Protocol Symposium 2024

The Protocol Symposium: a two-week online showcase of the work from SoP 2024, with a kickoff plenary session on Sept 17, will feature six talks by research teams, and conclude with an unconference session on Sept 27 and 28 for protocol nerds and protocol-curious people. The live sessions will be complemented by online discussions in our forum.

Keynote Schedule

Sept 17th – Plenary Session
Sept 18th – End-to-End Encryption in ActivityPub
Sept 19th – ARC Regenerative Communities
Sept 20th – Shoreline Adaptations
Sept 23rd – Plurality in Practice
Sept 24th – Autonomous Realities
Sept 25th – Fire Protocols
Sept 26th – Capstone Session
Sept 27th – Unconference Kickoff

How to Sign Up for the Protocol Symposium

We are using Social Layer* to organize this event. Attendance is free, but each salon is capped at 100 guests, with priority given to recipients of the Protocol Kit. To register and secure your spot, follow these steps:

Visit the Social Layer event page.
Login or sign up to Social Layer.
RSVP to each event you’re interested in and add it to your calendar using the button.
Share your interests and expertise for the unconference. (Optional)
Join the Protocol Symposium Chat on Telegram. (Optional)

* Social Layer is a powerful app for organizing things like participant-curated events and pop-up cities. You can sign up with your email, an Ethereum wallet, or Zupass.

Unconference

Sept 27th – 28th

Unconference: A 48-hour, 2-track virtual space for all interested in protocols to organize your own sessions. Topics can be related to research from SoP23 and SoP24, but also go beyond to any interesting topic with a protocol connection. Session proposals should be 30-90 minutes, and have an interactive structure (e.g., brainstorms, workshops, improv lightning talks, hackathons, games). Please suggest topics and share your thoughts on the forum, and invite your friends to RSVP. We will also publicize the tentative agenda more broadly before finalizing it during the Unconference Kickoff on Friday, September 27th at 14:00 UTC

Is there a topic you could host an event on? If so, what would you title the session?
What do you want to learn about? What event format do you prefer?
What lingering questions about protocols do you have?

Share Your Ideas

Protocol Exhibition

Technium Underground: The Eternal Return of Hara

One day, people were astonished to find that the long-dormant DApps had come back to life, like ghosts in the night, quietly growing in the void. Hidden within the transaction logs of abnormal blocks,... Read More

Renotations

A prototype for a kit providing instructions, suggestions, and tools for reassigning the various information in a musical score. The demonstration includes musical examples and conceptual discussion, especially the role aesthetics play in the... Read More

On-chain Data Sculpture Exhibition

The on-chain world is shaped by the data we own, and current data visualization tools are not enough for us to actively connect with our data. Do I understand my data? Can I interact... Read More

Protocol with uncommunicables

The goal of this program is to understand how could we protocol with uncommunicables, and what is protocol means to us.

A Pattern Language for Digital Spaces

We increasingly rely on digital spaces. Yet without a common language for them, we cannot imagine, articulate, and realize a shared future. We can summarize patterns that aid human flourishing, and form languages to... Read More

Meet me on the deep net

*Meet me on the deep net* is a tiny browser-based game about crossing an ocean to meet a stranger. It explores intimacy, trust, and the rituals of establishing connection while being anonymous.

Farflora: AI-Agent Regenerating Natural Garden Protocol

Farflora is an exploration of generative art NFTs, experimentally integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into the generative art creation process. Generative art typically involves autonomous systems, which can independently influence the characteristics of the artwork... Read More

The Caucus

This short story explores a possible Liquid Democracy protocol in which citizens have significantly more input on ballot propositions and lawmaking. It follow a high schooler who is attending a caucus to vote on... Read More

Below the API

Marcie, a struggling potter, finds herself thrust into an unexpected whirlwind of success when her AI agent, Navi, transforms her art into a viral sensation. Quiet mornings at the wheel become a never-ending hustle... Read More

all just fresh-off-the-boat or floating

This is a multi-node real-time video protocol for nodes of cameras to un-expose, to see, to be masked, to meet each other, to be displaced while being here simultaneously, and to float in-between—all through... Read More

protocol.guide

The goal of this project is simple: to create a resource that helps people understand what protocols are and why they matter. The motivation was to build a site that introduces protocols in a... Read More

Micronaut Odyssey

Inspired by scientist Michael Levin’s research on xenobots, Micronaut Odyssey imagines a future of microbial robots wandering in space. As completely biological robots made from living cells, Xenobots can perform specific tasks without being... Read More