ETHCluj - Ethereum for Everyone 2025 Conference - Closing Ceremony

Hey everyone, how was it?

Yeah, cool. Yeah, such a relief but also a bit of regret. That's what I feel at least. And um I wanted to ask you how was the app? Um because I had to fix some bugs after day one.

So we tested it on you. Uh okay, cool. So maybe uh Gabby, can you bring up the leaderboard so that we can announce the winners? Okay. So you know the rules.

If you ask questions with up votes, you got points and the top five would get special ETH cluge uh branded swag. But uh it's going to be sent to you. Um we'll email you. will get uh you'll you'll tell us your uh home address or where where we uh will deliver it and then basically you'll receive it later probably next month. Okay.

So uh first one random dev lots of um um pseudonyms in here and then it's developer and guest Gustler. These are the Yeah, they didn't change their usernames. [Applause] And also um the fourth and the fifth place block miner and I Andrea Chuya. [Applause] Cool. Thanks guys.

So that's it. [Applause] [Music] The guys on the bottom part of the screen, please please on on stage.

We are the guys.

We did something wrong probably.

Go ahead. Don't be shy. Get up on stage. [Applause]

Takes a bit of hurting to put them in the spotlight, right? All right. Well, I'm not nervous at all. Okay. A lot of emotions, right?

So, first of all, I'd like to thank my awesome team. It's actually not my team. They're all functioning independently. Uh, and I'm just here to support all of them. So, thank you so much, guys.

It's been an amazing experience organizing this with you. And, uh, basically organizing everything around it community was an awesome journey. Tough one as well. Did you hear that? Yeah, it was.

It was stressful. Well, I must I must confess to a few meltdowns. That's on me, okay? But it was fun as well. And I would definitely do it again anytime with these guys.

So, put a hands up for for all of these teams. [Applause] They deserve it. They deserve it. All right. Then secondly, this is not our direct team, but I feel like it's our uh you know like our immediate team.

So it's our uh MC's over here, Ivan, Connor, Lars. Thank you so much. You guys have done an amazing job. This wouldn't have been the same without you. I know uh this is very cliche to say, but really it's it's the truth and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Honestly, thanks. Of course. Um, I'm going to leave uh volunteers are obviously one of like some of our most prized people, but I'm going to leave that last because I want you all on stage here with us. I'd like to thank our sponsors obviously uh Akasha team here represented by Sever and Ben. Little inside story.

Um so Akasha team actually offered to sponsor us even when it kuj like the conference was at the point of an idea and this goes a long way. This goes a long way in saying um how much they trust us and how much we trust them as well because we don't just take uh sponsors like uh for granted right and we want our trusted people alongside us and I cannot speak highly enough of this team and Miha Alisia who is the leader of Akasha right so thank you so much thank you so much for supporting us you don't have to clap after absolutely everything I say. [Applause] Jesus. Okay. All right.

Fair enough. Uh must have done something right. Okay. [Applause] All right. No.

No. Stop. Stop. Okay, so Akasha is our main sponsor, but uh obviously we couldn't have done any of this without the massive support that we received from the Ethereum Foundation, the ESP, the ecosystem support program. They've been with us from day one and we'd like to give a massive thanks to them as well as god work uh which is where they are working closely with the uh supporting the ecosystem.

So massive thanks to them, massive thanks to all of our sponsors, the technical university guys. I think you know by now that they're one of our core supporters in here and we intend to develop more programs, get closer to the students, get involved into academic uh teaching. Actually, you probably have heard but I'm going to talk about this just a bit later that we have our academia um program which is actually about one week of u workshops and a small hackathon at the end which is going to start from the 22nd of July to the 1st of August. So that's our next initiative. Uh then obviously ICB labs uh the the Argent team which actually are pretty awesome and have a lot like they have a couple of developers here in Klu but one of our core founders Alex has actually worked with them so big up for that.

