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Sovereignists vs. Globalists by Adrian Brink | Devcon SEA

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Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM

Sovereignists vs. Globalists is the real battle we should be fighting. Fundamentally the goal of the space is to be Sovereign. I think very few people came into the space with the idea that well we should all rely on a single, one World government to control everything we do. But rather how do we give users a choice about what kind of systems they actually interact with on a day-to-day basis. What we should be thinking about when building truly decentralized truly resilient systems, is how to Speaker(s): Adrian Brink Skill level: Beginner Track: Cypherpunk & Privacy Keywords: Decentralization Improvements, Digital Sovereignty, Emergency Plan, resiliency, technology Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum, https://warpcast.com/devcon Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/ Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/ Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on Swarm, IPFS and more. Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon SEA was held in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov 12 - Nov 15, 2024. Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/

Speakers

Adrian wrote his graduate thesis on censorship-resistant e-voting on Ethereum in 2016. In early 2017 he joined Cosmos as the 3rd core dev and built out the Cosmos stack. Before Anoma & Namada, Adrian co-founded with Awa and Christopher Cryptium Labs, one of the the first PoS validators in the world (acquired) and Metastate, an R&D org that focused on distributed systems, cryptography as well as PLT.