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- hey @kaereste, how was @EFDevcon Mumbai? - interesting you should ask - I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the past week. I’ll be honest: when I first heard about the location, I wasn’t fully convinced. On the one hand, I’d heard India could be tough. On the other, it’s an enormous country with a huge population, a long list of globally successful CEOs, and rapid economic growth. I wanted to experience it firsthand! And with the current crypto market and sentiment, Mumbai seemed like a risky choice for Devcon. But overall, imo, it worked out pretty well. Yes, the event was smaller. Yes, it’s a shame that many popular projects didn’t have much of a presence. Yes, the timing could have been better for onboarding more locals into crypto. But at the same time, it was great to see so many new faces - so many people who clearly didn’t yet know what this whole Ethereum thing was about, but approached it with curiosity. And hey, we’ve all gone swag-hunting at some point. Judging anyone for that is lame imo. I hope the Ethereum seeds planted in the minds of some of those ambitious students will grow into fruitful CROPS in the future. And imo the whole experience was very humbling. A lot of us came to India thinking we were bringing the fire of a new financial future with us, only to learn that this future is already there - and that we’re the ones who should be learning, not the other way around. So yeah, I think it was good. And I think that in a few years, it might prove to have been perfectly timed - a real turning point for Ethereum’s future. But now I’m super excited for Devcon Lisbon and all the events across Europe leading up to it! Next year is gonna be legendary - we’re gonna make it so!