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
@attar
- 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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Qwerty
@qwertyxyz
I think that the fragmentation is caused by web3 rapidly becoming too mainstream; by a huge influx of people who may not even fully grasp it. ~2 years ago was when we experienced the peak web3, before it shifted from building to meme(coin)s. My guess is that it will take another cycle for the new people to accommodate, and then it will be exponential with every following cycle.
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