2026-06-14 –, Dept of Decentralization Zone (Workshop)
This workshop offers a deep dive on the concept of Walkaway Test and why it should be applied systematically when thinking about using or developing a new app or AI agents. It guarentees people's self sovereignty online. Yet the majority of our activities online depend on apps that do all they can to NOT pass the walkaway test. We’ll first discuss different forms of lock-in mechanisms and how they evolved with AI agents, and then offer some practical examples for applying the walkaway test. Instead of lock-in mechanisms, the second part of this workshop will explore ways to break out from apps and how to build systems that guarantee a right to exit to their end users. Fileverse and ddocs.new will be taken as concrete examples to help us understand the different ways in which we could apply this test.
Co-founder of Fileverse, an end-to-end encrypted office suite made to decentralize everyday collaboration and guarantee privacy by design. His goal is to offer a simple, freedom-enhancing way for the 3 billion people locked behind the dangerously comfortable walled gardens of big tech office suites. He is the architect behind ddocs.new, the end-to-end encrypted alternative to google docs; dsheets.new a secure spreadsheet made for the open financial world; and the Fileverse middleware which enables the creation of decentralized applications. Vijay is also the co-author of ERC-8019 ""Minimal Wallet-Managed Auto-Login"", a standard improving Ethereum UX by enabling wallet-managed auto-logins on Apps.