A seasoned software engineer and researcher with 20+ years of experience spanning blockchain, AI agents, high-performance computing, and distributed systems. Currently a Senior Solidity Engineer at Valory, driving the development of smart contracts for the Olas autonomous agent ecosystem. Expertise includes smart contract audits, fuzzing, service staking design, and cross-chain deployments.

Previous roles include R&D engineering at Huawei and optimization of large-scale neuronal simulations at EPFL's Blue Brain Project. Holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a strong foundation in parallel and decentralized computation, multisig architectures, and scalable data exchange methods.

Aleksejs Ivashuk is the founder of Apatride Network, a coalition of stateless individuals, communities and stateless-led organisations working on addressing statelessness in the EU. He is also an associate member of European Network on Statelessness and serves on UNHCR's Advisory Board of Organisations led by the forcibly displaced and stateless. In 2024, he co-founded the Blockchain for Human Rights consortium, bringing together stateless-led and exile-led coalitions to work together to advocate for responsible use of blockchain technology in digitization of identification.

Previously, Aleksejs worked for Thomson Reuters, IPSA International, the Green Party of Canada, the U.S. Senate, and was actively involved with the Canadian Red Cross in its First Response and Disaster Management programs. He holds a Political Science MA from Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has published on statelessness with Oxford’s FMR, Cambridge’s CJPLA, the Swiss Refugee Council, and the Statelessness & Citizenship Review.

Core developer at ERC-4337, co-author of EIP-7701.

Co-Founder & CEO Matter Labs

Alon Muroch worked in many different startups and established projects over the past decade, taking many different roles. In 2014, he read the Satoshi white-paper which inspired him to explore and get deeply involved in the world of blockchain and crypto technology. He was a code contributor to Bitcoin, Ethereum, developed his own multi-sig P2P wallet, and later on co-founded BloxStaking in 2017, where he serves as the company’s chief executive officer. Alon is currently the Founder of SSV Labs(Core development team) of SSV Network taking on one of the biggest challenges in staking - decentralization.

Andrew Koller, aka AK, is the Founder of Ink. He lives Onchain and in the woods. You can find him on X posting about personal freedom, privacy, and cryptography: @ak47ink.

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Anika heads the Climate & Innovation Department at the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM) in Berlin. Her work centres on social innovation, science communication, and storytelling as powerful tools to foster not just much-needed acceptance, but excitement for the energy transition. Anika leads research on decentralised energy systems, green hydrogen for energy security, and democratic approaches to system change. From citizen energy to drag performances that explain the energy transition, she is committed to making climate action more inclusive, creative, and impactful.

Lawyer by day @MME, researcher at night, degen at heart.
Helping web3 projects throughout their lifecycle, starting with early structuring, to ensure they navigate regulations in Switzerland and the EU with ease.

CEO of Aragon

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Ecosystem Lead @ Argent

Arik is the VP of Technology at Fireblocks, leading the technology research and innovation with focus on cryptography, blockchain, security and AI research. Fireblocks provides a suite of applications to manage digital asset operations and a complete development platform to build business on the blockchain. Notably the Fireblocks MPC wallet technology has secured trillions of dollars.

Artur Sychov is the Founder and CEO of Somnium Space, the oldest and largest decentralized Virtual Reality platform. Before founding Somnium, Artur worked for many years as an investment trader, eventually shifting his focus to become a passionate evangelist of virtual reality and a pioneering architect of virtual worlds.

He firmly believes that immersive, decentralized virtual environments will play a crucial role in shaping the next evolution of human society and digital economies. At Somnium Space, he leads the development not only of persistent virtual worlds but also of proprietary Virtual Reality hardware, built in Europe, to ensure a fully open and independent ecosystem.

In addition to VR, Artur is also the founder of authencity.io, a decentralized social media protocol focused on digital identity, freedom of expression, and ownership of content. His mission is to empower users to reclaim control over their digital lives across every layer of the virtual experience, from hardware and platforms to identity and communication.

Builder on Ethereum

President of the Ethereum Foundation

Baki is a co-founder at Clave, bringing over a decade of experience from corporate and startup ventures. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, a master's degree in Robotics, and is a CS PhD dropout. Baki is also known for creating the DeFi Library, a valuable resource for the Turkish community, where people can find trustworthy knowledge about DeFİ.

GTM and Ecosystem growth manager with strong focus on RWA and institutional adoption at BNB Chain.

As a Customer Engineer at Google Cloud, Benjamin is helping Digital Native companies to solve the challenges of tomorrow. While he is fascinated by all products of the Google Cloud Platform, he has a special interest in Blockchain technologies.

Benjamin Kraner is a PhD student in the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies group. Before starting his PhD, Benjamin obtained a master's degree in economics from the University of Zürich. His background in economics provides him with a unique perspective on the design and implementation of DLTs, particularly with respect to the economic incentives that underlie these systems. Benjamin's research interests include the study of consensus mechanisms, which are fundamental to the functioning of blockchain and DLTs. He is particularly interested in the economic incentives that are built into these systems and how they affect the behaviour of network participants. His work aims to explore the impact of these incentives on the security, scalability, and efficiency of DLTs.

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.

Brenda, CEO and Co-founder of Tellor, a decentralized oracle network, is a self-taught solidity developer. Formerly a U.S Federal government supervisor, she led teams in developing statistical software for key economic indicators. Brenda holds a Master of Arts in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University.

Carles Cerqueda is a Digital Assets Researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (University of Cambridge), where he bridges blockchain protocols with traditional financial systems. His work helps accelerate the creation and transfer of knowledge that pushes the boundaries of financial innovation and supports evidence-based regulation, in collaboration with over 80 leading financial institutions and 60+ central banks. He holds a Master’s in Quantitative Finance from the French National Polytechnique, previously worked as a Quant in asset management and at a fintech startup now used internationally. A former hackathon finalist, he remains deeply involved in the student ecosystem, representing the Cambridge Blockchain Society and KryptoSphere internationally.

Casey Carr is a Prague-based writer, brewer, and security engineer who works on projects for smart gardening, radio hobbying, and self-hosted, open-source security tooling.

