Your 2024 Modular Summit Presentation Library
Organized Access to Modular Summit 2024 Presentations, Categorized by Data Availability, Execution, Sequencers, and More 📑
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Well, Modular Summit 2024 is officially in the books, and with the amount of presentations that went on this year, I think it’s safe to say it was quite the year for modular expansion. From data availability to execution layers and sequencers, the summit covered a vast array of topics that are shaping the future of this space.
But with so much content, it can be challenging to find and watch the presentations that interest you the most. That's why we’ve created this handy guide, categorizing all the Modular Summit 2024 presentations by vertical. Whether you’re passionate about data availability, curious about execution layers, or interested o learn about Bitcoin going modular, this organized list will help you easily access the presentations that matter most to you.
Data Availability
Modular Expansion: The Celestia Technical Roadmap - Ismail Khoffi
Ensuring Data Availability in Layer 2 Scaling Solutions: L2BEAT Risk Framework - Vincenzo Furcillo
Panel: The Future of Data Availability
Panel: Migrating to Celestia
Light Nodes Everywhere: Why & How - Connor O'Hara
Stop flying blind - data for modular ecosystem - Andra Fecioru
Navigating the Celestia Network: Validating Apps and Interactions via Celenium - Lavysh Alexander
Summoning Blobstream - Hector Roussille
Scaling DA sampling with Shwap - Wondertan and Vlad Krinitsin
Execution Layer
Stylus: Bringing the MultiVM to Arbitrum - Ed Felten
How zkVMs are upgrading the modular stack - Uma Roy
Elastic Chains - Alex Gluchowski
WTF IS A REAL-TIME BLOCKCHAIN - Namik Muduroglu
Panel: One big rollup OR one million rollups?
Vryx: Fortifying Decoupled State Machine Replication - Patrick O'Grady
Blended Execution - Dino
BeaconKit: A modular framework for building EVM consensus clients - Dev Bear
Discover the Infinite Frontier: Search the Unified Multichain & MultiVM World - Bunny
Rollups in the wild - Andrew Huang
Learnings on Layer 2s - Hilmar Orth
Layer 2s as Extensions of Ethereum - Emmanuel Awosika
Based Rollups are Based, Fork Choice Rules Rule - Evan Forbes
How Geolocalized Sharded Rollups Redefine the Future of Onchain Compute - Scott Sunarto
Panel: EVM vs SVM vs ARM vs Blended
Rebuilding Rollups - Zon
You only need one rollup - Terry
How to migrate an L1 to an L2 - Mariano Cortesi
10 Minute Interwoven Rollup with Initia and NewMetric - Jesse
Writing Secure Smart Contracts on Move VM with Formal Verification - Pratham Prasoon
Economics of Ethereum Scaling Solutions - Tobias Schreier
Sovereign Rollups
Rollkit: Building Sovereign Rollups with Rollkit - Yarik
How Sovereign Rollups *Actually* Work - Vishal Talasani
Panel: Sovereign Rollups
Sovereignty is all you need - Nick White
Sovereignists vs. Globalists - Adrian Brink
Interoperability
Unification: Solving L2 fragmentation with Avail Nexus - Anurag ArjunÂ
Putting the Super in Superchain: OP Stack Interoperability - Mark Tyneway
Unlocking Liquidity for the Modular Economy - Mitya Argunov
Defund the Dealers: the Past, Present, and Future of Liquidity - Ethan Buchman
The Bridge Endgame: Liquidity for Infinity Chains - Jim Chang
Solving Interoperability with Cross-Chain Intents - Hart Lambur
The Network Layer for Interoperability - Bo Du
Build a Connected Sovereign Rollup with Union Inbetween - Ben
A vertical slice of the liquidity market and why solving is hard - Philipp Zentner
Sequencers & MEV
Blatantly Shilling Astria - Josh Bowen
Protocol MEV Capture - Jonah Burian
State of MEV 2024 - Yuki
MEV in 2025 - Shea kutsdever
Panel: What application innovation can block building / solving / sequencing uniquely enable?
