2026-05-10 –, Sladkovský Stage
Jarrad Hope examines the $60 trillion institutional infrastructure that runs through offshore financial centres. Drawing on twenty years of post-CRS data, institutional economics, and the compliance regime's own figures, he shows that tax havens are among the best-governed jurisdictions on earth, competing on legal predictability and credible commitment. Hope traces a line from Project Goldfish, a
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