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

• Delegation and Participation in Decentralized Governance: An Epistemic View
• DA Layers vs. Confirmation Layers vs. Settlement Layers - Have we all just built the same thing?
• Building for Core Devs: How OP Labs Accelerates Protocol Engineering
• How to Decentralize Any Front-End
• the new Cypherpunk generation
• testing in production: gathering actually useful data
• The Chain Mail Gaze
• Coordination-Avoidance: Rethinking Decentralized Networks Beyond Global Consensus
• ZK: Accelerating DA Interop
• PolkaVM: A fast and secure RISC-V based virtual machine
• Goodbye Cypherpunk values? Adapting to the new world order
• Designing Decentralized Storage:Without Better UX, Decentralization Remains an Underutilized...