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Only 7 days left until the second edition of Protocol Berg! And we are very excited to be dropping the final speaker announcements 🔥 Talks on censorship resistance, new execution layers, testing methods, oracle design, and more! Read on for the details 👇

@vitalik.ca , @ethereum.foundation , will give a deep dive on his proposal to replace the EVM with RISC-V as Ethereum’s virtual machine, arguing it could dramatically improve both efficiency and simplicity in the execution layer.

Lukas Rajnoha & Michal Převrátil , ackee.xyz , will introduce Manually Guided Fuzzing, a new smart contract security testing method that combines targeted guidance with fuzzing efficiency to improve vulnerability detection in complex DeFi systems.

Luis Bezzenberger , Andreas Erwig, Marc Harvey-Hill present the "Holy Trinity of Censorship Resistance", enshrined PBS, FOCIL, & encrypted mempools, as a path to restoring fairness and neutrality in Ethereum, with a @gnosischain mainnet demo of encrypted transaction flow from the user perspective.

Nikita Polianskii ​​​​, iota.org , introduces Starfish, a partially synchronous DAG-based BFT protocol that combines certified security with low-latency efficiency using Encoded Cordial Dissemination, enabling linear communication complexity and strong performance in Byzantine conditions.

Seres István András will analyze how Ethereum’s RANDAO can be exploited, introducing the RANDAO forking attack, a strategy that undermines fairness and reliability by selectively forking blocks for profit, and shows how it may be more harmful than previously studied selfish mixing attacks.

Andrew Macpherson, Shtuka Research, introduces automated payment allocation mechanisms for decentralized storage in swarm, showing how a microeconomic approach using Tullock contests can drive efficient pricing and healthy competition among service providers.

Matthew Stephenson presents Veiling, an intents-based method that allows protocols to handle oracle uncertainty transparently, enabling fair transactions under unknown prices and avoiding forks or gaslighting users.