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so it is it is a a lot of hard work that
goes into these projects they don't see
success they stick to their guts and
they keep continuing forward
um we don't want this to be something
serious it's just fun and it's just
supposed to signal to the community the
community that we appreciate their
amazing work
so there's a few of our categories uh
that we would like to highlight
the first one is the Trojan unicorn
award so this is basically a project
that kind of broke through
to the mainstream and did not lose its
core values within the ecosystem
the next one is a ethereum Educators
award so ethereum education or education
onboarding for web 3 is one of the
biggest challenges and projects that are
working on this are quite imperative to
the success of the ecosystem as a whole
and we'd like to encourage more projects
to be kind of involved in this ecosystem
as well and then the most important is
The Cypher Punk award so there's a lot
of
issues and concerns around the the core
values of the webto ecosystem and we
want to keep sure that there's projects
that are working on privacy that are
working on census super resistance and
that they get highlighted in some Manner
and that we keep encouraging people to
kind of keep that core of web3 close to
their heart
and the last one is y'all really thought
we wouldn't award this is the project
that was delayed and delayed and delayed
and this beat expectations of not ever
shipping
so we'll start with the Trojan unicorn
award as I mentioned this is supposed to
Signal the project that has the largest
impact on bringing Mass adoption to the
ecosystem and not really letting go of
their core values that are close to the
ecosystem and really breaking through so
the nominees are
pull up
open c e and s and uniswap so all these
projects have had quite a few moments as
far as their break over success you
might have seen everyone in every event
that we went to using Pro apps even at
Defcon everyone's just taking that
opportunity to scan each other open C
regardless of how other people in the
ecosystem feel was one of the biggest
breakouts over the past few years as far
as getting normies or people no coiners
to encourage and engage with our
technology ens so coming from a very
small team that was working on this core
technology for x amount of years six
years just sitting in a get a channel
then a key base Etc to see that every
celebrity in the whole world was now
having a name attached to them was
amazing even swap the amount of
different ecosystems that kind of
branched out from that organization and
how many people were engaged with D5 and
trading was amazing to see
so please put your hand together for the
winner
ens
I'd love to welcome Nick and the ens
team to come up on stage and accept
their award and tell us a little bit
about ens
congratulations thank you so much
thank you
this is amazing it's uh yeah yeah thank
you anyone anyone from the team uh
please come up and and show them show
everyone
um
Alex what are you doing come up here
um so it's it's been five six years
since we started ens it started off as a
part-time project in the ethereum
foundation it rapidly expanded to
consume all my time uh the EF made the
very wise decision that we should
graduate to our own project uh it gave
us very generous funding to get started
and even so it's been a long road to get
here but if you saw my talk the other
day we've had wild success in terms of
the the popularity and the adoption and
more importantly the the usability
improvements that's allowed to the point
where I think everyone just assumes ens
is everywhere which has always been our
goal
um and so yeah I'm absolutely delighted
to get this I couldn't be happier thank
you so much
thank you very much so the next category
is education and developer onboarding so
as we start to scale our ecosystem we
need to make sure that people are that
are coming into the ecosystem understand
what the technology is meant to do what
they should be aware of when what they
should be focusing on and as we get into
different ecosystems and come to Bogota
come to different regions we understand
that our understanding of ethereum and
the webto ecosystem is drastically
different for people who could actually
benefit from the technology
and there's a lot of work that needs to
be done as far as language as far as
people understanding the core technology
people understanding what they should be
doing what they shouldn't be doing and
we really need to as a community come
together and make sure these resources
are put together in a way that is
understandable is accessible and it's
friendly and able for any individual to
kind of get onboarded and attract the
right type of individuals who aren't
motivated by the wrong incentives
so the nominees for the ethereum
Educators awards are
ethereum.org hard hat remix and speedrun
ethereum
so as mentioned a lot of this work has
been done around creating developer
resources making sure that onboarding
and resources are available for people
to get involved make sure they're
testing things and then also make it
playful and fun
and the winner for this category is
speed run ethereum
so Austin can be here but the build
Guild is here to accept the award as a
core team and they've done an amazing
job making sure that getting onboarded
to the developer ecosystem is fun
playful and easy to understand so thank
you
um yeah I wish Austin was here I know he
would have done a better talk than what
I'm going to be doing
yeah yeah but it's been great to be part
of the build Guild and work with
developer onboarding
um and yeah I'm gonna keep it short but
basically our message is always to go to
speedrun ethereum.com if you're a
developer or if you know developers to
tell them to go there and yeah
yeah for sure so basically Austin
created a starter kit called scaffold
eat and this is basically a
decentralized application starter kit
where you have different components
involved and after you kind of get the
basis of okay like how do I create a
starter kit application on ethereum then
you can go to speedrun ethereum.com
which walks you through a set of
challenges which are a bit more advanced
like you go from building your staking
application multi-sig and kind of like
get the sense of how you create
applications and yeah and then come and
join build Guild so we're the build
Guild which is the group on top of
speedrun theory
all right the next category is The
Cypher Punk award and I think
as different individuals coming to the
ecosystem
the core values of people coming in and
working on the technology changes time
to time and it's important that
individuals that are working on this
core technology for privacy preserving
censorship resistance and making sure
that we have
complete ownership of our data are
highlighted
unfortunately due to legal reasons and
us not wanting to dock some of these
projects or the individuals that would
be coming on stage
uh we just want to kind of highlight all
the individuals and the communities and
projects that have been working on this
stuff and will hopefully be able to
encourage you and encourage the people
that are sitting in this room to
continue some of this work but it's very
because it was very important and we're
very
very aware that it's under attack by
different forces whether it's government
agencies whether it's different
organizations Etc so I would encourage
everyone to make sure if you do or if
you are and aware of these projects to
appreciate them and whether you send the
messages or you utilize their products
make sure that they feel appreciated and
then that that were hoping and we're
wishing for their success in some
capacity so thanks to every project
that's working on any type of zero
knowledge proofs or anything that
preserves our privacy our data security
and anything to do with moving this
ecosystem forward towards the ethos that
we believe in so I would hope for you
guys everyone to kind of join in and
appreciate anyone that's been working on
this technology as a whole
and then the last category is basically
y'all really thought we would an award
so this is basically a project that the
ecosystem has been waiting for for a
long time and time and time again it
gets delayed people don't expect it to
come together uh people hope it doesn't
come together from different ecosystems
and the story goes on and on and on and
on
and the nominees are
serenity
ethereum proof of stay ethereum 2.0 the
merge the docking
and the winners are
the merge
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so I'd like to welcome Tim Trent and
Danny on stage if they're all in the
room I'd appreciate it
no it's coming we're gonna hit it soon
cool I just got here the people say
stuff
it's been a long time coming
you know uh yeah so first of all this is
T T and D
um
ctd has arrived but the uh the tiny tiny
tiny tiny tiny tiny subset of the effort
that went in here so
um there might be more in the audience
and they're certainly having intense
technical conversations all throughout
this venue about the next stuff
um and
I always thought it would happen I I
know there's some haters out there but I
I had no doubt you know ethereum was
going to transition to proof of stakes
so it's just a matter of time and the
time has come so
thank you any other uh
yeah
no no thanks all the client teams
researchers um I gave a whole talk about
this on the opening day so everyone
mentioned that talk another thank you
um and thanks for the prize that's
really neat
yeah so as mentioned all the nominees