​5th edition of Restaking Day — worldwide DeFi gathering. Let’s make it Epic! 🔔

​​After an incredible journey from Dubai’s floodwaters to Brussels’ historic charm to Singapore drift and Chaotic Bangkok - we're kicking off the 2025 event season with our 5th edition at ETHDenver, giving it a fresh glow-up and renaming it Restaking & DeFAI Day to align with the latest community trends!

​Speakers from Eigen, Ether. fi, Symbiotic, Mode, Kernel DAO, Kelp, Gain, Hyle, Giza, Bitcoin OS, eOracle, HeyElsaAI, Space and Time, Chorus One, Nethermind, Coinbase Developer Platform, Byzantine, Impossible Cloud Network, Boba, Certora, ZeroLend, Inception, Solayer.

​Let’s build, learn, and connect!

​🎤 Agenda

​​​10:00 — 10:30 Doors opening, networking, 🍕food & drinks🥤​​
10:30 — 10:40 Opening word
10:40 — 11:00 Keynote: "Restaking Protocols: Exposing the Achilles' Heels" (Mooly Sagiv - co-founder and CEO) @ Certora
11:00 — 11:20 Keynote: "Scaling DeFi with AI" (Alan Chiu - Co-Founder) @ Boba
11:20 — 11:40 Keynote: "The role of restaking in sovereign AI agents" (Jorge Arce - Blockchain Researcher) @ Nethermind
11:40 — 12:00 Keynote: "Reinventing infrastructure to unleash unchained applications" (Sylve Chevet - CEO) @ Hyle

​12:00 — 12:40 
Panel Discussion: "Unlocking the Future of DeFAI: How Data Enables New Agentic Use Cases" moderated by Henrique Sousa Dias, Head of Research @ Inception

• ​Rok Kopp, Co-Founder @ Ether.fi

• ​​Xmatan, founder @ eOracle

• ​Lincoln Murr, AI Lead @ Coinbase Developer Platform

• ​Steven Enamakel, Creator @ ZeroLend

• ​Jason Li, Co-Founder @ Solayer

​12:40 — 13:00 Keynote: "Restaking in a post-bull run world: Hype or Sustainable Rewards?" (Soufia - Head of Defi at Kelp & Head of Partnerships at Kernel) @ Kernel DAO
13:00 — 13:20 Keynote: "Giza Agents: DeFi's Cognitive Revolution" (Renç Korzay - Co-Founder) @ Giza
13:20 — 13:40 Keynote: "ZK proving all of crypto’s data for smart contracts" (Scott Dykstra - CTO & Co-Founder) @ Space and Time
13:40 — 14:00 Keynote: "Scaling Ethereum: The Innovations Unlocking Staking Opportunity" (Brian Crain - CEO & Co-Founder) @ Chorus One

​14:00 — 14:40
Panel Discussion: "Supersonic Money Legos: is the new value creation primitive in the room with us right now?" moderated by Irena Timofeeva, Head of Ecosystem @ Chainflip

• ​Nader Dabit, Director of DevR @ Eigen

• ​Misha, Co-Founder @ Symbiotic

• ​Soufia, Head of Defi at Kelp, and Head of Partnerships at Kernel @ Kernel DAO

• ​Edan Yago, CEO @ Bitcoin OS

• ​Gaia Ferrero Regis, CEO & Co-Founder @ Byzantine

​14:40 — 15:20
Panel Discussion: "AI as DeFi's New Interface: The Abstraction Revolution" moderated by Sebastian Pfeiffer, Managing Director @ Impossible Cloud Network

• ​James Ross, co-founder @ Mode

• ​Dhawal, founder @ HeyElsa AI

• ​Nima Vaziri, Head of AI @ Eigen

​​​15:20 — 17:00 Networking! 🧞🧚

​⚡Partners

​🔸Kernel DAO — a suite of top re-staking products, with over $2 billion total value locked and live on 10+ chains including Ethereum, BNB Chain, and expanding further. KernelDAO’s three key products include Kernel, Kelp and Gain.
🔸Kernel — pioneering restaking on the BNB Chain. Restake BNB, BTC and other yield-bearing tokens and earn higher rewards
🔸Kelp — the second largest liquid restaking protocol with ~$2B+ TVL. Its liquid restaked token, rsETH, is live across 10+ major L2s and 40+ DeFi platforms, allowing users to restake while maintaining full liquidity.
🔸Gain — an actively managed vaults program with $150M+ in TVL, designed for users to maximise their earning potential through tokenized rewards, supported by a seamless user experience. Its flagship products are Airdrop Gain, High Gain and Grizzly Gain.
🔸Giza — a platform focused on AI and blockchain solutions, aiming to drive innovation and enhance business processes through cutting-edge technology.
🔸Hylé — a lean blockchain that lets you build provable applications that are minimally, yet sufficiently, onchain.
🔸 BitcoinOS — a web of blockchains for Bitcoin allowing developers to build interoperable rollups and L2s, bringing scalability, privacy and speed to Bitcoin.
🔸Space and Time — secures your onchain apps with the first sub-second ZK coprocessor to power the future of AI x blockchain.
🔸Chorus One — provides quick staking integrations for institutions and forward thinking investors, industry-leading research, and support for 60+ protocols.
🔸Byzantine — decentralised protocol making restaking accessible to all.
🔸 Impossible Cloud Network (ICN) — a multi-service cloud platform connecting cloud service providers with top-tier infrastructure.
🔸 Nethermind — engineering and research solutions, empowering developers & enterprises to build upon the decentralized web.
🔸 Boba — an advanced layer 2 scaling solution that uses the Optimistic Rollup framework, to reduce transaction fees, increase throughput, and expand the capabilities of smart contracts on multiple (EVM) based blockchains.
🔸Certora — securing DeFi through smart contract audits, formal verification, and protocol design reviews.
🔸 ZeroLend — the most efficient and dominant lending market on Linea, zkSync, Blast, and Manta.
🔸 Solayer — hardware-accelerated SVM layer 1, scaled infinitely, streamed in real-time.

​🎬 Media Partners

​​​Bitcoin Insider / AllConfsBot / CoinPedia / Cryptoken Media / Bitmedia.IO / The Bit Times / Coinspeaker / CryptoBrowser / blocmates. / U.Today / Princeton Blockchain Club / Texas Blockchain

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