Version 0.1.23 June 13, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “The Lost Values of Web3 (panel) (Hudson, Jaya, Nick, Aidan)”.

We sadly had to cancel a session: “MPC at internet scale” by Arik Galansky

Version 0.1.22 June 13, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Key Management Mechanisms and their UX Properties” by Nitya Subramanian

We have moved a session around: “A Functional VM for Verifiable Computing over Binary Fields” by Jim Posen (June 13, 2025, 4:30 p.m., Cinema 7 → June 13, 2025, 2:30 p.m., Cinema 10).

Version 0.1.21 June 11, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “IBRL - making Solana (Agave) faster” by Michal Rostecki
• “Scaling Blockchain with SSDs is Smart (and Scaling with RAM is Stupid)” by Robert Habermeier

We have moved a session around: “Two flavors of Smart Sessions: Session Keys vs SubAccounts” by Pedro Gomes (June 13, 2025, 3:15 p.m., Cinema 7 → June 12, 2025, 11:30 a.m., Cinema 6).

Version 0.1.20 June 10, 2025

Move talk before lunch Friday in Cinema 7, to later in the afternoon, extend lunch break for Cinema 7 for less overlap with Vitalik

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Bitcoin PIPEs: ZK-Proofs and Covenants on Bitcoin L1 without Softfork” by Misha Komarov

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, noon → June 13, 2025, 4 p.m.)
• “Lunch break” (June 13, 2025, 12:30 p.m. → June 13, 2025, noon)

Version 0.1.19 June 9, 2025

Resolve conflict of talks with very overlapping topics (leo and vitalik)

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Compiler-based optimizations for zkVMs” by Leo Alt (June 13, 2025, noon → June 13, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
• “MPC at internet scale” by Arik Galansky (June 13, 2025, 1:30 p.m. → June 13, 2025, noon)

Version 0.1.18 June 5, 2025

switch leo and guillerme, due to conflict for guillerme

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Compiler-based optimizations for zkVMs” by Leo Alt (June 13, 2025, 2 p.m. → June 13, 2025, noon)
• “Building zig program for zkvms: a case study with zeam” by Guillaume Ballet (June 13, 2025, noon → June 13, 2025, 2 p.m.)

Version 0.1.17 June 3, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Workings of Native Rollups and EXECUTE precompile” by Gajinder

Version 0.1.16 June 2, 2025

Move social mixer back to it's original time.

We have moved a session around: “Social Mixer” (June 12, 2025, 5 p.m. → June 12, 2025, 6 p.m.)

Version 0.1.15-print May 30, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Lunch break” (June 13, 2025, 1 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
• “IPFS: A Decade in Browsers” by Michelle Lee (June 13, 2025, noon → June 13, 2025, 1 p.m.)
• “How Ethereum Governance (Actually) Works” by Tim Beiko (June 13, 2025, 11:30 a.m. → June 13, 2025, 11 a.m.)
• “Long-term L1 Proposal: Replacing the EVM with RISC-V” by Vitalik Buterin (June 13, 2025, 11 a.m. → June 13, 2025, 11:30 a.m.)

Version 0.1.14 May 28, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Workings of Native Rollups and EXECUTE precompile” by Gajinder.

Version 0.1.13 May 28, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Making dapps censorship resistant” by Joel Thorstensson (June 13, 2025, 3 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
• “Key Management Mechanisms and their UX Properties” by Nitya Subramanian (June 13, 2025, 4 p.m., Cinema 7 → June 13, 2025, 2:30 p.m., Cinema 10)
• “The surprising challenges of counting nodes” by Dennis Trautwein (June 13, 2025, 4:20 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 4:15 p.m.)
• “Bitcoin PIPEs: ZK-Proofs and Covenants on Bitcoin L1 without Softfork” by Misha Komarov (June 13, 2025, 3:30 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 4 p.m.)
• “Two flavors of Smart Sessions: Session Keys vs SubAccounts” by Pedro Gomes (June 13, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 3:15 p.m.)
• “Don’t Trust, Verify: IPFS for (D)App Distribution on the Web in 2025” by Daniel Norman (Cinema 10 → Cinema 7)
• “Monitoring Ethereum’s Beacon Chain: A DEFCON Alert System for Safety and Liveness” by Pavel Bautista (June 13, 2025, 2:45 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 3 p.m.)

