Web3
Summit
2025

JULY 16-18

FUNKHAUS BERLIN

Web3
Summit
2025

JULY 16-18
FUNKHAUS BERLIN
Tickets
WED 16
10:00 - 10:10 GMT +2
Welcome Remarks
Studio 1
Thomas Fecker Boxler
Web3 Foundation
CEO & CFO
10:10 - 11:00 GMT +2
Opening Keynote Day 1: Trust
Studio 1
Ian Grigg
Ricardian Contracts
Inventor, Financial Cryptographer
11:00 - 11:25 GMT +2
Accelerating Brain Interfaces with a Web3 Twist
Studio 1
Trent McConaghy
Ocean Protocol
Founder
11:00 - 11:25 GMT +2
What’s in a VM? The Execution Engines Powering Web3’s Future
Studio 2
Torsten Stüber
Parity Technologies
Engineering Manager
11:25 - 11:50 GMT +2
Collator protocol & censorship resistance
Studio 2
Jeffrey Burdges
Web3 Foundation
Researcher
Bhargav Bhatt
Web3 Foundation
Researcher
11:25 - 11:50 GMT +2
Web 3, Authenticity and the Post-Photographic Age
Studio 1
Jonathan Dotan
Starling Lab
Founding Director
11:30 - 12:30 GMT +2
IPFS for Verifiable (D)App Distribution and Retrieval on the Web
Studio 4 (Workshops)
Daniel Norman
Interplanetary Shipyard
Developer Advocate
11:50 - 12:15 GMT +2
Let Blockchains Breathe: Architecting Scalability with Asynchronous Execution
Studio 2
Ali Merchant
Warden Protocol
Head of Devrel
11:50 - 12:15 GMT +2
Beyond Uptime: Enterprise Business Logic Execution With Trust-less Assurance
Studio 1
Mani Hagh Sefat
Energy Web
CTO
12:15 - 12:40 GMT +2
What would threshold cryptography look like in Polkadot
Studio 2
Alistair Stewart
Web3 Foundation
Lead Scientist
12:45 - 14:15 GMT +2
LUNCH BREAK
Outdoor
13:45 - 14:45 GMT +2
Content addressed storage and verified streaming for iroh
Studio 4 (Workshops)
Rüdiger Klaehn
iroh / n0 inc
Independent hacker
14:15 - 14:40 GMT +2
The wild world of Web3 rollups: the good, the bad and the ugly
Studio 2
Maciej Zyszkiewicz
Parity Technologies
Core Developer
14:15 - 14:45 GMT +2
Fireside: Policy in the Protocol Age: Web3 and the State
Studio 1
Tomicah Tillemann
Project Liberty
President
Zoe Cooper
OpenRefine
Journalist & Designer
14:40 - 15:05 GMT +2
State of distributed validators in 2025
Studio 2
Max Sherwood
H2O Nodes
Co-founder
14:45 - 15:10 GMT +2
Tokenized Sentiment: Staking as a New Form of Expression
Studio 1
Harry Evans
Frequency / Project Liberty
CTO
15:10 - 15:35 GMT +2
The Web3 Mullet: Web2 UX in the Front, Blockchain Logic in the Back
Studio 1
Kristinn Kristinsson
CCP Games
Technical Director
15:35 - 16:05 GMT +2
Panel: Governing the Decentralized Future
Studio 1
Bill Laboon
Web3 Foundation
Head of Education and Governance Initiatives
Angela Kreitenweis
TokenEngineering Academy
Founder
Jaya Klara Brekke
Nym
Chief Strategy Officer
Angie Darrow
Web3 Foundation
CECO & CMO
15:35 - 15:50 GMT +2
Liquefaction and Take My Ape
Studio 2
Ari Juels
Cornell Tech
Author & Professor
16:15 - 17:15 GMT +2
Closing Keynote Day 1
Studio 1
Gavin Wood
Polkadot
Founder
17:20 - 19:20 GMT +2
Welcome Reception
Outdoor
THU 17
10:00 - 10:50 GMT +2
Opening Keynote Day 2
Studio 1
Jaya Klara Brekke
Nym
Chief Strategy Officer
11:15 - 11:45 GMT +2
Panel: Building Developer Communities: From Grassroots to Global
Studio 1
Angie Darrow
Web3 Foundation
CECO & CMO
Vicktoria Klich
w3.hub
Co-Founder & Partner
Zachary Kornberg
Developer DAO
11:15 - 11:45 GMT +2
AI for Web3 Security: Real-World Use Cases and Developer Workflows
Studio 2
Dr. Jan Philipp Fritsche
Oak Security
Managing Director
11:30 - 12:30 GMT +2
Implementing the JAM Blockchain Protocol with Elixir
Studio 4 (Workshops)
Daniel Cukier
jamixir
Core Developer
11:45 - 12:10 GMT +2
