Taylor Stage
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Wednesday, April 1's Schedule - Taylor Stage
The Early Days of Ethereum

Bob Summerwill
STRATO
Early Days of Ethereum (https://earlydaysofeth.org) is a social history project seeking to preserve the history and stories of the hundreds of people who were involved with the project from the earliest days. Some videos, many stories, some laughs.
Educating Developers, What can we Learn from Experimental Schools?

Gwen
BNB Chain
Exploring new education models emerging in the US—spaced repetition, 1:1 tutoring, and neuroscience-based methods, and how these techniques can reshape the way developers learn in an AI-driven world.
There is such a thing as a free lunch - the deep fake refund economy

Praneeth Srikanti
Ethereal Ventures
Speaking about the rise of fraud in refunds food delivery platforms as generative AI takes centre stage, and using media provenance and on chain risk transfer to combat this
The Future of the Agent Economy: How Protocols Like x402 and ERC-8004 Will Build an Autonomous World

He Who Remains
Swarms
Join a dynamic panel to explore the agent economy's explosive growth, where AI agents transact autonomously via x402 payments and ERC-8004 trust registries. We'll debate how these protocols enable a $30T+ market by 2030, outscaling human economies.
Why DeFi agents beat humans and curators

Gauthier Vila
Zyfai
Recent defaults like Stream Finance and Resolv led to millions lost in DeFi yield. Discover how personalized agents, operating from user wallets with guardrails, enable more secure and efficient capital management.
$1B across 7 blockchains: deep dive into the tech architecture of Europe’s largest RWA issuer

Nicolas Assouad
Spiko
Spiko manages over $1B in RWA across 7 blockchains. In this talk, we share the smart contract architecture and multi-chain infrastructure that allow us to operate high-throughput, regulated financial products at scale.
In Ethereum we trust: the new Church of money issuance

Otto Jacobsson
YAP Global
With stablecoins, we’re returning to a historical situation where money was issued privately. Stablecoin issuers will be the largest holders of government debt. The Church was the money coordination mechanism, this will now be Ethereum.
Making Ethereum Post Quantum


Kayden Moroz Liebl, Kolby Moroz Liebl
https://github.com/ReamLabs/ream, Offchain Labs
Ethereum is at a crossroads that leaves us buried in technical debt, we decided to start over with Lean Ethereum. This is the story of ReamLabs pioneering a PQ Rust client that is turning the once big idea into a working code at the head of the chain
Future-Proof Your Treasury: Post quantum Accounts for Kohaku wallet

Simon Masson
ZKNox
Demonstration of post-quantum signature integration into Kohaku wallet
Executing the Trustless Manifesto: Colibri Inside Ethereum’s Wallet SDK Kohaku

Steffen Kux
corpus.core GmbH / colibri.stateless
KOHAKU integrates the colibri.stateless client to remove RPC trust from wallets. Consensus and execution data are locally verified with minimal overhead. This brings the Trustless Manifesto into practice and enables wallets to operate fully trustless
Comparing & Benchmarking Post Quantum Digital Signature Schemes


Alexander, Andrey Ivasko
Miden, researcher
Benchmarking post-quantum signature schemes (Falcon-512, Dilithium, SPHINCS+ and more) with real performance numbers, sizes, security assumptions, implementation risks, and zkVM verification overhead to guide production-ready choices.
Bridging Financial Institutions and Privacy: Ethereum’s Institutional Privacy Stack

Yanis Meziane
Ethereum Foundation
How Ethereum’s privacy primitives map to concrete regulatory requirements for institutions. A practical guide to building compliant private systems on Ethereum.
FHEthereum: FHE for Ethereum

Eugene Joo
Wasder
Fully Homomorphic Encryption enables computation on encrypted data without decryption. FHEthereum brings CKKS-based FHE to Ethereum, unlocking privacy-preserving smart contracts, confidential DeFi, and encrypted on-chain computation.
The Ethereum Kernel

Martin Hansen
Ethereum Foundation
The Ethereum community is building civilizational technology that lasts. This talk explores the critical components of the world computer and why we must ensure it remains credibly neutral and resilient for decades to come.