Devcon was dope!

Some highlights in no particular order 😉

1. FC meet up 💜 Lens Meet Up 🌳
2. ETH debates: vanilla vs liquid staking
3. L2 proliferation/diversity matches the Devcon diversity!
4. AI agents, privacy, proof of personhood, depin
5. UI/UX is key e.g. chain abstraction (near), stablecoin supercycle

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1. Farcaster Meet up was a nightime frisk so boozy. Wrote about it on there. The LENS meet up was also damn dope, morning vibe (which I prefer) with amazing coffee and crew. Didn’t meet as many peeps that u interact with here but the hospitality, venue and merch were legit!

2. There was a fruity & fruitful debate at Devconflict, probs the spiciest of the bunch, with sturdy support of solo staking by @nixo in the face of the slow inexorable advance of liquid staking enabled by platforms like @lido. Watch: streameth.org/devconflict/watch?session=672f1ab35891c4cefc7e608e

3. Rollups & appchains are super easy to proliferate. Many more are coming: medium.com/@vizimnokh/altlayer-rollup-day-big-event-in-bangkok-156a54488068. So are modular blockchains (e.g. x.com/MantaNetwork/status/1858403998656762006)) like Manta // Celestia.

4. Literally zero talk of NFTs, it was all ai agents lol. Many emphasised the need to have privacy as a core assumption/value underlying ai as its built out on otherwise transparent crypto rails. The quantum threat was mentioned a few times as AI advances, from a security perspective, as an argument to delay ossification of ETH. lots building at the Web3/decentralized ai nexus.

5. UI/UX: Family wallet launch - it’s now my main one (sizzler blog here: benji.org/family-values);;) chain abstraction & ERC-7683: Cross Chain Intents Standard key for interoperability; Account Abstraction too took pride of place (aa-hub.erc4337.io/)..) Many builders in the global south focused on building out the stablecoin use cases (easy access to inflation resistance in particular more of a game changer than most give it credit)

6. BONUS - BANGKOK

A ludicrously amazing city, seriously impressive growth/developemt; delicious food; awesome infrastructure, friendly people, safe, colourful, energetic etc scooter gang!

into-the-nouniverse.netlify.app

Just shipped an immersive web experience showcasing the writers that came together to participate in the nouns x kiwi-news collab
3.5ETH in rewards as a beacon for storytellers far and wide, simply incredible.

@kiwi is run by @timdaub.eth & @macbudkowski and serves as our onchain hackernews
Having a kiwi pass means being able to submit (articles, tweets, casts etc), upvote & downvote in a central hub/repository
They recently partnered with @nouns-dao (spearheaded by @ccarella.eth I believe) to host a writing contest

Most of the writing is collectible as articles on mirror & @paragraph
On @paragraph you can actually collect quotes/highlights too! Further supporting great writing from @naomiii @gramajo.eth @basednouns @bradq @taiwo @robotfishgirl @danielmcglynn & others

Music via a @spinamp embed this time. A track by @anatu, la rochelle & I: www.sound.xyz/letmeyou/afterlife-with-la-rochelle-and-papa

Have been liaising with @fascinated to try get a customisable onchain playlist feature going via futuretape.xyz thats embeddable. any clues on a service for this?