Vitalik Buterin
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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Ethereum (Roadmap) in 30min | Ethereum Day at Devconnect ARG 2025 | 2025-11-17 |
Roadmap hits concrete targets: gas capacity already up ~50% this year with votes moving toward 60 million gas limit, protocol changes like EIP-7732… | ||
| Welcome and Opening Ceremony for ETHGlobal New Delhi 2025 | ETHGlobal New Delhi 2025 | 2025-09-26 |
1,900 people gather for a 36‑hour hackathon with $200K in prizes, 21 workshops, and 30% new to Web3; projects must follow a start‑from‑scratch rule and… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Pragma Cannes 2025 | 2025-07-03 |
Regional trends show privacy demand in Prague and AI interest in Taipei, while Cannes centers on integration over new DeFi ideas. Robinhood launches an… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Pragma Prague 2025 | 2025-05-29 |
Argues DAOs stall because governance defaults to public forums, few hacks appear since 2021, and negotiation transparency enabled bad outcomes like the… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Pragma Taipei 2025 | 2025-04-03 |
Tooling now shortens MVP timelines with web3.js and Foundry but tutorials and ZK tooling (Circom verification, Solidity-to-ZK libs) lag; proposal-level… | ||
| Proof of personhood panel | Devcon SEA 2024 | 2024-11-12 |
Panel debates concrete limits and fixes for proof of personhood: 16.8M verified users and account recovery by returning to an orb exist, and front‑camera… | ||
| Keynote: Ethereum and AI: Synergies and Potential Applications | Korea Blockchain Week 2024 | 2024-09-01 |
Ethereum upgrades like EIP‑4844 enabling <1¢ transaction fees plus L2s make on‑chain AI interactions affordable, and prediction markets can operate at micro… | ||
| Ethereum Community and Values | ETHBerlin04 2024 | 2024-05-24 |
Argues that zero-knowledge proofs = blockchains because they add privacy and scalability, cites concrete wins: blobs + L2s under $0.01 and 5–10 second finality… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Pragma London 2024 | 2024-03-14 |
Blobs (EIP-4844) land and immediately cut fees 90–95%, Arbitrum hooks up to blobs and basic rollup scaling is achieved while full rollup scaling still awaits… | ||
| Hardening the Ethereum Ecosystem Across the Stack | Censorship.WTF 2023 | 2023-11-18 |
Ethereum faces concrete censorship vectors: centralized UIs (one address banned from Uniswap for Tornado use), dependence on ERC-1271 and centralized APIs, and… | ||
| Recap | Pragma Waterloo 2023 | 2023-06-22 |
Announces a surprise crypto kitties gift distributed to attendees, credits EIP-1559 and the merge with shrinking confirmation variance down to 12 seconds, and… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Pragma Waterloo 2023 | 2023-06-22 |
Defines rollups by concrete guarantees: proofs plus on-chain data let new actors sync; gives a clear stage 0 to stage 2 taxonomy (stage one uses a security… | ||
| zkEVM Technical Updates and Mainnet Beta Launch | Polygon ZK Day 2.0 | 2023-03-27 |
Polygon zkEVM reaches mainnet beta launched with an EVM-equivalent rollup that runs unmodified smart contracts and wallets, built from layered work on… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Polygon ZK Day 2.0 | 2023-03-27 |
Polygon zkEVM mainnet beta is live and runs audited testnets and external audits after months of testing, claims compatibility with existing Ethereum tooling… | ||
| Building Trustless Scaling Solutions: Security/Audits | Polygon ZK Day 2.0 | 2023-03-27 |
Polygon zkEVM launches mainnet beta as an EVM-equivalent ZK rollup that runs thousands of Ethereum state tests and claims L1 security with lower fees. Security… | ||
| Evolving the ZK Stack in full alignment with Web3 Ethos | Polygon ZK Day 2.0 | 2023-03-27 |