Rethinking Developer Infrastructure: Decentralized and Democratized
Studio 2
Johannes Kühlewindt
radicle
Org Lead
11:45 - 12:10 GMT +2
Scaling compute supply 10x through crypto-economic incentives
Studio 1
Vukasin Vukoje
web3mine
Founder
12:10 - 12:35 GMT +2
Encrypted by Default: The Evolution of Data Control in Decentralized Networks
Studio 2
Wil Wade
Frequency / Project Liberty
Director of Blockchain Engineering
12:10 - 12:35 GMT +2
Open Source as a Factor of Trust
Studio 1
Hendrik Ebbers
Hashgraph
Director of Open Source
12:35 - 13:00 GMT +2
China’s RISC-V Strategy: Open Spec as JAM is Becoming the New Sovereignty of Technology
Studio 1
Qinwen Wang
Lollipop Builder Ltd.
CEO, Founder
12:35 - 13:00 GMT +2
Regenerative capital allocation
Studio 2
Kevin Owocki
Allo.Capital
Founder
13:00 - 14:30 GMT +2
LUNCH BREAK
Outdoor
14:00 - 15:00 GMT +2
Building the commerce protocols to scale AI agent Economy
Studio 4 (Workshops)
Sunny Chen
Aladdin
Founder and CEO
14:30 - 14:55 GMT +2
The Oracles Secure The Data — Who Secures The Oracles?
Studio 1
Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo
Wit/Oracle
Founder
14:30 - 14:55 GMT +2
Privacy and Compliance - A pragmatic approach
Studio 2
Alain Brenzikofer
Integritee AG
CTO
14:55 - 15:20 GMT +2
How Decompilation Uncovers Smart Contract Vulnerabilities
Studio 1
Neville Grech
Dedaub
Co Founder
15:15 - 16:15 GMT +2
Introducing Brevity: An interpreted EVM language that runs arbitrary workflows
Studio 4 (Workshops)
Jonathan Wolff
Isentropy
CTO
15:20 - 15:50 GMT +2
Building Successful Blockchain Games
Studio 1
Kasper Mai Jørgensen
Mythical Games
CFO
15:50 - 16:15 GMT +2
Private Bids, Public Proofs: A New Design for Onchain Auctions
Studio 1
Younes Talibi Alaoui
Gnosis Guild
Cryptographer
16:15 - 17:15 GMT +2
Closing Keynote Day 2
Studio 1
Joe Halpern
Cornell University
Joseph C. Ford Professor of Computer Science
17:15 - 19:15 GMT +2
Happy Hour
Outdoor
FRI 18
10:00 - 10:45 GMT +2
Opening Keynote Day 3: Taking Decentralized AI Mainstream
Studio 1
Anna Kazlauskas
Vana
Co-founder & CEO
10:45 - 11:10 GMT +2
Accountable AI agents
Studio 1
Ingo Rübe
KILT Protocol
Founder
11:10 - 11:35 GMT +2
Wallets 3.0: How will the next generation of web3 wallets look like?
Studio 2
Hira Siddiqui
Plurality Network
Co-founder/CEO
11:10 - 11:35 GMT +2
Confidential, self‑sovereign LLMs
Studio 1
Alessandro De Carli
Acurast Association
Co-Founder
11:30 - 12:30 GMT +2
Your Protocol, Your Rules: Build and Launch a Custom Data Protocol on Frequency
Studio 4 (Workshops)
Wil Wade
Frequency
Director of Blockchain Engineering
11:35 - 12:00 GMT +2
Token Rights as a New Governance Paradigm
Studio 1
Rafa Fernández
ZKsync
Head of Governance
11:35 - 12:00 GMT +2
Dismantling One Data Monopoly at a Time in the Age of AI
Studio 2
Alfonso de la Rocha
Finisterra Labs
CTO
12:00 - 12:25 GMT +2
New insights into distributed and concurrent programming
Studio 2
Sergey Fedorov
Replica_IO
Research Engineer
12:00 - 12:25 GMT +2
The Future of Bitcoin Yield: Navigating Risk and Unlocking Safe Returns
Studio 1
Aki Balogh
iBTC
Co-founder & CEO
12:30 - 13:30 GMT +2
LUNCH BREAK
Outdoor
13:30 - 13:55 GMT +2
From Subjective Voting to Measurable Impact: How Metrics-Based Voting Changes the Governance Game
Studio 1
Angela Kreitenweis
TokenEngineering Academy
Founder
13:55 - 14:20 GMT +2
Aligned Apps: Software That Works For You
Studio 1
Lefteris Karapetsas
rotki
Founder
14:20 - 15:20 GMT +2
Closing Keynote Day 3: A New Cypherpunk Generation
Studio 1
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