With Gnosis, we now have a world of trad payments in the front, but crypto protocols in the back. The modular summit hosted on Friday and Saturday after ECC was sufficiently large and intellectually rich enough for the descriptor of ECC side event to not do it justice. Without question, the modular ecosystem is blazing into new technological frontiers faster than any frontier in crypto.
Every single year, EthCC gets a bit bigger, a bit more organized, and way more productive. The signal from EthCC this year was particularly strong!
EthCC is a unique conference. It’s one of the oldest and most well-run Ethereum conferences that we have. So here we are, post-EthCC 2023. The noise of the bull market is behind us. The tourists are gone and only the settlers remain.
So… where are we now, halfway through 2023? With EthCC offering such a strong checkpoint in the arc of Ethereum and crypto broadly, I’ve taken a moment to take stock of my main reflections and takeaways from the endless supply of conversations at EthCC 2023.