Web3 Summit 2025
2025-07-16..2025-07-18
Berlin, Germany
[Web3 Summit 2018, Web3 Summit 2019: Chainlink Oracle HackerNode, Web3 Summit 2024, Web3 Summit 2025, Web3 Summit 2026]
| title | author | length |
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| Web3 Summit 2025 - Berlin, DE | 01m | |
Community-driven summit description lists concrete formats and outcomes: a continuous 24/7 hackathon producing live prototypes, hands-on interactive workshops… | ||
| Welcome Remarks | Thomas Fecker Boxler | 03m |
Welcome remarks frame the summit as a builders event rooted in the Gavin Wood manifesto from 11 years ago that claims a freer internet where users own their… | ||
| Opening Keynote Day 1: Trust | Ian Grigg | 48m |
Argues trust is unavoidable and defines it precisely as a conscious decision to take risk on a known person for a limited benefit; presents a reusable model —… | ||
| Accelerating Brain Interfaces with a Web3 Twist | Trent McConaghy | 27m |
Claims that compute rises ~10x per year drive the push toward BCI using EEG, FNIRS and invasive implants (Neuralink) to close the gap with AGI; EEG typing… | ||
| Web 3, Authenticity and the Post-Photographic Age | Jonathan Dotan | 23m |
Claims rapid adoption metrics — 1 million users in five days for ChatGPT and image generation hitting 1 million users in one hour — and projects that one… | ||
| Beyond Uptime: Enterprise Business Logic Execution With Trust-less Assurance | Mani Hagh Sefat | 29m |
Energy Web builds a verifiable off‑chain logic execution system called a worker node network that enforces correctness with on‑chain staking and slashing… | ||
| Policy in the Protocol Age: Web3 and the State | Tomicah Tillemann, Zoe Cooper | 28m |
Project Liberty claims a protocol-first path: DSNP plus a Frequency parachain on Polkadot as the infrastructure, a shared social graph and single sign-on, and… | ||
| Tokenized Sentiment: Staking as a New Form of Expression | Harry Evans | 14m |
Claim: staking becomes expressive voting rather than an auction for yield. Implementation: a live Frequency chain feature called provider boosting uses… | ||
| The Web3 Mullet: Web2 UX in Front, Blockchain Logic in Back | Kristinn Kristinsson | 23m |
CCP Games builds E Frontier with onchain Lego-like smart assemblies (gate, turret, storage) that run logic via the MUT framework, enforce links and access on… | ||
| Governing the Decentralized Future | Bill Laboon, Angela Kreitenweis, Jaya Klara Brekke, Angie Darrow | 33m |
Summary of concrete findings and experiments: conditional funding markets and prediction markets (Optimism, others) select projects that perform about five… | ||
| The Emergent College | Sacha Kohn | 16m |
A renovated estate in Portugal becomes a nomadic Polkadot developer community and arts residency with structured residencies and a curriculum built with PBA… | ||
| Closing Keynote Day 1 | Gavin Wood | 01h 48m |
Snapshot of current state: JAM protocol at 0.9 with audit starting and an SDK plus coreVM demo running on a 6‑node JAM (video frame generator, service… | ||
| Opening Keynote Day 2 | Jaya Klara Brekke | 25m |
Claims that entropy as anti-prediction can blunt AI-driven surveillance by raising randomness in networks, and outlines a concrete prototype: NIM’s… | ||
| Developer Communities | Angie Darrow, Vicktoria Klich, Zachary Kornberg, Sacha Lansky | 30m |
A rundown of what was actually built and what’s next: a Berlin co‑working hub grows from renting three floors into four floors and hosts 30 events in 14 days… | ||
| Scaling Compute Supply 10x Through Crypto-Economic incentives | Vukasin Vukoje | 09m |
Claims that decentralized crypto-economic networks can increase usable compute supply by an order of magnitude, citing a 10x cost reduction on open storage… | ||
| Open Source as a Factor of Trust | Hendrik Ebbers | 19m |
Argues that open source plus foundation governance measurably increases trust in distributed networks, citing the Hedera/Hyro code donation into a foundation… | ||
| China’s RISC-V Strategy: Open Spec as JAM Becomes the New Sovereignty | Qinwen Wang | 24m |
Claim: China frames open spec as sovereignty by combining RISC-V ISA hardware freedom with GEM’s open-spec computation to lower costs and break vendor lock-in… | ||
| Oracles Secure The Data - Who Secures The Oracles? | Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo | 24m |
Three oracle models are defined: a centralized nuracle that hands a single entity the keys (examples include single‑coordinator VRF and many RWA feeds), an… | ||
| How Decompilation Uncovers Smart Contract Vulnerabilities | Neville Grech | 22m |
Decompilation plus declarative static program analysis (Datalog) reconstructs functions, variables and control flow from EVM bytecode and enables scalable… | ||
| Building Successful Blockchain Games | Kasper Mai Jørgensen | 26m |
Mythical reports concrete results: NFL Rivals hits about 7 million downloads with higher app-store ratings than Madden, FIFA Rivals reaches ~5 million matches… | ||
| Private Bids, Public Proofs: A New Onchain Auction Design | Younes Talibi Alaoui | 20m |
Claim that sealed‑bid auctions run entirely over encrypted data become verifiable on chain by combining fully homomorphic encryption, multi‑party computation… | ||
