for our fourth event of the year. We're back in New York. New York is always an event that we get excited about because so many founders, so many companies, and it is really the capital of the world. What's unique about this Deep Global New York 25 was that a lot of the hackers with themselves, the founders that usually are at our other events being judge or a speaker were sponsored. We kind of got to see the whole thing flip because they were finally excited to build things that have been on their mind.
so many new people this year and we also have like the veterans coming in. I know there's going to be some amazing things happening.
The variety of partners that are here gives you just so much exposure to what's going on.
Everybody is talking about what they're building, helping each other.
2 days heads down building something and you're going to learn more than you would in 2 months on your own.
Excited to start begin hacking in like I don't know 2ish hours. Day two, everyone is like heads down on their laptops building, hacking,
high energy. Everyone is really pushing boundaries. Everyone's trying to learn from each other. [Music]
Like when you walk into the door and you see like, you know, hundreds of people kind of all very like focused on their on their screens and everything.
I remember my first time being a hacker. It's fun, but also very stressful.
Like everyone really like grinding and working on their stuff. you're almost at like on the breaking point. That adrenaline of like even if you don't win, you're winning at pushing yourself and building and doing something with something you've never even tried before.
The fact that everyone here is building public facing technology that someone in the future is going to be able to benefit or learn from.
You're like super tired, you're barely like kind of functioning, but somehow there's still that like adrenaline that keeps you going.
Elder New York is known for some of the best builders in the world. So, it's going to be a tight competition out there. We're seeing a lot of the themes that you would expect to see today. Things like AI meets crypto.
We're seeing a lot of really cool projects that integrate AI and consumer applications. One awesome project I saw uses Amazon Checkout with crypto in a really impressive way.
There was actually a 12 and a 10-year-old girls that presented on an education platform to like a very novel AMM mechanism. So, they've been very wide ranging, but all great. The thing I'm excited about the most for 2026 is ITC Con, which is going to be our debut into doing a multi-day, multi,000 people event. And we're targeting more than 5,000 people coming into New York City. So, I'm looking forward to coming back here.
And Eve Con is going to be the biggest event we'll ever do.
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