ETHPrague 2026

EVVM Ambassador, Celo Communities and Governance Lead since 2022, Celo Colombia Advisor, Co-founder of ReFi Colombia and ReFi Medellin. Promoter of the Peso Pegged Stablecoin. Shipping stablecoin-powered subsidy tools and onboarding Colombian communities into regenerative finance through grassroots education. ETHMedellin and ETHColombia core team. ETHGlobal and Devconnect Volunteer Lead.

Adrian Brink is the co-founder of Anoma, the decentralized OS powering a unified app layer for Web3. His work focuses on building sovereign coordination systems that are accessible for everyone. Adrian has founded and led several companies focused on critical blockchain infrastructure, and has been a leading voice for sovereignty and resilience since his early days as a core contributor to several

I am a Zero-Knowledge Cryptographer and Blockchain Security Researcher. Most recently, I worked at OpenZeppelin auditing zkVMs, several DeFi protocols, and researching Zero-Knowledge Cryptography and Fully-Homomorphic Encryption. Moreover, I am also a PhD Candidate in Applied Cryptography on Blockchain at the KISON research group (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya).

Leads operations at Zondax AG, a blockchain engineering company building security-critical infrastructure across major protocol ecosystems. Engineering background; building Kunobi to improve how complex infrastructure systems are operated. Focuses on privacy, resilience, and adversarial thinking in complex systems. Active as a hackathon and women-in-STEM advocate.

Protocol researcher at Sei Labs designing BFT consensus, authenticated data structures, and mechanism design for blockchains. PhD in Blockchain Technologies from the University of Sydney, with work on consensus tolerating adversarial majorities. Current focus: low-latency finality in the 5f+1 model, rateless-coded data dissemination, and stateless execution via authenticated digests.

Alex Viñas, Senior Partnerships at CoW DAO, where he focuses on growing protocol orderflow through strategic integrations, wallet partnerships, and protocol distribution. With a background spanning business development, product marketing, and TradFi capital markets, his recent focus is bringing RWAs onchain at scale. Previously, he worked at Gnosis and NFQ Advisory

Co-author of EIP-8141: Frame Transaction, ERC-4337: Account Abstraction Using Alt Mempool, EIP-5792: Wallet Call API, ERC-7796: Conditional send transaction RPC, ERC-2771: Secure Protocol for Native Meta Transactions.

Alexander Trauth-Goik is Research Fellow at the University of Vienna. He studies how platforms shape attention and behaviour. He has contributed to social media governance reforms in Australia and to UN data governance consultations via the Nantian Institute, advancing frameworks for value-aligned algorithms and long-term, human-centred digital systems.

Onchain data modeling and analytics at Entropy Advisors, focused on DAO governance, DeFi, incentive design, and asset management.

bitcoin cofounder, elite hacker, guerilla fighter, privacy dev, military drone tech, math, check agorism.dev/bio

Founding Engineer & Tech Lead @ SpaceComputer, focusing on space communication, embedded systems and confidential computing.

Strong background in distributed systems and blockchain tech from past time in Chainlink Labs and SSV.network, as well as solid fundamentals in software engineering and architecture from SAP.

I am Principal Economist with the International Financial Markets Division of the International Relations Directorate at the Bank of Italy. My research interests include International Finance, Monetary Policy and Climate Change.

I am a formal verification researcher at Argot Collective, specializing in automated theorem proving, type theory, and its applications to blockchain security. I co-built CheckMate tool for automated game-theoretic security analysis of blochckain protocols. I completed my PhD on proof assistants and type systems. I'm passionate about science communication, presenting math riddles on Slovenian TV.

Lawyer at day, researcher at night, degen at heart. Assisting blockchain projects navigating Swiss and European financial regulations. Bridging the gap between compliance and a crypto mindset, technology and user protection, research and pragmatic solutions.

Sychov has been a strong advocate for the idea that Virtual Reality should be persistent, user-owned, and interoperable. His work emphasizes true digital ownership through blockchain, allowing users to own virtual assets, and identities rather than merely renting them from centralized platforms. Under his leadership, Somnium Space pioneered the integration of NFTs & decentralized economy

Product engineer with a deep interest in decentralized systems and cryptography. Currently building a decentralized identity solution and contributing to the open-source ecosystem.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is an American entrepreneur, scientist, and investor. He is the author of The Network State: How to Start a New Country and the founder of the Network School, a retreat for entrepreneurs and technicians in Malaysia.

