ETHWarsaw 2024 and Warsaw Blockchain Week

Although I’m quite busy with the js13kGames competition, I did find the time to attend ETHWarsaw conference that happened last week as I missed the first two editions entirely.

ETHWarsaw [III] will bring close to 1000 builders and innovators from the community to discuss growth in the bull market, responsible innovation and challenges we’re about to face. We will look into privacy and security of our data, explore the new scalability challenges beyond L2s and lots more.

ETHWarsaw took place in Warsaw Breweries, a relatively new spot in the capital. The conference was happening on September 5th-6th, which is right in the middle of the online js13kGames competition, quite close to the submission deadline on September 13th.

I did miss the first two editions happening in 2022 and 2023, both because of being too busy with js13kGames. This time though, since I shifted focus a bit and joined OP Games to run OP Guild, it made sense to stretch the availability a bit and try to attend after all. Especially that I wanted to talk with the Elympics folks about the guild anyway.

I was lucky enough to get the ticket as part of the media partnership with Gamedev.js, where quite often various conferences (mostly front-end and JavaScript ones) would be interested to share the info about their events with our community on Facebook.

The first day of the conference started with the opening and was full of interesting talks (and other types of sessions) in multiple rooms, big and small, throughout the day. I enjoyed the ones I attended, but also spent some time in the quiet room working.

In the evening I went to the Elympics on TON. Gaming, Redefined meetup which was part of the Warsaw Blockchain Week happening between September 4th and 8th. I talked with the Elympics folks about multiple things, including OP Guild and js13kGames - had a great time, it seems we share a similar vision to web gamedev on the blockchain.

The second day was packed with content too. The one session I liked the most was about Farcaster Frames by Simone Staffa aka limone.eth.

Overall I’m really happy I was able to attend - I enjoyed the talks, met a few old friends and folks I haven’t seen a long time, had some cool conversations with random strangers, ate tasty food an worked a bit in the meantime as well. I already know I’ll be aiming to repeat that next year!