Epic Web3 – events in AI and Web3 industries

AI agents embody autonomy, memory, and missions, elevating UX from static responses to dynamic, lifelike interaction.

Anna from AITV breaks down the crucial shift from bots → characters → agents, showing that adding personality traits, ideological consistency, and goal-directed behavior creates immersive, trust-building digital identities 📺

This architecture transforms dApps by deepening engagement, sustaining user interest, and enabling meaningful community roles.

Understanding this pipeline is crucial for builders aiming to craft next-gen agentic apps that feel intuitively human and serve real utility beyond scripted commands.

Only 170 out of 3,000 crypto projects are generating revenue.

What is the way out of this?

Crypto is still a casino and retail traders lose big because they lack the tools and data insiders use. (insights from Dmitrii Zhelezov, the founder of SQD Network and SQDGN) 🎰

The harsh reality: 30% of new crypto traders lose money within 3 days; 60% lose everything within two weeks. The remaining 10% are semi-pros with privileged, often proprietary access to on-chain data and sophisticated analytics. Retail usually follows noisy KOLs and becomes exit liquidity.

SQDGN flips this dynamic by democratizing alpha through an open data infrastructure and actionable signals. It layers:

✅ A decentralized, multi-chain, community-powered database (SQD Network) that shatters traditional data silos by running thousands of nodes, delivering petabytes of unified, real-time blockchain data
✅ Machine learning to convert raw on-chain transactions into distilled trade signals
✅ LLM-powered explanations broadcast across free and premium channels, making complex data insights accessible without specialist knowledge

This creates a pyramid of trust and utility - from raw data to digestible signals to empowered retail traders:

• Historically opaque cryptomarkets now have an institutional-grade data backbone open to all builders and traders
• SQDGN’s signals outperform traditional trade signal services, boasting an ~85% success rate vs. ~60% for expensive centralized providers
• Future vision: enabling users to “wipe trade” via algorithmic strategies they can observe, learn from, and eventually steer like Tesla’s autopilot for trading

They are reinventing how retail traders access, understand, and act on on-chain data without becoming experts or catnip for predators.

💡 What if retail traders controlled the same data-powered edge as pros? Would crypto evolve beyond a casino into a truly inclusive financial ecosystem?

Which market is the most promising for cryptocurrency in the future?

Where are we most likely to see widespread adoption?

New video insights from L2con @ Cannes 🏖️

“Not your keys, not your coins” isn’t enough anymore.

Wallet tech nailed this non-custodial ideal rapidly. Yet most users still lose value, not to hacks or centralized entities, but to market complexity, impermanent losses, inefficient yields, and fragmented protocol designs.

⭐️ Simply holding keys doesn’t protect your capital from the relentless, ever-shifting market forces ⭐️

Renc from Giza redefines this old mantra by introducing autonomous AI agents, called "wardens," who manage your capital 24/7. These autonomous agents optimize yield, minimize losses, and adapt to market conditions on your behalf.

They simplify DeFi’s complexity, optimize yield, and protect against market risks.

This shifts ownership from static wallets to dynamic finance preservation, solving the deeper problem of capital loss through market inefficiencies, not hacks.

The future of DeFi isn’t just about owning assets - it’s about delegation of financial intelligence and management.

The future of ZK (and why it's going to be commoditised) explained by Marc Boiron, CEO Polygon Labs

EVM compatibility on non-EVM blockchains is a game-changer.

“TAC folds battle-tested EVM DeFi into TON - so users swap, lend, and yield directly inside Telegram without seeing another chain.” - Ema, Growth @TACbuild

🔗 Integrating an EVM-based layer one as an extension to TON allows Solidity-based DeFi apps like Curve and Morpho to run natively on Telegram’s blockchain.

This eliminates the language barrier for developers and gives them access to TON’s billion-user ecosystem 🌍

With native EVM support, TON bridges its ecosystem, enabling seamless DeFi integration into consumer apps like Telegram. 🤑

This shift moves distribution away from standalone wallets and into everyday chat platforms, paving the way for mass adoption in Web3.

Retention in Web3 apps often drops below 5%, and not because users lack interest, but because they get stuck navigating endless “connect wallet” loops 📊

V from Proximity Labs (Near Protocol) offers a fresh perspective:

dApps as agentic protocols, intelligent and self-operating systems that respond to user intentions, not step-by-step commands.

The shift moves UX from focusing on “how to use” toward “what do you want to achieve” ⭐️

This reduces friction and unlock truly autonomous, multi-chain agents that power smarter, more engaging apps.

Will stablecoins finally bring the first billion users on-chain?

Is Ethereum’s future with rollups owned by mega-platforms or rooted in its decentralized validator set? 🏠

Alon Muroch from SSV Labs warns that the current fragmentation and corporate rollups risk diluting Ethereum’s core ethos.

Base and composable rollups offer a path to re-align token, protocol, and community by embedding sequencing in validator infrastructure - bringing a new wave where scaling advances without compromising decentralization or value capture.

🔓AI strategy is now a central political question, following the release of the AI Action Plan.

In 3 months at dAGI Summit, we’ll discuss how society will function in the post-AGI era.

The future of AI won’t be owned by a few. It’s being built by those creating open models, autonomous agents, and decentralized infrastructure.

Join a one-day gathering of builders, researchers, and founders shaping the open AI economy. Hear from top voices across leading AI and tech organizations.

