Epic Web3 – events in AI and Web3 industries

How to make a successful token launch? Insight from Dennis, co-founder of @storm_trade_news, the first Perp DEX on TON and one of the largest DEXes on the blockchain.

🧑‍🔧 Test pre-market trading
Before the official TGE, StormTrade enabled pre-market trading of token allocations. This helped prevent airdrop recipients from dumping tokens during the launch. Instead, those who wanted to sell did so in the pre-market, while serious investors acquired tokens.
The result was stable price discovery and minimal volatility during the TGE.

💽 Design token with utility in mind
The token’s value is intrinsically linked to the protocol’s success through a revenue-sharing mechanism.
A portion of the protocol's revenue is allocated for token buybacks, aligning token value with trading volume and protocol growth.

📊 Align stakeholder interests
Investors, users, and the team all benefit from increased trading volume, creating a shared incentive to grow the ecosystem.
This approach ensures token performance reflects the protocol’s long-term success.

AI agents in Web3: real use cases from Boba Network

AI agents are trending in Web3, with a 64% increase in Google searches last quarter. But this isn’t just buzz—here are real projects from Boba’s hackathon:

CodeCaster 🛠
Enables natural language commands for blockchain, like “Transfer 5 ETH to X” or “Transfer ETH if BTC > $30K.” AI parses commands into on-chain transactions seamlessly.

Presibot 🎮
A political simulation where AI generates real-world scenarios (e.g., inflation). Players submit policies, stake tokens, and AI picks winners based on effectiveness.

Other Ideas 💡
AI NFTs: Tokens with personalities that interact with users.
Fraud Detection: AI checks loans for anomalies.
Credit Assessment: AI uses off-chain credit for on-chain loans.

The future of restaking in 2024 🚀

(from the panel discussion "Restaking: The State of Play, Major Results, Downsides of 2024, and 2025 Forecast")

1️⃣ Rapid growth: In just 19 months, restaking has gone from concept to reality, with over 500 teams building Actively Validated Services.

2️⃣ Security synergy: By combining economic incentives with cryptographic tools like ZK proofs, restaking unlocks scalability and practicality for advanced blockchain applications.

3️⃣ Challenges ahead: While the foundation is strong, features like slashing mechanisms are still being developed. Patience is key as the ecosystem matures.

4️⃣ 2025 vision: Next year will be a breakout year for Restaking, with mature protocols and real-world applications driving adoption.

🧠 Rushi Manche (Co-founder of Movement Labs) on the future of Web3 infrastructure:

"If we're saying L1s, L2s, and technical stuff in seven years, we have failed as an industry. Ethereum's job should be as a global composability layer, enabling seamless interactions between L2s and applications without even knowing L2s exist."

What is the future of Layer2s and rollups?

Main insights from the panel discussion “Advancing Layer 2: Next-Gen Solutions and Breakthroughs”

👯 Rollps are everywhere, but fragmentation remains
The growth of rollup clusters and modular design has made launching rollups easier than ever. However, interoperability remains a challenge, with fragmented ecosystems relying on bridges and shared governance. True seamless interaction between rollups is still a long way off.

interoperability will become the next big focus as rollups scale, but expect it to be slow and gradual.

💽 App Chains are rising
The rise of application-specific chains is on the horizon. As interoperability matures, more applications will migrate to their own dedicated rollups, optimizing for custom needs without user fragmentation.

While app chains offer customisation, they also face problems like migrating liquidity and maintaining user experience. The rise of app chains is inevitable, but the ecosystem must evolve to support them.

📅 Web3 is becoming more modular
L2s have shifted towards modularity, enabling developers to add features and experiment with AltVMs, pre-compiles, and economic models. This modularity accelerates innovation and drives Ethereum's growth.

Ethereum's modular approach strengthens its position over monolithic chains like Solana by fostering a faster pace of experimentation and adaptability.

🛡 We need to push for decentralisation
The ecosystem is at a crossroads, with centralised rollups (like Coinbase Base) potentially dominating. Maintaining Ethereum's ethos of censorship resistance and decentralization is crucial.

Community-driven efforts to ensure decentralisation and transparency are vital to counter centralized control, particularly as rollup adoption accelerates.

The future of chain abstraction?

With Altan Tutar, co-founder of Nuffle Labs

Three observations from different people at Devcon.

👯 Vibes and mood of people
Everyone seems very tired due to the end of the year, but still optimistic as BTC hits ATH.

💽 Not enough apps
We have almost 1000 rollups, but still no retail app. The only example is Polymarket, which became popular during the US presidential election.

Maybe next year we will see dApps not just for nerds, but for ordinary people. Who knows?

📅 Too many side events
We heard it before Devcon started, but the sentiment is still out there: Web3 has too many side events and it's hard for people to choose which ones to attend. Last time we checked, there were over 1000 of them happening right before Devcon started, during the main event and a few days after.

Insight from the Epic Web3 team: people seem to be tired and prefer to stay at one event all day rather than jump from one event to another.

Devcon is over! 🎆

4 events. 2300 guests. 100+ speakers.

That was the week of Devcon. Our most interesting and insightful week of the year.

Thank you all for joining us and being part of the events. We hope you found it insightful and had the chance to connect with some amazing new people! ❤️

See you next year at Epic Web3 events!

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L2con is TODAY!!!

🎤 55 speakers from top companies from Celestia, Monad Labs, Espresso Systems, Offchain Labs, Scroll, Movement Labs & many more
🗣 8 panel discussions
🍨 Awesome networking, DJ & ice-cream

Come and meet us @ Waldorf Astoria Bangkok

Agenda for dAGI Summit is Here! 🚀

Get ready for a day packed with keynotes, panel discussions, and exclusive one-on-one sessions! We’re bringing together 20 industry leaders for in-depth discussions on the future of AI x Web3.

Gain valuable insights into DeAI infrastructure, the evolution of autonomous agents, and how to build AI that’s scalable, secure, and adaptable in the next wave of innovation — and much more!

📅 November 11, Bangkok

Free tickets still available: https://t.ly/dagisummit