Time; Stage; Title; Moderator; Speakers; Description

9:00 AM; Both Stages; Doors Open, Registration, Breakfast Networking 9:30 AM; Main Stage; Welcome to Bitcoin Builders; Emcee: Kyle Ellicott (Stacks) 9:30 AM; Technical Stage; How Stacks Actually Works; --; Kenny Rogers (Stacks Foundation); A deep dive into the mechanics of Stacks block production and how it achieves Bitcoin finality and fast blocks with Nakamoto. 9:35 AM; Main Stage; Bitcoin Startup Summer: The VCs are Back; Mod: Kyle Ellicott (Stacks); Sam Andrew (North Island Ventures), Leeor Groen (Spartan Group), Vishal Kankani (Multicoin Capital; The number of venture deals for bitcoin-native startups grew in 2023 even as deals in the wider "crypto" market declined. As crypto VC comes roaring back, clocking $2.5 billion in the first quarter of 2024 alone, will we see a similar surge in bitcoin startup funding? 10:00 AM; Technical Stage; Onboarding the Next Gen of Builders With the Ready Layer 2 Builder Competition; --; Adam Haun (Stacks Foundation); Join us for the next Ready Layer 2 Builder Competition: a program designed to encourage builders to launch innovative projects on Bitcoin L2s. Participants are challenged to create applications or tools leveraging the benefits of Bitcoin Layer2 technologies, such as increased speed, enhanced scalability, and lower transaction costs. The competition offers prizing, mentorship, and exposure within the Bitcoin community in turn fostering creativity and accelerating the development of cutting-edge solutions in the Bitcoin L2 ecosystem. 10:05 AM; Main Stage; Unlocking the App Layer: How a New Generation of Tech Can Onboard Bitcoiners; Mod: Jonathan Sadlowe (Gossamer Capital); Rena Shah (Trust Machines / Leather), Ken Liao (Xverse); The Bitcoin L2s are here, but are the users? From dapp-friendly infrastructure to sleek wallet interfaces, hear about what's being built to get people to go deeper into the Bitcoin ecosystem. 10:30 AM; Main Stage; 15-Minute Break 10:45 AM; Main Stage; Bitcoin Goes Multichain; Mod: Ren Crypto Fish (Electric Capital); Sunny Aggarwal (Osmosis), Kyle Langham (Dfinity), Mikhil Pandey (pSTAKE Finance); Bitcoin is where the liquidity is and other blockchains are doing their best to tap into it. Learn how other networks are bringing additive services to Bitcoin holders and hear from project leaders about what's driving interest in merging once-disparate worlds. 10:45 AM; Technical Stage; Understanding sBTC; --; Daniel Jordan (Trust Machines) and Andre Serrano (Bitcoin L2 Labs); This deep-dive session will feature an overview of the features developers can expect from sBTC, the non-custodial, Bitcoin-backed asset that enables the decentralized movement of BTC across Bitcoin layers. 11:15 AM; Main Stage; After ZIRP: Why Bitcoin Yields Matter More Than Ever; Mod: Gav Blaxberg (WOLF Financial; Philip De Smedt (Arkadiko & Stacking DAO), Brian Mahoney (Acre), Tycho Onnasch (Zest Protocol & Stacking DAO), Peter Watson (Velar); The era of the zero interest-rate policy, or ZIRP, is over. Now a regular bank deposit earns interest, making consumers more attuned to seeking out yields than before. That's why staking and yield-generating systems are critical if bitcoin is going to remain an attractive asset. 11:15 AM; Technical Stage; Unit Testing Clarity Contracts; --; Eric Choy (Hiro Systems); Learn how to easily write and run unit tests for Clarity smart contracts in the Hiro platform. Unit tests are a feature of the Clarinet SDK and are scripts that ensure your contract is working the way you expect it to. 11:35 AM; Main Stage; Staking, Stablecoins, Swaps: Is This How Bitcon DeFi Scales?; Mod: Brad Keoun (CoinDesk); Tizzly Buff (Tizz), Vicky Fu (Yala), Jakob Schillinger (Hermetica), David Tse (Babylon); What are the pillars of a booming DeFi ecosystem? What configuration of apps will unlock broad user adoption of financial tools on the world's oldest blockchain? This panel of builders will assess the current landscape, weighing recent growth vs. remaining needs. 