From crypto rails to open infrastructure: Ethereum’s expanding role

Since the beginning of this year, I've been researching whether Ethereum, as a programmable, permissionless, publicly verifiable ledger, can serve industries beyond blockchain and crypto as a piece of critical infrastructure: as a payment layer (for open source funding), as a proof layer (for professionalised maintenance attestation), and as a coordination layer (for open-weight AI).

I will share findings and problems I've identified along the way, and would like to invite the audience to join a discussion:

- From a tooling perspective, what kinds of tools or layers can we use or create (if they have not been built yet) to help us successfully apply Ethereum in other industries?

- Where else might this pattern apply? Hypothetically, what other industries could benefit from using Ethereum as an infrastructural layer?

Speakers: Sofia Sukhinina

Track: Futures Worth Building