Devcon VI Recap, Resources & Wrap-Up!

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A fewer weeks agone successful October, overmuch of the Ethereum assemblage came unneurotic successful South America arsenic we reunited for Devcon VI successful Bogotá, Colombia!

Today we privation to accidental Thank You(!) to each attendee, volunteer, and contributor that made Devcon VI a success. In this blog post, we volition recap the highlights of an incredibly amusive event, and reminisce astir Community Hubs, the Road to Devcon, insightful talks and panels, beautifully designed presenter rooms, and overmuch more.

Watch the Recap Video to refresh your representation and bask the Devcon VI vibe!

What Devcon is each about

For those that are caller to the Ethereum family, Devcon is the lone yearly league held by the Ethereum Foundation, and it dates backmost to a tiny meetup successful Berlin (ÐΞVcon-0) astir a twelvemonth anterior to Ethereum’s archetypal blocks. For immoderate members of the Ethereum ecosystem, Devcon is simply a household reunion of sorts, portion for others it’s a ample signifier connected which to talk to (and larn about) the latest breakthroughs connected contented ranging from method probe to exertion releases and more.

Over the years, it has go wide that Devcon serves the assemblage successful different ways too. As we planned for Devcon VI, we worked to specify those goals. Now we privation to picture them erstwhile much and bespeak connected however we tried to execute each of them.

Devcon is not lone a league that features presentations, but it’s a unsocial spot to get immoderate enactment done with truthful galore important builders successful the aforesaid rooms. This year, we wanted them to person abstraction to talk, to propulsion up to a whiteboard, and get to enactment together.

At Devcon VI we hosted store rooms, dedicated co-work areas, bookable gathering spaces, and a hacker basement wherever radical came unneurotic to conscionable and work. We besides offered a co-working abstraction aft the lawsuit successful the venue.

The hacker basement - Photo by Shintaro Yoshimatsu

2. Teaching, communicating, and generating caller ideas

Devcon is simply a accidental to learn, and to teach. People traveled to Devcon to recognize the cutting borderline successful the Ethereum space, and to stock what they person learned implicit the past twelvemonth with a ample assemblage some astatine the event, and online.

Over the 4 days, 60,000 viewers astir the world watched the Devcon livestreams (21,780 connected the archetypal time alone). Providing prime unrecorded streams and videos was important for Devcon Satellite Events - acquisition meetups astir the satellite organized for those who couldn’t marque it to Bogotá. The assemblage organized Devcon Satellite Events successful Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Malaysia, Portugal and Turkey.

Community Hubs were dedicated spaces powered by the assemblage for the community. Whether you started your time with a cacao ceremony successful the Regens Hub, you went anon IRL by crafting a disguise successful the Temporary Anonymous Zone, witnessed the motorboat of the archetypal Token Engineering Fundamentals program, oregon visualized your values astir decentralization successful the Design Hub, we anticipation that you felt much similar a subordinate of a divers assemblage than simply an attendee.

This was besides the archetypal Devcon that featured “Impact Booths”, which were spaces reserved for teams and efforts making a affirmative interaction connected Ethereum and the ecosystem astatine large. Great things hap erstwhile clients, rollup-teams, and different impactful groups travel unneurotic successful 1 place. Allegedly rivalrous rollup teams became friends, others won a rare Gitcoin plushie by revealing their favourite nationalist good, immoderate snagged a brace of the archetypal ever socks.sol swag, oregon accepted the situation of exchanging arsenic galore ENS POAPs arsenic they could with different attendees to climb the leaderboard.

The Latin American assemblage had its ain originative space: a Colombian Chiva Bus. There, participants hosted treatment rounds, podcasts, and kept the euphony going until good aft presentations had wrapped for the night.

The ETH Latam squad successful beforehand of their Chiva Bus

3. Use our biggest signifier to nonstop a message

Devcon is simply a captious accidental to pass with the satellite astir Ethereum. As the largest league successful our industry, the broader exertion abstraction and mainstream organizations wage attraction to Devcon.

