigoi NFT, attracted a global community to Yamakoshi village. localcoop.io, nishikigoinft.com, sinra.app/en.

Nov 3 4:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · From Mass Commerce to Regenerative Local Stewardship: Building Real-World ReFi Infrastructure

Barnabé Monnot is a Co-Founder at Ethlabs, a non-profit R&D lab growing Ethereum and ETH. Barnabé was previously co-lead of Protocol at Ethereum Foundation.

Nov 4 11:30 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Fast Ethereum

I am a researcher in philosophy at École normale supérieure–PSL, affiliated with the Archives Husserl laboratory. My research examines blockchain infrastructures, algorithmic intentionality, and the distribution of responsibility in decentralized systems, with a particular focus on Ethereum.

Nov 5 12:00 PM · Workshop 2 · What Would It Take to Make Ethereum Always Available? Designing UNIBRA: A Connectivity Layer

Bartosz Barwikowski breaks blockchains, and now builds the agents that do it faster than he can. 80+ criticals found and proven, $1.2M+ in bounties and rank #3 all-time on HackenProof, including the bug in Binance's zk-SNARK Proof of Reserves and eight in the Radix VM. His latest system read 10M Sui transactions straight from bytecode. He is one of ~20a0 holders of the ETHSecurity Badge, and spoke at Devcon SEA on how to steal $1.1M in fifteen minutes.

Nov 4 11:30 AM · Lightning Stage · How to steal $5M with a read-only bug

Bas van Gijzel is an Engineering Manager at Nomic Foundation, leading work across Solidity compiler and language tooling, including Slang and solx. His broader background spans developer tooling, compilers, and engineering leadership, with a focus on making complex systems faster, safer, and easier to use.

Nov 4 3:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Slang: A faster, better-optimizing Solidity compiler

Ben Adams is an Ethereum Core Developer at Nethermind, where he works on pushing the performance and scalability limits of the execution layer. He is a long-time .NET performance engineer, open-source contributor to .NET Runtime and ASP.NET Core, an 11-time Microsoft MVP, a former .NET Foundation Board Director, and co-founder and CTO of Illyriad Games.

Nov 4 12:00 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · An Ethereum Validator in Every Home: The Road to 1 Billion

Nov 5 10:10 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Blockchain adoption: even if you do a lot of things right, you can still be wrong

Bianca Buzea is Head of DevRel at Chronicle, where she works with teams integrating oracle data into onchain markets. She works directly with builders across the Ethereum ecosystem, supporting safe data infrastructure integrations tailored to different use cases. Bianca regularly speaks at blockchain events, delivering talks, workshops, and panels, including at ETHDenver, EthCC, and Dappcon.

Nov 3 3:10 PM · Lightning Stage · 1,014 or 1.014: what breaks in tokenized asset feeds

Nov 4 12:20 PM · Community Led Stage · Futures Worth Building

Builder on Ethereum. Leads development at BuidlGuidl, where he works on dev tooling and education to help developers learn and build on Ethereum. Before that, 10+ years as a freelance developer.

Nov 3 3:15 PM · Workshop 1 · Human + AI Solidity CTF: bring your own agent

Chandresh lives in Mumbai and spends his time reading, walking, drinking chai, and watching F1. He has spent last 6 years building end-to-end marketing functions for blockchains projects like Gnosis, Circles, IDRISS, and Shardeum. He is the core organiser of ETHMumbai, which has now hosted 20 meetups, 2 hackathons, and a conference in Mumbai, since 2023.

Nov 3 4:45 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 Privacy Hub - Privacy is normal

Charles Reese is a software engineer and EPF Cohort 7 contributor focused on EIP-8025 and optional execution proofs in Grandine. He brings more than a decade of backend and infrastructure engineering experience, including building DEX aggregation and trading infrastructure at 0x and large-scale stream-processing systems with Apache Kafka.

Nov 4 3:20 PM · Workshop 2 · Implementing EIP-8025 Optional Execution Proofs in Grandine

Over almost two decades, Charlie has built capacities within land-based organizations, focusing on urban affordable housing and land commons mechanisms. As a founder of tech collective Komma, he focuses on decentralised technology and was co-founder of Oasa, a Swiss token issuer focused on land restoration. Since 2020 he has been pioneering research and projects in the Ethereum ecosystem.

Nov 3 4:00 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Programmable Cadastral Institutions: Land Rights and Sovereign Data for Informal Settlements

Core contributor @ Protocol Guild, the leading independent funding organization for Ethereum core developers. We proactively fund maintainers doing work the ecosystem depends on.

Nov 4 10:00 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · Ethereum's Roadmap, Simplified: What Changes Next and Why

Lead and manage Ansible Network and Security team at Red Hat

Nov 5 3:45 PM · Community Led Stage · DX is Secret Sauce of Open Source

Chibuotu Amadi is co-founder of Paycrest, where he works on open infrastructure for stablecoin–fiat payments. He has spent 7+ years building in crypto, including at ConsenSys and Gitcoin, with work spanning cross-chain systems and public-goods tooling. He now focuses on making the fiat edge of crypto more open, verifiable, and non-custodial.

Nov 3 3:20 PM · Lightning Stage · Stablecoins Are Permissionless Until They Touch Fiat: Making the Last Mile an Open Market

I'm a software engineer at Inco Network working on privacy and cryptography infrastructure. I've been building on Ethereum for about three years, mostly around account abstraction and smart contract wallets. I authored ERC-8286 and contributed to EIP-8141, love working in open source (oss at Safe Global, Viem, eip8141)

Nov 4 11:00 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Wallets Reimagined: ERC-8286 & EIP-8141 in Production

Chris Hobcroft has worked on Ethereum-related projects since 2017. He now builds deboot, a bootloader that fetches its operating system from Swarm and verifies it against signatures from the same keys that control funds, an attempt to close the last centralised gap underneath a self-hosted node. He also contributes to Ethereum, Livepeer and Swarm communities.

Nov 6 10:30 AM · Lotus Stage 1 · The Next Centralised Dependency Is Your Bootloader

Christopher Fabian co-launched Giga with UNICEF and the ITU to connect every school in the world to the internet, mapping school connectivity in real time and pooling demand to finance it. Christopher also co-founded UNICEF Innovation.

Nov 3 3:30 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Universal Connectivity Credits & other insights from GIGA (UNICEF+ITU)

Clara Gromaches trained as an architect and has spent the last six years working in the blockchain ecosystem. She now works on the mechanisms communities need to own and care for what they hold in common. At Komma, a research and relational-technology collective, she works with communities and institutions to design, pilot and test the legal, economic, cultural and technical systems that make this possible, starting with land and housing, and using AI and web3 where they're the right tool.

Nov 3 4:00 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Programmable Cadastral Institutions: Land Rights and Sovereign Data for Informal Settlements

Clément is a computer scientist and founder of Kleros, a decentralized arbitration protocol for smart contracts. His work spans mechanism design, game theory, smart contract security, and decentralized coordination. Beyond Kleros, he has worked on Sybil-resistant systems like Proof of Humanity and on prediction and decision markets through Seer. He is interested in markets for governance, funding, risk, and collective decision-making. Outside work, Clément plays competitive Magic: The Gathering.

Nov 6 10:00 AM · Workshop 2 · The Future of Prediction Markets is Decision Markets!

Nov 4 2:00 PM · Community Led Stage · Operating Crypto in India

An independent ethereum researcher exploring execution-sharding, zkEVMs, Lean Ethereum, and mainnet-centric scaling.

Nov 4 3:00 PM · Workshop 2 · Delegated Execution Sharding

Senior software engineer with 6 years in web3 and Ethereum Protocol Fellow (cohort 7), contributing to Ethereum consensus clients and working toward censorship resistance by implementing FOCIL in Lighthouse

Nov 4 2:00 PM · Workshop 2 · FOCIL in Lighthouse

Csaba is a member of the Geth team and a researcher at the EF. His current focus is on hardening and scaling the Ethereum networking stack, mempool and DAS. Previously, he was working on various aspects of overlay and mesh networks, from large scale P2P overlays for low-latency video streaming, through anonymization overlays and other privacy enhancing technologies, to wireless mesh networks of all kinds. He has 50+ published papers and he is holding several IEEE Best Paper and Best Demo awards.

Nov 4 2:00 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · The Role of the Public Mempool in CROPS Ethereum

Christopher is the Head of Security at Polygon Labs. His current work is turning the security function into autonomous agentic workflows, embedding security by design in everything the organization does. His background spans SaaS, cloud security, blockchain, AI, operational efficiency, and software development. Before Polygon, he was Global Director in ServiceNow's Office of the CISO and at IBM as Security Specialist.

Nov 4 12:00 PM · Lightning Stage · The Last Security Hire

I am a Privacy Engineer. Privacy engineering is a discipline that is about embedding privacy norms into systems, moving beyond compliance and into the design and implementation of user-centric information flows using both technical and organizational processes. I want to build socially-conscious systems that are well engineered from a privacy standpoint. Problems need solving.

Nov 3 2:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Naming the Harm: A privacy threat vocabulary for Ethereum builders

**Software engineer & technical leader** building web products since 1996. Start-up founder and CTO in the past, he has been working as a blockchain engineer at **BuidlGuidl** (A curated group of Ethereum builders creating products, prototypes, and tutorials to enrich the Web3 ecosystem) since 2022. He is also a data science teacher at the **University of Buenos Aires**.

Nov 3 3:15 PM · Workshop 1 · Human + AI Solidity CTF: bring your own agent

Dan joined the Ethereum Foundation in April 2021 to work with testing infrastructure and currently helps maintain ethereum/execution-specs. A strong believer in client diversity, Dan is interested in creating shared testing tools that can reduce complexity across client teams, helping accelerate Ethereum development and resilience.

Nov 6 10:30 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Honey, I Shrunk the Test Run: Protocol-Native Execution Client System Tests, 10-??× Faster

Ethereum Core Developer working on Lighthouse at Sigma Prime. Focusing on improving Ethereum's networking.

Nov 5 11:30 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Transcending Gossipsub

Daniel is a software engineer and developer advocate for the Radicle project. Having previously worked on Aragon, IPFS and libp2p, he brings over a decade of experience developing software with a focus distributed systems. He's passionate about open-source culture, developer tools, and the Web Platform, and enjoys applying insights from various disciplines to software development.

Nov 4 4:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Beyond GitHub: Building Open Source on Radicle

A blockchain engineer from Vietnam who is always curious and eager to learn. I hope that one day my work can make a meaningful impact on the blockchain ecosystem.

Nov 4 4:00 PM · Workshop 2 · Ream: Full Fulu Compatibility and Cross-Client Interoperability

Darryl Yeo is a self-taught software engineer with over a decade of experience building delightful data-driven experiences for the decentralized web. He previously built websites and user interfaces at dYdX, Ritual, ETHGlobal, Spindl and Coinbase. Today, Darryl focuses on building open-source tools that promote transparency and self-sovereignty in crypto ecosystems, including Walletbeat, a community standard for Ethereum wallets, and Blockhead, a local-first client for decentralized protocols.

Nov 4 4:10 PM · Lightning Stage · Websites that outlast us: dependency minimalism and the walkaway test applied to the frontend stack

David Dao is Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of GainForest.Earth, a global tech non-profit pioneering decentralized nature finance and research. His work has earned recognition including the XPRIZE Rainforest, WEF Davos 50 and Ethereum Next Billion. David completed his PhD in AI Systems at ETH Zurich, where he co-initiated the field of data valuation for machine learning.

Nov 3 4:30 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · GainForest: How we can ensure equitable and regenerative intelligence for nature conservation?

Deepak is an experienced engineering manager with a passion for psychology, software quality and now AI.  In his current role at Red Hat, Deepak is focused on building digital experiences for Red Hat Partners. Deepak has been a prolific international conference speaker (MCP Dev Summit 2026, devconf, seleniumconf, automationstar, ATAGTR) and tech meetup host. He runs Pune AI collective where AI enthusiasts from Pune, India talk and share about open source AI technologies and frameworks. He was a speaker in FOASSIA Summit bangkok 2026 and also started his contribution journey with https://git

Nov 5 4:40 PM · Community Led Stage · I Built a Linter for Human bugs, Then I Ran It on Eventyay

Agent steward. Loves being a dev. Envio co-founder. Safe Guardian. Anarchist at heart. Been building since gas prices allowed experimentation on mainnet 😅.

