Just a few weeks in the past in October, a lot of the Ethereum group got here collectively in South America as we reunited for Devcon VI in Bogotá, Colombia!
In the present day we need to say Thank You(!) to each attendee, volunteer, and contributor that made Devcon VI a hit. On this weblog publish, we’ll recap the highlights of an extremely enjoyable occasion, and reminisce about Neighborhood Hubs, the Highway to Devcon, insightful talks and panels, fantastically designed presenter rooms, and far more.
Watch the Recap Video to refresh your reminiscence and benefit from the Devcon VI vibe!
What Devcon is all about
For these which are new to the Ethereum household, Devcon is the one annual convention held by the Ethereum Basis, and it dates again to a small meetup in Berlin (ÐΞVcon-0) a couple of 12 months previous to Ethereum’s first blocks. For some members of the Ethereum ecosystem, Devcon is a household reunion of types, whereas for others it’s a big stage on which to talk to (and find out about) the newest breakthroughs on content material starting from technical analysis to utility releases and extra.
Through the years, it has turn out to be clear that Devcon serves the group in different methods too. As we deliberate for Devcon VI, we labored to outline these targets. Now we need to describe them as soon as extra and mirror on how we tried to perform every of them.
1. Collaboration & information sharing
Devcon is just not solely a convention that options shows, but it surely’s a singular place to get some work completed with so many essential builders in the identical rooms. This 12 months, we wished them to have house to speak, to tug as much as a whiteboard, and get to work collectively.
At Devcon VI we hosted workshop rooms, devoted co-work areas, bookable assembly areas, and a hacker basement the place individuals got here collectively to fulfill and work. We additionally supplied a co-working house after the occasion within the venue.
The hacker basement – Photograph by Shintaro Yoshimatsu
2. Instructing, speaking, and producing new concepts
Devcon is an opportunity to be taught, and to show. Individuals traveled to Devcon to grasp the leading edge within the Ethereum house, and to share what they’ve discovered during the last 12 months with a big viewers each on the occasion, and on-line.
Over the 4 days, 60,000 viewers all over the world watched the Devcon livestreams (21,780 on the primary day alone). Offering high quality dwell streams and movies was essential for Devcon Satellite tv for pc Occasions – instructional meetups all over the world organized for many who couldn’t make it to Bogotá. The group organized Devcon Satellite tv for pc Occasions in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Malaysia, Portugal and Turkey.
Neighborhood Hubs have been devoted areas powered by the group for the group. Whether or not you began your day with a cacao ceremony within the Regens Hub, you went anon IRL by crafting a mask in the Temporary Anonymous Zone, witnessed the launch of the primary Token Engineering Fundamentals program, or visualized your values about decentralization within the Design Hub, we hope that you simply felt extra like a member of a various group than merely an attendee.
This was additionally the primary Devcon that featured “Impression Cubicles”, which have been areas reserved for groups and efforts making a constructive impression on Ethereum and the ecosystem at massive. Nice issues occur when shoppers, rollup-teams, and different impactful teams come collectively in a single place. Allegedly rivalrous rollup groups grew to become buddies, others gained a rare Gitcoin plushie by revealing their favourite public good, some snagged a pair of the primary ever socks.sol swag, or accepted the problem of exchanging as many ENS POAPs as they might with different attendees to climb the leaderboard.
The Latin American group had its personal inventive house: a Colombian Chiva Bus. There, contributors hosted dialogue rounds, podcasts, and saved the music going till nicely after shows had wrapped for the evening.
The ETH Latam staff in entrance of their Chiva Bus
3. Use our largest stage to ship a message
Devcon is a essential alternative to speak with the world about Ethereum. As the biggest convention in our trade, the broader expertise house and mainstream organizations take note of Devcon.
