Creative Freedom in a Decentralised World | TCE - DevConnect Buenos Aires

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All right. Hello. Can you hear me? >> Yeah. All right. Wow. Okay. Actually, I need to have a little bit of a relief because I got emotional a little bit after this beautiful presentation. So, I'm going to probably talk about more shallow stuff. Uh but I I feel like um this is a place where I belong and where I feel very good. So um yeah, if you would like to uh communicate with me, just raise your hand and and say something because um um whenever I give a presentation, I so feel free to come to me and talk to

me. I love talking to people. I hope that I'll be still on schedule because yeah, I love to talk. So, creative freedom and I was thinking about the title of this presentation and talking about freedom is a is a very important uh part of uh me maybe not my job because um I'm technically uh a technical person. So, I'm a devro uh developer relations engineer. Um I work um uh closely with Tezos uh blockchain but uh as W said I I work with Eelink that is EVM compatible u layer 2 uh on Tzos. Um so yeah I'm an

Instagram person if you try to connect with me on X I will still reply maybe after a few days. So yeah feel free to do it. Uh the website is in Polish so because I'm from Poland. So yeah, I came here to talk about freedom and this whole decentralized world is for me when I joined web 3. It was really confusing and why why it's all complicated why you know the user experience and and yeah it was very overwhelming for me because I come from uh the web to engineering. So but then I figured out that okay every single part of uh communities they need to find a home and for me the most difficult part of it was to understand

why art found a home uh on blockchain. Yeah if you call me an artist probably I'm not an artist but this is like my vision of home and home for art. And apparently um I figured out that um yes the a lot of artists found a home uh for uh their art on blockchain. And from my perspective, from my experience, yes, Teslas L1 uh was uh learning um artists and still does um from all over the world. And probably some of you already got uh some experience with u Tesos L1 that we minted you probably shared and

Toss is also showcasing uh some of the uh artworks. But yeah and by the way a little plug shameless plug on Saturday we have a art on Tzos uh event. If you want to join please come to me we'll talk. So if I imagine blockchain, it's going to be like a long chain of blocks because why not? That's how I explain blockchain to people. So if we think about L1, um the centralized uh aspect of it is just a um chain uh it's it's a network uh of nodes run by bakers. And actually we have some bakers here in the audience. So big shout out to people

that uh keep the chain secure. But we don't stop there. And that's the reason why I'm here because um L1 um is always evolving but we also introduce uh new elements to the ecosystem and now we're open to Ethereum uh ecosystem and if link that I'm proudly representing here is um EVM compatible L2 on uh TZO. So yes, if you have experience with EVM, if you want to build something uh that is um using um the tooling around EVM, this is the place to to go to be. But this is the whole technical part of it that seem

to be um quite uh let's say complicated. But let's talk about creating because um I draw all of this and I spent a little bit of time on it. So I don't I still don't know if I can can call myself an artist but I know about creation. I used to create uh software that's also a big big part of my life. So can you tell me like why do we create? Why why we need why we need to create like um I draw when I travel from from u my office to my home. It takes two hours one way and just to get myself focused or connected

to the world, I draw. So sometimes I have something to say. I want to say something. I want to say something worth sharing. Sometimes I just need to do it. I have the urge to create something. But also um what I've learned yesterday because I updated this. Yeah. We create to survive. And I know what it means to be in the survival mode. And surviving is something that is very limiting. But still encouraging you to create and live in full because you have a hunger.

You have something to say. You have something to change. And I think creating is bringing that freedom to people in in survival mode. So, so what do we need to create and probably you know we all have different answers. I would say I would love to have time. That's it's very very precious to me. But um I think we need also fun. We need inspiration. We need knowledge and skills. Sometimes it's soft skills, sometimes it's hard skills, but we're going to talk about it later.