Nov 3 4:10 PM · Lightning Stage · Nobody Verifies What Your Agent Reads

Building in crypto since 2018: led Ocean Protocol's $7M token launch, shipped crypto trading at Trade Republic to 1M+ users, and was first PM at Unstoppable Finance, launching Ultimate, a self-custodial wallet acquired by Jupiter. Now Product Lead at Safe, building onchain policy and role-based execution for the smart account infrastructure securing $100B+. Seven years in, still convinced self-custody is the point.

Nov 4 3:40 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Design for the Compromised Signer: Bounding Blast Radius in Smart Accounts

Principal Smart Contracts Engineer at Aave Labs. Core contributor and designer on Aave V4, previously at Polygon Labs.

Nov 4 1:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Every Division Picks a Winner: Rounding and Accounting Hazards in Lending Protocols

Dhruv Rastogi is a mobile and backend engineer at [Infinisync.ai](http://Infinisync.ai) and the founder of [Scrolling.in](http://Scrolling.in), with 2+ years of experience building and shipping production applications across Flutter, native Android, iOS, React Native, and backend technologies. He has worked on five apps published on the Play Store and App Store, including a banking module serving 100K+ customers and an Android NFC integration for physical badge hardware. A Google Summer of Code 2025 Flutter contributor and 2026 mentor at FOSSASIA, Dhruv contributes to open-source projects suc

Nov 5 4:00 PM · Community Led Stage · Flutter Meets Hardware: LED Badges, ePaper and Pocket Science Lab

Diego is a staff engineer at Zircuit. He uses Go to build secure and reliable distributed systems. His work covers Ethereum infrastructure, protocol security, rollups, and reproducible failure and recovery tests.

Nov 5 4:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · The DeFi Walkaway Test: Can Users Actually Leave?

PhD researcher in Information Management at NOVA IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Ethereum Foundation PhD Fellow. At the Nova Blockchain Lab I lead the peer to peer energy market task of COMMUNITAS, a Horizon Europe project, and I built and run the Nova Cidade L3, the Arbitrum Orbit chain where its households trade energy every hour. My research is on blockchain settlement for energy communities and the privacy of the people in them, with a side line on LLMs for smart contract security. I studied computer science at Instituto Superior Técnico (MSc thesis on Solidity smart contract securit

Nov 5 2:10 PM · Lightning Stage · Privacy Preserving Coordination Rails for Municipal Energy Communities

Helping TradFi come to DeFi and part time public goods researcher. ex Intern at Ethereum Foundation. prev Normie.tech.

Nov 6 10:00 AM · Lightning Stage · Commons as a Service: Programmable Funding for Shared Digital Infrastructure

Dirk is a Berlin-based Android developer who has been building apps since 2009 and following Ethereum since 2015. From 2020 to 2023 he was a mobile developer at Gnosis and Safe, working on the Safe{Wallet} mobile apps. He is the creator and maintainer of Myotis, an open-source light client that gives mobile and desktop apps trustless access to Ethereum without relying on RPC providers.

Nov 4 4:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · The Zero Option Is Possible: Trustless Ethereum on a Phone, Without RPC

Divya is a Lead Open Source Advocate at SUSE, where she contributes to the company's open source projects. She co-chairs the documentation for the Kubernetes project & also serves on its Code of Conduct Committee. Elsewhere in the open source ecosystem, she serves as the co-chair of the CHAOSS Governing Board and as a lead for the community efforts under the Bytecode Alliance.

Nov 5 4:30 PM · Community Led Stage · Measuring Community Vitality: Navigating Multi-Stakeholder Governance in Open Source

Making Ethereum decentralized, resilient, and easy for everyone since 2021 DAO believer and DeFi enthusiast Author of the book "Cryptocurrencies: How does it work" https://twitter.com/LidoFinance/status/1579954963899625473 PhD in Math

Nov 3 12:15 PM · Lightning Stage · The last mile of Ethereum validator consolidations

Dmytro Matviiv is the CEO of HackenProof, expert bug bounty and crowdsourced audit platform working with crypto leaders such as Ethereum Foundation, MetaMask, Polygon, OKX, SUI and more. ETHSecurity Expert Badge holder with 15 years in data encryption, authentication and developing cybersecurity products. Specializes in evidence validation, threat attribution, and collaborative intelligence. Nowadays, HackenProof consists of a community of over 80K security researchers.

Nov 4 11:40 AM · Lightning Stage · Stop Re-Investigating the Same Wallet: A Shared Evidence Layer for On-Chain Crime

Dominic Bruetsch is a founding partner and lead blockchain security engineer at ChainSecurity. He specializes in smart contract audits on Ethereum, Starknet, as well as zk circuit audits. He holds a master's degree from ETH Zurich, one of the best universities in the world for computer science, in electrical engineering with a focus on networks and computer science. He found vulnerabilities in the Ethereum protocol itself, which landed him a sport on the Ethereum Bug bounty leaderboard.

Nov 3 3:00 PM · Lightning Stage · Wait! Reentracies are good now?

Protocol Engineering Team Lead @ Monad Foundation ex co-founder in DeFi ex Ethereum Foundation (core solidity compiler team)

Nov 5 11:30 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · Don't Review the Code: Formal Specs, AI Synthesis, and Why the Verifier Is the Only Thing You Trust

Dr. Sujit Gujar is an Associate Professor and CA Technologies Faculty Chair at IIIT Hyderabad, leading the Machine Learning Lab. His research develops game-theoretic foundations for modern AI and distributed AI/blockchains, ensuring fairness in these systems, spanning 125+ peer-reviewed publications and 15+ US patents. He earned his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, winning the IISc Alumni Medal for best CSA thesis, and previously researched at EPFL and Xerox Research.

Nov 5 3:10 PM · Lightning Stage · Who Should Benefit When Transactions Are Ordered? Fair MEV Redistribution

Dennis is a software engineer based in Germany who enjoys building things that live on the internet and also power the internet. Dennis joined the ProbeLab team at Protocol Labs in 2022 and has been instrumental in building much of the P2P Networking infrastructure and tooling that probes several big blockchain networks. He was awarded a PhD research fellowship from Protocol Labs and graduated his PhD at the Georg August University of Göttingen in early 2026.

Nov 5 11:00 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · devp2p, libp2p, ethp2p - Untangling Ethereum’s Networking Stack

Free software developer based in Mashiko, Japan. Built the world's first smart contract oracle, Reality Keys, in 2013. Maintains reality.eth, a crowd-sourced smart contract oracle for natural language questions.

Nov 3 4:30 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · ATProto and Bluesky: The Personal Data Server vs the Collectivist State Machine

Eduardo Antuña is a software engineer and protocol builder with 9 years of experience in Ethereum, zero-knowledge technology, and decentralized infrastructure. His current focus is developing Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), an open-source protocol for synchronous composability across Ethereum and rollups. Previously, he was SVP of AggLayer at Polygon. He is a co-founder of DAppNode and has contributed to projects including Giveth and Swarm City, as well as security audits of MakerDAO’s DAI system

Nov 4 1:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Toward a Synchronous Ethereum: Making Rollups Composable with EEZ

Ekin Genc is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, focusing on DeFi and the law. He's the former editor-in-chief of DL News, the independent media arm of DefiLlama.

Nov 6 2:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Defipunk Beyond “Code Is Law”: What Kind of Social Layer Is Possible?

Ekin researches decentralised finance (DeFi) through the lens of legal pluralism.

Nov 5 2:00 PM · Lightning Stage · Autonomous agents

Eleftherios is the founder of Radicle. He is a Greek-born technologist with a background in Mathematics and Network Science. Formerly the Vice President for Data Science and Engineering at SoundCloud, his passion lies with sovereign networks.

Nov 4 4:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Beyond GitHub: Building Open Source on Radicle

Elliot is a smart contract security engineer and principal at Solidity Labs. Over seven years he has deployed 67 production contracts securing more than $2 billion in TVL, with zero losses. He built Forge Proposal Simulator, a governance security tool widely adopted across DeFi, and Kleidi, a timelock-based self-custody system built to defend against attacks that multisigs can't stop. A contributor to SEAL Frameworks, he writes and speaks on smart contract and governance security.

Nov 4 3:50 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Security Through Clearing: The Timelock Model

Emma Luu Van Lang is Head of the Geneva Research Lab for Digital Impact (GRL) at the University of Geneva, a research and impact platform advancing inclusive and sustainable digital transformation. With over a decade of experience in international development and social impact, she leads GRL’s strategy and initiatives, bridging research, policy and practice to understand what it takes for digital innovation to deliver meaningful societal impact. GRL’s work focuses on the human, institutional and ecosystem conditions that enable digital infrastructure and emerging technologies to deliver imp

Nov 5 2:00 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · From First Mover to Blueprint: Lessons from Bhutan’s Decentralized ID

Former security researcher, now working on advancing privacy technology and pondering what a more perfect world looks like. Current Interests: FHEVM, Monero, Sustainability

Nov 4 10:20 AM · Lightning Stage · Trash Piracy: an Opsec Case Study

I joined Nethermind as an intern in 2022, where I later continued my work as a Blockchain Engineer, diving deep into smart contracts, DeFi, and tokenization. Now, as Tokenization Tech Lead, I have been helping design and build various tokenization solutions, researching related standards, and exploring its intersection with DeFi.

Nov 4 11:00 AM · Lotus Stage 1 · Can a Real World Asset Be CROPS Aligned?

Esha Datanwala is a social media and communications leader working across crypto and financial technology. She has led digital strategy for protocols, infrastructure projects, and decentralized ecosystems, with a focus on how technical ideas reach and mobilize online communities. She is currently the Director of Social Media at Serotonin.

Nov 6 11:10 AM · Lightning Stage · Your Protocol Can’t Be Censored. Your Users Can.

I'm a lawyer with several years of experience advising on blockchain and decentralized systems. Currently, I work for Kleros Cooperative, where I lead policy design and government initiatives to integrate the Kleros protocol into the public sector.

Nov 5 3:00 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · What we learned bringing decentralized justice to Argentine citizens

Federico Ast is the founder and CEO of Kleros, a decentralized dispute resolution protocol built on Ethereum. He holds degrees in Economics and Philosophy and a doctorate in Business Management, and teaches blockchain and the future of law to over 120,000 students on Coursera. His work sits at the intersection of blockchain, game theory, institutional design, legaltech, and AI.

Nov 5 3:10 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · See You in (Robot) Court: Justice in the Agent Economy

Felix is a core developer of [opn.vote](https://www.openpetition.org/opn-vote), an open-source voting system that strives to decentralize most of the voting processes. He helped to design and build the system that is used for ABSTIMMUNG21's nationwide referendums, where so far 13,000 people have voted on-chain.

Nov 4 2:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Deploying a Nationwide Referendum On-Chain

Trained as a lawyer and software developer with many years of experience working full-time in the blockchain space, Florian is aware of the key issues at the intersection of crypto assets and regulation. Florian Glatz has co-founded the European Ethereum Institute and the German Blockchain Association. He advises political decision-makers at the German and European level on blockchain regulation.

Nov 4 10:50 AM · Lightning Stage · Building a Privacy Browser for Ethereum

Product Lead @Kleros. He works on onchain verification, certification and decentralized dispute resolution, building tools that help ensure everyone is treated fairly. He is now bringing those same tools to the agentic economy, which needs as much fairness.

