BuildETH 2025 (in the Presidio)
Location:
Edge & Node House of Web3
Building 103, Presidio, San Francisco 94129
The location is in the Presidio, off of the main lawn next to the Walt Disney Museum. (If you end up downtown, you want to the wrong street address.)
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.
Mainstage Schedule
10:00 AM The State of Tokenized Assets and Onchain Payments Amy Kalnoki, Co-Founder/COO, Bitwave
10:20 AM The Ethereum Roadmap Josh Rudolf, Ethereum Foundation
10:40 AM x402: An Open Protocol for Internet-Native Payments Kevin Leffew, Developer Platform, Coinbase
11:00 AM Deferred Payments for Agents: A Novel Enhancement to x402 Rodrigo Coelho, CEO, Edge & Node
11:30 AM –––– Breakouts –––– –––––––––
12:00 PM –––– Lunch –––– –––––––––
1:00 PM Tokenomics, Liquidity, and Yield Engineering in On-Chain Asset Management Gary Yang, CICADA Finance
1:25 PM Stablecoins: Regulation, Risk, and Design Evolution Matthew Chruscielski, Ecosystem Lead, ZetaChain
1:45 PM Proof of Encryption: Eliminating MEV and Unlocking Onchain Confidentiality Jack O'Holleran, Co-Founder/CEO, SKALE Labs
2:05 PM DeFi Panel Gary Yang, Noah Thorpe, Miko Matsumura
2:30 PM –––– Break –––– –––––––––
3:00 PM –––– Breakouts –––– –––––––––
3:30 PM Building Resilient Systems in Ethereum Yevheniia Broshevan, Co-Founder/CEO, Hacken
3:55 PM AI Trading Meets Onchain Capital Markets Noah Thorpe, Co-Founder/CEO, Upside
4:15 PM AI Agents, Protocols, and Primitives Alice Shikova, Marketing Lead, SPACE ID
4:35 PM The Roadmap from Memecoins to Real World Assets (RWAs) David Menard, General Partner, Invaluable Labs
4:55 PM AI Panel: Moderated by Kartik Talwar, A.Capital Ventures/ETH Global Jack O'Holleran, Eric Forst, Alice Shikova
Expert Session Schedule
10:30 AM Finance and Accounting for Digital Assets Sam Leichman, Overland Blockchain Group | Afeez Awowole, Ava Labs
11:00 AM Stablecoin Build Patterns Lucas Root, Ph.d
11:30 AM –––– Breakouts –––– –––––––––
12:00 PM –––– Lunch –––– –––––––––
1:00 PM FHE Using CKKS: Unlocking Machine Learning and Advanced DeFi on Ethereum Eugene Joo, Co-Founder, Crypto Lab
1:30 PM Deploy an Ethereum-Powered AI Agent with Scaffold-ETH Kevin Jones, Dev Rel Engineer, Edge & Node/BuidlGuidl
2:00 PM Building a Peer-to-Peer Bridge between Bitcoin and Ethereum Samee Siddiqui, Founder/CEO, Rift Research, Inc.
2:30 PM –––– Break –––– –––––––––
3:00 PM –––– Breakouts –––– –––––––––
3:30 PM ERC-8004 and Trustless Agents Justin Zhang, Co-Founder, Sparsity Labs
4:00 PM Tokenizing Trust: Building DeFi Escrow and Settlement Layers for Real-World Assets John Lombela, Founder/CEO, Axalio
4:30 PM Proof of Human-Enabled DeFi Andrew Wang, Senior Software Engineer, Tools for Humanity
Breakout Sessions
11:30 AM
x402 (Mainstage)
Kevin Leffew, Coinbase | Rodrigo Coelho, Edge & Node | Chris Johnson, Virtuals
Working with Tokenized Digital Assets (Boardroom)
Amy Kalnoki, Bitwave | Sam Leichman, Overland | Afeez Awowole, Ava Labs
Raising Capital in AI and Web3 (North Lounge)
Miko Matsumura, gCC
3:00 PM
Stablecoin Design (Mainstage)
Matthew Chruscielski, ZetaChain
Decentralized AI (Boardroom)
Eric Forst, Co-Founder/CEO, Blocksee
Confidential Compute (ZKs | TEEs | FHE)(North Lounge)
Samee Siddiqui, Rift Research | Eugene Joo, Crypto Lab
Dev Tooling (North Lounge)
Kevin Jones, Edge & Node/BuidlGuidl | Tyler Sehr, Cookbook