11:45 AM; Technical Stage; AI and Bitcoin: Security and Use Cases; --; Kyle Langham (Dfinity); AI models will almost certainly leverage Bitcoin and other blockchains for a variety of reasons. This talk will discuss potential use cases and how to overcome security concerns related to inference engines signing blockchain transactions. 12:00 PM; Main Stage; Lightspark Fireside: The Universal Money Address (UMA) Opportunity; Mod: Colin Harper (Blockspace Media); Nicolas Cabrera (Lightspark); Join Lightspark VP of Product Nicolas Cabrera as he explores how UMAs can democratize financial access globally. The goal: a future where sending and receiving money is as seamless and universal as sending an email. 12:15 PM; Main Stage; Lunch / Networking 1:15 PM; Main Stage; Pioneering DeFi on Bitcoin: The Velar Journey; --; Mithil Thakore (Velar); Velar's CEO, Mithil Thakore, will unveil the Velar Artha PerpDEX and strategic partnerships meant to strengthen the Bitcoin ecosystem. Learn about Velar’s mission to create a decentralized financial ecosystem anchored by Bitcoin. 1:15 PM; Technical Stage; How to Get Bitcoin Rewards from ETPs and ETFs; --; Joshua Deems (Figment); Figment's Joshua Deems explains how institutions can get exposure to exchange-listed products, why stacking can supercharge an ETF, and what products that hold STX could look like. 1:30 PM; Main Stage; Putting the Fun in Fungibility: What's Next for Runes and BRC-20; Mod: Kelley Weaver (Melrose PR); Dylan Floyd (Bitflow), Elizabeth Olsen (Magic Eden Wallet), Trevor Owens (Bitcoin Frontier Fund & Ninjalerts) and Jason Lau (OKX); The arrival of BRC-20 and Runes has unlocked fungibility in the burgeoning BTCfi ecosystem. This panel will explore what's next with projects building decentralized exchanges, stablecoins and more with these standards. 1:45 PM; Technical Stage; What is the Dev Experience for Bitcoin Layers?; --; Elena Giralt (Hiro Systems), Eric Choy (Hiro Systems) and Rafael Cárdenas (Hiro Systems); 40% of Bitcoin developers are building on Bitcoin layers. Every day, there's a new team or project working on ways to scale Bitcoin. What is the experience like for builders? In this discussion, Elena, Rafael and Eric will talk through their experiences with making dev tools for Stacks, Ordinals and Runes. 1:55 PM; Main Stage; The Bitlayer Ecosystem Journey towards Bitcoin Finality; --; Charlie Hu (BitLayer); Bitlayer ecosystem has been growing rapidly on its TVL and onchain transaction traction. Bitlayer is getting close to launch their V2 mainnet with the bitcoin verification capability feature. By enhancing Bitcoin with verification capabilities (fraud proofs and validity proofs) to achieve Bitcoin finality, it will allow $1T worth of BTC assets to enter various decentralized programmable environments in a trustless manner, leading to countless revolutionary application scenarios. Charlie will share the ecosystem development journey and the updates on the bitlayer engineering side on their BitVM research and R&D. 2:10 PM; Main Stage; Securing Blockchains in the Era of Bitcoin L2s; Mod: Charlie Spears (Blockspace Media); Drake Breeding (Figment), Jacob Brown (Bitcoin Frontier Fund), Keith Chen (SNZ Capital), Gaetan Thabot (Blockdaemon); Bitcoin isn't just about mining anymore. Layer 2s are introducing new economic dynamics that staking-as-a-service providers