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

• At the Intersection of Data Availability Sampling and Sharded Mempools
• What we want from our nodes
• How to turn strangers into early adopters when they don't understand your tech
• Bluesky, atproto, how to hack on it and why it matters
• Coordination as Intelligence: Envisioning Open Learning
• Swarming by the STIX
• IPFS: A Decade in Browsers
• Making dapps censorship resistant
• Long-term L1 Proposal: Replacing the EVM with RISC-V
• The Art of Manually Guided Fuzzing
• Redesigning Governance: Trust Networks, Decentralization, and the Dichotomy of Extremes in Politics
• Integrating Blockchain Data into AI Agents