What Was DuneCon 2023?
DuneCon was held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 2 November 2023. Organised by Dune Analytics, the leading onchain data and analytics platform, it brought together blockchain researchers, protocol teams, and data specialists for a single curated day exploring multichain data, dashboards, and onchain analytics. The official page sat on the DuneCon site. Unlike typical industry conferences, DuneCon operates entirely on an invite-only basis, with no public ticket sales and every attendee, speaker, and session handpicked by the Dune team.
This deliberately curated, no-pay-to-play format gave DuneCon a genuinely different character from sponsor-driven industry events. To follow similar events, check the crypto events calendar and our crypto hackathons list.
Key Themes at DuneCon
The single-day agenda focused specifically on onchain data:
- Multichain analytics and dashboards.
- Onchain data accessibility.
- Protocol and research team insights.
- Genuine peer networking.
The handpicked, curated guest list, with no public registration available, gave every conversation at DuneCon a deliberately high-density, substantive character. Many guests also tracked broader blockchain events through CoinGabbar.
How DuneCon's Invite-Only Format Serves Crypto's Data Community
Dune Analytics has built its reputation specifically around making onchain blockchain data queryable and visualisable for a community of analysts, researchers, and curious builders, a niche but genuinely essential specialty within the broader crypto industry. DuneCon's invite-only model, explicitly avoiding ticket sales and pay-to-play sponsorship slots, reflected this community-first philosophy: rather than maximising attendance or sponsor revenue, the event prioritised gathering genuinely engaged data specialists who actively work with onchain analytics daily.
This curated approach meant DuneCon's Lisbon edition gathered a distinctly technical crowd compared to broader Web3 conferences in the same city, focusing specifically on the data infrastructure question increasingly central to blockchain research, protocol design, and onchain transparency. For more shows, see CoinGabbar's crypto conferences page.
Impact of DuneCon on the Onchain Data Community
A deliberately curated, invite-only data conference advanced crypto's onchain analytics community through genuine peer density rather than broad attendance. It connected protocol teams and researchers actively building with onchain data infrastructure. It surfaced multichain data accessibility as an increasingly central blockchain research challenge. And it reinforced Dune's role as the data community's central gathering point. Each session reflected that curated, community-first character.
Why Sponsors, Exhibitors and Partners Should Join
DuneCon reached crypto's most technically engaged onchain data specialists. Strong fits included:
- Multichain infrastructure providers: reach researchers actively building cross-chain analytics.
- Blockchain research organisations: connect with Dune's curated community of analysts.
- Protocol teams seeking data partnerships: engage specialists who actively query onchain data daily.
- Data visualisation and dashboard tools: demonstrate to a deeply technical, data-native audience.
- Onchain transparency initiatives: tap a community explicitly focused on data accessibility.
To get involved, you can list your event with the CoinGabbar team.
Why KOLs, Media and Influencers Attend
An invite-only, no-pay-to-play data conference offers genuinely substantive technical content free of typical sponsor-driven marketing narrative. Creators met researchers and protocol teams solving real onchain data accessibility problems. Coverage can spread through the press release network.
Why Builders and Participants Join
For onchain data specialists and protocol researchers, DuneCon offered genuinely curated access to crypto's most technically engaged data community. You engaged with multichain analytics challenges alongside fellow specialists actively building dashboards and queries daily, connected with protocol teams seeking genuine data partnerships, and explored onchain transparency questions in a deliberately handpicked, substantive setting. Many left with technical relationships grounded in shared, genuine data expertise rather than typical conference networking.
Tickets and PR Offers With CoinGabbar
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How the Event Concluded and What Came Next
DuneCon 2023 closed with a deliberately curated community carrying genuine technical relationships forward from a day built around substance rather than scale. Dune Analytics continued running DuneCon as an invite-only touring event in subsequent years, including editions tied to major Ethereum conference weeks. By prioritising curation over broad attendance, the Lisbon edition reinforced a genuinely different model for crypto industry gatherings, one built on community trust rather than ticket revenue. To follow what came next, see CoinGabbar's crypto summits page and our Web3 tech events list.
Glossary of Key Terms
- Dune Analytics: a leading platform for querying and visualising onchain blockchain data.
- Invite-only event: a gathering with no public ticket sales, where attendees are individually selected by organisers.
- Multichain analytics: analysing data across multiple different blockchain networks simultaneously.
- Dashboard: a visual interface displaying queried blockchain data, often built and shared by Dune's community.
- Onchain transparency: the principle that blockchain transaction data is publicly verifiable and analysable.
Disclaimer
This page is for general information only. It is not financial, legal, or tax advice. This is a data-focused conference that took place in November 2023; future dates and details may differ. Portuguese and EU crypto rules have evolved since; always check current Banco de Portugal guidance. Please confirm with the official source and do your own research. Crypto assets are volatile and can lose value.
