Pragma Buenos Aires 2025
2025-11-20
Buenos Aires, Argentina
who it's for
decentralized finance founders, blockchain engineers, payments product managers, indexing and observability engineers, privacy and zk engineers, bitcoin protocol engineers, developer experience engineers
topics
Trustless Bitcoin vaults; programmable disclosure with zero knowledge; stablecoin rails for payments; onchain intent primitive SDK; account abstraction wallet integrations; petabyte-scale indexing with ClickHouse; vault risk engine and ratings; cross-chain swap and bridge routing; developer-first multi-issuer stablecoins; virtual test nets for multi-chain staging; blockchain-native AMP database; NFC Ethereum wallet wristbands
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome & Introduction | Kartik Talwar | 07m |
One-day, one-stage single-track summit lays out a concrete run sheet: 16 sessions (eight fireside chats, eight talks), a weekend hackathon running tomorrow… | ||
| The Huge Opportunity in Argentina | Juan Benet | 24m |
Argentina endures 100–250% annual inflation historically, driving 10–20% crypto adoption and mass stablecoin use; merchants in a pilot city accept stablecoins… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Peter Kieltyka, Kartik Talwar | 22m |
Launch day product that unifies fragmented chains tokens and wallets into a single developer SDK and widget, using an intent primitive (on‑chain merkelized… | ||
| What Is Low Risk DeFi and Why Will It Win | Marcin Kazmierczak | 20m |
Argues that durable, low‑risk DeFi wins by offering stable, long‑term yields and mainstream integration, not chase‑the‑next‑APY. Builds a risk engine (backend… | ||
| Making Bitcoin Productive for Ethereum using Trustless Vaults | David Tse | 22m |
Babylon reports 56,000 BTC already on its Bitcoin Stacking Protocol and now implements a Trustless Bitcoin Vault that uses ZK proofs plus an off‑chain verifier… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Joao Reginatto, Kartik Talwar | 20m |
Describes M0 as a developer-first, two-sided stablecoin platform already hosting about $1B circulating supply with three issuers (two more expected in six… | ||
| Why we had to Build a Petabyte Data Lake to Fix Indexing | Dmitry Zhelezov | 16m |
Claims building a petabyte data lake (raised $50M) to replace RPC limits, running on a decentralized SP network of 3,000 nodes and ClickHouse-backed archives… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Sandeep Nailwal, Kartik Talwar | 23m |
Claims heavy on payments and scale: Polygon reports 60% market share (LA payments) and dominance in Southeast Asia with regional stablecoin activity, Revolut… | ||
| A Lawyer’s Take on Privacy - Programmable Disclosure | Nicole Farrar | 19m |
Argues that privacy becomes programmable disclosure by using zero-knowledge proofs to prove specific facts without leaking raw data, demonstrates Mina as a… | ||
| Future Proofing the Financial Rails of the Global Economy | Rodrigo Coelho | 22m |
Claims a new blockchain-native database called AMP with benchmarks: 2x faster than other databases, almost 6x faster than BigQuery, 100x faster than… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Diego Gutierrez, Kartik Talwar | 24m |
History: started in Bitcoin in 2012 and publishes a white paper a decade ago, then launches production in 2018 and spends seven years iterating. Claims a… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Bogdan Habic, Kartik Talwar | 25m |
Explains how AV4 uses virtual test nets that fork mainnet/base/arbitrum and virtualize CCIP to create a safe multi‑chain staging environment, cutting… | ||
| Fireside Chat | MAREK OLSZEWSKI, Leland Lee | 21m |
SP1 microcube proves the Ethereum execution layer at the RISC‑V instruction level, achieving 99.7% of blocks <12s using 16 GPUs, <$100k capex, which lets a… | ||
| Where are Your Keys | Patrick Collins | 23m |
Industry still stores private keys in plain text and gets burned: npm malware and a Solana package scan for plaintext keys lead to a $500k loss; cloud… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Tomasz Kajetan Stanczak, Kartik Talwar | 25m |
Conference reports ~18,000–20,000 attendees with a measurable boost to the local economy, spotty Wi‑Fi and strong in‑person vibes. Organizers shift programming… | ||
| How DeFi Builds (And Breaks) Itself | Martin Derka | 21m |
Chronicle of DeFi from Maker’s 2015 CDP to present: Maker enables ETH-collateralized DAI; March 12, 2020 Black Thursday causes mass liquidations and failed… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Grigore Rosu, Kartik Talwar | 23m |
Pi Squared builds a two-part stack: a proof of proof pipeline that turns program execution into a mathematical proof via the K framework and a settlement layer… | ||
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