Summary of Proposal
A space where Ethereum builders meet India’s legal-tech, ODR, and digital-rights communities to explore how open technology can make justice systems more accountable, private, and accessible through panels, workshops, and open discussion.
Motivation and Rationale
- How would this Community Hub enhance the attendee experience?
Justice, privacy and accountability challenges span every part of Ethereum. This hub connects builders with practitioners working in dispute resolution, legal engineering, governance, privacy, digital rights, and public infrastructure to exchange practical knowledge and collaborate across disciplines.
- How would it complement Devcon 8 India? In what ways does it add a unique piece to the overall experience?
Ethereum developers gain direct access to practitioners working on legal tech, dispute resolution, governance, digital rights and public policy; legal professionals gain a deeper understanding of how decentralised systems are reshaping institutions. India is home to one of the world’s fastest-growing legal-tech ecosystems, an active ODR sector, leading law schools, digital rights organisations, and a thriving Web3 community. This hub provides a platform to connect those worlds and learn from one another.
- Why is this topic significant, and why is a Community Hub the best format to address it instead of a one-time talk or workshop?
The most interesting ideas usually emerge through dialogue between different communities, rather than panels and talks which are usually one-directional. A Community Hub creates the time and space for conversations to carry across multiple sessions and actually develop. Participants get to share perspectives, challenge assumptions, and identify areas where their work can complement each other (eg: privacy vs accountability; censorship resistance vs redress). It also gives space to explore half-formed ideas without needing a polished solution upfront.
- Devcon is the global Ethereum gathering for builders of a free, open, private, and verifiable future. How would this Devcon Community Hub support builders and their journey?
The hub helps builders understand the institutional layer behind resilient, censorship-resistant systems through practical discussions, case studies, collaborative design sessions, and connect directly with practitioners, researchers, and policymakers working on these challenges today.
- Have you organized a Community Hub at a past Devcon edition? What have you learned? What would you carry forward or change?
- Facundo (Kleros) volunteered at the Legal Community Hub at Devcon Buenos Aires and was a Devcon Legal Scholar in 2024. He is a lawyer specialising in Web3 and currently works as Kleros’ Policy Writer, focusing on decentralised justice, dispute resolution and governance.
- Wei Wei (Kleros) is Kleros’ Event Lead, with a background in Business Law and Economics. She has organised and managed Web3 events and community initiatives in Malaysia, though this would be her first Devcon Community Hub.
Implementation
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Standard AV setup (screen/projector + 4 microphones)
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Reliable Wi-Fi for live demos
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Seating for 10 (chairs/beanbags/cushions)
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LED TV on stand with HDMI
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2 whiteboards
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2 cork boards
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Worktable (6 people)
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Power outlets
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Small storage cabinet
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Ethernet connection (20 Mbps)
Programming
Sample daily schedule
09:00–10:00 Welcome & networking
10:00–12:00 Morning sessions
12:00–13:00 Lunch
13:00–15:00 Panels & discussions
15:00–17:00 Workshops & roundtables
17:00–18:00 Closing discussions
Day 1 — Building Trust: Governance, Rights & Digital Public Infrastructure
Possible topics:
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Governance in decentralised systems
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India’s legal-tech ecosystem
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Digital public infrastructure
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Legal engineering
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Community governance
Day 2 — Trust in Motion: Markets, Money & Coordination
Possible topics:
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Escrow, marketplace disputes, PMs, coordination mechanisms
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Confidential RWAs
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PMs & manipulation by whales
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Oracle problem as a trust problem (single price feed)
Day 3 — When Trust Breaks: Access to Justice & Online Rights
Possible topics:
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State of ODR in India
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Digital courts
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Privacy in dispute resolution
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Digital rights
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Mediation & arbitration
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Access to justice
Day 4 — The Next Frontier: AI, Autonomy & Accountability
Possible topics:
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AI accountability
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Agentic economy
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Autonomous organisations
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AI dispute resolution
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AI as arbitrators/jurors
Audience
The hub is for anyone interested in/working on governance, justice, accountability, dispute resolution, agentic economy, privacy and trust in decentralised systems. While our team is primarily based outside of India, we’re actively partnering with Indian legal-tech organisations, ODR platforms, law schools, Web3 associations, and community groups to shape the programme and bring their own communities into the hub.
Team
- Who are the dedicated organisers responsible for planning and running the Community Hub?
The Legal Tech & Digital Rights Infrastructure Hub is being organised as a collaborative initiative by communities working across decentralised governance, legal technology, and public-interest infrastructure.
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Kleros
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Cadre ODR
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Additional partners -TBD
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Why is your team well-positioned to lead this initiative? What expertise, experience, or perspectives do they bring?
The organising team brings practical experience across decentralised dispute resolution, ODR, governance, legal engineering, digital public infrastructure, and open-source technology. Kleros is one of the longest-running decentralised dispute resolution protocols running since 2018. We bring direct protocol-level experience, including collaborations with universities and researchers on legal-tech innovation and currently infrastructure for agentic commerce. Together, the team’s expertise spans blockchain, India’s legal-tech ecosystem, academia, and civil society, creating a space for practical, cross-disciplinary conversations.
- How will you ensure the Community Hub remains a neutral and welcoming space, free from marketing or promotion of specific tokens, projects, or commercial interests? How will you prevent personal or organisational affiliations from compromising that neutrality?
Programming will be co-developed with participating organisations and focused on education, discussion and knowledge sharing. Sessions will not promote any tokens, products or commercial services. Organisers will actively push for balanced perspectives, respectful debate and open community participation.
- In what ways are the organisers meaningfully connected to the communities this Hub aims to support?
The organising team has established relationships across Ethereum, India’s legal-tech ecosystem, ODR providers, academia, and public-interest organisations. We’re continuing to expand the coalition through local partners so the hub reflects India’s broader community.
This hub is very much a work in progress, and we’d genuinely love for it to grow beyond just us. If you’re working in legal tech, ODR, digital rights, governance, oracles, curation, agentic economy, or anywhere adjacent, and this resonates with what you’re building —we’d love to hear from you, whether that’s co-organising, contributing, running a session, or just pointing us to people who should be in the room.
Feel free to reach out anytime: I’m @weiwei_ooi on X, Telegram, and Discord.