Devcon VI was the primary after The Merge occurred in September of this 12 months! 🐼Ethereum Mainnet now makes use of proof-of-stake for consensus, and Danny Ryan talked about how busy the previous couple of months have been for the Ethereum core devs, what difficulties they confronted once they merged the consensus and execution layers, and what it implies that they exist as one chain – Ethereum.
Different talks which are extremely beneficial to (re)watch are Aya Miyaguchi’s speak about Executing with Subtraction within the Infinite Backyard, Kurt Opsahl’s speak The Worth of Cryptocurrencies in Supporting Human Rights, and Pia Mancini’s speak The Future is Collective.
Aside from our suggestions, we additionally need to let you already know what have been a few of the favourite picks by members of the group this 12 months:
4. Utilizing tech constructed on Ethereum by means of “dogfooding”
“Dogfooding” is the observe of utilizing one’s personal services or products. Devcon is a convention made by and for our group, and we need to make use of instruments constructed by our group the place potential and helpful to attendees. Devcon needs to allow attendees to be taught and experiment first-hand with merchandise constructed on Ethereum.
Starting with ticketing, 268 individuals participated in the on-chain raffle and auction earlier than the final ticket sale started.
Good Token Labs helped to make Devcon VI ticket attestations a actuality, which allowed attendees to attest that they have been Devcon VI ticket-holders with no pockets tackle or different private figuring out data being made public. Via their platform, separate third events supplied permissionless perks completely for Devcon VI attendees.
Talking of dogfooding, how did you e book your resort in Bogotá? Attendees have been in a position to pay for his or her rooms utilizing crypto, because of Winding Tree.
Now you can watch all talks and panels from Devcon VI on extra open and sturdy platforms too – Swarm and Etherna helped us to make the Devcon Archive extra decentralized by internet hosting the movies from talks and workshops. Try the Swarm staff’s recap for extra data on their work at Devcon VI.
Many environmentally aware attendees offset their flights with the carbon offsetter by Discarbon. As of now, contributors have contributed to offset the equal of 403.9 Tonnes of CO2. Voters on the snapshot proposal selected to retire these credit from the Cordillera Azul Nationwide Park REDD+ Undertaking in Perú.
And it goes with out point out that everybody collected lots of POAPs alongside the way in which.
Panel: Signing in With Ethereum: the Most Highly effective Protocol in Web3? – Photograph by Shintaro Yoshimatsu
5. Rising the Ethereum Ecosystem
Devcon is a chance to succeed in, excite and interact extra native Ethereum communities all all over the world. This 12 months, the Latin American Ethereum group paved the Highway to Devcon by organizing about 14 group occasions round Latin America, all main as much as Devcon VI in Bogotá, the place the leaders of the Latam Ethereum group organized ETH Latam Day at some point earlier than the principle occasion began. Watch their recap video here.
We imagine Ethereum can have real-world impression in South America, and it’s superb to see how robust the Latin American Ethereum group has turn out to be.
EF’s Government Director Aya Miyaguchi recently said that she “strongly imagine[s] it’s vital for builders to go on the market and see all completely different components of the world they’re making an attempt to alter.” Some Devcon attendees used the chance that the occasion offered to discover South America just a little additional after Devcon. They got here to know a group and a part of the world that was beforehand international to them, or they arrived earlier and adopted the Highway to Devcon.
The Highway to Devcon map
Devcon can also be a possibility to succeed in blockchain-related groups and newcomers from different industries. UNICEF was as soon as extra a visitor and speaker at Devcon, in addition to Arkadiy Kukarkin from the Web Archive, and geopolitics and expertise writer Bruno Maçães.
Ethereum Basis’s Subsequent Billion staff organized a one-day occasion for Devcon attendees, authorities officers, non-profit and civil society organizations, and “anybody all for studying about how we are able to use Ethereum as a public good destined to assist billions of individuals coordinate and thrive.” The occasion targeted on the ‘real-world’ components confronted by those that use Ethereum to create impression.