The program covers the key building blocks of an open future:
– Open-Source AI: Creating transparent, accessible models.
– Decentralized AI Systems: Resilient, censorship-resistant compute and data layers.
– Multi-Agent Coordination: Platforms for complex autonomous agent networks.
– AI-Native Economies: Building open, transparent, inclusive economic systems.
– Cybernetic Systems: AI with feedback loops for local, adaptive coordination.

If you believe AGI should not be locked behind corporate walls, this summit is for you. Join us and be the change.

📍 San Francisco • 🗓 October 24
Hosted by cyber•Fund + Delphi Labs

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Without long-term thinking your project will die.

As well as without a short-term hype.

How to combine them? 🙀

Insight from Claudia Haddad, Product @ Coinbase Wallet

The future of finance is here — and it’s web3.

The world of finance is evolving faster than ever, and the traditional financial systems are facing major roadblocks.

What’s next?

Web3 is breaking down barriers and offering solutions to slow settlements, compliance headaches, and high friction in yield generation.

💡 Key shifts happening now:

⌛ Real-time settlements are replacing outdated T+2 timelines.
💰 Banks and institutions are adopting DeFi for more efficient, transparent transactions.
🔒 Privacy-preserving transactions are leading the way in securing sensitive financial data.

The merge of traditional finance with Web3 is happening - and it’s changing the game for good!

🙀 Liquidations in DeFi leak over $2B annually to MEV bots through gas wars — a system that’s wasteful, opaque, and largely benefits only a handful of actors.

Redstone’s OEV (Oracle Extractable Value) approach reframes the problem: instead of competing on gas, liquidators participate in fast, off-chain auctions. The winner is selected before MEV extraction and broadcast on-chain atomically, minimising disruption, preserving transparency, and redirecting value back to the protocol.

💹 What’s notable is not just the design, but the execution: no code changes needed for protocols, no infra changes for liquidators, and measurable results. In a live POC with Venus, the system recovered $6K in value during a month of real usage.

It’s a step toward making DeFi systems more fair, accountable, and infrastructure-grade.

Agenda for L2con IS OUT!!! 🚨

8 keynotes, 6 panel discussions and tons of useful networking

🗣 Speakers from Celo, zkSync, Linea, Coinbase, Polygon, Mantle, Optimism & many more!

📅 July 1st, Cannes, Hotel Martinez

🔗 https://t.ly/nphNU

🧱 From Tools to Ecosystems — Scaling deAI with Purpose

How do dev tools become full-blown agent ecosystems? What does it take to scale decentralized AI with real utility?

This Sunday, top investors will share what they actually look for — and what founders need to scale.

✅ Come for the checklist.
🧠 Stay for the insights.

Join a sharp panel of investors and ecosystem builders:

→ Dimitrios Chatzianagnostou, Head of Investments & Cryptoeconomics, Outlier Ventures
→ Jenna Pilgrim, Head of Platform, CoinFund
→ Clara Tsao, Founding Officer, Filecoin Foundation
Moderator: Brandon Slack, Protocol Partnerships Lead, Messari

🔗 Grab your free ticket

“Building Developer-First Infrastructure for RollUps” - our brand new L2con panel discussion with:

🟢Rory Graman, Lead Product Manager @ Quicknode
🟢Bogdan Habic, Co-Founder and CTO @ Tenderly
🟢Tomer Weller, CPO @ Stellar
🟢Pranav Maheshwari, Solutions Engineering Manager @ The Graph
Moderator: Austin Freimuth, Protocol Researcher @ Messari

📅July 1st, Cannes

🔗 https://t.ly/nphNU

DeFi’s dirty secret 🧨

Ben Ward (Co-founder @ RockSolid) dropped hard truths in Dubai:

→ 90% of DeFi TVL = whales & funds, not real users
→ Backroom deals > transparency
→ Governance tokens = early exits for insiders
→ “Decentralization” is mostly theater

We’ve rebuilt TradFi with new faces.

Time for a reset: real products, real users, real decentralization.

🍳 How to cook DeFi yields in 2025
(Inspired by Steven Pack @ Restaking Day)

Ingredients:
🟢 Liquid Vault (big fat deposit button)
🟢 A mix of staking, LP, airdrop farming, Pendle
🟢 Curator wizardry
🟢 Cross-chain spice
🟢 Dash of AI
🟢 Personal alpha sauce

🔧 Instructions:
1. Combine ETH with smart strategies
2. Automate everything
3. Watch out for bugs, delays, DPEGs
4. Serve high yield, low risk
5. Distribute everywhere — or be forgotten

🥄 Get in early, stay hungry.

The current multichain landscape is highly fragmented.
(insights from Ivan Miskovic, Founder @ Cytonic)

There are thousands of blockchains each running on incompatible virtual machines (VMs) like: EVM, SVM, Wasm & others like Cardano, and Algorand.

Because each VM is its own isolated execution environment, apps built on one chain can’t run on another.

Example: A DeFi app on Near doesn’t work on Ethereum. A dApp on Cardano can’t launch on Solana without rewriting its entire architecture.

This has led to:

🚧 Developer lock-in
💀 10,000+ DeFi projects becoming obsolete
🔗 Broken liquidity & fractured user bases

Worse, “bridging” doesn’t solve this, it just locks assets on one chain and unlocks them on another, with confusing UX and security trade-offs.

Result?
Users retreat to centralized exchanges that abstract all this chaos - holding 70–80% of crypto's user base.