Agenda for L2con IS OUT!!! 🚨

8 keynotes, 6 panel discussions and tons of useful networking

🗣 Speakers from Celo, zkSync, Linea, Coinbase, Polygon, Mantle, Optimism & many more!

📅 July 1st, Cannes, Hotel Martinez

🔗 https://t.ly/nphNU

The future of finance is here — and it’s web3.

The world of finance is evolving faster than ever, and the traditional financial systems are facing major roadblocks.

What’s next?

Web3 is breaking down barriers and offering solutions to slow settlements, compliance headaches, and high friction in yield generation.

💡 Key shifts happening now:

⌛ Real-time settlements are replacing outdated T+2 timelines.
💰 Banks and institutions are adopting DeFi for more efficient, transparent transactions.
🔒 Privacy-preserving transactions are leading the way in securing sensitive financial data.

The merge of traditional finance with Web3 is happening - and it’s changing the game for good!

Is Ethereum’s future with rollups owned by mega-platforms or rooted in its decentralized validator set? 🏠

Alon Muroch from SSV Labs warns that the current fragmentation and corporate rollups risk diluting Ethereum’s core ethos.

Base and composable rollups offer a path to re-align token, protocol, and community by embedding sequencing in validator infrastructure - bringing a new wave where scaling advances without compromising decentralization or value capture.

Retention in Web3 apps often drops below 5%, and not because users lack interest, but because they get stuck navigating endless “connect wallet” loops 📊

V from Proximity Labs (Near Protocol) offers a fresh perspective:

dApps as agentic protocols, intelligent and self-operating systems that respond to user intentions, not step-by-step commands.

The shift moves UX from focusing on “how to use” toward “what do you want to achieve” ⭐️

This reduces friction and unlock truly autonomous, multi-chain agents that power smarter, more engaging apps.

EVM compatibility on non-EVM blockchains is a game-changer.

“TAC folds battle-tested EVM DeFi into TON - so users swap, lend, and yield directly inside Telegram without seeing another chain.” - Ema, Growth @TACbuild

🔗 Integrating an EVM-based layer one as an extension to TON allows Solidity-based DeFi apps like Curve and Morpho to run natively on Telegram’s blockchain.

This eliminates the language barrier for developers and gives them access to TON’s billion-user ecosystem 🌍

With native EVM support, TON bridges its ecosystem, enabling seamless DeFi integration into consumer apps like Telegram. 🤑

This shift moves distribution away from standalone wallets and into everyday chat platforms, paving the way for mass adoption in Web3.

Which market is the most promising for cryptocurrency in the future?

Where are we most likely to see widespread adoption?

New video insights from L2con @ Cannes 🏖️

Crypto is still a casino and retail traders lose big because they lack the tools and data insiders use. (insights from Dmitrii Zhelezov, the founder of SQD Network and SQDGN) 🎰

The harsh reality: 30% of new crypto traders lose money within 3 days; 60% lose everything within two weeks. The remaining 10% are semi-pros with privileged, often proprietary access to on-chain data and sophisticated analytics. Retail usually follows noisy KOLs and becomes exit liquidity.

SQDGN flips this dynamic by democratizing alpha through an open data infrastructure and actionable signals. It layers:

✅ A decentralized, multi-chain, community-powered database (SQD Network) that shatters traditional data silos by running thousands of nodes, delivering petabytes of unified, real-time blockchain data
✅ Machine learning to convert raw on-chain transactions into distilled trade signals
✅ LLM-powered explanations broadcast across free and premium channels, making complex data insights accessible without specialist knowledge

This creates a pyramid of trust and utility - from raw data to digestible signals to empowered retail traders:

• Historically opaque cryptomarkets now have an institutional-grade data backbone open to all builders and traders
• SQDGN’s signals outperform traditional trade signal services, boasting an ~85% success rate vs. ~60% for expensive centralized providers
• Future vision: enabling users to “wipe trade” via algorithmic strategies they can observe, learn from, and eventually steer like Tesla’s autopilot for trading

They are reinventing how retail traders access, understand, and act on on-chain data without becoming experts or catnip for predators.

💡 What if retail traders controlled the same data-powered edge as pros? Would crypto evolve beyond a casino into a truly inclusive financial ecosystem?

AI agents embody autonomy, memory, and missions, elevating UX from static responses to dynamic, lifelike interaction.

Anna from AITV breaks down the crucial shift from bots → characters → agents, showing that adding personality traits, ideological consistency, and goal-directed behavior creates immersive, trust-building digital identities 📺

This architecture transforms dApps by deepening engagement, sustaining user interest, and enabling meaningful community roles.

Understanding this pipeline is crucial for builders aiming to craft next-gen agentic apps that feel intuitively human and serve real utility beyond noscripted commands.

What will be the future of crypto beyond payments? 💰

From the panel discussion “Mass Adoption through Dapps: How to Bring More Users Onchain”