# Hackathon Opening Speech | Vivien Lin | ETHWarsaw [4]

- Channel: [ETH Warsaw](https://streameth.org/eth-warsaw)
- Date: 2025-11-09
- Duration: 03:50
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-frNstURQZ28
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frNstURQZ28

## Description

Hackathon Opening Speech by Vivien Lin from BingX

🎥 Recorded at ETHWarsaw 2025

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## Transcript

Okay, thank you. It's very exciting to be here. Good afternoon, builder, streamers, and decentralization believers. Um, it's a great honor to stand here today. I at Ethereum hack zone surrounded by some of the brightest mind in web 3. Whether you are here to build your first smart contract or deploy your tense protocols, this is a space where idea into impact and where open code becomes foundation for a more open cube future. Uh actually before I joining crypto as full-time, I used to question why decentralization really matter. I came from a traditional financial background where everything was built around centralized control, regulatory trust and instit institutional middleman. From that lens, the decentralized world looked um quite inefficient at that time, idealistic and sometimes even a little bit chaotic. But over time, especially through uh those bare markets, that view shifted. I realized decentralization is Not just a technical choice but it is a philosophical commitment to a world where no single entity has the right to rewrite the rules where user own their own data and where consensus not privilege define trust and that's why events like today are so important. We are here in one of the most exciting and sometimes underrated hubs in the European crypto scene. The city is a home for many shop developers, passionate communities, and teams that know how to ship through those noises. Waso isn't just building depths. It's helping building the backbone of a decentralized future. And this year, we're seeing a convergence of cryp uh very critical uh verticals. For example, PayFi bringing the crypto economy with real uh world application and defy evolving towards a greater uh stability, security and usability. Uh and also RWA is unlocking onchain access to global asset and capital market and of course infrastructures which is a silent force to make all those things possible from layer 2 scaling to a privacy preserving computation from u protection to modular blockchain technology. But we also must not forget this space is more than just product and protocols. It's about values like open access, censorship, resistance, transparency and user empowerment. So whether you are building in solidity, Rust or maybe you are just new to GitHub, you are contributing to something bigger and greater. At Bing X, we've seen um like firsthand um far a small team with the right question can go. And that's why we continue to uh join and sponsor the developers ecosystems and initiatives like this because we believe the next breakthrough will not come from a boardroom. It will come from a keyboard in a room like today. So let's build, let's change uh and let's challenge assumptions and let's write code that matters in the future. And also let's remember in a world increasingly optimized for control, choosing to build in the open is radical act and one that might just shape the future. And I will try to make it short and thank you all to stay here with me and happy hacking. >> Yes. Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much.