[Music] I I think Pragma is really the highest quality uh version of the Ethereum community.
Elo Global has really stood the test of time as like a stalwart of community energy.
Every time I come to a Pragma conference, I'm always surprised is the quality of the speakers and also the attendees that come. It's a an intimate gathering. I think one of the things that I really value from ETH Global is the sense of community that you guys foster here. You know, I'm sure there's a lot of tactile answers. The drinks are great, the food is good, but to me, what it all boils down to is the community of people that come together here.
It's a really deep group of people that know the space. So, it's really high quality builders, really high quality talent that's been in the ecosystem for a long time.
You meet people that could be users, you meet people that could be integrators, you meet people that could be like builders that you can have as a sounding board. If you go to an event, it's just like a really great way to meet a lot of people all at once as opposed to having to do it kind of peace meal.
But for me, really meeting the new people who are excited and and looking for some impact or something to do is the most interesting part.
One of the things I love about the Ethereum community is how diverse it is. And I think one of the things that Pragma does is it it supports that.
Continuing to focus on delivering value to people in the world. How do we connect it to more people to make it more useful for more people? I think this event is kind of a high context networking event for people who are actively participating in what's going on. At least in the in the ETH community,
it is networking, but it's more more fun. I think at least for me, it's more fun, more casual.
The vibes are immaculate. My god, [Music] I think the venue is awesome. I had trouble finding the entrance. these gigantic windows across the board where you can see the entire city and like you know
it's a beautiful sunset that I'm watching about to unfold. So what the heck?
The venue is insane. It's so beautiful. Um so great job on that.
Incredible. I heard it just opened last year. We're one of the first conferences here. You know, seeing the the water view there during the talk was incredible. So I don't know who found this place, but kudos to them.
It's it's a fantastic venue. The cool thing about New York is it actually does do a pretty good job of being a good and accurate broad stroke of all things crypto
to connect the space of Wall Street and the builders from the blockchain space. The the barriers are being crushed.
I think Wall Street should adopt crypto in many ways. We've shown that everything Wall Street can do, we can do better is kind of my troll.
New York has a really strong crypto community, probably the strongest in the world. I've actually seen it evolve.
It's changed and it's really inspiring. Uh the crypto community and the traditional Wall Street community are finally coming together in a really big way. Seems like the epicenter for the crypto universe is here. So um it's growing a lot. [Music]
I think everyone kind of has events that they go to to just like meet the first few people in the space. And I think those relationships that you build are the ones that keep you around. You need to meet other smart people that are as smart or hopefully smarter than you and get them to give you guidance on where the industry is, like which way is the wind blowing. There's so much to learn from other founders. Just attending talks and listening to founders is quite helpful.
I think it's it's a really really good experience.
You get a lot of insights into how the technology is built, but always open an eye to how it's deployed or the impact it'll have.
When people come together and get value out of these things, it's it's one part to kind of like sit and enjoy in the culture that we've all built together. It's a little bit more like a festival. It's a celebration of what we're doing here in Ethereum.
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