Pragma Lisbon 2026
who it's for
institutional finance teams, blockchain developers, DeFi product managers, risk engineers, payments engineers, smart contract developers, market data engineers
topics
tokenized asset risk methodology; onchain retail banking architectures; MPC wallet with account abstraction; WalletConnect payment preauthorization; Plank smart contract language; synchronous crosschain composability; shared-liquidity strategy execution; first-party market data networks (Pyth); ENS multi-coin records and agent registries; AI-agent payment routing and tooling (Frames); knowledge graph for asset ontology; OTC stablecoin fiat onramps
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome and Introduction | Kartik Talwar | 07m |
Opening frames Pragma as a pragmatic summit, describes a single-day, single-track format and notes 330 attendees from 34 countries and nine partners. The… | ||
| Keeping Ethereum the Home of Institutional Finance | Marius Smith | 20m |
Announces an independent nonprofit that has engaged ~500 institutions, raised funding from ~100 ecosystem teams (Lee at Bitmine, Jolubin, Shar link among… | ||
| Risk Methodology: Introduction for Tokenised Assets in DeFi | Alex McFarlane | 20m |
Clear methodology for tokenized assets maps LTVs to initial margin, cites BIS and ISDA SIM standardized initial‑margin rules, and reproduces examples where… | ||
| Retail Banking, Built Onchain | João Alves | 18m |
Bleap builds a retail bank onchain claiming permissionless deployment, global reach, direct settlement and DeFi composability instead of vendor webs. Product… | ||
| The Ontology Gap | Angelo Min | 17m |
Shows that a $4M USDC deposit returns 3.5M nameless ERC-20 balance that actually represents a claim on a Morpho vault curated by MV Capital, which supplies… | ||
| From Transactions to Payments | Pedro Gomes | 14m |
Argues that blockchains handle settlement but not authorization and clearing, and proposes WalletConnect’s universal connection layer that routes across… | ||
| Plank: The New Best Way to Develop Smart Contracts | Philippe Dumonet | 12m |
Plank presents a small-core smart-contract language with an extensible standard library that implements ABI encoding and reusable EIP-712 patterns instead of… | ||
| What 500,000 Settled Agent Payments Taught Us | Marcelo Kunze | 13m |
500,000 transactions reveal that over 90% of agent spending buys data and enrichment APIs, and that discovery and execution—not wallets—break workflows: agents… | ||
| Building Synchronous Composability: Eth Economic Zone | Philippe Schommers | 16m |
Proposes coordinating blocks at matching timestamps so a multichain composer simulates and assembles atomic crosschain transactions, posting predicted return… | ||
| The Liquidity Gap: How LPs Are Leaving Billions on the Table | Holly Atkinson | 14m |
Dune analysis finds about 85% underutilized capital in V3 forks and estimates roughly $150M/year in missed fees, with 82% of idle liquidity sitting in… | ||
| The Price of Everything. Accessible to Everyone. | Marc Tillement | 21m |
Pyth overturns exchange-led pricing by letting trading firms publish first-party prices into a network that publishes across crypto and TradFi via one API and… | ||
| Naming as a Coordination Layer for Web3 Identity | Makoto Inoue | 20m |
ENS history and exact fixes: forward resolution maps names to addresses so wallets can send funds, reverse resolution lets an address declare its display name… | ||
| Real Yields, Real Institutions, Real Problems | Julien Bouteloup, Kartik Talwar | 22m |
Institutions prioritize profit, market share, and customers over decentralization and therefore demand confidentiality, KYC/AML, insurance, isolated liquidity… | ||
| The Invisible Labor of Creating Community | Simona Pop, Kartik Talwar | 56m |
Live HUMAN podcast recounts concrete practices: ETHGlobal reviews every applicant, runs 36‑hour hackathons, and measures time‑to‑first‑project (from hours to… | ||
| From Custody to Capital Markets Infrastructure | Diogo Mónica, Kartik Talwar | 24m |
Company paired hardware and cryptographic custody with a federal charter and shows how becoming a federally chartered bank lets it compound trust, capital… | ||
| Pragma Lisbon 2026 Recap Video | Diogo Mónica, Julien Bouteloup, Pedro Gomes, Holly Atkinson, Marc Tillement, Alex McFarlane, Marius Smith, Philippe Schommers, Makoto Inoue, Simona Pop, Angelo Min, João Alves, Marcelo Kunze, Philippe Dumonet | 03m |
One-day montage of Pragma Lisbon 2026 documents one stage of short updates and demos: teams show an asset management across chains and centralized exchanges… | ||
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