Extra 2 — The d/acc Watch List
Extra 2 — The d/acc Watch List
Watch when you want the ideas in the founders' own voices
Reading is fast; hearing the people who built these ideas argue them out loud is where it sticks. A short, curated set — start at the top.
Bankless Podcast: Vitalik on d/acc & Techno-Optimism (1h 41’ Video)
Green Pill Podcast: What is Plurality? (1’ Video)
D/acc Discovery Day Berlin 2025:
- Onchain Privacy Now: The Mission for Ethereum's Future - Kassandra.eth:
In this talk from d/acc Discovery Day Berlin, Kassandra reveals that less than 1% of Ethereum users have any privacy at all, despite having production-ready tools. She presents a concrete proposal for new wallet standards that integrate privacy by default.
From Surveillance Capitalism to Web3 Privacy Advocacy - Mykola Siusko
In this talk from d/acc Discovery Day Berlin, Mykola calls for treating privacy as a complete stack rather than scattered solutions. He criticizes the focus on infrastructure over applications introducing the concept of a "personal stack" and "cultural stack" that goes beyond just tools to encompass open-source culture, self-hosting, and data ownership.
- Building Anonymous Data Transport for Individual Empowerment - Sebastien Bürgel
In this talk from d/acc Discovery Day Berlin, Sebastian demonstrates how browser fingerprinting, IP addresses, and modern wallet interactions create dangerous linkages that can be exploited. He shows how even privacy-focused tools can fail when users claim POAPs or interact with price feeds and indexers that track their activities across sessions.His message is clear: we must build defensive technologies across the entire stack, not just focus on protocol-level privacy.
-Why LLMs Are Creating Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Faster Than We Can Fix Them - Anish Mohammed
Just 11 days after this talk, Anish Mohammed's chilling prediction—that LLMs would soon discover zero-day vulnerabilities autonomously—came to reality. As both a medical doctor and cryptographer, he warns that we're entering an era where AI can find security flaws faster than humans can patch them, creating an unprecedented asymmetric advantage for attackers. In this talk from d/acc Discovery Day Berlin, Anish explains hybrid risk theory—how multiple attack vectors combine to create exponentially higher probabilities of system failure.
- Making Viral Evolution Tracking Accessible Worldwide - Dr. Emma Hodcroft
Dr. Emma Hodcroft opens with a stark scenario: imagine a new pandemic starting today. The first thing scientists worldwide would desperately need is the genetic sequence of that virus. As a molecular epidemiologist and co-founder of Pathoplexus, she reveals the broken state of viral sequence sharing that could cripple our pandemic response. In this talk from d/acc Discovery Day Berlin, Emma exposes critical problems with current systems: scientists often don't share sequences due to technological difficulty and fears about losing publication credit.