Rostyslav Bortman is Head of Blockchain Development at IdeaSoft and founder of ETHKyiv Community. He is one of the main faces of the global and Ukrainian Web3 development and a driving force behind crypto community development.
He has developed many outstanding Web3 products, while this year’s Ethereum hackathon in Kyiv organised by him and his team was attended by Vitalik Buterin – his keen friend and a dedicated colleague.
We talked about the future of the Ethereum market and ecosystem, and the Web3 sector in Ukraine and its specifics.
How did you find yourself in blockchain development? What attracted you to the Web3 industry?
Smart contracts. In 2016, my professor at the university came to me and offered me a topic for my thesis – ‘Smart contracts on Ethereum’ or something like that. I agreed. Since then, I couldn’t tear myself away from Solidity and Ethereum – I was completely taken by the concepts of decentralisation and the absence of intermediaries.
At the Incrypted Conference 2024, Vitalik Buterin noted that Ukrainian Web3 developers have made significant progress in creating innovative solutions. What do you think about this and how do you see the contribution of Ukrainian developers to the global development of blockchain?
At starters, there are different ways to contribute: to build a profound product with a good foundation that will go mainstream and have a direct impact on the development of Web3, or to be a developer in a team that builds the future of Web3, or to contribute to open-source communities.
Of course, among the cool teams in Web3, you can often find Ukrainian developers who build cool things in a team, and that’s very cool. However, we don’t see a massive number of Ukrainians developing products that go mainstream. We still need to work on this.
I think that the Ukrainian Web3 community is just starting to develop. As the organiser of the largest hackathon in Ukraine, I can say that we still have a lot of work to do on the…
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