We're headed west — what will you build?
Permissionless is a conference for founders, application developers, investors, policymakers, and users.
Come meet the next generation of people building and using crypto.
Tickets
GA PASS
- Three-day full event pass
- Access to pre-event networking app
- Access to Karate Combat event on 10/11
DEVELOPERS
- 36-hour Hackathon
- Includes technical workshops for support
- All meals & snacks are covered
STUDENT TICKET
- Three-day full event pass
- Access to pre-event networking app
- Access to Karate Combat event on 10/11
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$559.30
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$539
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Speakers
Balaji S. Srinivasan
Angel Investor, Tech Founder & WSJ Bestselling Author,
Chris Dixon
Founder & Managing Partner, a16z Crypto
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Salt Lake City
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Hackathon
All participants will receive complimentary admission to Permissionless III
36hr hackathon for solving complex problems
Technical workshops for support
All participants receive a complimentary ticket
Themes
US Election + Policy
US Regulatory Landscape. Institutional Adoption and Investment. November Elections. DeFi Regulation. Tokenization. Stablecoins.
Consumer
Onchain Applications. Mobile Apps. Prediction Markets. NFTs. Onchain Gaming. Loyalty Engines. Creator Economy.
Restaking + Layer 2s
Scaling Solutions. Shared Security. AVS Ecosystems. Liquid Restaking. Restaked Rollups. RaaS. Based vs Shared Sequencing.
Multichain Future
Modular v. Monolithic. Interoperability. Appchains. Data Availability. EVM and SVM Optimizations. Chain Abstraction. AggLayer. Zk Proofs. Intents.
AI x Crypto
Onchain Verifiability. Decentralized GPUs. DePIN. Agents. Inference. Co-owned AI. Open Source Models. Incentivized Training.
Bitcoin Renaissance
Layer 2. BitVM. Drive Chains. Spot ETFs. Ordinals. Bitcoin Restaking. Yield Opportunities. Macro Adoption. Scaling Solutions.
Agenda
Main Stage
9:20 AM - 9:50 AM
Building The Future of The Internet
9:50 AM - 10:30 AM
Crypto & The November Election
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
The Great ETF Debate: Bearish or Bullish?
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
The Dawn of Open Gaming
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
No Chain is Monolithic (Especially Solana)
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Challenging the Stablecoin Incumbents
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
A Conversation with Samara Cohen
12:30 PM - 12:35 PM
Introducing: Blockworks Advisory
12:35 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
Restaking/AVS
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
The AVS Economy
2:10 PM - 2:50 PM
Restaking Beyond Ethereum
2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
Managing Risk and Reward in LRTs
3:20 PM - 4:00 PM
The Dawn of the Restaking Revolution
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hackathon Awards Ceremony
Bitcoin Renaissance
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Everything Bitcoiners Said is Coming True
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Bitcoin Layer 2 State of the Union
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Survival of the Fittest: Bitcoin L2s
3:00 PM - 3:40 PM
The Future of Bitcoin Mining Is In the US
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Unlocking Bitcoin DeFi with ExSat
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Bitcoin & The Future of Asset Management
Solana
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Block Production and MEV on Solana
2:10 PM - 2:50 PM
Unlocking Consumer Applications on Solana
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
Peeling Back the Layers of a Blockchain Ecosystem
3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Live Lightspeed: The Future of DeFi on Solana
3:50 PM - 4:30 PM
World Shaping DePin on Solana
Investor Track
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Live 1000x: Where Are We In the Cycle?
