2026-06-14 –, Dept of Decentralization Zone (Workshop)
We care deeply about privacy. But are we focusing our energy where it actually matters? This workshop starts with a provocation: the surveillance side is ahead. Transaction monitoring firms are building tools marketed directly to regulators. DAC8 is already law. Data protection authorities don't know where the boundaries are. The infrastructure of financial surveillance is being normalized faster than we are responding.
Then we work together. Participants will map the real threat landscape — legal, regulatory, and institutional — and identify where cypherpunk energy, tools, and advocacy could have the most impact right now. The goal is to leave with a clearer sense of where to focus and maybe the beginning of a collective response.
Crypto lawyer and PhD researcher working at the intersection of Web3, privacy, and regulation. I've advised a DeFi project, built a global crypto regulatory intelligence tool covering 40+ jurisdictions, and I mentored at last year's hackathon organized by this team. I'm close to the cypherpunk ethos which is exactly why I think we need to have an honest conversation about where our energy is going.