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Only 7 days left until the second edition of Protocol Berg! And we are very excited to be dropping the final speaker announcements 🔥 Talks on censorship resistance, new execution layers, testing methods, oracle design, and more! Read on for the details 👇

Protocol Berg v2

@protocol.berlin

@vitalik.ca , @ethereum.foundation , will give a deep dive on his proposal to replace the EVM with RISC-V as Ethereum’s virtual machine, arguing it could dramatically improve both efficiency and simplicity in the execution layer.

4/6/25, 4:37 pm0 reposts13 likes

Protocol Berg v2

@protocol.berlin

4 June 2025

Lukas Rajnoha & Michal Převrátil , ackee.xyz , will introduce Manually Guided Fuzzing, a new smart contract security testing method that combines targeted guidance with fuzzing efficiency to improve vulnerability detection in complex DeFi systems.

Protocol Berg v2

@protocol.berlin

4 June 2025

Luis Bezzenberger , Andreas Erwig, Marc Harvey-Hill present the "Holy Trinity of Censorship Resistance", enshrined PBS, FOCIL, & encrypted mempools, as a path to restoring fairness and neutrality in Ethereum, with a @gnosischain mainnet demo of encrypted transaction flow from the user perspective.

Protocol Berg v2

@protocol.berlin

4 June 2025

Nikita Polianskii , iota.org , introduces Starfish, a partially synchronous DAG-based BFT protocol that combines certified security with low-latency efficiency using Encoded Cordial Dissemination, enabling linear communication complexity and strong performance in Byzantine conditions.

Protocol Berg v2

@protocol.berlin

4 June 2025

Seres István András will analyze how Ethereum’s RANDAO can be exploited, introducing the RANDAO forking attack, a strategy that undermines fairness and reliability by selectively forking blocks for profit, and shows how it may be more harmful than previously studied selfish mixing attacks.