Devcon VI was the archetypal aft The Merge took spot successful September of this year! 🐼Ethereum Mainnet present uses proof-of-stake for consensus, and Danny Ryan talked astir however engaged the past fewer months person been for the Ethereum halfway devs, what difficulties they faced erstwhile they merged the statement and execution layers, and what it means that they beryllium arsenic 1 concatenation - Ethereum.

Other talks that are highly recommended to (re)watch are Aya Miyaguchi’s speech astir Executing with Subtraction successful the Infinite Garden, Kurt Opsahl’s speech The Value of Cryptocurrencies successful Supporting Human Rights, and Pia Mancini’s speech The Future is Collective.

Apart from our recommendations, we besides privation to fto you cognize what were immoderate of the favourite picks by members of the assemblage this year:

4. Using tech built connected Ethereum done “dogfooding”

“Dogfooding” is the signifier of utilizing one’s ain products oregon services. Devcon is simply a league made by and for our community, and we privation to marque usage of tools built by our assemblage wherever imaginable and beneficial to attendees. Devcon wants to alteration attendees to larn and experimentation first-hand with products built connected Ethereum.

Beginning with ticketing, 268 radical participated successful the on-chain raffle and auction earlier the wide summons merchantability began.

Smart Token Labs helped to marque Devcon VI summons attestations a reality, which allowed attendees to attest that they were Devcon VI ticket-holders without a wallet code oregon different idiosyncratic identifying accusation being made public. Through their platform, abstracted 3rd parties offered permissionless perks exclusively for Devcon VI attendees.

Speaking of dogfooding, however did you publication your edifice successful Bogotá? Attendees were capable to wage for their rooms utilizing crypto, acknowledgment to Winding Tree.

You tin present ticker each talks and panels from Devcon VI connected much unfastened and robust platforms excessively - Swarm and Etherna helped america to marque the Devcon Archive much decentralized by hosting the videos from talks and workshops. Check retired the Swarm team’s recap for much accusation connected their enactment astatine Devcon VI.

Many environmentally conscious attendees offset their flights with the carbon offsetter by Discarbon. As of now, participants person contributed to offset the equivalent of 403.9 Tonnes of CO2. Voters connected the snapshot proposal chose to discontinue these credits from the Cordillera Azul National Park REDD+ Project successful Perú.

And it goes without notation that everyone collected a lot of POAPs on the way.

Panel: Signing successful With Ethereum: the Most Powerful Protocol successful Web3?

5. Growing the Ethereum Ecosystem

Devcon is an accidental to reach, excite and prosecute much section Ethereum communities each astir the world. This year, the Latin American Ethereum assemblage paved the Road to Devcon by organizing astir 14 assemblage events astir Latin America, each starring up to Devcon VI successful Bogotá, wherever the leaders of the Latam Ethereum assemblage organized ETH Latam Day 1 time earlier the main lawsuit started. Watch their recap video here.

We judge Ethereum tin person real-world interaction successful South America, and it is astonishing to spot however beardown the Latin American Ethereum assemblage has become.

EF’s Executive Director Aya Miyaguchi recently said that she “strongly believe[s] it’s important for builders to spell retired determination and spot each antithetic parts of the satellite they are trying to change.” Some Devcon attendees utilized the accidental that the lawsuit provided to research South America a small further aft Devcon. They came to cognize a assemblage and portion of the satellite that was antecedently overseas to them, oregon they arrived earlier and followed the Road to Devcon.

The Road to Devcon map

Devcon is besides an accidental to scope blockchain-related teams and newcomers from different industries. UNICEF was erstwhile much a impermanent and speaker astatine Devcon, arsenic good arsenic Arkadiy Kukarkin from the Internet Archive, and geopolitics and exertion writer Bruno Maçães.

Ethereum Foundation’s Next Billion squad organized a one-day event for Devcon attendees, authorities officials, non-profit and civilian nine organizations, and “anyone funny successful learning astir however we tin usage Ethereum arsenic a nationalist bully destined to assistance billions of radical coordinate and thrive.” The lawsuit focused connected the ‘real-world’ factors faced by those who usage Ethereum to make impact.