Cedric Maloux is a seasoned tech entrepreneur and investor based in Prague. He’s the CEO of StartupYard, the longest-running tech accelerator in Central Europe, and has guided over 100 startups through early growth and fundraising. With a background in AI and a career spanning multiple successful ventures, he also serves as an official French Trade Advisor and President of French Tech Prague. As a partner for The FinTechers, Cedric guides and supports our founders.

As a full-time contributor to the Protocol Guild, Cheeky spends their time building norms around setting aside a portion of Ethereum's ecosystem revenues to fund core protocol work.

Giga: Connecting every school in the world to the internet.
Previously: built unicef’s innovation unit, innovation fund, crypto fund, & a few tech companies

Colin De Picker is a 19-year-old student at Odisee University of Applied Sciences, where he is pursuing his academic interests alongside an active role in the Web3 space. As a dedicated community member of the Book of Ethereum ecosystem—a meme-driven, organically growing movement on Ethereum—Colin focuses on communication, community engagement, and grassroots development.

EU-based attorney.
Permaculturist. Solarpunk. Compassionate Anarchist.
Empath.

Education:
JUDr. and Ph.D (private international law), Charles University in Prague.
LL.M. program in San Francisco, California (international business transactions).
Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany (international and comparative business law).

Focus:
Alternative, sustainable and regenerative finance, web3, cryptocurrencies and fintech.
Regeneration, sustainability, greentech, eco-solutions.
Banking, finance, financial inclusion, capital markets, insurance and reinsurance.
Innovation, new technologies, blockchain, AI, IoT and alike.
Private international law.

Dàmir Belltheus Avdic is Head of the Climate and Innovation Department at IKEM and an expert in offshore wind energy and green fuels as well as socio-economic analyses.

Dàmir coordinates IKEM's Baltic Sea work as well as the Europe-Ukraine Energy Transition Hub (EUETH), for which he recently authored and edited a series of studies on the reconstruction and transformation of the Ukrainian energy sector. He has also been involved in numerous studies dealing with the social and economic aspects of climate-protection measures, such as the introduction of ammonia as a fuel for shipping.

He studied History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and holds a BSc in Economics & Business from the University of Amsterdam and a Master’s degree in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris. He speaks eight languages.

Damsky buduje EthCzech komunitu v České republice a je spoluzakladatelem Czech Crypto Week. Organizuje měsíční Ethereum meetupy po celé ČR. Dříve působil v gwei.cz a BanklessCZ. Je fanouškem open source a ETHPrague contributor. Zaměřuje se na stavění produktů, budování české krypto komunity a vzdělávání začátečníků. Je spoluzakladatelem technicke ethereum konference ProtoLayers.

Daniel Nagy's longstanding interest in cryptocurrencies was initially purely academic: reading and publishing papers on the topic, participating in conferences and teaching cryptography at ELTE Budapest University of Sciences. While somewhat active in the Bitcoin community beginning with 2010, his involvement in the industry became full-time with joining Ethereum in 2014, after the token sale, but before the genesis block. His most widely used contribution is ERC-681, the standard for encoding Ethereum transaction requests in URLs and QR-codes. His project, Swarm -- the decentralized storage layer for Ethereum -- became a separate project in 2020, of which he was vice president until 2023. Since resigning from Swarm, he has been involved in various DeFi projects of smaller scope, in advisory roles and as an investor.

I am a student, lawyer, DAOist and a web3 evangelist. My goal is to be the catalyst for change. We can do anything if we work together.

Research Engineer @ World Foundation. AGI believer. math. Ethereum. ZK. Rust. Angel investor.

Co-founder Tally.xyz, building decentralization since 2011.

Ethereum Auditor and developer of static analysis tools in Ackee Blockchain Security

Dominik Harz co-founded BOB, a first-of-its-kind hybrid Layer-2 powered by Bitcoin and Ethereum. Dominik is the CTO of Distributed Crafts, the organization behind the creation of BOB. He has been a contributor to DeFi and smart contracts R&D since 2016 and is most known for his work on DeFi security, stablecoins, and smart contracts. Dominik holds a PhD in computer science from Imperial College London.

At KuCoin, Dorian leads the European local activities and partnerships of the company. Before joining KuCoin, Dorian had already worked as a business development manager for several leading cryptocurrency exchanges while pursuing a PhD in Economics.

Maurice addresses the ethical challenges and risks posed by mathematics, mathematicians, and mathematically-powered technologies. His research looks at the ethical issues arising in all types of mathematical work, including AI, finance, modelling, surveillance, and statistics. He set up the Ethics in Mathematics Project in 2016 and has been its principal investigator since then, delivering seminar series, giving invited talks, and producing scholarly articles in the area. Maurice has direct industry experience with over 30 startups, having been a member of the Ethics Advisory Group at Machine Intelligence Garage UK for over 2 years. He comes from a background in research mathematics, holding two PhDs in mathematics, from the University of Cambridge and the University of Melbourne, and has over a decade of experience working as an academic mathematician on problems in algebra and computability theory.

ZK-engineer & VM aficionado, Ethereum ZK-client development, Chief Protocol Officer & Co-Founder @ Kakarot

I work on projects to make running nodes easier and more secure, encouraging more people to get to know Ethereum and the ideas that can be built on it.

Eomji Park, currently the Head of Research & Operations at Encode Club and a Guest Scientist at the Technical University of Munich, has a rich background in technology and education. Her journey includes a stint in embedded systems, where she contributed to customer success by developing software and hardware demos to enrich the developer experience. At Encode Club, a leading educational community in emerging technology, Eomji continues her passionate work, focusing on empowering both developers and early-stage projects.

Etienne is a Developer Advocate at Ledger. He helps developers around the world understand and integrate the Ledger ecosystem.

Eugenio Reggianini is a cross-cultural expert in corporate development, legal advisory, and blockchain strategy. He advises tech firms on product, regulatory, and business growth. He is Head of Growth at the European Blockchain Association, EU Rep at Ethereum Enterprise Alliance, and a DIF contributor.