Version 0.1.12 May 23, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Long-term L1 Proposal: Replacing the EVM with RISC-V” by Vitalik Buterin
• “Cryptarchia Consensus & Blend Broadcasting for Private Blockchains” by Jarrad Hope
• “testing in production: gathering actually useful data” by zygis

We sadly had to cancel a session: “BitVM Engineering Tales” by Lukas

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Swarming by the STIX: Exploring decentralized Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) and Semaphore for Spyware Honeytrapper indicator-sharing in highly-surveilled environments” by Casey Carr (June 13, 2025, 2:45 p.m., Cinema 7 → June 13, 2025, 10:15 a.m., Cinema 6)
• “Making dapps censorship resistant” by Joel Thorstensson (June 12, 2025, 4:30 p.m., Cinema 10 → June 13, 2025, 3 p.m., Cinema 7)
• “Contract-based soft forks: Coining a term in search of hack prevention” by odysseas (Cinema 10 → Cinema 7)
• “F**k Off!: What if we forked crypto?” by Nick Almond (June 12, 2025, 5 p.m. → June 12, 2025, 5:30 p.m.)
• “When Help Hurts: Why a Friendly Government is a Threat to Crypto” by Konrad Urban (June 12, 2025, noon, Cinema 7 → June 12, 2025, 4:30 p.m., Cinema 10)
• “Goodbye Cypherpunk values? Adapting to the new world order” by costanza gallo, Ann and Costanza (June 12, 2025, 5:30 p.m., Cinema 7 → June 12, 2025, 5 p.m., Cinema 10)
• “Long term capture risks in Ethereum” by Trent (June 13, 2025, 11 a.m. → June 13, 2025, 3 p.m.)
• “Delegation and Participation in Decentralized Governance: An Epistemic View” by Jeff Strnad (June 13, 2025, 3 p.m. → June 12, 2025, noon)
• “Monitoring Ethereum’s Beacon Chain: A DEFCON Alert System for Safety and Liveness” by Pavel Bautista (June 13, 2025, 10:15 a.m., Cinema 6 → June 13, 2025, 2:45 p.m., Cinema 7)

Version 0.1.11 May 21, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Lunch break”
• “Lunch break”
• “Lunch”
• “Lunch break”
• “Opening Ceremony”
• “Social Mixer”
• “Lunch break”
• “Lunch break”
• “Lunch break”
• “Closing Ceremony”
• “Lunch”
• “Lunch break”
• “Lunch break”

Version 0.1.10 May 21, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Veiled Oracles: A fair, liveness-preserving method for enshrined information feeds” by Matthew Stephenson
• “Comparing transaction submission pipelines of different blockchains (Ethereum, Solana, Monad, Astria)” by Josh Bowen
• “Making dapps censorship resistant” by Joel Thorstensson
• “Delegation and Participation in Decentralized Governance: An Epistemic View” by Jeff Strnad
• “Forking the RANDAO: Manipulating Ethereum’s Distributed Randomness Beacon” by István András Seres
• “IBRL - making Solana (Agave) faster” by Michal Rostecki
• “Starfish: push-based dissemination can be efficient on uncertified DAG” by Nikita Polianskii

