1000 Founders at DevCon?! Supermoon & Peanut Trade Brought Together 1,000+ Founders, Builders, & Investors at DevCon 2024

Bangkok /Supermoon/ – DevCon 2024 in Bangkok, bringing together founders, investors, and industry leaders to advance blockchain, AI, and digital privacy innovation. With participation from partners such as Bitte Protocol, Units Network, GLIF, Supermoon Ventures, Techstars, Dora Hacks, Borderless, and Cointelegraph, the series offered unique opportunities for networking, collaboration, and insight sharing.

On Nov 11, the Startup & Investor Speed Dating connected founders with a stellar lineup of investors from leading firms. Participants included Techstars, Supermoon Ventures, ABCDE, Borderless, Big Brain Holdings, Gumi Cryptos, Animoca, CV VC, Newman Capital, Foresight Ventures, Aves Lair, KXVC, Beacon VC, Consensys Mesh, and Rayo Capital. The session created meaningful opportunities for collaboration and deal flow between attendees and investors.

Following the Speed Dating, the Market Scaling Summit gathered 400 attendees to explore strategies for expanding into emerging markets, with LATAM emerging as the most talked-about region. Experts from Borderless, Techstars, Peanut Trade, Animoca, CV VC, Units.Network, GLIF, Foresight Ventures, Cointelegraph, Light Node Ventures, Aves Lair, and more delved into topics such as scaling strategies, the meme-coin economy, and achieving post-TGE success.

Alex Momot:

“If you have good community sentiment and transparent communication, it will outperform any market-making strategy.”

AI emerged as one of the most talked-about topics at Devcon, setting the stage for the Investing in AI Summit on Nov 12. The event brought together attendees to discuss advancements in DeAI, DePIN, AI agents, and censorship resistance. Experts from Dragonfly, Forbes Web3, Pantera Capital, Supermoon Ventures, Bankless, Filecoin, Protocol Labs, Bitte Protocol, and GLIF explored the potential of AI agents and key investment opportunities in this rapidly developing space. Notably, Bitte Protocol hosted in-depth workshops on developing highly sought-after AI agents.

Sasha Ivanov from Units Network:

“Interoperability is the key for AI and blockchain—creating tools that speak the same language bridges innovation gaps.”

The series concluded on Nov 13 with FHECon, an event dedicated to exploring the future of FHE and digital privacy. Co-hosted by Supermoon and Mind Labs, with Peanut Trade, Zama, SAT, and Comma3 Ventures as partners, the conference featured a stellar lineup of speakers, including representatives from Ethereum Foundation, Chainlink, Manta Network, GAIB AI, Figment Capital, and more. Discussions centered on how FHE can redefine digital sovereignty, transform AI applications, and set new standards for secure computation.

Across the four events, more than 1,000 attendees joined founders, investors, and industry leaders to exchange insights, foster top-tier connections, and explore emerging opportunities in blockchain, AI, and digital privacy.

Supermoon is continuing its momentum with upcoming events in New York, including a Residency and a meet-and-greet in partnership with the Ethereum Foundation, as well as a DeAI Builder Bootcamp with Build City and Venture Miner Academy.

About Event Partners

• ​​​Supermoon is a thriving network of 21,000+ founders, builders, and investors, driving impactful relationships that have helped startups raise more than $15 million.
• ​​Supermoon Ventures fuels startup success through community and strategic investment, building a foundation of support, resources, and high-potential deals in crypto, fintech, and AI.
• ​Peanut Trade is a profit-sharing market maker which offers a diverse array of services on Token Generation Event (TGE) strategies and Fair MEV Market Making. They are also experts in Memes Launches on Tron, Solana, BSC, Base and all EVM-chains.
• Mind Network, backed by Binance Labs, Hashkey, Big Brain, and Chainlink, is the first FHE infrastructure for PoS and AI, enabling secure computation across networks like Bitcoin restaking and EigenLayer AVS, with support from an Ethereum Foundation Grant for FHE research.
• ​​Bitte Protocol An AI-powered ecosystem simplifying blockchain transactions and DeFi with chat prompts, making blockchain more accessible to onboard the next wave of Web3 users efficiently.
• ​​​Units.Network are a foundational layer connecting all ecosystem chains in a fully interoperable and trustless manner.
• ​​​​GLIF is the foundational DeFi primitive of Filecoin – enabling Filecoin token holders to earn sustainable rewards on their $FIL by lending it to a diverse pool of Filecoin miners (also known as “Storage Providers”). GLIF has over $125 million in TVL, and has done over $500 million in total volume since launch.
• ​​DoraHacks connects global innovators through hackathons, BUIDLs, grants, and bounties. Users can create hacker profiles, join or host hackathons, build impactful technologies, tackle challenges for rewards, and accelerate projects with grants and quadratic funding.
• Cointelegraph Accelerator – A program providing media products, marketing advice, mentorship support and other benefits to accelerate the growth of Web3 startups.
• Forbes Web3: The Web3 growth and venture arm of Forbes. Building to empower the entrepreneurs in the space.

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