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Welcome to the Future: 3D Metaverse Browser, Web3 Identity & the Spatial Internet
At ETH Denver 2025, The Edge of Show caught the first glimpse into a seismic shift in Web3: the arrival of RP1’s 3D Metaverse Browser. Hosts Richard Carthon and Josh Kriger explore the full impact with Sean Mann and Dean Abramson, the minds behind RP1, whose groundbreaking browser enables a seamless, scalable spatial internet—one that could finally fulfill the persistent dream of the Metaverse.
The 3D Metaverse Browser isn’t just immersive; it’s capable of supporting hundreds of times more users than current systems. Forget apps and downloads—users enter immersive digital spaces with a single click. With identity handled on-chain, users can maintain multiple digital personas securely. Think “Chrome for the Metaverse,” but bigger. And the best part? It’s not a walled garden—builders keep their data and deploy at scale using open standards.
The episode also features Yumin Xia from Galaxy, discussing GravityChain, a next-gen blockchain SDK to decentralize everything. Finally, Will Hennessey of Alchemy breaks down their $5M grant initiative to onboard millions via account abstraction and rollups-as-a-service.
This is the Edge of Show you can’t afford to miss if you're building or investing in the 3D Metaverse Browser, Web3 identity, or blockchain scalability.
Key Topics Covered:
- The Rise of the 3D Metaverse Browser:
RP1 is setting a new benchmark for the spatial internet—introducing a browser with no downloads, limitless scale, and instant VR access for immersive global interaction. - Web3 Identity Revolution:
Blockchain-based identity lets users own and separate their digital personas—enabling private, secure, and flexible interaction within the Metaverse. - RP1's Technological Edge in Scalability:
The architecture supports 200–500x more users than existing systems while reducing costs, reshaping the Metaverse for true global participation. - GravityChain: Building the Blockchain SDK of the Future:
Galaxy's new GravityChain and SDK are set to become the go-to tools for developers seeking high-performance decentralization. - Alchemy’s $5M Onboarding Grant & Rollups-as-a-Service:
Making Web3 onboarding seamless through sponsored gas and rollup infrastructure, Alchemy is empowering the next wave of decentralized apps.
Episode Highlights:
“We’re launching the world’s first 3D browser… an endless space with no installs.”
— Sean Mann
“Our browser is to the Metaverse what Chrome is to the internet.”
— Dean Abramson
“We’re redefining how digital identity works—multiple personas, one secure chain.”
— Sean Mann
“Galaxy integrated 70+ blockchains. Now we’re solving the experience layer with GravityChain.”
— Yumin Xia
“Account abstraction removes seed phrases, adds gas sponsorship, and simplifies onboarding.”
— Will Hennessey
People and Resources Mentioned:
About Our Guests:
Sean Mann is the CEO and Founder of RP1, pioneering the world’s first 3D Metaverse Browser—a platform built to scale globally and disrupt how we interact online. His passion lies in enabling a seamless, spatial internet experience with unmatched scalability.
Dean Abramson is the CTO and visionary technologist behind RP1’s core architecture. With decades of experience building high-scale systems, his innovations in network programming and distribution are laying the groundwork for the persistent Metaverse.
Yumin Xia is Co-Founder and CTO at Galaxy, a Web3 platform driving engagement through gamified campaigns and airdrop infrastructure. He leads the development of GravityChain, an open-source blockchain SDK aimed at solving interoperability and scalability challenges in Web3.
Will Hennessey is a Product Manager at Alchemy, specializing in rollups, account abstraction, and onboarding. With past experience at Google and Uniswap Labs, Will leads Alchemy’s mission to simplify Web3 development and support builders with $5M in grant funding.
