Devcon3: Day 3 in Review — dot com era parties, [zk]SNARKS: so hot right now, The Token Model: v2, more breakfast with crypto OGs, Cosmos stuff, yo.

[zk] SNARKS stole the day as there were 6 presentations pertaining to them. High level: its more about the computation and verification of such computation than it is the privacy. This is well settled amongst Ether world devs. The Development Frameworks panel received an ovation when Nick Dodson publicly asked the audience to stop making sh*t tokens and focus on those with real value that can change people’s lives. I couldn’t agree more. This is ground-breaking tech, be patient, create value, improve lives. In crypto, you never know who someone is just by what they wear, how they walk or what they look like (unless you recognize them). At breakfast, I was not aware that I was sitting across from probably the first “ICO” consultant who has respect of the full Ether community including Vitalik (a VERY early mover in bitcoin, were talking one of the first 100 people to know about it). Had breakfast w/ him and an OG dev that is becoming the behind the scenes go-to. I value these encounters over the actual conference as they provide the true pulse of the ecosystem. Both were hyped about Cosmos and both are realists. Thank u Devcon. Metamask will be integrating ERC20 in the very near future (potentially a week from now?) thru wallet.metamask.io which allows you to use it w/o chrome extension. After Day 3 Agenda was complete, we went to this epic party at a “country club” on the water with a full view of Cancun. It was open to anyone from Devcon3 and was generally an awesome time. Projects from very high level players were being discussed everywhere. While hanging at the party w/ the crew of 20–30 somethings, it occurred to me that this may be the formation of new global elite superheroes (in t-shirts) that are potentially more powerful than governments. As the night progressed and the open bar supply ran lower, crazier blockchain “ideas” started being thrown around. An interesting one was incentivizing protection of endangered species thru tokenization. Also at this party, I learned how/what Cosmos is on a high level from one of the Cosmos devs. Basically separating the network/consensus layer from the application/tools layer and being able to apply that across the board, amongst blockchains. They are hopefully launching by the end of the year. HYPE and hopeful for strong delivery. Price of ether continues to hover around $300. Interesting it hasn’t even semi-mooned during this epic event, but it also has not decreased in value as they rest of the market has. I am anticipating run up in price post 2x thru out the end of the year. Not financial/legal advice, do ur own research.

hodl.