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Another EthDenver conference is in the books and as expected came with an intense 2 week program around the whole web3 ecosystem, packed with more than 300 side events, parties, hacker houses, hackathons and summits. Besides the common megatrends like DePIN, AI bridges into decentralized infrastructure and the cambrian explosion of L2 and L3 technologies, Decentralized Science played a major role in Denver. Probably the most exciting track to attend was the collaboratively organized 4 day [SciOS community event](https://scios.desci.community/) (a huge shoutout to NumFOCUS' John Starr and his team) that brought together nearly any company and project operating in the space) and that culminated in [Desci Summit](https://denver.desci.community/schedule) hosted at Colorado University end of the first week. Not to mention the accompanying NERD Airbnb hacker house that was organized by our friends of Desci.World Josh and Julani and that I had the privilege staying in during the whole range of the conference. One special perk of staying at the Hacker House turned out to be able to just stay at the same place but still learn about exciting new technology since many projects dispatched their Devrels and representatives to present or conduct workshops. Another one being part of the first [AsaDAO](https://twitter.com/asadoDAO) in the U.S. that brought together a huge crowd of people from many corners of the space. 

It was particularly exciting to see how various aspects of the DeSci ecosystem start to converge. While Molecule approaches DeSci with our strong competence in fundraising, DAO operations and tokenomics, many projects focus on building infrastructure for decentralized publishing, knowledge sharing, peer reviews and decentralized journals, and of course Artificial Intelligence based tools that e.g. help solving "who said it first" use cases like Desci.World's [Proof of Knowledge](https://desci-world.gitbook.io/8thjan/the-protocol/proof-of-knowledge-pok) protocol. 

Web3 by its very nature is a disruptive technology stack that tries to get rid off permissions and intermediaries which opens questions of how protected IP can be captured and selectively kept secret in contrast to the bold vision of a fully open sourced science ecosystem that's primarily funded using retroactive or grant providing mechanics, such as [Gitcoin Grants](https://www.gitcoin.co/grants-stack) or [Hypercerts](https://hypercerts.org/). I had highly fruitful meetings with uprising technology stars that might turn out highly impactful for the Molecule Seed and IPNFT stacks like the schematized project description and data collection tool [FirstApproval](https://firstapproval.io/) or the highly disruptive publishing and data collaboration solutions of [Desci.Labs](https://desci.com/journals). Lastly, EthDenver of course held the main promise of an international conference that allowed me to have highly productive and very happy meets and greets with and put some faces to the Telegram handles of our valued infrastructure partners of [Lit Protocol](https://www.litprotocol.com/), [Ceramic Network](https://ceramic.network/) and [OrbisDB](https://useorbis.com/) 


Hackerhouse vibes https://x.com/DeSciWorld/status/1761939453172396436?s=20
https://photos.app.goo.gl/2sKEN253QvuSF4Zm7


