About this Event
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A vendor-neutral home at Devcon for the people who build and maintain Ethereum's networking layer, and for anyone curious about it. For four days, come see how peers find each other and how data moves across the network; join hands-on workshops, debugging clinics, talks and roundtables on peer discovery, broadcast, measurement, privacy and resilience.
You won't only learn how the network works and behaves right now, but also what are the challenges faced and the next improvement steps.
Open to everyone: protocol engineers, client and libp2p maintainers, researchers, node operators, privacy builders and newcomers.
Organised by ProbeLab, Ethereum Foundation, HOPR and Optimum.
All times are Mumbai time (IST, GMT+5:30). The hub is open 09:00–18:00, closing at 15:30 on Friday 6 Nov. Drop in any time. The schedule below is a draft and may change.
Day 1 · Tue 3 Nov · Foundations & Discovery
09:00 Welcome · open hours · coffee
10:00 Networking and keynotes
12:00 Intro to the hub, P2P and Ethereum’s stack · Yiannis Psarras (ProbeLab)
13:30 Decentralization: ChainScope visualisation · Csaba Kiraly (EF)
14:30 Mempool: current posture, research directions, PQ aggregation · Csaba Kiraly (EF)
15:30 MigaLabs metrics dashboards · Leo Bautista (MigaLabs)
16:30 Open hacking · daily closing
Day 2 · Wed 4 Nov · Scaling, Broadcast & Performance
09:00 Welcome · open hours · coffee
10:00 Proving Ethereum in 12 seconds: what a distributed GPU cluster needs from the network · Chetany Bhardwaj (Sigma Prime)
11:00 Big Blocks, Quick Slots, Fast Diffusion · Csaba Kiraly (EF)
13:30 PQ, zk and PQDS: what's the impact on P2P? · Kamil Salakhiev (EF)
14:40 Waggle: hands-on message broadcasting · Daniel Knopik (Sigma Prime)
16:00 What do you send a peer when the pieces are coded? · Har Preet Singh (Optimum)
17:00 Open hacking · daily closing
Day 3 · Thu 5 Nov · Privacy, Resilience & Open Problems
09:00 Welcome · open hours · coffee
10:00 Context-aware P2P protocol based on Interaction State Machine · Anantha Krishnan (MOI Protocol)
11:30 Gossipsub Improvement Proposals · Sukun Tarachandani, Mikel Cortes, Yiannis Psarras
13:30 Validators Privacy in Ethereum · Kamil Salakhiev, Yann Vonlanthen (EF)
14:30 ProbeLab Sonar and view of the state of the network through monitoring tools · Mikel Cortes (ProbeLab)
15:00 Roundtable on approaches to the future of Ethereum's networking · Panel and open discussion
16:00 Open problems roundtable · Yiannis Psarras (ProbeLab)
17:00 Open hacking · daily closing
Day 4 · Fri 6 Nov · Privacy & Censorship-Resistance
09:00 Welcome · open hours · coffee
10:00 Private transport for any app using HOPR · Sebastian Bürgel (HOPR)
10:45 Break · headsets
11:00 PIX: paying a remote peer while revealing as little as possible · Sebastian Bürgel, Lazar Travica (HOPR)
11:50 Open space and Q&A with the HOPR team · Sebastian Bürgel, Lazar Travica (HOPR)
13:30 Gnosis VPN hands-on workshop · Sebastian Bürgel (HOPR)
15:00 Summary and hub closing · Yiannis Psarras (ProbeLab)
Event venue & nearby stays
Jio World Convention Centre, Jio World Centre, Mumbai, India
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