Devcon 6
as the organisers put it
Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Join us 3–6 November 2026 in Mumbai, India.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Ethereum Business Readiness in 2022 | Dan Shaw, Daniel Burnett | 28m |
Report presents data from 118 companies and deep dives 12 projects (9 published case studies) showing real deployments that use Mainnet as final settlement… | ||
| Building blockchain products for UNICEF. How to get involved. | Shane O'Connor, Gerben Kijne | 19m |
UNICEF describes concrete builds and pilots: the UNICEF CryptoFund (launched 2019 as the first UN crypto fund) and a 1,000-piece NFT drop Patchwork Kingdoms… | ||
| Making Sense of the Ethereum Foundation | Josh Stark | 23m |
Ethereum Foundation is a non‑profit made of semi‑independent teams that allocates grants and CLR funding to external groups, runs Devcon and regional programs… | ||
| New Applications for Quadratic Funding | Connor O'Day | 26m |
Gitcoin reports $69M funded since 2017 and shows QF growth from a $25k initial matching pool to rounds with ~600k contributions and $5M+ raised, and a recent… | ||
| How Latin American Cities Are Approaching Blockchain Solutions | Alfredo Bateman, Diego Fernandez, Irais Reyes, Jaime Pumarejo, Mauricio Tovar | 53m |
Mayors and city innovation leaders from Latin America present their Ethereum-based blockchain projects and describe how they use decentralized technologies for… | ||
| Five Devcons in Five Minutes | Thomas Barker | 07m |
Rapid history of five Devcons that names concrete shifts: Casper proof of stake first appears, the DAO proposed and repeatedly dissected, recurring denial of… | ||
| Smart Transactions | Vlad Zamfir | 27m |
Argues that Ethereum transactions become context-aware by exposing secure MEV-time interactions that let transactions read and react to mid-execution values… | ||
| UNICEF CryptoFund: Exploring Blockchain and How it Could Change Futures for the Most Vulnerable | Evelyn Casanova, Sanna Bedi | 10m |
UNICEF’s CryptoFund is the first UN vehicle to receive, hold and disburse crypto, launched at Devcon 2019 and finishing a three‑year prototype to… | ||
| Web3 in the Ukraine government: integration & impact | Max Semenchuk | 19m |
Government offices adopt a concrete roadmap: 11 working groups produce a 70‑page vision and a multi‑stakeholder foresight process, but a proposed public… | ||
| EEA Community Projects: a Home for Open Standards Development Projects, Managed | Daniel Burnett, Tas Dienes | 10m |
EEA Community Projects is an OASIS Open–managed hub started in 2019 to drive production-grade open standards for Ethereum with minimal bureaucracy. Governance… | ||
| How to Build Bigger and Stronger ETH Communities in Latam | Toño Romer, Juan David Reyes, Romina Ayelén Sejas | 54m |
A panel of at least five Latin American Ethereum community representatives (including Toño Romero, Ana Belén, Solange Gueiros, Crisgarner, Juan David Reyes… | ||
| Ethereum Won’t Be The Money Layer of the Internet if People Think It’s an Earth-Destroying Scam | James Beck | 28m |
Claims four concrete tactics backed by data: a global poll of 22,500 people in 15 countries shows surprising NFT and DAO adoption hotspots (Vietnam, India… | ||
| Going on Safari: Researching Users in the Metaverse | Georgia Rakusen | 27m |
Study runs 16 one‑hour interviews and follows a survey stage, combining social listening on Twitter/Discord/Twitch with 10 days of netnographic immersion… | ||
| The Influence of Crypto Regulation on Open Blockchains: Opportunities and Challenges | Marina Markezic, Simon Polrot | 31m |
Europe finalizes MiCA, forcing crypto asset service providers to incorporate in the EU, comply with AML, and require issuers to produce a white paper and… | ||
| The Role UNICEF Plays in Encouraging the “Impact Trinity” | Evelyn Casanova, Shane O'Connor | 30m |
UNICEF funding and mentorship helps startups become certified digital public goods, convert code and docs into reusable open source assets, and pilot live… | ||
| Ethereum is Solarpunk ☀️ | Kevin Owocki | 08m |
Argues that Ethereum becomes a coordination substrate that can solve collective failures by being nearly carbon neutral after the Merge, running programmable… | ||
| The Coordination Song 🌎✨🎵 | Kevin Owocki, Justin Holmes | 05m |
A musical ensemble asserts that Ethereum can enable real world large scale coordination and cites concrete tooling and lessons rather than vague idealism it… | ||
| The Power of Stories | Piper Merriam | 10m |
Argues that concrete stories shape Ethereum’s work: a core developer apprenticeship program actually attracts hundreds of developers who learn by doing without… | ||
| Streameth: Decentralized Video CMS | Pablo Voorvaart | 23m |
Open source Streameth is a self‑hosted video CMS that ties a schedule, live streams and VOD into a room/session model, built with Livepeer and Ethereum… | ||
| Universal Basic Income for Humanity | Santiago Siri | 32m |
