Welcome & Opening Ceremonies I Kartik Talwar

Good evening everyone. My name is Kartik, I am one of the co-founders of ETH Global. I want to welcome you all to ETH Global New York. This is not a conference. You are at the ETH Global Hackathon, and our mission is to and our mission is to engage thousands of developers in the web3 ecosystem.

What makes this weekend a hackathon, and what sets these events apart, is our belief in a few key things. Our focus here is on developers. Everyone in this room is here to create something. These are places where you can learn, get help, and grow as a developer. And the most important thing that distinguishes this from any distinguishes this from any other event is that other event is that we believe that showing is much more important than telling.

This means that this Sunday everyone will show what they have built, not just talk about it. We started by hosting a small hackathon in the city of Waterloo in 2017. This was the moment of NFT emergence. They were invented at this very event, and it made us look at it as a bigger opportunity. We made ETH Global an official company.

Events began to be held in other parts of the world. We went to Argentina, San Francisco, Singapore. That first year, we expanded to cover even more parts of the world. We launched more events in Europe. We went to Africa for the first time .

This was the first time we held an event in New York. After that, everything continued. We held an event in London and started doing more online doing more online events. 2021 was completely online. We began to combine offline and online events.

We started with Amsterdam, then there were New York, Mexico City, Bangalore, Bogota, Devcon, Devconnect, adding many other cities. We kept moving forward. In 2024, we opened our sixth continent by hosting ETH Global in Sydney. Last year we held events in Taipei, New Delhi, Prague, New York, Argentina, Cannes and started this year with our ETH Global hackathon. And just recently, earlier this week, we held ETHGlobal, which became the largest institutional event for Ethereum in America.

2,000 people, 600 participants and many founders and speakers from all over the world. To date, including ETHGlobal, we have hosted over 331 events over the past eight and a half years, hosting 165,000 people in person from over 156 different countries. In total different countries. In total , over 18,000 projects were created for hackathons alone . We have given away over $16 million in prizes.

We created nearly 3,000 training videos on how to use each individual protocol, all of which are publicly available on our YouTube, and so many projects emerged from these events that they grew into companies that have collectively raised over $500 million on this account alone. We're still having a pretty good year. This is only half the way. We have a hackathon in Mumbai with Devcon in November, events in Tokyo in September, and in Lisbon in July, and that's in six weeks. But today and this entire weekend are dedicated to our return to New York.

Yes, there are almost 700 of you here. People still continue to arrive. We're letting in the last hackers. Of these, almost 500 are hackers. 30% of them 500 are hackers.

30% of them are new to Web3, meaning they are still transitioning from the AI ​​to crypto space. People here are from 151 unique cities, 45 different countries, six continents. That's where everyone came from. It's still incredible to see It's still incredible to see people coming from all over the world. And this week was special because they came to EthCC and the hackathon.

Not just hackers, there are over 100, almost 100 people from different companies helping you throughout this weekend, and 17 dedicated technical mentors ready to help you unlock everything you need to build your projects. We held 20 workshops, which took place this morning alone. They are all already on YouTube. And since this is not a conference, there will be no lectures this weekend. And the best part—we're giving away over $200,000 in prize money that each of you can win this weekend alone thanks to our 16 incredible sponsors.

So please join me in congratulating and thanking all of our amazing sponsors. So let's give a big round of applause to 1inch, ENS, Google Cloud, Arc, Chainlink, Hedera, Ledger, LiFi, Privy, Sui, Uniswap Foundation, Worldcoin, Canto, Dynamic, Unlink, and Blank. They are all in this room now. They will be here to help you. They have lots of great prizes, lots of SDKs that will make your job easier, and you can chat with them throughout the weekend.

But I want to spend the next 10 minutes going over the key things you need to know for this event, because we've changed a lot. So let's get straight to the point. I want to talk about logistics. The hackathon officially starts now starts now . You can start working on your projects.

Everything you saw at the seminars is recorded and available live. You can go to the eglobal.com YouTube channel to watch all of these videos on demand. And all the speakers who gave these seminars are also in this room. So you can just approach them and ask any additional questions.

So, we changed some rules. So this is the most important part. The main thing is that in addition to starting work on projects now, your team can have up to five members, and you have the next 36 and a half hours to develop, which means the submission deadline is 9:00 AM. And if you use AI, any LLM, or other software to write code—that's great. This is very good.

