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LayerOne 2026 Wrap-up!

Posted on 27 May 2026 by operator (0)

LayerOne 2026 was a blast! We’d like to thank the many folks who created amazing contests, events, workshops, presentations, and more at this year’s event!

Speakers

Thanks to all of this year’s speakers for giving fantastic talks! We’ll be posting videos of the talks soon.

  • Adrian Novoa – RedTeam 2026: Initial Access in Modern Environments
  • cesi0 – What Your Car Knows: Digital Forensics and Modern Infotainment Systems
  • Eliad Kimhy – The History of Malware: 40 Years of Viruses, Worms, and Other Strange Creatures
  • Jack Hooker & Erwin Karincic (Dollarhyde) – Hacking Drones for Fun and Knowledge
  • jk – Hacking Doodleburg – Reverse Engineering Electronic Children’s Toy Firmware
  • Joe Rozner – Vibes all the way Down
  • Larry Suto – Hunting Rogue Autonomous Agents: A Field Guide to AI Threats the SOC Can’t See
  • Mehmet Sencan – Pulverize Chips with a Squib in the Heatsink
  • Merlin – Post-Quantum Cryptography with Python
  • Mohsen Ahmadi – SPECTRA: Semantic Pattern Extraction for Scalable Malware Detection and Signature Automation
  • Priyank Nigam – Trusted Senders and Untrusted Outcomes: Modern HTML Injection Exploitation
  • Tobias Mueller – Busting Black Basta: Exploting Ransomware

Villages

Hardware Hacking Village

Thanks to ToD, T-Man, and Henry for providing soldering assistance all weekend. Thanks to Kody, Brandon, and Wolfgang of Retia.io for hosting soldering, WiFi, and Meshtastic workshops throughout the weekend!

Lockpicking Village

Thanks to yakmedic, JimyLongs, Matt Burrough, WillyCrash and Seattle Locksport for hosting this year’s Lockpicking Village!

Final standings for the lockpicking competition:

  1. cyclops – 15 locks
  2. martymar – 14 locks
  3. ghriz – 13 locks

Congrats to the ~20 folks who completed the Impressioning Clinic in the village, and Holly for getting a fantastic time with impressioning. We heard Deviant also did alright in impressioning but not as good as datagram. Congrats to those two, as well.

RaiseMe Career Village

Thanks to Lori Barfield, John Sicklick, and all of the volunteers that provided presentations, consulting sessions, and assistance throughout the weekend. Thanks to the folks of DEF CON’s Maritime Hacking Village for contributing to the RaiseMe Village this year, as well!

Chillout Room

Thanks to Proxy and theoddtech for hosting a lovely collection of board games and space-themed pinball machines!

Contests & Events

Capture the Flag

Thanks to Kybr, Panda, Hacksmith, Prok, Luis, Nathan, Elwood, Facundo, Y, JK, and the Qualcomm Cybersecurity team for creating challenges, running infrastructure, operations, testing, art and theming, and operations!

Final standings (top 10):

  1. Layer 8 – 8145 pts
  2. DC562 – 8055 pts
  3. Psychoholics – 7955 pts
  4. I0 – 5655 pts
  5. blinkingthing – 4845 pts
  6. Ack! Ack! Ack! – 2730 pts
  7. Donut World – 2525 pts
  8. Vikings of Valhalla – 2160 pts
  9. GonePhishing – 1825 pts
  10. ArDee – 1560 pts

Soldering Olympics

Thanks to m0zy of Pendula Labs for hosting this year’s Soldering Olympics event! All three boards were wonderful and gave attendees some great soldering and electronics challenges. Congrats to comrade for defending the Soldering Olympics title and congrats to eltair and aask for taking 2nd and 3rd!

Round 3:

  1. comrade
  2. eltair
  3. aask

Round 2:

  1. comrade
  2. eltair
  3. aask
  4. mfput
  5. TheIntern

Round 1:

  1. The Intern
  2. comrade
  3. nate
  4. aask
  5. krs
  6. eltair
  7. Dementia
  8. kybr
  9. mfput
  10. martymar

Demo Party

Thanks to all those who entered this year’s party! ANSI final results are listed on https://demozoo.org/parties/5596/! Congrats to The Knight, abstrakt, and tainted. Shoutouts to Albert, wyattari, sicp, cesi0, mmca, merlin, JK, and dg for their entries to this year’s party.

Hebocon Robot Battles

Congratulations to the fearless competitors in this year’s Hebocon Robot Battles! Thanks dementia and annaglyph for hosting this year’s event.

Final standings (top 3):

  1. T-Man – “Pip Petals Princess of Pain”
  2. LaserRay – “more caffeine”
  3. Merg – “DG’s Mom”

Tamper-Evident King of the Hill

Thanks to morfir and morfir 2.0 for hosting this event!

Hack My VM!

Thanks to Vix, Stephen Jr, Gia, and Alex of Cal State Fullerton’s Offensive Security Society (OSS). Check them out at https://www.osscsuf.org/

Bricks in the Air

Thanks to Gurney for hosting the Bricks in the Air event this year! Check them out at DEF CON’s Aerospace Village!

FAST Farm Store

Thanks to the folks of Cal Poly Pomona’s FAST for hosting the Farm Store event this year!

Amateur Radio Testing

Thanks to JN and all of the testing VEs for their hard work prepping and conducting testing! We had 7 people pass their exams! Check out the #radio channel on our Discord if you have any questions!

Moltshit

Thanks to the demented minds of duald and zhoratrope for hosting!

LayerOne Volunteers


Thanks to the many volunteers that make the machinery of LayerOne go. Thanks to Zero De Vide, Myst, Alli, cesi0, jk, Joe Rozner, phaasit, T-Man, Henry, ToD, morfir, holly, riverside, JN, Todd, stderr, mmca, charliex, KRS, and datagram.

Badges


Thanks to KRS, mmca, and charliex for their awesome badge design! This year’s badge was a three button keyboard with all the blinkies and a lovely self-printed UV resin artwork layer. Thanks to riverside and Holly for helping to fix an electrical issue with all the badges by hand!

Artists

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