Monroe Stage

Run Local-first AI agents in your hardware. The stack is here: keep data private locally, discover each other via ERC-8004, and transact through micropayments. Not your weights, not your brain; not your data, not your agent.

Is decentralization in crypto broken? After 14 years here I've grown deeply skeptical of tokens as the primary coordination mechanism. Come hear why they’ve exhausted their utility and what I think comes next for decentralization, especially for AI.

Deriving L2 state inside a zkVM is expensive—these pipelines weren't designed for proving. We'll show how sparse techniques cut derivation costs by 6.5× (3.5× overall), using Optimism as a concrete example.

This presentation explores how decentralized AI agents and social graph analysis can unlock a new model for reputation based lending. Instead of relying on traditional credit scores, decentralized AI risk assessors evaluate a borrower’s trust network

Unpack Bitwise's institutional staking blueprint. Deep dive into infrastructure utilizing multi-client redundancy (for resilience/uptime) and threshold key management (for slashing-proof security).

Ethereum continues to evolve through the work of a global community of builders, researchers, developers, and organizations. This talk offers a reflection on recent developments across the ecosystem and themes related to Ethereum’s ongoing progress.

AI is only as good as its prompter. Learn how we leverage AI, the Wonderland way.

Kohaku is a set of primitives that provides wallets with security and privacy. The project is focusing on privacy features and a browser extension that demonstrates the power of these features and targets power users.

Current AI models can pattern match but not truly reason, and this limits what they are capable of. In this talk, I will outline how an open source market for the best reasoning agents will be essential in forging the path to true AGI.

I've made a token bridge events dataset on dune, covering all appchain/L2 native bridges and 3rd party bridges. I focused on EVM chains but included most other chains too. I'll be presenting the dataset and some of the insights we can gather from it.

EthCC has been a friendly testbed for POAP to try to new stuff. Several ambitious activations were executed and a bunch of lessons were learned. Patricio Worthalter reviews his uninterrupted attendance to EthCC over the past 9 years.

A pragmatic deep dive into DePIN token design—why now, business models, and concrete mechanics (fiat-linked rewards, buy/burn, stake) with case studies like GEOD, Glow, and Fluence to show how real networks scale and sustain value.

What if we valued Ethereum like the Internet? Indeed, Ethereum must be valued as a public goods infrastructure. This talk presents a three-lens framework revealing Ethereum's multi-trillion-dollar potential is far from today's reality.