Wrapping up an intense week in Paris for PBW.
A few purely personal takeaways from the largest blockchain event in Europe while it's still hot.
While at this conference that we attend every year, the comparison with the previous years becomes interesting, and this year Cardano has received a growing attention from:
- Various LPs, MMs, VCs, family offices & asset managers, that are much more open than in the past
- A few new use-cases are joining the Cardano party and expressed a will to integrate, for ex: P2P electricity marketplace, new RWAs tok platforms (stocks, financial instruments etc) wanting to migrate from Ethereum ("lack of support")
- A handful of on/off ramps providers
- A stablecoin payment rails infra provider
- An exciting update about what is arguably going to become the first fully audited, trustless Cardano-Bitcoin bridge soon™ ("compute on Cardano, 1s finality on Bitcoin"), after they approached us last October (see my previous tweet)
- Confirmed trend: For the past ~2.5 years, major, established L1s/L2s and CEXs have mostly ditched having booths at pure blockchain conferences like PBW. Why spend $$$ marketing to an audience that already knows you inside out? Adoption happens outside of the echo-chamber, yet it's still essential to maintain a presence there with delegations.
More bridges were built overall and it was highly productive, these events are perfect to accelerate and build more influence.
Now comes the time for follow-ups and delivery on these items over the next few months.
Let's keep pushing