ETHGlobal Istanbul 2023 Highlight Video

[Music] this is not a conference is all about a hacker 24 attendees 13 to 50 of them are hackers from 90 different countries but also our biggest event ever [Music] yeah it's the most exhilarating place that I've ever been is in web 3 hackathon it's completely different from any other type of conference I've seen before it is the best opportunity to actually get into web 3 is to go through a hackathon the event's been really amazing out of all the hackathons this one's the best that we've been to so far the turnout is huge the food is amazing it's a lot of good bike a lot of hackers a lot of friends everybody is focus on building so they want to build create so the bipe is amazing the main piece of advice I would give to firsttime hackers is to decide what you're building as early as possible should not take so much time you can create and test incredible idea in extremely supportive environment it's really nice uh my advice would be to keep it simple just find a problem that you can solve this is a place to to experiment but also to solve problem so keep it simple and just have fun the the latest moment like the the last hour before people have to submit right this is the most exciting time people are trying to finalize [Music] everything we have had 18 projects we were expecting like five and all of them are super high quality like amazing brand new ideas with DK and it's it's been really really exciting to to go through them I remember judging in India I remember judging in New York uh I remember judging in Mexico City it's always very fun always like the energy is amazing this time it was special because there's like over 1300 hackers you know we always check GitHub and we've seen people doing comets like 5:00 a.m. 4:00 a.m. 3:00 a.

m. like basically coding overnight I think again looking at the trajectory and the evolution of the types of projects that we see being built is really really impressive it's very inspiring to see like Turkish students come in they were like like a few local groups so being part of the community it's nice to see them come in but I'm very inspired like I'm super excited to see the end [Music] results 1350 hackers spent the last 48 hours working on incredible project 427 projects came out of this weekend best Fusion AP the winner is toaster for $2500 best roll coin now for $5,000 proy piano di is the $3,000 winner and a hoodie best use OFA goes to direct out for 5,000 o snap V2 for [Music] 2,000 having judged so many East Global hackathons since 2018 you really see the progression in quality work the amount of enthusiasm the amount of diversity and variety coming into the ecosystem impressive journey to to follow the Grand Prize winners are Kitty cross private cloud and hugging Lily you all get [Music] $3,000 this officially concludes East Global estanbul thank you so much for coming don't forget to meet us again in India in 3 weeks