ETHTokyo Highlights

Highlighted projects and talks from this year's Ethereum conference in Tokyo.

Sep 15 • 

Chris Sotraidis

August 2025

The GPT-5 Disaster

On cost-cutting disguised as progress, creative regressions, and reading the room

Aug 10 • 

Chris Sotraidis

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The Asynchronous Singularity

Uneven distribution, the reality of the human brain, and the counter to the gentle singularity

Aug 4 • 

Chris Sotraidis

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June 2025

Generation Brainrot

GenAI + Attention Algorithms = The Infinite Dopamine Machine

Jun 21 • 

Chris Sotraidis

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The Humanoid Century Begins

A realistic timeline for when humanoid robots leave the lab and enter your life.

Jun 13 • 

Chris Sotraidis

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Synthetic Trust: The LinkedIn Scam That Almost Worked

On Video Phishing, Fake Recruiters, and the Slow Collapse of Online Identity

Jun 6 • 

Chris Sotraidis

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April 2025

The Internet Is Dying: Fake People, Synthetic Authors, and the Collapse of the Web

On synthetic authorship, Proof of Personhood, and building an internet for humans

Apr 29 • 

Chris Sotraidis

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DolphinGemma and the Quest for Local Universal Translation

How Google’s DolphinGemma points to an on-device, real-time translation future

Apr 22 • 

Chris Sotraidis

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WTF is AGI?: Inside OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini

Smashing benchmarks, agentic usage, and feeling the AGI

Apr 17 • 

Chris Sotraidis

Nostalgia Jobs: Why the Future of Work Looks Like the Past

Emotional infrastructure, UBI, and filling the void

Apr 9 • 

Chris Sotraidis

2

March 2025

AiFi and the Dawn of a Decentralized AI Economy

“This is exactly how Lisan al Gaib would implement GPU tokenization”

Mar 28 • 

Chris Sotraidis

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ETHDenver 2025 Recap: Multi-Chain Expansion, AI, and Crypto’s Future

DeAI, Story, OAA, EigenDA, Agents, and stablecoins galore

Mar 7 • 

Chris Sotraidis

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