Sean Mann (Co-Founder & CEO, RP1)
LinkedIn: Sean Mann
Website: RP1 Official Website
Twitter/X: @seangmann
Dean Abramson (Co-Founder & Chief Architect, RP1)
LinkedIn: Dean Abramson
Website: RP1 Official Website
Twitter/X: @RP1_Dean
Yumin Xia (Co-Founder & CTO, Galxe)
LinkedIn: Yumin Xia
Website: Galxe Official Website
Twitter/X: @yuminx
Will Hennessy (Product Manager, Alchemy)
LinkedIn: Will Hennessy
Website: Alchemy Official Website
Twitter/X: @WillHennessy_
Transcript:
Intro/Outro/Disclaimer: Welcome to The Edge of Show, your gateway to the Web3 revolution. We explore the cutting edge of blockchain, cryptocurrency, NFTs, ordinals, DeFi, gaming and entertainment, plus how AI is reshaping our digital future. Join us as we bring you visionaries and disruptors pushing boundaries in this digital renaissance. This show is for the dreamers, disruptors, and doers that are pumped about where innovation meets culture. This is where the future begins.
Richard Carthon: Hey everybody, Richard here from the Edge of Company with the Edge of Show. We are live here at Eth Denver and we have some very special friends with us over at RP1. We have Sean and Dean with us. Pleasure to have you both. Now, obviously we are here and one of the talking points of crypto is Web3. And as you think about like, what does it mean to be in the website space, but y'all are doing a very different approach that has a lot of people perking up their ears. So tell us a little bit about that.
Sean Mann: Well, first of all, thank you, Richard, for having us. This is so much fun. Obviously, being in Denver with the entire cryptocurrency community, the excitement, you can feel it. Everyone is really figuring out what the future is. What we've done is we're launching the world's first 3D browser. Wow. So think about the parallel to what Chrome does for us for 2D websites. We're setting the standards and the view of how a 3D browser will work. with absolutely amazing technology that can scale to the world's population in a single, endless world and whatnot. And so it's really powerful in what we're developing, and we really want to introduce it to the community. We're getting pretty darn close to launching.
Richard Carthon: You are, and I know it's been received really well. So Sean, as you continue to talk about this and think about, Dean's been coaching you up pretty well on this, but Dean, a lot of this has been originating for a long time. So how did you go from that vision to where things are now? Were you getting ready to launch?
Dean Abramson: The technology has been built up over the last 10 to 20 years, depending on where it started. During the pandemic, I put on my first VR headset. Yeah. And we discovered that some of the technology we had built early from poker days actually translated quite well just to the scalability aspect. So we started building up our technology stack for general purpose. Yeah, it's evolved into a very, very, very, uh, massive, uh, ecosystem where we can handle 200 to 500 times more scalability than any other system that we're aware of. And also operate at similar cost efficiencies as well. So, um, it's been, uh, it's been a long journey. Last four years, we've been focused exclusively on building up the browser and the concepts behind what it's going to take to, to, uh, launch a 3D browser.
Sean Mann: You know, when Dean approached me and I learned a lot about his technology, he's been, you know, brain childy for a long time. When the idea of the metaverse came out, everyone was thinking about this single persistent, both AR and virtual world where we're all connected seamlessly, right? We can teleport anywhere, easily talk with each other, but everyone's like, well, wait a minute. We can only put 20 people in VR and a single box. That vision is like 30 years away. And when I realized what he has actually developed, he looked at software radically different and fundamentally changed the way we program networking and distribution models, which allowed scale that is just not considered possible. And so we're proving that through our demos, but more importantly, we're enabling this grand vision of the OASIS, but more importantly, basically the spatial internet where we can seamlessly connect with each other in 3D ways.
Richard Carthon: And that's really exciting. And like I remember that just from what y'all show me so far, like what is coming is mind blowing. But what I think even more so what's coming is what people are able to come and participate with. So I know you have some amazing announcements coming along that side. So can you speak a little bit more to it?
Sean Mann: Yeah, so we're coming up with a global open demo, and so we've been working, you know, builders build, right? And so now once you build, you're excited to share and welcome people into your house. And we're basically getting to the point where we're going to launch a global demo. We actually have a digital twin of our entire universe. including Earth 1 to 1 scale. Wow. And so imagine you click one button from any device, mobile, desktop, VR headsets, and you will instantly go in world and connect with anyone that's inside the browser. And it's an endless space. There's no downloading boxes. There's no installations. You are literally instantly in there, just like you instantly go to a website. Yeah. And so we're talking about the Netflix of real-time applications. So now, I mean, we've been brought up and going to app stores, right? The Apple app store takes your 30%. You know, developers have a hard time. There's algorithms. And now a consumer to get to your content has to download something, install it, create an account, create an avatar. We're talking about press a button and you're instantly at any location built by anyone, whether it's a game, an MMO, or a digital twin of a university, or doing a business meeting in some type of conference room. It really solves all those things in a single ecosystem.