Ben Greenberg is Developer Relations Lead at Arbitrum, a Docker Captain, and board member of Ruby Central. A former educator, he writes on tech, ethics, and community and authored Vector Search with JavaScript (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2025)

Bernd is a designer, entrepreneur, and publicist. As co-founder and Head of Design at Ellery Studio in Berlin, he leads projects at the intersection of science, design, and societal transformation. His work focuses on science communication, futures research, and participatory formats that foster acceptance and engagement in the energy, mobility, and heating transitions.

Head of Finance at Entropy Advisors. Driving initiatives across Arbitrum DAO’s finance, accounting, & treasury functions.

Designing programmable financial systems and economic interaction models.
Building execution layers for digital economic zones and network states.

Core Contributor @ Protocol Guild

Chris studied Mathematics and Computer Science before embarking on a career in using computers to help people connect with each other over the internet.

Most recently I co-founded Giga - a partnership between UNICEF and ITU to structure billions of dollars of financing to deliver affordable connectivity to every school in the world.
I am a global technology executive and serial co-founder of initiatives that use technology for the public good.

I am a student at the Ku Leuven where i study Communication and business management. I love Ethereum culture and decentralization. I am also a community builder at Book Of Ethereum.

Daniel Bar is co-founder of SpaceComputer. Prior to Blockchain infrastructure Daniel has background as a trained semiconductor physicist and engineer with experience in R&D across biosensors, quantum nano-electronics. Daniel has been an early contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem.

Core Developer working on Lighthouse at Sigma Prime, focusing on improving Ethereum's networking stack.

Devansh Mehta is leading work at the Ethereum Foundation on using AI for public goods funding and governance. He has extensive experience in decentralized organizations, as treasury working group lead in Arbitrum DAO and as a 2024 council member for Gitcoin and Octant.

Builder and engineering lead focused on decentralized systems that strengthen Ethereum’s neutrality, scalability, and accessibility. I currently lead Staking Modules at Lido Finance — the core of largest staking protocol on Ethereum.

Protocol Engineering Lead @ Monad Foundation
ex co-founder @ Tempus Finance
ex Ethereum Foundation, Ready Player Me, Microsoft

Dr. Bianca Buchold is the founder of SOLARPUNK cities, an optimistic platform exploring how sustainable, regenerative urban futures are already taking shape. With a background in global telecom and automotive systems, she connects infrastructure, networks, and real-world innovation to envision resilient, decentralized solutions in practice.

Giulio Corsi is a Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on quantitatively monitoring and mitigating risks from AI to information ecosystems.

Emilien is a DeFi and Decentralization Researcher for DeFiScan. He analyses DeFi protocols to uncover centralization vectors, increase transparency, and protect funds.

engn33r is a Solutions Architect at Yearn. With a background in security auditing, he utilizes his full-stack background to share the inner workings of one of the best known protocols in DeFi.

Elite Solidity Security Researcher & Developer, Cofounder of Recon. Specialized in DeFi and Invariant Testing.

Eomji Park is a strategy, operations, and partnerships leader focused on scaling early-stage tech initiatives. She works at the intersection of operations and growth, building systems, driving strategic partnerships, and turning ideas into execution. She also runs workshops with universities and organizations, helping individuals and teams succeed in fast-paced environments.

I joined Nethermind as an intern in 2022, where I later continued my work at as a Blockchain Engineer, diving deep into smart contracts, DeFi, and tokenization. Now, as Tokenization Tech Lead, I have been helping design and build various tokenization solutions, researching related standards, and exploring it's intersection with DeFi.

Eugenio is Head of Growth at the European Blockchain Association and Italy’s ISO accredited expert at TC 307, he engages with EU institutions, regulators, policy makers, and industry to align decentralized identity, privacy-preserving infrastructure, and blockchain governance with emerging international standards.

Felix Fritsch is a political scientist and co-founder of commons hub in the Austrian Alps. His work explores crypto commons, decentralized institutions, and the social conditions that make new forms of coordination durable.

Current president of Technical University of Munich's Blockchain Club. Core organizer of TUM Blockchain Conference

Security Tooling Developer @ OpenZeppelin

Bridging the gap between Web2 Cybersecurity and Blockchain

Filip Rezabek is the co-founder and CTO of SpaceComputer, where he leads the design and development of the company’s core distributed systems and cryptographic architecture. He is also a researcher nearing completion of his Ph.D. in distributed computing and robust systems. Outside of work, he can be found on a hiking trail or listening to exactly the right amount of K-Pop.