Nov 3 4:15 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 Agentic Hub - Can We Trust the Machines? A Live Trial

Ethereum researcher, spent 5 years at EF Research working on consensus, data availability sampling, FOCIL and more, recently joined Ethlabs. Currently focused on making Ethereum finalize faster

Nov 4 10:30 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · Fast Finality update

Francesco Risitano is a research engineer working on Ethereum scalability and privacy. He has worked across the stack, including zkVM development at Polygon Miden, node client development at Scroll, and now at the Ethereum Foundation, where he works on Ethereum’s transition to execution proofs.

Nov 5 3:00 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Towards Formally Verified zkEVMs

Benjamin Flores is the co-founder and CEO of LFG Labs and Verity Labs, building Lean-based formal-verification infrastructure for Ethereum smart contracts.

Nov 5 11:10 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · Formal Verification in the Age of AI

Friederike Ernst co-founded Gnosis, which has spent a good decade building Ethereum infrastructure and occasionally releasing it into the wild (Safe, CoW Protocol). A physicist by training, she is a co-initiator of the Ethereum Economic Zone, an attempt to make very different chains compose as one economy. She remains on speaking terms with the laws of physics.

Nov 4 1:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · How Big Can Ethereum Get Before Physics Gets in the Way?

- an ID (independent developer) who loves open source :) - EPF cohort 7 - Committer (to some open source projects) - ex Nethermind intern / ex Tokamak ZK engineer

Nov 4 10:00 AM · Workshop 2 · Light Client Backfill in Prysm

Seasoned Software and Security Engineering professional. Primary interests are Security, Linux, Malware, AI/ML Loves working on the command-line.

Nov 5 11:45 AM · Community Led Stage · Project Hummingbird - Minimal Images, Maximum Trust

Gopi is a software and protocol builder working across decentralized systems, cryptography, privacy, and wallet infrastructure, with a focus on turning complex protocol ideas into systems that are easier to inspect, understand, and build with. He previously served as President and led Education & Research at TUM Blockchain Club, one of Europe’s largest student-run Web3 communities.

Nov 3 1:15 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 Aggregation Hub - Can Ethereum Feel Like One Chain Without Becoming One?

Core contributors from the GrapheneOS project

Nov 6 2:00 PM · Workshop 2 · GrapheneOS Workshop: Secure by Design, Private by Default

gubsheep is the founder of the 0xPARC Foundation and the field of Programmable Cryptography. He previously created Dark Forest, the first non-cryptocurrency application of zkSNARKs, and supported applied zero-knowledge R&D and ecosystem development at the Ethereum Foundation.

Nov 5 11:30 AM · Lotus Stage 1 · Digital Objects: What, Why, and How

Gustavo Dutra is a Security Engineer at Polygon Labs building agentic security tooling — AI code review in CI, autonomous bounty triage, and supply-chain auditing. His background spans C++ software engineering, web2 security, and red teaming.

Nov 4 10:00 AM · Workshop 1 · Red-Team Your Own AI Pipeline: A Hands-On Prompt-Injection & Supply-Chain Lab

Solidity smart contract engineering manager at @OpenZeppelin Solidity developer since 2017, Author of many ERCs.

Nov 4 10:00 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Hooks everywhere: the age of dynamic contracts

Blockchain researcher and engineer focused on Ethereum protocol research, data availability, consensus, and cryptography. Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF) participant and co-author of research on efficient Data Availability Sampling using coded distributed arrays. Interested in building secure and scalable decentralized systems.

Nov 4 4:00 PM · Workshop 2 · Ream: Full Fulu Compatibility and Cross-Client Interoperability

Harith leads Product at Etherscan and its associated products. He has been contributing to Ethereum since 2018 by starting ETHKL, an Ethereum meetup in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and volunteering and speaking at Devcon/nect events since then. Before life in Ethereum, Harith worked in radio, insurance, and fintech.

Nov 4 11:50 AM · Lightning Stage · AI-enabled, chain-validated, one-click visualisation of fund flows

Hart Montgomery is the CTO of Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust and serves as the ED of the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance. Hart previously worked in blockchain and cryptography research at Fujitsu where he helped lead Fujitsu’s efforts in Hyperledger. Prior to Fujitsu, Hart received a Ph.D. in cryptography at Stanford. Hart has numerous academic publications and patents in cryptography and blockchain and brings a wealth of experience in these areas to the LF.

Nov 6 11:00 AM · Lotus Stage 1 · Best Open Source Practices from the Linux Foundation

Blockchain engineer with 5+ years of experience, working across AWS infrastructure and Java/Spring Boot systems. I run UNCHAIN, an open-source Web3 developer education community in Japan providing learning content for Ethereum and etc.... As an AWS Community Builder, I bring a cross-domain perspective spanning cloud infrastructure, AI, and blockchain — currently deep in zero-knowledge proofs and privacy-preserving tech.

Nov 5 11:00 AM · Workshop 1 · Building an x402 AI Agent: Autonomous payments with Cloudflare Workers

Physicist, programmer, cypherpunk, optimistic pessimist and believer in public goods. Running and testing client software since before the beacon chain genesis.

Nov 4 3:50 PM · Lightning Stage · Running a Full Node and Staking on Free and Open Standard RISC-V Hardware

Henning is the protocal lead at Swarm and creator of the open-source, human-readable smart contract language Lexon. He wrote the first book on Ethereum, architected IBM's Hyperledger, and the Diamond Blockchain for DeBeers, and led blockchain research for the European Commission and Temasek. He advised OpenSC, the Wyoming blockchain panel, and runs a live experiment in the future of the firm, a DAO with legal personhood. He gave blockchain talks & keynotes on 5 continents.

Nov 5 4:30 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Why Every Supply Chain Blockchain Died: Capture, Neutrality, and Lessons from Inside

Henri co-founded OKcontract Labs, that does frontier cybersecurity research for onchain systems, and whose work was focused by Vitalik. He is also a security badge holder for TheDAO and a partner at 50 Partners. Before that, he was the Chief Innovation Officer at Wallix (Bloomberg: ALLIX.PA), and received numerous awards in his career including the French Ministry of Research Innovation Prize. Henri holds a PhD in Machine Learning from Paris Sorbonne.

Nov 4 3:20 PM · Lightning Stage · oksolc, a Solidity compiler in Zig

Hong Phuc Dang is the founder of FOSSASIA, a driving force behind the open source movement across Asia. Since 2009, she has brought together developers, contributors, and communities through the annual [FOSSASIA Summit](https://summit.fossasia.org), one of Asia’s leading open source events. Hong Phuc has served on the boards of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the Open Source Business Alliance, and IEEE Open Source. She works with organizations to adopt open source and InnerSource practices, helping build more open, collaborative, and innovative technology ecosystems.

Nov 5 9:30 AM · Community Led Stage · Welcome to OpenTechSummit India: Where Open Source Meets Decentralized Tech

Hudson is a renowned expert on blockchain technology with specializations in Ethereum, Zcash, decentralized governance, and privacy technology. He has spoken at dozens of conferences around the world and has served at a number of organizations and boards, including advisory roles at Chainlink and Polygon. As a community builder and educator, his unique mix of technical and communication skills has proved to be valuable in ecosystems that he participates in.

Nov 5 3:00 PM · Workshop 2 · The Big Ethereum Trivia Quiz

Hugo serves as Partnerships Lead at ScopeLift, a full-stack EVM-focused software engineering studio which also developed Umbra Cash and operates Cactus (formerly known as Tally) Ethereum's first stealth addresses project. Hugo is also the co-founder and secretary at New Economy Institute, an advocacy group focused on making Portugal and Europe more crypto friendly, having led the negotiations with the Portuguese government for the friendly crypto taxation regime implemented in 2023.

Nov 4 11:00 AM · Lightning Stage · The untapped potential of stealth addresses

Ibukun Babatunde

Nov 5 2:40 PM · Lightning Stage · Verified argument flow

I'm doing information security at ⚡️🤖 Flashbots. Working on a range of topics from conventional web2 stuff to TEEs.

Nov 4 4:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Your TEE Workload Is Attested, Now What? A Practical Threat Model for Confidential VMs

Experienced dev and veteran of the Ethereum community, EPF cohort 7 fellow aspiring to do meaningful protocol work.

Nov 4 2:20 PM · Workshop 2 · Etheorem: Lean 4 Consensus-Spec Proofs

Software engineer at LambdaClass, ethrex Tech Lead

Nov 4 11:30 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · Getting to Lean Ethereum

Jack is a graduate student and Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF7) participant focused on Ethereum protocol development. His fellowship project explores the foundations for EIP-7807 SSZ execution blocks in Erigon, including execution-data mapping, progressive SSZ Merkleization, and block-root computation. He has contributed to Ethereum's execution-specs repository and participated in the LXDAO and ETHPanda communities. His interests include execution-layer infrastructure, verifiable data access, and open-source collaboration.

Nov 4 11:00 AM · Workshop 2 · SSZ Execution Blocks + SSZ Query Language in Erigon

Nov 4 11:20 AM · Community Led Stage · India Policy Landscape

James Beck is a Brooklyn-based writer, technologist, and music producer working on consumer blockchain applications. As Head of Growth at ENS Labs, his mission is to increase brand awareness and drive integrations of ENS's decentralized identity protocol. Since 2017, James has been immersed in the Ethereum ecosystem, previously Consensys, Mirror, and Avara.

Nov 4 4:00 PM · Lightning Stage · ICANN is Not the Enemy: How to Befriend the Open Source Standards Bodies

James Carnley builds cypherpunk public infrastructure and created Ethereum File System, an open-source public good providing a shared global namespace, reliable onchain metadata and verifiable file references on Ethereum. He spent more than a decade building federated medical software at Epic and has been active in Ethereum since 2017 through beacon chain testnets and staking discussions. He now develops EFS and is designing a user-sovereign web operating system.

Nov 5 3:30 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Who Can Turn Off Your Ethereum App? A Full-Stack Walk-Away Test

James Newell has spent nearly 20 years working with charities and social purpose businesses as a fundraiser, founder, consultant, executive, and non-executive director. He now works at GSR, a crypto market maker and liquidity provider with over a decade in the ecosystem, where he leads the firm's sustainability commitment and is building the GSR Foundation into a leading independent charitable grantmaker.

Nov 6 10:50 AM · Lightning Stage · The Charity Sector Is Breaking. Can Ethereum Help Fix It?

ack3.ai co-founder, security researcher, university lecturer, ETHSecurity badge holder, paneer enjoyer

Nov 4 12:00 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Building a company without Google Workspace

Inventing new cryptographic primitives at phantom.zone for a safe & resilient future. Working on new - encrypted, joint - computational mediums that are independent of the operating substrate. All-in open source!

Nov 5 10:30 AM · Lotus Stage 1 · An update on Local Mixing (iO)

Writer, learner, and integration engineer at the Ethereum Foundation, focused on Ethereum’s Access Layer.

Nov 4 4:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Ethereum Is Decentralized. Your Access Isn’t.

a Full Stack Developer specializing in Web3 identity infrastructure. I build Self-Sovereign Identity systems issuing and verifying Verifiable Credentials using OpenID, and Privado ID, with ZK selective disclosure pipelines that let users prove claims without revealing data. With a backend foundation in NodeJS and distributed systems, I care about proving personhood without sacrificing privacy or enabling surveillance

Nov 6 11:30 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · ⁠Proof of personhood without scanning your eyeballs

Solo staker and passionate challenger of printers

Nov 4 1:30 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Issuance roundtable

Founder of Speech Without Borders, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting technologies and policies that advance and defend expressive freedom.

Nov 5 10:50 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · privacy in other words, infrastructure for expressive freedom

Studying and building in tech, culture and statecraft: popups, communities, startup societies, new cities, networks.

Nov 6 10:50 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · What pop-up cities have proven so far, and how to make it travel further

Jimjim is a privacy dev from the Netherlands, passionately against the verdict in the Tornado Cash trial. Co-founder of warptoad, a protocol that makes anonymity sets work across rollups. And has done research on novel privacy protocol like zkwormholes (EIP-7503) and account-based privacy through projects like ultra-anon and zktranswarp.

