According to Blockworks, at the EthCC conference held in Brussels this week, many participants believed that the era of crypto infrastructure has passed and more usable consumer applications are needed. "We don't need more infrastructure, we just need usable applications," said Milk Road's social director. Emmanuel Awosika of 2077 Collective also said that consumer applications are necessary. A.J. Warner of Arbitrum developer Offchain Labs said that he heard 10 times more cross-chain interoperability ideas at the conference than new user applications. Despite this, feedback from EthCC shows that the demand for consumer applications remains strong. Arbitrum DAO plans to invest $215 million in crypto game projects. The market map released by Electric Capital's Maria Shen shows that more than a third of crypto projects are marked as applications. Mustafa Al-Bassam, CEO of Celestia Labs, believes that crypto should first focus on original use cases such as payments. Telegram and Solana are also developing crypto applications with actual users. Story Protocol announced the launch of the world's first intellectual property blockchain Story Network. Farcaster reaches 67,000 daily active users. Elliptic releases report linking “pig slaughter” crypto scam to Huione Guarantee market in Southeast Asia. Soccer stars Messi and Ronaldinho promote meme coin WaterCoin. Upcoming mobile shooter “For The Win” will be built on Solana.