Private Social Graphs: Trust, Consent, and Access for Real Communities

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Speaker: Manu Alzuru

Type: Talk

Expertise: Some familiarity with the topic

Event: Devcon

Date: Nov 2026

Most Ethereum communities already coordinate through informal trust: who can vouch, host, invite, fund, protect, or hold responsibility. When digitized badly, this becomes social-credit mechanics, exposed relationship graphs, or platform-owned identity. Drawing from Devcon, ETHBarcelona, Blockravers, Lovepunks, FightPandemics, and DAO/public-goods work, I will share a practical model for consent-based private social graphs: situated vouches, revocable access, local stewards, expiring claims, and community memory that helps people coordinate without becoming surveillance. Builders will leave with design questions for wallets, DAOs, events, pop-up cities, grant programs, and artist communities: what must be public, what should stay local, who can make claims, how consent is withdrawn, and how trust infrastructure avoids becoming another gatekeeping machine.