presents
Permissionless IV
For the developers and the builders.
June 24th - 26th 2025 | Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
For those with a dream.
As the focus shifts from infrastructure to applications, Permissionless IV serves as the definitive gathering for crypto's technical founders, developers, and builders to come together and create the future.
Tickets
GA TICKET
- Three-day full event ticket
- Access to pre-event networking app
DEVELOPER TICKET
- Three-day full event ticket
- Access to pre-event networking app
- Github link required for eligibility
- Payment will be processed upon acceptance
- Non-transferable
VIP TICKET
HACKATHON TICKET
Includes a free non-transferable ticket to Permissionless IV. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. You can expect to be notified of your status within 1-4 business days of submission.
STUDENT TICKET
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
GROUP TICKET (5+)
Discounts available for groups of 5+. Register today and save!
Agenda
Main Stage
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome to Permissionless IV
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
What Are We Building Towards?
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM
Making NYC the Crypto Capital of the World
10:10 AM - 10:35 AM
In Conversation with Peter Todd
10:35 AM - 10:40 AM
USPD: Permissionless Money
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
The Next Bottleneck: Rethinking Real-time Infrastructure
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
The Unintended Consequences of Digital Asset ETFs
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
The Rise of AutoFi & System-Level Automation
11:40 AM - 12:20 PM
Live: 0xResearch Roundup
12:20 PM - 12:30 PM
Introducing: Quality Active Addresses (QAAs)
Consumer Applications
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
The Next Generation of Consumer Crypto Apps
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Putting Easy-to-Use DeFi In Everyones Pocket
3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Creating Bulletproof Onchain Games
Protocol R&D
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
The Optimal Tradeoffs for Protocol Design
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Permissionless MEV
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM
The Past, Present, and Future of MEV
3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
The Ethereum L2 State of the Union
3:50 PM - 4:30 PM
Hackathon Awards
Bitcoin
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Bitcoin DeFi: Making BTC a Productive Asset
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Debate: How Should Bitcoin Scale?
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Where to Build in the Bitcoin Network
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Bitcoin & The Energy to Compute Value Chain
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM
The Core Dev's Guide to Bitcoin Network Upgrades
DePin
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Onchain Iconoclasts: DePin's Disruption of Traditional Business Models
2:10 PM - 2:40 PM
Decentralizing Forces in the AI Stack
2:40 PM - 3:10 PM
Revamping the Consumer Internet Experience
3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Pushing the Outer Limits of Compute
3:50 PM - 4:30 PM
The DePin x AI Confluence
Main Stage
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM
DeFi's Next Frontier: In Conversation with Hayden Adams
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
The Machine Economy Computer: Blockchain's Ultimate Product-Market Fit
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM
Build Like Infinex
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
How to Build Through Bull & Bear Markets
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
The Next Generation of Financial Markets
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
In Conversation with World Liberty Financial
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Unlocking BTCFi
11:20 AM - 11:25 AM
Everything is a Bank
11:25 AM - 11:45 AM
Privacy & The User-First Web
11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
The Bitcoin Yield Flywheel
12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
The Next Frontier for Crypto & AI
DeFi Renaissance
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
The DeFi Renaissance is Here
2:10 PM - 2:50 PM
America: Land of the Free, Home of the Chains
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM
Surveying the DEX Landscape
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Consulting vs Curation: New Models for Risk Management
3:15 PM - 3:35 PM
Multichain DeFi & The Quest for Yield
3:35 PM - 3:55 PM
In Conversation with Privy
3:55 PM - 4:30 PM
The Yield Frontier: Trading the Future of Onchain Rates
Blockchain Design
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Debate: How Should Ethereum Scale?
2:10 PM - 2:50 PM
Debate: How Should Protocols Monetize Blockspace?
2:50 PM - 3:30 PM
The Future of Security is Zero-Knowledge
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Debate: Can Everything Fit on One Computer?