Proof of Humanity already verifies 17,000 verified humans and streams UBI at roughly one token per hour (0.002 UBI/sec) into wallets; adoption spikes when… | ||
| Publisher’s Denial of Digital Ownership vs Decentralization | Brewster Kahle | 27m |
Major publishers argue libraries cannot own ebooks and sue to stop the Internet Archive’s practice of scanning owned paper copies and lending them one reader… | ||
| Why Account Abstraction is a Game-Changer for Dapps | Julien Niset, Itamar Lesuisse | 25m |
Native account abstraction on L2s (Starknet, zkSync) decouples keys from accounts so accounts are on‑chain smart contracts, enabling native multicall atomic… | ||
| Borderless Africa - a New Narrative | Yoseph Ayele | 25m |
Africa has 1.4 billion people, 75% under 35 and a median age of 19, projected to reach 2.8 billion by 2050, and is already a $6.3 trillion consumer market by… | ||
| Sign in With Ethereum: the Most Powerful Protocol in #Web3? | Justina Petraitytė, Lang Cui, Nick Johnson, Shiv Malik | 51m |
A standard message format (implemented by Spruce and funded by ENS) is already powering logins on Uniswap, Aave, Gitcoin and a Discourse plugin and claims to… | ||
| Living on Ethereum | Ale Machado | 26m |
Argues that real Ethereum adoption hinges on everyday payments and off‑ramps, not conferences or TVL metrics, and shows concrete shifts: USDC/Tether use for… | ||
| Giga: How Can Blockchain Help Connect the Next Billion | Gerben Kijne, Anda Ngcaba | 49m |
Giga connects schools to the internet, reports roughly 1 million students connected so far and estimates 428 billion dollars needed to reach every school; a… | ||
| Building Parallel Economy Using Ethereum | Mario Havel | 28m |
Parallel Polis runs for nine years and claims members have lived solely in cryptoeconomy for 8 years, using Ethereum as the permissionless backbone for… | ||
| The Biggest Web3 Opportunity No One is Talking About! | Griff Green | 26m |
Claims that the public‑goods sector is massive — tens of trillions a year — and currently funded at a loss by governments and nonprofits, so web3 can redirect… | ||
| My Mother Hates Your Project (And Mine)! Why We Need More Soft Skills In Crypto | Vince Major | 23m |
Argues that crypto overvalues technical chops and underinvests in communication, creativity and human connection, claiming clearer language and storytelling… | ||
| Account Abstraction Panel | Julien Niset, Yoav Weiss, Vitalik Buterin, David Hoffman | 01h 06m |
Panel argues account abstraction is urgent and inevitable, showing concrete paths: smart-contract wallets already built (Argent-like wallets, session keys… | ||
| Let's start a RAI-ot! | Fabio Hildebrand | 28m |
Launched Feb 2020, RAI is an ETH-backed, non‑USD stable-ish coin that uses an on-chain PI controller to auto‑adjust redemption rates, enforces a 135%… | ||
| Web3 Adoption in Africa | Tony Olendo, Yoseph Ayele | 55m |
Africa already has 1.4 billion people, median age 18.8, and is projected to hit roughly 2.4–2.8 billion by 2050; 500+ million have bank access and roughly the… | ||
| The web3 Social Layer - Web3 Social: the Next Wave of Innovation | Stani Kulechov | 22m |
Argues that social is web3’s next killer app and backs it with specifics: nearly 5 billion social users, TikTok reached 1 billion in ~7 years, and Colombia… | ||
| Growing the Global Ethereum Community Through Localization | Luka Kropec | 26m |
Claims that translating increases reach and retention get concrete numbers: over 6 billion non-English speakers and ethereum.org runs a community-plus-agency… | ||
| Ethereum Event Showcase | Juan David Reyes | 16m |
A rapid roundup of community-run Ethereum events with concrete dates, sizes, venues and goals: an Amsterdam privacy hackathon — May 2023 framed around the… | ||
| Rotki: Why it’s Open Source and Local-First and Why Should You Care? | Konstantinos Paparas | 21m |
Rotki is an open‑source, local‑first portfolio tracker and accounting app that keeps private data in an encrypted local DB using SQLCipher, runs a Python… | ||
| Taxing Crypto in Colombia | Luis Carlos | 25m |
Colombia treats crypto as an intangible asset for tax purposes and is compiling ~25 prior rulings into one bilingual concept to clarify gaps. Capital gains are… | ||
| The Future is Collective | Pia Mancini | 28m |
Open Collective builds a bridge between legacy finance and decentralized communities by pairing an open-source transparent finance platform with a global… | ||
| Music Jamboree with Weird ETH and Friends | Ben Jones | 08m |
Live musical parodies explain specific Ethereum events and features with onstage keyboard, a laptop that briefly crashes, and audience claps, covering… | ||
| Self-Sovereign Digital Identity | Diego Fernandez | 28m |
QuarkID is an open‑source, chain‑agnostic self‑sovereign identity protocol that writes only DIDs on-chain only with cryptographic material while keeping all… | ||
| Fighting for Crypto's Future: The State of Regulation & Advocacy | Connor Spelliscy | 28m |
Argues that regulation shapes crypto more than tech over the next two years and names two concrete risks: DCCPA could effectively ban many DeFi protocols in… | ||
