Web3 Summit 2026
2026-06-18..2026-06-19
Berlin, Germany
[Web3 Summit 2018, Web3 Summit 2019: Chainlink Oracle HackerNode, Web3 Summit 2024, Web3 Summit 2025, Web3 Summit 2026]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| That Was See you next year! | 01m | |
A brief 2–3 minute closing that contains no technical claims, no demos, and no concrete takeaways — mostly crowd noise, repeated vocal fragments transcribed as… | ||
| Apps Built on Polkadot | Alex Bird, Anton Khvorov | 25m |
Polkadot mobile, web and desktop apps implement a private by default superapp: chat, media, voice/video calls and payments all use end-to-end encryption, no… | ||
| The Hidden Price of Free | Heidi Mallace, Bill Laboon, Oliver Poole | 25m |
Web3 Foundation quantifies how much companies extract from everyday web use, claiming $6,500 per US user per year (about $831,000 lifetime), $1,600 per UK/EU… | ||
| The Neutral Ground: Money, Power & Multipolar Internet | Friederike Ernst | 29m |
A few concrete failures and fixes: a judge unexpectedly finds herself locked out of accounts and in 2022 the West freezes $630 billion, showing Swift, dollar… | ||
| More Truth: What We3 Was Chasing & What Got Away | Andrea Leiter | 24m |
Argues that Web3 has shifted from a world-making stack to a techno-financial substrate prioritizing automated transactions over social care, documenting that… | ||
| Polkadot, Human Web3 | Gavin Wood | 56m |
Parity reframes focus around a new user layer called Trinity user agent that glues products to users, supports Polkadot and other protocols, and exposes a… | ||
| The K-Hole Economy & The Permanent Underclass | Joshua Davila | 31m |
Argues the economy is a dissociated, K-hole economy where capital lifts away from material labor, citing Axie Infinity’s token collapse, the PoW→PoS shift as… | ||
| Closing Keynote | Yanis Varoufakis | 01h 07m |
Argues that platforms are a new algorithmic capital as behavioral machinery that trains users, extracts rents (example: tailored Amazon listings redirect… | ||
| Manifesto for a Dark Renaissance | Amir Taaki | 24m |
DarkFi claims an L1 for anonymous smart contracts with a shipped testnet and imminent mainnet; stack includes a ZK compiler, wallet, node explorer, OTC swaps… | ||
| Polkadot App: Under the Hood | Torsten Stüber, Adrian-Costin Catangiu | 39m |
Polkadot Products Platform exposes a single Trinity API that runs on hosts (mobile, desktop, web) with a built‑in light client (smalldot), isolating each… | ||
| People Don't Use Technology. They Use Products | Karim Jedda | 19m |
A demo embeds block hashes into a live transcript and issues a cryptographic receipt that signs the exact words and links them to one unique human username… | ||
| The Fight for the Future of Artificial Intelligence | Nick Srnicek | 35m |
AI agents perform multi-step plans, run code, and now sustain tasks for 16+ hours (Claude Mythos) because of scaffolding like MCP and agent-to-agent protocols… | ||
| Artists Should be Running This | JA Westenberg | 26m |
Argues that Web3 needs artist alchemists in charge, not profit-first aspirants who turned the space into repeated rug pulls; cites Minor Threat/Fugazi DIY… | ||
| Rewriting the Rules | Nina Sideler, Samuel Jacques Cloutier, Florence D'Ath | 35m |
Global AML and data rules concentrate policy in bodies like the FATF, pushing KYC, public beneficial ownership registers and proposals to certify hardware and… | ||
| Privacy Won The Argument. So Why Are We Still Losing? | Max Schrems | 30m |
NOYB is a Vienna nonprofit with ~5,500 supporters and 25 staff doing strategic litigation, winning many rulings but losing enforcement: a €1.2B penalty remains… | ||
| Cypherpunk Culture | Paul Dylan-Ennis, Rachel-Rose O'Leary, Max Hampshire | 30m |
Argues that cypherpunk ideas predate crypto and that public‑key work (Diffie‑Hellman) shifted power; claims unconditional privacy at the base layer is… | ||
| The Future of Truth | Luz Reyes, Carlos Aguiló, José Martínez, Pauline Cohen Vorms | 30m |
Independent Latin American newsrooms argue that traditional grants, subscriptions and NFTs failed to deliver sustainability after 11 years (since 2014), so… | ||
| JAM & DOT DAOism | Gavin Wood | 56m |
JAM is a collective computer that enforces hard resource limits: it exposes 341 cores and roughly ~20 million kilobytes of footprint (about 20 GB), requires… | ||
| Belonging Before Identity | Sanne Wassink, Michiel Heij | 14m |
Socialtec runs a field experiment in Almen, a 1,200-person Dutch village with centuries of Noaberschap, and builds a volunteering app that converts social… | ||
| Web3 Summit 2026 | 01m | |
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