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ETHMumbai 2026 | BEST Conference & Hackathon

ETHMumbaiThu, Apr 9, 2026, 12:00 AM

ETHMumbai 2026 aka BEST Conference & Hackathon was hosted from 12-15 March 2026. The ETHMumbai Conference hosted 700+ attendees during a full-day of talks and panels by 48 speakers across two stages and three tracks: DeFi, Privacy, and AI. The ETHMumbai Hackathon hosted 217 hackers from across the country who built 80 projects for bounties worth $10,000. ETHMumbai is a community-driven project started in 2023 with a hackathon. It's an effort to bring the Mumbai Ethereum community together and accelerate decentralisation. Follow us on X: https://x.com/ethmumbai

Transcript

So, 2024 was where we gave a great experience to everyone and 2026 was just way, way, way better.

Jhakas. Fantabulous.

Amazing.

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This is my first time I'm visiting Mumbai. So, I felt like can I cover hackathon and Mumbai at the same time? But, you know, Eat Mumbai had made that possible.

Grand.

Khoob bhalo.

Crazy.

Bahut badiya.

Lai bhari.

I came here as a solo developer and the community is so helpful that I found a team.

It's a very young crowd. It's a very young team. The hackers are very young. I see also a lot of women involved.

Uh I was watching online all the tweets and the posts and just people who are attending. They were asking [music] us uh when when are you releasing the ticket? I already want to buy it. So,

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they were supporting us not even uh on the day the ticket sale went live for the conference, but even like 60 days before that.

Um

give a few ideas that you've had.

You know, keep it. Keep it. That is the actual Mumbai vibe. Al- always construction is going on.

If you want to do a conference and a hackathon, uh how do we make it interesting for people just by hearing the name? And somehow in that loop we realized okay, there's also one more thing that connects the whole [music] of Mumbai. And which is the best bus. Best which connects not just the city, but the best people, the best builders.

The true ethos of Mumbai is coming together and doing everything in chaos, but still making it the best and I think we achieved that this time.

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A lot of people here are super passionate and hungry for what they're doing. So, my experience was very good.

The mentors over here were just walking around and they came up up to us voluntarily and were helping us how to build. So, we learned a lot from those mentors and also from the peers who were competing with us.

I'm just generally [music] grateful to the whole team. They're a lovely bunch to work with. The sponsors, the judges, the mentors, and basically everybody that made In Mumbai happen.

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People from around the country traveled to this conference and the hackathon which lasted for four days and they had an amazing time. We were talking to them and everyone was like, "Great event. Great event." So, [music] I'm so glad that everyone who came, whether from north, south, east, west, everywhere from the country, they did a great job of supporting us and I hope they had a great time.

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