Epic Web3 – events in AI and Web3 industries

All non-US homies coming to ETHDenver be like

We have 3 events during ETHDenver next week!

💸 Restaking & DeFAI Day (Feb 25th) - How restaking protocols can become the foundation for AI-driven DeFi systems? Can restaking provide security and capital efficiency for AI agents?

Lineup: Eigen, Ether. fi, Symbiotic, Mode, Kernel DAO, Kelp, Gain, Hyle, Giza, Bitcoin OS & more!

🤖 Agents Day - AI x Web3 (Feb 25th) - 2000+ already registered. Join top minds in AI & Web3 to explore autonomous systems, secure AI x Crypto integrations, and data privacy.

Speakers from ElizaOS, Solana, CoinFund, Virtuals, Outlier Ventures, NEAR & more!

🧩 Modular & L2 Day (Feb 26th) - event for web3 builders seeking in-depth knowledge about Scaling Solutions and Modular Stack.

Catch pokemons (speakers) from MegaETH, Manta, Fluent, Polygon, Nillion, Taiko, Starkware & more!

Babe, wake up, a new insight from the podcast with Reddio just dropped.

What is the main problem with data availability in Ethereum?

We're starting Telegram Builders Day! Come for top-notch speakers and insightful networking 🇭🇰

GPU-powered L2 for AI?
Decentralized sequencers reshaping the economics?
AI agents and blockchain converging in the next wave of Web3?

That’s not some 50s Sci-fi movie titles, but topics of our new podcast!

In this episode, Neil Han, Co-founder @ Reddio, the most performant parallel EVM Layer 2, will answer the questions!

Thanks to our amazing host Irena, Ecosystem Manager @ Chainflip!

Listen on all platforms:
📍 Spotify
📍 Youtube
📍 Apple

TON is one of the fastest growing blockchains with 40M active wallets, 400 validators & $215M TVL.

What are the next steps in finding new users?

Learn with the panel discussion “Scaling DeFi: Onboarding Telegram’s Audience to TON” with:

Igor Pugachevskiy, Co-founder @blumcrypto
Vivi Park, Lead of Growth Asia @storm_trade_news
Sergey Maslov, CTO @fintopionews
Fuji, Eco Partner @UTONIC_uTON
Justin Hyun, Co-CEO @FactorialFinance
Moderator: Irena Timofeeva, Head of Ecosystem @ Chainflip

📅 February 17th, Hong Kong

Grab a free ticket here

Berachain: 3 innovations from the most hyped protocol of the last week

💧 Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL) consensus mechanism

Berachain uses a PoL model that integrates liquidity provision directly into network security.

Participants stake assets into liquidity pools, and these staked assets contribute to network security while also facilitating decentralized trading and lending activities.

The dual functionality enhances security while ensuring that liquidity remains active within the ecosystem, creating a more efficient and dynamic financial environment.

3️⃣ Tri-Token system

$BERA – The network’s native token, used for gas fees and staking.
$BGT (Berachain Governance Token) – A non-transferable governance asset earned exclusively through liquidity provisioning.
$HONEY – A native stablecoin mintable via over-collateralization.

🧸 Built on BeaconKit
BeaconKit is a new framework for Ethereum-based blockchains, serving as a modular consensus layer that brings CometBFT to EVM environments. It has several advantages:

🟢 EVM identical
🟢 Single slot finality
🟢 Optimistic payload building

How well do the top 3 DeFAI projects perform now?

🟢 HeyAnon
🟢 Griffain
🟢 Neur

Four events that you must visit this February:

💌 Telegram Builders Day (Feb 17th) - with speakers from Blum, Storm Trade, Fintopio, Terminal Station, Animoca Brands & TON Foundation.

🥩 Restaking & DeFAI Day (Feb 25th) - expect experts from Eigen, Ether.fi, Mode, Symbiotic, Hyle, Giza, Kernel DAO. & others.

👾 Agents Day - AI x Web3 (Feb 25th) - catch Giza, CoinFund, Zircuit, Valory, etc.

🧩 Modular & L2 Day (Feb 26th) - joined by Starkware, Linea, Fluent, Taiko, =nil;, Caldera & more.

Everyone looking at their portfolio after the dump ☹️

3 accounts that you should read to get the best alpha

🐸 @ahboyashreads - daily curated alpha from different sources

📚 @cryptogoodreads - archive of interesting tweets, threads, articles, blog posts etc.

⭐️@infinityhedge - news that matter

Why is everybody talking about DeepSeek now? And how it can destroy Nvidia?

🤑 Training top AI models today is prohibitively expensive. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic spend over $100M on compute alone, relying on massive data centers with thousands of $40K GPUs.

DeepSeek flipped the script, managing to train AI models on par with GPT-4 and Claude for just $5M.

How?

🤖 By rethinking AI from the ground up. Traditional AI operates with excessive precision, using 32 decimal places for every calculation. DeepSeek simplified this to 8, reducing memory requirements by 75%.