Polygon ships a mainnet beta zkEVM that claims full EVM equivalence so existing contracts, wallets and dev tools run unchanged, and audits plus repos are… | ||
| Protocol economics the Ethereum protocol’s perspective | MEVconomics.wtf 2023 | 2023-03-24 |
Claims that EIP-1559 simplifies user fee choices and measurably reduces waiting times, that MEV is persistent but highly spiky so daily gross extraction often… | ||
| Account Abstraction Panel | Devcon 6 | 2022-10-11 |
Panel argues account abstraction is urgent and inevitable, showing concrete paths: smart-contract wallets already built (Argent-like wallets, session keys… | ||
| 'Block Space Auctions in Ethereum Sharding' | MEV.wtf Summit 2021 | 2021-07-01 |
Proposal adds a market where specialized block builders publish large shard block body headers (commitment + signature + fee) to a proposal header subnet… | ||
| The State and Future of MEV | MEV.wtf Summit 2021 | 2021-07-01 |
Panel argues MEV is structural not transient: multi-block MEV and short re-org incentives are practical risks, PoS reduces some reorgs but proposer… | ||
| MEV Scaling Ethereum Panel | Scaling Ethereum: MEV Roast | 2021-05-13 |
Argues that MEV acts as a real centralization pressure: specialized infra and network proximity favor large block proposers, while Flashbots searcher-miner… | ||
| What Happens After the Merge | Scaling Ethereum: The Merge Summit | 2021-04-23 |
Roadmap after the Merge focuses on concrete protocol changes: a post-merge cleanup fork removes eth1 voting, enables withdrawals, and migrates execution data… | ||
| ETHDenver 2021 Opening Ceremonies: Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Foundation | ETHDenver 2021 | 2021-02-05 |
Argues that membership needs concrete primitives and compares three concrete systems: coin holdings (used in nonbinding coin votes like the 2016 DAO fork and… | ||
| Vitalik & Tyler Cowen talk Ethereum | ETHOnline 2020 | 2020-10-30 |
Argues that crypto’s hard lessons are institutional, not just technical: governance often requires active community action (example: a contentious fork that… | ||
| Quadratic Funding: Why it Better Funds Public Goods During COVID-19 | Consensus 2020 | 2020-05-11 |
Quadratic funding uses square-root aggregation of individual donations (sum the roots, square the sum) to weight matching grants toward projects with the… | ||
| HackMoney Finale | HackMoney 2020 | 2020-04-24 |
Thirty-day online hackathon yields 354 hackers and ~120 projects, with ten finalists demoing live or via fallback video. Demos include a spreadsheet plugin… | ||
| What will 2020 mean for Ethereum? | ETHLondonUK 2020 | 2020-02-28 |
Conversation covers Ethereum 2.0 rollout details: phase zero imminent, move to proof-of-stake and sharding with estimated 100–300x throughput gains, plus… | ||
| Spotlight Session | Samsung Developer Conference 2019 | 2019-10-29 |
Samsung announces B2B scale—1 billion devices installed, 15,000 enterprises (2,000 in the US) and a claimed $75B opportunity via a new App Stack for discovery… | ||
| Welcome & Introduction Panel | Devcon 2 | 2016-09-19 |
Opening panel lists concrete engineering progress: a new Go client branch with a modular JIT and interpreter work, a browser light client landing, a C++… | ||
| Ethereum in 25 Minutes | Devcon 2 | 2016-09-19 |
A concise technical tour of Ethereum’s design and history: launched conceptually in 2013 to move beyond Bitcoin’s single-purpose ledger to a general platform… | ||
| The Mauve Revolution | Devcon 2 | 2016-09-19 |
Casper implements proof of stake where validators deposit to a Casper contract, become active after ~12‑24 hours, can start withdrawal with a delay, and incur… | ||
| The Future of Innovation on the Blockchain | Consensus 2015 | 2015-09-10 |
A technical debate about permissioned vs permissionless ledgers focuses on real tradeoffs: running private chains looks like databases, public chains face… | ||
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