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Has Ethereum lost its soul? Day 2 at @EFDevcon Mumbai. 🇮🇳 It pains me to say it, but the mood feels a bit disenchanted. You can see it in the half-empty rooms and in the hallway conversations. I've been to every Devcon since Cancún 2017. Back then, the narrative was about inclusion and empowering the weak. For those of us coming from emerging countries, it was a tool to circumvent bad institutions (and maybe build better ones bringing the rule of law where it was lacking.)! Many of us Argentines got into Ethereum because stablecoins were the way around capital controls. It wasn't an ideology. It was a survival tool. For people from advanced economies, it was a way to escape government and big tech surveillance. Then the narrative started drifting. DeFi yields, NFTs, memecoins... Each cycle brought more money and less talk about the common person. There are still talks on those original topics, but more and more the stage seems to reflect the worldview of Silicon Valley elites: transhumanism, longevity, life beyond biology. The contrast couldn't be sharper. Inside, conversations about transcending the human condition, governing societies through futarchy and handing DAO governance decisions over to AI. Outside, the chaos of Mumbai's streets, where millions hustle to survive and deal with very human problems every day. My impression from day 2 is that Ethereum is at a crossroads: solving the problems of nerds and Silicon Valley, or addressing the every day problems of real people. The real test isn't whether Ethereum scales, but for what and for whom. If it ends up as a playground for a tiny niche of insiders talking to each other, we can expect emptier conferences every year. Sorry for the pessimistic take. 🥲 Hoping day 3 finds me in better spirits!

– ¿Puede una IA tener personalidad jurídica? – ¿Qué tipo de disputas van a surgir entre agentes de IA? – ¿Habrá juicios en mundos virtuales? – ¿Vamos a seguir teniendo abogados humanos, o nuestra representación legal va a quedar en manos de algoritmos? – ¿Qué habilidades deberían desarrollar los abogados jóvenes para seguir siendo relevantes? – ¿Qué políticas públicas va a exigir este nuevo mundo? – ¿Qué podemos aprender de la historia para diseñar las instituciones legales del futuro? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que vamos a discutir en «¿Quién juzga a las máquinas? El derecho en la era de las multitudes y los algoritmos». 20 de octubre, 18:30 h, en el Parque de la Innovación de Buenos Aires. Libre y gratuito, con inscripción previa. Cupos limitados.

"Can Blockchain-Based Decision-Making Transform the Adjudication Process of the Federal Tax Ombudsman in Pakistan?" An article by Ayaan Shehryar just published at the Journal of Contemporary Economic Perspectives. According to the findings, @Kleros_io could reduce the resolution time from 191 days to just 13. 🤯 Learn more here: 👇 akrpp.com/article/jcep/2026_…