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Thursday, May 8, 2025 (Virtual)

Summit 2025 Agenda

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Time (PST)TopicSpeaker(s)Abstract

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM

Opening Remarks

A warm welcome to kick off the day, setting the vision for a future where decentralized systems and AI drive innovation.

9:15 AM – 9:45AM

Summit 2025 Keynote

To be announced

Summit 2025 Keynote

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

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10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Privacy-Preserving AI Compute with Decentralized Verification

Raluca Ada Popa, Berkeley

With compute resources for AI being scarce, users are increasingly leveraging decentralized systems. However, users need to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of their data on these systems. In this talk, I will overview our approach of privacy-preserving AI computation with decentralized verification. Our techniques combine shared security based on restaking, hardware enclaves, and encrypted RAG retrieval.

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM

Algorithmic Aspects of Decentralized Exchanges

Ashish Goel, Stanford

Given the decentralized nature of blockchain infrastructure, there has been great interest in decentralized exchanges for cryptocurrencies. In this talk, we will discuss some of the algorithmic issues that arise in the design of these exchanges. We will start by describing how batch exchanges which simultaneously clear multiple assets can address issues of low liquidity, and present an algorithmic framework for pricing and matching in this setting.We will then discuss Constant Function Market Makers (CFMMs), which provide liquidity between a pair of assets by maintaining a liquidity pool and doing algorithmic pricing. We present an optimization framework for optimum design of Constant Function Market Makers (CFMMs), and show how CFMMs can be integrated as participants in a batch exchange.

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM

The Rise of Autonomous Commerce

This presentation will explore the integration of AI agents with digital assets, focusing on leveraging Amazon Bedrock to create a powerful, private knowledge base for real-time crypto data access and transactions. The presenter will detail the architecture for building an intelligent Web3 agent that understands user intent, automates complex processes, and interacts with blockchain networks. Key technical aspects include the development of AI-driven systems as autonomous economic actors, such as crypto trading bots, smart wallets, self-managing DAOs, and IoT-enabled micropayments. This talk will demonstrate how to enable conversational, automatic trading and personalized insights while maintaining security and reliability in the digital asset landscape. By combining Amazon Bedrock with Web3 technologies, the presentation showcases how AI agents can revolutionize user experience in crypto interactions, making them more intuitive and efficient through natural language commands and automated wallet management.

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM

Panel Discussion: AI for Blockchain

Moderator:

Anand lyer, Lightspeed Venture Partners

12:45 PM - 1:15 PM

Towards an Agentic Internet

Erik Reppel, Coinbase

The explosion of agents has brought light to a fundamental problem of the internet: the highest value actions are hidden away from the public internet. In a human operated, narrow internet this has been an inconvenience, but now this fact is one of the largest limiters for truly autonomous agents. In his talk Erik will discuss how we get from where we are, to a fully composable, agent friendly internet, and crypto’s important role in making that transition. 

1:15 - 1:45 PM

The Roadmap to a User-Owned AI Model

“Attention Is All You Need” coauthor and NEAR Protocol co-founder Illia Polosukhin shares a vision for User-Owned AI, or AI whose value function optimizes users' wellbeing and privacy, not corporate profits. User-Owned AI provides a business model for open source AI while letting users and companies retain control of their data. Illia shares how blockchain and TEE together enable this future and shares the roadmap to a state-of-the-art, user-owned model that is transparent, decentralized, and upgradable.

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM

The API Privacy Paradox: How LLM APIs Unintentionally Reveal Model Details

Xiang Ren, USC and Sahara AI

Model APIs serve as gateways to powerful large language models (LLM) while protecting proprietary details. However, subtle signals in API outputs — such as log probabilities and token rankings — can unintentionally reveal critical model attributes, including hidden layer sizes, parameter structure, and even embedding subspace. This talk presents how adversaries can exploit API outputs to infer these hidden properties and discusses mitigation strategies, from modifying API designs to rethinking model architectures. We also examine whether such leaks pose a security risk or offer opportunities for model verification and accountability. Ultimately, we aim to strike a balance between API transparency, trust, and security in LLM deployment.

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Panel Discussion: Blockchain for AI

Moderator:

Yuga Cohler, Coinbase

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Practical and Extensible Decentralised Identity Management

Professor Salil Kanhere (UNSW, Australia) explains Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) through CredChain, a blockchain platform for secure and selective credential sharing. He also introduces the Verifiable Credential-based Trust Propagation Protocol (VCTP), enabling individuals to act as trusted issuers.

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

Achieving Network Effects in the Open-Source AI Era

Jasper Zhang, Hyperbolic

Jasper will be explaining the rise of open-source AI and its implications on how growth and proliferation of novel technologies is achieved. He will also touch on how to create proper incentivization mechanisms in decentralized ecosystems and why compute should be user-owned and controlled.

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Concluding Remarks

Rajarshi Gupta, Coinbase

Thank you all for joining us—let’s carry today’s insights forward as we build the future of AI and blockchain together.

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