2026-06-14 –, Hauptbühne (Saal 1)
A cross-stack panel asking the question most decks tiptoe around: what actually breaks if a single company disappears? Infrastructure builders from storage, compute, identity, and frontend sat down for an honest conversation about which parts of the stack are genuinely decentralized — and which parts everyone hopes nobody looks at too closely. No roadmaps. No token plugs.
Panelists: Viktor Tron, Mario Havel, Kyle den Hartog, Meinhard Benn
Moderator: Migle Rakitaite
Viktor Trón is the founder of Ethereum Swarm and President of the Swarm Foundation. He has spent over a decade building decentralized storage and communication infrastructure aimed at enabling a truly serverless web.
Ethereum Foundation Protocol Support, Bordel Hackerspace.
Bringing new core devs to Ethereum, building community in Prague and sustaining cryptoanarchy values.
I also love cats, meow meow meow, I need 100 words but I don't want to bother people with my bio, instead of reading this pointless fluff, you should probably just come meet me!
I did bunch of cool hacking and stuff. Seriously who reads these long bios, if you think I am so interesting you read till here you should really come to my workshop. I am in cult of stallman, join me on the gnu path to freedom. All software should be Free. Fuck Apple. Also fuck Nvidia. And all other proprietary stuff our corporate overlords push on normies. Ok is this enough words
Kyle den Hartog, Security Engineer at Brave Software, is helping to promote a world where the Web can be more private and secure for everyone. This vision led him to be an eager contributor to the design and development of standards in W3C and IETF.
With a background in security and cryptography, he has worked in domain verticals such as digital identity, Web3, and now work on browsers here at Brave. His long term focus remains on improving our symbiotic relationship with technology, and he's active in communities related to these topics.
Meinhard is a developer and entrepreneur working on decentralized infrastructure and peer-to-peer systems. He started working with Bitcoin in 2011 and founded SatoshiPay in 2014, one of the early companies exploring blockchain-based payments and web monetization. He is currently building Freedom, a browser for the decentralized web that integrates Swarm, IPFS, and ENS as first-class protocols rather than relying on centralized gateways. His work focuses on making decentralized technologies usable by exposing native browser APIs for storage, identity, and payments, enabling developers to build applications that are open, resilient, user-owned, and directly connected to peer-to-peer networks.
Migle went from actress to documentary filmmaker to blockchain in 2017 to asking why privacy tech is so bad at explaining itself. She co-founded WinPrivacy, a creative agency for privacy and security projects, and leads Womxn in Privacy. Currently supporting Swarm Foundation, building decentralized storage infrastructure and backing public goods since Ethereum's early days.