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Another week, another round of gigabrain speaker intros 🖤 Read on to see who else will be taking the stage in Berlin, in just 17 days 👇

Jarrad Hope from Logos will introduce Cryptarchia, a private proof-of-stake protocol that hides validator identities, & Blend, a mixnet for anonymizing block proposals through encrypted broadcasting, artificial traffic, and timing obfuscation.

Mikel Cortes, ProbeLab, will dive into why the networking layer, not consensus or proofs, may be the real bottleneck in P2P systems. He'll unpack the latest research and proposals to optimize GossipSub in libp2p and rethink message propagation at the protocol level.

Johannes Kühlewindt from @radicle.xyz will discuss how moderation can work in peer-to-peer networks without central authorities, using radicle as a case study. He’ll discuss cryptographic identities, trust graphs, and the balance between openness and governance.

Basti from l2beat will give us a spicy tour of Ethereum scaling’s worst offenders, using sharp technical critique to surface the ecosystem’s unwritten values, and offer a clearer intuition of where alignment falls short and how to improve it.

Jeff Strnad from Stanford University will present new research on how different governance models perform epistemically—meaning, how likely they are to reach the right decision. From partial abstention to transfer delegation and prediction markets, this talk dissects what actually works for DAOs.

@jthor.bsky.social will explore how to build fully censorship-resistant applications—without compromising user experience. He'll highlight practical tools, common centralization pitfalls, and what it takes to extend decentralization all the way to end users.