A partner at Collider a leading crypto/web3 venture fund.
My background is in startups. I was an early employee at ironSource (a unicorn acquired by Unity) and a founder in the space, in 2018 I created an onchain DAO to run hackathons (ETHBerlin, ETHDenver, ETHIndia, ETHWaterloo) until covid came. Advisor to DAOstack and on the founding team of DXdao, once of the most spectacular failed experiments at decentralized governance at scale

In 2016, I realized my personal goal for the foreseeable future is to build and push the ecosystem forward, whether it's crypto or Web3. Here's how I define them:

• Crypto: Right of center, libertarian tones. Decentralization away from authority, notably the state. Self-sovereignty leads to a better society.
• Web3: Left of center, social tones. Decentralization to give 'power to the people'. Egalitarianism leads to a better society.

Filip Rezabek received the Master of Science degree in communications engineering from the Technical University of Munich, in 2020. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Chair of Network Architectures and Services. His research interests include network security, applied and threshold cryptography, and distributed systems resilience and robustness. Besides, he is active in the area of TSN with focus on intra-vehicular networks and smart manufacturing. For both areas are important aspects of reproducible experiments

Director of Developer Relations at Consensys/MetaMask

Friederike Ernst is a cofounder of Gnosis as well as a host of the Epicenter podcast. A physics Ph.D. by training, Friederike holds a pivotal role as a leading contributor at the GnosisDAO. The DAO has created numerous essential infrastructure solutions for the Ethereum blockchain, including the widely utilized Safe Multisig wallet, Gnosis Chain, and the largest dex aggregator, CoW swap. Moo!

Friederike's current objective is to build applications that are usable and useful for normies -- including Circles, Gnosis Pay, and metri.

A security auditor at Consensys Diligence, George has always been fascinated by Math & Technology. This led him to a degree in Applied Mathematics and a career in software, where he focused on the people aspect of tech -- privacy, personal data, digital identity, human-made data and so on. Eventually he found Ethereum and smart contracts, a promising world that seemed to perfectly fit his interests. At Consensys Diligence he decided to specialize in smart contract auditing to help the technology get adopted safely as usage skyrockets. In his spare time you can find him traveling the world and enjoying the little things in life.

Georgy is a founding member of Wirex, an industry-leading blockchain-based payments platform, and is currently responsible for the company’s strategic partnerships globally. He is an accomplished entrepreneur, leveraging over 15 years in sales and business development across various industries and verticals before joining the blockchain and digital currency space.

Guil. is a builder: software engineer, researcher, and entrepreneur. He is a serial open-source project contributor and brings 18+ years of experience in the software industry and academic projects. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Zürich, where he contributed to his first blockchain project in 2013. Guil is an active technical advisor in the Swiss blockchain scene and member of the advisory board of several start-ups. In his past venture, he attracted funding from the Swiss stock exchange, venture capital firms, and angel investors. Together with AxLabs, he joined the Neo ecosystem in 2018 to focus on building top-notch Developer Experience tools. In 2021, AxLabs was appointed as a Council Member on Neo, actively taking part in its governance. In addition, he's one of the key idealists behind GrantShares DAO, where grants are provided through a decentralized and on-chain decision process. Besides being a tech builder at AxLabs, Guil is constantly on the hunt to materialize the next big thing using decentralization and open protocols.

Hira is the co-founder & CEO of Plurality Network, an open context layer to enhance web3 onboarding and enable contextualized and personalized user experiences.
Hira has been working in the blockchain space since 2016 and was part of over 50 token offerings in 2017. Since 2018, she worked in Deutsche Telekom and has written multiple research papers in the field of Self-Sovereign Identity and zero-knowledge proofs. She was also the lead architect of the NFT Marketplace project inside Deutsche Telekom.
She has won multiple awards including the Women in STEM Award, Telekom CATA Awards, and various hackathons, and writes technical blogs regularly regarding new trends in the web3 space.
Past speaking engagements:
1. Devcon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg3mgNHQ6tc
2. Berlin Ethereum Meetup: https://youtu.be/QUm909X56Qw
3. Web3 summit Berlin 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsY02T1dM2U
4. Bananconf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwmE1wg5XXY
5. Berchain in Berlin Blockchain Week: https://publicarea.admiralcloud.com/dl/bJwhnpCZtovqU4VSXvWwfK
6. Speaking on Credentials as a Service (CaaS) – my project that won the Women in STEM Award: https://youtu.be/qtCSA9OlVKE?t=1098
7. Panel Discussion in Deutsche Telekom: https://youtu.be/uySZ8eKoK68?t=91

Go-to-market lead at L2BEAT, Ethereum advocate in academia, and on-chain biometrics proponent.

Ileana Lobkowicz is a writer and storyteller who grew up in Prague. She is shaping the voice, strategy, and storytelling of her family’s organization, House of Lobkowicz, which oversees the management of five cultural heritage sites, offering full-service event design and hospitality management, cultural tourism experiences, and the Lobkowicz Collections—one of Europe’s oldest and finest private family art collections. As a creative steward of stories, she is using her ancestral heritage to serve as a bridge between the past and the future. Ileana is also focused on writing a family memoir and is the founder of Bohemian Vignettes, a platform sharing the untold stories about people, places, and food (for thought).

Elijah Puscas is the Regional Manager for Central Eastern Europe at Binance. He is an experienced professional in business development and a consultant for cryptocurrency innovative projects. His previous experience includes working as a manager for cryptocurrency exchanges such as Emirex and Emiswap and fast-growing fintech start-ups such as Kuende, Diaspora, Slavi and Koinly.

llija is a legal professional with expertise in business development, strategy, and innovation. He has a strong background in managing complex projects and fostering growth in dynamic environments. His areas of expertise include business law, tax law, and digital asset law (cryptocurrencies, NFTs, etc.). Ilija is also one of the organizers of the ETH Belgrade conference.

Inna Vladimirovna Osetrova is an international student and graduate researcher at the Institute of World Politics, Washington, D.C., where she studies statecraft and international affairs. She serves as Internship Programs Coordinator at IWP, speaks four languages, is an active member of the Latin social dance community, and aspires to apply her skills in project management. Her work focuses on how culture and digital systems—through an anthropological lens—reshape governance and global power dynamics.

To come later

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 identity, and even central bank digital currency (CBDC) with minimized trust.

