Welcome & Introduction

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[applause] >> Hello everyone. Uh my name is Aubrey Galbiso. I'm on the operations team at EthGlobal. It is a full circle moment for me right now to be on stage after months of planning this event from behind the scenes. Uh welcome to the third and final day of EthDenver. It has been an honor and a pleasure to assist in creating obviously this a very ambitious but very needed event centered around Ethereum in the US. Uh we are here at the beautiful Javits Center. Since it's our last day, I do want to just take a moment to thank the entire Javits team. The Javits Center is the largest convention conference center in New York.

Couldn't imagine a better home for our first ever EthDenver. Our team at EthGlobal brought everyone here together to New York City, the center of global finance. Whether it's your third or your first day here, after hearing our speakers and walking throughout the event, I'm sure it will be fairly obvious why we chose this beautiful city to be our first city for our conference. It's where institutions live. It's where we feel the energy to continue to move our industry forward is it's here. It's alive and it's at EthDenver.

Uh this would also be a great time to thank our 2,000 plus attendees, the over 600 companies in attendance, of course our 150 incredible speakers who also believed in the EthDenver vision, and our 30 sponsors who made this all possible. We literally could not have done it without you, so thank you so much. Uh just as we have the last 2 days, today will be filled with a variety of talks, panels, and firesides touching upon three major things. On-chain at scale, institutional adoption, and protocol updates. This uh conference is designed to deliver real insights from companies, founders, and protocols shaping our

industry. What does that mean? More real stuff. You're going to hear about things that are happening right now, not just ideas of what people want to be happening. Every single speaker you see on stage has already shipped something. We want to connect you directly with the people who are leading our industry. All of our speakers are walking around the event. Uh please, they're eager to hear from you and discuss the future of our industry. We also wanted to provide a home for decision or decision makers and key players to network and connect with like-minded people and potentially hear some hot takes. Uh we know both are important to the future of this network.

So, we have an incredible day three schedule ahead. I'm very grateful to introduce some of the brightest minds and leaders of our industry. So, let's jump right into our schedule.