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Context
From November 11–20, 2025, leaders across enterprise, policy, research, identity, and infrastructure showed how Web3 can make Ukraine’s rebuild faster, more transparent, and more resilient. This report distills their most actionable ideas for media, policymakers, funders, and builders.
Based on the Manifesto: Web3 for Digital Economy Ukraine
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Takeaways
1) Economic Recovery & Capital Efficiency
Digital recovery and growth go hand‑in‑hand. Web3 can support an inflow of capital, efficient handling of that capital, transparent processes, and broad stakeholder engagement to accelerate rebuilding and long‑term resilience.
Web3 rails compress cycle times and make spend auditable, unlocking cheaper capital and milestone‑based payouts:
- Smart contracts shorten processes and expose real‑time state to business users.
- Tokenized instruments lower the cost of capital and enable staged disbursements.
- Ukraine’s high crypto adoption makes on‑chain rails practical today.
Time required when they shifted from legacy systems to smart contracts basically went down almost to zero... business users can see their transaction status... within four or five minutes.
Payments cost companies about $12... the whole process is $450, and we can put all of it on chain.
By far the most proven short‑term ROI in the whole crypto space is raising capital and distributing it to entrepreneurs.
Paul Brody, Principal & Global Blockchain Leader, Ernst & Young
Ukraine will be always a priority... crypto adoption is so huge and the number of users per population in Ukraine is one of the biggest in the world.
Kyrylo Khomiakov, Regional Head CEE/CIS/AFRICA @Binance, EMBA @LBS
I think regulators should think about how do we make it really easy to raise money on-chain from a global audience in a legal way for reconstruction... integrate it into the tax system, make it a real part of the economy.
Griff Green, Co-Founder at Giveth
Web3 streamlines operations, lowers cost of capital with tokenization and global distribution, and milestone‑based disbursements reduce cost and accelerate completion.
Dimitrios Psarrakis, Board Director, GBBC atImpact of Decentralization in Key Sectors of Ukraine’s Digital Economy
What to do next
- Tokenized capital formation with milestone gates
- On‑chain procurement, invoicing, and public proofs of spend
- Open data for donor and citizen oversight
2) Digital Democracy & ESG Impact
Build civic capacity and social outcomes by empowering citizen governance, cooperative action, and incentivized participation. Use verifiable, low‑cost tools to make collective action accessible and legitimate across public, private, and third sectors.
Deliberation and verifiable voting make decisions faster, cheaper, and more legitimate:
- Consensus discovery surfaces statements supported across divided groups.
- Verifiable, low‑cost polling and voting enables frequent participation.
- Digital continuity keeps institutions operating under stress.
Democracy can be fast, fair and fun. We do not have to choose.
Build bridging systems through large‑scale civic deliberation... tools like Polis amplify statements that earn support from otherwise opposed groups.
Audrey Tang, Taiwan digital leader at Future of Digital Democracy in Ukraine and Worldwide
It's very symbolic that I will take the floor without electricity through mobile internet... government and parliament kept working on digital platforms.
Oleksii Zhmerenetskyi - Member of Ukrainian Parliament at Future of Digital Democracy in Ukraine and Worldwide
Recovery is not about rebuilding what was lost, it's about building what's next... Use transparency to replace authority. Use consensus to replace command.
Legislator Ko of Taiwan Parliament
On standard L1s the cost of a single vote is ~$0.003 vs. $9–$10 for traditional polls.
Dmytro Budorin, Chairman at Hacken
What to do next
- Participatory budgeting with on‑chain tallies and public audit trails
- Deliberation platforms (e.g., Polis) for consensus statements
- Verifiable micro‑polls for local and institutional decisions
3) Digital Trust & Cybersecurity
Deliver trustworthy, resilient services by eliminating single points of failure, protecting privacy, and providing reliable, auditable systems. Align with legal clarity and strong cybersecurity so products perform as expected under stress.
Standards‑based, replicated systems harden state capacity and reduce lock‑in risk:
- Decentralization distributes control and acts as digital civil defense.
- A decade of Ethereum uptime shows resilience of decentralized infra.
- Digital trust is a national‑level priority.
Decentralization is the practical route to embed sovereignty into infrastructure... distribute control across many nodes and stakeholders.
Measure and reduce the total cost of centralization... Europe learned this the hard way.
Decentralization is a kind of digital civil defense... government can continue under stress.
Prof. Dr. Roman Beck, The European Decentralisation Institute
Ethereum is a heavily decentralized system... running continuously for over a decade without a single minute of downtime.
Paul Brody, Principal & Global Blockchain Leader, Ernst & Young
Digital trust is the new national defense.
Legislator Ko of Taiwan Parliament
What to do next
- Replicated, consensus‑based registries and treasury rails
- Open standards to avoid vendor lock‑in
- Regular continuity stress‑tests for critical services
4) Accessible and Interoperable Ecosystems
Make the digital economy usable for everyone by ensuring accessible products and services, standards‑based interoperability, and institutional participation across finance, education, government, and more. Tokenized assets and clear regulation enable seamless on‑chain experiences. Adopt open standards and formal integrations between ministries, regulators, financial institutions, and education providers to deliver end‑to‑end interoperability.
Decentralized identity enables service delivery without sacrificing rights; ZK minimizes data exposure:
- ID is the foundation for many higher‑level services.
- Trust requires issuer accountability and revocation.
- Proof‑of‑personhood separates humans from bots while preserving privacy.
Lots of other things go much better if you've got good decentralized identity solutions backing them all up.
Hart Montgomery, CTO Linux Foundation at LF Decentralized Trust Meetup
Your data, your identity should belong to you and you only... you should have the right to revoke access.
There should be a way to distinguish real citizen voice from bots, with privacy preserved via proofs.
Legislator Ko of Taiwan Parliament
Trust is liability... I must be sure a credential was issued by an authorized party.
Mirko Mollik, Identity Architect SPRIND at LF Decentralized Trust Meetup
Privacy by default: generate a zero‑knowledge proof instead of sharing underlying information.
Oleksandr Brezhniev, CTO Privado ID at LF Decentralized Trust Meetup
The internet does not have a trust layer, and we're fixing that.
Darrell O'Donnell, Executive Director Ayra Association at LF Decentralized Trust Meetup
Consider digital identity as a new institutional form of ownership to manage property rights.
Roman Kravchenko, CEO 482.solutions at LF Decentralized Trust Meetup
Government data decentralization faces legal constraints on storing personal data under authority.
Alex Bornyakov, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine atImpact of Decentralization in Key Sectors of Ukraine’s Digital Economy
What to do next
- EUDI‑aligned wallets and issuer registries
- ZKPs for selective disclosure and proof‑of‑personhood
- Clear liability, auditing, and revocation mechanics for issuers and verifiers
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