Three days. One city. 🗽
The conversations that move Ethereum forward.
That’s a wrap on the inaugural ETHConf.
We'll see you next year in June 2027.
Early bird tickets are now live: https://t.co/PhuVC3LpSd
.@ethconf last week was incredible.
A few days in NYC hearing from the builders, leaders, and institutions moving into the Ethereum ecosystem for real. Hard to overstate the energy.
Now back at my desk, recharged and ready to ship exciting stuff soon 👀
(hat by @infinex from a few years ago, thanks @kaiynne)
Clear takeaway from @ethconf NY: institutional adoption is only ramping up, not slowing down.
Great conversations, strong momentum, and a lot to be excited about heading into the next cycle.
Looking forward to next years event.
Ethereum is for shipping.
Here are 25 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month.
0/ @thedaofund Ethereum Security Quadratic Funding Round with @Giveth wrapped. The fund supported 134 security projects and had 3,934 unique donors.
1/ @Ronin_Network, one of the largest gaming blockchains, completed its migration to an Ethereum L2.
2/ Clear Signing went live. It is an open standard designed to help end blind signing and make transaction data human-readable before signing. Contributors include wallets and hardware, infrastructure, tooling, individual builders, and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security initiative, with the @ethereumfndn acting as a neutral steward.
3/ @SEAL_911 and @Wonderland_Fi introduced DARC, a Digital Asset Risk & Compliance standard for crypto teams, with continuous monitoring across GitHub, infrastructure, multisigs, DNS, and more.
4/ @arbitrum announced that LG Electronics' blockchain team is piloting an onchain advertising network on Arbitrum.
5/ @base activated Azul, its first standalone network upgrade, introducing multiproofs, new execution and consensus clients, CLZ opcode support, Osaka repricings, and performance upgrades up to 5,000 TPS.
6/ @Mastercard expanded stablecoin settlement support to include USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, and SoFiUSD on Ethereum mainnet, @arbitrum, and @base.
7/ @EFDevcon 8 Mumbai early bird tickets went live. Tickets were available paid in ETH.
8/ Türkiye's Directorate of Communications (@Communications) registered cbiletisim.eth, making its first step in establishing an official onchain identity with @ensdomains.
9/ @CashApp launched stablecoin support, allowing nearly 60 million users to send and receive USDC with no wallet setup required, live on Ethereum mainnet and @Arbitrum.
10/ @torproject and @FundingCommons launched a web3-native crowdfunding initiative supporting 10 internet freedom projects.
11/ @JPMorgan launched a second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum.
11/ @lifiprotocol launched LIFI Intents, a full-stack intent execution engine built on the Open Intents Framework, an initiative for standardizing crosschain intents.
12/ @l2beat launched Token Frameworks, a dedicated place to explore interoperability solutions, token movement, volume, speed, chains, and framework adoption.
13/ @PrivacyEthereum launched a private transfers dashboard comparing 11 protocols across privacy, cost, UX, decentralization, compliance, verifiability, state, and composability.
14/ @Veildotcash launched Veil MCP 0.2.0, enabling agents to make private x402 payments on @base.
15/ @src_co_ introduced SLOW, reversible, self-custodial crypto payments on Ethereum.
16/ @ensdomains ecosystem builders launched ENS8004, a web app that converts an ENS name into an onchain AI agent other applications can find and verify.
17/ @OctantApp introduced properQF in Epoch 12, integrating quadratic funding into the funding round.
18/ @AragonProject launched onchain profiles, making governance participants readable across forums by resolving ENS names, avatars, bios, websites, and social links from Ethereum mainnet.
19/ The Ethereum Community Hub network expanded to Lisbon, hosted at the @gnosisDAO office.
20/ @SuccinctLabs introduced data confidentiality to OP Succinct, enabling institutions to keep transactions confidential while settling to Ethereum.
21/ @HardhatHQ 3 became stable, bringing Solidity tests, multichain support, a Rust-powered runtime, a revamped build system, and Hardhat Ignition for deployments.
22/ The inaugural @ethconf, in NYC, brought together thousands of founders, industry leaders, and builders to discuss building on top of Ethereum.
23/ @EthPrague brought Ethereum builders together in Prague to discuss protocol development, privacy, culture, and long- term societal impact.
