We spend most of the year talking to usernames, PFPs and communities through a screen. Then you attend an event like TOKEN2049 Singapore and everything becomes real. That is still one of my favorite things about Web3. I arrived in Singapore on October 5 and, from the moment I landed until I got back on a plane four days later, I kept meeting people connected to this industry. Friends. Followers. Builders. Holders. Creators. Projects. People from communities I have been part of for years. And people I had never met before. Day 1 started almost immediately with side events and catching up with people around the city. Day 2 was when the real event marathon began. Breakfast with the @arts_dao crew. Frontier Traders (@joinfrontier ) x @Solana Summit. BCGAME gatherings. BAYC IRL. (@BoredApeYC ) And several smaller events in between. By October 7, TOKEN2049 itself was in full swing. One of my first stops was Brokers & Birds (@ClutchMarkets / @moonbirds ), bringing StonkBrokers and Moonbirds together. Then the conference floor. Exchanges, protocols, builders, communities and thousands of people moving through the same place. October 8 was another full day of TOKEN2049, meetings, booths, conversations and those random encounters that usually end up being more valuable than anything you planned beforehand. Over those days I attended more than 10 side events and crossed paths with well over 1,000 people across Web3. But the number is not really the point. The point is being able to turn years of online interaction into actual conversations. To shake hands with someone you have replied to for years. To finally meet the person behind a PFP. To discover a project because someone explained it to you face to face. To sit with friends from completely different countries because somehow Web3 connected all of you first. That is difficult to replicate online. Thank you @token2049 for continuing to create these spaces. And a special thanks to @bcgame , one of my main partners, for continuing to support me and helping make it possible for me to be here year after year. Singapore was incredible. See you at the next TOKEN2049. Although knowing Web3, we will probably meet somewhere else before that.

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