By Maria Gracia Santillana Linares

Despite the chilly winter storm depressing cryptocurrency prices, digital asset entrepreneurs, developers, venture capitalists and enthusiasts gathered in Cambridge, MA today for Link Venture’s Imagination in Action Web3 Summit where the movers and shakers ranged from Stuart Haber and Scott Stornetta, co-inventors of blockchain, to Web 2.0 grand dame Esther Dyson and Ben Mezrich, author of Bitcoin BTC Billionaires and the book that inspired the Academy Award winning Social Network.

Hosted at the top floor of MIT’s Media Lab, the Imagination in Action Web3 Summit brought together over 580 Web3 developers, investors, creators, and academics to discuss the future of Web3 technology. The list of speakers was brimming, including John Wu of Ava Labs, Bill Barhdyt of Abra, Yat Siu of Animoca, MIT Media Lab’s Ramesh Raskar, Kleiner Perkins’ Bing Gordon and Mike Federle, CEO of Forbes.