Nov 3 4:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Curing Compliance Psychosis

Hi, I am Jochem, working at EF at the EL specs team and also work as EIP editor. I love making things and also breaking things (I break things before they can cause actual damage)

Nov 6 10:00 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Using Ethereum gas economics to blow up the state size

Nov 4 12:20 PM · Community Led Stage · Futures Worth Building

I'm Strategy and Operations Lead for libp2p, the P2P networking stack underpinning IPFS, Filecoin, Ethereum, and Polkadot, and co-founder of Meshworks alongside Manu Sheel Gupta. My work spans ecosystem sustainability, grant-making, funding strategy, partnerships, and standards engagement for libp2p under the Open Impact Foundation. I represent libp2p at the IETF, where our team's work on verifiable telemetry for large-scale deployments was recently accepted at IETF 126 Vienna.

Nov 5 12:30 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · When the Network Shuts You Out: Measuring Resilience in Permissionless Networks

Jon Stephens is the CEO and co-founder of Veridise, a blockchain security company specializing in audits and security tooling for smart contracts, blockchain systems, and zero-knowledge technologies. He is also a computer science PhD student at UT Austin, where his research focuses on formal methods, program analysis, verification, and security.

Nov 5 2:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Steal Now, Reveal Never: The Quiet Arrival of Quantum Attacks

Jordi Baylina is a blockchain engineer and researcher focused on Ethereum scalability and zero-knowledge technology. He is the founder of SilentSig and creator of ZisK, an open-source zkVM. Previously, he co-founded Polygon Hermez, led the development of Polygon zkEVM, and created the widely used open-source projects Circom and snarkJS.

Nov 5 1:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · EEZ: Building Synchronous Ethereum with Real-Time ZK Proofs

Jork Leonhardt is co-founder of Corpus Core GmbH, building colibri.stateless, a trustless client for blockchain data verification. He previously served as COO at slock.it, creators of the Universal Sharing Network and Ethereum's IN3/Incubed light client, and co-founded Tokenize.it, a regulated platform tokenizing profit participation rights that represent startup equity. His background spans strategy consulting, aerospace, renewable energy and regulated finance.

Nov 6 1:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Your Device Doesn't Have to Trust Its Manufacturer

Founder of ack3 (prev. Ackee Blockchain) - team securing $180B+ in TVL for Lido, Aave, and Safe. The auditors who created the open-source Wake framework. Ph.D. and Assistant Professor teaching blockchain security at CTU in Prague.

Nov 4 12:00 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Building a company without Google Workspace

Research and development engineer at Sigma Prime. Working on AI powered security vulnerability scanning and the Lighthouse consensus client.

Nov 5 11:20 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · AI security vulnerability scanning in Lighthouse

Joss Duff is a software engineer at the Ethereum Foundation. His interests include transaction privacy, zkKYC, maximally trustless rollups, and distributed systems.

Nov 3 1:05 PM · Lightning Stage · Paths to a Private L1

Julia is the Co-Founder and Head of Investigations of zeroShadow, a holistic web3 security solution service created to enable crypto companies to enhance their security and incident response capabilities. Julia also serves as a volunteer for SEAL911.

Nov 4 1:30 PM · Lightning Stage · What the Block Explorer Misses: Using Laundering Intel to Contain Exploits

Julian Gordon, VP, Asia Pacific & Middle East, LF Decentralized Trust

Nov 4 5:00 PM · Community Led Stage · Digital Public Infrastructure

Growing Ethereum and ETH at Ethlabs

Nov 3 12:35 PM · Lightning Stage · Fast Confirmation Rule: 13 second cofirmations

Ethereum researcher part of the Ethereum Foundation architecture team, with research interests in PQ, zkEVM, and lean Ethereum more generally.

Nov 4 12:30 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · PQ Ethereum Q&A

Justin Florentine is a client developer on the Besu client, and has worked on most hardforks since London.

Nov 3 1:15 PM · Lightning Stage · Encrypt The Mempool

Kaan has been building Sourcify prev. at the EF and now within the Argot Collective. He's also part of the Department of Decentralization aka. organizers of the ETHBerlin and Protocol Berg.

Nov 4 4:00 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Goodbye YOLO Signing

Kalyan is an AI & Data Science Practice Leader focused on building AI solutions, technical teams, and scalable Data & AI practices. His work spans Data Science, Machine Learning, Generative AI, and Agentic AI, combining hands-on technology with leadership and strategy. A seasoned global speaker, he has presented at PyCons, Data Science, and AI conferences worldwide. Kalyan is also an active open-source and community leader, contributing extensively to the global Python, AI, and Scientific ecosystems.

Nov 5 11:15 AM · Community Led Stage · Can Small Open Models Power Reliable AI Agents?

Karam Alhamad is a Syrian-German builder of public infrastructure for open societies, and an Ethereum Foundation Next Billion Fellow (2022-23). A political detainee under Assad, stripped of his ID papers, he left Syria in 2014. He founded ZeFi Foundation, his open-source umbrella, and its flagship Nawafith is the open civic register of the Syrian state, built between Berlin and Damascus with Syrian civil-society partners and shipped as an Arabic-first kit others can replicate.

Nov 5 11:55 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · The State Arrives as a Scan: Building Syria's Open Record, and Making It Forkable

Frontier Tech and Web3 product/project management for UNICEF's Ventures and Cryptofund - responsible for Web3 prototypes and pilots at the intersection of humanitarian fintech and digital public goods.

Nov 6 10:00 AM · Workshop 1 · UNICEF Cryptofund - Workshop on creative approaches for innovative fundraising and engagement

I have worked across the stack at several companies before diving into crypto in 2021 to explore problems at the intersection of privacy, economics, and software. I am currently a Lead Smart Contract Engineer at ScopeLift, which has had clients such as Compound, Optimism, Uniswap, and other major protocols.

Nov 3 1:45 PM · Lightning Stage · AMPO: Mechanisms with minimal trust

I am a cryptography researcher at Ethereum Foundation. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, hosted by Prof. Sanjam Garg. I obtained my Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences at Seoul National University, advised by Prof. Jung Hee Cheon. I am broadly interested in cryptography from theory to practice. Currently, my research focus is on cryptographic primitives for secure computation (e.g., homomorphic encryption, secure multiparty computation) and their applications.

Nov 6 10:00 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · Private Information Retrieval for Ethereum

Keshav is an independent research engineer with curiosity to learn more and contribute in ethereum core protocol. He is an Ethereum Protocol Fellowship 7 (EPF7) participant who contributed to prototype Optional Execution Proofs (EIP-8025) in Grandine consensus client.

Nov 4 3:20 PM · Workshop 2 · Implementing EIP-8025 Optional Execution Proofs in Grandine

Kevin is the Founder of an AI Security startup called 1Claw, focused on security, guardrails and agentic commerce. He is also a core member of the BuidlGuidl, where he educates developers all over the world about Ethereum.

Nov 4 2:30 PM · Lightning Stage · The $7.5M Sandwich Bot Hack: What Agent Transaction Security Requires

Kinzang Dorji is the Technical Lead for Bhutan's National Digital Identity (NDI), leading the engineering of the country's self-sovereign identity platform anchored on Ethereum. The work spans the full stack, from credential issuance and verification infrastructure to the citizen wallet, with a central focus on empowering digital trust: delivering secure, reliable and interoperable digital identity that puts people in control of their own data.

Nov 5 2:00 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · From First Mover to Blueprint: Lessons from Bhutan’s Decentralized ID

Kirk Baird is a Director at Sigma Prime, a blockchain security and research firm. Over more than eight years in the industry, he has progressed from security engineer and auditor to leading Sigma Prime’s security services, operations and R&D. Kirk has reviewed blockchain implementations across Ethereum, Solana, NEAR, Cosmos and Filecoin, working extensively with Solidity, Rust and Go.

Nov 4 12:10 PM · Lightning Stage · Freeze Commit Security Reviews Can't Keep Up with Modern Development

Building on Ethereum at LambdaClass. L1 clients and L2s. Always learning, and lucky to work with people smarter than me.

Nov 4 11:30 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · Getting to Lean Ethereum

Leona Hioki is the founder of INTMAX, a stateless ZK rollup for payments on Ethereum. He has worked on security and privacy since winning the IPA Security Camp, and has been part of the Plasma research community since 2018. Following an Ethereum Foundation grant, he launched the INTMAX network based on his research. His current work, INTMAX3, focuses on post-quantum cryptography, encrypted balances, and machine-checked safety proofs for payment channels.

Nov 5 4:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Enshrined Payment Channels: A Stateless, Post-Quantum, Confidential Rollup Design

I am Levente Kiss. Senior Software engineer at Solar Punk, dedicated to cultivating self-awareness, embracing the present, and sharing my journey to unlock the potential of Web3 for all.

Nov 5 5:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Decentralized video streaming: architecture, performance, and trade-offs

Levi Katyal Sledd is a blockchain security researcher at OpenZeppelin whose interests include cryptography, arithmetic circuits, and zero-knowledge proofs. Ph.D. Math, Vanderbilt University.

Nov 4 12:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Training for Constraining: How to Prevent Circuit-Level Bugs

Yijian "Lexa" Lyu is a PhD researcher in Religious Studies at the University of Iowa. Her work has been featured at venues including Harvard University, Peking University, and the World Bank, where her research on Islamic digital finance received an Outstanding Paper Award. She received a fellowship at the Mercatus Center and support from the Institute for Humane Studies, with additional recognition from a National Science Foundation grant through the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

Nov 6 10:20 AM · Lightning Stage · Trust Beyond Code: Governance in an Islamic Blockchain

go-ethereum developer. Author of EIP-7702 and long time contributor on the Account Abstraction topic.

Nov 4 3:00 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Frames are all you need

Lin Oshitani is a protocol researcher at Nethermind. He previously worked as a core developer of the Tezos blockchain and a software engineer at Indeed. He is currently based in Tokyo.

Nov 3 4:40 PM · Lightning Stage · Agents in the Shell: TEE-Attested AI as On-Chain Oracles

Lou de Kerhuelvez works on machine consciousness and more broadly frontier technology development. She is Vice President and Program Director at the California Institute for Machine Consciousness (CIMC), which asks whether machines can be conscious—and whether we can build them that way. She also founded Nodes, an agency for frontier tech projects, and is a co-builder of Feÿtopia, an experimental community instantiated each winter in a French château. Her broader interests include decentralized institutions, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, and new approaches to governance and

Nov 5 12:00 PM · Workshop 2 · What Would It Take to Make Ethereum Always Available? Designing UNIBRA: A Connectivity Layer

Head of Research at L2BEAT. Working on specifications to enable native rollups on Ethereum. I like CROPS.

Nov 4 3:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · The Michelin Guide for CROPS

Lucas is an Ethereum enthusiast and passionate about protocol development. He has been working at Consensys since 2018 as a protocol engineer. Lucas has worked both on Besu, an Execution Layer client, and Teku, a Consensus Layer client.

Nov 6 11:00 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Cross-Referencing Clients with LLMs: How We Shipped QUIC in Teku

Luiz is an Open Source Developer at OpenZeppelin, working on solidity libraries, such as the main openzeppelin-contracts and the Open Intents Framework.

Nov 6 2:00 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Ten Ways DAOs Get Owned: A Governor Maintainer's Threat Model

Makoto Inoue is Protocol Lead at ENS Labs at ENS Labs, working on the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) since 2018. He has over two decades of experience building large-scale digital infrastructure across finance, insurance, and blockchain. Alongside his work in Ethereum, he is pursuing an MSc in Urban Analytics and AI, exploring how AI, machine learning, IoT, and open data can connect digital infrastructure with the physical world.

Nov 4 1:30 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Designing for Irreversibility: Lessons from Shipping ENSv2

Manu Alzuru is a Venezuelan artist-founder, engineer, DJ, music producer and community architect working across Ethereum, music, public goods, DAOs and cultural infrastructure. He founded and produced ETHBarcelona, helped coordinate Ethereum Devcon since 2019, founded Blockravers, contributed to projects including DoinGud, API3, MetaCartel, FightPandemics, and now leads Lovepunks, a society-building project exploring music, care, ritual spaces, residencies, commons, identity and trust networks.