Ivan has a Ph.D. in the area of adversarial intrusion detection in network traffic from Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology (BUT FIT), Czech Republic (2016) and he obtained an associate professorship at the same university in 2016 with habilitation called Towards Secure Decentralized Applications and Consensus Protocols in Blockchains.
Ivan earned a Master of Science degree from the BUT FIT (2012) in the areas of intrusion detection and supervised machine learning.

Ivan was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SUTD and worked on a project aimed at testing of security aspects of blockchains and designing new solutions and protocols. Before that, he worked in SUTD on a project focusing on insider threat detection - the application of machine learning for the detection of insider threats. Ivan is the main author of SmartOTPS - the 1st OTP scheme for smart contract wallets.

Jakub Jedlinský is a system analyst, crypto OG and expert on modelling money flows in alternative currencies and stress testing business plans. He is a co-founder of Altlift, a crypto-consulting company. He has teached courses about currency systems focusing on crypto and DLT at Prague University of Economics and Business since 2014. Jakub learnt stock-flow consistent modelling from Prof. Steve Keen who supervised his Ph.D. dissertation at Kingston University London.

UX designer at ethereum.org, where he champions quality by digging deep into user research — sometimes literally, by personally testing over 30 Ethereum wallets to uncover what works and what doesn’t.

James is the founder of Mode Network, he has spent the last 7 years building at the intersection of finance and AI.

Pushing the frontiers for what's possible at phantom.zone

LL.M. College of Europe | SEC Newgate CEE

Builder in OpenZeppelin

Dr. Joachim Schwerin is Principal Economist in the unit in charge of Responsible Business Conduct within the Directorate-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) of the European Commission. He is responsible for developing the policy approach of DG GROW towards the Token Economy and Distributed-Ledger Technologies as well as their applications for industry and SMEs. His current focus lies on developing positive framework conditions for DAOs and Web3. In the financial domain, he contributed to the Digital Finance Strategy, including the MiCA Regulation, and the preparatory work for the Digital Euro. Previously, he coordinated the European Commission's industrial and competition policies and worked on SME access to finance. Joachim holds a PhD from Dresden University of Technology and was Post-Doc Research fellow at the London School of Economics' Economic History Department before he joined the European Commission in 2001.

Growth |Web3 Startups | Governance

Jordan is part of the Ecosystem team at Symbiotic and has been a passionate advocate for the decentralisation and increased robustness of staking system for many years. Having first started with a focus on ETH staking, Jordan now applies the same principles universally across the ecosystem.

Jordi is Co-Founder of Polygon. He led the development and implementation of Polygon zkEVM, a leading zk-rollup. As one of the most widely recognized Ethereum developers, he has made several high-impact contributions to the Ethereum community, including CIRCOM and PIL, free and open-source projects demonstrating his commitment to Web3 values. He has a long history in the Ethereum community, including co-founding the WhiteHat Group to save funds during The DAO hack early in the network’s history. He has spent years as a sought-after auditor, leading the teams that poured over the contracts of MakerDAO and Aragon. Before Hermez, he co-founded several projects, including the donation platform Giveth, DAppNode, and Iden3.

Software engineer, crypto builder since 2017. Building Palmera since 2022.

Karam Alhamad is the Governance Coordinator at Web3 Foundation, where he supports and coordinates decentralized governance initiatives across the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. A blockchain evangelist and governance builder, Karam holds a Master’s in Global Affairs from Yale University, where he focused on blockchain and tech governance. He was named an Ethereum Foundation Fellow in 2022, recognizing his work at the intersection of decentralized systems and post-authoritarian resilience.

In 2019, he founded ZeFi, the first Arabic open-source blockchain academy, which has reached over 100,000 learners across the MENA region. His career spans war zones and Web3, from documenting state violence to designing trustless coordination mechanisms. For Karam, DAOs are not just a new mode of organization, they are a political and humanitarian imperative. When institutions collapse, code can become both infrastructure and ideology: a means of survival, resistance, and reimagination.

With 20+ years of leadership experience across finance, shared services, and sustainability, I bridge the worlds of business performance and purpose. My work spans multinational corporations and fast-moving startups, where I've led ESG strategy, built high-performing teams, and implemented complex transformations — always with an eye on the future.

As Group ESG Manager at Rohlik Group, I lead CSRD reporting, sustainability innovation projects, and stakeholder engagement across Europe. I'm certified in Sustainable Financial Strategy from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, and my passion lies in driving measurable, data-backed impact at scale.

Creative by nature (you’ll often find me painting or dancing when off duty), I bring curiosity, energy, and a strategic mindset to everything I do. My goal is to step into a Chief Impact Officer role — where ESG, innovation, and executive leadership intersect.

Kevin is a Developer Relations Engineer working for The Graph and supporting the BuidlGuidl. He is passionate about education and building in the web3 space.

Kristian Kostal is leader of 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, worked as an advisor to crypto companies, developed a full cryptocurrency network backed with gold, did at least 10 audits of smart contracts in Ethereum, and developed several contracts in Ethereum, Solana, and Polkadot. He was among the first in Slovakia to play with Colored Coins in Bitcoin. Besides his expertise in blockchain interoperability, you can talk with him about anything Ethereum and Bitcoin related, but according to his Rust experience, he can be a good chit-chat also for Polkadot and Solana.

Governance & partnerships at L2BEAT; Ethereum advocate in public policy and enterprise.

After a career in TradFi in 2015 I moved full time to blockchain work. I am the CEO of Extropy a blockchain / cryptography consultancy based in Oxford

Much of my work now is teaching bootcamps about Zero Knowledge Proofs, zkML, Advanced Solidity and Security
I am a co founder of the Oxford Blockchain Society and run meetup groups for Ethereum and Mina.
I am a regular speaker at web3 conferences and often a volunteer for the Ethereum developer conference.

I am the programme manager for the ARIA Horizon Scanning study groups at Renaissance Philanthropy.

I am also a non-resident fellow at the Energy for Growth Hub, a senior researcher at UK Day One, and a fellow at the Roots of Progress Institute.

I write about migration, growth, and cost-effective policy wins at Lauren Policy. Outside of my Substack, my work has been published in The Economist, Works in Progress, Asterisk Magazine (1, 2), and The Washington Post.