Francesco is the Co-Founder of Umia, and CEO of Chainbound, an Ethereum-based R&D lab building infrastructure and core protocol systems. Francesco has a strong trading background, including experience at Point72, where he focused on quantitative trading strategies and execution systems. Now at Umia, he applies market structure thinking to governance.

Marie Curie Research Fellow in Asset Tokenization at the Institute for the Future (IFF) in Cyprus. MIT Innovator Award for his contributions to blockchain technology. Metapurse NFT Fellow, Edmund Hillary Fellow in New Zealand. Speaker at Singularity University. Founded NaaS, 1st fintech in Colombia's Regulatory Sandbox. BlockDojo alumni in the UK. Published in IEEE and ACM. PHD candidate at UNIC.

Builder (https://armada.wtf). Exploring token mechanism design, credible failure modes, and privacy infrastructure on Ethereum.

Germán Abal is the founder of EVVM, an open-source framework for deploying virtual state blockchains on Ethereum. A long-time builder in cryptography, Web3, and developer tooling, he focuses on execution abstraction, better UX, and new scalability models for Ethereum.

Gustavo Grieco is a freelance blockchain security engineer who loves to build fuzzing tool. He holds a PhD in Computer Security and spent nearly eight years at Trail of Bits, where he worked on a wide range of security projects, from auditing complex protocols to building smart contract fuzzers like Echidna. He was recently elected as a Technical Security Expert for the Arbitrum DAO audit program.

Hynek Trojánek works for IuRe (Iuridicum Remedium), an organization that has been working to protect privacy and digital rights for more than twenty years. He has participated in Europe-wide campaigns against facial recognition cameras and for the right to communicate with the state offline.

Founder of ZeroPool and SavantChat.
Privacy, scalability, and security researcher. AI engineer.
Auditor of multiple projects (DeFi, cryptography, zk) from 2019 (including 1inch and Aave).
Grantee from Gitcoin, Web3F, EF, Waves, and others.
Winner of multiple EF Hackathons.
Author of scientific articles.

Ivana Šedivá works at the intersection of leadership, AI and complex decision systems. A former Fortune 500 executive (McDonald’s, Johnson & Johnson), she has mentored more than 1,000 technology and AI startups through programs including Google for Startups.

Ivan is currently an associate at the Brno University of Technology and he focuses on applied research in the area of system security. Ivan is interested in designing, implementing, and optimizing novel systems and solutions, emphasizing system security. In particular, Ivan focuses on blockchain-based authentication schemes, consensus protocols, electronic voting in blockchains, decentralized iden

Ivan Manchev is a seasoned Web3 marketer with over eight years of experience in digital strategy, communications, and brand development. As Head of Marketing at Ambire Wallet, he leads initiatives that have positioned the wallet as a pioneer in account abstraction and self-custodial solutions across Ethereum and EVM-compatible networks. Ivan has been instrumental in launching Ambire's browser exte

Ivo is a Software Engineer and Business Lawyer specializing in the "rails" of Decentralized Science. Formerly COO at LUKSO and Molecule.xyz/bio.xyz, he now focuses on building the infrastructure for a modular scientific commons. Based in Prague, he advises on DAO governance and tokenized IP, looking for scientists to build the future of composable science.

Ivo Macek is a geologist, manager, and Director of the Museum of Prague. He spent over a decade at the National Museum, including seven years as director of the largest natural history museum in the Czech Republic, overseeing 84 staff and 15 million collection items. He led the National Museum’s flagship exposition project — Wonders of Evolution and Windows into Prehistory — and served as projec

I've been working on Ethereum for 11 years. Spanning from the Python Ethereum client, to payment channels (Raiden Network), to security tooling at Phylax Systems and now working on the Solidity language.
On the side I've organized the Copenhagen Ethereum Meetup for almost 11 years and have been part of DoD in Berlin organizing EthBerlin and Protocolberg.

Crypto investment analyst at Sygnum Bank's asset management team, focused on hedge fund selection and market neutral strategies. Active onchain since 2020, former DeFi protocol contributor, and co-founder of Stay on-chain, a newsletter covering crypto and DeFi markets.