Lowering Consensus Confirmation Times - Dev Ojha
Building with the Astria Stack - Jordan Oroshiba
Morph: Decentralized vs Centralized Sequencers: Everything on Sequencers in Layer 2s - Abril Zucchi
Blowing Up Modular Toll Booths - Barry Plunkett
ZK, Tee, & Privacy
How to Win Friends and TEE-fluence People - Ethan Buchman
The TEE Stack - Andrew Miller
ModulariTEE: Control Your Information Flow - Dmarz
Unlocking A New Dimension of Application Design with TEE Stack - Xinyuan Sun
Panel | Open TEE: 1st Step towards the Ideal Chips for Crypto
Modular Anonymous Networking - Harry Halpin
Deimos: Fixing E2E Encryption using Celestia - Ryan Quinn Ford
NEBRA UPA: ZK Broadband Unlocks Scaling, Privacy and Interoperability - Shumo Chu
Panel: Shielded Assets in the Modular Stack
One proof to rule them all: Mina’s Proof of Everything - Brandon Kase
Signal vs Noise: Why AI broke the internet and how cryptography is going to fix it - Tracy
ZK Accounts - Nashqueue
Panel: ZK Applications
Modular Encryption: Make Apps Fun Again - Peyman Momeni
Dark Rollups - Henry de Valence
Giving a Verifiable Database to Every Smart Contract - Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh
Chain Abstraction
Think Outside the Chain: How Clearing Layers Help Us Solve Modular Fragmentation - Arjun Bhuptani
Panel: Chain Abstraction and the Modular Mullet
Chain Abstraction: Chewing Glass to a better blockchain ecosystem - Zaki Manian
On & Offchain Approaches to Chain Abstraction - Nitya Subramanian
Bitcoin Goes Modular
Real-time Rollups and Bitcoin Security: Can We Have Both? - Shane Vitarana
Hyperbitcoinization Through Modularity - Orkun Kilic
Is Bitcoin Going Modular? - Eric Wall
Panel: Bitcoin goes modular
Solana Goes Modular
Light Protocol: ZK compression on Solana whiteboard session - Swen Schaeferjohann
MagicBlock Engine: Ephemeral Rollups for real-time onchain games on Solana - Andrea Fortugno
Panel: Is Solana going modular?
Security, Staking & Restaking
EigenLayer: Verifiable Cloud and Digital Coordination - Vyas Krishnan
Shared Security is a Psyop - Toghrul Maharramov
Panel: Is economic security a meme?
Modular Security: Enabling custom mechanisms for decentralization with Symbiotic - Misha Putiatin
Securing Rollup Interoperability with Restaking - Yorke Rhodes
LSTs for the Modular Stack - Kai Tiurin
Defi
Solving native asset issuance in a modular ecosystem - Jelena Djuric
MilkyWay: Modular Staking Hub - JayB
Exploring DeFund - A Sovereign Rollup for the Modular Ecosystem - John DiBernardi
Harnessing Real-World Assets with Web3 Applications in Emerging Markets - Jessica Gaubert
Introducing Exchange OS - Victor Ionescu
NFTs, Gaming, & Social
Panel: Sloths and Lazy Chain
Panel: Creator Tooling in the Modular Era
From Artworks to Artchains - Achilleas Sarantaris
Transforming the anime industry with AnimeChain - Liz Yang
Lens Fireside Chat with Stani Kulechov
Panel: Forma: the first sovereign artchain
Building Fully On-Chain Gaming for the Masses - Daniel
Building Compelling Composable Games - Rich | awtnmy
Think Outside the Block - Tarrence
Minimum Viable Game Chain Validium - Billy Rennekamp
Creating a Decentralized Autonomous Artist - Simon Hudson
After NFTs: Network Art and the Third Era - 113
Panel: Autonomous worlds and bespoke execution environments
Modular Dapps
Panel: From Apps to Chains
The Lazy Application Thesis - Jacob Arluck