Nov 4 11:30 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Private Social Graphs: Trust, Consent, and Access for Real Communities

Manuel is a member of Argot Collective, an Ethereum Foundation spin-out working on compilers and developer tooling, where he builds source-code verification infrastructure for the Sourcify project. Most recently his focus has been Onay, a local signing companion that verifies transactions on your own device, and the Ethereum Foundation’s Clear Signing Initiative, where he co-maintains the open descriptor registry and develops an ERC-7730 decoding library. He has worked in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2018, on open-source projects such as Raiden Network and Beamer Bridge.

Nov 4 3:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · What does it take to trust a transaction end to end?

Maria is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. She works on various topics related to gas pricing, EVM, State, and incentives in decentralized networks. Her interests include statistical simulation, time-series data mining, network science, and applications of Machine Learning to finance and economics. She previously worked in the fields of fraud detection and cybercrime.

Nov 4 4:00 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Trie Another Way: The new state trie and Ethereum’s State Migration

Bridge Building and procol in Ethereum Foundation, co-founder of Bordel Hackerspace. Mario have been building and educating local communities in Bratislava, Prague and Barcelona, inspired many people to live crypto native and contribute to FOSS ecosystems.

Nov 6 11:30 AM · Lightning Stage · Human rights in the age of technofeudalism

Currently, Marissa is Head of Product at Eureka, the third largest block builder. Previously, she worked at the Ethereum Foundation, where she led product work across account abstraction and interoperability. She co-authored the Trustless Manifesto with Vitalik Buterin and Yoav Weiss, articulating a vision for systems built around minimized trust and stronger decentralization.

Nov 3 1:25 PM · Lightning Stage · FOCIL Solves Censorship. What Doesn't It Solve About Builders?

Dr. Mark Davis is semiconductor entrepreneur in the area of embedded devices. He was a founder of VIA Telecom, which sold over 150 million cellular chips, and supplied semiconductor technology to Intel, Apple, Unisoc, Mediatek, and others. In 2020 he joined Crossbar, Inc. as President, responsible for technical leadership in the areas of non-volatile memory and security system products

Nov 6 10:00 AM · Lotus Stage 1 · Latest Developments in Open Silicon

I am a life long software developer who hase been working on various blockchain projects since 2016, I have been a core member of the Erigon team since 2023.

Nov 4 3:30 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · The 'Petabyte Chain' and how to survive it

Ethereum-focused engineer with 5+ years of experience designing and developing smart-contract architectures for multiple large-scale projects. Protocol contributor through EPF Cohort 7, working on the EIP-7732 (ePBS) builder in Lodestar.

Nov 4 1:40 PM · Workshop 2 · Building the ePBS Builder in Lodestar

I grew up in Austria, went to technical high school there and became interested in Ethereum. Working on the dGEN1 and the PQ1, the first post-quantum fully open-source hardware wallet.

Nov 6 2:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Building the PQ1: The first verifiable post quantum hardware wallet

Martin Hansen is part of the Funding Coordination team at the Ethereum Foundation. His main focus is the Ethereum Kernel, a framework mapping the components Ethereum's liveness, correctness, and accessibility depend on, and the neutral funding they require.

Nov 3 2:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Funding the Ethereum Kernel: What Qualifies, What It Costs, and What Comes First

Day to day I'm an architect and research engineer at Flashbots: leading TEEs team, anonymous broadcast group, various MEV-related explorations. Anonymity accelerationist, incentive aligner, CROPS maxi.

Nov 5 4:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Anonymity Is Censorship Resistance: Efficient Anonymous Broadcast Under Censorship

CTO at Riva Labs, a startup company focused on post-quantum digital assets infrastructure. Smart contract developer since 2017.

Nov 5 4:00 PM · Workshop 1 · leanSPHINCS for developers: how to build on Post-Quantum Ethereum

Matthias Egli is a founding partner of ChainSecurity. He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich. Before ChainSecurity, Matthias had a prolific IT career both in the Silicon Valley as an expert data scientist, and in Switzerland as a software engineer and C-level executive. During his time at ChainSecurity, he has worked on many audits and contributed to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in the Ethereum protocol itself.

Nov 4 3:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Top hacks since Devcon SEA - what did we learn?

Senior Devrel

Nov 5 10:30 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Hiding Network Metadata: Introduction to Mixnets

Meinhard Benn is a developer and entrepreneur working on decentralized infrastructure and peer-to-peer systems. He started working with Bitcoin in 2011 and founded SatoshiPay in 2014, pioneering web micropayments. He is now building Freedom Browser, an open-source browser that integrates Swarm, IPFS, Radicle, and ENS as native capabilities. His work focuses on making censorship-resistant infrastructure usable in everyday products.

Nov 5 3:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Gateway-Free by Design: Building a Browser for Permissionless Networks

Micah works on tooling and compiler development at [Argot Collective](https://https://argot.org/) and is a long time contributor to [Fe Language](https://fe-lang.org/). Outside of that, he's probably doing something related to music, [math art](https://hyperspectives.wondering.xyz) or p2p software.

Nov 6 11:30 AM · Lotus Stage 1 · Fe and the Mythical Compiler

Miglė is the founder of WinPrivacy, a non-profit community-turned-creative agency working with non-extractive tech companies. Her mission is to facilitate the bridge between technology and humans through art, culture, and sociology. Migle graduated from Amsterdam University, where she specialized in Media, Culture and Digital Warfare. She supports Swarm Foundation as a creative strategist and ecosystem builder, helping to "translate" complex technologies into user cases.

Nov 6 11:50 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Decentralized Media

I want private money for public chains and therefore I've been building Privacy Pools for the last two years.

Nov 3 4:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · What a Modern Privacy Protocol Needs

Currently working as a Software and Research Engineer at ProbeLab, he used to work at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and MigaLabs, while he was awarded a PhD research fellowship from Protocol Labs. During the fellowship he had the opportunity to collaborate on various research projects with entities like Protocol Labs, the Filecoin Foundation, the Ethereum Foundation, the University of Cambridge, and the Codex Storage team at Status.

Nov 4 5:10 PM · Lightning Stage · What can Ethereum learn from other networks?

I am a member of the writes team in access layer at EF. I work on bringing more robust privacy and censorship resistance to the Ethereum!

Nov 4 10:00 AM · Lightning Stage · Where to Hide: Wormholes, Beacon Deposits, and the Cost of Deniability

I’m Mohit Grover, an Ethereum Protocol Fellow in cohort 7 and an open-source contributor to Hive and Ream. My work focuses on testing Lean Ethereum’s signature lifecycle, turning XMSS signing assumptions into reproducible client integration tests. I’m interested in protocol engineering, client interoperability, and making Ethereum’s infrastructure more reliable.

Nov 4 4:20 PM · Workshop 2 · Ream: BlackBox Interop Testing Post Quantam Lean Ethereum

Nov 3 3:30 PM · Lightning Stage · Enterprise Ethereum's Last Mile: A Practitioner's View

Mooly Sagiv is a professor and chair of Computer Sciences at Tel-Aviv University and a CEO and co-founder of Certora. He is a leading researcher in large-scale (inter-procedural) program analysis and one of the key contributors to shape analysis. His fields of interest include programming languages, compilers, abstract interpretation, profiling, pointer analysis, shape analysis, interprocedural dataflow analysis, program slicing, and language-based programming.

Nov 5 12:30 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Bug-Free Solidity Coding Agents

Developer at the Ethereum Foundation, Technical Foundation team, with a focus on mobile proving and GPU acceleration.

Nov 6 11:40 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · Lessons learned shipping proof of personhood on Taiwan's citizen digital certificate

Mate Soos works at the intersection of industry and academia. He received his PhD from INP Grenoble in 2009 and has worked in IT security and privacy since. In the Ethereum ecosystem since 2022, he spent 3 years at the Ethereum Foundation and now works at the Argot Collective on fuzzing the Solidity compiler and symbolic execution of smart contracts. He also spends time most years at the University of Toronto and the National University of Singapore, researching SAT solving and model counting.

Nov 3 2:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Naming the Harm: A privacy threat vocabulary for Ethereum builders

Nov 4 3:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Top hacks since Devcon SEA - what did we learn?

Nov 4 2:00 PM · Community Led Stage · Operating Crypto in India

Natalia Klaus is a verification engineer at Runtime Verification, where she works on formal verification of Linux kernel code in Rust and C. She builds the Rust-to-Lean 4 pipeline (Charon, Aeneas) and uses AI provers to close proof obligations within the Ethereum Foundation's zkEVM Verification Project, with verified targets including Plonky3 FRI folding and RISC Zero Merkle inclusion. Previously she verified the Tezos OCaml codebase at Formal Land. She holds a Master's degree in Systems Analysis from Southern Federal University, with a focus on lambda calculus, mathematical logic and category

Nov 5 4:00 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · From Production Rust to Lean 4 Proofs: A Verification Pipeline with AI Provers

Devcon Team Lead

Nov 3 10:00 AM · Main Stage (Lotus) · Opening Ceremony: Welcome to Devcon 8 India!

Nick is a Research Engineer on the Safe Research team, where he works to advance self-custodial wallets and accounts on Ethereum. Before joining Safe, he helped design and build CoW Protocol and exploring intent-based trading and DeFi. At heart, he's a hacker and tinkerer with a soft spot for cryptography.

Nov 4 3:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Top hacks since Devcon SEA - what did we learn?

Nick is the CEO of Fuel Labs Inc. and is the builder behind Fuel, the first Optimistic Rollup on Ethereum Mainnet. A long-time Ethereum community member and a Solidity first user. Nick has presented multiple times at DevCon on topics from decentralized crowdfunding to DAO governance. Fuel Labs is now working across a spectrum of layer-2 technology and AI.

Nov 4 11:10 AM · Lightning Stage · Post-Quantum Multi-Factor Wallet Designed for Humans

Hi, My name is Nicola and I'm a founder and current CTO of FreedomFactory. We build cool crypto hardware.

Nov 6 2:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Building the PQ1: The first verifiable post quantum hardware wallet

Nicolas Assouad is Tech Lead at Spiko, which operates Europe's largest tokenized regulated funds infrastructure across more than five EVM networks, as well as Starknet, Stellar, and Solana. He builds the multi-chain infrastructure behind these funds, including the event archival system born from Spiko's regulatory obligation to keep fund history queryable even after a network shuts down, and authors Spiko's engineering deep-dives.

Nov 4 12:20 PM · Lightning Stage · When a Chain Shuts Down: Keeping On-Chain History Alive

Security researcher at OpenZeppelin, where I have spent the last five-plus years auditing some of the leading protocols in the ecosystem.

Nov 5 11:00 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · Vibe-Auditing: Why Your AI Security Review Isn't One

Building [Agora Citizen Network](https://www.agoracitizen.network), [red-dwarf](https://github.com/polis-community/red-dwarf) & [DDS](https://www.dds.xyz).

Nov 6 11:00 AM · Workshop 1 · What Can Ethereum Do for India? A Live Deliberation Workshop

Nisarga Adhikary, C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Nov 4 4:30 PM · Community Led Stage · CROPS of India

Nuno Anselmo is a Site Reliability Engineer at CoW DAO, specializing in Kubernetes and DevSecOps. He builds and maintains scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure, believing the best infrastructure is the kind nobody notices: secure by default, reliable by design.

Nov 4 2:00 PM · Lightning Stage · Hijacked at the registry: 26 hours without our domain

Ofir Eliasi has over twenty years of engineering experience and has been a CTO and founder multiple times over in the blockchain space. He specializes in blockchain infrastructure, account abstraction, DeFi, protocol security, cross-chain interoperability, and on-chain payment rails. He has led development at Lava Network, Kerberus, SSV, Biconomy, and others.