Jakub Charvát is a lawyer and PhD candidate at Charles University, Prague, researching criminal liability of and for AI, and co-founder of Lawrence, a Czech legal AI startup. He authored the monograph Criminal Liability of Artificial Intelligence (Wolters Kluwer, 2025), hosts a podcast on the subject, and was TOP 5 at the Czech AI Personality Awards (Law).

Engineer of all trades, specialized in none.

Currently building Apify to be AI-ready platform - MCP and stuff.

Sustainability strategist working on systems change, biodiversity and supply chains. Experience with global companies and landscape-level projects in Europe and Southeast Asia. Currently building an environmental foundation and exploring new governance and funding models for scaling regenerative solutions.

Jan is a co-founder of Zircuit. He is an experienced researcher in algorithm design and formal methods and is interested in all things rollups, plasma, and beyond. At Zircuit, Jan's research is focused on sequencer-level security, minimizing proof generation time, and developing novel methods to check the correctness of zero-knowledge circuits. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Waterloo.

Building regulated privacy infrastructure for the world's finance to move on Ethereum @ tesseralabs.xyz AND doing research to develop cryptographic tools for better world of tomorrow @ phantom.zone

Jan leads GenAI GTM for Google Cloud in CEE, driving innovation and business value. A former AWS expert and Data Analytics specialist, he has scaled cloud deployments across FSI, retail, and manufacturing. With a global background from the University of Liverpool, KEA Copenhagen, and Hong Kong PolyU, Jan merges economic strategy with design thinking to accelerate decentralized intelligence.

Jarrad Hope, author of Farewell to Westphalia, joined Bitcoin in early 2011 through agorism, counter-economics, and crypto anarchy. Seeing that Bitcoin could operate a monetary policy in a hostile environment, he began to view public blockchains as a voluntary social order, one that did not depend on a monopoly of violence. He now works on Logos, a private-by-default decentralised technology stack

Jason is the founder and CEO of EZKL. Jason was previously a tenured professor of mathematics and statistics at Penn State, and founded and sold a startup based in Southeast Asia. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley, an M.A. in Economics from U. Michigan, and an A.B. Psychology from Harvard.

Co-founder and CTO at Openfort. He worked in one of the first smart contract account implementation that were compatible with 4337 and also several innovative ERC20 paymaster configurations.

Jaya Klara Brekke works on power and the political economies of technology in theory and practice. She is part of the leadership at Nym, building privacy software for the age of AI.

Thou Ārt Pop-up City Research Initiative studies the temporary, intentional gatherings of people and resources meant to accelerate collaboration and experimentation on frontier tech, science and arts, as well as human coordination systems. We document existing models, their success and failure points, suggestions for improvement and future directions.

Founder of Eterny, working on asset and data continuity in a world where systems outlive their users. She focuses on risk governance across financial and digital ecosystems, including the edge cases most systems ignore.

Jordi Baylina is a zk researcher and engineer, founder of ZisK, an open-source zkVM focused on real-time proving. He led the development of Circom, snarkJS, and Hermez (Polygon zkEVM). His work focuses on making zk proofs practical, scalable, and secure for production systems and enabling new paradigms like synchronous composability.

Co-founder at Ackee Blockchain Security — reviewed over 200 smart contract audits securing $180B+ in TVL (Lido, Aave, Safe, Axelar...). Leads the team that created Wake Framework and Wake Arena. Ph.D. and Assistant Professor at Czech Technical University teaching blockchain security.

Josef Jelacic is the ETHPrague host. He also a founder of OWN - focusing on brining mortgages onchain.

I'm a full-stack blockchain developer and former Developer Relations Engineer at Aztec, where I worked on ZK application development and contributed to the Noir language ecosystem. Previously at Polygon, I've been designing and integrating zero-knowledge products since 2022. I have an unhealthy obsession with what happens to your private keys when someone shows up in person.

Co-President of Circles Coop eG. in Berlin, and Social Outreach officer for the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). Originally from Guatemala, Julio is a founding member of the Basic Income Network in Taiwan. MSc. Anthropology and Development from the London School of Economics, London, UK. MA Applied Economics and Social Development, National Cheng Chi Univerisity, Taipei, Taiwan. Co-founder of t

Hi! I am a Ph.D. student at Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology. I study blockchains and system security. So far, my research has taken me from anonymization tools and their security analysis through privacy on blockchain to consensus protocol design.
I like turtles.

