Code is open source. Why not music? 🎵 At Devcon 8, the Music Space will bring together musicians, DJs, and the Open Source Orchestra for four days of performance, improvisation, and collective creation. Mumbai, turn it up. 🔊

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter. AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models. images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-W…

Dear friends, This year has been tough across the board for major crypto events, and community-driven events have been hit especially hard. ETHPrague is no exception. We made a deliberate investment in improving the venue based on last year’s feedback. At the same time, we have to be realistic about what we can sustainably deliver. To protect the core of the event - great talks, smooth hackathon experience and high signal networking - we are scaling back some non-essential extras. Here’s what is changing: No swag. We have already been moving in this direction to reduce waste, and this year we are cutting merchandise entirely. 🔹 No livestream. ETHPrague will remain a primarily in-person event. Talks will still be professionally recorded and published afterward, but we are optimizing for the on-site experience. 🔹Cutting core bounties to $2,500 each. The final price pool stays at $40,697. This was a tough one, but under current conditions it was necessary. 🔹No live plants. We cannot justify the cost of renting or buying new plants this year, though we will reuse decor elements we have built over time. 🔹Very limited catering. Only snacks, water & filtered coffee will provided free of charge (primarily to hackers). An affordable restaurant quality catering will be available directly on-site. 🔹Cutting one stage - but not really.  One stage is gonna be taken over by our friends at ETHRes. 🔹We'll only record 2 stages. Some talks will have to be unrecorded at the workshop stage. What this means for ticket holders: If you purchased a full-price ticket, you will keep all promised perks - in fact, you are a superhero to us. You are helping make ETHPrague possible, and we want to treat you that way. You'll keep the same perks as hackers + you will receive an invitation to a special networking gathering which is usually only dedicated to speakers. General attendee and student tickets are be reduced to 40EUR and will not include any extra perks. The Superhero ticket will remain available with its full set of perks + Trezor T for if more superheroes show up. 👉 Our goal is still the same: to create an event that inspires ambitious ideas, meaningful conversations, and a new generation of builders turning bold visions into reality. While we won't be able to feed your stomachs we are certain that we'll feed your brains! Thanks for understanding, and thank you to everyone helping keep ETHPrague strong. We are still incredibly excited to see you in Prague. Cheers, The ETHPrague team  ✌️

The Music Stage returns for Devcon 8 🇮🇳 We’re opening the call to artists and musicians from India and around the world. Want to be part of it? Share your ideas or join the current proposal 👇