ETHGlobal Taipei 2025 Recap Video

[Music] I'm actually really happy that E Global came to Taiwan. The people, they are so welcoming. [Music] The number of people this is like really amazing, you know. I I love Eat Global. It's like my home.

This is not a conference. Like it's super surprising. The vibe is so good. [Music] I think this more intimate environment has allowed us to connect more closely with builders. Somehow the people are connected.

People are much more know each other. There's a lot of hackathons around here, but none of them are even close to what we global is. These are like the best hackathons in the industry. Like the amount of work that goes into production and making sure that everything is smooth is just insane. We want to bring more people to ETH Globe which is the one of the best hackathon in the world.

ETH Global is a incredible organization that brings together some of the brightest minds, a lot of technical people. Everyone's got good energy. I think they're really great. So you meet a lot of really interesting people here. We have a zone to play basketball.

Who does that? It's really rare to see people to have machine here in a hackathon. The board game zone where people can learn some traditional games from Taiwan. People are having fun together. There's Tai Chi is calligraphy and all that.

And then people are, you know, relaxing, work hard, and also play hard and also eat harder. We're also going to be doing a bubble tea station. That's the thing that gets a clap. I really like the culture of Bobati and everybody has their own bag which is also part of the merch. What I love about the venue is about the freebies and there's free food and free snacks.

It's also interesting to see a lot of Taiwan's traditional snacks kind of like the street vibes here. Yeah, that's nice. Never thought you guys would. You guys made a really amazing place and a lot of lanterns and the vibes of the I feel like a festival. All the neon lights, all the market lights and all of that is like so crazy cool.

You have to stand there and take a photo. There's lots of nice food in Taiwan. So yeah, like I'm looking forward to like next meal time. They really squeeze you in in a 3 days timing yet. 36 hours in this hackathon.

We kind of like motivate each other to like, hey, we want to build this thing out. It was midnight last night and there was not an empty seat in the house. People were here all night. The adrenaline's been tapped out for a while at this point. I think it's really important that you at least sleep a bit, otherwise you just won't make any progress anymore.

The vibe here is just electric. There are so many local builders. It gives me a different experience where people can really engage and can talk to the mentor where people looks very eager like we constantly have people asking question. We are very excited to help them. So people are building on AI is ZK and AI.

Three of the themes that we really see are AI, stable coins and real world assets. It's really cool to see AI being used in a way that's not just a chat [Music] box. I think as a judge for ETH Global, we're always looking for new and original ideas. We still haven't seen it all. There's always something new and interesting, and I'm always amazed at the creativity that the hackers bring to the hackathon.

I'm really impressed by the energy and the sort of dedication that hackers bring to their projects. cuz I think there there's a lot of underutilized potential. This is the first ETH global here. I I look forward to more happening here. I think all the projects have been pretty strong and it will be hard to pick a winner.

So, it's just the tiny human moments between a hacker and the organization that really sparks some nice connections. [Music]