Head of Community and Ecosystem with Fhenix, ex Axelar and Blockchain Education Network, rescue advocate and lead for BETA

Kimmo Sirén is Head of Product for Lens and Orb at Mask Network. He previously co founded Orb.club, a leading client in the Lens ecosystem. He holds a PhD with a background in applied machine learning and data science.

Kirsten has been building software in web3 since 2018; initially as a consultant for major enterprise blockchain projects, and later as a founder of multiple VC backed web3 startups including Recursive Studio, a dev shop serving Dragonfly Capital, EthersJs and more. Before entering web 3, Kirsten worked as a lobbyist on libertarian and financial public policy initiatives in the United States.

Kristian Kostal is leading the Blockchain & FinTech research group at Faculty of Informatics, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. He is a Slovak representative in the European Blockchain Partnership (European Commission). He is very active in research-driven development, mainly in interoperability and usage of ZKPs in blockchains.

Crypto economist and token engineer focused on mechanism design, prediction market architectures, and adversarial modeling in onchain systems. Background in formal economic analysis and protocol research, with experience translating theoretical market mechanisms into production-grade smart contract implementations on Ethereum.

Head of Governance and Head of Partnerships at L2BEAT. Long-time open source and public goods nerd. Entrepreneur and startuper.

Blockchain engineer at Puffer Finance, working on UniFi and preconfirmation systems. 5+ years writing smart contracts and building DeFi stuff. Hackathon mentor. Hardcore developer who likes getting hands dirty with code.

Dr. Leonardo Bautista-Gomez is the founder and research leader of MigaLabs. He is also a Core Researcher for Ethereum. He has been collaborating with the Ethereum Foundation for over seven years, receiving multiple research grants from the EF, as well as other institutions. He has over a decade of research experience in supercomputers, deep learning, and blockchain technology.

Cryptography & Protocol Engineer at HOPR - mostly working on security and cryptographic protocols spanning from Ethereum to network packet processing.

Macauley is Blockworks' Senior Editor based in Germany. He was a chess media professional for 14 years before an interest in crypto led him to Bucerius Law School (MLB 2020), a thesis on stablecoins, DeFi and CBDC, and a career change. He also holds an MA in Film Studies and was Associate Producer of the 2016 Netflix feature documentary, "Magnus" about former World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen.

President of GEN Ukraine. I bridge the gap between ReFi protocols and the "ground truth" of 80+ ecovillages. From solar monitoring during blackouts to soil restoration after strikes, I am reinventing "Toloka" — the ancient Slavic tradition of communal labor — as a Web3 protocol for resilience, transforming grassroots communities into global Regenerative Leadership Hubs.

Software Engineer at Sourcify. Member of the compiler and tooling focused Argot Collective (an Ethereum Foundation spin-out). Building in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2018.

Marian Goodell is a Burning Man co-founder and the first CEO of Burning Man Project, leading the nonprofit behind Black Rock City and helping grow it into a global arts and cultural movement.

Leading People Ops at CoW DAO.
Certified ICF coach.
Strong believer and contributor to the ecosystem and DeFi.
Advocate for recruitment, People Ops, and leadership working hand in hand.

Marina has spent over a decade in Web3, helping turn protocols into movements. She has worked with Dapper Labs, Flow Blockchain, Nym, and other pioneering teams shaping decentralized infrastructure. Today, she is Growth Lead at Logos.co and a privacy advocate building adoption for censorship-resistant, sovereignty-first technologies.

Ethereum Foundation Protocol Support, Bordel Hackerspace, MeowMeowNeedMoreCharacters I also love cats

Mark Bentley Richardson, holding a PhD from the University of Melbourne, redirected his career from research science to DeFi in 2021, now serving as Bancor's Project Lead. Under his guidance, Bancor launched Carbon DeFi, a system that enhances user customization in decentralized exchanges by enabling strategy-specific liquidity utilization. Richardson's leadership emphasizes consistent innovation

Marlene (bitblondy) is an independent DAO delegate with a background in social sciences. After writing her thesis on governance incentives, she advocates for good governance and blockchain education and serves on the board of the German Blockchain Association, promoting Web3 at the political level.

Law Graduate (Charles University, University of Oxford). Research Fellow at AMO klima specialising in smart siting of RES. Currently working on a project in philanthropy ('the regeneration foundation') .

Martin Bok has been a member of the Department of International Economic Relations since 2025. His doctoral research focuses on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and their potential economic impacts, with further specialization in Stock-Flow Consistent (SFC) modeling and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). He is also a member of the 22/7 Fund.

