Step into the universe of Account Abstraction, where user experience is elevated tenfold. Engage with pioneers through captivating keynotes, panels, and immersive workshops. Learn all things Account Abstraction and 4337 from the forerunners shaping this technology.
Meet the web3 legends
Nicolas spent five years at Oberthur, a leader in embedded digital security, specializing in card systems. After that, he founded Ubinity to focus on smartcard operating systems. Later, he co-founded BT Chip with the aim of creating an open-standard, secure-element-based hardware wallet, which laid the foundation for the first Ledger wallet.
Julien has been a long-term advocate of account abstraction and is well-know for his blogpost series “WTF is Account Abstraction”.
Julien holds a PhD in Physics with a focus on Quantum Information and Quantum Cryptography.
Alex is a software architect with over 15 years experience in engineering and startups. He is the co-inventor of zkSync and currently serves as the co-founder and CEO of Matter Labs. He leads a talented team focused on addressing blockchain scalability challenges using zero-knowledge proofs.
Baki is a co-founder and product lead at Clave, bringing over a decade of experience from corporate and startup ventures. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, a master's degree in Robotics, and is a CS PhD dropout. Baki is also known for creating the DeFi Library, a valuable resource for the Turkish community, where people can find trustworthy knowledge about DeFİ.
Ivo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ambire. He is a recognized expert in web3 and crypto, with extensive experience in blockchain development. As the CEO of Ambire Wallet, he leads a team of skilled developers and designers in building innovative products for the blockchain space.
CEO of Fuel Labs - building the fastest modular execution layer.
Builder of 1st / only optimistic rollup on Eth
Sway-pilled.
Autonomy is life.
Previously #16 @ ConsenSys
Ulaş is a co-founder and software developer at Clave and an active member of the Ethereum ecosystem, involving various educational and open-source contributions. He is responsible for the blockchain/backend developments in Clave, also the co-author of EIP-7212.
Prior to his time at Polygon, he worked as a research scientist at Meta, where he led the development of Winterfell, a highly performant general-purpose STARK prover. Bobbin has been active in Web3 since 2018. His focus and passion have always been building of open-source components fundamental to zero-knowledge tech to ensure a decentralized, private future of the web.
In the last five years, Lukas has focused on enhancing web3 accessibility in blockchain. At Gnosis since 2019, he co-led the Safe project and co-founded the Safe Ecosystem Foundation, driving Safe Protocol adoption. Safe now oversees $40B+ digital assets, a reliable choice for teams and individuals.
Hsuan Lee is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blocto, which was founded in 2019 to make web3 easy and accessible. He had 10+ years of engineering experiences, previously serving in Yahoo and Agoda.
Developer Relations at Particle Network. Full-time DevRel for two years, originally starting at 16 years old. Dedicated towards enabling developers to shape the future of a consumer-facing Web3 ecosystem
Anthony leads the technology team behind zkSync at Matter Labs, and has a background in software and machine learning. Prior to joining Matter Labs, Anthony spent a number of years in industry building teams at SpaceX and Uber, and in academia at CERN, where he worked on searches for new physics and the Higgs boson discovery.
Anton contributed to various crypto projects, including MultiToken, NEAR Protocol and Synthetix. He collaborated with Sergej Kunz in a hackathon where they built a DEX aggregator solution – essentially an MVP for the future 1inch Aggregation Protocol
Martin is the lead developer for OpenZeppelin Contracts for Cairo. Before, he worked as a Developer for Decentraland and was previously CTO of Benchrise, a machine learning startup. In his down time, he likes making music, building stuff, and learning. Recent areas of interest include the Japanese language and data science.
Jérôme de Tychey is the president of Ethereum-France and CEO of Cometh. He is the host of EthCC, the largest blockchain event in Europe. He previously held leadership positions at Ledger, ConsenSys and Ernst & Young. Jerome is also an associate professor in economics at CNAM, an engineering school in Paris.
Marcin is currently serving as the Chief Protocol Architect at Matter Labs, the team responsible for zkSync. Prior to this, he led protocol development at NEAR Blockchain, extending his expertise in blockchain technology
Yilan Huang leads Global Development across different regional markets at CyberConnect. CyberConnect is the largest ERC-4337-compatible (Account Abstraction) smart contract wallet system and also web3’s earliest and biggest decentralized social network that enables developers to create social applications empowering users to own their digital identity, content, connections, and monetization channels.
Taylor is currently working as Developer Relations for Etherspot and is deeply rooted in the Account Abstraction space.
Derek Chiang is the founder and CEO of ZeroDev, a provider of embeddable & programmable smart (AA) wallets. Derek contributed to the spec and reference implementation of ERC-4337, and ZeroDev built the first modular AA wallet known as “Kernel” which is currently the most widely deployed AA wallet.
Jeff is a Co-founder of Curvegrid, a blockchain software company founded in Tokyo, Japan in 2017. Curvegrid's MultiBaas blockchain middleware makes it easy and cost effective to build on blockchain. Jeff is a regular mentor at ETHGlobal hackathons and occasional contributor to go-ethereum. Previously, Jeff worked in financial services and enterprise data storage.
Vitaly is the Co-founder & CTO at ZKX, where he leads all aspects of the technology and innovation of a suite of Web3 products. He is a strategic, business-driven leader with 20+ years of experience and specializes in developing operational strategies to assure business growth through emerging technologies and product-market-fit.
Joe is the co-founder and President of Aztec Labs. Previously, Joe was the CTO of a food tech startup and received his BEngin Materials Science from Imperial College London.
MSc in Psychology & Neuroscience | Expansive Web3 Background w/ specialisation in Business Operations.