Dean Abramson: It's really exciting. Go ahead. It's important to note that like the Chrome browser or any 2D web browser, the browser is just a portal into the World Wide Web. So the Metaverse browser is a portal into the Metaverse, but does not get in the middle of the transaction between the third party service provider and the customer. So we're not asking everyone to build inside of RP1. We're trying to set the standards so that people can build on something like HTML, and create a web document that can be picked up by a web browser. Same thing, you'd be able to build a 3D spatial component that could be picked up by a Metaverse browser, whether we built it or someone else builds it. But it's still, the third party service provider still owns the data. They still serve up the data from their own servers, they maintain everything, they maintain their own security, and they are one-to-one in contact with their customer. It's just a matter of arranging everything spatially and handling the scale and the load. That is what we provide.
Richard Carthon: Which is, I don't want to say an impossible task, but a tall task that y'all found a way to get done and which is why it's perked up a lot of ears while you've been here. So again, we are at Eaton Denver. There's a ton of people here, a ton of different companies, a lot of different types of people that you could be working with between your end consumer that might want to be on here using it to your builder that would want to come out. So how's the experience been so far and why you've been out here? What are some of the things that you've been specifically focused on?
Sean Mann: Well, it's funny, you always say utility, utility, utility. I think that should be the framework of Eat Denver, is how do you take this amazing blockchain-like technology and use it to better the world versus just use it for the heck of it, right? Everyone's like, hey, let's just use it, but people are like, why? It just makes it harder, it's harder for consumers to get into it, but the browser presents amazing web-free opportunities. And I think one, which is obvious, is payments, right? How does someone seamlessly transact with someone all over the world? And I think that's one of the biggest use cases that we see, like with stable coins, that people seamlessly can transact without having to go through fiat or banking systems that make it really, really hard to make those transactions happen. So that was the first obvious choice. And we're gonna be launching a token that inherently is gonna help that process. But even though we're launching a token, you'll be unable to connect any cryptocurrency into the browser because it should be an open ecosystem where anyone can participate. But I think the most powerful, and I think Dean and I were talking about this earlier, is the idea of identity. And if you wanna, you're more than welcome to speak about it.
Dean Abramson: Yeah, identity can be handled in a blockchain and keep your personal information belonging to you. So right now, if you go into a platform like TikTok or YouTube or Facebook, the platform owns your content. They own your blog, your stream. And if you get deplatformed or something happens to your account, they own it, you lose it. Logging in with your own identity, managed by blockchain, you can manage your personas, you can keep your identity private, you can keep your personas separated so that you can't piece together your personal life with your work life and your private personal life. handle your data, you can publish the equivalent of a blog or a stream into your identity, and then you can publish that or syndicate it onto future blogs or future equivalents of social media sites. Yeah. That way you can't be deplatformed.
Sean Mann: And I think what's exciting about the identity piece and the extensibility of what a browser brings to this entire community is anyone could build an avatar company. That means anyone could build assets. And the question is, as me as a consumer, how do I manage those different avatars and those different assets? And when Dean mentioned persona. you're gonna wanna be different people depending on the different things that you do, right? So if I go to work, you know, I'm gonna be Sean Mann, CEO of RP1, right, and founder, but if I'm now gonna go play with my kids, I might be Super Daddy, or, you know, and, you know, some people may think this is kinda weird, but if you want adult content, you may wanna be something different that's not associated, and you want, you don't want a company to manage that data that you need to trust. What if blockchain could do that extremely well, where you separate that? But the thing is, it's not about just one identity component. I'm hopeful that many people will build identity components and consumers can choose which ones has the features and the ability and the things that I trust that will manage my interactions for the rest of my life in the metaverse.
Richard Carthon: Yeah. Yeah. The concept of digital identity and being very different. There's different types of personalities that we all have in our own ways. And you're allowing people to bring their own creativity and own individualism to use it on top of your platform. So super exciting for people who want to go and learn more about RP1 and get involved.
