“Allocation Obfuscation: Shielding the Funding Mechanism”

Martin Štrobl; Lightning Talk

Privacy-of-process with transparency-of-outcome is the model of private on-chain funding we are most likely heading towards. Private and anonymous DAOs will aim to shield funders and voters from liability, so the decision stays hidden and only results go public. This talk argues that comfort is false.

If an allocation mechanism is deterministic, the public set of recipients and amounts is an invertible function of the hidden decision. An adversary who knows the mechanism can reconstruct the process and partly infer an individual's implied liability.

I argue that every deterministic mechanism with transparent allocations leaks information. Hence the open problem on the table: allocation obfuscation.

I identify mechanism mixing as a promising direction. A second mechanism that injects funds so an observer cannot tell which mechanism, or how many, produced an allocation—adds obfuscation to the core mechanism.

I close with a short example: Draft-to-Funding, a mechanism I designed as a potential obfuscation layer.

“Anarchy with a Religious Face”

Josh Datko; Lightning Talk

The tools of anarchy are built from technology, alternative societies, and dissident politics. But one motivation is often overlooked: religious conviction.
This talk traces a lineage of religious anarchy from 15th-century Bohemians like Petr Chelčický, to authors like Leo Tolstoy and philosophers like Jacques Ellul who opposed the state on spiritual grounds. I’ll also share my own experience in a Quaker meeting. For over 350 years, the Quakers have had governance and consensus without voting — a better protocol than the blockchain! Belief is not required for this talk, but curiosity is.

“ARTivism: Hacking culture to defend privacy”

Bogomil Shopov - Бого; Talk

Decentralization only matters if people use it, but adoption starts with meaning, not code.

This talk starts with art as activism, showing how creative work like the theater project System Err 2052 can turn ideas like privacy and autonomy into something people can feel and relate to. It also connects to cypherpunk culture, where code, art, and resistance have always gone together to protect freedom and challenge control.

It then moves to design and technology, looking at how developers can build privacy tools that people actually want to use. With new research and real examples, it shows that usability is a form of activism, and that protecting user rights is both a technical and a creative task.

“Becoming Unregulatable”

Jedai; Talk

Modern finance runs on a quiet premise: trust the intermediaries, tolerate the friction, and accept that control lives elsewhere. Regulation did not create this structure—it accumulated around it. Each failure added more oversight, more reporting, more surveillance, while the core dependency remained intact.
This talk argues that the model is inverted. The real problem is not insufficient control, but too much hidden discretion embedded in systems the public cannot inspect. When money, identity, and access depend on opaque institutions, outcomes like debanking, censorship, and arbitrary enforcement are not anomalies—they are predictable.
“Becoming unregulatable” is not about evasion or chaos. It is about redesign. Protocol-based systems replace institutional discretion with verifiable rules. They narrow custody, reduce trust assumptions, and make enforcement explicit, mechanical, and auditable. Power shifts from rooms to code.
The session will move from diagnosis to construction:
Where control actually resides in today’s financial stack
Why compliance expansion increases fragility instead of resilience
How protocol design (cryptography, incentives, verification) changes the enforcement surface
What it means, practically, to build systems that do not require permission to function

“Cypherpunk and Other Stuff Transmitted By Relays”

Juraj B.; Talk

I did not like Nostr when it came out. Too basic, not very good privacy, not very decentralized. And yet, I keep building more and more apps for it. Decentralized mapping, decentralized events, scheduling, marketing tools, anonymous microblogs. Others have built things such as decentralized inference, private messaging, etc. Nostr stands for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays. This talk will focus on the Other Stuff and how they bring cypherpunk future into now.

“Do you even shield?”

marek; Workshop (Extended)

Technical workshop covering the shielded protocols in Zcash.

“Enriching cypherpunk culture: Tamers of Entropy novel”

Juraj B.; Lightning Talk

I started writing a cypherpunk/lunarpunk novel. I ended up changing how I look at things. We produced many artefacts - a soundtrack, a visual concept, and an artificial intelligence to go with it.

“Lowest Common Denominator Protocol”

Kermit; Talk

A general purpose peer to peer protocol for 2026, AI friendly, dual-NAT capable. Federated is not anti-fragile to political pressures. Not all NAT is uncooperative, but it's getting worse. Lets work together to keep P2P alive.

https://github.com/kermit4/LCDP

“Monero atomic swaps on Ethereum compatible chains”

hbs; Workshop

This workshop aims at walking the audience through the MoneroSwap UI to perform atomic swaps on Ethereum compatible blockchains using nothing more than a web browser and a Monero wallet. The audience will be able to perform swaps and get a chance to receive real XMR for fake money (a unique opportunity!).

Participants should arrive with a mobile Monero wallet and their choice of a laptop with a web3 wallet (Rabby, Ambire, ...) extension in their browser (Firefox, Brave, Chrome) or a mobile Web3 browser with dApp capabilities (Rabby, Metamask).

“Monero Exit Routes: Buying Real-World Assets in the E.U.S.S.R.”

Martin Arness; Talk

Monero gives you private money. But private money is only useful if it can still buy the things that matter: property, businesses, medical care, energy, or services that do not accept crypto.

That is the unresolved final mile. Through KYC, AML, debanking, and Operation Chokepoint-style pressure, governments have turned banks into the gatekeepers for large purchases and real-world ownership.