are fast adjusting to. How do these leading firms view the emerging Bitcoin L2 space? Attend this panel to find out. 2:15 PM; Technical Stage; Smart Contract Runbooks: The Breakthrough for Operating and Deploying on Web3; --; Ludo Galabru (Txtx) and Micaiah Reid (Txtx); Stacks and Bitcoin developers will learn how Smart Contract Runbooks can be leveraged for operating smart contracts and deploying updates on chain. We are introducing a major Web3 breakthrough for operating Web3 protocols, allowing developers to stay highly productive while embracing security best practices and considerably reducing the risk of getting private keys compromised. 2:30 PM; Main Stage; How Bitcoin Grows: Understanding the Opportunity of Bitcoin L2s; --; Muneeb Ali (Stacks & Trust Machines); DeFi, Stacking, Ordinals, Runes, rollups, and so much more. Bitcoin has become more than a store of value, but increased interest means Bitcoin needs to scale. Muneeb Ali, Co-Creator of Stacks and CEO & Co-Founder of Trust Machines, will walk through the current opportunities, including sBTC and other solutions Bitcoin L2s are presenting to the ecosystem. 2:45 PM; Main Stage; 15-Minute Break 3:00 PM; Main Stage; Owning It: Responsibly Building in Bitcoin; Mod: Natalie Brunell (Coin Stories Podcast); Jameson Lopp (Casa), Alex Miller (Hiro Systems), Charles Menke (WOLF Financial), Paul Sztorc (Layer Two Labs); Regulatory clarity isn't here just yet. With legal responsibility falling on builders, what can be done to self-regulate effectively? This panel of OGs will discuss how to properly fend off government overreach as Bitcoin finds its way into U.S. presidential platforms. 3:00 PM; Technical Stage; Building DeFi in Stacks: Stacks vs. Ethereum: Insights for DeFi Builders; --; Blaize Wallace (Trust Machines); A product lead's perspective on building DeFi in Stacks vs Ethereum, exploring technical differences, ecosystem challenges, and opportunities in Bitcoin L2s. 3:30 PM; Main Stage; Unlocking Bitcoin Liquidity: DeFi, Wallets, Stables, Runes & More; --; Kaitai Chang (Yala); Yala's Kaitai Chang explains his team's approach to building a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin for all. 3:30 PM; Technical Stage; Taproot Assets: Stablecoins at Lightning Speed; --; Hannah Rosenberg (Lightning Labs); Introducing Taproot Assets 0.4: Now with Lightning functionality for sending stablecoins at Lightning Network speeds. Explore new features like trustless onchain swaps, multi-sig support, and more. 3:45 PM; Main Stage; The Transformative Power of Chain Fusion; --; Sam Burri (Dfinity); ICP's Chain Fusion technology allows canisters on ICP to sign transactions and bi-directionally communicate with other chains without intermediaries. This allows the fusion of most chains and augments smart contracts on other chains, including Bitcoin side chains, with ICP's unique features. In this talk, we will show what products are enabled with these technical breakthroughs. 3:55 PM; Main Stage; BitcoinOS Announcement; --; Edan Yago (BitcoinOS) 4:00 PM; Main Stage; The Rise of Bitcoin Layers; Mod: Kyle Ellicott (Bitcoin L2 Labs); Muneeb Ali (Stacks & Trust Machines), Willem Schroe (Botanix Labs), Alexei Zamyatin (BOB) and Charlie Hu (Bitlayer Labs); Bitcoin layers is the key concept that allows new functionality to be built on Bitcoin without sacrificing the security derived from the bitcoin blockchain. We've gathered some of the most exciting projects building bitcoin layers for an interactive discussion of the past, present, and future of a multi-layered bitcoin ecosystem. If you come to this session, make sure you're prepared for the special interactive component: No jargon allowed!