Bullet Points:
• Doodles Collab with Shopify won the Mainstream Award at the inaugural Crypties Awards in Miami on November 30.
• Onstage panels and interviews from conferences and summits including the Crypties 2022 Highlight Reel, Tezos was Ahead of the Proof-of-Stake Merge, and Raising in a Bear Market were also featured.
• The evening was sponsored by various crypto projects and organizations.
At the inaugural Crypties Awards, held in Miami on November 30, Decrypt Studios celebrated the best of the crypto world with an evening of awards and festivities. Presenters Igor Lilic and Gabriela Ramos Lilic of Breakout were on hand to recognize the achievements of the evening’s nominees, with Doodles Collab with Shopify taking home the Mainstream Award.
The other nominees in the category included RTFKT and Nike, Gmoney and Adidas, Tiffany and CryptoPunks, and TIMEpieces. After accepting the award on behalf of Doodles, Shirley Cedeno and Akbar Hamid celebrated their victory in a night filled with entertainment.
In addition to the awards, the Crypties 2022 Highlight Reel, featuring onstage panels and interviews from conferences and summits, was presented at the event. Kathleen Breitman, co-founder of Tezos, discussed the project’s use of a proof-of-stake mechanism since its inception, her admiration for Tendermint, Ethereum and sharding, progressive decentralization, and NFT gaming with Decrypt’s Stephen Graves onstage at Web Summit in Lisbon. Clay Robbins of Slow Ventures, Soona Amhaz of Volt Capital, Sarah Guo of Conviction and formerly Greylock, and Alex Strzesniewski of AngelBlock joined Decrypt’s Jason Nelson at 0xpo Summit in San Francisco on November 3 for an extensive panel on raising venture money even during Crypto Winter.
The evening was sponsored by Polygon, Filecoin Foundation, Lamina1, Async, BeetsDAO, The Gold Mask, Gem Set, Breakout, Anonymous, Infinite Objects, Ape Water, Decentralized Pictures, and Vault 721. Josh Ostrovsky („The Fat Jewish“) served as emcee for the evening, and the awards were given out in nine categories.
At the end of the night, the inaugural Crypties Awards was a success, celebrating the achievements of the crypto world, with Doodles Collab with Shopify taking home the Mainstream Award. The evening was filled with onstage panels, interviews, and presentations from conferences and summits, and was sponsored by various crypto projects and organizations. It was an evening of celebration, recognition, and entertainment, and a great start to the Crypties Awards.
