Pragma Cannes 2026
who it's for
defi engineers, protocol engineers, wallet developers, blockchain infrastructure engineers, crypto product managers, security engineers, institutional asset managers
topics
post-quantum crypto benchmarks; hash-based signatures; lattice-based signatures; onchain institutional custody flows; Aave V4 hub-and-spoke architecture; agentic wallets with two-party signing; hardware-enforced delegation policies; proof-of-human protocols; real-time ZK cross-chain proving; ERC-4626 vaults for lending; automated KYC bridging for onchain compliance; procedurally generated UIs and agentic dev tools
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Recap Video | Stani Kulechov, Charles Guillemet, RENE REINSBERG, Johann Eid, Debbie Soon, Jordi Baylina, E.G. Galano, Adrienne Youngman, Jonathan Han, Andrej Bencic, Misha Putiatin, Jan Gorzny, Josef Jelacic, Shady El Damaty | 04m |
Fourteen back-to-back talks on one stage condense roadmaps and concrete demos: Aave V4 deployment plans and onchain institutional custody flows, a claim that… | ||
| Welcome & Introduction | Kartik Talwar | 07m |
Pragma opens as a one-day, one-track executive summit with 14 sessions and over 500 attendees from 38 countries; agenda lists quantum cryptography… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Charles on Post Quantum World | Charles Guillemet, Kartik Talwar | 23m |
Google's recent paper claims moving from ~1,000,000 to 41,000 qubits, making Shor breaks elliptic curve attacks more plausible sooner; NIST has post‑quantum… | ||
| A Short Guide to Technical Storytelling | Debbie Soon | 18m |
Privy explains wallet infrastructure using hardware‑isolated TEEs and key sharding where encrypted key shares are reconstructed only temporarily for signing… | ||
| Bringing Institutional Grade Finance Onchain | Jan Gorzny | 13m |
Platform promises 8–11% APY on USDC/USDT by lending deposits permissionlessly (no KYC, no minimum, no lockup but a withdrawal delay) to regulated asset… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Johann Eid, Kartik Talwar | 23m |
Chainlink recounts scaling from about 20 to 1,000+ price feeds during DeFi Summer and at peak posting roughly 50% of Ethereum gas to keep protocols solvent, so… | ||
| The Last Wallet You'll Ever Open | Shady El Damaty | 19m |
Claim: the wallet dies in nine months as natural-language agents take over. Solution: a 2PC architecture where private keys never exist in one place—client and… | ||
| Ethereum is All You Need | Josef Je | 20m |
Argues that Ethereum must be recognized as strategic public infrastructure (like the internet or the electric grid) and launches the European Ethereum… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Stani on Future of DeFi | Stani Kulechov, Kartik Talwar | 21m |
Aave V4 launches a hub-and-spoke architecture that centralizes liquidity in hubs and issues credit lines to customizable spokes so new lending models tap… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Jordi on EEZ | Jordi Baylina, Kartik Talwar | 23m |
Protocol enables smart contracts on different chains to call each other as if on one chain, supporting arbitrary calls (voting, NFTs, identity) by writing an… | ||
| gm The Man, We're Forking You | Adrienne Youngman | 16m |
Argues that the Ethereum Economic Zone actually lets protocols call each other in a single transaction, collapsing L2 fragmentation so CowSwap can route to the… | ||
| The Credit Layer Vaults, Lending Markets, and the Next Phase of DeFi | Jonathan Han | 21m |
Modular lending infrastructure is essential: compliance gets enforced at the smart contract level (KYC, KYB, sanctions screening, geo‑fencing), risk lives… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Andrej on Future of Dev Tools | Andrej Bencic, Kartik Talwar | 22m |
Explains how Tenderly builds a production-grade dev stack with Foundry and account abstraction, shows a simulator that can fork multiple mainnets and replay… | ||
| What DeFi Is Evolving! From Primitives to Collateral Markets | Misha Putiatin | 19m |
Claims four concrete barriers to institutional on‑chain capital — private credit, smart‑contract risk coverage, standardized on‑chain reporting, and RWA… | ||
| From Web3 Infra to AI Infra: Differentiating in the Agentic Era | E.G. Galano | 21m |
Argues that AI inference is repeating Ethereum’s infrastructure cycle: base-layer gateways become commoditized after early scaling wins. Cites being the first… | ||
| Bootstrapping Global Scale Proof of Human PoH with Self | RENE REINSBERG | 21m |
Announces a Google and Tether partnership launching next month that lets users NFC-scan passports or national IDs, generate zero-knowledge proofs tied to… | ||
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