Version 0.1.8 May 9, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have new sessions!
- “Bitcoin PIPEs: ZK-Proofs and Covenants on Bitcoin L1 without Softfork” by Misha Komarov
- “Privacy ist mir Wurst. I Got Nothing to Hide.” by Lefteris Karapetsas
- “Coordination-Avoidance: Rethinking Decentralized Networks Beyond Global Consensus” by Thomas Hsueh
- “IPFS: A Decade in Browsers” by Michelle Lee
- “When Help Hurts: Why a Friendly Government is a Threat to Crypto” by Konrad Urban
- “Redesigning Governance: Trust Networks, Decentralization, and the Dichotomy of Extremes in Politics” by Manu Alzuru
- “Contract-based soft forks: Coining a term in search of hack prevention” by odysseas
- “Building Testnet Infrastructure (from the ground up)” by erin
- “Are You Vitalik or Are You My Mom? An In Depth Analysis of Wallet Security Set-ups” by Hudson Jameson
Version 0.1.7 May 6, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have new sessions!
- “Runtime Assertions: A New Paradigm for Customized Smart Contract Security” by Frederik Luehrs
- “Non-local redundancy: Erasure coding and dispersed replicas for robust retrieval in the Swarm peer-to-peer network” by viktor tron
- “Standardizing Ethereum metrics: PeerDAS and FOCIL retrospective” by Ekaterina Riazantseva
- “Can we do better than git's Merkle DAG?” by Victor Grishchenko
- “Rethinking Competition Models in Solver-Based Protocols” by Nadiem Sissouno, Alexander Mueller
- “Designing Decentralized Storage: Without Better UX, Decentralization Remains an Underutilized Alternative” by Diogo Ribeiro
- “Multi agentic architecture on top of p2p infra” by Vijay Krishnavanshi
- “Walrus: An Efficient Decentralized Storage Network” by Lefteris Kokoris Kogias
- “Key Management Mechanisms and their UX Properties” by Nitya Subramanian
- “Welcome to Noirland” by Savio
- “How to Decentralize Any Front-End” by Aron Soos
- “Blockchain Ethics: Pure Reason or Pure Madness?” by Georgy
- “the economics of freedom” by Fatemeh Fannizadeh
- “From Hours to Minutes: The Journey of Fast Finality on Filecoin” by Masih Derkani
- “The eternal research of broadcasting messages, the limits of GossipSub” by Mikel Cortes
- “Geth AMA” by Marius, lightclient
- “the new Cypherpunk generation” by Mf
- “Building for Core Devs: How OP Labs Accelerates Protocol Engineering” by Tess Rinearson
- “F**k Off!: What if we forked crypto?” by Nick Almond
- “StorageBeat: An Evaluation Framework for Storage Services” by Aata Hokoridani
- “How client diversity saved Holesky: Lessons for the future” by Phil Ngo, nflaig
- “Coordination as Intelligence: Envisioning Open Learning” by Madvi
- “The Holy Trinity of Censorship Resistance in Ethereum” by Andreas Erwig, Luis Bezzenberger, Marc Harvey-Hill
- “The surprising challenges of counting nodes” by Dennis Trautwein
- “Long term capture risks in Ethereum” by Trent
- “Golden Raspberry Awards Of Ethereum Scaling 2025” by basti
- “Moderation is not a bad word: Towards Decentralised Content Moderation in P2P-Networks” by Johannes Kühlewindt
- “Reward and resource sharing mechanisms in decentralised storage” by Andrew Macpherson
- “ZK: Accelerating DA Interop” by Nina Barbakadze
- “Off-the-shelf Trustless HTTP Server for Content-Addressable Data” by Vasco Santos
- “Quad-linear Voting (QLV)” by Samuel JJ Gosling
- “Mechanisms for Unlocking Idle Blobspace” by Raluca Diugan
- “What would it really mean to build a world computer?” by Christopher Goes
- “DA Layers vs. Confirmation Layers vs. Settlement Layers - Have we all just built the same thing?” by Ellie Davidson
- “At the Intersection of Data Availability Sampling and Sharded Mempools” by Leo BG
- “A Functional VM for Verifiable Computing over Binary Fields” by Jim Posen
- “DeCom - Building the Infrastructure for Decentralized Commerce” by Ori Shimony
- “Monitoring Ethereum’s Beacon Chain: A DEFCON Alert System for Safety and Liveness” by Pavel Bautista
We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:
- “Anatomy of on-chain privacy” by Lisa Akselrod (June 13, 2025, 11:30 a.m. → June 12, 2025, 11:30 a.m.)
- “How Ethereum Governance (Actually) Works” by Tim Beiko (June 12, 2025, 11:30 a.m. → June 13, 2025, 11:30 a.m.)
- “Waku Service Marketplace: Decentralized Infrastructure for dApps” by Sergei Tikhomirov (June 12, 2025, 2:15 p.m. → June 12, 2025, 2 p.m.)
- “Mapping and Funding Our Dependencies in Open Knowledge” by Warren Winter (June 12, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → June 12, 2025, 2:15 p.m.)
