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What Would It Take to Make Ethereum Always Available? Designing UNIBRA: A Connectivity Layer
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Speaker: Fatemeh Fannizadeh, Lou de K, Bartho
Type: Workshop
Expertise: Some familiarity with the topic
Event: Devcon
Date: Nov 2026
Universal Basic Broadband Access proposes a minimum layer of resilient connectivity through which essential data, particularly crypto transactions, can still be transmitted when conventional internet access is unavailable or restricted. But what infrastructure, standards, incentives, and coordination would be required to make it real?
After a short introduction to the UNIBRA framework, participants will work in small groups on its core layers: hardware and alternative transmission routes, an ultralight transaction protocol, culture and adoption, governance, funding, and resistance to capture. The culture and adoption group will be lead by an artist specialised in socially engaged art and practices. The groups will then combine their proposals, identify dependencies and failure points, and stress-test the resulting system. The workshop will produce a shared map of the technical, cultural and institutional requirements for making Ethereum continuously accessible.