Another turn around the fire-orb in the sky and here we are, once again, migrating to the insane mountain-town of Denver, where it can never decide if its summer or winter, even from minute to minute. A place where rabbits can't tell if they're shedding or growing their coat every morning when they wake up.

And this is where innovation somehow happens?

We all know it to be true. Every year amazing things come from EthDenver! Projects from all over the world gather together to share their progress with an eager, receptive crowd of potential users, contributors, and investors. Deals are struck, friendships are made, and bonds are formed!

And all of this happens on a stage somewhere, with a person holding a mic while standing in front of a slideshow!

Ok, that's a lie. No deals are struck during a mainstage presentation. No friendships are formed while vigorously taking down notes from a slide deck that is probably floating around the internet somewhere anyway. And the bonds that people truly remember rarely are formed while sitting in an uncomfortable chair being monologued at by someone talking too fast!

This is the true magic sauce of any major event. Everyone knows the side events and the afterparties are where all the action goes down!

EthDenver is no different. Which side events are you going to? Did you get your ticket for the secret rave? Make sure you have your phone charged and Uber loaded up to get you around so you don't miss out on a single thing! Good luck... whether you're an old pro at tech events, or this is your first time, it is guaranteed that you will miss out on something, somewhere. Your fomo will not be abated, not here!

Projects, teams, and communities everywhere are dangling figurative carrots to entice all you mad hoppers to bounce over to their little corner of enticement. The Carrot Castle, however, is taking a much more literal approach:

We're giving out actual carrots.

No, for real. There's going to be so many carrots we're ALL gonna be orange by the end of the week! Fresh carrots, carrot juice, carrot cake, carrot suits... if it can be made out of carrots, we've got it.

But here's the real twist for you: Carrots are Money.

Yes, you heard that right. "But that doesn't make any sense" you say?

It might not make any sense, but it's true. We're giving out carrots all week long, and somehow, at the end of it all, people are going to get money for carrots! We did say that we were going to fix funding in web3, after all! Didn't we? Well, we're fixing funding! With carrots!

How's that for a..... well... carrot!

But what if you're tired of all the carrot-chasing and tail-wagging hype? We started out talking about making bonds and building friendships, after all...

The true heart of the Carrot Castle is the sofa. Just like our actual, literal carrots, we have an actual, literal sofa. We're just a hop, skip, and a jump away from the main stage, and we'll be there all week. Chilling, eating carrots, hot tubbing, and chatting with some of the coolest people in crypto. That's what the Castle is all about!

Starting first thing in the morning, we've already got water boiling ready to brew some tea or coffee. Grab some bagels to share and head over (or just come, someone else probably already brought bagels anyway) and hang out with Trigs around the sofa before heading off to get talked at all day, and instead talk at him about interesting stuff like your personal knowledge management strategies in the age of AI, or perhaps convince him to go for a casual morning hike through the park if it's sunny out!

Throughout the day, in between the big events, the Castle will be a slow-paced hub of casual activity. Drop by for personalized demos and workshops with unprecedented access to the amazing people that make events possible, and learn directly from their experience how to bring your own local events onchain! If you hang out for too long, you'll probably find yourself sucked into a conversation about onchain credentials for digital reputation or impact analysis strategies for funding allocation programs. Or you might find yourself judging a Pitch Battle, so watch out!

As the day winds down, you can always count on Sven to be winding it up at the Castle. If you're looking for a better time than a headache and a bar tab, late night chilling at the Castle is where you want to be. Grab some beverages, order in some food, we'll provide the sofa! We'll be hacking on grants, trying to figure out how to fix funding. Or how to fix a carrot themed whiskey sour; either way it'll be a lot more fun than not being able to hear people talk while potentially having a flashing light induced seizure. Or maybe you just didn't get invited to the Rave, but you want to pretend like you chose not to go...

We won't judge or pry, promise! We'll just hand you a carrot and welcome you to the castle.

If you've gotten this far, you're already down the rabbit hole, my friend.

Carrot Castle, aka 'the sofa' for EthDenver 2025

RSVP today, and don't just cheap out and get the free one. We've got a very angry carrot farmer who apparently doesn't understand what "public goods carrots" means.