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

• Metadata-private data transfer
• Developer Tooling, Education, and Funding
• Retroactive Public Goods Funding: 2 Rounds in
• Linux & Ethereum: Commoning vs Commodifiying
• Whisk: returning privacy to Ethereum proposers
• How to unleash the power of Account Abstraction
• powdr - a modular stack for zkVMs
• Permanent Decentralized Storage: The use case of verifiably backing up external chain state
• The Nature of the Protocol
• Running rollups on light nodes
• p2p set reconciliation as storage-heavy dapp infrastructure 2.0
• (mis)adventures in governance