My academic background is in political science. From 2018-2021, I was a PhD student at the University of California, San Diego. My research focused on violence and how it influences the development of the societies in which it occurs. My work was supported by the Gates Foundation, the Sanford Lakoff Fellowship and UCSD's International Institute.
I am the programme manager for the ARIA Horizon Scanning study groups at Renaissance Philanthropy.

I am also a non-resident fellow at the Energy for Growth Hub, a senior researcher at UK Day One, and a fellow at the Roots of Progress Institute.

I write about migration, growth, and cost-effective policy wins at Lauren Policy. Outside of my Substack, my work has been published in The Economist, Works in Progress, Asterisk Magazine (1, 2), and The Washington Post.

My academic background is in political science. From 2018-2021, I was a PhD student at the University of California, San Diego. My research focused on violence and how it influences the development of the societies in which it occurs. My work was supported by the Gates Foundation, the Sanford Lakoff Fellowship and UCSD's International Institute.

Lena Hierzi is a DevRel Engineer at Celo Foundation pioneering blockchain developer programs for accessibility and equity. Her commitment to diversity in tech has led her from academic research in ethical AI through H.E.R. DAO to enabling builders who build real-world solutions for the global majority.

Dr. Leonardo Bautista-Gomez is the founder and research leader of MigaLabs and a Core researcher of Ethereum. He has been collaborating with the EF for over seven years and has received multiple research grants from the EF and other institutions. He has over a decade of research experience in supercomputers, deep learning and blockchain technology. He has published more than 50 scientific articles and has received multiple international academic awards such as the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing and the ACM/IEEE George Michael Memorial High Performance Computing Fellow. He did his Ph.D. at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and his Master's at the Pierre & Marie Curie Paris 6 University.

Leading growth for payments and stablecoins at StarkWare. Previously set up Oliver Wyman's Digital Asset business, where I also focused on Corporate and Institutional Banking.

Research Lead at growthepie and core contributor to Open Labels Initiative.

• BA in Ethics and LLM in Laws
• Background in financial inclusion in emerging markets in SE Asia
• Got into crypto in 2021 after military coup in Myanmar
• Currently Head of Commercial at brainbot gmbh
• Working on Shutter Network and Paddle Battle
• Focused on credible neutrality, privacy, and public goods

Yellow Co-founder and CTO

Cryptographer and Rust developer.
Worked on various cryptography and cyber security positions in the past.
For the past 3.5 years working on incentivized mixnets.

Maciej is a lead researcher at vlayer Labs (@vlayer_xyz), working on applied cryptology, including multi-party computation and zero-knowledge proofs. He's MSc in theoretical physics and PhD candidate in physical sciences at AGH University of Krakow, specializing in quantum dynamics and quantum information.

Software dev @ L2BEAT, Layer 2-centric roadmap maxi.

CTO & co-founder at cLabs, building the Celo blockchain and ReFi infrastructure.

Studium:
AVU,intermediální atelier Milana Knížáka 2006/ 2012
Stáž FAMU,katedra režie, 2008
SUPŠ,sv.Anežky české,Český Krumlov
1996/ 2000

Učí a přednáší v NG v Praze,v atelieru Praga Prima v Praze,ve svém atelieru v Mokropsech a galerích a muzeích po celé Čr.
Pořádá workshopy techniky akvarelu a zasvěcení do technik výroby přírodních barviv a zpracování hub.
Vystavuje v galeriích a muzeích v Čr a zahraničí.
Hraje na několik hudebních nástrojů a skládá hudbu pro svojí kapelu MR: https://poli5.bandcamp.com/album/mr
Jako hráčka na theremin a vokalistka spolupracovala na několika hudebních projektech s Vladivojnou la Chia,hrdinové naší doby (2020),Šípková Lulu (2022), Složila hudbu k představení Na houby, chemické divadlo (2021-2025).

I lead People Operations and recruitment at CoW DAO. I'm a passionate advocate for DeFi and actively contribute to the space

EF Protocol Support

Martin Warnke studied in Berlin and Hamburg, received his doctorate in theoretical physics in Hamburg in 1984, began working at the University of Lüneburg, was head of the computer and media centre for many years, habilitated in computer science/digital media at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg in 2008 and has been a professor at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, of which he was the founding director, at the Faculty of Cultural Studies since 2010 and has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Basel, Klagenfurt and Vienna.

He works in the field of the history and theory of digital media and the digital documentation of complex artefacts of the visual arts. He is director of the DFG Institute for Advanced Study "Media Cultures of Computer Simulation" (mecs). He founded the "HyperKult" workshop series, was spokesman for the "Computer Science and Society" section of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. and is chairman of the Springhornhof art association.

Martin wasSenior Fellow at ifk in Vienna: https://www.ifk.ac.at/fellows-detail/martin-warnke-2.html

Maya Dotan is the Product Manager for all proving products at StarkWare, where she leads the strategy and development of cutting-edge zero-knowledge proving systems. In addition to her product leadership, Maya is a researcher on StarkWare’s team, contributing to advancements that push the boundaries of cryptographic proof systems and scalable blockchain infrastructure. She holds a PhD in Computer Science, with a research focus on Blockchains, security, cryptography and distributed systems.
Maya is passionate about making zero-knowledge technology accessible to developers and scaling blockchains in a secure and decentralized way.

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Mely is the Partnerships Manager at ENS Labs and a passionate advocate for digital identity, user rights, and building a more secure and open internet.

Nomadic individual who is contributing to privacy & security projects while participating in hackathons all over the world.

Currently core @Web3Privacy Now alongside working ad-hoc on privacy x security bounties within the ecosystem. Nothing fancy, just an aged script-kiddie.

"I believe in rational self-interest. I love to work with productive minds. I make things happen."

Currently, Miao focuses on a mission that he believes in: to fundamentally advance the experience of money in a world where money is superfluid, which he is the co-founder and CTO of.

Additionally, Miao is working on Yolc: A Safe, Expressive, Fun Language for Ethereum.

Michal Ciffra is a founding partner at DEPO Ventures, one of the most active first-ticket VC funds in Central and Eastern Europe, with a strong focus on fintech and deep tech. At DEPO, he leads investment strategy and portfolio development, supporting early-stage startups from pre-seed through their growth journey. Michal is an early investor in companies like Tatum.io, Flowpay, and a co-founder of The FinTechers, an accelerator and CEE-wide fintech community designed to connect top fintech founders with banks, investors, and regulators. He is also a recognized mentor and angel syndicate leader, actively shaping the startup ecosystem across Europe.

