Schedule @ Devcon

Resilient Networking Hub

November 3–6, 2026IST · UTC+5:30Devcon 8 · Mumbai

Lunch every day13:00–14:00 · November 3–6

November 6 · Official closing at 15:30Discussion continues informally after the event ends.

Tuesday, November 3

10 official sessions · 09:00–18:00 IST

Tue 3 Nov
09:00 – 10:00
ID · S01
Format · WelcomeTopic · Intro
Resilient Networks from Zero: peer identity, discovery, transports and secure connections
Speaker(s)
Manu Sheel Gupta, MiglėRakitaitė Banri Yamaha, Shouki Tsuda, Steven Mih, Tomoki Adachi
Description
Intro and Warm Welcome
Tue 3 Nov
10:00 – 10:30
ID · S02
Format · TalkTopic · Research
Verifiable Actions in Open Systems
Speaker(s)
Steven Mih, Anurag, Manu
Description
Verifiable Actions in Open Systems: why independently verifiable evidence matters
Tue 3 Nov
10:30 – 11:00
ID · S03
Format · TalkTopic · Research
When Many-to-Many Isn’t Mixing: privacy measurements and anonymity guarantees in shielded UTXO systems
Speaker(s)
Tomoki Adachi
Description
Examines how well many-to-many transactions actually hide users in shielded UTXO systems, with privacy measurements and the anonymity guarantees they support.
Tue 3 Nov
11:00 – 11:30
ID · S04
Format · TalkTopic · Tooling
Functional languages in p2p and Protocol Implementation: implementation choices and interoperability across P2P stacks
Speaker(s)
Shouki Tsuda
Description
Looks at how functional programming languages shape P2P protocol implementations, and what that means for interoperability across different P2P stacks.
Tue 3 Nov
11:30 – 12:00
ID · S05
Format · AMATopic · Community
Maintainer Meet-up and Network Lab 101:project introductions
Speaker(s)
Daniel Thompson, Shouki Tsuda, Sumanjeet, Soham Bhoir, Yash Saini
Description
Open Q&A with maintainers who introduce their projects and answer questions, as a first look at the Network Lab.
Tue 3 Nov
12:00 – 13:00
ID · S06
Format · RoundtableTopic · Governance
What Makes a Network Resilient? Research discussion on connectivity, trust, failure and recovery
Speaker(s)
MiglėRakitaitė Eth Swarm Leadership, Manu Sheel Gupta, Banri Yamaha, Steven Mih, Tomoki Adachi, Thomas Humphreys
Description
A research discussion on what makes a network resilient, covering connectivity, trust, failure and recovery.
Tue 3 Nov
13:00 – 14:00
ID · —
Format · BreakTopic · Not specified
Lunch
Speaker(s)
—
Description
Lunch break.
Tue 3 Nov
14:00 – 15:00
ID · S07
Format · WorkshopTopic · Tooling
Workshop: Formal Verification for Decentralized Systems: practical approaches to reasoning about protocol correctness
Speaker(s)
Banri Yanahama; Ryosuke Kaga
Description
A hands-on workshop on practical approaches to formal verification, and how to reason about the correctness of decentralized protocols.
Tue 3 Nov
15:00 – 16:00
ID · S08
Format · WorkshopTopic · Research
Evidence for AI Inference From Strangers: The Design Behind Mesh-LLM’s Capsules Plugin
Speaker(s)
Steven Mih, Manu, Anurag
Description
Explores the design of the Capsules plugin in Mesh-LLM and how evidence can be produced when running AI inference on machines operated by strangers.
Tue 3 Nov
16:00 – 17:00
ID · S09
Format · WorkshopTopic · Tooling
Building and Sustaining Self-Hosted IPFS Infrastructure: operations, maintenance and accessibility
Speaker(s)
Anurag Pandey, Manu Sheel Gupta
Description
A practical workshop on running a self-hosted IPFS setup, covering day-to-day operations, maintenance and keeping it accessible.
Tue 3 Nov
17:00 – 18:00
ID · S10
Format · WorkshopTopic · Tooling
Maintainer Meet-up and Network Lab: research questions and collaborative experiments
Speaker(s)
Sumanjeet, Daniel Thompson, Yash Saini, Soham Bhoir (Case Study)
Description
A collaborative session where maintainers and participants work through open research questions and run experiments together in the Network Lab.

Tuesday, November 3

Resilient Networks from Zero: peer identity, discovery, transports and secure connections

Verifiable Actions in Open Systems

When Many-to-Many Isn’t Mixing: privacy measurements and anonymity guarantees in shielded UTXO systems

Functional languages in p2p and Protocol Implementation: implementation choices and interoperability across P2P stacks

Maintainer Meet-up and Network Lab 101:project introductions

What Makes a Network Resilient? Research discussion on connectivity, trust, failure and recovery

Lunch

Workshop: Formal Verification for Decentralized Systems: practical approaches to reasoning about protocol correctness

Evidence for AI Inference From Strangers: The Design Behind Mesh-LLM’s Capsules Plugin

Building and Sustaining Self-Hosted IPFS Infrastructure: operations, maintenance and accessibility

Maintainer Meet-up and Network Lab: research questions and collaborative experiments