Lido co-hosts Ethereum Forward Defence Summit on November 4 in Mumbai

Lido contributors are teaming up to co-host the Ethereum Forward Defence Summit on November 4, 2026, in Mumbai. The event is timed to land squarely in the middle of Devcon 8 India week, giving it a captive audience of thousands of Ethereum developers, researchers, and protocol engineers already in town for the Ethereum Foundation’s flagship conference. Devcon 8 and Mumbai’s security week Devcon 8 India runs from November 3 to November 6 at Mumbai’s Jio World Centre. It’s the Ethereum Foundation’s premier annual developer conference, and the kind of event that spawns dozens of satellite gatherings across the host city. The Forward Defence Summit is one of them. But it’s not the only security-oriented event on the calendar. The DeFi Security Summit, or DSS, is scheduled for October 31 to November 2, also in Mumbai. That three-day event brings together security auditors, protocol engineers, and researchers for deep technical sessions on smart contract security and protocol upgrade safety. Lido has contributed to past DSS events, participating in discussions around secure protocol upgrades and layered defense strategies. The Forward Defence Summit on November 4 essentially picks up whe...