Michal is a blockchain enthusiast, a graduate of Computer Security at CTU Prague, currently working on open-source tooling for secure and efficient Solidity development.

Michel Abdalla holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), as well as an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Since 2005, he has served as a senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He was also an adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at École Normale Supérieure until September 2021. Following a two-year tenure as a Staff Research Scientist at the DFINITY Foundation, Michel currently works as a Research Scientist at Nexus. In addition to his research roles, he serves as the president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).

solving our developer experience at ethui.dev
builder of various things at Subvisual
Strongly-typed developer

Sodomák je známé jméno české kryptoměnové scény, kdy jej znát můžete z projektů jako Paralelní Polis či Digitální Sebeobrana. Odborník na digitální bezpečnost ti na konferenci ukáže, jak zbytečně neztratit své kryptoměny nedostatečným zabezpečením.

My main areas of expertise are design of buildings, facilities and processes; energy conservation and environment; climate change adaptation. My research architecture, web-design, creation of a knowledge hub and integrated systems; innovative methodologies and renewable approaches. The aim is to contribute to an effective built environment with sustainable resources for future generations with a focus on participation and user-driven designs for inclusive cities. I enjoy working in a team and contribute to projects that allow me to explore my creativity and apply my knowledge.
More about my work: https://moncisillova.wixsite.com/portfolio

Author, Developer, Director of Developer Relations at Eigen Labs

Smart contract dev @ PWN DAO

Ethereum auditor at Ackee Blockchain Security.
More than 5 years of debugging programs experience.
Auditing with Manually Guided Fuzzing.

Nico is a community builder and creative with the goal of making web3 and onchain funding accessible for more people. He recently joined Octant to grow its community by bringing degens and regens together.

I’m a security researcher known for publishing live analyses of major hacks and uncovering countless vulnerabilities during my time at Hacken. Beyond research, my hands-on experience with projects has given me a deep understanding of the operational challenges non-technical founders face when securing their assets. This unique blend of technical expertise and real-world insight now allows me to bridge the gap between cutting-edge security threats and practical defense strategies.

Oleksandr Kurbatov, Lead of Cryptography, Rarimo Protocol.
Oleksandr is a cryptographer specializing in zero-knowledge proofs, decentralized identity, and applied cryptography. He has co-authored Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) with Vitalik Buterin: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7812; and authored dozens of well-recognized research papers: https://github.com/distributed-lab/papers, contributing to advancements in privacy-preserving technologies.

Junior Associate at FINREG PARTNERS Law Firm specializing in capital markets, crypto-assets and digital operational resilience.

Gathered experience at University of Tartu in Estonia and Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic in relation to e-governance, artificial inteligence, crypto-assets and decentralized finance.

Ondřej Kovařík has been a Member of the European Parliament elected in the Czech Republic since 2019. He is currently a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Transport and Tourism. His portfolio spans from capital markets and competitiveness and support for small and medium-sized enterprises to the practical application of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and the development of digital finance. Among other things, he was the author of an opinion report on artificial intelligence. He was the rapporteur for the directive on payment services and shadow rapporteur on the respective regulation. He also negotiated the Open Finance proposal and played a substantive role in shaping the regulation on markets in cryptoassets. Additionally, he served as rapporteur for the LIBE opinion to the Digital Markets Act proposal.

Orest is 𝚝𝟷’s co-founder and CTO. He previously worked as an early engineer at Scroll, the leading Ethereum zkRollup L2. He also started zkWarsaw, a tech community running ZKP events. Before that, he co-founded and served as CTO at Knit, a video calling app, and Cara Care, a mobile health platform recently sold to Bayer.

Patrick has spent most of his adult life working on cryptocurrencies and his time was split across academic research and industry. Before working at the Arbitrum Foundation, he has worked on transaction delivery, layer-2 protocols, atomic swaps, consensus protocols, and applied cryptography. In a past life, he was an Assistant Professor at King’s College London and an accomplished researcher at UCL, UIUC and NCL.

Patrik Nový heads KB SmartSolutions, the venture arm of Komerční banka/Société Générale that invests in and builds high-growth fintechs shaping the future of Czech banking. A serial financial-services innovator, Patrik co-founded award-winning Direct Insurance after five years steering the digital transformation of Česká pojišťovna. His earlier career began in strategy consulting with McKinsey & Company and EEIP. Patrik holds a master’s in economics from Charles University, studied in Seattle, and won the Czech Economic Society’s Young Economist award. Away from the boardroom he is most likely on a mountain trail or lining up for a half-marathon—he has organised dozens of community Terry Fox Runs. Expect straight-talk, data-driven insight and a passion for alliances that benefit both banks and start-ups.

As EY Global Blockchain Leader, Paul Brody is responsible for driving initiatives and investments in
blockchain technology across consulting, audit, and tax business lines, including the build-out of the first
EY global SaaS platform, Blockchain.EY.com.
With Brody at the helm, EY was the first and only professional services firm to commit to public
blockchains and Ethereum. Since then, EY has launched public blockchain solutions, including
participating in the creation of the Baseline protocol alongside ConsenSys and Microsoft, which aims to
help enterprises adopt public blockchain. Brody also helped build the industry’s first smart contract
testing platform and first on-chain audit platform.
Beyond being the driving force behind enterprise blockchain innovation at EY, Brody also serves as the
Chairman of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), the leading global community for enterprise
blockchain.
Brody has gained global recognition for his commitment to public networks and for his belief that
enterprises can and should utilize the core principles of true decentralization and transparency for a
better working world. It is that commitment which led Brody to pioneer Nightfall, a breakthrough
technology that brings the benefits of privacy to the Ethereum network, and Starlight, a prototype
private business logic compiler. Both technologies are open sourced to boost awareness of public
blockchains and confidence in their security and transparency.
In 2023 EY Blockchain was named market leader in the HFS Horizons Public Blockchain Services report.
The EY team’s clear market vision and focus on Ethereum have led to this position for public
blockchains. In addition, W3B named the EY Global Blockchain Team 2022 Blockchain Services Award
Winner, recognizing providers of blockchain technologies and services that are working to transform
their clients’ operations, supply chains, or ecosystems. W3B also awarded Paul Brody the Blockchain
Leadership Award in 2022.
Prior to joining EY, Brody served as Vice President and Global Industry Leader in Mobile and IoT at a

multinational technology company. In 2023, he authored Ethereum for Business, a book to help non-
technical, C-level executives and company leaders understand how and why Ethereum applies to
specific use cases. Brody earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and a certificate in African Studies,
both from Princeton University.