Nov 5 2:30 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · You Probably Don't Need Your Own Chain: Evidence From Dissolving One at Scale

I'm a co-founder of EthSystems, where we build confidential systems for institutional Ethereum. Before that I kickstarted and led the Institutional Privacy Task Force at the Ethereum Foundation, where we shipped open source PoCs, specs, and the Ethereum Privacy Map. Earlier I was Head of Engineering at Status and founded Vac, where we built the Waku protocols. I write zkintro, an introduction to zero-knowledge proofs, and have worked on programmable cryptography for about seven years.

Nov 5 2:30 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · Formally Verifying a Shielded Pool in Lean 4

I am an open source enthusiast with a long background in high-availability database clusters, distributed systems and Linux systems administration. Currently I work as an independent consultant developing Debian and Ubuntu, working among others on making `apt install geth` easy on millions of machines. Outside of blockchain, I tinker with RISC-V hardware for local AI inference and write about tech, infrastructure, and strategy at optimizedbyotto.com.

Nov 3 3:10 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · The state of distributed open source funding and what needs to happen next

I got into crypto and the Ethereum ecosystem in 2017, mostly investing in ICOs that went nowhere and then trading NFTs in 2020/21. Before crypto I spent 10 years at a tech startup as Project Manager and a few more freelancing. Since 2023 I've been at BuidlGuidl working on Product, building tools and education for Ethereum devs: Scaffold-ETH 2, SpeedRunEthereum and much more.

Nov 3 12:45 PM · Workshop 1 · Learning in the AI era

Nov 4 11:40 AM · Workshop 2 · Pureth in Reth: SSZ Execution Blocks and Query Language

Patrick Storchenegger is managing Partner at PST Legal in Switzerland, advising blockchain projects and developers on liability and regulatory questions. He has more than 20 years of experience at the intersection of law, finance and emerging technology. He advises crypto clients on crypto-asset regulation, tax, corporate matters, and cross-border compliance. He serves on the boards of several blockchain entites.

Nov 5 3:30 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Who Pays When the Machine Is Wrong?

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University of Budapest Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, U.K. research fellow, University of Oxford faculty member, University of St Andrews currently web3 and distributed systems investor and independent researcher

Nov 6 11:00 AM · Lightning Stage · The Loop Economy: A Universal Combinatorial Marketplace Without a Platform

Peter has been working in the Ethereum ecosystem for about a decade, since then he's trying to build something similar in the world of genomics.

Nov 6 3:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Security by obscurity is dead: How LLMs can take over hardware

In crypto since 2016. Passionate about the politics of care, activism, and the arts. At Web3Privacy Now, I oversee key operations and help turn our mission into meaningful action—supporting privacy-preserving technologies and fostering collaboration across communities and disciplines.

Nov 5 10:00 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Beyond Crypto: Only together are we strong

Pierre works at the EF, within the writes team. He has been working on applied cryptography and privacy protocols over the last 3+ years.

Nov 5 2:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Challenges of Quantum-Safe Privacy on Ethereum

Pooja Ranjan is well-known in the Ethereum community for her contributions and leadership. As Herder-in-chief at ECH Institute and founder of Avarch. She supports Ethereum's growth. With a background in Computer Science and Project Management, Pooja helps simplify complex Ethereum concepts, hosts the PEEPanEIP podcast, and coordinates EIP reviews. She advocates for diversity through the Women in Ethereum Protocol (WiEP) and inspires the Ethereum community.

Nov 3 1:15 PM · Workshop 2 · 🛖 EIP Hub - Unlock Ethereum: Find Your Path

**Pragya Bhardwaj is an engineer-turned-Product Owner at Accenture.** Moving from **Frontend Dev and Data Ops** into product management, she bring a builder's mindset to shipping products. She is a **GSoC 2023 Postman alum** and outside work, she loves to swim.

Nov 5 4:25 PM · Community Led Stage · Execution Got Cheap. Judgment Didn't.

Pramod Mishra is a Director at PwC India and co-founded its Blockchain Lab in 2017. Across 16 years in technology and nearly a decade in blockchain, he has designed Ethereum and EVM-based systems spanning CBDCs, carbon markets, land records, healthcare and humanitarian cash. His work includes initiatives involving 38 institutions and more than 750 atomic transactions. He focuses on digital infrastructure that is interoperable, verifiable and usable without losing privacy or human agency.

Nov 5 10:45 AM · Community Led Stage · Open Rails for Programmable Money: What Tokenization and Open Source Mean for India's Next Digital Layer

RWA potential and frameworks for India

Nov 4 11:40 AM · Community Led Stage · Tokenizing Bharat

Pranay Anchuri is a Senior Research Scientist at Offchain Labs. His research spans blockchain protocols, verifiable computation, and machine learning applied to decentralized systems. He has published at top venues including KDD, JMLR, and ICDM, and is an inventor on seven US patents. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Nov 5 4:30 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Paying Nodes That Actually Execute: Proofs a Free-Rider Cannot Copy From a Peer

Preston Vander Vos is a crypto researcher and engineer currently working on the EVM-compatible Arc blockchain at Circle. His focus is on distributed systems, cryptography, and mechanism design.

Nov 3 3:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Handling Private State Bloat: Pruning Nullifiers and the Privacy-Scalability Trade-Off

Nov 6 1:30 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Relational AI: A Plural Governance Framework for AI Agents

I work on threshold cryptography at brainbot, mostly in the Shutter Network ecosystem. Keyper infrastructure, DKG, encrypted mempools on Gnosis Chain, and lately, a verifiable voting system built on threshold ElGamal, homomorphic tallying and ZK proofs, which we ran for a Munich staff election. Distributed systems engineer by trade, Go and Solidity.

Nov 6 10:30 AM · Lightning Stage · Municipal Voting Goes On-Chain: Encrypted, Verifiable Elections for the Real World

Qi Zhou is a prominent Ethereum researcher, engineer, and protocol contributor with deep expertise in Data Availability, Layer 2 infrastructure, and decentralized storage. He is an active member of the Ethereum community, regularly contributing to Ethereum Magicians and ethresear.ch, and has authored or co-authored multiple Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), including EIP-4804, EIP-6150, EIP-7650, EIP-7907, and EIP-7923.

Nov 3 12:45 PM · Lightning Stage · EIP-7923: A Sparse-Page-Based Memory Model for the EVM

Qiang Zhu brings a wealth of experience in application development to his role as Head of Engineering. He previously served as Director of Engineering at Camera360, a leading image and video mobile application company, and as a Tech Lead at Adobe, where he contributed to one of the industry's most widely used software solutions. He is also the co-author of EIP-6821 and co-founder of Web3Builder.tech, with active contributions to the Ethereum ecosystem.

Nov 4 4:40 PM · Lightning Stage · web3:// (ERC-4804): Building a Censorship-Resistant Web on the EVM

I'm a Senior R&D Engineer at Avail, where I work on Data Availability, Interop and Privacy solutions. My expertise spans cryptography (zk proofs, threshold cryptography, TEEs), distributed systems (consensus protocols, data availability, interoperability), and protocol engineering (smart contracts, blockchain infrastructure). I've led engineering teams, published research work and shipped production software using applied cryptography. In my free time, I lift weights, and watch anime :)

Nov 5 1:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · FRIVail: A Data Availability Scheme based on FRI Binius

I’m an Ethereum Protocol Fellow (EPF Cohort 7) and blockchain engineer focused on Ethereum protocol development, MEV resistance, and decentralized infrastructure. I’m currently implementing FOCIL in Lighthouse, contributing to Ethereum’s censorship-resistance roadmap. I’ve also built systems across Uniswap, Arweave, and other privacy-preserving Web3 infrastructure.

Nov 4 2:00 PM · Workshop 2 · FOCIL in Lighthouse

Rahul Rumalla is CEO of Safe, where he leads the mission to make self-custody secure and accessible for everyone — from individuals and teams to institutions. His work focuses on advancing smart accounts as the foundation for digital ownership and developing Cypherprise: a vision for enterprise-grade operations that preserve cypherpunk principles.

Nov 5 10:30 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · Defending Multisigs from Offensive AI: Introducing onchain security markets

I'm a blockchain researcher and developer focused on Ethereum protocol research, zero-knowledge proofs, and cryptographic systems. i enjoys exploring consensus-layer mechanisms, building secure and verifiable protocols, and contributing to open-source projects that advance Ethereum’s technology.

Nov 4 2:20 PM · Workshop 2 · Etheorem: Lean 4 Consensus-Spec Proofs

I’m a Computer Science student at San Francisco State University, an Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Cohort 7 fellow, and Tech Lead of the AWS student community at SFSU. I’m a full-stack generalist, but most of my work and interest is on distributed systems, data infrastructure, cloud systems, and protocol-level engineering.

Nov 4 1:20 PM · Workshop 2 · 2D-Filtermaps in Reth

Raphael Baumann is a partner at PST Legal & Consulting in Zug, where he co-leads the firm's Emerging Technologies & Artificial Intelligence practice. He advises since more than 8 years Web3 projects on DLT, DeFi and digital-asset regulation, and has guided numerous token offerings, DeFi structures and DAOs from concept through regulatory assessment.

Nov 5 3:30 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Who Pays When the Machine Is Wrong?

Raul is a Berlin-based advocate for decentralized technologies and free and open source software. He currently works as an Odin Project Lead at EF focusing on supporting open-source public goods in the Ethereum ecosystem. His professional background spans several prominent Web3 organizations, including previous roles at the Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies. He also served as Managing Director of the JUST Open Source Foundation and is a member of the Department of Decentralization.

Nov 3 3:30 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Diversifying Funding for Digital Public Goods: are Frontier Research Contractors the answer?

Nov 5 4:10 PM · Lightning Stage · Closing Keynote — public infrastructure and the people it records

Walletbeat contributor primarily helping with wallet listings, data research, and outreach. Ethereum enthusiast

Nov 6 12:00 PM · Workshop 2 · Help watch the wallets: Building the CROPS-legible dataset

Full-stack dev on the BuidlGuidl core team. Building open-source tools that help devs ship on Ethereum.

Nov 3 1:45 PM · Workshop 1 · ETH Evals: testing agents on Ethereum

Founder, Loops House

Nov 3 3:45 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 India Hub - Indian Builder Ecosystem

Rob Knight is an engineer and contributor to the Digital Objects Network.

Nov 5 11:30 AM · Lotus Stage 1 · Digital Objects: What, Why, and How

Roberto Saltini is a senior researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, where he works on improving the performance, security and resilience of Ethereum’s core protocol. His research focuses on consensus, with particular attention to faster finality, protocol security and formal verification.

Nov 5 3:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Formal Verification of Consensus Protocols in Lean

Rohit M S is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and DevOps/Backend Engineer with over 8 years of experience building and automating cloud infrastructure. His expertise spans the full DevOps lifecycle — CI/CD pipeline design with Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, and Kubernetes, plus infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Ansible across AWS and Azure. He has architected highly available, fault-tolerant systems using EC2, EKS, Lambda, S3, and DynamoDB, alongside monitoring solutions built on Prometheus and Grafana. Beyond infrastructure engineering, he has hands-on experience with IoT data pipelin

Nov 5 11:30 AM · Community Led Stage · The Open-Source Escape Hatch: Replacing DataDog Without Losing Your Sanity (or Your Budget)

Rose is a ZK and protocol engineer at Atheon, working on ProveKit, cryptographic optimization, and Trinity. Previously, she worked on MEV infrastructure at Primev, applied cryptography at ZK Email, and Ethereum protocol research through Nethermind and the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship. She also contributes to Prysm, Reth, and rust-libp2p.

Nov 6 12:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Autoresearch for ZK Optimization

Software engineer by day, burnt out software engineer by night. loves linux and foss

Nov 5 4:00 PM · CLS - Builders Room · Bootable Containers? Why and how

Rushabh Mehta is the founder and CEO of Frappe, the company behind Frappe Framework and ERPNext, which he began building in 2005 for his family business. After a failed first startup, he rebooted in 2008 and has been building ever since. He also founded the school Learners Collective. A lifelong Mumbaikar and avid fiction reader, he loves debating philosophy, history and economics.