Thank you for your support. Uh the fully tokenized team uh they've come uh as a community member and decided to get involved and support us further. So big thanks for that. uh civic team, Civic Key, uh massive thanks to TUS and all of his team for getting involved and supporting us. Uh Sumic Tech and Wirex as well, you guys are awesome and honestly, we couldn't have done this without you.

And in terms of sponsorship, I just want to add a little note in there, right? Because um I really want to make sure that it's important to understand this is not only transactional, right? This is a network of trust. So the most valuable asset that we received besides being able to financially support this u the organization that you see around it right it was the massive trust that we received from everybody and for this I'm hugely grateful and this is something that we as a team would like to cultivate in the future with our sponsors but with our community as well. That's that's the most important thing, right?

Okay. And uh yeah just just a food for thought uh since they're all uh there are a lot of amazing conferences it conferences like all around right and we had a lot of thought and a lot of discussion with the team in terms of thinking okay what makes what makes it glue special I mean besides the fact that we are technical community besides the fact that you know we do like workshops hands-on presentations and all the other initiatives that we do on a monthly basis weekly basis let's So what makes uh ETHclure special is the people and the people is right here all of you. So thank you for that. Yeah. And another very special thing is the fact that as you guys probably have had a chance to to understand these days, there are a lot of people here that are not necessarily web 3 or blockchain.

And this was on purpose because I think we need to absolutely open the doors for everybody to be able to come in, get curious, get involved, you know, pitch in and have the courage to ask questions because that sometimes it's a big courage to have just the fact of asking questions. It's not easy for everybody, right? Because you have a lot of the time this imposttor syndrome and you know like you feel oh I'm going to ask the wrong question and people are going to look at me. This is the environment to ask those questions, right? Everybody's a beginner beginner into something.

Everybody has the imposttor syndrome up to a certain extent and everybody's got a lot more to learn and we're just getting started, right? So yeah, ask questions and please feel free to reach out to us outside of this event as well. This is the flagship event for it, but it's not the only important thing that we develop and I would say that the consistency and the work that we do outside of the the main event is even more important. We always say this, we're not into entertainment. We're not in the entertainment business.

We're into education, right? And that's what we want to pass forward and that's what we'd like your support to be able to develop in the future as well. Right? So please uh feel uh empowered to reach out to us, feel empowered to ask questions on our telegram channel, directly to us, Twitter feeds, you know, access our YouTube channel, have a look what's over there. Please tell us your feedback.

We're really welcoming. I mean, we don't have all the knowledge. So, that's the beauty of building as a community, right? And it's a very important thing. So, uh I'm going to I'm going to end up here and uh you know, let you guys enjoy.

Uh before I actually call out to the volunteers, you guys know that there will be a closing party tonight, right?

All right. Okay. So, I'm expecting that you bring your best dance moves or not best dance moves, whatever you find, but just come bring your friends. It's basically we're pretty much opening the doors to anybody who who wants to join us and spend the moment with us, right? And, you know, end up uh I I would say a very beautiful conference with like on a high note and in a good mood, right?

So the closing party will be held at Kuja. We've just sent out a blast uh to on Luma event. If you are not already joined on uh the side event for the closing party, please have a look now. It's in the side event sections that you going to find section that you're going to find on our website. Um I've so you it's pretty much easy to reach.

It's just in front of Kjarina. There's a pin dropped over there and you just go to the second floor. Just wanted to get this detail out of the way. Right. Okay.

And now the core people of it, our volunteers. Come up on stage, guys. everyone. [Applause] I don't want to. That's us.

As you can see, we're quite a few. We're very lucky. And that's it. That's the final picture. [Applause]

That's all folks.

This stage is pretty uh resistant. I checked this. It's almost one ton per square meter. So, everyone please for the final photo

now. Can I get my phone?

Just uh just don't jump on it, please. Otherwise, it's okay. Let's take a photo. [Music] Gabby, turn it on. Thank you.

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