2024 Blockchain Futurist Conference | Canada's Largest Web3 Event! | Day 2

Growing trend of integrating AI and Web3 technologies, with focus on decentralized AI infrastructure and data privacy

Retail adoption remains key challenge for crypto, with need for improved user experience and abstraction of technical complexity

Real World Assets (RWA) tokenization presents major growth opportunity, though market currently small at ~$12B compared to potential

Institutional adoption increasing through ETFs and regulated products, though retail participation needed for broader market growth

Infrastructure consolidation happening in mining and exchanges, with need to balance centralization and decentralization

AI models constrained by compute resources and data requirements, driving need for decentralized training and validation

Regulatory clarity remains major challenge globally, particularly around stablecoins and securities classification

Gaming seen as key onramp for mainstream Web3 adoption, focusing on user experience over tokenomics

Community-driven development and governance becoming more important for project sustainability

Cross-border payments and remittances remain compelling use case but infrastructure still needs improvement