| Art Reflects What Happens in Society | Soy Fira | 11m |
Claims being the first female NFT artist from Colombia and traces sales back to March 11, 2021 when JPGs sold for $15 after scanning paper work with the Pig… | ||
| Balkanize Learn2Earn - Educating & Financing the Next Batch of Web3 Developers in the Balkans | Denis Vuckovac | 10m |
enot.io runs a pilot that pays 8 students in Bosnia and Serbia ~€150 per month each for a 9–12 month Learn2Earn program that combines Python, numpy/pandas… | ||
| Machismo, Remittence, & Inflation: Scaling Ethereum for Widespread Adoption in LATAM | Camila Ramos Garzon | 12m |
Latin America shows concrete adoption signals: 43% of crypto holders in LATAM are women, remittance inflows hit $131 billion and exceed a quarter of GDP in… | ||
| Building ethereum community together in china | GUO Haoyun, Yanyan Ho | 09m |
Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions… | ||
| The Future of Wallets: MPC vs Smart Wallets | Ivo Georgiev | 10m |
Compares MPC threshold signatures vs smart contract wallets using account abstraction, EIP3074 and EIP4337, and claims smart wallets are more flexible for mass… | ||
| The Past, Present and Future of Web3 in LATAM | Eduardo | 06m |
Eduardo outlines how people in Latin America have adopted and currently use crypto, and how blockchain tools can address economic inequality. He discusses… | ||
| Using Blockchain to Overcome LATAM Challenges | sandusky | 13m |
Examines five concrete scenarios where blockchain (Ethereum-based) solutions can address Latin America’s systemic problems—corruption, inequality, lack of… | ||
| The Unbanked, A Real Blue Ocean Opportunity for Crypto | Gabriela Chang | 07m |
Claims that 2 billion people are excluded from finance and that 70% of them are smallholder farmers who face loans often above 100% interest, with an estimated… | ||
| Ethereum for the next billion: DeFi for the unbanked/underbanked | Abhishek Bhattacharya, Benson Njuguna, Gabriela Guerra, Marcus AM | 52m |
Panelists describe production systems connecting farmers and informal savers to banks, mobile money and on‑chain oracles: a warehouse‑receipt platform already… | ||
| Be a Superhero! Tangible Actions to Support Diverse Builders and Show Allyship in Web3 Communities | Gloria Kimbwala | 35m |
Argues that racially diverse teams deliver ~35% better performance and gender-balanced teams show ~41% higher revenue, cites the Harvard implicit bias test and… | ||
| Bottom Up Building: Pathways towards a Decentralized Society | Puja Ohlhaver, Paula Berman | 01h 19m |
Argues that decentralization requires mechanisms that surface consensus across difference, proposing soulbound tokens plus correlation discounts and quadratic… | ||
| Climate Change or Social Change: The Role of Blockchain | Agustín Matteri | 25m |
Argues that climate action needs concrete fixes not slogans and gives numbers: planet is already at 1.1°C above pre‑industrial, a 2030 forecast predicts 1.5… | ||
| Ecosystem Support Program | Monet du Plessis, Vanessa Koh | 36m |
ESP describes concrete grant channels: office hours (about 300 applications and ~100 calls this year), light-touch sponsorships (63 merge meetups awarded in… | ||
| Why Only Virtual Money is Real Money | Bruno Macaes | 33m |
Damien Hirst burns physical pieces so buyers must choose and about 5,000 opt for the NFT, illustrating the claim that NFTs as access permissions should live… | ||
| Account Abstraction: Making Accounts Smarter | Dror Tirosh | 40m |
Account abstraction is implemented today as ERC-4337 using a separate user operation mempool and relay nodes called bundlers that validate, batch and post… | ||
| Building a Post-Merge World | Diego Losada, Kris Kaczor, Paul Hauner | 37m |
Post-merge infrastructure needs are concrete: home validators now run two programs (consensus + execution), require JWT setup and stronger hardware so… | ||
| Education Across Cultures | Camila Ramos Garzon, Yanyan Ho, Divyanshu Dagar, Ulaş Erdoğan | 37m |
Open source course "building full stacked apps" ships as 10,000 lines of curriculum and reaches 2,500 devs, backed by a newly launched $150,000 accelerator… | ||
| Panel Web3 is Going Great | Jacob Willemsma, Romina Ayelén Sejas, Auryn Macmillan, Mauricio Tovar | 31m |
Panelists report concrete progress and concrete gaps: payments and remittances are already used across Latin America, hackathons in Bogotá and an idLatam… | ||
| What Can DAOs Learn From | Madison Adams, Safder Raza | 27m |
A DAO that trains Gen Z describes concrete design choices: a recruitment pipeline from an affiliated org, monthly spokes-council meetings of working-group… | ||
| Universal Access to All Knowledge: Decentralization Experiments | Arkadiy Kukarkin | 24m |
Internet Archive experiments with decentralised storage for its 100 PB collection using Filecoin, Storj and Arweave and reports concrete results: a 4 GB MP4… | ||
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