Martin is a project manager at the Ethereum Foundation Funding Coordination team, where he works on mapping Ethereum critical infrastructure and securing neutral funding for core development.

Martin Štrobl is an economist at IFT and Logos, focusing on mechanism design, token economics, and coordination mechanisms for decentralized systems. He holds an MA in Economics from CERGE-EI, Prague, and a PhD in Political Economy/Economics from the University of Aarhus. Before joining the IFT, Martin was a researcher at the University of Birmingham.

Meinhard is a developer with 15+ years in crypto, founder of SatoshiPay, an early crypto payments company, social entrepreneur, and impact investor. He is currently building Freedom, a browser for the decentralized web that integrates peer-to-peer protocols like Swarm, IPFS, and ENS, focusing on usability and accessibility.

I work at the intersection of identity, financial infrastructure, and naming. As Partnerships Manager at ENS Labs, I focus on expanding adoption of the Ethereum Name Service and helping shape the global naming and identity layer of the decentralized internet.

Micah Springut is Founder & CEO of Monumental Labs, a New York-based startup building AI-enabled robot stone carving factories to create cities with the splendor of Paris, Florence, or pre-war New York, at a fraction of the cost.

Blockchain enthusiast, contributor to the Ethereum Yellow Paper, and a graduate of Computer Security at CTU Prague. Outside of auditing, Michal leads the development of Ackee open-source toolings and products for shipping secure Solidity and Solana code.

Migle went from actress to documentary filmmaker to blockchain in 2017 to asking why privacy tech is so bad at explaining itself. She co-founded WinPrivacy, a creative agency for privacy and security projects, and leads Womxn in Privacy. Currently supporting Swarm Foundation, building decentralized storage infrastructure and backing public goods since Ethereum's early days.

Mike Massari is Strategic Advisor at RedStone and Head of Atom and Credora, the DeFi-native credit ratings platform acquired by RedStone in 2025. Mike leads Credora's strategy and partnerships, bringing on-chain credit legibility to institutional DeFi. He also drives RedStone Atom and Settle products, extending oracle infrastructure into OEV capture and RWA collateral liquidations.

Product Lead at 0xbow, working towards a free & private internet one step at a time. Privacy is normal.

Nate is a member of the Bitcoin class of 2013, the founder of protocol design and economic security firm Token Dynamics, writing on token economics and related topics since 2017.

Nick Almond is the Head of Governance for the Jito Network. He has been in crypto for ten years, is a die hard DAO believer and has a background in a range of disciplines spanning physics, governance, blockchain architecture and learning theory.

I work on privacy-preserving identity and anonymous credential implementations, with a focus on bridging research and real-world use cases. My recent work includes exploring deployments related to age and eligibility verification, government wallet integration, and practical product constraints for privacy-preserving systems.

Noah Jelich is a security researcher and software engineer at Oasis, specializing in blockchain security, TEE technology, and privacy systems. A former audit lead at Hacken, he also advises Cyber Capital, and contributes to Security Alliance and speaks globally on security and privacy.

Noah is a researcher and developer with a decade of enterprise experience prior to moving on to EVM based work in 2017.

In recent years Noah has worked with Spearbit as a Lead Security Researcher, and was their first Head of Security Reviews. Now Head of Security at the Monad Foundation he works to bring safety to the Monad Foundation and Ecosystem at large.

Software Engineer at Dune, the onchain data platform used by teams across the industry to analyze, build, and scale. 9+ years of experience across banking, trading, and web3.

Building dApps in crypto since 2017, background in AI and fighter for personal privacy and censorship resistence. ZK Fan and loves building decentralized systems.

Founder of Nihilium

Oliver Zrno is a Junior Associate at FINREG PARTNERS mainly focusing on legal aspects of crypato-assets and financial innovation. During my career i have managed several crypto projects, including securing the first crypto asset service provider (CASP) license in the Czech Republic.

Ondřej Kovařík is a Czech politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019 until 2025[1] He was parliamentary assistant to MEP Dita Charanzová. has since been serving on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, also called ECON, and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, aka LIBE. =

Ondrej Pilny is Head of Ecosystem Growth at Gnosis, building infrastructure for crypto neobanks. A crypto native since 2016, he previously led Binance’s presence in CZ/SK and co-founded and sold crypto research startup Baserank.

