I think the WebZero mansion was awesome. The vibes were good, and there was actually a strong mix of cross-pollination happening with representatives from many different ecosystems.
Polkadot was represented as a cool community, that understood the needs and vibes of these Crypto events.
I would want to put more money and opportunities in their hands and see what they can do with it.
I’m sorry to say it, but I don’t feel the same about Distractive. I am sure they are successful on many fronts which I don’t actively acknowledge, but their position as an “all in one marketing house for Polkadot” makes it clear to me that they should not be doing everything, because there are many things I don’t think they do well.
I would like to see their scope reduced, and things like messaging, website management, professional content creation, general polkadot representation moved elsewhere. This again, is not true of all the initiatives coming out of Distractive, but pretty much all the ones which generate the vibes and content at this booth are red flags to me.
At a high level, I had a strong feeling at the end of this event that with JAM in mind, we really should be taking a step back from these crypto conferences.
Everyone who was at ETH Denver had been pre-trained to think about blockchain and crypto in a certain way, and Polkadot’s unique mission and vision is just different than the other chains at the conference.
Everyone is building a distributed ledger for payment settlement. We are building a decentralized computer.
I want that we stop trying so hard to appeal to the current “crypto” people, and instead make a strong presence at technology conferences, as you would if you just built and launched a new computer architecture.
Rather than be 1 of 100, we could really be 1 of 1
I think the one reality we need to face is how we position both in messaging and technological ability the current Polkadot network to this broader vision.
I want that we experiment outside of the crypto space, and go “all out” representing Polkadot at a regular tech conference.
Not mention blockchain or rollups anywhere.
Just sell the fact that we are leading the world in building a decentralized computer.
I mean we should be in the same kinds of press cycles and conversations as Microsoft developing the new quantum chip. These are revolutions in technology, not just revolutions in verticals like “finance”.
Idea for the next polkadot booth, would be really cool to get some kind of poster “how to navigate the polkadot dao” with steps like: learn about polkadot, join an aag call, write a proposal, get paid
I imagine some kind of “map with path” or like a “thermometer poster”. Lots of people here were asking how to get through the dao and get some money