Schedule

Welcome & Introduction

Kartik TalwarETHGlobalCo-founder

A Reasonably Necessary World Computer

Ethereum has unique properties no other platform can replicate: permissionless access, censorship resistance and credible neutrality. To have the largest impact on the world, we…View more

Ethereum has unique properties no other platform can replicate: permissionless access, censorship resistance and credible neutrality. To have the largest impact on the world, we need to leverage these where they matter most. This talk applies a "reasonably necessary" test to three frontiers — programmable markets, capture-resistant coordination, and agent economies — offering builders a framework for finding the use cases where Ethereum has irreplaceable impact.

Tim BeikoEthereum FoundationProtocol Lead

Building Credit Markets at Internet Speed

The internet transformed information, commerce, and software. Why has credit remained so difficult to scale? In this presentation, Stani Kulechov explores the next evolution of…View more

The internet transformed information, commerce, and software. Why has credit remained so difficult to scale? In this presentation, Stani Kulechov explores the next evolution of financial infrastructure, the challenges of building internet-native credit, and what it will take to create credit markets that move at the speed of the internet.

Stani KulechovAaveCEO, Founder

Ethereum’s Arcade: Onboarding the World Through Real-World Venues

Valley Arcade Games is building a network of arcade cabinets for real-world venues where players can walk up, play games, earn rewards, and be seamlessly onboarded into Ethereum…View more

Valley Arcade Games is building a network of arcade cabinets for real-world venues where players can walk up, play games, earn rewards, and be seamlessly onboarded into Ethereum with wallets created automatically behind the scenes.

Johnny CoughlinValley Arcade GamesFounder & CEO

The Onchain Capital Markets Era Starts in Washington DC

For the first time in a decade, US crypto rules are being written, not litigated. A wide-ranging conversation on tokenized securities, DeFi, and the next phase of capital markets…View more

For the first time in a decade, US crypto rules are being written, not litigated. A wide-ranging conversation on tokenized securities, DeFi, and the next phase of capital markets policy taking shape in Washington — and what it means for the institutions moving onchain.

Taylor LindmanSECChief Counsel, Crypto Task Force

Salman BanaeiPlumeGeneral Counsel

Welcome & Introduction

Zayi ReyesChainlink LabsHead of Customer Marketing

DeFi Empowerment: Women in Finance educational programs

An ecosystem driving Latam talent with a strong focus on empowering women into the global decentralized economy through specialized Blockchain scholarships, a gamified learning…View more

An ecosystem driving Latam talent with a strong focus on empowering women into the global decentralized economy through specialized Blockchain scholarships, a gamified learning platform with real-world challenges, and an internationally recognized web3 educational model.

Briguit ReinaldoWomen in FinanceCo-founder

Lilian SantosLatina Blockchain ProgramCo-founder

Financial Privacy: The Missing Layer of Institutional Onchain Finance

Money has been private by default for 5,000 years. Counterparties see their leg of a trade, regulators see what they need, the public sees aggregated reports on schedule.…View more

Money has been private by default for 5,000 years. Counterparties see their leg of a trade, regulators see what they need, the public sees aggregated reports on schedule. Blockchains inverted that: every transaction is now public to everyone, forever. This talk argues financial privacy is not a feature but the missing layer of the institutional onchain stack, and that the cryptography to solve it is production-ready today.

Paul-Henry KajfaszUnlinkCEO

The Settlement Layer Wall Street Already Trusts

Johnna PowellDTCCManaging Director and Head of Technology, Research and Innovation

Daniela BarbosaLinux Foundation Decentralized TrustExecutive Director

Securing Institutional DeFi Without Centralizing It

DeFi security is at a crossroads. Institutions need stronger protections, but emergency controls often recreate centralization. This keynote explores the current state of…View more

DeFi security is at a crossroads. Institutions need stronger protections, but emergency controls often recreate centralization. This keynote explores the current state of security; it then moves to talk about autonomous, auditable controls that contain exploits, support compliance, and protect users without sacrificing decentralization.

Odysseas LamtzidisPhylaxCEO

Why the Next Ten Years of Ethereum Look Different

Joe LubinConsensysCEO

Kartik TalwarETHGlobalCo-founder

Fireside chat with Google Cloud

Ishan SinghGoogle CloudSenior Principal, Digital Assets

Christian Crowleya16z cryptoPartner, GTM

[Practicing Ethereum] Ethereum’s Frontier, Today

Tim Beiko (Protocol Lead at Ethereum Foundation) stepped back from coordinating Ethereum's core protocol development to focus on "frontier use cases." What are things that can…View more

Tim Beiko (Protocol Lead at Ethereum Foundation) stepped back from coordinating Ethereum's core protocol development to focus on "frontier use cases." What are things that can only exist on Ethereum? That fully leverage its unique properties?" Come explore the current state & the possible frontier, using CROPS as guiding values for technical progress on Ethereum.

