Jan 25, 2024

Partisia Blockchain Foundation Chief of Growth Shirly Valge attended the 54th Annual Meeting of The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week.

Video transcript

That was my fifth time at Davos. And I've always been in the, in the intersection of Blockchain and crypto there mostly. And of course, I, I saw like a huge significance compared to years back when it was still not regulated. Uh There were huge inflows of money running into projects without having actual white paper or MVP. So I think now we saw much more serious landscape in terms of Crypton Blockchain. Uh It was mainly dominated by Blockchain companies as well as stable coin companies like uh uh circle that has been there for uh all the last years now. And uh it was also incorporated to the main conference with coin based presence. Um uh So the landscape is definitely more serious and it's more mainstream. And I think the new kid on the block is definitely A I. So last year, uh the topic was all about the newly launched CHA TPT. And now this year we would see on the promenade uh all these advertisements with A I companies, uh A I hubs. And uh I think that discussions were more uh surrounded around that topic. But uh if last year, it was about if uh A I will replace and chai will replace our jobs and the whole humanity. Then this year, it was more like uh discussing the regulatory side as I feel like A I is now in the spot where crypto was years ago when, when there was still no clear regula regulation and uh also uh a lot of money because I mean, A I has been funded uh much better than crypto last two years. So, so you could, you could definitely see difference compared to last year's.

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