Talks & appearances
Talks, panels, podcasts and interviews, newest first — with recordings where they exist.

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Podcast
by MidenPrivacy, Ethereum, and the Future of On-Chain Finance
The Privacy Podcast
Ben Schiller
On the evolution of Ethereum infrastructure, institutional adoption, privacy architectures, zero-knowledge, interoperability and the AggLayer, stablecoins, RWA, and why privacy matters as blockchain enters everyday financial products.
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Talk
BerlinPractical Privacy
DAppCon 2026
On-chain privacy, surveyed — and a lighter way to get it. Use cases where confidentiality and auditability must coexist, and interoperable, production-ready privacy without sacrificing ecosystem compatibility. Presented from hand-built ASCII slides in a real terminal, over SSH — a deck design I had a lot of fun with.
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Webinar
onlinePractical Approaches to Interoperable Blockchain Privacy
LF Decentralized Trust
LFDT-hosted session on real-world blockchain privacy — the practical approach later presented as Practical Privacy at DAppCon 2026.
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Workshop
Abu DhabiBlockchain workshop (co-hosted)
Hub71
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Talk
Abu DhabiThe future is onchain
Abu Dhabi Finance Week
Announced on Bluesky: “The future is onchain. We at Gateway.fm make it easy. My talk at Abu Dhabi Finance Week.” No public recording found.
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Interview
YouTubeFinance, On-chain — misconceptions of blockchain in the financial world
Gateway FM
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Interview
YouTubeHow gateway.fm Empowers Enterprises with Blockchain
The Defiant
with Pradeep RV Singh
On enterprise blockchain and why the time is now to adopt it.
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Talk
onlineFrom RPCs to Real World: Making Blockchain Infrastructure Ready for Mass Adoption
Gateway FM
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Talk
TallinnScaling Trust: Leveraging Zero-Knowledge Rollups for Real-World Applications
BananaConf 2024
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Talk
onlinePresto Rollups and Decentralization
Fluence
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Podcast
Decentralization, Rollups & Appchains
The Spelunking Podcast #22
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Podcast
Why Private Rollups Will Inflect Web3's Trajectory
WAGMI Ventures Podcast
with Temoc Weber
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Talk
BerlinBlockchain Node DB Designs: from Geth to Erigon
Protocol Berg 2023
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Talk
BerlinThe Internet of Rollups: Presto, zkAppChains and Mass Adoption
DappCon 2023
Combining the computational proofs and data availability of zk rollups into a global system of private and public rollups, with Ethereum or Gnosis Chain as the settlement layer.
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Talk
SeoulThe zk App Chains Thesis
ETH Seoul 2023
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Interview
DenverDistributed Infrastructure for a Distributed Network: Gnosis and Gateway.fm
ETHDenver
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Tech talk
onlineErigon & The Merge
PEEPanEIP #77 — Ethereum Cat Herders
with Andrew Ashikhmin
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Podcast
#2 Ethereum with Igor Mandrigin
Greater Finance
Ethereum fundamentals, DeFi, scaling, sidechains and layer 2, and Ethereum 2.0 — from a technical perspective.
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Tech talk
onlineThreat Modelling with STRIDE
Self-published
From the security-consulting chapter.
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Tech talk
onlineHow Status Interacts with Ethereum
Status
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Meetup talk
OsloCocoaHeads Oslo presentation
CocoaHeads Oslo
Slides archived in this repository since May 2016, from the mobile-engineering chapter.