Vitalik Buterin calls for trustworthy hardware at Devcon 8

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Ethereum's co-founder opened the first Devcon in India by arguing that trust in chips, operating systems and AI now has to be verifiable Vitalik Buterin opened Devcon 8 in Mumbai by calling for hardware people can actually verify, alongside stronger privacy protections across the technology stack. The Ethereum co-founder did not unveil a token or a product. He described a problem: modern technology asks users to trust too much and lets them check too little. Devcon 8 opened on November 3, 2026, at the Jio World Centre in Mumbai.
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