ETHConf: crypto as infrastructure for humanity.
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At ETHConf in Manhattan, June 2026, Niv of YMAX answers questions Maceo collected from strangers in Times Square that morning, among them what crypto even is. YMAX, he says, “is cross-chain yield orchestration, so enabling users to generate yields on the stable across different protocols and chains in a very easy one-signature experience,” letting users “pick different positions across AAVE, Morpho, Compound on different chains, Arbitrum, Optimism Base” and sign once while the platform executes the rest. On the bad perception crypto still carries: “I think they got the bad perception. They think crypto is all about scamming, pricing, worthless tokens and stuff like this.” Underneath that, he says, “the core element of crypto is still about building a new infrastructure for the financial industry.” Asked the Times Square question directly: “It’s the future of infrastructure. infrastructure for humanity.” For teenagers looking to get in, his advice is to build or analyze rather than trade: “the new people need to focus on gaining the skills to be either be able to build application on crypto or be able to analyze this market.”
Mentioned in this video: Ymax, by Agoric.
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