And if your capital can only be used in a handful of crypto-friendly jurisdictions, then your freedom is smaller than it looks.

This talk examines how private equity can be used as a bridge between XMR and real-world ownership. The key is not to make Monero acceptable to banks directly, but to route capital through private-market structures in jurisdictions where crypto payment rails are more commercially accepted.

Private equity is useful because institutions back home understand the business model: pooling capital, buying assets that conventional big investors often avoid, and taking calculated risks in jurisdictions they would not normally touch.

This creates an exit route where you keep your capital working in freedom-oriented countries, while building the asset-protection structure and paper trail needed to re-enter first-world financial systems when needed.
That is financial freedom: choosing when, where, and how to use your own money.

“Pubky: Identity Without Accounts Using DHT and Public Key Routing”

Severin Bühler; Workshop

In this hands-on workshop we'll build a working application where users authenticate, publish, and own their data using only a cryptographic keypair. No accounts, no platforms, no sign-up forms. Everything runs on Pubky, an open protocol that turns public keys (Ed25519) into routable domain names.

Pubky repurposes the DNS record format and Mainline DHT, the Kademlia-based network behind BitTorrent and the largest, most decentralized network on the planet. Your key becomes your address. PKARR (Public Key Addressable Resource Records) handles publishing and discovery on the DHT, PKDNS makes it compatible with the regular web, and Homeservers store your actual data. If a server goes down or censors you, you update one record and move on.

We'll walk through the full stack: generating keypairs, publishing and resolving PKARR records on live DHT nodes, standing up a Homeserver, and wiring it all into a working app. We'll also address why this architecture is fundamentally more scalable for the decentralized web than the approaches taken by other current protocols.

“Secure your digital legacy”

Michal Altair Valasek; Talk

Congratulations, you are dead and now everything is their problem now. All your secret died with you. All your passwords, passphrases, encryption keys, bitcoin wallets... Or not? In this talk I will show you some strategies you can use to disclose all (or at least some) of those secrets to the ones you left here when you die.

“The End of the Internet - film screening”

Dylan Reibling; Film

A screening of the feature-length documentary THE END OF THE INTERNET.
A film about the invisible operating system of the modern world. From an anarchist squat in Berlin, to a futuristic landscape in Taiwan, to a remote village in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, we encounter a series of figures from the internet decentralization movement. These radicals are confronting internet infrastructure and the unexpected ways it exerts pressure on their way of life. A journey through infrastructure, power, and history with the dissidents trying to hardwire a new path forward.

“The Small Web”

Aral Balkan; Talk

Big Tech is helping usher in a new age of fascism, complete with its complicity in a live-streamed genocide.

Small Tech is the opposite of Big Tech and the Small Web, what I’ve been working on building for the past six years, is the opposite of the Big Web.

Imagine a web where each of us has their own place. A place where we can be public if we choose to be, follow each other, and, crucially, communicate privately when we want to – actually privately, i.e, end-to-end encrypted privately.

That’s the Small Web.

It’s a simple concept.

The hard part is making is not only usable but a great experience for everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing.

(That’s why it’s taken me six years of work and constant iteration and rewrites to get it close to launch. Needless to say, we don’t need yet another alternative that no one but enthusiasts use because it’s too difficult to do so.)

Where Big Web is venture-capital funded, Small Web is non-corporate and not for profit. Where Big Web is either proprietary or “open” (as in open for business), Small Web is free (as in freedom). Where Big Web is fascist, Small Web is anarchist. Oh, and it’s also inclusive, accessible, and friendly. Did I mention we have kittens?

In this session, Aral will introduce you to the Small Web – a free as in freedom peer-to-peer web that is topologically decentralised yet doesn’t require technical knowledge to get started with.

“Verification Mythology: Why High-Assurance Cryptography Is Just Engineering”

Nadim Kobeissi; Talk

High-assurance cryptography has a mythology problem. The field presents itself as an arcane discipline where wizard-scholars produce machine-checked proofs that place code beyond reproach. The reality is more prosaic: it is software engineering with a proof step, and the proof step has the same failure modes as every other step — copy-paste errors, dead code, untested configurations, and documentation that drifts from reality. This talk draws on concrete evidence from two systematic studies of formally verified cryptographic libraries and the verification toolchains they depend on, spanning post-quantum primitives deployed in Signal and Google, the Rust-to-F⋆ extraction pipeline, and a comparative analysis of verification boundary practices across projects, to argue that demystifying formal verification is not merely a cultural preference but a prerequisite for making it actually work. The talk concludes with a lightweight auditing methodology that requires no specialized tooling and a set of structural practices, drawn from both negative and positive findings, for closing the gap between verification claims and verification reality.

“Workshop: Self-Hosted Monero Payments: Build a POS Backend + Android client”

ajs-xmr; Workshop

This workshop focuses on a hands-on deployment of a self-hosted Monero payment stack using Monero Merchant (https://moneromerchant.com). Participants will spin up the Dockerized backend, configure environment variables, and connect an Android POS client. By the end of the session, participants will execute an on-chain transaction, demonstrating the full payment flow from QR generation to detection and confirmation.

Participants should arrive with a preconfigured development environment including Docker Compose, Git, Make, and OpenSSL. An Android device is required. For those building the client from source, be sure to have Android Studio installed. A Monero wallet with a small amount of XMR is recommended for testing.