The contrast is wild. Get invited to speak at mainstream industry conferences all expenses covered—keynotes running 60 minutes, news outlets covering it, massive web2 audience reach. Clean logistics, real platform.

Flip to crypto conferences hunting for speakers? They want us to pay $40k for a 15-minute slot squeezed between other talks. That's the current state of Web3 event economics. Meanwhile everyone's talking about mainstream adoption and bridging the gap. The irony's pretty thick when traditional conferences treat crypto voices as draws worth investing in, but blockchain-native events treat speakers like they should fund the ecosystem.