John Paller, Founder of ETHDenver, on Present State of ETH, and Future of DeFi, DAOs, and NFTs
Cryptonews Podcast host Matt Zahab sat down once again with US-based blockchain entrepreneur and Founder of ETHDenver John Paller for another exciting interview.
The two talked about ETHDenver setting the main themes for the year and what we may see in 2024.
The founder further explained how investing in UI, UX, and specific tools leads to greater DeFi and DAO adoption.
In this interview, Paller discussed:
Read a portion of what Matt and John chatted about below, and listen to the full episode above.
ETHDenver 2024 has started on February 23 and will last until March 3, boasting a number of events and speakers.
Paller noted that over the years, ETHDenver became two things.
Firstly, it’s the Super Bowl of crypto. There are family and friends reunions, and the community gathers.
Secondly, it’s a menu of topics to be discussed during the year. This is the first major event following the holidays in the US, so many are curious to see what will be placed on stage, what and how it will be talked about – that is, what the year’s main topics are.
The event often sets the main themes, movements, trajectories, players, etc.
Per Paller,
“I think what ends up happening is ETHDenver becomes sort of the distiller for that narrative for the year. […] The narrative gets formed and then walks into the rest of the year as a sort of fairly big thing.”
The team behind ETHDenver gets a lot of input about what goes on their stage – and there are bound to be changes to the narratives and themes throughout the year – “but we’ve been pretty consistently successful at [setting the year’s themes] over the past six years.”
As for 2024, we’re going to see some finality around Layer-2s, Paller argued. The “protocol wars” will end. There will be no more fights,
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