Exploring Worldcoin: User Activity and the Journey to World Chain - Philipp Sippl
User Journey of an App Developer in Designing an App Rollup - Felipe Argento
Ethereum as a Platform of Platform for Dapps - Vitalik Buterin
Panel: Protocol Researcher Meets Applications with Users
Unlocking Boundless Compute and the Next Generation of Verifiable Applications - Steven Li
NextGen dApps: building with RISC-V - Gabriel Barros & João Garcia
Vibes, Talks, & Debates (& a Roast)
State of the Modular Union - Mustafa Al-Bassam
Client Monogamy: Settle down and marry one already - James Prestwich
Embracing Modularity: The Future of Blockchain Innovation - Rushi Manche
Fireside chat with Mustafa Al-Bassam and Laura Shin
Fireside Chat: How is App-chain Thesis Different Between Ethereum & Cosmos Ecosystem
The Broken Record: a Framework of Music and Power - Laura Jaramillo
Zero Friction, happy users, happy chain — What if everyone could use the chain? - Norswap
Why Developers are building Modular, not Monolithic - Mads Mathiessen
Don't Buy the Hype - Jon Kol
A letter to the next web3 generation - Callum Waters
More Presentations
The Age of Aggregation - Sandeep Nailwal
Grug - Larry Lyu
Native intelligence through compute-specific networks - Matthew Wang
Ritual Talk - Niraj Pant
How to Reason about Contagion Risk within the Modular Stack - Tarun Chitra
Panel: Fat Applications, Protocols, Middleware, or… Operators?
Gas Matters: New Sources of Base Fee Volatility - Matt Cutler
It's All Resource Pricing - John Adler
Panel: The Metagame
The Recipe - Alexander Mangel
Pessimistic Validation - Gjermund Garaba
Modular Protocol Development for Modular Networks via Modular LocalNet Components - Daniel Olshansky
Native MACI-enabled Quadratic Funding for Celestia - Brian Breslow
WITNESS Protocol: Using Verifiable Data Structures to Scale Onchain Verifiability - Joe Coll
Sovereign Scale-free Reputation Systems - RG
Whiteboard Sessions
Penumbra whiteboard session - Henry de Valence
Based Rollups and Fork Choice Rules whiteboard session - Evan Forbes & Callum Waters
An Essential Guide to Declarative Blockchains whiteboard session - Bikem Bengisu & Simon Roberts
Celestia Workshop: How to Build Whatever - Josh Stein
Celestia Workshop: Arbitrum Rollups on Celestia - Diego Ferrer
Fast Blocks Slow Squares (FBSS) whiteboard session - Nashqueue
Sovereign Radio: 1-1 Interviews with Founders
Mitya Argunov of Drop (Sovereign Radio)
Karel Kubat of Union (Sovereign Radio)
Erick de Moura of Cartesi (Sovereign Radio)
Rushi of Movement Labs (Sovereign Radio)
John Adler of Celestia Labs (Sovereign Radio)
Chris Goes of Anoma (Sovereign Radio)
Josh Bowen of Astria (Sovereign radio)
Philipp Zentner of LI.FI (Sovereign Radio)
Victor Ji of Manta Network (Sovereign Radio)
Andrew Huang of Conduit (Sovereign Radio)
Scott Sunarto of Argus Labs (Sovereign Radio)
Rishabh Khurana of Socket (Sovereign Radio)
Dino of Fluent (Sovereign Radio)
Orkun Kiliç of Citrea (Sovereign Radio)
Nikita Ovchinnik of Barter (Sovereign Radio)
Cecilia Hsueh of Morph (Sovereign Radio)
Victor of Hashflow (Sovereign Radio)
Mark of Optimism (Sovereign Radio)
Zon of Initia (Sovereign radio)
Jon Kol of Hyperlane (Sovereign Radio)
Henry of Penumbra (Sovereign Radio)
Bunny of Dora (Sovereign Radio)
Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh of Lagrange (Sovereign Radio)
Jim Chang of Catalyst (Sovereign Radio)