ETHDenver takeaways:

1. All the basic infra is ready for first wave of consumer and business applications

2. Building token-enabled products today feels like building websites in the 1990s,,, basic patterns of design are emerging

3. Legal / Regulatory is hard af. Unknown how state will react to new privacy features.

Governance Public Utilities for @zksync at @thezknation

4. Leadership and management patterns are emerging — community centric design continues to drive attention.

5. Shaping information feeds and memes are new battleground for cozy mind-alignment.

6. Most product companies learned the hard way that you can’t “just build community”

7. Industry has matured - main event now is mostly sales, merch, marketing, funding.

8. Builder networks continue to harden / deepen. Alignment of relationships mirrors emerging DAO Networks.

9. Retention is high. People let go / fired aren’t leaving web3,,, they’re finding new jobs / building

13. Wallets get abstracted. Everything will be “smart”

10. There is no “current thing” tying crypto altogether anymore - narratives are fragmenting.

11. Bull market has already begun, most builders don’t realise it yet. Traders know.

12. Next wave of product innovation for consumers will be driven by creators — defining new UX patterns.