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Monday, March 30's Schedule - Hepburn Stage
MiCA Lookback: Regulation, Adoption, and Europe’s Crypto Crossroads
Ambroise Helaine
Bybit
A practical look back at MiCA’s impact on the European crypto market—what regulation enabled, what it constrained, and whether it helped Europe scale crypto adoption while staying competitive globally.
ERC-3643 Regulation
RealDennisO, Redwan Meslem
Ascend, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
Provide an overview of adoption of ERC-3643 by the SEC and 23 jurisdictions around the world
Rate Discovery: The Key to Fixed-Rate Onchain Lending
Merlin Egalite
Morpho
DeFi lending has solved liquidity, risk isolation, and capital efficiency. The last missing piece is pricing. This talk explores why formula-driven rates hit a ceiling and how market-driven rate discovery unlocks the next era of onchain credit.
The Metamorphosis of DeFi: The Herd Is Finally Here
Jake O
BitGo
BitGo is spreading its wings and ready to take flight: The time is now. DeFi must evolve to match the unprecedented institutional growth over the past 18 months.
Welcome to IYKYK
Dani O., Maria Magenes
@waverlymaven, SpaghettETH, Hype
Welcome to IYKYK
Decentralized AI: Friends or Foes
Danny, Diogo Ortega, Lucas Martin Calderon, Sophia
Hype , Gensyn.ai, kash.bot, Ethereum Foundation
Autonomous agents need to transact, LLMs need to be verified, and the rails can't belong to the same companies building the models.
The Future of Programmable Money
Benjamin Sarquis Peillard, Abi Dharshan, Bruno Faviero, Gareth Jenkinson
Cap, Zerion, Kraken & Magna, The Block
The Future of Programmable Money
The Internet’s New Rails: What it takes to move trillions of dollars onchain
Jay Jog, Ellie Davidson, Parker Edwards, Tim Copeland, Charles St. Louis
Sei Labs, Espresso Systems, Framework Ventures, The Block, Ethereum Foundation
Crypto has spent years building the infrastructure for a new financial system. Stablecoins and real-world assets are gaining traction. New demands for high-throughput execution and coordinated liquidity are emerging. These rails are beginning to carry real capital at scale. What does the future look like?
Ship Fast, Get Rekt
Torgin Mackinga, Debra Nita Ravindran, Julien Bouteloup, OxFlint_, Pablo Sabbatella
ChainSecurity, YAP Global, Stake Capital Group, Certora, Opsek / SEAL
Speed over security, shipping over auditing, vibes over verification. Security engineers and builders go head-to-head on the decisions that got us here and whether the industry is learning anything or just getting rekt at scale.
Trust Me, It's Private
Maxwell, Koh Harada, Ais Connolly, Zac Williamson
NEAR HoS, Aleo, TACEO, Aztec Foundation
######### [see you there]
The Final Showdown: Cypherpunks vs Suits
Marc Zeller, Julia Szyndzielorz, Drew Osumi, Fede, Dani O.
ACI, Opera & MiniPay, Ethereum Community Foundation, LambdaClass, @waverlymaven
The cypherpunks wrote the manifesto. The suits wrote the checks. Was institutional adoption the endgame, the evolution, or the exit liquidity? How crypto organizations are impacted?
Zenith: connecting the Ethereum ecosystem with Canton
Norbert Vadas
Zenith
Zenith is a bytecode-compatible EVM execution environment that brings native Ethereum applications to Canton. It allows developers to deploy unmodified EVM applications on Zenith that are atomically composable with Canton’s institutional ecosystem.
Privacy that doesn’t break the chain
Tomer Weller
Stellar Development Foundation
Most privacy systems undermine what makes blockchain useful: openness and transparency. This talk outlines the future of privacy onchain; modular, opt-in, without sacrificing openness or interoperability. Privacy designed for the real world.
Ethereum and Chainlink: Building the Settlement and Connectivity Layer for the Tokenized Global Econ
Johann Eid
Chainlink Labs
Ethereum is emerging as a global settlement layer for onchain finance. This talk explores how Ethereum leverages the Chainlink standard to power DeFi, interoperability, and tokenized assets—connecting real-world markets to secure onchain settlement.