Keep doing this. We want you to use it. But we have advice on when it's best not to do it, as we've been watching this for about two years now and have over 5,000 examples of where it works poorly. Using Cursor, Claude , code generators, whatever—it's completely allowed. But when submitting a project, you will be asked to separately explain which parts were your contribution and which were your contribution and which were delegated.

This is part of the overall process; On the project submission page, you will see the specific question we are asking. Make sure you have the answer to this question. We also recommend that if you don't want to be disqualified for potential fraud—that is, if we can't determine who did the work or whether it has been done before—please also include any plan files that your software generates. We can at least evaluate the plan. We will see a file in markdown format.

We'll see what the instructions were. As for chats—whatever you use to communicate, that's fine. But please add the plan files to the submission repository. And you'll have to wait a lot if you're going to delegate a lot of tasks to code generators. This is still acceptable.

We recommend interacting with real people in the room during this process. Whether it's our sponsors, other hackers sponsors, other hackers , mentors, or me— , mentors, or me— ask for feedback. Try to understand whether you have chosen the right problem to solve, because now the implementation has become much easier. But here's where it gets interesting. We found that these things actually don't work in your favor in this situation.

Most importantly: don't use AI to choose what to work on. You will get very, very, very bad advice. We see this over and over again, there are thousands of data points on this. You won't get a good answer unless you spend significantly more time refining the result and having it actually tested by a human. Whether it's our partners, our mentors, other hackers, or even your teammates .

You may have an initial generated idea, but don't take it as final or put it on the same level as something you might come up with yourself. Also, don't use this to evaluate your idea to evaluate your idea . We have noticed that bias is a real problem, especially in the cryptosphere, where you will tend to get answers to get answers that do not play in your favor , because the public information on which the models are trained is not optimized for the dissemination of crypto technologies or for considering smart considering smart contracts as something truly high-quality and secure. So if you say, "I have this idea. Can you tell me what's good and what's bad about it?"

Chances are you won't get many good answers. So use a human in the process to check if you are on the right track. There are also many companies and partners who have new protocols and SDKs and want you to try them because they need feedback. And when you do, don't blindly drop links saying "implement this after reading the documentation." You need to have an idea of ​​what exactly you want to see, and know for yourself whether it's possible and how it should work, so that you can test the result.

This is not about AI hallucinations. This means that the assessment of the success of integration can be distorted: the system may say that everything is done correctly, but in practice this may not be the case. And you have to understand where exactly the disagreement arises. Most importantly: just because you have extra help and 50 agents help and 50 agents working for you is no excuse for not understanding what's going on. If you don't know what's going on in your codebase, you won't be able to explain to us or our judges why it works or where the problems are occurring.

It won't benefit your personal development, and it certainly won't help you win any prizes. Use everything else as efficiently as possible, especially when it comes to the interface (UI). And now the important part. We have introduced what is called a continuity track. Over the years and decades, almost two decades, hackathons have remained largely unchanged.

We've been playing this game for over 15 years, and the recipe for what a hackathon should look like remains almost unchanged. You come in, start from scratch, create something, and when you're done, you may or may not win a prize, and you just move on to the next thing. We agree that this is wrong and we are going to fix it. Additionally, one of the reasons we went global was to improve the entire ecosystem—from the language specifications to the Ethereum protocol itself—helping developers get quality feedback and create opportunities in the industry. So this weekend we are introducing a continuity track, which allows you to build on existing projects.

This is very important, because it means that many of you will not be starting from scratch. You already have a project that you can add new features to, and we want to support it this weekend. But if we do this while keeping all the other elements, we will have to take into account many nuances. So the next few slides will help you clarify some of these points. You can do three things.

Continue to build from scratch. You can extend any open-source project or implement a new feature into something that already exists. Whether it's your company, your personal project, or something where you just want to add a little improvement. I will tell you about all this in more detail. So, first: what does a track look like “from scratch track look like “from scratch ”?

This is the default track . This is something you are all used to if you have attended other events, including ours. Nothing changes. If you chose the " from scratch" track, you simply create a new repository on GitHub, add your idea, work on it with the team, and submit the project. Everything is simple and clear.

If you choose the continuity track, you need to do a few new things. Here are the specifics for expanding open-source projects. The main thing here is projects. The main thing here is that if you decide to work on previous work, you must also make your new work open source. I will give two examples.

You have found a very good open-source repository. Let's say this is a D5 project with a public interface, and you say, "I like how it's done, but this little thing really annoys me." But it's open source and I notice a bug when using it in Safari compared to Chrome. I'm going to fix this. "And I see a problem that someone wrote about, but no one responded.