The programming way Opportunity & Global Impact featured galore much absorbing talks and panels discussing however Ethereum tin flooded “gaps successful practice crossed cultures, nationalities, and economical classes.” (Next Billion)

Devcon VI welcomed galore radical that are newer to the Ethereum ecosystem and that attended Devcon for the archetypal time. With different programming tracks similar Governance & Coordination, and Cryptoeconomics, and with a batch of crypto creation and euphony on the way, we anticipation they felt inspired by our astonishing assemblage by the week’s end.

Growing the Ethereum ecosystem besides means supporting those who “have the imaginable to marque a affirmative interaction connected Ethereum and its community, but who were incapable to be without fiscal assistance.” The Devcon Scholars Program had its 2nd people this year, and 50 individuals got enactment to be Devcon. Read some of their stories and their perspectives connected Devcon VI here!

6. Fun!

Playfulness has ever been portion of Devcon and of the Ethereum ecosystem astatine large. This is wherefore Devcon swag is colorful, Jonathan Mann is singing The Merge Song connected stage, and the opening video features animated dancing bears merging into a panda representing Ethereum.

Calling Devcon a league misses the people successful airy of the colorful stages designed with emotion for detail, the big playground with games similar elephantine Jenga, and the hacker basement afloat of integer creation to explore.

Ix Shells and Rosendo Merel Choy - Photo by Shintaro Yoshimatsu

Many of the amusive things Devcon VI offered were brought to beingness by the assemblage itself. The euphony signifier successful the Chiva Chillout was a assemblage inaugural that was calved from a Devcon Improvement Proposal (DIP) by The Fellowship of Ethereum Musicians that turned into a larger project. You tin ticker a video with highlights from each 4 days here. Each day, attendees could articulation a graffiti circuit organized by CRYPTOMURALS, and the teams of Social Dist0rtion Protocol and daedalus industries puzzled retired the Treasure Hunt Challenge “Time To DAI” for you.

7. Feedback & Continued Improvement

We are ever trying to larn and amended arsenic well, and we convey everyone who gave america invaluable feedback (you tin inactive springiness feedback via our attendee survey and gain a POAP.)

There are a fewer things we learned this year. Wi-Fi was an contented again, particularly connected the archetypal day, and we cognize determination is country for improvement, and our SIM cards for attendees were much captious than ever! The nutrient tin beryllium adjacent much versatile - including amended vegetarian and vegan options. Female, Transgender, Non-Binary and different genders made up 20%+ of Devcon VI's attendees. Still, we tin bash much to marque some Devcon and the ecosystem much typical successful presumption of sex diverseness & inclusion successful a still-male-dominated space.

As our lawsuit has grown larger and with implicit 6,000 successful attendance, we admit that the chances are greater for contention betwixt immoderate attendees. The archetypal regularisation successful the Devcon Code of Conduct is to "be fantabulous to each other", and our committedness is to make a comfy situation for all. We volition reappraisal our CoC and see improvements based connected what we person learned this year.

What’s Ahead?

We are assured we won’t person to hold 3 years for the adjacent Devcon. It’s already clip for you to get progressive by proposing ideas to amended Devcon.

Aya’s speech astir subtraction made america reconsider the phrasing of DIPs. Devcon Improvement Proposals are present intended for collaborative assemblage input connected what should beryllium changed (subtracted, added, oregon modified) for the upcoming Devcon7.

Where volition Devcon7 instrumentality place? In short: We don’t cognize yet. But the prime volition beryllium hard, arsenic we person galore unthinkable suggestions for Devcon7 locations from members of the Ethereum community.

We anticipation that you’ll beryllium arsenic excited arsenic we are erstwhile we stock much accusation successful the weeks to come. For now, convey you erstwhile again to each of our attendees for joining america successful Bogotá, to the presenters, the Impact teams, Supporters, Community Hub organizers, DIP contributors, and volunteers that made Devcon VI possible. ❤️🦄

Until we conscionable again, you tin cheque retired much photos by the Devcon squad here, and find much photos by Shintaro Yoshimatsu here.

– EF Devcon Team