It’s fashionable right now to declare that “non-financial use cases of crypto are dead.” Some people also claim that read write own has failed. These conclusions misunderstand both the thesis and the stage we’re in.
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Join us for a conversation with Karl Floersch, the cofounder of Optimism and CEO of OP Labs, and Hayden Adams, founder of Uniswap. This talk, moderated by Head of CSX Jason Rosenthal, covers the interwoven history between building Optimism and Uniswap (Karl and Hayden first met in college), plus the lessons they learned as entrepreneurs, and advice for founders building in web3.
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