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Full Program | MIT Bitcoin Expo 2026

Preliminary agenda — subject to change.

8:00 AMRegistration and Breakfast
9:30 AMWelcome by MIT Bitcoin Expo Director
9:40 AM
Keynote
Bitcoin and the Right to Financial Existence

Roya Mahboob

Mod: Arsh Molu

10:10 AM
Talk
Accelerating IBD with SwiftSync

Rob Netzke

10:40 AM
Talk
Bitchat and Cashu

Calle

11:10 AMBreak
11:20 AM
Talk
Defending Bitcoin from Quantum Attacks with Algorithm Agility

Ethan Heilman

11:50 AM
Panel
Inside Bitcoin Core: Building and Maintaining the Network

Antoine Poinsot, Furszy, Ava Chow, Cory Fields

Mod: Stacie Waleyko

12:30 PM
Talk
Transaction Introspection without Consensus Changes

Robin Linus

1:00 PMLunch Break
2:00 PM
Keynote
Fireside Chat with Hester Peirce

Hester Peirce

Mod: Namnueng Protpagorn

2:30 PM
Talk
More Efficient Garbled Circuits for Better BitVM Bridges

Liam Eagan

3:00 PM
Panel
Bitcoin Beyond the Base Layer: The Rise of L2s

Jeremy Rubin, Ekrem BAL, Andrew Camilleri, David Seroy

3:40 PMBreak
3:50 PM
Keynote
Scaling Institutional Stablecoin Adoption

Kash Razzaghi

Mod: Bob Bench

4:30 PM
Talk
Free IBD with Proofless Utreexo

Tadge Dryja

5:00 PM
Panel
Crypto Infrastructure: Scaling the Stack

Austin Federa, Muriel Médard

Mod: Achyut Katiyar

5:40 PMClosing Remarks

Additional Programming

2:30 PM–4:30 PM
Workshop
DCI Global Workshop
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