Nov 5 12:00 PM · Community Led Stage · Proof of Work: Building Your Career Through Open Source in the Age of AI

Security, blockchain and the likes.

Nov 5 10:30 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Hiding Network Metadata: Introduction to Mixnets

Sam de Silva has worked across technology, information and human rights for over twenty-five years. He bridges adjacent communities, connecting the people who build technology with the people who defend rights, and has a track record of spotting and enabling collaborations. His work spans public-interest tech, digital rights, surveillance, privacy and security, across South and Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific.

Nov 5 11:00 AM · Workshop 2 · Decolonise Decentralisation: Co-building Human Rights Tech

I am Blockchain enthusiast who spent 5+ years on the Application Layer. as a Smart contract developer. In 2026, I jumped into ocean of Ethereum core protocol, with specific focus towards Rust-based Ethereum clients

Nov 4 10:40 AM · Workshop 2 · EPF Project Presentation: REST-SSZ Engine API for Lighthouse

🛠️I hosted 30+ developer workshops & 2 builders residency across Africa, Latin America and Europe in the last 3 years. Currently DevRel at Arkiv, previously ChainSafe (web3.js), Lisk and Swisstronik. African lover🌍🦍❤️

Nov 5 10:00 AM · Workshop 1 · Your dApp is 90% Web2: Rebuilding One App on the Open Stack.

Sara Polak is an evolutionary anthropologist and archaeologist who studies the human side of emerging technologies. As founder of the LIMINAL Research Centre at CTU Prague and a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford, she combines archaeology, anthropology and AI to explore decentralised governance, trust, collective memory and civilisational resilience - bringing thousands of years of human history to the design of Web3 and AI systems.

Nov 3 2:30 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Why Web3 Needs Archaeologists To Survive

Saumya is Global Builders Lead at Base, where he leads developer ecosystem growth across India, EMEA, and Africa. He founded Inner Circle, one of the largest Ethereum developer communities, and previously built Purple Pay, a compliance-focused web3 payments startup.

Nov 4 12:20 PM · Community Led Stage · Futures Worth Building

Sebastian Bürgel builds technical solutions that empower the individual. He works at Gnosis as VP Technology and is founder of the private data exchange infrastructure HOPR. He previously co-founded two other technology startups: Validity Labs (blockchain education & services) and SONECT (fintech). Sebastian holds a Ph.D degree in Microtechnology from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich.

Nov 5 10:00 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Everyone is thinking about VPNs wrong

Sem is a hacker and Ethereum security researcher with roots in the early cypherpunk movement. An early DarkWallet contributor and creator of EVMcrispr, he has spent over a decade exploring the boundaries of decentralized systems, from privacy-preserving wallets and DAO governance to smart contract security, EVM scripting and simulation, and unconventional onchain fund recovery.

Nov 3 3:15 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 Security Hub - How Do We Coordinate Ethereum Security?

Sergey is a product leader focusing on delivering robust open-source solutions. After having consistently contributed to the growth of Percona and its product open source culture as a VP of Product, he is now leading the OpenEverest open source database and storage platform. Digital nomad, who enjoys spreading the word about data on Kubernetes. He loves playing tennis and hockey, but his major passions are his family, three kids and a dog.

Nov 5 11:00 AM · Community Led Stage · Prefill, Decode, and Despair: Disaggregated LLM Serving Made Boring

Seulkee Baek is the author of Jaune, an independent executable formal specification of Ethereum's execution layer in Lean 4, and of Blanc, a verified-compilation smart-contract stack proven against it. Contributor to ethereum/execution-specs.

Nov 5 3:30 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · A Yellow Paper you can run: an independent executable EVM spec in Lean 4

Nov 6 12:00 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · In the future music and culture is free

I am the CRO of Veridise, a blockchain company specializing in securing smart contracts, infrastructure, and zero-knowledge technologies. I graduated from UT Austin with a PhD in Computer Science, specializing in programming languages and formal methods.

Nov 5 2:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Steal Now, Reveal Never: The Quiet Arrival of Quantum Attacks

Since 2022, he has worked on researching public goods funding mechanisms though quantitative comparative analysis of various grant programs. In 2023, he co-founded Fracton Research (Beacon Labs). He has spoken at Devcon SEA and Funding the Commons Bangkok and Buenos Aires. He was a member of Grant Innovation Lab by Metagov and Polygon Community grant council. In 2024, he co-founded imi and began his artistic practice. He co-organizes kuu village for alternative lives leveraged by Ethereum.

Nov 6 10:20 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Reimagining Ethereum Through a Buddhist-Inspired Pop-Up Village

Full-stack engineer at BuidlGuidl, building open-source tools and learning experiences, making ethereum easier to understand, use, and build on.

Nov 3 1:15 PM · Workshop 1 · Building on Ethereum with agents

Silvio Meneguzzo is a research fellow at the University of Turin and a postdoctoral researcher at Fondazione LINKS. He completed a PhD in blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in 2026 and is part of the 2026 cohort of the Ethereum Foundation PhD Fellowship. He worked on the token-based marketplace of a Horizon Europe energy data-space project; his current research asks when credibly committed rules on Ethereum give data producers a better deal than a centralised platform.

Nov 5 1:50 PM · Lightning Stage · Can Ethereum Give Citizens a Better Deal on Their Energy Data?

I am a researcher / engineer working at ZKNOX on cryptography related to Ethereum, mostly on post-quantum security and zero-knowledge cryptography, and also on hardware-wallet integrations.

Nov 5 3:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · You can't withdraw your privacy: PQ analysis of Kohaku privacy protocols

Simon Jentzsch has worked on Ethereum since 2015, focused on verification and trust-minimized access. He authored EIP-1186 (eth_getProof) — the account and storage proof widely used by light clients. Formerly co-founder and CTO of Slock.it and lead contributor to the Incubed light client, he is now co-founder and CTO of corpus.core and main contributor to colibri-stateless, a stateless Ethereum verifier.

Nov 6 1:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Swap Your RPC: Hands-On Verified Reads, Simulation, and Privacy

Fintech-raised neo-cypherpunk, worked at several software wallets; researcher, hackathon enthusiast, CROPS builder, EIP nerd

Nov 4 2:40 PM · Workshop 2 · Lattice-based Post-Quantum Stealth Address Protocol

Sofia is a researcher within the Funding Coordination team exploring how Ethereum can serve industries beyond crypto as critical infrastructure. Her work spans funding and verification/attestation mechanisms in open source, and most recently, open-weight AI. Through her research, she is looking into where Ethereum's programmable, permissionless, publicly verifiable properties create the most value beyond blockchain.

Nov 4 3:00 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · From crypto rails to open infrastructure: Ethereum’s expanding role

Blockchain developer, educator, and speaker, and one of the most influential voices in Brazil's crypto community. Co-founder of ETHSamba and Ethereum Brasil, with over 30 years of experience in technology, she specializes in oracles and connecting blockchains to the real world, with an MSc in digital currencies and awards across the Ethereum ecosystem.

Nov 4 3:30 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Aratu: What Happens When a 20-Year-Old Social Currency Moves On-Chain

Sora Suegami is a cryptography researcher and engineer focused on cryptographic theory and blockchain security since 2018. He co-founded ZK Email, which uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify email contents privately, and led the development of on-chain protocols including email-based account recovery. In 2025, he began research at the Ethereum Foundation aimed at making indistinguishability obfuscation practical. He presented Diamond iO at the Simons Institute’s Obfuscation Workshop.

Nov 5 11:00 AM · Lotus Stage 1 · Diamond iO: New Cryptanalysis and Efficiency Improvements—Toward Ethereum Beyond Finance

Nov 5 10:05 AM · Lightning Stage · Smart Contract Security and Zero-Knowledge Assurance

Soumyadip is a Senior Software Engineer at Redhat with a passion for technology and knowledge sharing. With previous experience at HoiChoi Technologies and Bajaj Finserv, he brings a diverse background to his role. Soumyadip has actively participated in over 100 online and offline events as a speaker. His expertise extends to the domains of DTN (Delay Tolerant Networking) and Blockchain, where he has contributed by writing book chapters and journals. Soumyadip is known for his dedication to helping fellow tech enthusiasts enhance their skills, making him a valuable resource in the community.

Nov 5 4:20 PM · Community Led Stage · The Steering Loop: Harness Engineering with OpenCode for the Agent-First Era

Souradeep Das is a blockchain researcher and engineer with over 9 years of experience in blockchain R&D. His work spans Plasma, optimistic rollups, smart contract infrastructure, and Ethereum’s execution layer across OmiseGO, Boba Network, and the Ethereum Foundation. He has both written smart contracts securing more than $1.6B in assets and worked extensively on smart contract security.

Nov 5 10:00 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · Oops, Your EOA Has Code Now: How EIP-7702 Broke Ethereum's Old Security Assumptions

Sruthi Sekar is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and the principal investigator for Trust Lab IITB. Her research interests span both theoretical and applied cryptography, as well as theoretical computer science more broadly. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her Master’s and PhD degrees from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Her PhD thesis received an Honorable Mention at the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award 2022.

Nov 5 11:50 AM · Lightning Stage · Collaborative zkSNARKs: Efficiency, Security, and Fair-Exchange

DevOps engineer at ethPandaOps, the Ethereum Foundation team that builds and runs the devnets behind every network upgrade

Nov 6 1:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Why your observability stack is making your agents stupid (and ours isn't anymore)

Steffen is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of corpus.core, focusing on trustless blockchain infrastructure, stateless verification, and privacy-preserving client architectures. With more than 25 years of experience in software architecture and distributed systems, he has been building blockchain infrastructure since the early Ethereum ecosystem. He coordinates the development & application of colibri, an open-source stateless client for trustless blockchain verification.

Nov 6 1:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · The Wallet Is the New Trust Boundary: Verifying Ethereum at the Edge

Nov 5 3:40 PM · Lightning Stage · A Grammar for Proportionality Analysis in Digital Systems

Subhra Mazumdar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology Indore. Before that, she was a post-doctoral researcher in the Security and Privacy (S&P) Research Unit at Vienna University of Technology, Austria, where she worked on rational attacks on Layer 2 protocols in Blockchain. She did both Ph.D. and M.tech in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, in 2022 and 2018, respectively.

Nov 5 10:05 AM · Lightning Stage · Smart Contract Security and Zero-Knowledge Assurance

Nov 5 12:20 PM · Lightning Stage · Fireside Chat — how far down does verifiability go?

Sudhir head is the global head of Digital Assets technology at large financial institution where he is responsible for building digital assets products and platform on multiple blockchain networks, including Ethereum. Prior to that Sudhir was head of engineering at JP Morgan's blockchain arm, and developed applicationsPrior to joining J.P. Morgan, Sudhir was one of the early joiners at one of the most successful startups (BEA Systems) in Silicon Valley.

Nov 3 3:30 PM · Lightning Stage · Enterprise Ethereum's Last Mile: A Practitioner's View

I build tools for people who build things. At Frappe, that's Frappe Builder, the open source website builder I started in 2022 because I wanted something simple, fast, and nice to use. It now runs [frappe.io](http://frappe.io), which still feels a little surreal.

Nov 5 4:10 PM · Community Led Stage · Website Builder for Artisans

Swarnim is Backend and AI Lead at Devfolio, building infrastructure and products that connect builders with economic opportunities. He led engineering for Synthesis, an agent-native hackathon created with the Ethereum Foundation. He built Devfolio’s AI-assisted application review and Agentic Judging systems, using AI to surface evidence, check claims against proof-of-work, and help organizers and judges make better decisions.

Nov 5 3:20 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · When Agents Build and Agents Judge: Lessons from Running Ethereum's First Agent-Native Hackathon

Taem is the CEO and co-founder of Sunnyside Labs, the team behind Privacy Boost, a self-custodial privacy protocol. Sunnyside Labs has been an OP Stack/Ethereum core development team for three years, contributing to the Delta hardfork and Fusaka upgrade.

