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
- Modern Multi-proposer consensus implementations
- Synchronized Priority Auctions
- Golden Raspberry Awards Of Ethereum Scaling 2025
- Privacy ist mir Wurst. I Got Nothing to Hide.
- Liberating the self from calculation: entropy in privacy enhancing technologies
- Blockchain Ethics: Pure Reason or Pure Madness?
- Runtime Assertions: A New Paradigm for Customized Smart Contract Security
- CorePlay - An actor-like framework for blockchains
- Learn Noir in an Afternoon (Or Your Money Back)
- Standardizing Ethereum metrics: PeerDAS and FOCIL retrospective
- Waku Service Marketplace: Decentralized Infrastructure for dApps
- How client diversity saved Holesky: Lessons for the future