As a longtime geomatician with a passion for data, statistics, open source, and decentralization, I began analyzing key properties of the Beacon Chain in 2024. After publishing two articles on EthResearch about safety and liveness, I now want to present the tool I created—with help from Migalabs—that allows anyone in the Ethereum community to check the DEFCON state of Ethereum in real time.

Peter Jung, an ML/LLM Engineer at Gnosis and PhD student, specializes in blending machine learning with Web3. As the maintainer of the Prediction Market Agent Tooling library, his work focuses mainly on accurate and profitable event prediction on the chain, but also various other use-cases with potential to help blockchain users. Peter's expertise is also showcased on his web page, www.jung.ninja.

Pierre Urban je kreativní producent, dramaturg a facilitátor. Ve své práci hledá nové kulturní formáty, které podporují sdílení, péči a propojení. Dlouhodobě se věnuje tvorbě formátů, které propojují umění, komunity a udržitelnost. Zajímá ho, jak skrze kreativitu pečovat o vztahy – mezi lidmi, místy i idejemi. V projektu Příběhy kreativity mapuje proměny tvorby a představivosti v časech nejistoty a hledá inspiraci v různých podobách lidské tvořivosti.

Pietro is a Blockchain Security Engineer at ChainSecurity

Puncar is a leading advocate for DAOs as the next evolution of organizations, specializing in governance, coordination, and decentralized decision-making. As co-author of How to DAO, he distills years of DAO research into actionable insights for builders, founders, and organizations exploring onchain governance.

With experience working with pioneering DAOs such as MakerDAO, Gitcoin, and Index Coop, Puncar has played a key role in shaping governance frameworks and meta-governance initiatives. He has also contributed to grants programs for Arbitrum and Polygon and closely follows funding mechanisms like Optimism’s Retroactive Public Goods Funding.

Beyond his work in decentralized governance, Puncar explores the intersection of DAOs and artificial intelligence, analyzing how agentic systems and automation will redefine coordination and governance structures. His expertise spans both theoretical foundations and practical applications, making him a sought-after speaker on the future of governance, human coordination, and the emerging role of AI-driven decision-making within decentralized ecosystems.

Radim is an attorney-at-law at Blockchain Legal, the most experienced cryptocurrency law firm on the Czech and Slovak market. He advises not only corporate clients, but also a wide range of individual clients. Among other things, he focuses on setting up legal aspects of portfolios, investments and family and inheritance models. He has been practicing law in this area since 2015.

Rémi is a co-founder of Self, a ZK-KYC protocol allowing any third-party application to verify the identity of their users while preserving complete anonymity.
He is also head of engineering at Self Labs, leading research on new ways for individuals to prove who they are using government issued credentials and cutting edge cryptography.

Dubois Renaud - Cryptologist with 20 years of experience (Thales Defense, Ledger). Realizations include several publications and patents, and delivering the fastest generic ecc implementations, including passkeys integrated in Coinbase Smart Wallet.

Rica Amaral is a creative strategist and entrepreneur working at the intersection of technology, impact, and culture. He is the Co-Lead and Head of Marketing at Celo EU and also serves as Co-Lead of the Celo Regional Council. Rica is a co-founder of PositiveBlockchain and ReFi Lisboa and hosts planta-R, a Portuguese podcast exploring blockchain’s role in regeneration. With over a decade of experience, he focuses on initiatives that merge collective intelligence, decentralized innovation, and sustainable development.

An engineer by background, which worked at Google, Facebook, became passionate about the idea of the Open Web (not so much defi, but learned to appreciate it as well later) and joined NEAR protocol as early infrastructure engineer. After NEAR started Calimero with the idea of building a solution for enabling private data in Web3.

Tech archaeologist. Researcher in Civilisational Resilience. Mobilis Institute founder. Monty Python and big dog fan. #LeaveTheCave

Sasha Tanase Luca – Research Lead & Web3 UX Advocate
Sasha Tanase Luca has been shaping web3 user experiences since 2018, making them one of the first user researchers in the space. As a Research Lead, they ensure that user needs are at the core of decentralized product development. Previously, Sasha led design and research at ConsenSys (Head of Design, Alethio), SelfKey (Design Lead), Keep Network, tBTC, and Threshold Network (UX & Research Lead).

Passionate about bridging the gap between developers and users, Sasha acts as the users' advocate, making sure their voices are heard in product decisions. They are also the co-founder of Web3UX, a dedicated user panel for research in decentralized systems. Currently, they are working on a thesis exploring trust, usability, and adoption in web3.

research @ L2BEAT

An Ethereum Bard who lives on the front lines at hackathons and Zuzalu inspired pop up cities. Confounder of the Open-Source Orchestra and Lemonade.social.

Simon Mohn is a speaker, process facilitator, and social innovator, as well as a co-founder of Reinventing Society. In his talks and workshops, he brings to life many of the methodological and conceptual approaches he has developed for Reinventing Society.
As a practice-oriented researcher, one of his main focuses is the development of concepts and approaches for process-oriented societal development. His diverse experience in organisational and personal development informs his work in this field.
Simon has a background as an organisational developer and coach in the non-profit and public sectors. Academically, he is rooted in peace and conflict studies (MA), political science, and sociology.
Beyond his professional work, Simon draws inspiration from his friendships and personal pursuits, including time in nature, festivals, travel, parkour, and onewheeling.

More than dev at @pwndao

Blockchain educator and developer focused on Ethereum and smart contracts. MSc in digital currencies. She has been working with technology for over 20 years. Speaker in world conferences since 2018, also she won awards at Ethereum hackathons. Co-founder ETHSamba. She was listed in Cointelegraph Brazil top 50 and top 2 women.