24/ @ETHGlobal introduced a new format where, for the first time at an ETHGlobal hackathon, projects do not have to begin from zero.
🏛 Neyro was proud to serve as a co-host of the exclusive @Cointelegraph Private Salon during @ETHConf NYC.
The event brought together leaders from Web3, digital assets, venture capital, institutional finance, and emerging technologies to discuss the future of finance, AI, and blockchain innovation.
Representing Neyro, Andrew Isaacs connected with founders, investors, industry leaders, and media partners from across the global digital asset ecosystem.
@ethconf NYC 2026: Notes from the room
🟢 First year for ETHConf: Smaller crowd, no tourists, meaning better conversations.
🟢 The most institutional ETH conference we've seen. Not just the logos (BlackRock, DTCC, Moody's) but the room itself: people sent by their banks and asset managers to learn
🟢 The agenda was stablecoin payments, onchain credit, tokenized securities, institutional collateral, agent wallets, regulatory clarity.
🟢 Three forces are pulling at the same stack right now: Capital markets, payments, AI agents. All three need trust, settlement, identity, programmability. Ethereum has the institutional relationships and regulatory surface area to serve all three at once.
🟢 Security is finally part of the build conversation. Not a post-launch checkbox. Recent hacks are doing what years of awareness campaigns couldn't.
🟢 Knicks lost 1 game but the city still went bananas
The market is down but the signal is high.
Ship Safely.🚀
At ETHConf 2026, most activations relied on technical demos and presentations. @ValleyEcosystem dropped a physical cabinet on the floor with a leaderboard, and attendees kept coming back.
The reality about Web3 onboarding:
Friction kills adoption. If your first step is forcing a player to download a wallet and learn crypto terminology, you've already lost them.
Valley Arcade proved that competition and tangible rewards drive engagement far more effectively than technical explanations.
People don't want to be "onboarded" into blockchain. They want to have fun. If the gameplay loop is compelling, the onboarding happens seamlessly in the background.
What was the most important takeaways from @ethconf ?
Last week, I had the opportunity to be part of the organization team at @ethconf and work alongside an amazing team that helped bring together builders, founders, researchers, and community members from across the Ethereum ecosystem.
While attendees experienced the talks, networking, and side events, there was also a dedicated team working behind the scenes to make everything run smoothly. Being part of that effort gave me a new appreciation for what it takes to organize events at this scale.
Thank you to everyone who made ETHConf possible and to all the attendees who brought their energy to New York City.
One of the important things I realised during the conference was how vital it is to be part of the global community. That’s how you’re supposed to get connected with people. I’m a member of @dev3pack, and it definitely gave me an edge. Thanks to @_SDAV, she introduced me to so many people, guided me, and I kinda felt she was proud of me. I feel I gained a lot at @ethconf, and I mostly owe it to her.
Glad to be a Dev3pack fellow ♥︎
Last week we participated in @ethconf's Startup Pitching competition with @yieldseekerxyz 🌱
It was a great event and really fun and insightful to be part of! 🙌
Shout out to the @ETHGlobal team for organising a great conference and great event, and to all the other great founders we met.
NYC recap🗽
@smykjain took the @ethconf stage to highlight:
→ Our 8 years building. From @Instadapp to Fluid
→ Institutions and protocols are choosing Fluid infra to launch their own onchain products like lending markets, DEXes, liquidity for stablecoins and RWA.
Fluid Powered 🌊
Thank you to @ETHGlobal and the @ethconf teams for having us as sponsors at EthConf in New York.
It was a pleasure to meet all the teams building with Envio and to connect with other builders in the space.
Thanks again to everyone who stopped by to say hello.
We're inspired by the builders we met at @ethconf and @ETHGlobal last week. The projects coming out of this community continue to raise the bar. Thanks for the conversations about proof of human, and for showing us what you’re building.
"Token prices and launching itself is really just the rail where finance and value moves from A to B. The AI part is the intelligence layer."
– @maxime_sts_ of @stsdigital_io with @perkinscr97 of 250 Digital Asset Management on the Main Stage at ETHConf.
Can't believe ETHConf was just one week ago...
From the future of global financial infrastructure to digital asset policy, the conversations that started in New York are still unfolding.
See you in 2027. 🗽