​Building the d/acc Internet: Resilient Infrastructure, Privacy, and the Open Commons

​Ethereum builds on top of the open and free internet and pushes the boundaries of censorship-resistance, privacy and open source. But is this freedom and openness by default?

​Pop-X Berlin is an evening on Ethereum, AI safety, Privacy, Open Source, and hacker culture in Berlin.

​🗓 June 4 · 18:00–21:30
📍 Full Node

​Co-hosted by UETH and Geode Labs
Sponsored by Gnosis

​Why you should join?

​The world is drifting. Digital infrastructure, financial rails, communication networks, quietly consolidating around a handful of intermediaries. AI surveillance has matured faster than regulation. Platform consolidation has accelerated. Legal and institutional resistance is losing ground.

​Hackers have long said that when the permitted instruction set no longer allows effective resistance, you find other instructions - you build systems that execute the commands the dominant machinery refuses to run.

​This is what d/acc points toward: decentralized, democratic, differential defensive acceleration. An infrastructure that is resilient, private, and sustained by open communities that won't disappear when pressure mounts. Vitalik Buterin has written about this, and the Ethereum Foundation's recent sharpening of focus around CROPS (censorship resistance, openness, privacy, and security) is a concrete expression of it.

​Ethereum is one attempt to rebuild part of the stack, a neutral, censorship-resistant protocol layer that no single party can shut down or capture. We have limited time to figure this out. That's what we're here to talk about.

​Agenda

​18:00 - 18:30 — Arrival & Mingle

​18:30 - 18:35 — Opening - The d/acc Internet

​18:35 - 18:50 — Privacy, Security, Ethereum, and RAILGUN (Edward P. Fricker, Privacy Lawyer)

​18:50 - 19:05 — Exploring Post-quantum Verkle (Matan Prasma, Stateless Consensus at Ethereum Foundation)

​19:05 - 19:20 — Interop & Ethereum Economic Zone (Friederike Ernst, Co-founder of Gnosis , Co-host of Epicenterbtc)

​19:25 - 19:45 — Networking Break

​19:45 - 20:00 — Right of Audience: A case for FOCIL (Sina Mahmoodi, Geth team at Ethereum Foundation)

​20:00 - 20:15 — Open Source as Strategic Infrastructure: Building Ecosystems That Last (Mario Behling, Co-founder of FOSSASIA)

​20:15 - 21:30 — Snacks, Drinks & Network Building

​​Who are we?

​🔹 UETH

​UETH Popup Academy is UETH’s offline distributed academy, dedicated to offering intensive short-term courses, hands-on activities, and community collaboration worldwide.

​🔹 Geode Labs

​Geode Labs is an Ethereum ecosystem development organisation and product studio, spun out of Ethereum Foundation to make Ethereum more accessible, resilient, and available to the people who need it most.