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Making the EVM Faster than Solana
Capital Deployoors
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Bringing the Long Tail of Markets Onchain
2:10 PM - 2:50 PM
The Crypto Venture State of the Union
2:50 PM - 3:30 PM
Live: Forward Guidance Roundup
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
The Tokenization of Private Markets
3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
Pitch @ Permissionless: Go To Market Workshop
Crypto x AI
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Game Theorizing about the Future of Crypto x AI
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Beyond GPUs: How Decentralization Can Solve AI's Biggest Scaling Bottleneck
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM
The Existential Need for Open-Source AI
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Digital Identity's Destruction of the 20 Year Monopoly in Data
3:50 PM - 4:30 PM
Empowering the Builders of the Open Internet
Main Stage
9:20 AM - 9:50 AM
Unpacking the Token Acquisition Vehicle Meta
9:50 AM - 10:30 AM
Live: Empire x Bell Curve Roundup
10:30 AM - 11:05 AM
Turning the Ship Around: Where Ethereum Goes From Here
11:05 AM - 11:25 AM
Onchain Intelligence & the Future of Crypto Trading
11:25 AM - 11:50 AM
In Conversation with Li Fan, CTO of Circle
11:50 AM - 12:30 PM
Permissionless IV Recap
Token Design
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
How Should Tokens Be Used In Capital Allocation?
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Tokens vs Equity: A Better Path Forward
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM
The Proliferation of Stablecoin Models
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Increasing the Velocity of Dollars
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Crypto's Desperate Need for Token Transparency
How to Build a Chain
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM
Crafting Incentive Programs That Actually Work
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Fireside Chat with Wormhole and Ripple
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Interop in the Land of 1000 Chains
3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
ZK & Crypto's [redacted] Endgame
Enterprise
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Rebooting the Global Financial System
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Crypto Meets Cards: Shaping the Future of Commerce
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Permissioned vs Permissionless Chains for Enterprise Use
2:50 PM - 3:30 PM
Unleashing Payments at the Speed of the Internet
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Clearing Skies: Crypto Company Building in the US
Open Source AI
1:15 PM - 1:20 PM
How AI is changing early AI projects and what it means
1:20 PM - 1:40 PM
Academic Research in the Era of LLMs
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
The Blockchain for AI, Explained
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Eigencloud: supercharging verifiable AI
2:20 PM - 2:50 PM
Debate Round 2: Security Models for Verifiable Machine Learning
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
AITP: A Payments Protocol for AI Agent Economies
3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Superintelligence Needs The Supercloud: Why the AI Revolution Hinges on Our Energy Grid
4:10 PM - 4:40 PM
AI Products that are actually going to work
4:40 PM - 4:50 PM
User-owned AI and the new data economy
3:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Optimizing Rewards in the age of DeepSeek
Sponsors
Ruby Sponsors
Diamond Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Attending Companies
Speakers
Peter Todd
Founder, OpenTimestamps
Brendan Eich
Co-Founder & CEO, Brave
Kain Warwick
Founder, Infinex
Hayden Adams
Founder & CEO , Uniswap Labs
Side Events
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- The main conference runs June 24–26, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
- Side events scheduled between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM will not be listed.
Hackathon: Into the Mainstream
June 22–23, 2025 in Brooklyn, NY.
36hr hackathon for solving complex problems
Technical workshops for support
Over $100,000 in prize bounties
Themes
DeFi Renaissance
RWAs. American Dynamism. Reshoring DeFi Talent. US-based Capital Formation. DeFi apps.
Consumer Apps
Onchain Applications. Mobile Apps. Prediction Markets. NFTs. Onchain Gaming. Loyalty Engines. Creator Economy.
Protocol R&D
Blockchain design. EVM. SVM. Move. Modular vs Monolithic. Rollups. Scaling. Parallelization. Privacy & Security. ZK Proofs.
Token Design
Tokenomics. Token Generation Events. Cash Flows and Fee Switches. Utility. Governance. Equity.
Crypto x AI
Open Source Models. Onchain Verifiability. DePIN. Agents. Decentralized GPUs. Incentivized Training.
Bitcoin
$BTC Dominance. Bitcoin Network Development. Scaling Bitcoin. Institutional & Nation State Adoption.
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