You can fork this repository. You can submit a patch and make it significantly better. You don't have to push it back into the same repository. You can just leave the fork and maintain the new version. All of that is allowed because you're only working on something new, but it's still open source and still on GitHub.

The second case: maybe you were with us two months ago at HCC and submitted a project to ETH Global, and now you want to add a new feature to the same project. That's also allowed. So you can continue to develop, add new features, build on what you've been doing, and we'll help with the distribution. But the most important thing here is that the important thing here is that the new changes should be open source. So if you're forking a big project, create a new repository on your GitHub account and add the changes there.

If it's your own project, we still recommend forking because it makes it easier to track changes between branches. So when you add a repository, we'll know what's been done because we're tracking it and using the GitHub API to track commits. The second case, which is a bit different, is case, which is a bit different, is if you want to add something to the closed source code. You're a founder in this room and you want to add a new feature. Let's say I want to integrate one of our partners.

We don't require you to open source your proprietary code, and that's fine. But we want you to go that route if you can create a module for your existing product. If that module is open source, you can use the APIs that are in your company's repository. You can use REST APIs use REST APIs that may not be documented, or you can use a private API key that's just for you. All of that is fine, as long as the new work is open source.

That counts. We want to be able to track that. We want to see exactly what's want to see exactly what's been done. and you're working on things that may not be applicable to everyone, but we understand what's been done now compared to what was done before was done before you started. These are just two continuity options, and there will be a few more exceptions.

We've only had a few teams that have chosen this third path. So if you're one of those teams, I'll be here all weekend to clarify all of these exceptions as we're going to look at them one by one or just confirm that everything is okay. I'll also be writing to everyone after that so we can clarify and make sure that you're all eligible and doing everything the way we think is right. But now all three paths are available , and you can do it entirely through your dashboard. The main thing here is that the prizes are based on the direction.

So when you choose the prizes, if one of our partners doesn't offer a continuity prize and you choose continuity, you won't be able to choose them when you apply. So you're not eligible for their prizes. You can't just automatically apply for everything . You have to know which direction you belong to. And only those prizes will be available to each of you.

And it all happens in your dashboard. You'll see very big signs and buttons that will allow you to choose a direction, and we're here to help, because we're going to learn a lot this weekend and we're going to be able to improve this process in the future. So, there's going to be a lot of questions. Come see me in person. I'll also be walking around tonight, and we want to help you create something really cool.

Now, a few things. Security. This place is open 24/7, even after the ceremony is over. There's a no- wristband-no- entry rule, which means that even though you can come in at 3 a.m.

or leave at 3 a.m., if you don't have a wristband, you won't be let in. We also need your badge, especially at night badge, especially at night . If you lose it—something went wrong.

That doesn't bode well for you. We need to know what's going on. And we need to replace the second wristband. We're not going to replace it for you. So please make sure you're wearing it by Sunday wearing it by Sunday .

They're waterproof . They're waterproof . You should be fine. If you have any allergies, let us know. We'll take care of it.

question. And this place is still open 24/7. There is plenty of food, snacks and everything. Please make sure not to litter not to litter . Clean up after yourself.

There are plenty of bins. Throw your rubbish away when you are finished. And keep an eye on your belongings. We can't control everything that happens in this room and on all floors. So please don't leave valuables unattended.

And lastly, the internet. We are using Wi-Fi 7. Everything should work very well. But if something doesn't work, most likely you have changed your location and your laptop hasn't reconnected to the nearest router, which is why the speed is slow. If this happens, go back to where you were before, or just turn off the Wi-Fi for 10 seconds and turn it back on.

It will connect to the nearest router and everything will work again. What you definitely shouldn't do is turn on the access point, because it creates interference within a radius of 8 meters for everyone around, and because of this everyone will have bad internet, and we don't want that. It happens every time. We tell people this every time. We 'll come and turn off hotspots.

If you want good internet, you have to make sure that others have the same . Just let us know where the internet is down where the internet is down . We have a team that constantly checks the network and they'll fix it. Don't try to solve the problem yourself by turning on the hotspot. That's all I wanted to say.

Everything else is on the site. It's the main source of information. If something is delayed, we first update the site, and then notify all of you here or on Discord. So be sure to check the site if you want to know anything about the organization of this weekend. The rest of the communication and support happens on Discord, which is only accessible to those who are here .

