EthereumSF is underway in downtown San Francisco this week, bringing a six-day Ethereum-focused gathering to Frontier Tower as builders, investors, researchers, and founders meet for a program centered on crypto infrastructure, AI, hackathons, and community events. The event runs March 9 through March 14 at 995 Market St. and is listed by ethereum.org as one of the ecosystem’s upcoming Ethereum conferences for March.
The event is being curated by Lantern Capital and the Ethereum Ecosystem Fund, with support from Dabl Club, Arkhai, Merit Systems, and Whitepaper Reading Club. Frontier Tower, the host venue, is also featured by ethereum.org as San Francisco’s Ethereum community hub, with the site describing the 16-floor building as a permanent space for Ethereum and decentralized technology events and co-working.
Rather than a single keynote-driven conference, EthereumSF is structured as a weeklong cluster of events. The official calendar includes an opening day, a three-day design sprint called Ethereum Unblock, an ecosystem day, an Arkhai launch event, trading- and agent-focused sessions, a community day, and a Funding the Commons event that closes out the week.
The opening day lineup gives the clearest picture of the event’s speaker bench and institutional mix. According to the published agenda, Monday’s program includes Tomasz Stańczak, Illia Polosukhin of Near, Valeria Sofia Salazar of Wonderland, and Cecilia of Aomi Labs, along with a venture panel featuring investors from Portal Ventures, Ethereal Ventures, Triton Ventures, and Lantern Capital. The same opening session also includes the Ethereum Foundation Use Case Lab and a kickoff for the Synthesis Hackathon.
Those names connect the event to several of the larger organizations and projects active in the Ethereum and adjacent crypto ecosystem. The official agenda ties EthereumSF to the Ethereum Foundation’s Use Case Lab, Near, Wonderland, Aomi Labs, Portal Ventures, Ethereal Ventures, Triton Ventures, and Lantern Capital, while the broader week also includes Arkhai and Ethereum House.
The Ethereum Foundation’s presence is especially notable. One of EthereumSF’s core side programs, Ethereum Unblock, is described as a three-day design sprint led by the Ethereum Foundation’s Use Case Lab. The sprint is aimed at exploring use cases that combine AI, smart contracts, and programmable cryptography, and its agenda names Coral.inc, EF dev/acc, and Aomi.dev as part of its March 10 prototyping day.
Wednesday’s Ecosystem Day extends the speaker list further. Its published agenda includes Ken Fromm, Laurence Lon, Grant Hummer from Etherealize, Shaw from Eliza, and an Arkhai Agent Market launch presentation. The event description says the session will focus on builders, capital, communities, coordination, and what it calls “the institutional edge of Ethereum.”
That institutional angle lands at a moment when Ethereum’s own leadership and outreach efforts are in transition. In a February 13 post on the Ethereum Foundation blog, Tomasz Stańczak said he was stepping down from his co-executive director role at the end of February, while also writing that Ethereum is seeing a transition of financial infrastructure onto the network and growing use around agentic systems. He also pointed to San Francisco as one of the hubs supported by the Ethereum Everywhere effort.
EthereumSF’s location also fits a broader Bay Area conference pattern. San Francisco has already been hosting major events across AI, gaming, cybersecurity, and developer tools this month, and EthereumSF adds a crypto-native gathering to that lineup, albeit in a more community-led format than a conventional convention-center show. Ethereum.org’s event directory lists ETHSF 2026 among its North American conferences, while the week’s calendar shows smaller, targeted sessions rather than one centralized expo.
The week culminates with Funding the Commons on March 14 and 15, another Frontier Tower event that is tied into the EthereumSF calendar. Funding the Commons describes that gathering as a two-day “vertical festival” for 1,000 researchers, builders, investors, and artists, suggesting the Ethereum week is designed to overlap with a wider network of frontier-tech and public-goods programming in the same building.
For San Francisco, the result is a different kind of conference week. EthereumSF is smaller and more distributed than many of the Bay Area’s large tech events, but its speaker list and partner organizations show that it is drawing in recognizable names from the Ethereum Foundation, Near, Etherealize, venture firms, and startup projects working at the intersection of crypto and AI. In downtown San Francisco, it is turning one building into a temporary hub for a sizable slice of the Ethereum ecosystem.
Read our coverage of the Game Developers Conference for another look at a major San Francisco tech event that also opened March 9.
