CryptIst 2025
A Zero-Knowledge and Cryptography Community Summit in Istanbul
📍 Istanbul, Turkey | 📅 September 2025
🎪 During the Builders Week Istanbul
What is CryptIst?
CryptIst is a community-driven event focused on cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, and privacy-enhancing technologies. It's a full day of talks, workshops, and deep discussions for developers, researchers, and anyone curious about ZK.
You’ll find:
• Technical talks from leading ZK projects
• Hands-on workshops and demos
• Use cases, new primitives, and protocol design
• A global network of builders and privacy pioneers
CryptIst is where the ZK community comes together to share, learn, and experiment.
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🌍 Why Istanbul?
Istanbul is where East meets West, and ideas become movements.
This September, it becomes the epicenter of Zero-Knowledge thinking during Builders Week Istanbul, a full week of events, hacking, and deep tech conversations across the city.
There is no better place to explore Zero-Knowledge technology with leading international developers than CryptIst. Bringing together the World's and Turkey's most talented developers with global friends, CryptIst aims to make Istanbul a hub for zero-knowledge developers.
Get Involved
Applications open soon!
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👉 t.me/cryptist_org
Not just another ZK event.
CryptIst is the playground.
Last Years of CryptIst
CryptIst 2023 - Luma - WebPage
During Devconnect Istanbul 2023, Cryptİst brought together Turkey’s most talented blockchain developers with leading international experts in Zero-Knowledge technology at the historic Grand Pera – Emek Sahnesi in Istanbul. Building on the success of the inaugural 2022 event and the ongoing Moda Palas meetups, the summit featured talks from top minds at Aleo, Scroll, zkSync, and Paribu Ventures. As a highlight of the Turkish ZK community calendar, Cryptİst 2023 reinforced Istanbul’s position as a vibrant hub for Zero-Knowledge innovation and collaboration.