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Privacy ist mir Wurst. I Got Nothing to Hide.” by Lefteris Karapetsas (June 13, 2025, noon → June 12, 2025, noon)
• “Designing Protocols for a New Social Fabric” by Andrej Berlin, Beth McCarthy (June 13, 2025, 2:45 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 1:15 p.m.)
• “IPFS: A Decade in Browsers” by Michelle Lee (June 13, 2025, 2 p.m. → June 13, 2025, noon)
• “New insights into distributed and concurrent programming” by Sergey Fedorov (June 13, 2025, 10:15 a.m., Cinema 10 → June 13, 2025, 4 p.m., Cinema 6)
• “The Art of Manually Guided Fuzzing” by Lukas Rajnoha, Michal Převrátil (June 13, 2025, 11:30 a.m. → June 13, 2025, 3:15 p.m.)
• “Redesigning Governance: Trust Networks, Decentralization, and the Dichotomy of Extremes in Politics” by Manu Alzuru (June 13, 2025, 3:30 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 4 p.m.)
• “Contract-based soft forks: Coining a term in search of hack prevention” by odysseas (June 13, 2025, 10:30 a.m. → June 12, 2025, 5:30 p.m.)
• “25-Minute Solidity Fuzzer: Fuzzing Smarter, Not Harder” by Thomas Pani (June 12, 2025, 11:15 a.m. → June 13, 2025, 10:50 a.m.)
• “What we want from our nodes” by Barnabé Monnot (June 13, 2025, 11 a.m. → June 13, 2025, 10:30 a.m.)
• “Designing Decentralized Storage: Without Better UX, Decentralization Remains an Underutilized Alternative” by Diogo Ribeiro (June 12, 2025, 10:30 a.m. → June 12, 2025, 12:30 p.m.)
• “Multi agentic architecture on top of p2p infra” by Vijay Krishnavanshi (June 13, 2025, 10:45 a.m. → June 13, 2025, 12:20 p.m.)
• “The surprising challenges of counting nodes” by Dennis Trautwein (June 13, 2025, 3:30 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 4:20 p.m.)
• “Long term capture risks in Ethereum” by Trent (June 12, 2025, 4:30 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 11 a.m.)
• “The Forest That Protects the Public Good: Nym for Libp2p privacy (part2)” by Jaya Klara Brekke (June 13, 2025, 1:15 p.m. → June 12, 2025, 11:20 a.m.)
• “How to Decentralize Any Front-End” by Aron Soos (June 13, 2025, 12:15 p.m. → June 12, 2025, 12:50 p.m.)
• “Coordination-Avoidance: Rethinking Decentralized Networks Beyond Global Consensus” by Thomas Hsueh (June 13, 2025, 2:30 p.m., Cinema 6 → June 12, 2025, 1:30 p.m., Cinema 7)
• “Not your vote, not your lawyer: Delegation and the Legal Challenges” by Teresa Carballo, Zimt (June 12, 2025, 12:45 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 2:35 p.m.)
• “What would it really mean to build a world computer?” by Christopher Goes (June 12, 2025, 2 p.m. → June 12, 2025, 10:30 a.m.)
• “How to turn strangers into early adopters when they don't understand your tech” by Ira Nezhynska (June 13, 2025, 4:15 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 4 p.m.)
• “Bluesky, atproto, how to hack on it and why it matters” by Edmund Edgar (June 13, 2025, 3 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
• “Bitcoin PIPEs: ZK-Proofs and Covenants on Bitcoin L1 without Softfork” by Misha Komarov (June 13, 2025, 3 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
• “Goodbye Cypherpunk values? Adapting to the new world order” by costanza gallo, Ann and Costanza (June 12, 2025, 1:30 p.m. → June 12, 2025, 5:30 p.m.)
• “Scaling Blockchain with SSDs is Smart (and Scaling with RAM is Stupid)” by Robert Habermeier (June 12, 2025, 12:30 p.m. → June 13, 2025, 2 p.m.)

Version 0.1.9 May 11, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “The Forest That Protects the Public Good: Nym for Libp2p privacy (part2)” by Jaya Klara Brekke
• “BitVM Engineering Tales” by Lukas
• “Building zig program for zkvms: a case study with zeam” by Guillaume Ballet
• “Liberating the self from calculation: entropy in privacy enhancing technologies” by Jaya Klara Brekke
• “Scaling Blockchain with SSDs is Smart (and Scaling with RAM is Stupid)” by Robert Habermeier

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 Luis Bezzenberger, Andreas Erwig, 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 Alt-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., Cinema 7 → June 13, 2025, 10:15 a.m., 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., Cinema 6 → June 13, 2025, 1:30 p.m., Cinema 7)
• “New insights into distributed and concurrent programming” by Sergey Fedorov (June 13, 2025, 11:30 a.m., Cinema 6 → June 13, 2025, 11 a.m., 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, Cinema 6 → June 13, 2025, 11:30 a.m., Cinema 7)
• “Compiler-based optimizations for zkVMs” by Leo Alt (Cinema 6 → Cinema 7)
• “Goodbye Cypherpunk values? Adapting to the new world order” by costanza gallo, Ann and Costanza (June 12, 2025, 2:30 p.m., Cinema 6 → June 12, 2025, 1:30 p.m., Cinema 7)
• “CorePlay - An actor-like framework for blockchains” by Bastian Köcher (Cinema 6 → 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!