2:10 PM - 2:50 PM
The State of Crypto Private Markets
2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
The Digital Future of Asset Management
3:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Seeking Alpha in Liquid Markets
Marketing
1:00 PM - 1:10 PM
Intro by Justin Vogel, cofounder of Safary
1:10 PM - 1:45 PM
The Future of Web3 Marketing
1:50 PM - 2:25 PM
Growing Ecosystems
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
How DeFi Protocols Grow Liquidity
3:05 PM - 3:40 PM
Growing Consumer
3:40 PM - 4:15 PM
Going Cross-Chain
Main Stage
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Network State and the Network School
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Fireside Chat: SKALE
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Modular Expansion vs. Vertical Integration
10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
AI x Crypto
10:40 AM - 10:50 AM
Keynote: DeFi.App
10:50 AM - 11:30 AM
The Macro Case for Crypto
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Fireside Chat: Elastic Chain
11:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Finance Without The Middleman
12:05 PM - 12:15 PM
Introducing Ledger Key Ring Protocol
12:15 PM - 12:35 PM
The Principles that Matter
12:25 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
Crypto x AI
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Mapping the Crypto x AI Landscape
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Unlocking the Power of Onchain Compute
2:30 PM - 3:05 PM
Data is the New Oil for AI
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Hiding in Plain Sight: Blockchains as the Foundation for Safe and Understandable AGI
3:20 PM - 4:00 PM
The Autonomous Economy: Agents and Onchain Interference
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM
The Value of Provenance in an AI Powered Future
Institutional
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
The Mission to Tokenize $1T Onchain
2:10 PM - 2:50 PM
Cryptobanking - Stablecoins, Lending and LSTs
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
Why Institutions Should Care About Memes
3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Live Forward Guidance: What is Macro Telling Us?
3:50 PM - 4:30 PM
The Rise of Institutional DeFi
Modular Expansion
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Interop: The Key to Modular, Permissionless Expansion
2:10 PM - 2:50 PM
Debate: Intents and the Future of Crosschain Interop
2:50 PM - 3:30 PM
The Chain Abstraction Endgame
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Modularity Requires Unification
3:50 PM - 4:30 PM
Is Cosmos Dead?
AggDay
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Pushing the Frontier of ZK
2:10 PM - 2:50 PM
Keeping Your Project and Users From Getting Rekt
2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
AggLayer vs. L3s
3:20 PM - 3:50 PM
The dApp Centralization Debate
3:50 PM - 4:30 PM
The Convergence & Aggregation of L1s
Main Stage
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Utah: The Frontier of Digital Asset Innovation
9:40 AM - 10:20 AM
DeFi: A Phoenix Rises from the Ashes
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
Keynote: Supra - Built for Super dApps
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Fireside: Consumer Chain
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Live: Empire/Bell Curve Roundup
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Introducing Ithaca: Accelerating the Crypto Frontier
12:00 PM - 12:40 PM
Pushing Crypto Forward in the US
12:40 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
L2s / Rollups
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Who's Building the EVM Endgame?
2:10 PM - 2:50 PM
Pushing the Frontier of L2s
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
Scaling the EVM Without L2s
3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Solving the L2 Fragmentation Problem
3:50 PM - 4:30 PM
Debate: Are L2s Extensions of Ethereum?
Infrastructure
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Crypto's Mission for Onchain Identity & Privacy
2:10 PM - 2:50 PM
Ethereum Roadmap Realignment
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
The Consumerization of Crypto: Building For Mass Adoption
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Onchain Capital Allocation: From Present Mechanisms to Future Possibilities
DeFi
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
The ZK Proof Endgame
2:10 PM - 2:50 PM
The Next Generation of DeFi Protocols
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
Wen Tax Framework?
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Spark & the Sky Ecosystem
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Ethereum's Staking Endgame
Consumer Crypto
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Empowering Onchain Users
2:10 PM - 2:50 PM
Publisher Chains and the Future of Gaming
2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
NFTs: The Comeback
3:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Crypto Designed for Anyone & Everyone
Alpha Session
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
The Alpha of AMM is LVR
Thursday, October 10th
Pickleball
Grab a team of three (or two, but it helps to have a backup!) and join us for the first-ever Permissionless Pickleball Tournament.
Friday, October 11th
Karate
Karate Combat will host a stacked lineup of fights to close out Permissionless III.
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