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

• Anatomy of on-chain privacy
• When Help Hurts: Why a Friendly Government is a Threat to Crypto
• The Forest That Protects the Public Good: Nym for Libp2p privacy (part2)
• Welcome to Noirland
• Quad-linear Voting (QLV)
• Contract-based soft forks: Coining a term in search of hack prevention
• Non-local redundancy: Erasure coding and dispersed replicas for robust retrieval in the Swarm peer-to-peer network
• Opening Ceremony
• ETHBerlin04 Keynote: Christopher Goes - Information Flow Control
• ETHBerlin04 Keynote: Edmund Edgar - Anarchy, Truth and Justice
• ETHBerlin04 Keynote: Puja Ohlhaver, Mikhail Nikulin - The Silent Strings of Proof of Personhood
• ETHBerlin04 Keynote: Ameen Soleimani - The Fight for Privacy