After a decade of existence, Ethereum has gone a long way from its initial whitepaper, yet many efforts in scaling and finding product-market-fit have been severely criticized for falling short of their promise. However, despite numerous other ‘Ethereum killers’ being launched over the years, none has managed to attract so many developers and liquidity while sticking true to ethos that (once) powered and united this industry. This year’s ETHPrague plans to confront exactly these existential challenges and steward community culture towards addressing outside criticism and external reality checks. Ethereum’s development, while adapting to market pressures, it always aimed to stick true to its core values in order to remain a technological bedrock for the future of humanity.

Topics covered in this episode:

• The vision for ETH Prague
• Takeaways from main sessions
• High-level overview of ETH Prague
• The resurgence of Polkadot
• European crypto summer events
• The general state of the Ethereum ecosystem
• Celo’s transition to L2
• L2 liquidity fragmentation
• Choosing the right L2 to build
• Improving hackathons
• Lightning round
• Final words

Episode links:

• Austin Griffith on X
• Marek Olszewski on X
• Brenda Loya on X
• Joseph Schweitzer on X
• BuidlGuidl DAO on X
• Celo on X
• Tellor on X

Sponsors:

• Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at - gnosis.io
• Chorus One: one of the largest node operators worldwide, trusted by 175,000+ accounts across more than 60 networks, Chorus One combines institutional-grade security with the highest yields at - chorus.one

This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst.