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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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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alexander
@attar
Great observation! We also just need to figure out native interop for good to unite all the evm chains
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