You can write to us, our mentors and partners, including those employees who are not here physically, but are available in other time zones. That way you get support 24/7. All this is on our channel on Discord, which you can go to directly from the hacker panel. But the most important thing is that you are here in person. There are 600 of you here, just talk to each other.

Chances are someone already knows what you are trying to figure out, especially if it is about code. We want you to meet a lot of people from all over the world. A few points: the vending machine map is also available on the website. We printed it out so you can see where everything is. There will be a lot of food and other things prepared for you.

Tonight we had dinner. Tomorrow there will be brunch, dinner and a midnight snack. And on Sunday you will have breakfast and lunch. The midnight snack tomorrow will be ice cream, delivered at exactly midnight. We also have some interesting activities: for example, on Saturday afternoon on the third floor you can get creative.

If you have n't taken a photo yet, we will make sure that you have a souvenir of this event right next to the reception desk. So come and visit the photo zone and take a picture with your team. And of course, don't forget about the awesome giveaway that our team has prepared . If you have n't received it yet, you can do so at registration; it includes this awesome sweater, a wireless microphone, a bag, our New York sticker collection and more; we also have four special booths of our our favorite teams. These are four projects from past hackathons that became companies, and we are giving them the opportunity to showcase their developments and get feedback from you as users.

So, come and talk to the Aquaza Zero, CodeQuil, PMO and Railbridge teams in the hall. They will be happy to tell you how their hackathon project turned into a real business. Now let's talk about the judging. This is very important, especially when you think about the development of the project and the finalists. Our sponsors have prepared over $200,000 in prize money.

Applications are accepted until 9:00 am on Sunday. When it's time to submit your applications, you will need to choose one of tracks for the submission process. You can choose only the partner prize or the finalist prize. The finalist track is an additional one, meaning you can participate in both. So, by choosing the partner track, you can automatically choose up to three companies and three of our partners for whom you want to compete for prizes.

You will automatically become a contender for any prize in that track, and they will decide which version of that prize is best for you. If you choose this track, you submit your project, then go to the booth, show what you have created, and they ask questions and evaluate your work. If you choose the finalist track, you can enter the top 10 projects of the entire event. And the top 10 teams will be able to go on stage on Sunday and show everyone what they have created. This is an additional opportunity additional opportunity , meaning you still qualify for all the prizes from our partners, but you get additional prizes if you become one of these 10 teams.

Your difference is that you become a finalist and receive a finalist kit for this hackathon. If you are a finalist, you get Eat Global Plus for one year and $1,000 per team member in addition to other prizes. We will pay for your flight to the next hackathon we are hosting. You will be able to attend Ethcom next year for free. We host many events with founders in this space.

You will be able to attend these closed events and receive over $15,000 in developer credits, including cloud hosting and web services, to help your project go beyond just a hackathon and become a reality. Every team and every team member gets this. To be selected, you have to clearly show us that this was a purposefully developed project that you want to present on stage, and therefore your repository must be available for review. You can’t just commit a million lines, call it an update, and hope that’s enough. If we don’t see the development stages and the project looks too “ looks too “ polished” after two commits— after two commits— disqualification.

The project must be open source, deployed, and working: if you don’t have a website that the judge can interact with and run a full demo on their own computer, you don’t make it to the finals. So during the judging on Sunday, we’ll check if the project is working and if we can use it. If not use it. If not , you won’t be able to pitch to our judges. You’ll be asked to leave.

You must have a video demo to submit your application, because if something goes wrong, it will serve as a backup. This is a mandatory requirement to become a finalist. You must personally demonstrate your project to the judges, because they will be asking questions live; they will be completely different people, not our partners. For the sake of continuity, we will divide the top 10 teams in the following proportions. So, there will be up to seven finalists in the “from scratch” categories and up to three finalists in the “ finalists in the “ continuity” track.

We’ll try to do that now. We we'll work on the proportions at our next event. And any partner prizes you choose do not affect your chances of making it to the finals. The finalist prizes are awarded for seeing the problem you're solving and whether you can convincingly prove that it actually solves the problem. You can integrate zero APIs or three, the odds are even, because what you're building will be judged, not what SDK you're using.

So, all of these are additional opportunities. All of this happens during the project submission. So make sure that if you're a finalist winner, you can do a separate demo. Each team will have seven minutes: four minutes for the demo itself and three minutes for Q &A. You must provide a video and have a working website.

And please website. And please , please, please, don't do it at the last minute. The project submission will take at least 40 minutes, because you might think because you might think that a 4-minute video will only take you 4 minutes. It's not. You're allowed to edit the materials to edit the materials .