We need materials. We need space, but we also need tools and platforms. Um because yes, digital world and actually I wanted to quote it's also learning from yesterday um by uh Franco Bardi. Digital art does not simply reproduce reality. It produce new uh perceptual land spaces, new sensibilities, new forms of subjectivity. And we need a good home for art. And it doesn't really matter which chain how we want to do it. We want to have a space but also the

connection between people that is extremely important in this part. So, and the aspect that we probably don't really talk about that much because we also need money. And this is like if I imagine my perfect life, I would say I'm going to live in the middle of nowhere. Uh plant the the I get inspired by yesterday meeting. Uh I I I can afford my food. I can just sit down, listen to the forest and and just create something that I love. But it won't feed me. I will definitely won't be able to to survive just looking at the forest and listening to the birds. Uh we need to

work, we need to do stuff. Um so okay, the freedom I already mentioned the freedom. So I think without freedom uh even if you're in survivor mode you need the freedom to experiment to fail to try again you need to feel safe to keep on going and that's what motivates every creator. So the freedom to create to distribute and to monetize because yes we need money. We all need money.

That's that's the whole point. Um so let's let's think about the reality now. Let's think about the reality of um creators worldwide. So what we need what we do uh we craft meaning we design emotion like we saw all those beautiful people on the scene like minute before and I was like don't get too emotional we have a talk in a second it's fine you can handle this. So we shape the culture and the culture is extremely important and we can give like any tech that you want. You can imagine uh XYZ we will give it to you but without the culture tech will be just tech full stop and we

also invades the new ways of experience the world digital world. So the culture uh is extremely important and to develop culture it takes years. So I think in we're in a good place to invite more people to to the ecosystem because this is the truth that I've learned recently that in web 3 building something is not enough. Creating is only just the very first step and this is unfortunate because you think like okay I'm going to be a creator. I'm going to be an artist. I'm going to be a person that will give something to the world and but no one will see it. Yeah. No one will be able

to to get the joy from it. So if you are a creator on uh in our scene, I think the creation part is yes it is a very first step because to succeed you need to be everything. You need to do a lot of things like building the audience, telling your story, engaging with your community, design your microeconomy, uh shipping uh consistently. You need to keep engaging with people and just keep going and create your work, create your art, create your um uh create your stuff technically because I'm not very li

limiting people to okay just paint or just uh draw something because like when I saw all the um uh elements of the exhibition uh that it was mind-blowing how creative we are as a human beings. So we need to just keep on going. But how we keep on going? I think it's a huge challenge for a creator uh these days because you need to be everything. You need to be entrepreneur, you need to be a community leader, you need to be a designer, you need to design your product. Probably you're the product yourself as well sometimes. uh you need to be a marketer, architect, uh storyteller and also an engineer sometimes

but also a toolmaker. And the experience from yesterday when I saw um a very beginning of something that can be a great tool, a great platform or a great um just showcase for something deeper, a deeper connection between people. And it's all coded. That's amazing. This is like the art of code. Uh it's beautiful. So I think creative freedom should not be a luxury. You should have it. You should be able to create whatever you want, however you want because of infrastructure that is given to you full stop. No limits. So that's the reason

why um we encourage people uh to create uh an experiment a social experiments real time create um aspects build um uh collectibles uh with real um utility um yeah grow your community be able to communicate with them uh without any sort of limitation of chain aspects or any um other limitation. So form your communities, grow your economies, uh store your legacy, and own your work, be free forever. So that's that's me. Thank you for having me. Um yes, I think I I I have a lot of time

still. So maybe you have a questions or or you can engage with me after the talk. Hi Va. Um hi. So I found this idea very interesting that uh creative freedom is infrastructure. >> Yes. So I wonder how um you know from from protocols and whatnot how can we work towards uh you know guaranteeing like like we are creating systems that

make this creative freedom actually infrastructure. >> Yes. Uh so I think we need to start on a protocol level and on the very very um beginning of any sort of um action. Um so if we imagine I can only talk about uh the experience I have with Tzos that is fully decentralized because of the uh amazing community of people running their validators and that's where the it starts. Yeah. But we cannot limit ourselves. And when you create um your software and when you create your application, anything that is related either to community or any sort of interaction with your user, you need to

have that flexibility in mind to evolve because that was made to evolve and we have those upgrades etc etc. And it creates a lot of friction technically. Yes, it can create a lot of friction but this is the cost of evolution. So you need to be able to evolve with uh the tech. You need to be ready for it. You need to be flexible um but still um keeping um your um creation alive uh while keeping um the evolution going. So I think it's just you need to build for the future. That's the main uh I think uh option here.

