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

• Reward and resource sharing mechanisms in decentralised storage
• DeCom - Building the Infrastructure for Decentralized Commerce
• Off-the-shelf Trustless HTTP Server for Content-Addressable Data
• The surprising challenges of counting nodes
• Veiled Oracles: A fair, liveness-preserving method for enshrined information feeds
• Daniel Norman on Trust and Verification in DApps Distribution
• Mechanisms for Unlocking Idle Blobspace
• Building zig program for zkvms: a case study with zeam
• Starfish: push-based dissemination can be efficient on uncertified DAG
• No friends but the hash function: Descent into the Social Layer
• SVM Protocol Design
• Fast-track workshop: Running a HOPR node and using the GnosisVPN PoC