Akasha StallworthConcordanceFounder

Christine KimProtocol WatchFounder

Sophia DewEthereum FoundationDeveloper Acceleration

Vivek SinghKernelDirector

Blockchains Are Central to the Future of Finance and Agentic AI

Young KimBitmineCOO & CFO

Cypherpunk is dead. Long live cypherpunk.

To keep Ethereum sustainable, we have to keep its funding sustainable. This talk explores why preserving Ethereum's core properties depends on solving the funding problem…View more

To keep Ethereum sustainable, we have to keep its funding sustainable. This talk explores why preserving Ethereum's core properties depends on solving the funding problem underneath them. As the Ethereum Foundation's role narrows, the ecosystem needs new, decentralized models of coordination that don't depend on token sales or one-time donations. It shows how decentralized, yield-based funding can sustain the ecosystem's growth in perpetuity, creating a durable, neutral foundation that works…

Artem BrazhnikovOctantCEO

Institutional Adoption and the Importance of Code Neutrality

As digital assets move into institutional infrastructure, governance is becoming as important as technology. This fireside chat will explore how enterprises and financial…View more

As digital assets move into institutional infrastructure, governance is becoming as important as technology. This fireside chat will explore how enterprises and financial institutions evaluate blockchain infrastructure, why open source alone is not enough, and how code neutrality can reduce dependency risk and build long-term trust.

Declan FoxConsensysHead of Linea

Rob DawsonConsensysCTO

Jill MalandrinoCapital Markets, Emerging Technology & GovernanceIndependent Moderator

Agents Need Mandates, Not Keys; Enforceable Guardrails for Agentic Finance

Agents will increasingly manage money on behalf of users, but giving them raw keys creates too much risk and too little control. Ymax shows how user mandates, enforced by smart…View more

Agents will increasingly manage money on behalf of users, but giving them raw keys creates too much risk and too little control. Ymax shows how user mandates, enforced by smart contracts and orchestration, create the trust layer needed to safely unleash agents across onchain finance.

Dean TribbleAgoricCEO

The Creative Reset Lab

The Creative Reset Lab is a relaxed, artist-led drawing experience designed to help ETHGlobal builders reset their minds, release pressure, and return to their work with more…View more

The Creative Reset Lab is a relaxed, artist-led drawing experience designed to help ETHGlobal builders reset their minds, release pressure, and return to their work with more clarity, play, and creative flow.

Catrice AustinLoop + LineVisual Artist

Shanelle Julia RositaLoop + LineVisual Artist

What the World's Largest Onchain Allocators See for the Future

Robbie MitchnickBlackRockGlobal Head of Digital Assets

Matt SheffieldSharpLinkCIO

The Creative Reset Lab

The Creative Reset Lab is a relaxed, artist-led drawing experience designed to help ETHGlobal builders reset their minds, release pressure, and return to their work with more…View more

The Creative Reset Lab is a relaxed, artist-led drawing experience designed to help ETHGlobal builders reset their minds, release pressure, and return to their work with more clarity, play, and creative flow.

Catrice AustinLoop + LineVisual Artist

Shanelle Julia RositaLoop + LineVisual Artist

Where Silicon Valley and Onchain Finance Converge

Nemil DalalY CombinatorVisiting Partner, Crypto

Kartik TalwarETHGlobalCo-founder

Crypto x AI, AI x Crypto: A Survey

Twenty-five scientists and industry experts came together to examine how and where crypto and AI intersect and when and why they don’t. Their survey paper will be releas ed for…View more

Twenty-five scientists and industry experts came together to examine how and where crypto and AI intersect and when and why they don’t. Their survey paper will be releas ed for the first time by The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3) at EthConf 2026. This talk is a quick guided tour.

Professor Ari JuelsIC3Co-Director

Why Yield Is the Killer Use Case for Agents

Agents are better than humans at managing yield. Zyfai proves it: autonomous agents routing funds across top lending protocols, directly from wallets users own. $9M under…View more

Agents are better than humans at managing yield. Zyfai proves it: autonomous agents routing funds across top lending protocols, directly from wallets users own. $9M under management, $2.4B in cumulative volume. Zero incidents.

Gauthier VilaZyfaiCo-founder & CEO

Crypto Built the Rails. Next up? Operating Them Safely

Andrej BencicTenderlyCEO

Valuing Ethereum Comprehensively

William Mougayar presents a three-prong valuation framework anchored in a single premise: Ethereum is public-good infrastructure, the Internet’s true peer.

William Mougayar presents a three-prong valuation framework anchored in a single premise: Ethereum is public-good infrastructure, the Internet’s true peer.