The programming observe Alternative & World Impression featured many extra attention-grabbing talks and panels discussing how Ethereum can overcome “gaps in illustration throughout cultures, nationalities, and financial courses.” (Next Billion)
Devcon VI welcomed many individuals which are newer to the Ethereum ecosystem and that attended Devcon for the primary time. With different programming tracks like Governance & Coordination, and Cryptoeconomics, and with lots of crypto artwork and music alongside the way in which, we hope they felt impressed by our superb group by the week’s finish.
Rising the Ethereum ecosystem additionally means supporting those that “have the potential to make a constructive impression on Ethereum and its group, however who have been unable to attend with out monetary help.” The Devcon Students Program had its second class this 12 months, and 50 people bought help to attend Devcon. Learn a few of their tales and their views on Devcon VI right here!
6. Enjoyable!
Playfulness has at all times been a part of Devcon and of the Ethereum ecosystem at massive. This is the reason Devcon swag is colourful, Jonathan Mann is singing The Merge Tune on stage, and the opening video options animated dancing bears merging right into a panda representing Ethereum.
Calling Devcon a convention misses the mark in gentle of the colourful levels designed with love for element, the grownup playground with video games like big Jenga, and the hacker basement filled with digital artwork to discover.
Ix Shells and Rosendo Merel Choy – Photograph by Shintaro Yoshimatsu
Lots of the enjoyable issues Devcon VI supplied have been dropped at life by the group itself. The music stage within the Chiva Chillout was a group initiative that was born from a Devcon Enchancment Proposal (DIP) by The Fellowship of Ethereum Musicians that become a bigger venture. You possibly can watch a video with highlights from all 4 days right here. Every day, attendees might be a part of a graffiti tour organized by CRYPTOMURALS, and the groups of Social Dist0rtion Protocol and daedalus industries puzzled out the Treasure Hunt Problem “Time To DAI” for you.
7. Suggestions & Continued Enchancment
We’re at all times making an attempt to be taught and enhance as nicely, and we thank everybody who gave us helpful suggestions (you’ll be able to nonetheless give suggestions by way of our attendee survey and earn a POAP.)
There are some things we discovered this 12 months. Wi-Fi was a difficulty once more, particularly on the primary day, and we all know there may be room for enchancment, and our SIM playing cards for attendees have been extra important than ever! The meals could be much more versatile – together with higher vegetarian and vegan choices. Feminine, Transgender, Non-Binary and different genders made up 20%+ of Devcon VI’s attendees. Nonetheless, we are able to do extra to make each Devcon and the ecosystem extra consultant by way of gender range & inclusion in a still-male-dominated house.
As our occasion has grown bigger and with over 6,000 in attendance, we acknowledge that the probabilities are higher for competition between some attendees. The primary rule within the Devcon Code of Conduct is to “be wonderful to one another”, and our dedication is to create a cushty surroundings for all. We are going to overview our CoC and think about enhancements primarily based on what now we have discovered this 12 months.
What’s Forward?
We’re assured we gained’t have to attend three years for the subsequent Devcon. It’s already time so that you can become involved by proposing concepts to enhance Devcon.
Aya’s speak about subtraction made us rethink the phrasing of DIPs. Devcon Enchancment Proposals are actually supposed for collaborative group enter on what needs to be modified (subtracted, added, or modified) for the upcoming Devcon7.
The place will Devcon7 happen? Briefly: We don’t know but. However the alternative will probably be onerous, as now we have many unimaginable options for Devcon7 areas from members of the Ethereum group.
We hope that you simply’ll be as excited as we’re once we share extra data within the weeks to come back. For now, thanks as soon as once more to all of our attendees for becoming a member of us in Bogotá, to the presenters, the Impression groups, Supporters, Neighborhood Hub organizers, DIP contributors, and volunteers that made Devcon VI potential. ❤️🦄
Till we meet once more, you’ll be able to try extra pictures by the Devcon staff right here, and discover extra pictures by Shintaro Yoshimatsu right here.
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EF Devcon Crew
