EDCON was a good opportunity for the team to do some networking and team building. The presentations and talks were quite interesting, a great opportunity to learn more about what was happening in the Ethereum ecosystem.

On Saturday, we attended the VIP Sub-conferences, The first being a Deep Dive into Ethereum — Core developers and research forum.

There were loads of quality questions and answers, which was to be expected with that many bright minds in one room. We got a taste of future functionality, governance, and existing issues and how they’re being handled.

The next sub-conference was more about Startups, Investment and Financing — Entrepreneurs and investors forum.

There was a lot of valuable advice in this forum too, and a lot of numbers and statistics regarding blockchain development and ICOs were thrown around. The panel was very energetic and was able to get everyone really excited.

There were 7 projects who were each given 5 minutes to do a pitch, and Blocktix was one of them. I mentioned there was a panel right?

We had the pleasure of having 3 venture capitalists and a great moderator on stage, they discussed the future of tokens and how they need a separate category of assets since they are not quite like any other type of asset or currency mankind has invented. It seems that the venture capitalists are finally starting to open up to the world of tokens. Currently the VCs in general are still a bit wary, more specifically the fact that tokens are still unregulated acts as a turn off. Governments around the world are starting to bring the appropriate legal frameworks into place, dealing with the unknowns and therefore opening more reliable markets.