Jaipur 
26 Oct - 31 Oct 
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Builders, step away from the screen
The BOSS Summit is a 6 day invite-only gathering in Jaipur for India's most dedicated Bitcoin open-source contributors.
We bring together contributors from across the ecosystem to exchange ideas, share progress, and tackle problems that don't get solved in mailing lists or pull requests. Sessions are detailed and hands-on, discussions are open brainstormings, and everyone in the room is there because they're building, reviewing, or designing something that matters.
The pace is unhurried. Talks and sessions happen on a hillside terrace, not under stage lights. Conversations run long, and some of the most important ones happen off the schedule... over shared meals, evening walks, or while looking at the mighty Himalayas.
It's a rare chance to step away from the noise, focus on the work that matters, and leave with new perspectives that can shape Bitcoin's future.
Is this your kind of room?
The BOSS Summit is for people who already shape Bitcoin's open-source software.
Developers, reviewers, maintainers, researchers — if your work touches Core, Lightning, wallets, privacy tools, nostr, or protocol research, this is where you'll find your peers.
Every seat is by invitation. Not because we want to keep people out, but because the conversations move fast, go deep, and assume you already know the terrain.What happens when the right people meet in the right place
For six days, you'll be surrounded by people who work on the same kinds of problems you do, and who care about getting them right.
Some sessions go deep: two-hour workshops where a small group pulls apart one thorny issue until it's clearer, cleaner, or killed entirely. Others are lighter: open-stage talks where anyone can grab the mic and share an idea, a pattern, or a warning worth hearing. You'll hear what others are building before it's public. You'll get candid feedback on your own ideas. You'll swap notes on roadblocks and trade-offs, and make decisions with people who've been in the code.And because we're in Jaipur, it's not all sitting in chairs. The setting gives space for ideas to breathe, and for the right ones to stick.
A few things you can count on
Focused Technical Sessions
Intimate working sessions on current and emerging Bitcoin projects. Dig into real code, review proposals, and workshop ideas with the people actually building them.
Unsolved Problem Deep Dives
Structured explorations into the hard problems still waiting for the right solution — from scaling challenges to protocol-level design decisions that shape Bitcoin's future.
Unscripted Breakthroughs
No slides, no scripts. The best ideas emerge from real-time debate among people who deeply understand the problem space. These sessions let that happen.
Off-the-Record Roundtables
A safe space for sensitive topics and early-stage ideas. Chatham House rules apply — speak freely about what's next without worrying about public attribution.
Evenings That Become Plans
A walk, a meal, an argument that becomes a plan. Everything is arranged so the discussion matters more than the schedule. The best collaborations start here.
Winter 2026 Agenda
Mon · October 26 · Day 01
Orientation & Community Kickoff
AI, Developer Tooling & Bitcoin Core
- 10:00 90 min
Workshop AI Deep Dive by Adi Shankara, Abhijay Jain & Anmol
A workshop combining an LLM and transformers primer, tiny models, Goose GDK Bitcoin projects and AI for everyday code.
- 11:30 30 min
Talk Don’t Trust, Attest: An Architecture Deep Dive into TEEs for Remote Multisig and Auditable AI by Yshok
A practical tour of trusted execution environments (TEEs), the hardware primitives behind secure-enclave cloud signing for multisigs and attested AI inference, from first principles to advanced architecture.
- 12:00 30 min
Talk Sattle: Splitwize on Bitcoin by Om Swami
- 12:30 30 min
Talk The Blind Spot in Bitcoin Adoption by Paper
- 2:30 60 min
Workshop BitcoinKernel Project Workshop by Yuvic
An overview of what BitcoinKernel is, then a hands-on demo of using it through small, basic examples.
- 3:30 30 min
Talk What’s New in BDK by codingp110
The changes coming in BDK 4.0. For BDK users, a guide to the next major release; for everyone else, an introduction to some of the nuances of Bitcoin wallet design.
- 4:00 30 min
Talk Taproot Assets by Raj Sarogi
A brief introduction to Taproot Assets and what they can be used for.
- 4:30 30 min
Talk OpenSwap: Intro + Quick Demo by Stark
Post-Quantum Cryptography & Self-Custody UX
- 10:00 30 min
Talk Bitcoin After Quantum: Understanding the Threat by Anubha Jain
Quantum computing poses a long-term threat to the cryptographic foundations of Bitcoin, particularly its reliance on elliptic-curve cryptography. This talk explores Bitcoin’s quantum attack surface, the implications for keys and transactions, and the cryptographic, protocol and migration challenges involved in preparing Bitcoin for a post-quantum future.
- 10:30 30 min
Talk Sovereign Engineering Project Showcase by Jo
- 11:00 30 min
Talk Bitcoin for Payments (The journey at BULL) by Ishi
- 11:30 30 min
Talk Challenges Building Epoch Shield: Cryptography Meets Chaos by Sameer P
The challenges of implementing MLS group encryption on Nostr’s unordered relay mesh, where cryptographic assumptions about ordering, reliable delivery and shared state collide with permissionless networks, and what we learned bridging the two.
- 12:00 30 min
Talk Shroud: Intro + Quick Demo by Anmol
- 12:30 30 min
Talk Self-Custody UX Trade-offs by Veronika
What breaks when a non-technical user tries to run their own self-custodial Lightning wallet.
- 2:30 60 min
Workshop Self-Custody Models and Penlock Workshop by Paperpsych
Seed generation, splitting and recovery with Penlock, followed by Q&A.
- 3:30 30 min
Talk Krux Showcase by qlrd
An integration-test framework for Krux and for hardware wallets in general.
- 4:00 30 min
Talk Exploring Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Bitcoin by sha512rma
How BitVM enables optimistic off-chain verification of STARK/SNARK proofs, contrasting Ethereum’s on-chain KZG polynomial verification with Bitcoin’s trustless, off-chain client-side validation models.
- 4:30 30 min
Open stage Open Stage Open floor
A talk on a new kind of Nostr-based generalised market discovery.
Lightning Network, Ecash & Decentralized Web
- 10:00 30 min
Talk UI/UX Walkthrough of Coconut Wallet by Louis
The UI/UX design elements behind Coconut Wallet.
- 10:30 60 min
Workshop Creating a Cashu Wallet with CDK by TheMhv
How to use the CDK library to build a Cashu wallet.
- 11:30 30 min
Talk Fuzzing the Lightning Network with Smite by Nishant Bansal
- 12:00 30 min
Talk Lightning Sandbox Demo by Duggirala Venkata Sai Viswanath
A demo walking through the whole sandbox.
- 12:30 30 min
Talk Nostr Wallet Connect: How It Works and Its Integration into Zeus by Ajay Shewal
- 2:30 60 min
Workshop Pool Your Spare Disks: Self-Hostable Distributed Storage on Open Protocols by Manas
A demo of a Nostr storage orchestrator that lets people with spare storage pool their resources without running a server or exposing a public IP.
- 3:30 30 min
Talk Formstr Drive: Your Cloud Storage Ends Here by Siddhant
How we built a file storage app where nobody monitors your data: entirely client-side encryption, built where Nostr keys meet Blossom servers.
- 4:00 30 min
Talk Monetizing APIs with L402 and ngx_l402 by iam thesvn
The ngx_l402 Nginx module, with a short introduction to the L402 protocol itself.
- 4:30 30 min
Open stage Open Stage Open floor
Open discussion and wrap-up.
Glimpse and highlight
Who's shaping the conversation
Past summits have included a mix of maintainers, protocol researchers, wallet engineers, UX designers working on key management, privacy engineers, and infrastructure maintainers.
Following are some of the projects that our summit attendees work on.
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