Restaking & DeFAI Day
Event details
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Dates:Tue, 02/25/2025
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Venue:Hilton Garden Inn Denver Union Station
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After an incredible journey from Dubai’s floodwaters to Brussels’ historic charm to Singapore drift and Chaotic Bangkok - we're kicking off the 2025 event season with our 5th edition at ETHDenver, giving it a fresh glow-up and renaming it Restaking & DeFAI Day to align with the latest community trends!
Speakers from Eigen, Ether. fi, Symbiotic, Mode, Kernel DAO, Kelp, Gain, Hyle, Giza, Bitcoin OS, eOracle, HeyElsaAI, Space and Time, Chorus One, Nethermind, Coinbase Developer Platform, Byzantine, Impossible Cloud Network, Boba, Certora, ZeroLend, Inception, Solayer.
Agenda
10:00 — 10:30 Doors opening, networking, food & drinks
10:30 — 10:40 Opening word
10:40 — 11:00 Keynote: "Restaking Protocols: Exposing the Achilles' Heels" (Mooly Sagiv - co-founder and CEO) @ Certora
11:00 — 11:20 Keynote: "Scaling DeFi with AI" (Alan Chiu - Co-Founder) @ Boba
11:20 — 11:40 Keynote: "The role of restaking in sovereign AI agents" (Jorge Arce - Blockchain Researcher) @ Nethermind
11:40 — 12:00 Keynote: "Reinventing infrastructure to unleash unchained applications" (Sylve Chevet - CEO) @ Hyle
12:00 — 12:40
Panel Discussion: "Unlocking the Future of DeFAI: How Data Enables New Agentic Use Cases" moderated by Henrique Sousa Dias, Head of Research @ Inception
- Rok Kopp, Co-Founder @ Ether.fi
- Xmatan, founder @ eOracle
- Lincoln Murr, AI Lead @ Coinbase Developer Platform
- Steven Enamakel, Creator @ ZeroLend
- Jason Li, Co-Founder @ Solayer
12:40 — 13:00 Keynote: "Restaking in a post-bull run world: Hype or Sustainable Yield?" (Soufia - Head of Defi at Kelp & Head of Partnerships at Kernel) @ Kernel DAO
13:00 — 13:20 Keynote: "Giza Agents: DeFi's Cognitive Revolution" ( Renç Korzay - Co-Founder) @ Giza
13:20 — 13:40 Keynote: "ZK proving all of crypto’s data for smart contracts" ( Scott Dykstra - CTO & Co-Founder ) @ Space and Time
13:40 — 14:00 Keynote: "Scaling Ethereum: The Innovations Unlocking Staking Opportunity" (Brian Crain - CEO & Co-Founder) @ Chorus One
14:00 — 14:40
Panel Discussion: "Supersonic Money Legos: is the new value creation primitive in the room with us right now?" moderated by Irena Timofeeva, Head of Ecosystem @ Chainflip
- Nader Dabit, Director of DevR @ Eigen
- Misha, Co-Founder @ Symbiotic
- Soufia, Head of Defi at Kelp, and Head of Partnerships at Kernel @ Kernel DAO
- Edan Yago, CEO @ Bitcoin OS
- Gaia Ferrero Regis, CEO & Co-Founder @ Byzantine
14:40 — 15:20
Panel Discussion: "AI as DeFi's New Interface: The Abstraction Revolution" moderated by Sebastian Pfeiffer, Managing Director @ Impossible Cloud Network
- James Ross, co-founder @ Mode
- Dhawal, founder @ Elsa AI
- Nima Vaziri, Head of AI @ Eigen
15:20 — 17:00 Networking!
