April 11-12, 2026 | Freedom for All
Preliminary schedule is now live — view the full agenda
Featured
Jeremy Rubin
CEO, Char Network
Robin Linus
Stanford University | ZeroSync
Hester M. Peirce
Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Mikhail Shalaginov
Quantum Machine Build Lead, QuEra Computing
Misha Komarov
Co-Founder, =nil and [[alloc] init]
Liam Eagen
CEO & Co-founder, { ideal }
Ethan Heilman
Cryptographer
Frank Corva
Independent Bitcoin Journalist, New Renaissance Capital
Antoine Poinsot
Bitcoin Core Contributor, Chaincode Labs
Nadav Kohen
Cryptographer, Chaincode Labs
Aaron Feickert
Research Engineering Lead, Alpen Labs
Alex Pruden
CEO, Project Eleven
David Seroy
Ecosystem Lead, Alpen Labs
Boris Revsin
Managing Director & General Partner, Tribe Capital
Roya Mahboob
CEO, Digital Citizen Fund
Muriel Médard
CEO & Co-Founder, Optimum
Austin Federa
Co-Founder, DoubleZero
Program
Agenda publishedApril 11–12, 2026 · MIT Campus, Cambridge MA
Preliminary agenda — subject to change.
Roya Mahboob
Roya Mahboob
Rob Netzke
Rob Netzke
Calle
Calle
Ethan Heilman
Ethan Heilman
Antoine Poinsot, Furszy, Ava Chow, Cory Fields
Antoine Poinsot, Furszy, Ava Chow, Cory Fields
Robin Linus
Robin Linus
Hester Peirce
Mod: Namnueng
Hester Peirce
Mod: Namnueng
Liam Eagen
Liam Eagen
Jeremy Rubin, Ekrem BAL, Andrew Camilleri, David Seroy
Jeremy Rubin, Ekrem BAL, Andrew Camilleri, David Seroy
Tadge Dryja
Tadge Dryja
Austin Federa, Muriel Médard
Austin Federa, Muriel Médard
Additional Programming
HRF's January grant announcement is worth reading as more than a roundup — it's a snapshot of where one influential institution thinks leverage actually exists.
BIP-360 isn't being pitched as 'Bitcoin is now quantum-safe.' It's a scaffold — a way to make later post-quantum spending paths more practical.
Even if Bitcoin gets better future-safe constructions, how does value actually move from old vulnerable forms into newer safer ones? The debate has three layers.
People aren't just fighting over one anti-spam proposal. They're fighting over the meaning of Bitcoin itself.
The most useful way to approach Ark isn't as 'the next scaling silver bullet.' It's as an answer to a recurring Bitcoin problem: liquidity coordination is expensive.
Lightning is still important. But recent sources suggest it's no longer sufficient — or the only answer worth taking seriously.
If agents or autonomous services need to pay for data, APIs, and compute on an open network, open payment rails may matter more than traditional account-based systems.
It features a "hero," raising a sword marked with the Bitcoin symbol (₿), while standing over broken chains. This design signifies that the common individual, equipped with Bitcoin technology, achieves financial emancipation from the constraints of the traditional system.
April 11, 2026 • 9:00 AM ET