The decentralized protocol and infrastructure conference.
June 12-13, 2025, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin;
a Department-of-Decentralization1 event.
For last year's speakers, recordings, and gallery, see also Protocol Berg v1 (2023).
Abstract
Protocol Berg v2 is a conference focusing on protocol research, decentralized infrastructure, and core-developer experience. The two-day event with multiple stages, opportunities for technical workshops, and protocol community gatherings brings together protocol researchers and other stakeholders from different decentralized protocols. Attendance is free of charge. The event will not host any sponsors or commercial talks.1. Conference
Protocol Berg v2 is a two-day technical conference targeting an audience of protocol/system/network engineers, decentralized-infrastructure administrators, researchers, and other curious minds. Protocol Berg aims to bring distributed technology ecosystems together to exchange concepts and technology, talk about shared open problems, and learn from each other.
Topics covered by the event orbits mainly around consensus protocols, distributed virtual machines, peer-to-peer networking, decentralized infrastructure, open-source governance, and protocol research.
Tickets will be free, as in free lemonade. All attendees have to adhere to the event's Code of Conduct.
Protocol Berg v2 is a donation-backed, non-profit event. Therefore, there will be no sponsors.
Follow us on X, Bluesky, or Matrix for updates. For the previous event, see Protocol Berg v1.
1.1 Speakers
2. Call for Participation
2.1 Speakers
The call for participation is now open. Please use our pretalx backend to submit a proposal.
cfp.protocol.berlin
The deadline to submit a proposal is 2025-03-16 23:59 (CET/Berlin).
Talk and workshop content should align with one of our tracks:
- Networking: communication, peer-to-peer, decentralization, federation
- Storage: reliability, availability, durability, recovery, incentives, resilience
- Consensus: validation concepts, fork choice, finality considerations, virtual machines, programming languages
- Cryptography: key management, zero-knowledge technologies, hash functions, encryption, security, privacy
- Infrastructure: distributed clusters, testing and testnet infrastructure, blockchain system operations, orchestration
- Philosophy: vision, debate, politics, governance, coordination, open-source
2.2 Volunteers
Volunteer applications are now open! Apply at
tickets.protocol.berlin
2.3 Attendees
General admission applications are now open! Apply at
tickets.protocol.berlin
Attendance is free as in free lemonade. Just let us know what motivates you to join the conference.
Tickets will be distributed on a "first come first serve" basis for all eligible applications. Please remember, tickets are on application basis and approved by the team. Applying for a ticket does not guarantee one.
3. Venue
The Colosseum8 is a cinema in the Gleimviertel district of Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg2 on the corner of Schönhauser Allee and Gleimstraße. The building was constructed around 1892 for the Great Berlin Horse Railway. It was later rebuilt and repurposed several times and has served as a movie screening facility since 1924.
The venue will be equipped with two stages. In addition, there will be workshop areas for deep technical study and knowledge-sharing classes.
Latitude/Longitude:
52.5477109, 13.4125287
Street Address:
Gleimstraße 30, 10437 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.
4. About the Host
The Department of Decentralization is a collective of people from various crypto, decentralization, and blockchain communities in and around Berlin. The group assembled in 2018 to organize events such as ETHBerlin3 4 5 6 , Protocol Berg7 , and GoerliCon9 , and has been active since.
The aim is to be an agnostic vehicle to drive adoption, educate newcomers, and raise awareness of the challenges and benefits of decentralization and open-source software. Currently, the Department is primarily run from Berlin. The collective is composed of around a dozen members who contribute voluntarily.
4.1 Contact
To connect to the Protocol Berg v2 community, join our [matrix] space:
#protocol:dod.ngo
To provide feedback or ask questions, please email us:
hello@protocol.berlin
4.2 Donations
The Department of Decentralization is a charitable, non-profit organization accepting donations either via cryptographic transactions or traditional wire transfers.
Donations on Ethereum mainnet: ethberlin.eth; on other EVM chains: 0xd22dC63e2388AE8226b5CAA0341fc0c1294b6B40
Wire (SEPA) donations:
Beneficiary: Goerli Dezentral gGmbH
International Bank Account Number: DE16 1005 0000 0190 8447 44
Bank Identifier Code: BELADEBEXXX
Subject: Spende Protocol Berg v2
To donate on other platforms or to get a donation receipt, please message us at donations@protocol.berlin.
4.3 Impressum
Angaben gemäß § 5 TMG: Goerli Dezentral gGmbH, Mariannenstraße 9-10, 10999 Berlin, Handelsregister: HRB 207663 B, Registergericht: Amtsgericht, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Umstatzsteuer-ID: DE325917754, vertreten durch A. Schoedon, Telefon: +49 (0) 30 20607944, E-Mail: schoedon@protocol.berlin.
Goerli Dezentral gGmbH is a charitable, non-profit organization serving tax-privileged purposes, according to the articles of association. The organization meets the statutory requirements under §§ 51, 59, 60, and 61 AO in Germany.