Ethereum’s First App Town Hall? Or Just a Fancy Meetup?

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Key Highlights

  • The Ethereum Foundation is co-hosting the first App Town Hall with dApp partners, including Nouns, Aave, and ENS. 🧵
  • The event, held at Devconnect, served as a platform for key builders to reveal their plans for their applications. 🤯
  • Jason Chaskin will be leading the App Relations and Research segment. 🧑‍💻

Breaking news: Ethereum Foundation is hosting a town hall. Who knew? 🙃 The event is basically a fancy meet-up where devs will “share their plans” while sipping overpriced coffee and pretending they care about users. 🧾

This marks the first time such a broad coalition of major app-layer projects has convened for an open-forum discussion on the future of the Ethereum application. The initiative aims for transparency and alignment across the dApp ecosystem. Because nothing says “transparency” like a bunch of devs in a room talking about their plans. 🤔

The Ethereum Foundation is co-hosting the first ever App Town Hall.

A new format bringing the Ethereum app community together for real updates, honest discussions, and forward-looking announcements.

Nov 18 at La Rural

– Ethereum Foundation (@ethereumfndn) November 15, 2025

Hosts at App Town Hall

The App Town Hall will be held on November 18 from 10:00 to 18:00 at the Amphitheater in La Rural, the central venue for Devconnect. Co-hosts include the Ethereum Foundation, Nouns, Octant, Aave, ENS, and POAP. The event is an open forum for the community. The objective is for leading application teams to “pull back the curtains” on their development pipelines, revealing their plans for shaping favorite dApps now, in 2026. 🎭

Attendees will hear from principals across the application landscape, including representatives from Aave, ENS, Farcaster, Lido, Safe, Uniswap (CEO Hayden Adams), and the Ethereum Foundation’s Jason Chaskin. Historically, public forums in the Ethereum ecosystem, like Devcon and Devconnect, have prioritized core protocol development and research. 🧠

While application-layer projects have always been integral to the success of the network, there has been a real need for a more formal, unified venue on the state of the apps. The new App Town Hall grows out of a growing recognition that there is so much value in having a place where the teams building consumer-facing dApps can communicate directly with users, developers, and fellow builders. 🤝

Community-centric forum

The setting of Devconnect, characterized by its more focused technical workshops and community-driven events, represents the ideal environment within which to bridge the gap between core protocol developers and the application teams driving real-world utility. 🌐

The event brings together diverse entities, from the Ethereum Foundation focused on research and ecosystem health to DeFi players like Aave, Uniswap, and Lido, identity and infrastructure projects like ENS and Safe, and DAOs like Nouns, to address common challenges and prevent fragmentation. 🧩

Jason Chaskin is the App Relations & Research lead. He aims to make sure that application development in the future aligns more with the basic principles and technical roadmaps of the Ethereum base layer. 🧠

The open question-and-answer format aims to create direct feedback loops, meaning community input collected here can directly affect product roadmaps for participating organizations, helping build more integrated and resilient applications on Ethereum. 🤯

The App Town Hall serves as a clear indication that the Ethereum community is focusing on collaborative, user-focused development to meet the vision for dApps in the coming years. 🚀

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2025-11-16 00:22