| Closing Keynote Day 2 | Joe Halpern | 01h 03m |
Argues that mediator-based protocols can be compiled into fully decentralized protocols using cryptography and MPC, specifically employing verifiable secret… | ||
| Opening Keynote Day 3: Taking Decentralized AI Mainstream | Anna Kazlauskas | 48m |
Vana is a live platform that turns user exports into permissioned, tokenized datasets called data dials and verifies inputs with proof of contribution running… | ||
| Accountable AI agents | Ingo Rübe | 22m |
Defines an AI agent as model + tools + notebook and proposes an implemented accountability stack: DIDs and verifiable credentials for provider/deployer/agent… | ||
| Confidential, self‑sovereign LLMs | Alessandro De Carli | 22m |
Argues that mobile phones and TEEs enable confidential, self‑sovereign LLM hosting instead of giant Manhattan‑scale data centers, claiming an existing network… | ||
| Token Rights as a New Governance Paradigm | Rafa Fernández | 12m |
Claims a working no‑treasury governance model launched Sept 12, 2024 and running for nearly a year that replaces a multisig treasury with middleware cap mter… | ||
| The Future of Bitcoin Yield: Navigating Risk & Unlocking Safe Returns | Aki Balogh | 25m |
Claims that institutional hedge funds deliver 8–12% institutional returns on Bitcoin using market‑neutral arb and options strategies, with onramps via SMAs… | ||
| How Metrics-Based Voting Changes the Governance Game | Angela Kreitenweis | 30m |
A metrics-based voting system assigns funds by combining measurable signals (TVL, token value, active users, developer engagement) with voter-chosen metric… | ||
| Aligned Apps: Software That Works For You | Lefteris Karapetsas | 29m |
Argues that mainstream apps harvest and monetize user data and proposes aligned apps defined by four concrete rules: open-source AGPL, local-first… | ||
| Closing Keynote Day 3: A New Cypherpunk Generation | MF | 36m |
Argues the cypherpunk identity shifts from cryptographers to builders, funders and advocates, citing 48‑hour hackathons, Kusama’s privacy fund, and the… | ||
| What’s in a VM? The Execution Engines Powering Web3’s Future | Torsten Stüber | 24m |
EVM proves minimal and now shows limits: EVM 256-bit stack makes CPU mapping slow and is poorly suited for ZK proof generation or heavy crypto, so alternatives… | ||
| Collator Protocol & Censorship Resistance | Jeffrey Burdges, Bhargav Bhatt | 25m |
Evidence shows >45% Ethereum blocks see OFAC-style filtering and Polkadot moves system logic offchain to parachains to reduce relay load by 30× relay-chain… | ||
| The wild world of Web3 rollups | Maciej Zyszkiewicz | 28m |
Compares monolithic, optimistic, ZK, and Polkadot-style cynical rollups and gives concrete tradeoffs: optimistic rollups keep L2 state off L1, post calldata to… | ||
| State of distributed validators in 2025 | Max Sherwood | 17m |
Distributed validators split validator keys into shares so clusters stay online even if one node fails, cutting correlated slashing and enabling near‑100%… | ||
| Liquefaction and Take My Ape | Ari Juels | 19m |
Liquefaction is a platform that puts private keys inside trusted execution environments to enforce programmatic rules offchain, demonstrated by Take My Ape… | ||
| AI for Web3 Security | Jan Philipp Fritsche | 31m |
Oak Security runs 52 researchers, 600+ audits and 7,000 issues and reports that LLMs find standardized bugs fast but with terrible signal‑to‑noise: a benchmark… | ||
| Rethinking Developer Infrastructure | Johannes Kühlewindt | 26m |
A decentralized replacement for GitHub is presented: a git-compatible system where every developer runs a node and updates propagate via a peer-to-peer gossip… | ||
| The Evolution of Data Control in Decentralized Networks | Wil Wade | 29m |
Frequency implements a private social-graph protocol that already stores almost a million private graphs, uses 64-bit identifiers and Merkle child trees to… | ||
| Regenerative capital allocation | Kevin Owocki | 15m |
Claims that crypto tools can rewire capital allocation with concrete pilots: Gitcoin routes $69M to open source via quadratic funding that matched 5.3M… | ||
| Privacy and Compliance - A pragmatic approach | Alain Brenzikofer | 21m |
Claims that ZK proofs can’t handle rate limiting or interactive policies, and that making Tornado Cash compliant requires a proof of innocence which needs the… | ||
| Wallets 3.0: How will the next generation of web3 wallets look? | Hira Siddiqui | 14m |
Wallet history compresses into keystore beginnings (MyEtherWallet, Parity), browser injection (MetaMask), mobile multi‑chain (Coinbase Wallet) and… | ||
| Dismantling One Data Monopoly at a Time in the Age of AI | Alfonso de la Rocha | 24m |
Baselite indexes public structured data, promises natural‑language search and pay‑per‑query billing that splits payments to contributing sources, and targets… | ||
| New insights into distributed and concurrent programming | Sergey Fedorov | 28m |
Replica IO proposes reversible deterministic concurrency: circuits of deterministic, reversible components with interaction lines that are one-shot… | ||
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