You'll have to make a bunch of takes. If something goes wrong, you'll have to start over. Make sure you read the submission criteria and the form in advance so you have all the answers ready the answers ready . And everything else is also on the dashboard dashboard , which means that if you forgot to apply for the partner prize because you did n't click on their logo... We have no way of knowing.

They have no way of knowing either. So you have to make sure you've ticked everyone correctly, because only then will they get a notification get a notification that you have to demonstrate your project. And when the judging for our partners takes place on Sunday, everything will be in a live queue: if you've chosen three partners and want to be a finalist, when you get in line, you have to be ready to demonstrate. The same goes for the finalist demonstration above. Make sure you get in the shortest line.

The order doesn't matter. You can go anywhere. You can move from place to place. You want everything to go smoothly because all these things are happening at the same time. So optimize the process based on your preferences and readiness.

And one more thing we keep noticing: the better your submission, the better your chances of winning. Record a video so everyone can see for themselves how it works. You can pause it. You can take more time. Ask follow-up questions.

If you're doing a presentation, keep it very short. We don't need a two-minute introduction. A maximum of 30 seconds on everything related to who you are, why you built it, what it is, and three minutes for the actual demonstration. Make sure you're using GitHub and Git correctly. Commit frequently.

Use pull Use pull requests. Make sure your team members commit too . The smaller the changes, the easier it is for us to understand who did what and whether there was any fraud. And the more detail you add to the project page, including screenshots and work details, the better your chances are, that the viewer will understand what is happening, why and how it works. And they will choose you, not those who did not explain their creation very well.

So the last tip: make the project submission high-quality. The better the page looks, the higher your chances. Very simple statistics based on 20,000 projects that we have seen. You will have a lot of questions, especially this time, because we have a lot of new things. So, if you have a question or you are stuck with the code and do not know how to get help, we have a lot of mentors we have a lot of mentors ready to help.

You can ask them on Discord. They work 24/7. They will be on duty from 3 am to 3 am, in fact, at any time. And the convenient thing is that they are wearing neon vests. Look for them by this attribute.

Anyone in such a vest will help you, and they will be here all weekend. For all other questions, contact Discord, email or help center. There is also physical check- in desk. I'll be walking around. Please be patient with us.

Make sure you get all your questions answered because we want this experience to be great for you . And while this is a personal event and you may be here multiple times, our code of conduct and rules still apply. So please read all of our rules about how everything is organized. But most importantly, be respectful to everyone present. People come from all over the world, with all kinds of backgrounds.

We want everyone to have a positive experience, so no form of harassment will be tolerated. You will be kicked out and banned immediately. The most important thing here is that anything you create will belong to you and equally to every team member who participated in the project participated in the project . So neither ETH Global nor . So neither ETH Global nor any of our partners have any rights to the intellectual property that you create.

After you submit your application, you can do whatever you want with your project . And if there are five of you, all five of you have equal rights to this job. Before we get to the big stuff, I want to invite three incredible people to come on stage to talk about who they are, what they're passionate about, and how you can benefit from what they've simplified for you. So, I'm going to bring in some of our partners. I'm going to start with Tanner from 1inch, to tell you about 1inch and what they're most excited about here.

So please give Tanner a big round of applause. Okay. Hi everyone. My name is Tanner. I'm the Technical Account Manager at 1inch, and I'll be one of your guides this weekend through all of your awesome hackathon projects.

Oh, that's exactly what I was going to say. Oops. Yeah, as many of you know, we started out as a hackathon started out as a hackathon project, actually, like this project seven years ago project seven years ago . We've grown into a huge player in the DeFi space. So whatever you're working on, know that if your idea is worth it and you put in enough effort, it could grow into one of the most important players in the industry.

I hope this inspires you and helps you stay motivated throughout the weekend. Our bounty programs will be entirely dedicated to 1inch Fusion, which is a new take on AMM design. It’s a true non-custodial AMM. Instead of putting liquidity into a contract that everyone else interacts with and then taking it out and getting a commission, everything stays in your own wallet—this is a fundamental shift in how we think about AMM in general. This will have huge implications for users, liquidity providers, and developers.

So even if you’re not building a DeFi project this weekend, you should pay attention to this, because this is an important step that will change the entire ecosystem. We have $7,000 in rewards to be distributed among new projects that implement Fusion, as well as existing projects that integrate this technology. This is a QR code. It will take you directly to our bounty page. There will be links to our SDKs, white papers, examples, and smart examples, and smart contracts.

