Bluesky, atproto, how to hack on it and why it matters

In 2019 Twitter asked a team of crypto and p2p devs to design a protocol for the next generation of permissionless social media. The protocol escaped Twitter and now drives Bluesky, the fast-growing social media site. It can do a lot more. This talk will cover: the principles underlying the design of atproto, why those principles matter, Bluesky and the unbundling of feeds, blocklists, curation and tagging, how the protocol works (Dag-cbor, Merkle Search Trees, DID:PLC), and how to make bots to make stuff happen on-chain.

ETHBerlin

The next Protocol Berg conference — a decentralized protocol and infrastructure conference — is on June 12th to 13th in Berlin (Germany).

https://protocol.berlin/

via @boris

#ProtocolBerg

Protocol Berg - Berlin

Protocol Berg is a two-day protocol and research focused technical conference taking place in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, on June 12-13, 2025.