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I think we can say, like, pretty definitively now that, you know, among those 2, like, arbitrium and optimism have have definitely, like, kind of won out. Right? Like, not one necessarily for the long term, but they won at least this first stage. And I think, you know, a big part of the reason they won is because they, you know, like, basically eliminated eliminated, like, all discontinuities between building on Ethereum l one and building on their l twos. Right? Everyone,
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once again. Once again. It's great. I kinda love kinda love conference weeks, when you're not at the conference. And it just gets quieter and you can do some real work. So, but it's been, yeah, fun to, you know, watch from a distance. Saw some pretty crazy marketing stunts going on as as one would expect, you know.
The 20,000 condoms getting arrested going into Singapore. Is that what you've seen?
That that one, I think I saw a Drift with some, like, you know, exotic, like, Ferraris and stuff like that that you could rent or something like that. Yeah. I don't know if it's a
car drift type thing. Yeah.
I guess I guess so. I don't know. I don't know. Going fast. All these different things. Yeah. But good stuff.
Yeah. It seems like, you know, I I've heard I've heard that token actually just smashed it. There's a ton of people there. Very different very different crowd than you see actually at US conferences, which is interesting because for a long time, I've been a little bit hesitant about just moving into that part of the world. Because if you look at even speaking lineups, it's very similar to US conferences, and it does sort of feel like the crypto industry is a bunch of just young people who kinda hop from their European circuit to the Asia circuit to the US circuit and round and round we go and
Totally. I feel like, you know, it's just Solana, like, circles or just, you know, either, like, super deep in the engineering side, or, you know, super interested in the basically consumer application side. Less of, like, the, you know, infra semantics debates, more just about how do we make this thing work, how do we make it go as fast as possible, and how do we, like, you know, which what apps should be built that, you know, are gonna be great that users wanna use? I always respected that spirit about them. It's not gonna be not gonna have issuance curve debates and things like that. I I do
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