alexander
@attar
My belated ETHDenver takeaways off the top of my head: -To start, I had a great time. Regardless of the doomer gloomer noise on Twitter, the IRL energy I experienced was overall high and positive. - Once again, many of the smartest and most motivated builders in the space converged for an extended week of activities highlighting the diversity of the ethereum community and beyond - Seeing the growth of friends in the space was a personal highlight for me and I enjoyed the many serendipitous catchups
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alexander
@attar
- That said, the event has become very confused and fractured - Ethereum has a fragmentation problem and the conference plus a million side events demonstrated this perfectly - The main conference did a really poor job of highlighting speakers and developers (the main stage was in a dark room all the way at the back of the venue and all the auxiliary stages throughout were removed this year) - Despite significant improvements in infra there were still virtually no compelling apps on display - There's a lot more shill than show and that's a shame - Web2 network effects are too strong for clones to attract the mainstream public
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alexander
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- It’s not just worldclass UX we need to bring a billion people onchain, it’s actual novel and exciting things that can only be done on permissionless blockchain systems - Cross-app composibility and onchain identity are two major features that can create bridge the gap - @base is building amazing developer tooling and have really pushed ethereum UX forward - I wished there was a bigger @farcaster presence - Web3 is out! Crypto is back in! - I’ve said in the past (and even given a talk on ~2 years ago for @holograph), the number of chains is going to be infinite. Every app will have its own chain for the same reason tradfi doesn’t run on Meta's servers - App specific blockspace makes sense! - @unichain is going to be key to keeping defi decentralized - I'm excited to see what @syndicate does with appchains for communities - Interop is the most important thing to solve for ethereum’s success right now because of the things mentioned above
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alexander
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- Memecoins are here to stay, but people are over the scams and scammers. Luckily I think and hope we are past the peak of it (this cycle anyways). - AI was a major theme, but not as much in the crypto x ai way I was expecting because of the over saturation of slop - Instead, AI is helping developers be more productive than ever. I had lots of convos with fellow devs discussing the rapidly advancing tooling and models. - @eigenlayer and @elizaos-ai put together a really amazing hacker house with people building exciting things - ZK was big this year. Next year everyone will be talking about ZK. All rollups will become ZK rollups. Teams like @SuccinctLabs among others are really pushing the limits here. - Refraction still throws the best party every year. Maybe next year I'll make it to the @boysclub one
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