Securing Ethereum in the age of AI: Challenges & Opportunities
2026-11-03 –, Community Led Stage

Securing Ethereum in the age of AI: Challenges & Opportunities

Rajeev is the founder of Secureum where he dedicates his time to scaling Ethereum security, after having spent >25 years doing security research. He is a Cantina Fellow & Lead Security Researcher at Spearbit, and has previously collaborated with Trail of Bits (as one of the leading contributors to Slither). He has a PhD in CS, with a focus on cybersecurity, from Purdue University, USA. He spent seven years at Intel USA as a security architect and strategist.

Vitalik Buterin is the creator of Ethereum. After discovering blockchain technology and exploring its potential in 2011, he co-founded Bitcoin Magazine. In 2013, Vitalik wrote the Ethereum whitepaper, outlining a vision of a generalized framework for hosting decentralized applications and contracts. Today, he serves as a board member and continues his work as a researcher with the Ethereum Foundation.

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Mooly Sagiv is a professor and chair of Computer Sciences at Tel-Aviv University and a CEO and co-founder of Certora. He is a leading researcher in large-scale (inter-procedural) program analysis and one of the key contributors to shape analysis. His fields of interest include programming languages, compilers, abstract interpretation, profiling, pointer analysis, shape analysis, interprocedural dataflow analysis, program slicing, and language-based programming.

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Josselin Feist is a blockchain security researcher with over a decade of experience in software security. He is the creator of Slither, the Solidity static analysis framework, and previously served as Engineering Director of the Blockchain team at Trail of Bits. He holds a PhD in program analysis for security. His work spans DeFi protocols, smart contracts, L1/L2 systems, and core blockchain infrastructure, with a focus on systemic risks, protocol design, and security strategy. He currently works on protocol security at Aave.

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