Top Trends at ETHDenver 2022: DAOs, DAOs, Regulation, DeFi, and DAOs

cryptonews.com:

ETHDenver 2022 has come and gone. Ethereum (ETH)’s annual developer conference took to Denver’s Sports Castle to showcase the latest upcoming projects in the ETH ecosystem and to enable community members to network with each other (and spread coronavirus).

Each year tends to focus on different trends and topics, and 2022’s installment was no different. According to attendees speaking with Cryptonews.com, one of the biggest points of discussion were decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), with regulation and industry lobbying also gaining plenty of attention.

Yet it wasn’t only particular issues that generated discussion, but also particular projects and apps. And chief among them were platforms that combined elements of DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs, signaling that Ethereum’s 2022 may be defined by a growing synergy between different areas of the wider crypto ecosystem.

According to ConsenSys’ Community Lead Matthew Wright, DAOs were the most visible topic at ETHDenver this year. This includes discussion of subjects within the DAO space, including DAO tooling, governance, ethos, and culture.

“I personally attended events for RaidGuild, DAOHaus, SeedClub, Metacartel/ Metacartel Ventures. I also pitched a DAO concept to Metapod which was a DAO consortium aimed at accelerating projects in the space,” he told Cryptonews.com.

Wright also mentions that there were events by Friends With Benefits (FWB) and other DAOs that actually required tokens to attend or book a place. For him, this was an exciting symptom of how crypto (and the wider world) is “entering this metaverse/ meatspace world where you own assets on-chain which grants you IRL [in real life] access to experiences.”

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