>> Thank you. >> All right. question. >> Hi. Um maybe one question about obviously Teslas has like a huge history of like art. You are now working at Ether. Obviously they're intertwined. Uh but how do you see the difference of releasing art on Etherink maybe like it being able to like dive deep into like the EVM community, the ETH community compared to like releasing art on Teslas? >> Yeah. So it's it's a great question because um internal internally we think about okay so how can we um grow the community for eeling because I think it's a vibe um aspect. Yeah. So Tzos built up um their community

significantly over the years with kind of like a niche around um art and it's going to stay like this. It's not changing. uh eelink is mainly uh for collectibles for games for more experience that is open to EVM uh community and ecosystem because it's more um let's say widely adopted and I don't think that um art on eer link will be huge uh because arts probably will stay on on L1 and EIN will be uh more for collectibles more fun stuff more let's say Den but we're still open to to any sort of option it's it's not that

okay all the artists will stay on L1 and uh you know fun people will will go elsewhere no um it's it's it's not that kind of like categorizing uh users uh I think it's uh with L1 it's is the experience is the niche is is something that probably you know better than I am than I do so but with eelink it's more uh let's say digen and live collaboration things like this I think it's yeah we're going to stay true to the values that we have uh but just inviting people to to work uh and build on link as well >> yes a gentleman in a hat

>> thank you thank you well first first of all uh thank you very much for coming over here to share your knowledge is amazing to have you here Uh I know you are coming from the other part of the world. So I I really appreciate your time and your effort to to share everything here. Beautiful. And I have a technical question. So >> because you are a technical person. So >> uh when it comes to art for me it's like well art is timeless. You know art is forever. That's what artists and also creators and and collectors like me say.

Um, in the case of of TESOS, when I see art in in the blockchain as a web 3 uh person, I I want the art to be forever as well. >> But there is a a problem that I always uh see on on blockchains, which is uh the fork uh possibility of of chains when it comes to upgrading and things like that. And one thing that I like about Tesos is that it's like a forless chain which is it's going to be the same forever basically uh because of onchain governance. So for art to be on the same chain and not have this chain splits how important it is uh for you that you have

this this vision in in terms of art. Yeah, it's very important because um recently I visited France uh and we went for a little trip to to one of the palaces there and I was like, "Oh my god, it's a boring trip to to see some palace and like rich people from the past." And then I saw the gallery and I was like, "Oh my god, I'm gonna stay here for forever." Um, and my Euro Star will will just leave without me because and then I think, all right, so all the artwork that was like technically physically painted is still there and it's going to be there hopefully. Yes. Uh, but what about the digital world? What about um the art that we create? And um I think

blockchain is the medium to keep us alive even when we're gone. And you know it's we're creating the future. We're creating the the reality and like why we need to depend on um on any sort of database when uh the blockchain like we want to be there and as long as one node is running the blockchain is alive. Yeah. So I think it's it's very important to like have that possibility to to store your art forever. Technically, as long as the blockchain is alive, the art is alive. Yes. And I think um one of the inspirations for this was my my good friend. He's a software engineer too. And he said like,

you know what, I tweet because I want my son to to know who I am. I don't know like if this is Are you laughing? Yeah, I'm laughing too. I'm just like when my my son started using Twitter, I was like, "Okay, maybe this is not the best option." But um yeah, my friend I told him like, "Look, you should you should be able to store your tweets uh somewhere safe forever or just like try to put it uh on blockchain and like use, you know, use that tech." And he said like, "Oh, I'm going to consider it." Uh because yes, if like one day um a person in in US will say like, "Oh, we're shutting down X." Yeah. Why? Why we need to lose all the legacy? Because Twitter all everything that we post on

social media is our um humanity is still part of us that we want to showcase. We want to show it. And I think blockchain is the best medium to store um that sort of memories because that's that's the whole thing that will stay uh after us just going. I know it's kind of like deep now, but yeah. Yeah, we need to think about it. We need to think what we tweet when because your kid will discover it in like 20 years. Yeah. All right, I think we can wrap up. Thank you so much. Uh if you have any questions, uh come directly to me. It was a very very good good couple of minutes to share like my my stuff with you. Thank you so much.