Oskar Thorén is the technical lead of IPTF (Institutional Privacy Task Force) at the Ethereum Foundation, focused on onboarding institutions onto Ethereum and meeting their privacy requirements. He is also writing a book on Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) at zkintro.com, and recently served as a strategic advisor at PSE. Previously, he created mopro, a tool for making client-side proving on mobile ea

Team Lead @ Circles
Data Scientist and Technical Founder by experience
PhD in Quantum Information Theory

Web developer at ENS Labs. Creator of Omnipin. Open source maintainer. Decentralized technology enthusiast.

Peter has been a lead at the Ethereum Foundation for 10 years, joining before Frontier and working on Go Ethereum up until 2025. Since then, he pivoted to his own biotech startup, Dark Bio, aiming to bring privacy, self-sovereignty and composable platforms to the world of genomics.

Founder and Software Engineer with over a decade of experience spanning Goldman Sachs and Web3 engineering. Previously VP of Engineering at karpatkey, one of the largest onchain treasury managers.
Now building obolos.io, compliance infrastructure for tokenized private securities.

2026+: Founder & Lead Dev @ Plank
2025-2026: Lead Security Researcher @ Spearbit
2024-2025: Founding Protocol Engineer @ Sorella Labs
2022-2023: Freelancing as Smart Contract Engineer; Security Research @ Spearbit; Attempting to found startup

More history and precise month cut offs can be found at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philogy/details/experience

Dr. Paul Dylan-Ennis (polar) is Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the College of Business, University College Dublin. He is the author of Absolute Essentials of Ethereum (Routledge, 2024).

University Lecturer (VSFS/VSE); CTO of Longriver Group and the CZKC stablecoin project. A lead architect bridging TradFi logic with EVM execution, Radek focuses on sovereign financial primitives and gas-effective solutions. A core contributor to the BeerFi Prague dev community, obsessed with 100% test coverage.

Lawyer, venture architect, and founder working at the intersection of legal engineering, Network States, and AI governance. I build programmable legal frameworks and ecosystems of value, and explore human-AI stewardship models that preserve agency in decentralized systems.

Raul is part of the Ethereum Foundation's Funding Coordination team, focused on helping critical public goods projects build sustainable funding pathways. As part of the team, he leads Project Odin. A member of the Department of Decentralization, he previously worked at Parity Technologies and the Web3 Foundation.

Core dev at Usd8.fi building Defi protection. Security Researcher at OpenZeppelin focusing on Defi and L2s.

Justus (riptide) is co-founder of Grego AI, "the security layer that never sleeps", delivering Tier A Web3 audit findings with a rapid turnaround and low false positives. He is a Top 30 bug bounty hunter globally and has uncovered several high-profile critical vulnerabilities across major DeFi protocols saving billions in TVL from exploitation.

Rob Knight is a Research Engineer at 0xPARC. He was a maintainer of the Zupass project, and more recently a contributor to the POD project.

A community builder and digital strategist with 6 years of experience growing audiences across Web3 and digital platforms. helping builders turn their communities into sustainable businesses.

I’m just a random guy from Ukraine who studied Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd University. I’m currently pursuing a master’s degree in Informatics at the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology.

As a Trezor Expert, Saadya “Nick” Chevan instills confidence and ensures users feel treasured and informed at every step of their Trezor experience.

He is always excited to learn more and dive deeper into the unique world of self-custody.

From the BIS to the blockchain — I traded central banking for decentralization and never looked back. Mom, rebuilding financial sovereignty with DAOs since 2019, now leading the teacher community at dEdu and rebuilding educational sovereignty.

Sara works on the assumption that technological progress fails when it forgets human realities. A proponent of archaeopunk, she uses a mix of archaeology, anthropology and emerging technologies (#ai, #blockchain, #xr etc.) to expose recurring patterns in innovation, collapse, and adaptation.

Sascha Goetz is founder of RootstockCollective, a DAO designed to help developers and builders unlock value from Bitcoin. A second time founder who is passionate about helping other entrepreneurs realize their dreams. Sascha brought his expertise to the world of Web3 in 2021 and has since worked in a variety of roles focused primarily around supporting the growth of Rootstock.

Software engineer since 2013. Dark Wallet core dev. Has secured and migrated DAO treasuries totaling hundreds of millions, including TheDAO's $220M recovery in 2026.