William MougayarTRUSTSHIFTAuthor

Ship Onchain Automated Portfolios for your Users in an Afternoon

Glider's B2B API can help wallets, neobanks, and super-apps ship automated portfolio strategies for their users in as little as a day. One web2 API to abstract and manage baskets…View more

Glider's B2B API can help wallets, neobanks, and super-apps ship automated portfolio strategies for their users in as little as a day. One web2 API to abstract and manage baskets with crypto, equities, and more, all automated and non-custodial. No new contracts, no more audits, no headaches.

Matt NelsonGliderHead of Product

Beyond the AMM: What Comes After Pooled Liquidity

Hayden AdamsUniswap LabsFounder

Camila RussoThe DefiantCEO

RWA Perps: Where They’re Growing & What You’re Really Trading

RWA Perps, or perpetual futures on traditional assets, have grown explosively in the past four months. Gold perps are the new “digital gold.” Pre-IPO perps are the pricing engine…View more

RWA Perps, or perpetual futures on traditional assets, have grown explosively in the past four months. Gold perps are the new “digital gold.” Pre-IPO perps are the pricing engine for a year of historic stock offerings. This talk will deliver a data-grounded insights into the trends in RWA perps and a high-level look into the data layer underneath.

Meredith PitkoffStorkCEO

The Missing Primitive: Undercollateralized Credit for DeFi

TEE-based private key encumbrance enables undercollateralized DeFi lending by enforcing spending policies and liquidations inside a TEE-controlled keypair, unlocking 5-10x…View more

TEE-based private key encumbrance enables undercollateralized DeFi lending by enforcing spending policies and liquidations inside a TEE-controlled keypair, unlocking 5-10x leverage on prediction markets and DEXs with a live Polymarket implementation.

Can KisagunAmplifiCEO

Beyond the hype: how money actually moves in Africa

Beyond the headlines of how stablecoins are solving for emerging markets, let us examine exactly how money moves in Africa, where the stablecoin moats lie, and what infrastructure…View more

Beyond the headlines of how stablecoins are solving for emerging markets, let us examine exactly how money moves in Africa, where the stablecoin moats lie, and what infrastructure is needed to serve to fastest growing and stickiest market for stablecoins. Onchain FX, multi-currency stablecoins, on/off ramps, derivatives, unpacking the liquidity issue, and trade finance patterns.

Yoseph AyeleLAVAFounder

Private Atomic DvP on Ethereum: No More Trade-offs

Private execution on Ethereum, without forfeiting composability, has been an unsolved tradeoff. This session shows how private atomic settlement becomes possible on Prividium,…View more

Private execution on Ethereum, without forfeiting composability, has been an unsolved tradeoff. This session shows how private atomic settlement becomes possible on Prividium, using a DvP workflow between two private bank zones, settled in a single state transition and anchored by cryptographic proof.

Alex GluchowskiMatter LabsCEO

The Other 3%: Why the World Needs a Stablecoin That Isn't the Dollar

99.8% of the stablecoin market is in USD. For a good reason. But there are applications where it doesn't really shine. In this keynote we'll do a tour d'horizon on what currencies…View more

99.8% of the stablecoin market is in USD. For a good reason. But there are applications where it doesn't really shine. In this keynote we'll do a tour d'horizon on what currencies actually are and how history might map itself on the future of stablecoins.

Johannes KernFrankencoinManaging Director

Scaling Tokenized Assets: Liquidity, Utility, and Distribution

DeFi's liquidity is fragmented: lending and trading operate in silos, leaving billions idle. Fluid unifies both into a single liquidity layer where collateral earns trading fees…View more

DeFi's liquidity is fragmented: lending and trading operate in silos, leaving billions idle. Fluid unifies both into a single liquidity layer where collateral earns trading fees and debt generates yield. This architecture unlocks institutional-grade capital efficiency: deeper stablecoin liquidity, safer lending with up to 95% LTV and zero bad debt, and a better foundation for finance. Smart Liquidity eliminates idle capital and reshapes DeFi infrastructure and intro a new product.

Samyak JainFluidCTO

The Economic Security Advantage: How Risk and Regulation Unlock Institutional Capital

Ruben AmenyogboArchitect SystemsFounder & CEO

Shannon CorlessU.S. Department of the TreasuryFormer Assistant Secretary

Proving Ethereum in Real Time with OpenVM 2.0

This talk explains how OpenVM 2.0 enables real time proving for Ethereum at a p99 level using the new SWIRL ZK proof system. We will discuss performance benchmarks, the core…View more

This talk explains how OpenVM 2.0 enables real time proving for Ethereum at a p99 level using the new SWIRL ZK proof system. We will discuss performance benchmarks, the core OpenVM architecture, and which advances in ZK enable these improvements. We will conclude with implications for Ethereum's ZK-based scaling roadmap and developers across the application and infrastructure landscapes.

