BuildETH 2025
BUILDETH 2025 is a one-day Eth dev conference focusing on Ethereum infrastructure, DeFi primitives and protocols, and building the new financial rails for digital assets.
Speakers and Talks
Josh Rudolf, Ethereum Foundation – The Ethereum Roadmap
Amy Kalnoki, Bitwave – The State of Tokenized Assets and Onchain Payments
Yevheniia Broshevan, Hacken – Building Resilient Systems in Ethereum
Kevin Leffew, Coinbase – x402: An Open Protocol for Internet-Native Payments
Matthew Chruscielski, ZetaChain – Stablecoins: Regulation, Risk, and Design Evolution
Gary Yang, CICADA Finance – Tokenomics, Liquidity, and Yield Engineering in On-Chain Asset Management
Jack O'Holleran, SKALE Labs – Proof of Encryption: Eliminating MEV and Unlocking Onchain Confidentiality
Noah Thorpe, Upside – AI Trading Meets Onchain Capital Markets
Rodrigo Coelho, Edge & Node – Deferred Payments for Agents: A Novel Enhancement to x402
Alice Shikova, SPACE ID – AI Agents and Protocols and Primitives Needed to Support Them
David Menard, Invaluable Labs – The Roadmap from Memecoins to Real World Assets (RWAs)
Samee Siddiqui, Rift Research, Inc. – Building a Peer-to-Peer Bridge between Bitcoin and Ethereum
Eugene Joo, Crypto Lab – FHE Using CKKS: Unlocking Machine Learning and Advanced DeFi on Ethereum
Sam Leichman, Overland Blockchain Group | Afeez Awowole, Ava Labs – Finance and Accounting for Digital Assets
Kevin Jones, Edge & Node/BuidlGuidl – Deploying an Ethereum-Powered AI Agent using Scaffold-ETH
Justin Zhang, Sparsity.ai – Building Trustless Agents with ERC-8004
Eric Forst, Blocksee – Decentralized AI
Conference Topics
DeFi primitives/protocols
Stablecoins and stablecoin design
Real world assets (RWAs)
Tokenomic structures
x402 Payments
Digital asset accounting
Automated trading infrastructure
AI-managed wallets
The Ethereum ecosystem
zkEVMs and based rollups
Order sequencing
L1 and L2 interoperability
Smart contract security and performance
UX improvements
Regulatory issues and governance