Ajayi Stephen is a seasoned Offensive Security and Blockchain Security Specialist with deep expertise in penetration testing, decentralized application (dApp) audits, cryptography, and AI security. Based in London, he has led high-impact security initiatives across traditional and blockchain environments, delivering end-to-end audits, secure architecture reviews, red team operations, and threat modeling across cloud platforms and smart contract ecosystems.

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Tereza Bízková is a storyteller and communications strategist focused on the intersection of technology and positive impact. She is the Community Lead at Funding the Commons, hosts the ReFi Podcast, and founded ReFi Medellín, a local regenerative community in Colombia. She also contributes to initiatives like Crypto Altruism, shaping narratives around Web3, decentralized innovation, public goods, and impact-driven projects.

Crypto builder focused on governance, public goods, and decentralization.

Tomáš Mikolov is a Czech computer scientist working in the field of machine learning. In March 2020, Mikolov became a senior research scientist at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics.

Tomáš Studeník
CEO of Insane Business Ideas | Founder of Caelestinus Global HealthTech Incubator

Tomáš Studeník is a radical innovator, urban hacker, and the CEO of Insane Business Ideas, a consultancy that helps major corporations unlock their digital potential through bold innovation and a global network of top-tier hackers.

Tomáš is the founder of Caelestinus, a global healthtech incubator based in Prague that empowers early-stage startups to transform healthcare through digital innovation, with a focus on interoperability, patient data, and AI.

He is the author of two acclaimed books on learning from mistakes: The Art of Failure and The Big Book of FuckUps, and he teaches the groundbreaking course Science of Failure at the University of Hradec Králové.

Tomáš holds an MBA from the University of Liverpool and an MSc in Innovation from HEC Paris. He is also the mastermind behind CEE Hacks, one of the largest innovation marathons in Central Europe, uniting young talents to solve real-world challenges in healthcare, sustainability, mobility, and beyond.

In 2021, he premiered THEAITRE, the world’s first stage play written by artificial intelligence—further proof that when it comes to the future, Tomáš doesn’t wait for it. He builds it.

Co-Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation |
Founder @nethermindeth | Lantern Capital @lanterncap_

Uttam Singh is a Blockchain Engineer and Ethereum Educator, currently working as a Sen. DevRel Engineer at Alchemy. He has previously contributed to leading Web3 companies such as Polygon, Flare, and Binance. Uttam has been public speaker at events like ETH CC, ETH DAM, ETH Belgrade, ETH Oxford, NFT NYC & multiple tech universities.

Valentin Boureaud is a software engineer with experience in the AI and blockchain ecosystems. Passionate about how these technologies can shape and improve the digital landscape, he focuses on developing innovative solutions that address critical issues such as security, transparency, and trust. He is driven by the desire to create systems that prevent digital manipulation and disinformation, thus ensuring the ethical and responsible use of new technologies. Aware of the interplay between AI and blockchain to solve real-world problems, he is constantly exploring new ways to leverage these technologies for positive societal impact.

Ecosystem Manager at Starkware

founder and architect of Swarm. President of the Swarm Foundation. Ethereum OG, 1st employee of Ethereum Foundation, ex project lead at EF. free dom fighter, code artist, geek power advocate, orange hat, bzz maximalist

OG PRIVACY VAMPIRE / TRUE BITCOIN MAXIMALIST / INTERESTED IN SCALING + PRIVACY TECH

Vojtěch works for the city of Prague as an architect in the Prague institute of planning and development. In his daily work, he deals with matters both small and big – from a paving tile to the whole street grid. Most of the time, it is quite enjoyable, and the not-so-fun times are made better by his wonderful colleagues. He loves the mountains and can sometimes be seen on a theater stage.

Vugar Usi Zade is an award-winning business leader and communications strategist with 15
years of experience driving growth across Fortune 500 giants, tech unicorns, and Web3
disruptors. As Chief Operating Officer of Bitget, this award-winning strategist has transformed
the exchange from a top-20 contender to the world's second-largest crypto platform, multiplying
its user base fivefold to 120 million through a mix of decentralized leadership and calculated
risk-taking.
With 15 years of experience scaling both Fortune 500 giants and Web3 ventures, Vugar's
career is nothing short of a playbook in modern growth hacking. He's shaped narratives at
Facebook and Twitter, redefined brand strategies at Coca-Cola and SONY, and co-founded a
MarTech unicorn before most understood the space. As an early Web3 advisor at Bain &
Company, he was decoding blockchain's potential while others were still debating its existence.
An alumnus of both Harvard (as an Edward S. Mason Fellow) and Oxford, Vugar possesses a
unique blend of expertise that combines academic policy sophistication with hands-on
experience gained in the fast-paced world of startups. This duality fuels his leadership: global in
vision but hyper-local in execution, bold in ambition yet grounded in economic reality. Beyond
Bitget, he hosts Usi Talk, a no-BS podcast where AI, crypto, and emerging tech collide with
hard-won insights.

Wessel Reijers is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Media Studies, Paderborn University. Additionally, he holds visiting scholarships at the Technion and at the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute. He received a PhD in technology ethics from Dublin City University. Previously, he was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, a Research Associate in the ERC project “BlockchainGov”, led by Dr. Primavera de Filippi, and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna.

Wessel’s current research explores the impacts of emerging technologies on citizenship, most notably coming from social credit systems. Additionally, he explores the nature of distributed governance, investigating its potential as well as its pitfalls.

Wessel is the author of Blockchain Governance, Narrative and Technology Ethics and co-editor of the edited volume Interpreting Technology.

Apart from his research, Wessel likes to write fiction, make music, and make some paintings once in a while.

Yaniv Tal is the founder The Graph & Geo, where he’s building the foundations for a decentralized, verifiable Web3. With a background in firmware, UI, and decentralized protocols, he now focuses on building a new knowledge graph standard enabling composable, user-owned apps. Yaniv is also cofounder of Edge & Node and House of Web3 in San Francisco.

Yudi is the founder of DeTrip, co-founder of MobiFi (15x on TGE, $21M MCAP 2021, lead MobiFi from ICO to exit).
He worked as the IT CTO advisor of Shell (team lead on emerging digital technology) before entering into web3.
He is not a developer but he enjoys writing code and build things.