Free
The Event 🎙️
Join Luis Bezzenberger and Loring Harkness from Shutter Network — the team behind EIP-8105 and the first encrypted mempool deployments on Ethereum-like networks — for a deep dive discussion on what's coming, why it matters, and how it works.
The discussion will be accessible for newcomers yet technical enough for developers. You don't need to be a coder to understand why this matters — you just need to use Ethereum.
The Speakers 🧑💻
Luis Bezzenberger — Head of Product at brainbot, core contributor to Shutter Network. Working in the Ethereum L2 and protocol space since 2016. Leading Shutter's product development since 2021 and one of the authors behind the EIP-8105 proposal and the encrypted mempool roadmap for Ethereum.
Loring Harkness — Head of Commercial at brainbot, core contributor to Shutter Network. Leading Shutter's ecosystem partnerships and published in Cointelegraph on Ethereum's transparency-fairness tradeoff.
From Shutter Network — an open-source threshold encryption protocol bringing fairness and information symmetry to blockchain systems. Shutter has deployed encrypted mempools live on Gnosis Chain since July 2024 and is actively building the path to Ethereum L1 integration.
What You'll Walk Away With
A clear understanding of how MEV extraction and transaction censorship actually work on Ethereum today
Why encrypted mempools are considered one of the most important missing pieces in Ethereum's architecture
How EIP-8105 works — the envelope/payload model, the key provider registry, and why it's technology-agnostic
Where this sits on Ethereum's upgrade timeline and what happens next
How It Works 🛠️
Show up — no technical background required, just curiosity
Learn — understand the problem and the solution from the people building it
Ask questions — open discussion, nothing off limits
Connect — meet the Ethereum community in Tbilisi
All Day Event
ETH Tbilisi 2.1 is an all day event starting by 11am to 10pm.
