Pragma Cannes 2025
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome & Introduction to | Kartik Talwar | 09m |
Conference opener lays out concrete logistics and bets: 17 sessions (12 talks, 5 interviews), about 400 attendees from 40 countries, and ~60% of attendees buy… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Kartik Talwar, Vitalik Buterin | 48m |
Regional trends show privacy demand in Prague and AI interest in Taipei, while Cannes centers on integration over new DeFi ideas. Robinhood launches an… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Kartik Talwar, Illia Polosukhin | 20m |
Claims a working stack: secure enclaves running models with confidential computing (Nvidia Hopper, Intel TDX), programmable encryption via chain signatures… | ||
| Why You Should Be Optimistic About MEV | Shea Ketsdever | 23m |
Block building evolves from opaque mempools to a verifiable market: trusted execution environments power Builderet, a multi-operator network (Flashbots… | ||
| High Performance Memory For The World Computer | Muriel Medard | 18m |
Optimum ships a memory stack — Optimum P2P, DROM and DAM — built on Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) that composes equations at intermediate nodes instead… | ||
| Growing & Securing Networks What’s Next for Onchain Governance | Anthony Leutenegger | 22m |
Argues that referendum-only DAOs fail and proposes modular governance UI plus optimistic governance with vetoes and timelocks; Aragon ships a protocol that… | ||
| Expanding Horizons of DeFi Swap Marketplaces and Beyond | Sergej Kunz | 21m |
Claims an intent-based swap protocol that combines Dutch auctions and atomic cross-chain swaps to prevent MEV and sandwich attacks, citing $1.1B extracted by… | ||
| Ethereum's Infrastructure is Critical in Building Trust and Safety in AI | Ismael Hishon Rezaizadeh | 21m |
Claims that Deep Prove can generate 1,100x faster zero-knowledge proofs and is the only commercially viable library that proves LLM inference, supporting… | ||
| Lightning Fast Multichain Indexing | JonJon Clark | 18m |
Hyperindex is a developer framework that indexes multiple chains into a single unified API and ships as Hyperindex with a data-serving layer called Hypersync… | ||
| The Future of Web3 Is Not Blockchain | Grigore Rosu | 17m |
Argues that total ordering is the bottleneck and that payments, computations and asset transfers can settle as independent claims with proofs using a… | ||
| Eclair Testnet, 1stPublic Network to Use SP1 + EigenDA | MAREK OLSZEWSKI | 21m |
Celo launches the Eclair testnet combining SP1 + EigenDA v2 to run an OP‑Stack optimistic rollup that uses ZK fault proofs; live demo shows a challenger game… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Kartik Talwar, Stani Kulechov | 21m |
Aave V4 centralizes roughly $43 billion of on‑chain liquidity into reusable hub and spoke hubs (hubs hold assets, spokes define borrow strategies and risk… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Kartik Talwar, Sergey Nazarov | 25m |
DeFi already exceeds $200B and developers are stacking yield on tokenized treasuries and private credit while preparing for likely Fed rate cuts; Chainlink is… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Kartik Talwar, Roham Gharegozlou | 24m |
Description of evolution from CryptoKitties to NBA Top Shot and a new Disney Plus integration that puts a Dapper wallet in every US subscriber; claims… | ||
| Building Consumer Apps For A User Owned Privacy First Web | Yaniv Tal | 15m |
Argues that open, interoperable knowledge graphs are the core primitive, introduces the GRC20 standard for graph interoperability and a developer preview of… | ||
| The Blockchain Build For Specialized AI | Ram Shankar Siva Kumar | 13m |
OpenLedger builds an end to end layer 2 protocol that records dataset provenance on chain, fine tunes base models via a no code Model Factory, and lists… | ||
| AI Has A Wallet, Now What? | Michele D'Aliessi | 19m |
Claim: giving AI agents crypto wallets turns them into on‑chain economic actors that can own NFTs, vote in DAOs, hire services and receive capital, shifting… | ||
| The Privacy Spectrum - From Shadows to Standards | Howard Wu | 18m |
Cryptocurrency records 27.6 trillion dollars of stablecoin transfers last year yet under 0.01% is end-to-end encrypted, so public ledgers expose purchases… | ||
| Recap Video | 03m | |
A fast recap of Pragma Cannes day one at Carlton Cannes July 2025 showing short clips of curated talks, hallway chats and demos that stress shipping usable… | ||
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