Sean Mann: Yeah, so a couple ways. You can go to rp1.com. I suggest you can go to the Learn to learn all about what our technologies are, what the browser is going to do. You can scroll down and join our Discord. On our Discord, we actually have an ETH Denver special, Richard. Okay. All right. We are inviting everyone into an ETH Denver after party in the metaverse. And I'm talking about hundreds if not thousands of people if they show up. A week from today, anyone with any device can show up at the time that we put on our Discord. We'll have a special link there. They can click that link and they will instantly be able to join us in-world. In fact, we are on the Eat Denver event page for an afterparty. So if you go to the Eat Denver events, you look for RP1, you'll be able to sign up for that afterparty. You'll get a special link and anyone in the world can come with a VR. I do suggest, please, Come in VR if you do have VR. It is a reason to dust off that VR headset. We're going to show you why you no longer dust it off because you'll be using it more often because you'll literally be able to relive things that you can do in the real world. More importantly, connect with anyone seamlessly. And so come in VR if you can, if not, you can have a laptop, desktop, come into a regular Chrome browser, and you'll be able to put that link in, and you'll instantly be able to go in-world, and you'll be able to traverse literally a digital tour, and we have a handful of locations. I mean, Earth is massive, so I promise you it's not all fulfilled, but we have a handful of locations, and get this, you'll be able to fly straight up in the sky, to the moon, look down at Earth spinning, it is absolutely the most amazing thing you've ever seen. So we're inviting everyone in Denver to come join us, and hopefully we'll get you in there as well. It's March 6th, 9 a.m. Pacific time. Yeah, so a week from today, 9 a.m. Pacific time.
Richard Carthon: Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Thanks again for both you, Sean, and being part of this. And of course, everyone listening, we're gonna have more amazing stuff coming out, so be on the lookout. Only on the Edge of Show, right? That's right.
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Richard Carthon: Hi, everyone. Josh Krieger, co-host of The Edge of Show, live at ETH Denver 2025. And I'm here with actually a company we've had on the show before, but we haven't talked to Yimin Xia, who's the co-founder and CTO before. So welcome to The Edge of Show. Nice to meet you. So back when we were at Edge of NFT, we got to know you guys for your reward platform, which has been pretty viral over the last several years, correct? So you guys have run a lot of contests. I will go into what you're doing now, but I'd love to sort of just reflect back, you know, give me a sense of the magnitude of what you've done on Shane with these different contests and what you've learned about are consumers from doing all these contests?
Yumin Xia: All right, so Galaxy today has like 100 daily active users. I would say like the spectrum of users is very huge. So I see users, some of them basically use Galaxy as a learning platform that when they first enter Web3, they use that to learn all about this project by reading their like campaign description and doing those tasks. And then they basically follow the guide to do on-chain transactions like DeFi, swap, and that. And then some of them we might get airdrop rewards in the end because they are the angel user of some early stage products that make their way.
Richard Carthon: Yeah so I mean so the criticism of that type of contest gamification has been people that participate in airdrops don't stick around. Have you seen that to be the case or is there evidence that there are ways to get them to stick around?
Yumin Xia: Yeah, so I think there's kind of like two sides of this problem. So first of all, will users stay with the product? I think it's more like the issue with their own product. Of course, like, I personally have tried, for example, some swaps in our platform, and I love it. And I stay there. I still use that product every day. And it's not because, like, Galaxy is like the gateway. like introduce you to all these amazing projects. Will users stay there after AirDrop? Well, that depends on whether users need you every day. So the criticism is, well, there's a large portion of users that basically farm AirDrops, right? Right. Well, that's true. I mean like it's unfortunately become a profitable business in this industry. Galaxy has, we have launched a lot of mechanisms to prevent those kind of like botting behaviors already. Like Galaxy Passport, Web3 score, and we are introducing also the new reward system that kind of like reward our loyalty users in some of those spots already. We've already seen some improvements on this front. That's great. But still, I think we will do our best to prevent bots from damaging the ecosystem. But whether users will stay in the end, it depends on whether users need it or love the app.