Yi SunAxiomCEO

ETHEmbassy: A Meetup for Global Ethereum Communities

Curious about Ethereum communities around the world? Meet organizers, explore local ecosystems, and get connected to builders and events across the globe.

Curious about Ethereum communities around the world? Meet organizers, explore local ecosystems, and get connected to builders and events across the globe.

Sundaram JhaETHBelgiumFounder

The Liquidity Paradox: DeFi's Greatest Opportunity and Greatest Constraint

Chaeho Shin1inchCFO

Yana PrikhodchenkoCointelegraphCEO

Onchain privacy for institutions

Most privacy solutions in crypto come with a tradeoff: they protect data, but at the cost of the very transparency that makes blockchains valuable. This conversation will unpack…View more

Most privacy solutions in crypto come with a tradeoff: they protect data, but at the cost of the very transparency that makes blockchains valuable. This conversation will unpack privacy as a spectrum and make the case for a “transparency-first” foundation: open base layers that preserve interoperability and trust, paired with modular, opt-in privacy at the application layer and why this approach is critical for institutional adoption.

Tomer WellerStellar Development FoundationChief Product Officer

Where the Superchain Goes From Here

Jing WangOptimismCo-Founder

Mark TynewayOptimismCo-founder

Rise of New Societies: Startup Cities w/ reinvented Governance & Money

Frontier Tower is building a new society. Western civilization is gasping for reinvention. But moving fast and breaking things is socially unacceptable. Startup Cities are our…View more

Frontier Tower is building a new society. Western civilization is gasping for reinvention. But moving fast and breaking things is socially unacceptable. Startup Cities are our only hedge against Ray Dalio's predicted Western downfall. Not having a Plan B is no longer an option...

Jakob DrzazgaFrontier TowerCo-founder & CEO

Ethereum in the Decade of Adoption

The first decade of smart contract blockchains was all about infrastructure. Now the decade of real world adoption has begun. Ethereum maintained its technological leadership role…View more

The first decade of smart contract blockchains was all about infrastructure. Now the decade of real world adoption has begun. Ethereum maintained its technological leadership role during the first phase - how will that role now have to change?

Ansgar DietrichsEthereum FoundationProtocol Architect

Proof Over Promises

Privacy coins helped move zero-knowledge technology (ZK) from the fringes of Web3 to the centre of the crypto industry. Attendees will come away understanding that privacy is only…View more

Privacy coins helped move zero-knowledge technology (ZK) from the fringes of Web3 to the centre of the crypto industry. Attendees will come away understanding that privacy is only one piece of the puzzle. ZK can be used to build systems where actions are gated by cryptographically verifiable rules, allowing identity, permissions, and policy compliance to be proven without exposing sensitive information. This opens the door to more secure and auditable systems across finance, AI, identity, and…

Deepthi Kumaro1LabsCo-CEO

Building Superagents: Wallets, Tools & Living Datasets

Most AI agents are limited by what they know, what they can access, and what they can do. Learn how living datasets, onchain micropayments, wallets, tools, and tailored context…View more

Most AI agents are limited by what they know, what they can access, and what they can do. Learn how living datasets, onchain micropayments, wallets, tools, and tailored context can transform agents from simple assistants into capable systems that can discover, transact, and take action.

Luís FreitasFramesCo-founder

Marcelo KunzeFramesCo-founder

The Verifiability Layer the Agent Economy Needs

Sreeram KannanEigen LabsCEO

Nikita SachdevLuna PRCEO

Trust is the Product: What It Actually Takes to Bring Companies Onchain

Onboarding people to new technology isn't a technical problem, it's a trust and translation problem. A live look at why crypto UX still sucks, what we keep getting wrong about…View more

Onboarding people to new technology isn't a technical problem, it's a trust and translation problem. A live look at why crypto UX still sucks, what we keep getting wrong about bringing outsiders in, and how curation and experience design are essential to building trust back in and meeting people where they are.

Maggie ChenUnlinkCOO

Rails for the Real World

Since launching on mainnet Earth Day 2020, Celo has processed 1.3B+ transactions and grown into a robust global ecosystem for accessible financial solutions. In this presentation,…View more

Since launching on mainnet Earth Day 2020, Celo has processed 1.3B+ transactions and grown into a robust global ecosystem for accessible financial solutions. In this presentation, Celo Core Co. COO Elizabeth Peng will discuss building programmable rails for global finance that go beyond replicating traditional systems onchain — covering Celo's native wallets (MiniPay, Valora), stablecoins (Tether, Circle, Mento local digital currencies), and proof-of-human identity (Self.xyz), and what it takes…

Elizabeth PengCeloCOO