Nov 4 10:10 AM · Lightning Stage · How to Shield Your ETH from Your Mum, Compliantly

Nov 4 4:30 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · PropAMMs: the good and the bad, and how to keep trustless infrastructure competitive

Telamon leads partnerships and scouting at Edge City, a 501(c)(3) society incubator that runs month-long popup villages. So far that is 12 villages, across 5 continents, 12,500+ participants from 100+ countries, 500+ startups and projects, 300+ kids, and $2.5M+ raised in grants. Collaborators include Notion, Cursor, Ethereum Foundation, Protocol Labs, Replit, and the Mercatus Center at George Mason.

Nov 6 10:00 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · How to build a society incubator - Edge City

I am the founder of Arrow, an open-source community building electric aircraft through on-chain coordination. A pilot and builder based on a ranch in West Texas, where Arrow's VTOL flies commercial agricultural work and is working towards manned aircraft.

Nov 3 5:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · A DAO Shipped an Aircraft: What It Takes to Coordinate Atoms with Tokens

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Nov 5 1:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · LeanVM

Independent security researcher and protocol architect behind the design and security of some of DeFi’s most consequential systems, including Aave and Lido

Nov 4 1:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Every Division Picks a Winner: Rounding and Accounting Hazards in Lending Protocols

Engineer at Nyx Foundation. Previously, I was responsible for product development in the cross-chain space. At Nyx, I am involved in protocol implementation and verifiable system design.

Nov 6 12:20 PM · Lotus Stage 2 · When Many-to-Many Isn't Mixing: Measuring Privacy in Shielded UTXO Systems

Tong is a Senior Product Engineer at Safe{Labs}, working on Safe{Wallet}. His work covers the full path from spec to shipped feature, across the wallet frontend and the Client Gateway backend. He focuses on making Safe{Wallet} easy to pick up, whether for a team managing a treasury or an individual protecting their own funds.

Nov 4 11:20 AM · Lightning Stage · From vanity to poison: the evolution of address poisoning attacks

Toni Wahrstätter is a research engineer on the Protocol Architecture team at the Ethereum Foundation, working on core protocol design and research, execution-layer scaling, state, and prototyping.

Nov 4 11:00 AM · Lotus Stage 2 · How Ethereum Learned to Scale

Tshendu Gyeltshen is a Technical Lead with a strong interest in digital innovation, software development, and building practical solutions that create real impact. His work centers on leading engineering efforts, solving meaningful problems, and contributing to secure, user-focused digital systems that support people and communities.

Nov 5 2:00 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · From First Mover to Blueprint: Lessons from Bhutan’s Decentralized ID

Tur Tyhyi is a writer, philosopher and field journalist working on autonomy, coordination and the structures beneath social systems. He spent two years documenting the full-scale war in Ukraine for French media, including AFP, from Bucha to the front line in Bakhmut and across the grey zone, where he ran his group's OPSEC. His work has focused on how people coordinate, adapt, trust and make decisions under pressure. He is the creator of Cypher Atlas, an interactive map of the crypto-anarchist and privacy ecosystem built entirely from public sources.

Nov 6 11:20 AM · Lightning Stage · Cypher Atlas, map of the cyphepunk movement

- Engineer at Paribu - Co-founded Clave (acquired by Paribu) - Co-author of RIP-7212 / EIP-7951 - Former RIP editor - Ex-president of ITU Blockchain

Nov 4 10:30 AM · Lotus Stage 3 · Smart Accounts in Production: What We Learned the Hard Way

I enjoy working on Ethereum infrastructure, zk tooling and verifiable computing. Interested in cryptography, formal methods, and building systems where you don't have to blindly trust the software you're running (particularly in the browser! BIG **WASM maxi**)

Nov 4 12:00 PM · Workshop 2 · EIP-8304: Trustless log and transaction index in Geth

Varya is a Software Engineer building Safe{Wallet}, a smart account wallet for teams and individuals. She cares about the details that make a product reliable: clean architecture, thoughtful UX and code that holds up in real-world use. Her work focuses on turning complex features into experiences that feel simple and intuitive.

Nov 4 11:20 AM · Lightning Stage · From vanity to poison: the evolution of address poisoning attacks

After 2 successful exists became a full-time crypto-analyst from 2016. Developed a proof of stake platform before fully dedicating myself to fighting Sybil and creating a Proof of Personhood based protocol which I develop for the last 6 years.

Nov 5 4:00 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · DAO Governance failures and ways of mitigation

a sociolinguist turned web3 UI/UX designer turned PhD candidate researching blockchains and their social implications

Nov 5 10:10 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · Blockchain adoption: even if you do a lot of things right, you can still be wrong

Breaking the mold of centralised internet with the @fileverse ship! Try ddocs.new, dsheets.new and make sure to stay hydrated.

Nov 5 5:00 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · PQC: Post-Quantum Collaboration?

Viktor Trón is the founder of the Swarm project and leads its research at the Swarm Foundation: the DISC storage model, storage incentives, and the SWIP process. Author of the Book of Swarm.

Nov 4 3:00 PM · Lightning Stage · Blob or chunk: which one is cypherpunk? Infinitely scalable data for smart contracts

Violet is a trans courtesan and paid companion based in New York. She has a curious background that includes technical expertise in infrastructure automation and cybersecurity, nightlife event planning, and sexual health education. Today, she splits her time between private clients and bringing workers in the adult industry towards self-sovereignty and financial independence through privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies like Zcash, earning her the title of "your favorite hooker's favorite hacker."

Nov 6 11:00 AM · Workshop 2 · How Real People Are Really Living On Crypto In Real Life

Vivek Singh Solanki is an Ethereum Protocol Fellow (cohort 7) working on go-ethereum, where he is building core/ssz: SSZ encoding and decoding, progressive merkleization and proof generation, as groundwork for EIP-7807 SSZ execution blocks. He is based in India.

Nov 4 11:20 AM · Workshop 2 · SSZ Execution Blocks (EIP-7807) for Geth

I'm a Software Engineer in the Technical Foundations team at the Ethereum Foundation. I work with governments and multilateral organizations to explore Ethereum through technical advisory and proofs of concept for real world use cases. I've worked on several zero knowledge protocols, libraries, and privacy preserving applications. My work combines research and open source development to build practical privacy preserving solutions for the Ethereum ecosystem.

Nov 4 2:00 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Migrating from a Private Blockchain to Ethereum: Engineering Lessons

Wei Wei is the Event Manager at Kleros, the decentralised dispute resolution protocol built on Ethereum. With a background in Business Law & International Management, she connects on-chain justice with teams building oracles, dispute resolution, governance, and compliance. She creates space for builders, lawyers and researchers to explore how disputes, accountability and coordination work in decentralised systems.

Nov 4 10:00 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 Legal&Governance Hub - Onchain Entities: Legal Compliance & Token Rights

Bitcointalk devotee, early Ethereum contributor, serial innovator. Deeply inspired by the potential of computing technology, deeply frustrated by its present reality, and committed to closing the gap. Recently returned from a hiatus from public and crypto life to found [Clan](https://clan.lol), [Generational Infrastructure](https://generational.systems/) and [SpacesOS](https://spacesos.org).

Nov 4 10:00 AM · Lotus Stage 1 · Building For Generations

Nov 4 1:30 PM · Lotus Stage 3 · Designing for Irreversibility: Lessons from Shipping ENSv2

Yann Vonlanthen is a researcher on the Ethereum Foundation’s protocol research team, where he works on fast finality and consensus networking. He completed his PhD at ETH Zurich, where his research focused on Byzantine fault tolerance, blockchain networking, and decentralized governance. His work has appeared at venues including USENIX Security, Middleware, and AFT, and received the Middleware 2024 Best Paper Award.

Nov 3 12:25 PM · Lightning Stage · From 16 Minutes to Seconds: A Roadmap to Fast Finality on Ethereum

I like math and cryptography. I work as a software engineer at ether.fi and was an ethereum protocol fellow. I believe ethereum will bring global finance on-chain.

Nov 3 3:40 PM · Lightning Stage · What it takes to ship an onchain credit card to non-crypto users

I am Yesh - I am currently trying to build scientific ai models and a parallel society designed around d/acc. I was one of co-organizers of Zuzalu AI and X-risk track. I also work on a zuzalu spin-off called ZuGrama, a permanent parallel society in India.

Nov 6 10:10 AM · Jasmine Stage 4 · ZuGrama: Building a permanent village to make CROPS win

Yi is a co-founder of Axiom, which is building OpenVM, a performant and modular zkVM framework built for customization and extensibility. He is interested in frontier approaches to security via formal verification and AI. Prior to Axiom, he was a statistics professor at UChicago and did a PhD in math at MIT.

Nov 3 12:55 PM · Lightning Stage · End-to-end formally verifying OpenVM

Yiannis joined Protocol Labs in 2019 to work on libp2p, IPFS, Filecoin and drand. His expertise lies on the networking stack, the protocol and architecture design of distributed, Internet-connected systems. His passion for rigorous analysis of networked systems led him to start the ProbeLab team (https://probelab.io) which specialises in P2P layer measurement methodologies and monitoring tooling. In a previous life, Yiannis was an academic at University College London (UCL). More information at: https://yiannisbot.net

Nov 3 12:45 PM · Jasmine Stage 4 · 🛖 P2P Networking Hub - Guided Tour of Ethereum's Networking Layer

Yorgos <3 Open Source, (worked at Red Hat and left to tackle a bigger problem in OSS), open space unconferences (so helps run SoCraTes-Crete.org and JCrete.org) and open, decentralised communities that he helps run virtually, or locally, on the **paradise** island of Crete! He is passionate about home automation and digital privacy.

Nov 4 4:00 PM · Workshop 1 · Beyond GitHub: Building Open Source on Radicle

Yoseph is Founder & Managing Partner at LAVA, a firm that invests in founders building new financial infrastructures across Africa, researches new primitives of money, and grows builder ecosystems. He co-created Borderless Africa and magma, bringing Africa's leading founders and the Ethereum ecosystem together. He previously co-founded the Edmund Hillary Fellowship, which persuaded New Zealand to create a new visa and let a non-profit pick who came through it.

Nov 4 11:30 AM · Lotus Stage 1 · A pluralist future for money

Dr. YQ is the founder of AltLayer and 8004scan, scaling Ethereum with rollups and bringing agents onchain. Meanwhile, he drove the collaboration with Xfers on the stablecoin initiative for Southeast Asia StraitsX, as well as participated in blockchain projects with Mindshare, Singapore Exchange, Hg Exchange, etc. He got his Ph.D from the National University of Singapore. His work has been published in top conferences, e.g., CCS. His work was acknowledged by Google and Apple, and media including Bitcoin Magazine, Forbes and CNBC.

Nov 3 4:30 PM · Lightning Stage · 8004: Bring Agents On Chain

Yuting is the co-founder and CEO of Agora Citizen Network, an open-source collective intelligence tool that helps people map opinions and build consensus on complex issues. Agora has been used by institutions and NGOs like UNESCO and Search for Common Ground (peacebuilding). She also organizes future imagination workshops and designs participatory processes.

Nov 6 11:00 AM · Workshop 1 · What Can Ethereum Do for India? A Live Deliberation Workshop

Zachary Williamson is a co-founder of Aztec Network and President and Chair of the Aztec Foundation. For nearly a decade, he has worked on the cryptography and systems design required for programmable privacy, including co-inventing PLONK and helping develop Aztec’s architecture for private state and client-side execution.

Nov 3 3:30 PM · Lotus Stage 1 · Private State, Public Network: The Tradeoffs Behind Privacy

A smart contract engineer and researcher at Push Chain, working at the intersection of AI and blockchains. I actively research and contribute towards agentic use-cases in crypto. - Built Trustless Agent+, a modified version of ERC-8004 for universal multi-chain agent identity, and reputation score - Actively write on ai * crypto intersections, x402 agentic markets etc. all work can be found in - https://www.decipherclub.com/tag/ai-on-chain/

Nov 3 4:20 PM · Lightning Stage · There's a Critical Bug in x402 markets: A Study of 1200 merchants in an unfair agentic market