ETHGlobal Taipei 2025 Weekend Recap

This is not a conference. [Applause] This is my sixth year global hackathon. Very excited to build something great. We have a zone to play basketball. Who does that?

The number of people who are like really amazing. You know, we're also going to be doing a bubble tea station. That's the thing that gets a clap. I think this more intimate environment has allowed us to connect more closely with builders, a lot of technical people. Everyone's got good energy.

You meet a lot of really interesting people here. It's always a really nice experience to learn something new. You really squeeze you in in a 3day timing. 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. We still haven't seen it all. There's always something new and interesting. And I'm always amazed as a judge at the creativity that the hackers bring to their projects and bring to the hackathon. Developer space in Taiwan is quite amazing.

People are having fun together. I I feel like the quality of projects here is pretty high and it will be hard to pick a winner.