Bilal El Alamy (PyratzLabs): "Web3 needs its ChatGPT".
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‍Co-founder of start-up studio PyratzLabs, the French entrepreneur wants to build more bridges with the traditional economy. He believes that Web3 needs concrete cases to reach the general public.

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The Big Whale: Paris has just hosted Paris Blockchain Week and NFT Paris in the space of a month, which are two major Web3 events. What do you think of them?

Bilal El Alamy: It's an excellent thing. The two events are very different. NFT Paris is more geared towards individuals, whereas PBW has really become an event dedicated to businesses.

But overall what's interesting is that these events and the thousands of people they attract are putting Paris at the centre of the global ecosystem 🌍.

Just how do you see the French ecosystem, and more broadly the European ecosystem? We're in a period that's not easy...

We've clearly lived through an extraordinary period with a lot of money, projects, promises and abuses. The scandals of 2022 sounded the end of the playground and left a bitter taste in the mouths of many.

The FTX crash hurt the sector like crazy. Right now, we're still in the period where things are winding down, but we need to react quickly collectively so that the bitterness is temporary.

How to go about it?

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Grégory Raymond

Grégory Raymond is Head of Research and co-founder of The Big Whale. A specialist at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets, he has been covering the regulatory, institutional and technological developments of the sector since 2017 for an audience of decision-makers: ,banks, asset managers and fintechs. He is also the author of Bitcoin & Cryptos: L'enjeu du siècle (Talent Éditions, 2025), a book built around interviews with key figures from the ecosystem.

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Raphaël Bloch

Raphaël Bloch is CEO and co-founder of The Big Whale, an independent market intelligence platform on digital assets serving financial market participants through editorial coverage, research, a weekly briefing, and in-person events. He co-founded The Big Whale in April 2022. At the platform, he moderates and hosts institutional events bringing together banks, asset managers, custodians, and infrastructure providers on topics including staking, on-chain yield, stablecoins, DeFi lending, and tokenisation. He has moderated panels at events hosted in partnership with Bitwise, Everstake, Gemini, Morpho, Hexarq, Coinhouse, Delubac, Franklin Templeton, and the Ethereum Foundation, held in London and Paris between late 2025 and mid-2026.

Before founding The Big Whale, Bloch worked as a reporter at Les Echos from December 2016 to March 2020, then at L'Express from March 2020 to March 2022. He also previously worked at Reuters. Since September 2022, he has held a concurrent role as Business Analyst at BFM Business. He has been active in crypto journalism since 2016. He holds degrees from emlyon and the CFJ.

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