Version 0.1.6 April 29, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have new sessions!
- “Integrating Blockchain Data into AI Agents” by Boris Godlin
- “Designing Protocols for a New Social Fabric” by Andrej Berlin, Beth McCarthy
- “Two flavors of Smart Sessions: Session Keys vs SubAccounts” by Pedro Gomes
- “Not your vote, not your lawyer: Delegation and the Legal Challenges” by Teresa Carballo, Zimt
- “Mapping and Funding Our Dependencies in Open Knowledge” by Warren Winter
- “Waku Service Marketplace: Decentralized Infrastructure for dApps” by Sergei Tikhomirov
- “The Art of Manually Guided Fuzzing” by Lukas Rajnoha, Michal Převrátil
- “Economic security behind ZK proof generation” by Norbert Vadas
- “Learn Noir in an Afternoon (Or Your Money Back)” by José Pedro Sousa
- “25-Minute Solidity Fuzzer: Fuzzing Smarter, Not Harder” by Thomas Pani
- “Synchronized Priority Auctions” by Alexander Herrmann
- “Fast-track workshop: Running a HOPR node and using the GnosisVPN PoC” by Tino Breddin
- “Datadex Pattern: Collect and share protocol-level metrics” by DistributedDoge
- “How to turn strangers into early adopters when they don't understand your tech” by Ira Nezhynska
We have moved a session around: “Beyond the Ledger: JAM and the Future of Scalable Decentralized Computing” by Gavin Wood (June 12, 2025, 2 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 4:30 p.m.)
Version 0.1.5 April 26, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have new sessions!
- “SVM Protocol Design” by Axel Eckerbom
- “Bluesky, atproto, how to hack on it and why it matters” by Edmund Edgar
- “How to Build Rollups on Bitcoin” by Esad Yusuf Atik
We have moved a session around: “Modern Multi-proposer consensus implementations” by François Garillot (June 12, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → June 12, 2025, 10:30 a.m.)
Version 0.1.4 April 22, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have moved a session around: “New insights into distributed and concurrent programming” by Sergey Fedorov (June 13, 2025, 11 a.m., Side Stage - Cinema 7 → June 13, 2025, 10:15 a.m., Main Stage - Cinema 10).
Version 0.1.3 April 22, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have a new session: “Swarming by the STIX: Exploring decentralized Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) and Semaphore for Spyware Honeytrapper indicator-sharing in highly-surveilled environments” by Casey Carr.
We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:
- “MPC at internet scale” by Arik Galansky (June 13, 2025, 1 p.m., Side Stage - Cinema 6 → June 13, 2025, 1:30 p.m., Side Stage - Cinema 7)
- “New insights into distributed and concurrent programming” by Sergey Fedorov (June 13, 2025, 11:30 a.m., Side Stage - Cinema 6 → June 13, 2025, 11 a.m., Side Stage - Cinema 7)
- “Modern Multi-proposer consensus implementations” by François Garillot (June 12, 2025, 1:30 p.m. → June 12, 2025, 2:30 p.m.)
- “Rebased Rollups: Achieving Credibly Neutral Synchronous Composability with Low Latency and Cost” by Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa (June 13, 2025, noon, Side Stage - Cinema 6 → June 13, 2025, 11:30 a.m., Side Stage - Cinema 7)
- “Compiler-based optimizations for zkVMs” by Leo Alt (Side Stage - Cinema 6 → Side Stage - Cinema 7)
- “Goodbye Cypherpunk values? Adapting to the new world order” by costanza gallo, Ann and Costanza (June 12, 2025, 2:30 p.m., Side Stage - Cinema 6 → June 12, 2025, 1:30 p.m., Side Stage - Cinema 7)
- “CorePlay - An actor-like framework for blockchains” by Bastian Köcher (Side Stage - Cinema 6 → Side Stage - Cinema 7)
Version 0.1.2 April 18, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have new sessions!
- “New insights into distributed and concurrent programming” by Sergey Fedorov
- “Modern Multi-proposer consensus implementations” by François Garillot
- “How Ethereum Governance (Actually) Works” by Tim Beiko
- “Rebased Rollups: Achieving Credibly Neutral Synchronous Composability with Low Latency and Cost” by Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa
- “Compiler-based optimizations for zkVMs” by Leo Alt
- “Don’t Trust, Verify: IPFS for (D)App Distribution on the Web in 2025” by Daniel Norman
- “PolkaVM: A fast and secure RISC-V based virtual machine” by Shawn Tabrizi
- “CorePlay - An actor-like framework for blockchains” by Bastian Köcher
- “What we want from our nodes” by Barnabé Monnot
We have moved a session around: “No friends but the hash function: Descent into the Social Layer” by Paul Dylan-Ennis (June 12, 2025, 4 p.m. → June 12, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
Version 0.1.1 April 16, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
Version 0.1.0 April 15, 2025
Protocol Berg v2 schedule prerelease for the website. Times and stages are still subject to change!