Department of Decentralization

Department of Decentralization is a Berlin-based collective of blockchain and open-source contributors, organizing Ethereum and decentralized-technology events since 2018 -- including the ETHBerlin hackathon series (most recently ETHBerlin04, May 2024) and the Protocol Berg conference. The community promotes open-source collaboration, practical education, and decentralized infrastructure.

Events

• Protocol Berg 2025 (Berlin, Germany)
• ETHBerlin04 (Berlin, Germany)
• Protocol Berg 2023 (Berlin, Germany)
• ETHBerlin 2022 (Berlin, Germany)

176 talks

• The Lost Values of Web3
• A Functional VM for Verifiable Computing over Binary Fields
• Beyond the Ledger: JAM and the Future of Scalable Decentralized Computing
• Comparing transaction submission pipelines of different blockchains
• Multi agentic architecture on top of p2p infra
• How Ethereum Governance (Actually) Works
• Two flavors of Smart Sessions: Session Keys vs SubAccounts
• New insights into distributed and concurrent programming
• Moderation is not a bad word: Towards Decentralised Content Moderation in P2P-Networks
• Forking the RANDAO: Manipulating Ethereum’s Distributed Randomness Beacon
• Compiler-based optimizations for zkVMs
• Monitoring Ethereum's Beacon Chain for Safety and Liveness