Web3 lawyer, Partner at Aurum & Co-Founder of DAObox. Advising crypto projects since 2017, $1B+ in structured transactions. Board member at major Web3 foundations. Angel investor. Strategic advisor to governments on digital asset regulation. Aurum - ranked by Legal500, FT most innovative law firm in Europe 2024.

ZK Researcher at L2BEAT, ex-researcher at Lisk, mathematician.
Curious about cryptography, passionate about self-custody, fan of Ethereum and all other blockchains.

With 4.5+ years of governance operator experience, I currently support the ZKsync ecosystem as the Governance Experience Lead. This includes being the core maintainer of all ZKsync governance documentation and resources, managing all governance interfaces and tooling to enable smooth governance operations, and supporting token mechanics design and deployment.

Sofia Sukhinina is an OSPO Enabler at the Ethereum Foundation's Funding Coordination team, with her research focused on open source sustainability and how Ethereum infrastructure can improve the way organisations and governments fund the software they depend on.

Tech lawyer advising major Czech and international blockchain clients on legal and strategic matters; featured at NFT.NYC, Cointelegraph, and other industry platforms.

Steffen has more than 20 years of experience in method and software development. In 2017, he started implementing Web3 tech for real-world applications. Now, he is developing the colibri.stateless client – focused on use-cases in IoT, mobile, and web apps.

Tereza Bízková is Community Lead at Funding the Commons, working with builders and funders through hackathons, residencies, and conferences. She contributes to Crypto Altruists, co-founded ReFi Medellin (a local community in Colombia), and co-hosted season 4 of the ReFi Podcast. She's interested in how web3 can support coordination, governance, and public goods infrastructure.

Tereza Stašková works as an architect and urban planner at the Institute of Planning and Development in Prague (IPR). She is part of projects focusing on the design of public spaces in Prague and the development of conceptual strategic documents for the city. She acquired her bachelor’s degree in architecture at the University of Edinburgh followed by a master’s degree at Lund University in 2025.

I’m a co-founder of growthepie, where we help the community make sense of the Ethereum ecosystem through data. My work is all about the intersection of design and strategy, taking complex metrics and turning them into clear, intuitive insights for builders and researchers. I'm driven by the idea of making Ethereum’s real-world impact visible and easy to understand for everyone.

Founder of DeFi France, DeFi Collective, Pharos.watch and Polaris. Previously: Liquity, ParaSwap, GHO Liquidity Committe.

In the trenches for too long to let TradFi dictactes how DeFi should look like.

https://tokenbrice.xyz/about/

Software engineer at Trezor, leading the Connect team responsible for integrations, interested in Web3 and AI

Tomáš Piškule is a Product Owner for crypto initiatives at Raiffeisenbank with years of experience as an active crypto trader and investor. He is a member of the expert group Crypto Kingdom, where he contributes educational content about DeFi and lectures at crypto workshops. His current work at Raiffeisenbank focuses on crypto investment products and crypto‑based payments.

A designer at the Ethereum Foundation. Tomo has been developing the EF's aesthetics for the past 6 years.

Solution Engineer at Logos, building developer tooling for the Logos ecosystem — Basecamp, Logos Messaging, Logos Storage, and SPEL. I break and fix things for fun and for money. Previously Red Hat. Based in Czech Republic.

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Hi, I am a curious lawyer and compliance officer based in Prague. My job covers capital markets and EU legislation. I try to explain difficult law easily.

Viki Vais a founder, blockchain engineer, and researcher working at the intersection of crypto, identity, and internet infrastructure. They have co-founded multiple crypto-related projects and focus on building practical systems around decentralized technologies. Their current interests include proof-of-personhood systems, privacy-preserving protocols, and the growing role of AI agents on the web

Viktor Trón is the founder of Ethereum Swarm and President of the Swarm Foundation. He has spent over a decade building decentralized storage and communication infrastructure aimed at enabling a truly serverless web.

Viktor Trón is the founder of Ethereum Swarm and President of the Swarm Foundation. He has spent over a decade building decentralized storage and communication infrastructure aimed at enabling a truly serverless web.

Virginia is a developer and advocate for open source, decentralised web technologies. She is the co-founder of dokieli, a decentralised authoring and annotation tool, and former co-chair of the W3C Solid Community Group. Her work focuses on data sovereignty, open standards, and building a web where people control their own content and presence online.

Cofounder and CEO of Agora Citizen Network | Building solutions for more democratic, decentralized, and resilient governance systems with AI and Web3 technologies