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MIT Bitcoin Expo

5:00pm EDT

Hackathon Kickoff iHQ 7th Floor

8:00am EDT

Registration Opens Building 32 TSMC Lobby

8:50am EDT

Opening Ceremony Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Hannah Shen • Manish Kumar

9:00am EDT

Keynote: Dan Elitzer Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Dan Elitzer

9:35am EDT

Bitcoin Club Presidents Panel-10 Years in Review Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Jeremy Rubin • Nchinda • Erick Pinos • William Lopez-Cordero • JHB National Strategic Implications of Bitcoin Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Jason Lowery

10:10am EDT

Emerging Markets Panel Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Tomas Padinas • Lisa Nestor • Manuel Beaudroit • Ken Kruger • Eduard Peris i Deprez • Isha Varshney Mining Panel Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Sacha • Michael Dubrovsky • Andrew Demosthenous

10:55am EDT

Security and Risk Management Talk Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Tarun Chitra The 70 Megaton Gorilla: Addressing the PoW climate narrative Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Reuben Youngblom

11:30am EDT

Fungibility & Privacy in Cryptocurrencies Keynote Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Hannah Shen • Charlie Lee

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Building 32 TSMC Lobby

1:00pm EDT

Nym and Privacy Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Harry Halpin AI+Crypto Panel Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Manish Kumar • Ramesh Raskar • Simanta Gautam • David Vorick • Sam Broner

1:35pm EDT

Nostr + Bitcoin = When Open Networks Win Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250André Neves

1:40pm EDT

Institutional Adoption Panel Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Thomas Cui • Anton Katz • Saul Lustgarten • Romina Seltzer • Barbara Widholm

2:10pm EDT

ZeroSync: ZKPs for Bitcoin Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Robin Linus

2:25pm EDT

Real World Asset Tokenization Panel Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Hash • Eduardo Novillo • Andy Chatham • Nick Garcia • Vikas Pandey

2:45pm EDT

Smart contracts on Bitcoin with Simplicity Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Sanket Kanjalkar

3:10pm EDT

Decentralized Identities and Future of Social Panel Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Hannah Shen • Colfax Shelby • Evin McMullen • Allen Su • Gregory Rocco • Yisi Liu

3:20pm EDT

Bitcoin Rollups Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250John Light

3:55pm EDT

Bitcoin R&D Panel Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Trey Del Bonis • Sanket Kanjalkar • Antoine Poinsot • Daniela Brozzoni • Simanta Gautam

4:00pm EDT

DAO and Governance Panel Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Aqil Pasha • Aaron Wright • David Micley • Divesh Punjabi • Berk Ozer • Maxwell Kanter

4:40pm EDT

Taro: Taproot asset overlay protocol Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250JHB Smart Contract Security & Auditing Panel Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Gabriel Pascualy • Peiyu Wang • Paul J. Lei • Patrick Collins • Carl Hua

5:15pm EDT

Bitcoin Wallet and Custody Infra Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Buck Perley

5:25pm EDT

Hardware Accelerated ZKPs Stata Center, Beaver Room 32-144Leo Fan

5:50pm EDT

Wallet Security Panel Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Eduardo Garza • Bobby Lee • David Sneider • Luis Ocegueda

5:55pm EDT

Bitcoin soft forks, governance, and culture Stata Center, Beaver Room 32-144Paul Sztorc

6:30pm EDT

Women in Blockchain Social Event Building 32 Amphitheater

9:30pm EDT

Bitcoin Expo After Party: The 10th Edition Big Night Live

8:30am EDT

Registration Opens Stata Center TSMC Lobby

9:00am EDT

Metaverse and Mass Adoption Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Amanda Cirello • Erick Pinos • William Lopez-Cordero • Luke Xie • Damu Winston Blockchain VC Panel Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Andrew Piscione • Wei Dai • Boris Revsin • Yida Gao • Waikit Lau

9:40am EDT

Gaming Infrastructure and On-chain Games Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Guilty Gyoza • Kunho Kim • Justin Glibert • Homin Luo

9:45am EDT

SoK: Blockchain Decentralization Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Luyao Sunshine Zhang

10:20am EDT

Exploring Multichain Interop Approaches Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Dave Pasirstein Mitigating Attacks on Lightning Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Clara Shikhelman

10:55am EDT

IETF Secure Asset Transfer Protocol Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Thomas Hardjono National Implications of Bitcoin Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Jason Lowery

11:30am EDT

How to make smart grids smarter and kinder Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Barton Rhodes PeerSwap: Submarine Swaps On The Lightning Network Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Peter Neuroth

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Building 32 TSMC Lobby

1:00pm EDT

Keynote: Neha Narula Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Neha Narula

1:35pm EDT

Genesis Now: an opinionated take on the State of the Art in Blockchain protocol design Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Louis Guthmann L2 design decisions Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Lisa Neigut

2:10pm EDT

BDK Deep Dive Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Daniela Brozzoni Rollups & zk-Infra Panel Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Will Zhang • Andrey Sobol (V) • Andy Arditi • Tim Carstens • Kenny Li

2:45pm EDT

Lightning R&D Panel Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Clara Shikhelman • René Pickhardt • Lisa Neigut • Jonathan Harvey-Buschel

2:55pm EDT

Decentralized Staking Pools Panel Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Ben Rosenbleet • Joe Clapis • Alon Muroch

3:25pm EDT

How to decentralize L2 protocols Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Trey Del Bonis • Andrey Sobol

3:40pm EDT

Future of Stablecoin Regulation Panel Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Ingrid Glitz • Melisa Ortes Gonzalez • John Peurifoy • Christian Catalini (V) • Eric Rosengren

4:00pm EDT

Are we CBDC yet? A Dose of Healthy Skepticism Building 10 Satoshi Room 10-250Sam Stuewe

4:30pm EDT

Closing Keynote Nakamoto Room 32-123 (Stata Center)Yat Siu

5:00pm EDT

PeerSwap: Submarine Swaps On The Lightning Network Nakamoto Room 32-123 (Stata Center)Peter Neuroth

5:30pm EDT

Closing Ceremony and Hackathon Awards Stata Center Nakamoto Room 32-123Hannah Shen • Manish Kumar • Luiz Thomaz do Nascimento • Ben Rosenbleet