Pragma Denver 2025 Recap

[Music] good morning everybody how's it going I'm CS one of the co-founders of eth global and want to officially welcome all of you to [Music] pragma every person on stage is a founder of the company that they're representing that's what we believe helps you understand what's happening and they get to share what they're excited about with all of you today hearing from Founders I think is always great to get an understanding of all kinds of stuff whether it's you know ZK whether it's rwas whether it's um you know uh privacy or AI or whatever it might be right so being able to learn directly from the founders here that and I think having a group that sort of as actually en crypto and understands these things helps a lot because then we can get down to the the sort of nitty-gritty versus the classic we'll get in there we shill our project and do our thing quite frankly there's a lot of awesome Builders here there's people building in all the the ux that we really care about just making it easier to use crypto and like abstract the the crypto complexities around it the the most people that I see in the crowd are Builders uh like most of them I know the vipe is on on to deliver something uh not just like uh dopr or something pragma is an amazing group of developers and researchers and folks that are just really passionate about building decentralized apps and decentralized Tech I'm really energized every time I come here and get to spend a little bit of time in the space um and talking with other folks that are really passionate about similar things we've been a big uh supporters of and fans of the eth global hackathons and we love that the talks at pragma are are a little more in-depth a little little uh deeper uh but the audience is still extremely technical extremely focused on building and so from that perspective it was just a really good [Music] thing there's over 400 people signed up to be here they are from 30 four different countries so we're going to meet a lot of people here uh who are already part of our e Global Community but also newcomers that we're excited to say hi and introduce you to the amazing world of ethereum the event has been great here today it's hosted in nightclub there's a disco ball above the main stage it just gives it a really fun atmosphere it's it's huge and it's really nice um and the setting in there is amazing the venue is awesome everybody here is like extremely friendly yeah it's it's really cool it's been great people I've had a lot of awesome conversations with folks FKS ranging from sort of ethereum core Dev kind of community to app Builders to just enthusiasts and hobbyists whove stopped by so really incredible range it's always a a global you know community that comes together I was just hanging out with friends I met in Kiev uh who work on some really cool projects there it's always good to catch up with with old friends and and make some new ones [Music] too uh you know like a lot of a lot of the space can be HIIT or miss you know um uh par like the all the all demanding desire for engagement can uh create perest incentives but K you know it's it's a very very talented like community of of Builders and dreamers uh you know I always enjoy being around pragma it's it's it's where where where the best ideas um at these conferences will surface [Music]