The Future of Blockspace Markets | ETHDenver 2025
GTM for Blockspace Commitments
Blockspace is the fabric that powers the incentives between blockchains' users and validators. This event explores and brings together the industry's most prominent Builders, Traders, Validators, and Researchers to discuss the future of these markets, with a distinct focus on near-term go-to-market (GTM).
We'll unpack as an industry: who is involved, what we need to do, and by when. If you're interested in the future of blockchain incentives, investing either your time, resources, or money, then this event is for you.
Schedule
1:30 - 2:00: Registration
2:00 - 2:15: Keynote: A Convergence of Research, Technology and Markets
Sam Jernigan, Founder & CIO @ Lafayette Macro
2:15 - 3:00: Validator Perspectives on Preconfs and Market Structure
Moderator:
Drew Van der Werff @ Commit Boost
Panelists:
Sebastien Rannou, Principal Engineer @ Kiln
Matthias Ang, Ecosystem Lead @ SSV
Ben Rodriguez, Protocol Specialist @ Coinbase
Reza Sabernia, Product @ Figment
3:00 - 3:30: Based Rollups, First Users of Preconfs
Moderator:
Drew Van der Werff @ Commit Boost
Panelists:
Amir Forouzani, Founder @ Puffer
Sam Battenally, Co-Founder @ Rise Labs
Antony Denyer, Engineering @ Spire Labs
3:30 - 4:00: The Role of Restaking with Proposer Commitments
Brandon Curtis, Head of Strategy @ Eigen Labs
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4:00 - 4:15: Break
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4:15 - 4:45: Blockspace Markets Today, and Into the Future
Kevin Lepsoe, Founder @ ETHGas
4:45 - 5:30: Fireside Panel: Buying & Trading Blockspace
Moderator:
Aryan Sheikhalian, Investor & Head of Research @ CMT Digital
Panelists:
Kubi Mensah, Co-Founder @ Gattaca
Benjamin Hunter, VP Engineering @ BTCS
Wee Howe Ang, CEO @ Tokka Labs
Eduardo Bermudez, VP Principal Trading @ Galaxy Digital
5:30: Networking
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Presented through collaboration with BlueYard.com and ETHgas.com.
About ETHGAS
ETHGas is a Gas Futures marketplace unlocking a Realtime, Gasless experience on Ethereum. With a suite of order execution products and a low-latency trade engine, ETHGas provides traders and gas buyers certainty, and precision execution.
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About BlueYard Capital
BlueYard backs founders at the earliest stages building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future. A future where markets are open and decentralized, where we have solved our largest planetary challenges, where knowledge and data is liberated and humanity can live long and prosper.