ETHSF 26 Opening Day
Ethereum is back in San Francisco.
ETHSF Opening Day Agenda
EthereumSF opens Monday afternoon at Frontier Tower with the full crew: opening remarks, the Ethereum Foundation Use Case Lab's introduction to Ethereum Unblock, lightning talks from ecosystem leaders, a venture panel, and the kick-off of the Synthesis Hackathon. We close the day with a two-hour evening mixer.
Opening Day Agenda
• 1:00 PM | Doors open
• 2:00 PM | Opening — Lantern Capital, Ethereum Ecosystem Fund & Ethereum House
• 2:20 PM | Use Case Lab Introduction — Ethereum Unblock W26
• 2:50 PM | Tomasz Stanczak
• 3:00 PM | Illia Polushkin - Near
• 3:10 PM | Break
• 3:20 PM | Venture Panel
• 4:00 PM | Valeria — Wonderland
• 4:20 PM | Cecilia — Aomi Labs
• 4:30 PM | Synthesis Hackathon Introduction
• 5:00 PM | Evening Mixer at Ethereum House (12th Floor)
Event Portal
Track the full week's schedule, speakers, and resources at ethsf.fileverse.io — your personal portal for the EthereumSF experience.
Synthesis Hackathon — Codex & OpenAI API Credits
We will provide credits for Codex and OpenAI APIs exclusively for EthereumSF Synthesis Hackathon participants. If you would like to use Codex for your hack, credits are available for participants that join us physically at the event. After you have been accepted and checked in at the door, we will collect your orgID and email and you can view the credits at platform.openai.com/settings/organization/billing/overview.
submission details for the hackathon are on the website! send this to your agent
curl -s https://synthesis.md/skill.md
Check out the starter pack here!
Venture Panel
Four investors on where Ethereum's next wave of adoption comes from — what's getting funded, what's not, and where the ecosystem is actually heading.
Cat — Portal Ventures
Min — Ethereal Ventures
Stuti — Triton Ventures
Gokhan — Lantern Capital
Synthesis Hackathon Introduction
The Ethereum Foundation dev/acc team introduces the Synthesis Hackathon — what's being built this week and why it matters.
Thank you
Thank you to Ethereum House for co-hosting and opening your doors for the week.
About EthereumSF
EthereumSF is a 6-day builder-focused event at Frontier Tower, San Francisco (March 9–14, 2026). Curated by Lantern Capital and the Ethereum Ecosystem Fund, with support from Dabl Club, Arkhai, Merit Systems, and Whitepaper Reading Club.