Department of Decentralization

Department of Decentralization is a Berlin-based collective of blockchain and open-source contributors, organizing Ethereum and decentralized-technology events since 2018 -- including the ETHBerlin hackathon series (most recently ETHBerlin04, May 2024) and the Protocol Berg conference. The community promotes open-source collaboration, practical education, and decentralized infrastructure.

Events

• Protocol Berg 2025 (Berlin, Germany)
• ETHBerlin04 (Berlin, Germany)
• Protocol Berg 2023 (Berlin, Germany)
• ETHBerlin 2022 (Berlin, Germany)

176 talks

• The eternal research of broadcasting messages, the limits of GossipSub
• StorageBeat: An Evaluation Framework for Storage Services
• Rebased Rollups: Achieving Credibly Neutral Synchronous Composability with Low Latency and Cost
• Closing Ceremony
• Are You Vitalik or Are You My Mom? An In Depth Analysis of Wallet Security Set-ups
• Not your vote, not your lawyer: Delegation and the Legal Challenges
• Walrus: An Efficient Decentralized Storage Network
• Rethinking Competition Models in Solver-Based Protocols
• 25-Minute Solidity Fuzzer: Fuzzing Smarter, Not Harder
• Long term capture risks in Ethereum
• Don’t Trust, Verify: IPFS for (D)App Distribution on the Web in 2025
• Designing Protocols for a New Social Fabric