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?

In Conversation with Peter Todd

Making NYC the Crypto Capital of the World

To Be Announced 

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)

Lunch

Courtyard Happy Hour, Sponsored by Stand With Crypto

The Next Generation of Consumer Crypto Apps

Putting Easy-to-Use DeFi In Everyones Pocket

Live: Lightspeed - Acquiring (and keeping) Real Users in Crypto

Creating Bulletproof Onchain Games

Pitch at Permissionless: Where to Build Workshop

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

 Day 2: Permissionless IV

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

Courtyard Happy Hour, Sponsored by Arkham

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

Wow.ai Keynote

Empowering the Builders of the Open Internet

Day 3: Permissionless IV

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

DePIN Demand Has Reached Escape Velocity

To Be Announced

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

The Convergence of Crypto and Legacy Financial Rails

Permissioned vs Permissionless Chains for Enterprise Use

Unleashing Payments at the Speed of the Internet

Clearing Skies: Crypto Company Building in the US

Teaching AI-Native Robots through Demonstration

Academic Research in the Era of LLMs

Blockchain for AI, Explained

Eigencloud: Supercharging Verifiable AI

Debate Round 2: Security Models for Verifiable Machine Learning

Keynote: Greg Osuri

AITP: A Payments Protocol for AI Agent Economies

Optimizing Rewards in the age of DeepSeek

User-owned AI and the New Data Economy

AI Products That Will Actually Work

Co-Founder | Blockworks

Co-Founder

Jason Yanowitz

Michael Ippolito

Founder | OpenTimestamps

Founder

Peter Todd

Host of Supply Shock | Blockworks

Host of Supply Shock

Pete Rizzo

Co-Founder - Blockworks

Mayor - City of New York

Mayor

Eric Adams

Founder, Host - The Wolf of All Streets

Founder, Host

Scott Melker

Permissionless Technologies | CEO

Martin Froehler

CTO & Co-founder - Aptos Labs

CTO & Co-founder

Avery Ching

Marinade | CCO

Hadley Stern

Research Analyst - Bloomberg Intelligence

Research Analyst

James Seyffart

Co-Founder & CEO | Supra

Co-Founder & CEO

Joshua Tobkin

Head of Research | Blockworks Research

Head of Research

Ryan Connor

Head of Data | Blockworks Research

Head of Data

Dan Smith

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

Research Analyst; Co-host of 0xResearch

Danny K.

Admin of 0xResearch | Blockworks Research

Admin of 0xResearch

Boccaccio

Manager of Data and Product | Blockworks Research

Manager of Data and Product

Westie

Founder | Narrative

Pat Kim

Co-Founder & CEO | Bullpen

Sal Qadir

Co-Founder & CEO | True Markets

Vishal Gupta

SVP of Blockchain Products - Mastercard

SVP of Blockchain Products

Izzy Iliev-Wollitzer

Co-founder - Chainlink

Co-founder

Sergey Nazarov

Founder | Inversion

Santiago Roel Santos

Igloo Inc | CEO

Luca Netz

Founder & CEO | Backpack

Founder & CEO

Armani Ferrante

Founder | Baxus

Tzvi Wiesl

Reporter & Podcast Host | Blockworks

Reporter & Podcast Host

Jack Kubinec

Co-Founder | Sequence

Michael Sanders

Co-Inventor & CEO | Abstract

Co-Inventor & CEO

Michael Lee

Pixels Founder & CEO

Luke Barwikowski

Founder & CEO - Blockus

Jess Zhang

Content Lead at The Drop | Blockworks

Content Lead at The Drop

Kate Irwin

Research Partner | 1kx

Research Partner

Wei Dai

Co-Founder & CEO | Fastlane

Alex Watts

Founder | Commonware

Patrick O'Grady

Research & Advisory Analyst | Blockworks Research

Research & Advisory Analyst

Nikhil Chaturvedi

Co-Founder | Temporal

Ben Coverston

Founder | Dflow

Nitesh  

Co-Founder | Jito Labs

Zano Sherwani

Research Analyst | Blockworks Research

Carlos Gonzalez Campo

Head of Product - Flashbots

Head of Product

Shea Ketsdever