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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.
To: Manifesto: Web3 for Digital Economy Ukraine
Sessions
All SessionsTakeaways
1) Industry transformation and capital efficiency
Web3 rails compress cycle times and make spend auditable, unlocking cheaper capital and milestone‑based payouts.
Key drivers
- 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 YouTube
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 YouTube
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 atPanel: Impact of Decentralization in Key Sectors of Ukraine’s Digital Economy YouTube
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 and participatory governance
Deliberation and verifiable voting make decisions faster, cheaper, and more legitimate.
Why it works
- 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 Youtube
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 Youtube
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 YouTube
On standard L1s the cost of a single vote is ~$0.003 vs. $9–$10 for traditional polls.
Dmytro Budorin, Chairman at Hacken YouTube
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 sovereignty and decentralized infrastructure
Standards‑based, replicated systems harden state capacity and reduce lock‑in risk.
Signals
- 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 YouTube
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 YouTube
Digital trust is the new national defense.
Legislator Ko of Taiwan Parliament YouTube
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) Identity, privacy, and digital rights
Decentralized identity enables service delivery without sacrificing rights; ZK minimizes data exposure.
Signals
- DI 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 YouTube
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 YouTube of Taiwan Parliament YouTube
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 YouTube
Privacy by default: generate a zero‑knowledge proof instead of sharing underlying information.
Oleksandr Brezhniev, CTO Privado ID at LF Decentralized Trust Meetup YouTube
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 YouTube
Consider digital identity as a new institutional form of ownership to manage property rights.
Roman Kravchenko, CEO 482.solutions at LF Decentralized Trust Meetup YouTube
Government data decentralization faces legal constraints on storing personal data under authority.
Alex Bornyakov, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine atPanel: Impact of Decentralization in Key Sectors of Ukraine’s Digital Economy YouTube
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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