Name: Permissionless IV
Start: 2025-06-24T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-26T23:59:59-04:00
Location: Industry City

Welcome to Permissionless IV

What Are We Building Towards?

Making NYC the Crypto Capital of the World

In Conversation with Peter Todd

USPD: Permissionless Money

The Next Bottleneck: Rethinking Real-time Infrastructure

The Unintended Consequences of Digital Asset ETFs

The Rise of AutoFi & System-Level Automation

Live: 0xResearch Roundup

Introducing: Quality Active Addresses (QAAs)

The Next Generation of Consumer Crypto Apps

Putting Easy-to-Use DeFi In Everyones Pocket

Creating Bulletproof Onchain Games

The Optimal Tradeoffs for Protocol Design

Permissionless MEV

The Past, Present, and Future of MEV

The Ethereum L2 State of the Union

Hackathon Awards

Bitcoin DeFi: Making BTC a Productive Asset

Debate: How Should Bitcoin Scale?

Where to Build in the Bitcoin Network

Bitcoin & The Energy to Compute Value Chain

The Core Dev's Guide to Bitcoin Network Upgrades

Onchain Iconoclasts: DePin's Disruption of Traditional Business Models

Decentralizing Forces in the AI Stack

Revamping the Consumer Internet Experience

Pushing the Outer Limits of Compute

The DePin x AI Confluence

DeFi's Next Frontier: In Conversation with Hayden Adams

The Machine Economy Computer: Blockchain's Ultimate Product-Market Fit

Build Like Infinex

How to Build Through Bull & Bear Markets 

The Next Generation of Financial Markets

In Conversation with World Liberty Financial

Unlocking BTCFi

Everything is a Bank

Privacy & The User-First Web

The Bitcoin Yield Flywheel

The Next Frontier for Crypto & AI

The DeFi Renaissance is Here

America: Land of the Free, Home of the Chains

Surveying the DEX Landscape

Consulting vs Curation: New Models for Risk Management

Multichain DeFi & The Quest for Yield

In Conversation with Privy

The Yield Frontier: Trading the Future of Onchain Rates

Debate: How Should Ethereum Scale?

Debate: How Should Protocols Monetize Blockspace?

The Future of Security is Zero-Knowledge

Debate: Can Everything Fit on One Computer?

Making the EVM Faster than Solana

Bringing the Long Tail of Markets Onchain

The Crypto Venture State of the Union

Live: Forward Guidance Roundup

The Tokenization of Private Markets

Pitch @ Permissionless: Go To Market Workshop

Game Theorizing about the Future of Crypto x AI

Beyond GPUs: How Decentralization Can Solve AI's Biggest Scaling Bottleneck

The Existential Need for Open-Source AI

Digital Identity's Destruction of the 20 Year Monopoly in Data

Empowering the Builders of the Open Internet

Unpacking the Token Acquisition Vehicle Meta

Live: Empire x Bell Curve Roundup

Turning the Ship Around: Where Ethereum Goes From Here

Onchain Intelligence & the Future of Crypto Trading

In Conversation with Li Fan, CTO of Circle

Permissionless IV Recap

How Should Tokens Be Used In Capital Allocation?

Tokens vs Equity: A Better Path Forward

The Proliferation of Stablecoin Models

Increasing the Velocity of Dollars

Crypto's Desperate Need for Token Transparency

Crafting Incentive Programs That Actually Work

Fireside Chat with Wormhole and Ripple

Interop in the Land of 1000 Chains

ZK & Crypto's [redacted] Endgame

Rebooting the Global Financial System

Crypto Meets Cards: Shaping the Future of Commerce

Permissioned vs Permissionless Chains for Enterprise Use

Unleashing Payments at the Speed of the Internet

Clearing Skies: Crypto Company Building in the US

How AI is changing early AI projects and what it means

Academic Research in the Era of LLMs

The Blockchain for AI, Explained

Eigencloud: supercharging verifiable AI

Debate Round 2: Security Models for Verifiable Machine Learning

AITP: A Payments Protocol for AI Agent Economies

Superintelligence Needs The Supercloud: Why the AI Revolution Hinges on Our Energy Grid

AI Products that are actually going to work

User-owned AI and the new data economy

Optimizing Rewards in the age of DeepSeek

Co-Founder | Blockworks

Co-Founder

Jason Yanowitz

Michael Ippolito

Host of Supply Shock | Blockworks

Host of Supply Shock

Pete Rizzo

Founder | OpenTimestamps

Founder

Peter Todd

Co-Founder - Blockworks

Founder, Host - The Wolf of All Streets

Founder, Host

Scott Melker

City of New York | Mayor

Mayor

Eric Adams

Founder - USPD

Martin Fröhler

Aptos Labs | Co-Founder & CEO

Co-Founder & CEO

Avery Ching

Jump | Head of Investments

Head of Investments

Saurabh Sharma

Research Analyst - Bloomberg Intelligence

Research Analyst

James Seyffart

Marinade | Marinade

Marinade

Hadley Stern

Core DAO

Co-Founder & CEO | Supra

Joshua Tobkin

Head of Research | Blockworks Research

Head of Research

Ryan Connor

Head of Data | Blockworks Research

Head of Data

Dan Smith

Admin of 0xResearch | Blockworks Research

Admin of 0xResearch

Boccaccio

Research Analyst; Co-host of 0xResearch | Blockworks Research

Research Analyst; Co-host of 0xResearch

Danny K.

Self | Me

Westie  

Founder | Narrative

Pat Kim

Bullpen | Co-Founder & CEO

Sal Qadir

Co-Founder & CEO | True Markets

Vishal Gupta

Co-founder - Chainlink

Co-founder

Sergey Nazarov

SVP of Blockchain Products - Mastercard

SVP of Blockchain Products

Izzy Iliev-Wollitzer

Co-Inventor & CEO | Abstract

Co-Inventor & CEO

Michael Lee

Content Lead at The Drop | Blockworks

Content Lead at The Drop

Kate Irwin

Pixels Founder & CEO

Founder & CEO

Luke Barwikowski

Founder & CEO - Blockus

Jess Zhang

Director of Product | Sequence

Sequence

Sam Grone

Research Partner | 1kx

Research Partner

Wei Dai

Co-Founder & CEO | Fastlane

Alex Watts

Research & Advisory Analyst | Blockworks Research

Research & Advisory Analyst

Nikhil Chaturvedi

Founder | Commonware

Patrick O'Grady

Research Analyst | Blockworks Research

Carlos Gonzalez Campo

Co-Founder | Temporal

Ben Coverston

Founder | Dflow

Nitesh

Jito Labs | Co-Founder

Zano Sherwani

Jito | Founding Engineer

Founding Engineer

Edgar  

Head of Product - Flashbots

Head of Product

Shea Ketsdever

Co-founder & CTO - Offchain Labs

Co-founder & CTO

Harry Kalodner

Matter Labs | Co-Founder & Creator

Co-Founder & Creator


Alex Gluchowski

 | Innovation

Innovation

Marc-Thomas Arjoon

Founder | Ink

Andrew Koller

Optimism | Co-Founder

Ben Jones