Fireside Chat
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Flow announces Crescendo: an EVM-compatible upgrade that makes Flow fully EVM-equivalent while letting Cadence contracts and assets interoperate in a single transaction, plus native account abstraction, onramps and middleware support. Real metrics: Ticketmaster drops 30M+ NFTs to ~10M people; NFL All Day converts ~40% of users to buyers; Disney Pinnacle shows ~75% completion of onboarding and 90%+ four‑week retention; NBA Top Shot has ~650k holders with tens of thousands active. Target is scaling to million DAU with seamless wallet UX and open composability.
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- 0:00Introduction: Dapper Labs' Crypto Legacy
- 1:27From CryptoKitties to Mainstreaming NFTs
- 2:34Why NFTs Are More Than Buying/Selling
- 4:37Birth of Flow Blockchain: Scaling & UX
- 6:05Flow's Evolution: From Closed to Open Ecosystem
- 7:35Flow's EVM Compatibility & Crescendo Upgrade
- 9:06Bridging Cadence and Ethereum Smart Contracts
- 10:42Developer Reactions to Flow's New Direction
- 12:42Scaling Stats: Ticketmaster, Top Shot & Disney Pinnacle
- 15:09The Million DAU Challenge for Consumer Crypto
- 17:08Open vs Closed Developer Ecosystems
- 19:09Killer Apps vs Gradual Adoption Debate
- 21:31Wallets as Consumer Apps? Distribution Battles
- 23:55Who Owns the User Relationship in Web3?
- 25:49Marketplace Discovery vs Asset Distribution
- 26:38Advice for Consumer Crypto Founders
