Ethereum

What Ethereum conference has the most apps?

Why are we not building more apps?

We already have sub-cent transactions, why do we need to focus on infra right now?

I feel like I’m slowly going insane

Working for the Superchain 🔴🔵🟡🟠🟢🟣

In apps, 80%+ of the difficulty is in figuring out which apps actually make sense to build. I think this is why a generalized pitch of "we need apps" gets applause from pragmatist types but ultimately leads to no action - if our vision for the world is "WE WANT STUFF HAPPENING ON OUR CHAIN!", that's very uninspiring.

Meanwhile, specific categories of apps are starting to do well! Lots of progress in zk identity and zk social, all kinds of interesting stuff in info finance. I think if we want more apps, a more definite-optimist approach where we talk about specific types of apps and what kind of world they will lead to will be much more effective.

Vitalik, it will be fascinating to see your wishlist of apps

apps (for the masses) that you believe are now within reach, thanks to the evolving crypto primitives, things that you see now have enough tailwinds to help lift off?

Think of it as a “crypto-native” equivalent to YC’s yearly requests for startups :)