The story of how two Norwegians made their way to Berlin in 2018 with a crypto data startup idea and how ETHBerlin shaped their journey.

Stories from ETHBerlin

Fredik Haga

In his talk, EG will be going over various points of centralization that exist in Web3 and the trade offs we make as an ecosystem on the decentralization spectrum.

Points of Centralization and Paths to Decentralization

E.G. Galano

The internet enables humanity to move beyond its 5000 year story of debt. Like flight seemed impossible, it is now in the light of the everyday. Post-scarcity will be too, it will resurrect humanitarianism as the economic unit for progress.

Humanity 3.0: Beyond Blockchains, Planetary Systems, & Infinite Games

Mark Nadal

Opening Ceremony

ETHBerlin Team

🪄 Would you like to wave your wand and speak order into the data chaos as a Dune Wizard?

🤝 Dune is a crypto data analytics platform, where we are on a mission to make crypto data accessible for all.

📊 In this workshop, we will walk through how to do crypto data analysis on Dune in an open-source style!

🧙 Come join us and start your Dune Wizard journey!

Abracadabra with Open Data

Jackie Zhang

In this workshop, we will be demoing MantaPay, where users can transact popular assets while simultaneously reaping the benefits of on-chain privacy through ZKP. We will also talk about The future of ZK Applications & Poseidon VM: the zkApp friendly VM with EVM Compatibility.

Bringing programmable privacy to Web3

Shumo Chu

Improve your dapp by integrating WalletConnect with Web3Modal and allow your users to connect to Metamask, Rainbow, Trust Wallet and many more wallets. Including a short introduction to Ethereum libraries such as web3.js and ethers.js followed by a code walkthrough integrating a dapp with Web3Modal supporting WalletConnect. Finally we will cover best practices and UX improvements to really polish your dapp.

How to connect your app with WalletConnect?

Pedro Gomes

Learn how to create a Distributed Validator Cluster with fellow EthBerlin hackers! Learn about Distributed Validator Technology (DVT) by creating a validator with a group of peers to mitigate the problem of single-point of failure in Ethereum Staking.
Technical requirements: Users should feel comfortable using a terminal & Docker locally on their Macbook or Linux machine. If on Windows, the ability to spin up a linux VM will be needed.

Create a Distributed Validator with your friends and fellow EthBerlin hackers (real time DV creation workshop & ceremony)

Chris Battenfield

Oisin Kyne

We’re going to walk through choosing a Lens starter boilerplate and hook everything together and post / fetch some data. We’ll also discuss some ideas on privacy-oriented use cases that Lens enables that web2 doesn't.

Lets be frens through Lens

Jenny Pollack

Zannis Kalamoukis

Learn how to develop a performant and safe DAO contract in Sway, the next-generation smart contract language from Fuel Labs. Feel free to bring a laptop, this will be interactive! Install dependencies using this tool: https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuelup

Developing a DAO Contract in Sway

Alex Hansen

In this workshop, you will learn how to use Submarining and create token gated experiences for your community!

How To Use Pinata Submarine To Provide Real Utility To Communities

Steve Simkins

Are you a builder interested in learning more about zkSync 2.0? Join us for this workshop where we will discuss zkSync's user and developer UX, detail what migration from existing protocols generally looks like, what can be implemented on zkSync that can't be on Ethereum, and answer any questions you may have! Dev Docs: https://v2-docs.zksync.io/dev/

Building on zkSync 2.0

Vladyslav Bochok

Patrick McCorry will teach you how to write a censorship-resistance Hello World smart contract. This workshop covers the basics of Solidity including arrays, functions, events, modifiers, mappings, storage, how gas works, etc. It will hopefully be fun and you can follow along on your laptop at the same time.

Solidity for Beginners

Patrick McCorry

Nick will explain how quadratic voting works, why it is important and even do a few fun votes with you to try it out and help you get all set for the big open track winner voting.

Introduction to Quadratic Voting

Nick Almond

The sanctions of Tornado Cash have implications for base layer neutrality and open source developers, threatening the utility of crypto, taking a proactive approach I propose introducing a concept of sovereignty to crypto networks and to take an active approach in competing directly with the State.

Cypherpunk Suprajurisdictions against the Nation-State

Jarrad Hope

Alec Empire’s talk about being an artist in web3, how to understand music and hacker culture in cyberspace and why Ethereum will give rise to the Sovereign Creator.

The Sorvereign Creator

Alec Empire

During this fireside chat, Chelsea, Jaya and Evin will talk all things privacy: The urgency of privacy today, cypherpunk vision, and future vision for privacy. They will also touch on the Merge, as well as Chelsea's views on secure hardware and the future vision for privacy as an intervention into the data economy.

Fireside Chat with Chelsea Manning and Jaya Klara Brekke - moderated by Evin McMullen

Chelsea Manning

Jaya Klara Brekke

Evin McMullen

Closing and winner ceremony including presentations of all winning projects

Closing Ceremony

ETHBerlin³ is a hackathon, a cultural festival, an educational event, a platform for hacktivism, and a community initiative to push the decentralized ecosystem forward.