The real game-changer? DeepSeek's "expert system." Instead of activating all 1.8 trillion parameters like traditional models, they call on only the 37 billion parameters needed for a task.

📉 This method decreases costs and hardware requirements dramatically:
- Training cost: $100M → $5M
- GPUs needed: 100,000 → 2,000
- API costs: 95% cheaper

💪 This enables smaller teams to compete in AI without billion-dollar data centers. It also poses a significant threat to Nvidia, whose business model depends on selling high-margin, expensive GPUs.

What lies ahead for agents beyond the hype? 🧞‍♂️🤖

Join us in Denver alongside industry experts from CoinFund, Giza, Valory & Olas, Subsquid, Assisterr, and more.

Together, we’ll explore autonomous and multi-agent systems, on-chain agent infrastructure, cybernetic mechanisms in Crypto x AI, and much more.

✨ 20 industry-leading speakers
✨ 300+ attendees
✨ Keynote talks & panel discussions

Secure your spot

📅 February 25
📍 ETHDenver

We start the year with another event — SE Telegram Builders Day in Hong Kong from @epicweb3! 🪭

The day before Consensus HK starts, speakers from #Blum, #TerminalStation, #AnimocaBrands, #StormTrade, #Fintopio, #TONFoundation and other projects will gather on one stage.

Participants will discuss the latest trends, attracting users and investments, secrets of viral projects, the future of the ecosystem and much more that awaits us in 2025.

The event is FREE, but places are limited, so hurry if you want to join.

🗓️ February 17, Hong Kong

🎫 Get a free ticket 👈

Don't miss our next event!

Why are vanity metrics useless?

From the panel discussion with:
🟢 Daniil Shcherbakov (Co-Founder @ton_tongames)
🟢 Ricky Wong (CFO & Co-Founder @CatizenAnn)
🟢 David Ching (Strategic Investments & Partnership @ Animoca Brands)
🟢 Serge Suchkov (Co-Founder @battlesjam)
🟢 Inal Kardan (Partner @ TON Ventures)

We’re pumped to introduce our co-host for Telegram Builders Day in HK - @timetoterminal 🚆

These guys are building a gaming platform with financial instruments packed with mini-games tied to $TON, so you can score $TRMNL just by playing 🤑

📅 Catch them on February 17th in Hong Kong!

Grab a free ticket here:
https://t.ly/cmEMm

DeFAI: be bullish or be bearish?

4 different opinions

🎶 “Most DeFAI teams are going about it the wrong way. Implicit development requires a completely different approach from the start—teams will need to redo 95% of their architecture to build B, and then spend a year building the base infra” - Vivaldi, Founder journal & research on biohacking, defi, ai

💻 “The future of finance is permissionless and open. Autonomous AI agents will handle everything seamlessly in the background. DefAI is the next big wave—stay bullish“ - Pushpendra Singh, Co-founder of PushpendraTech & SmartViewAI

📈 “DeFAI's market cap is under $1 billion, but I anticipate it could reach $25–$50 billion by the end of 2025“ - Sam Ruskin, Research analyst @messaricrypto

🐵 “What scares me is that 99% of the DeFAI projects we see now won’t survive the next cycle. Most are just memes with a GPT wrapper slapped on top” - The Smart Ape, building BasePumpFUN

Gm fam!

Here are 3 events you must not miss in the February:

🇭🇰 TG Builders Day (Feb 17th) - with topics like user acquisition for Telegram apps, successful viral case studies and how to build successful Telegram games!

Catch speakers from @blumcrypto, Animoca Brands, @timetoterminal, @storm_trade_news & @fintopionews.

🥩 Restaking & DeFAI Day (Feb 25th) - expect a day packed with keynotes, workshops, and panels diving deep into the latest in the restaking space. With Ether.fi, Eigen & many more.

🧩 Modular & L2 Day (Feb 26th) - side event for web3 developers, tech founders, and enthusiasts seeking in-depth of modular stack and layer 2 scaling solutions.

Expect chads from Somnia, Starkware, Linea, Veridise, Fluent, Pharos, Redstone, Brevis.

The 4 most important challenges in restaking

From the talk with Nader Dabit, Misha, Adam Efrima, Tigran Bolshoi & Warren Paul Anderson

⚖️ Imbalanced expectations - the rapid growth of restaking protocols like EigenLayer has generated significant hype. However, the ecosystem is still in its infancy, leading to a mismatch between expectations and deliverables.

⚠️ Slashing risks - slashing, a critical component of restaking security, has not been fully implemented in most protocols.

Its absence means current risk-taking remains limited to smart contract vulnerabilities and governance risks.

🤖 Technical complexity - advanced cryptographic solutions like ZK proofs and FHE are essential for scaling privacy and security in restaking.

However, these technologies remain resource-intensive and are not yet ready for widespread use in generalized applications.

🛍 UX - establishing a universally understood framework for evaluating AVS risks is a critical UX gap. Without this, both developers and users face uncertainty when assessing potential risks and rewards.