Thomas is the Co-Founder of StarknetID, a digital identity dapp on Starknet.
Rafi is a co-founder and development lead at Clave. He is a full stack developer and has prior experience of project coordination for the US Army Corps of Engineers. He’s coming from an engineering background and mainly focusing on cutting edge technologies regarding blockchain ecosystem.
On-boarding developers to web3 since 2017. Previously at the Celo Foundation and Consensys Academy.
David has worked for a number of prominent projects & DAOs in the Ethereum ecosystem, and maintains a number of popular data websites like CryptoFees.info
Omar Espejel is a Cairo Blockchain Engineer at the Starknet Foundation. Before this, he worked at Starkware and was a Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face, the most important open-source AI company. He is the editor of the Starknet Book.
George holds a degree in Applied Mathematics and made a career in software, where he focusses on the people aspect of tech -- privacy, personal data, digital identity, human-made data etc.
At Consensys Diligence he specializes in security auditing to help the technology get adopted safely as smart contract usage skyrockets.
Alexandra is Head of Marketing at Etherspot, an Account Abstraction development platform. With involvement in Web3 since 2019, she's adept in crafting marketing strategies for Ethereum, EOS, and Polkadot projects. Alexandra's passion lies in the potential of account abstraction to revolutionize the blockchain industry. Leading the Etherspot AA weekly digest, she keeps the community updated on this groundbreaking technology.
Rui, an investor at SevenX Ventures, done in-depth research of AA, modular AA stacks, 4337, and key management solutions. Her objective is to research, invest, and support the foremost technology that drive blockchain adoption
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Julien Niset
Co-Founder & CSO, Argent
Bobbin Threadbare, Co-Founder, Polygon
Nick Dodson, CEO, Fuel Labs
Joe Andrews, Co-Founder & President, Aztec Labs
Marcin Michalski, Chief Protocol Architect, Matter Labs
Keng Lim DevRel, Taiko
Rui Shang, Investor, SevenX Ventures
Henri Lieutaud, Head of Developer Relations
Starknet Foundation
Nick Dodson
CEO, Fuel Labs
Ivo Georgiev, Co-Founder & CEO, Ambire
Julien Niset, Co-Founder & CSO, Argent
Lukas Schor, Co-Founder, Safe
Nicolas Consigny, Developer Relations, Ledger
Ulaş Erdoğan, Co-Founder & Software Developer, Clave
Jeff Wentworth, Co-Founder, Curvegrid
Derek Flossman, Head of Product, Starknet Foundation
Jérôme de Tichey, CEO, Cometh
Yilan Huang, Global Development Lead, CyberConnect
Vitaly Yakovlev, Co-Founder & CTO, ZKX
Ben Virnich, Head of BD, Mute
Taylor Ferran, Developer Relations Engineer, Etherspot
Julien Niset
Co-Founder & CSO, Argent
Marcin Michalski
Chief Protocol Architect at Matter Labs
Anton Bukov, Co-Founder, 1inch
Ethan Francis, Developer Relations, Particle Network
Hsuan Lee, Co-Founder & CEO, Blocto
Nicolas Bacca, Co-Founder, Ledger
Derek Chiang, Founder & CEO, ZeroDev
Ivo Georgiev
Co-Founder & CEO, Ambire
Baki Er
Co-Founder & Head of Product, Clave
Anthony Rose, SVP of Technology, zkSync
Henri Lieutaud, Head of Developer Relations, Starknet Foundation
Martín Triay, Lead Developer, OpenZeppelin
Alexandra Nartova, Head of Marketing, Etherspot
The Fuel L2 features a new primitive, known as "predicates". Learn how predicates differ from "smart contracts", and how to use them to build account-abstraction wallets, DeFi apps, and more!
David Mihal, Product Strategist, Fuel Labs
Omar Espejel, Developer Advocate, Starknet Foundation
Dhruv Kelawala, Senior Frontend Engineer, Argent
Unleash the Superpower of Smart Contract Accounts with Session Keys in Account Abstraction, and witness a paradigm shift from gaming to DeFi. Discover how Session Keys can revolutionize Ethereum transactions, opening up new possibilities for DeFi applications and gaming experiences.
Rafi Ersözlü, Co-Founder & Head of Development, Clave
Tahir Özpala, Smart Contract Developer, Clave
Josh will be demonstrating how accounts work on the Aztec sandbox
Josh Crites, Developer Relations Engineer, Aztec Network
Dennis will go through three different demos of AA solidity contracts that show i. how a pension account works ii. how a token lockup account works iii.another example
Dennis Huisman, Developer Relations Engineer, Matter Labs
Roundtable between Starknet, Consensys Diligence and Argent on smart contracts security in a AA context
George Kobakhidze, Smart Contract Security Auditor, Consensys Diligence
Julien Niset, Co-Founder & CSO, Argent
Thomas Marchand, StarknetID
Chingiz Mardanov, Consensys Diligence
Abstract Istanbul is the ultimate annual gathering for Account Abstraction and 4337 enthusiasts, whether you're a builder, investor, entrepreneur, or a visionary in this space. Dive into a full-day whirlwind of captivating keynotes, insightful panels, immersive workshops, and the chance to pitch your projects to leading investors.
Chosen during Devconnect week, Abstract Istanbul will unite top-tier participants from around the world, foster engagement with the brightest minds and sparking impactful discussions.
Anyone is welcome to participate. This event is open to all who are passionate about driving innovation and enhancing user experiences. Hurry and secure your spot —only 300 spaces available!
Please note, there's a small fee for tickets, and registration is limited. Secure your spot in advance.
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