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welcome back to
Devcon oops good morning everyone my
name is Skyler and I have the incredible
honor of leading the amazing Devcon
team once again welcome to Devcon
southeast
Asia it's been two years since we last
met for Devcon in Bogata in Latin
America two years of building of
strengthening of advancing and it feels
great to be back reunited with you all
we are here this week to celebrate all
that we the ethereum community have
accomplished over the last two years and
Beyond which is quite frankly a lot and
we are here to make progress through
in-person collaboration and learning to
continue to improve
ethereum and to use ethereum to improve
humanity and we're excited for this
reunion to take place in Southeast
Asia we chose this region because of its
significant and growing impact in the
ethereum
ecosystem South East Asia is home to
many OG ethereum projects and
communities like e KL in Malaysia like
ethereum Singapore have been established
for years and newer communities like e
Pai here in Thailand E63 in the
Philippines web3 saon and Vietnam web3
together in Cambodia and many many more
are also making strong contributions
showing just how vibrant and active this
region really
is and over the past year on the road to
Devcon we've seen inspiring energy and
enthusiasm from all of these communities
and more across South and Southeast Asia
with over a 100 educational events
organized by these communities for these
communities to help grow awareness and
understanding of ethereum
and we're excited that with Devcon we
had the opportunity to support the
visions and goals of these communities
and we're excited to be part of this
ongoing journey and can't wait to see
the impact this region will have in this
region and
Beyond and we chose Thailand to be the
meeting spot with a big benefit of it
being very internationally accessible
and particularly having a relatively
friendly Visa
policy from Southeast Asia we have
nearly 3,000 people representing all 11
Southeast Asian
countries but ethereum is global and so
should Devcon be and we're happy to say
that this is the most Global Devcon
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ever people have come from over 145
countries all six six continents and to
all be here at Devcon right now and
that's the strength the strength of the
ethereum community lies in this
diversity and the unique perspectives
each of you
bring but even through but even though
the the ethereum community consists of
people from all over the world from all
different backgrounds and all with
unique histories those of you here the
attendees of Devcon
have a lot in common we are future
pilled people it's to say that we
believe the future will be radically
different and that this future could be
better or it could be worse but that
certain Technologies could be better uh
certain Technologies such as ethereum
and the in intentional development of
these
technologies have the opportunity to
make the future brighter for Humanity
and we realize that this better future
won't automatically happen we need to we
need coordination Guided by values that
we believe in deeply values like open
Global accessibility like censorship
resistance credible neutrality privacy
verifiability and building hard durable
protocols we want to see a future where
these values are embraced not only in
blockchains but also in societal
institutions and this requires taking
wise sometimes hard choices and
recognizing that while shortcuts are
tempting and While others may be more
willing to take them we should
not and this is not us moving slow this
is us moving with intention it is this
type of future focused long-term
thinking that your fellow attendees here
at Devcon share it is this thinking that
sets ethereum apart and to share more
about what makes ethereum unique and to
shed light on all that we really have
accomplished over the past two years and
Beyond while working towards these goals
I would like to invite someone I respect
a lot a member of the ethereum
foundation leadership team Josh Stark