Richard Carthon: You can leave them to water, but you can't force them to drink. Yes. Makes sense. So before we move on to what you guys are up to, one last question. Any best practices for companies, L1s, L2s, DApps, that are trying to use a product like Galaxy to increase community building? When should you do it? How often should you do it? What is the recipe for success with rewards and gamification based on all the best practices you've accumulated over these contests?
Yumin Xia: Got it. That's actually a very complicated question, but my take is that you should always start as early as possible. You don't have to have a product that users can try to use. You can start with your social media, your content, and you're starting a space with us, and your user can start to get to know who you are and get to know the vibe. And you can start to build your community on Discord, on Twitter. And then when your product launches, you should be actually launching a lot of, like, very gamified and fun-driven tasks that users use as a learning opportunity and also the opportunity to explore what your apps can offer.
Richard Carthon: Makes sense. So we take all these lessons learned, all this experience, all these users, and ultimately that led you down a path towards deciding to formulate a new blockchain. Tell us a little bit about the genesis and where you're at in the process.
Yumin Xia: Yes. So initially, because Galaxy has integrated 70 different blockchains, we are kind of like the first-hand experience. Wow, 70? Yeah, 70.
Richard Carthon: I've heard about a lot of integration and interoperability, but that is a lot of blockchains. Because everyone comes to you first, right?
Yumin Xia: Yes. We have 70 different blockchains and countless wallet integrations. How do you sleep? It's actually a hard job. Harder than other people think, like Galaxy's technical challenges. So we see users have a huge experience issue with interacting with different blockchains, right? Let's say there's a new blockchain. It's an interesting app, you want to try it? Then you need to bridge your token from this blockchain to that blockchain. And you need to figure out which bridge you want to use. And all this kind of stuff that takes like 20 or 30 minutes.
Richard Carthon: But the bridges have gotten better. There's more like this cosmic or atomic swapping now, which is exciting. But there's still challenges there.
Yumin Xia: Yes. Because they don't work with every blockchain. Yes, exactly. So that's what's driven us thinking like, we want to build a blockchain that kind of like solve this kind of problem. So initially, we want GravityChain to be a sediment layer for most of its blockchains. It's not like we're a competitor with them. We want to be like a kind of like the gateway that users can interact with your chain, through our chain, through bridges. So bridges will work with us through other bridge protocols. So that's our initial goal. While we're doing this, one thing interesting we found is that I have personally been building a blockchain since 2017. The tech side has not changed that much. A lot of projects you see today will basically launch a blockchain with Cosmos SDK and Tendermint. Well, honestly, that's not state-of-the-art. So we think the opportunity here that imagine like five years ago, there will be more blockchains in the world. I believe that. What kind of tech do you want them to be built on? We see the opportunity that let's actually build a blockchain and not only a blockchain, but a blockchain SDK that enables the whole industry to use the state of the art consensus algorithm, parallel execution to build their own blockchain to decentralize everything that could be decentralized. So that's what we're up to. Right now we're already open source. Our DevNet is up and running, the gravity chain. It's actually, we adopted kind of like a very, we call it a pragmatic innovation approach that we leverage open source components as much as possible. For consensus, we probably use Aptos BFT as they are the state-of-the-art. For parallel execution, we did some innovation, but the algorithm was based on the block STM. We have published technical reports and papers illustrating why our performance is better in some cases. And we are actually publishing all this as open source components. So today, let's say you want to launch a blockchain that has the same performance as Monad, for example. You can do that for free. Wow. So what's the revenue model for Galaxy? Well, Galaxy as an application, our revenue model is coming from integrations like all these blockchains and also coming from premium support for our customers. those like Web3 apps and also from our end user we have Galaxy Plus which is a subscription based model like to basically give you gas less experience on Galaxy.
Richard Carthon: So the gravity chain is not changing the fundamental monetization model of the company. It's just amplifying your ability to support the ecosystem. Exactly. Very cool. So Just random question. Over under, how many blockchains do you think that you'll have integrated into Galaxy by the end of this year and the end of next year? And I'll play the game with you. We'll see who's right later. Well, this is hard. I would guess like 90.
