The author of this article, shaaa.eth, is an encryption researcher. He introduced the top five narratives summarized in many recent exchanges with others in ETH Denver.
1. It’s still America vs. the world
This is the most powerful and unified narrative a team can develop,
Cosmos, Solana, ETH, Bitcoin, SUI, NFT and other communities are aligned on how to win.
What you need to do : Research the teams that actually believe this statement (hint: they win)
Translator's Note: This refers to a situation where it is considered "us" versus "the whole world" in a certain field or competition. In this narrative, there is often an emphasis on unity and alignment within the crypto community against competition from external adverse factors.
The author mentions a common concept or mentality, that is, teams that truly believe they can resist external pressure and win will usually perform better in competition.
2.Farcaster & Frames
This one came up in almost every conversation at this conference.
Tips on posts, payments in Frames, transactions in Frames, games in Frames, everything in Frames...
If we launch a breakthrough consumer cryptocurrency application, it will most likely be Farcaster.
What you need to do : Learn the mechanism of DEGEN and Perl generation in Farcaster and the principles of related tokens.
3. Airdrop & Points
Airdrops & Points are the best participation facilitator and the best solution to the project cold start problem.
90% of the projects I've dealt with plan to launch tokens and will do so soon.
What you need to do : Try every new project on the chain this year.
4.Summer is coming
We have experienced DeFi Summer and NFT Summer.
Re-staking Summer is the current consensus of ETH Denver, but few people could predict in winter what the summer consensus would eventually be.
Some other possible XX Summer alternatives include Bitcoin L2, Crypto AI, RWA, and Meme Coin.
What you need to do : Get familiar with each of the tracks above and expect the unexpected.
5. 3 big projects starting with B
Berachain: Berapalooza is by far the most attended and hyped event in ETH Denver. New Consensus + Elite Meme will be a bet that is hard to refuse.
Blast: Although the recent mainnet launch has been quite boring and prohibitive due to gas costs (referring to migrating ETH to Blast), we cannot deny that Blast’s degen-friendly design structure is bound to attract liquidity sex.
Base: When Coinbase enters the top 10 in the app store, where do you think these users will go next? There were 10 people lined up waiting to chat with Jesse Pollak (a Base contributor), which is also a positive sign for that to happen.
What you need to do : Take active action, don’t miss the opportunity, and participate in the 3B related ecology.