Everything you need to get started on this project is there. If you have you have any questions, I'm here. There are six of us here are six of us here . We'd love to chat with you. We have a lot of cool merch.

So please merch. So please come by and say hello. And good luck with your projects. Thank you. Thank you.

Next, I want to invite Gotham from Google Cloud to tell you all about what they're doing at Google Cloud for Web3. Please give him a round of applause. Hello everyone. How are you all doing today? Tr oh, more enthusiasm.

Well, because. This is the right mood. Greetings to everyone. My name is Gotham. I am an engineer on the Google Cloud Web3 team.

The team has been around since 2018, and we have a direction for you, which is essentially to use the best application to work with ERC-80004 data, you know, for a prize pool of $5,000. If you have any questions, you can contact us through our booth over there. And yes, in terms of what the team supports: we have at least over 40 datasets over 40 datasets . We support free storage and one terabyte of free requests per month. Many of these datasets include partners such as TRM, QuickNode, etc.

such as TRM, QuickNode, etc. , as well as many different networks. And we also support 10 different different faucets. All you need is a Google account. You don't need to register through social media or anything like that.

You just log in . It's very simple. We also have a Google Cloud Web3 program for startups where we offer $200,000 in loans for at least two years. It's just an application process, and if you have a grant, you're almost guaranteed to be accepted, but that's basically all the services we have right now . If you have any questions about this direction—what exactly it involves, namely the use of ERC- the use of ERC- 80004 data, and who is best placed to handle it— handle it— let us know.

We are at the stand over there. We have Discord, and yes, I wish everyone good luck in the hackathon. So, thank you. Thank you, Gotham. And finally, I want to invite Greg from ENS to tell you all about how to use ENS in your projects.

Please welcome him with loud applause. Okay. Hello everyone. Who's ready to start hacking right after this? I am the last speaker, after me only the return to Karthik.

Are we ready for hacking? That's it. Oh, is that the wrong button? That's it. Okay.

I'm Greg from ENS, and I'll be presenting the Ethereum Name Service. For those who don't know, ENS is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol powered by Ethereum that scales to the entire internet. The simplest use case is to convert complex hexadecimal addresses into human-readable names. So instead of drinking coffee and telling someone to refund the money to address 0x17988627 money to address 0x17988627 , and so on, I won't read all this. Instead, I can just say, " just say, " Send me $5 to gregirl."

Obviously, it's much simpler. And this is the simplest way to use ENS. But I want you to think of ENS names as universal pointers to pointers to anything on the Internet. Yes, you can call wallets, but also smart contracts. You can also name any decentralized registry or add verified credentials to the ENS name.

You can create decentralized websites. You can create package registries, as we did at the previous ETH Global hackathon. You can store on-chain metadata for your AI agents. In fact, the possibilities are endless. I hope this inspires you to build on ENS.

And if that's not enough, we also have $20,000 in prize money this weekend. The top level is for projects built from scratch, and the bottom level is for the continuity track. If you are creating something for AI agents or AI agents or any creative project based on ENS, we would be happy to see you. Additionally, anyone who integrates ENS, even if they don't win one of the six prizes in the previous categories, can share in the $6,000 prize pool. So it's quite likely that by building something on ENS, you could win something this weekend.

And if you have a finished product you have a finished product , you can of course improve it with ENS. That's all I wanted to say. If you have any questions, our booth is right there. Happy hacking. Surprisingly.

That was all we wanted to announce from our partners. So, to sum up: there are a lot of prizes. To be exact, $200,000. ENS is offering $20,000 in prizes. Arcchain, Link, Leafi, Sui World offer up to $15,000 in prize money each.

Canton, Dynamic, Ledger, UniS Swap, and 1inch are offering prizes of $10,000 each. Blink, Google Cloud, Privy and Unlink. They have prizes of up to $5,000 each. All details regarding the criteria, distribution, and conditions for receiving prizes can be found on the event page. If you are still looking for a team and need people with certain skills, a workshop will start in 10 minutes on the third floor in seminar room #2 .

There you will be able to meet other participants who are looking for a team, and we will help you team up and share ideas. Last but not least : we want this weekend to be a real pleasure for you . Don't rush. Don't try to give it your all too quickly. Don't forget to rest.

We want you to have fun fun . We want you to learn something new by the end of the weekend that you didn't know before. After all, the main thing here is experiments. Let's make the most of this weekend by having so many smart people in one building people in one building . And now—to work.

See you here on Sunday.