Yumin Xia: 90 this year? Yeah. By the end of next year? Well, maybe 120. Okay. I mean, I've actually predicted, you know, like 30 every year, like a steep. So that's what you've done in the past approximately? Yes. All right. I won't be surprised if it's lower, because the last year was like kind of the boom year for Layer 2s.
Richard Carthon: yeah i'm i'm thinking that it's going to slow down a little bit um and that there's going to be some market domination going on uh so you know maybe maybe we'll say 85 uh this upcoming year um and then next year maybe 130 so so well we'll see we'll have to see who's right you're gonna say like 89 No, that's mean. That's just mean. No, I'll give you a little room there to win this contest. I did get the advantage of going second, but you have the advantage of having all that historical data, so I think it's fair. Well, thanks for hanging out. It was great to get to know you more. Anything else in closing thoughts you want to share about what you're doing with Galaxy or Gravity?
Yumin Xia: Yeah, we're kind of like the deep-seek of the blockchain. That's what I want to say. I know a lot of projects are building high-performance EVM chains that raise a lot of money. They have a very good community. I really respect it. I love them. But if from today on, you want to build a high-performance blockchain, I just want to say you don't need that much money. With Raven SDK and the whole ecosystem we're building together, we can make this world a much better place by having high-performance blockchains to decentralize a lot of things that you couldn't imagine to decentralize.
Richard Carthon: Yeah, I think one of the challenges you're living to there is the talent pool for development gets scarcer and scarcer with more blockchains. Everyone's competing with the same resources. That braces across the building these chains, right? Not to mention the tactical sophistication. you know, saving us a little bit money, maybe you can spend it more on those community rewards. Yeah. Marketing and partnerships, which is which is really valuable to hopefully elevate the industry. So, yeah. Airdrop your users. Airdrop your community. Absolutely. Thanks for like shedding some light on some areas we haven't covered in the show. And I'm really excited about what you guys are doing. We'll have to chat more about how we can collaborate.
Yumin Xia: For those interested in learning more about what you guys are up to, where should they go? uh gravity website and also maybe you can follow what's the website uh gravity.xyz okay and you can also follow uh our technical twitter it's called gravity inter cool and what's your accent though i so i mostly post through gravity inter okay so your your pseudonym and well very cool thanks uh for hanging out with us today same pleasure of meeting you
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Will Hennessy : Absolutely. And it's great to be here. Thank you for having me. Yeah. This week we announced everyone on chain flight. She's a $5 million initiative. Malcolm helped bring new users and she specifically designed it, bringing mainstream users into crypto. We've all been building for, for so many years here at Web3. So we're deploying these $5 million as grants to developers, specifically to help them use rollups and account abstraction to bring new people onto you. These are two new trends I'd love to talk to you more about today that are designed at making crypto invisible, making it so easy that anyone can use.
Richard Carthon: Yeah, no, you're actually doing that. And I definitely want to dive into more of it. I actually want to start with a fun fact. 80% of basically all of the Ethereum accounts run through Alchemy. So you're very embedded with, you know, here we are at Ethereum, but it's more than just Ethereum. It's a lot going on. But you talked about the simplicities and making that more available. So the fact that you have now a fund where people can go and like focus on making that even more seamless throughout is very synergistic with your overall goal. So tell us a bit more about like Who should be applying to this? How can they get involved? And what are some steps that they can start taking?
Will Hennessy : Yeah, absolutely. I think the best way to explain that is to start with the problem all builders facing in this ecosystem for so long. And that is the user experience around crypto onboarding. Yeah, right. When I first got into crypto five years ago, I had to download an external wallet extension at Metamats. Write down my seed phrase, put it in my sock drawer, go through KYC, buy Ethereum, transfer it into my wallet. The UX is really hard. So I've been actually working on wallets for 5 years. I helped build the Uniswap wallet, and made a lot of advances on the design front. But many of those existing crypto frictions still exist. But this year, that's changing in a big way for the CryptoKey. Account abstraction has removed the need for C phrases, and even for gas fees, with new features like gas sponsorship, where developers can now pay gas on behalf of their users. This allows builders to make experiences that truly feel like OneClip. Yeah. And like you mentioned, we are powering, I think 80% of contract accounts on chain right now. We've helped teams like Azuki onboard over 3 million users to smart contract. Wow. Yeah. And sponsor gas. So that when you, for example, check out the anime.com, which is built by the Azuki team, you can't even tell that it says crypto. You log in with an email, you press one button and it will collect a sticker. Now under the hood that's minting in NFT but as a user you don't even know because they're using account abstraction to sponsor gas. And that's where the fun this week comes to them. Builders need help to sponsor gas. And so we deployed a five million dollar grant that is designed to help you, the builders, sponsor gas in order to remove that friction with new users.
