During Devcon 7, many LXDAO partners have participated in the event and have a lot of feelings and expectations. Feel free to list your thoughts and feelings in this thread and share a variety of content, you can share what you think are interesting events, what interesting people you met, what you gained from participating in the side events or during devcon 7, etc.
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The operations team will hold a Devcon experience AMA next Wednesday.
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Seems like we’re still early, so let me share my personal travel diary/chronicle of my Bangkok trip as a series! 
The City and the Weather:
The weather here in Thailand reminds me of my hometown - one of the most southern major cities in China. That being said, I’m not very fond of humid, rainy, hot, and sticky weather. Fortunately, in Bangkok, most public areas like malls and restaurants have air conditioning. This isn’t a problem when you’re indoors.
some prequal: I’ve arrived at Bangkok at about early 6 AM, exactly one week before the Devcon 7, one reason is to prepare some of the side event, either it is related to my projects, or I’m deeply connect with their values.
1 Bangkok is Wild
This is my first time in Thailand. We chose the SRT railway for transportation between the airport and our hostel. On our way to the SRT railway station, we walked across a large pedestrian bridge. Once I stepped onto the bridge, officially outside the airport, wow, I immediately noticed that this city is wild: Every vehicle on the main road was trying to reach the highest speed possible - cars, motorcycles, and Tuk-tuks (one of the most iconic sights you won’t miss on any Bangkok street, a type of 3-wheeled vehicle typically modified with an incredibly powerful engine and annoying noise) were racing with each other, creating tremendous engine noise. Vehicles under the bridge formed what looked like a raging river, running, roaring, unstoppable. Since it was nearly 8 AM, the sun was perfectly casting its rays with bright light and intense heat through the air, and the river of vehicles reflected every slice of sunshine into my eyes… ouch.
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TL:DR
I’d like to share some of the fun things I did during Devcon 7, and some of the interesting OP-related things I met.
To sum up, I met a lot of interesting people, and also met with a lot of OP ecosystem projects, such as CharmVerse, Curib Lab, Seed Gov, Krama, and also met for the first time with a lot of people from LXDAO, such as kahn, ddy, Li Da Cat, etc., Sake, Coooder, etc., and a lot of them are very interesting to me.
Optimism presentation
Optimism’s booth was mainly promoting the vision of Superchain, in the whole L2’s booth, Optimism, L2beat were all in one section, finally I also met Simple (Op’s Mod), he asked me if I’m Marcus from OP Chinese Power, and also said that we’re doing a good job, and sent me all the Stickers (you can give me a message if you need them, I’ll send them to you). He also said that we had done a good job and sent me all the Stickers (if you need them, you can tell me and I’ll send them to you).
Some important events
Governance Day
Organisations such as Aragon, Tally, Seed Gov, Curib lab,L2beat and others joined to discuss governance, which I found to be a more specialised topic, chatting about some of the governance phenomena between L2s
L2 Beat talked about making governance more data-driven, and Joxes argued that the current focus of L2 governance is still on blockchain clustering, proof of security, and revenue.
We met with Ping Feng and Aaros, Ping Feng proposed a model to use AI agent to participate in governance, in short, through AI to refine the content of the proposal, and then analyse it to guide the voters to cast their votes.
Coordination Day
Vitalik talks about the non-interoperability of L2 information and the collaborative nature of the ecosystem
Layer 2 initially started in a very standalone way, where a lot of people started building their own tech stacks and just trying to make something that worked, something that could scale Ether relatively quickly. And now what the ecosystem is really focusing on this year is basically the fact that Layer 2 already exists, and they also work, and they also achieve their intended goals. So everything is migrating to Layer 2. But how do we make sure that Layer 2 actually feels like and operates as an ecosystem and doesn’t feel like 40 different blockchains? Here’s a concrete example. For example, if you have tokens on Optimism but some apps on Arbitrum, the deposit process, i.e. moving tokens from one place to another, becomes very difficult. Similarly there is a lot of non-standardisation, there are too many things that are not standardised. So we’ve started talking about how to standardise these across Layer 2, and that includes the involvement of both the Layer 2 team and the wallet team, and it’s an area where a lot of progress is being made.
CharmVerse.
The discussion of open source and commercialism mentioned a number of platforms that fund open source contributors, with a focus on RetroPGF and Gitcoin for funding behaviour, but it also got me thinking about whether there is a ring-fenced scope to the Grants funding that’s going on now, and it seems that more and more funding is becoming more and more cliquish, and Alex mentioned the possibility of CharmVerse releasing an NFT Alex mentioned that CharmVerse might want to issue NFT Card to manage the platform.
Devcon Events
Some of the Devcon event replays can be found here
Some idea
The development of full-chain gaming is still a niche culture
The development of full-chain games is still more of a niche culture. Although there was a Mud Demo Day venue and event inside the Devcon main venue, the number of people attending was relatively small, and there were also Ddy from Dark Forest and Lee Big Cat from Mississippi. Everyone’s view on full-chain games remains optimistic, but it’s more of a stage-by-stage trial-and-error approach. ddy mentioned a game called biomes .aw, kind of like the OP Carft before it.
Some fun people to meet
Dr Zhouqi
Dr Zhouqi is a lot of fun and listens patiently to your presentations, as well as joining us for an evening meal at Haidilao and hearing his thoughts on Bitcoin and US elections!
Ddy
‘Cousin Bruce’, Ddy talked about the progress of the Dark Forest, and how excited he was to see the full chain game grow by one user a day, and how Big Cat Li went to work on the tg ecosystem and grew 70W+ users a day, which is a huge gap!
krama
I met Mahesh from Krama, and talked about how I invited him to Coordination Day but didn’t reply (I still need to meet him offline to get an impression). Besides, Indian English is really hard to understand, Krama’s current status is a little bit biased towards the contribution-based governance and analytics platform, which is similar to the idea of Op passport.
Curib Lab Varit
Varit is a Delegate and also a BadgeHolder, he gave me a very kind feeling, he explained that he cares a lot about governance data analysis and public goods data analysis, and in the communication with him, he mentioned that OP is facing the problem of data governance and data bureaucracy, but he is looking forward to solving it.
Grape Daddy
The project they are doing tends to be on the bottom layer development, and we had some in-depth communication with the go-ethereum team, and conducted a code review on site.
A lot of things are not as complicated as we think
1. Simple things can be done well.
When we think about problems, we always need to highlight our professionalism and refinement, but in fact, many times it may cause us to fall into the problem of overthinking the strange circle, this point in the BanklessDAO’s New to Web3 event feel more, BanklessDAO make the event is very interesting, I think if I go to host the event for newcomers, I may join a lot of boring! If I were to host this event, I would probably add a lot of boring Web3 knowledge explanations, and then invite some of the major ecosystem projects to give explanations, which would be especially boring. BanklessDAO’s game activity of solving problems to become a node is especially fun, and is more suitable for a lot of people to join!
2. The problem of information non-interoperability between L2 still exists.
Superchain is still closer to Base, the consumer layer and social data on Base are doing very well, and the trend of Meme may be shifted to Base ecosystem, but we don’t know much about what other L2s of Superchain are doing at present.
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