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This panel explores key challenges and opportunities in blockchain, focusing on scalability, decentralization, and protocol innovations. Topics include infrastructure bottlenecks, necessary abstractions to enhance user experience, meaningful governance participation, consensus models, and the future of multichain ecosystems.

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Hilmar Orth

Hilmar is the Founder of Gelato, the leading Rollup as a Service Platform and the Founder of Arrakis, the largest decentralized market making protocol on Ethereum.

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Wolfgang Vitale

Wolfgang is a Crypto Protocol Expert at Bitcoin Suisse, responsible for developing and sharing expertise on crypto networks, protocols, and tokens to support business units such as Products, Infrastructure, Legal, and Risk.

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Björn Tackmann

Björn is a cryptography researcher and the Head of Research at DFINITY. His work focuses on secure communication theories and blockchain security, contributing to the foundational advancements of the Internet Computer.

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Malik El Bay

Malik is part of the leadership at Encointer, which is developing egalitarian proof of personhood systems to enable real participation and true democracy on the protocol level. As Partner at Dezentrum he places society at the core of technological advancements.

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