Richard Carthon: That's incredible. The fact that you can literally get rid of some of the initial hurdles of bringing somebody else on. Like you were saying, when a lot of people first came into this space and they had to set up their wallet and then understand Ethereum so they could pay for gas and then do that thing. They just want to press a button. They're used to three clicks, they're done. And this is allowing for that to happen in a very seamless way. So for people that want to come and build on that, aside of this incredible fun that you have going on, there's a lot or that Alchemy has been up to. So tell us a little bit about that and some of the plans that are coming up in 2025.
Will Hennessy : Yeah, absolutely. The other big work stream we've been building at Alchemy is rollups as a service. I think it's no secret, it's a big topic of the conference this week, that everyone's building their own rollup. Yes. We already have Layer 1s, we have Layer 2s, and now with Rollup as a service technology, teams are able to build their own Layer 2 or Layer. And Alchemy has the best-in-class service to run your own Rollup with high reliability, so that your chain always works, it's always reliable for TCs. And that's another component of this EU system. Part of this $5 million grant is also allocated for roll-up buildings. To help you get off the ground, kick off your own roll-up, onboard a bunch of users directly using smart wallets, to create your own thrive-in EU system. We're very quickly moving from a world of 10 or 20 blockchains to hundreds of roll-ups. And it's a very exciting time for builders.
Richard Carthon: It is a really exciting time. And as you were saying, there's so many new projects coming all the time. And one of the challenges with developers deciding where they're going to build and then also figuring out, OK, well, how do you also find a way to be cross-trained and to deal with all these different things? And rollups are a great way to address this issue. And so you're directly going after it and accomplishing that. So, you know, As you're here at ETH Denver, there's a lot of people walking around. You have a really good vibe between builders, devs, people that are just excited to learn about the space. Why did Alchemy choose to be here and be part of this? And how has it been received so far?
Will Hennessy : Great question. We come to ETH Denver every single year because it's one of the best built conferences. And as a leading developer platform, this is the place to be, right? This is where we live. And it's so fun to walk around the conference because we've seen hundreds of developers that we actually work with every single day. It's an amazing time to see them in real life. And it's a great place also to talk about what developers can be building this year. how can they take advantage of some of the latest advancements that have come out in the roll-up space and account abstraction and other technologies to build the next great application. And so already this week I've had so many fun conversations with builders who are talking about building a next generation mainstream crypto app. And the secret recipe for doing that is to ship your own roll-up with ultra-low gas, super-fast block times, powered by Alconeer of high reliability, and make the user experience completely see. Like you said, just three clicks. Sign up with an email, click a button, and you're on chain. I love it.
Richard Carthon: The simplicity is great. Being able to meet people IRL is always incredible. A lot of people potentially hide behind PFPs and you have so many interactions and crypto is very distributed. So you might be meeting team members from all over the world at this one place. But then also being able to have people come in and be curious and want to learn more and then also give them a way of like, hey, by the way, if we really want to build this, we got this grant going on. and be able to package that all together at this event is really incredible. So for anyone who's listening to this and this is like, oh yeah, I want to learn more. I want to go get involved.
Will Hennessy : Where can they go? I think the number one place would be alchemy.com. There you'll find access to all the tools we just talked about to build an amazing mainstream crypto app, as well as the application form for our $5 million grant program. If you're listening and if you're a builder, I suggest you apply. We're giving out up to $25,000 in grants, including gas sponsorship credits for free gas in your application, as well as compute credits to use any of our Alchemy products, roll-ups, nodes, smart wallets.
Richard Carthon: Awesome. Well, Yohadi here first. Make sure you go check out Alchemy and Will. Thank you for coming and being on the show. Thank you for having me.
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