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DeSci Hackathon - what should be built?
Recorded: July 23, 2025 Duration: 0:34:19Space Recording
Short Summary
Exciting developments are on the horizon with the upcoming D-Sci hackathon on August 9th and 10th, aimed at fostering innovation in the DeSight ecosystem. Supported by key partnerships and a focus on funding mechanisms, this event is set to drive growth and collaboration across various scientific disciplines, highlighting the trend of integrating blockchain technology into research and development.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, let's kick things off.
Good morning, good afternoon, depending on where you're from.
This is Erin McGinnis behind the D-Sci Mike account, and
for the episode today, we're going to be talking about an upcoming D-Sci hackathon,
which has a lot of space for people to either build off of current D-Sci projects or propose
new ideas of things that they think should be built within the broader DeSight ecosystem,
and that can kind of see different prompts or invitations for builders and attendees to work on during this hackathon.
So this hackathon will be taking place August 9th and 10th,
with a primary in-person focus in San Francisco at
Frontier Tower. If you're not familiar with Frontier Tower already, it's a really cool
16-story building in San Francisco where each floor has a different focus. So this hackathon is a collaboration across the biotech,
neuro tech floor paired with Ethereum house,
which is an IRL component for Ethereum
and kind of just crypto broadly has a lot of activations there.
And then also collaborations across the AI floor, the robotics floor, the human flourishing floor, longevity floor across each of these disciplines right in the heart of San Francisco. There can
also be ties online so if you're not based here there's opportunities to get
involved there. We have a handful of really great sponsors from the DeSci ecosystem, as well as kind of beyond it into the broader crypto or traditional science realms supporting it already.
So should be a really, really cool experience to keep pushing the DeSci space forward.
cool experience to keep pushing the Desai space forward. That's kind of the overview of what's
happening here. Would love to kind of have this turn into more of a conversation if others have
different ideas of specific projects or maybe a way that someone might be able to build off of something you're
already building or have built. Would love to explore some of those ideas. Or if you've run
other hackathons and events and have any recommendations or things that you would
like to see happen at this, that's another direction we can take the conversation as well.
So if you're listening in, feel free to request the mic to come up
or leave a comment down below.
Or if you know anyone else that might be interested in joining this convo,
feel free to share this space with them as well.
I know one thing that has come up a handful of times lately within kind of broader conversations with especially with people
who have some level of exposure to DSI but kind of had bigger hopes for it. Often they bring up
wanting to just see kind of more moonshot and bigger ideas get pursued with Desai. So
I think I would love to see that happen at this hackathon as well.
Cool. We have a speaker up here. Vexalia, welcome. If you're able to hear, we'd love to have you
say hello and share any thoughts you might
have building off of this so far okay um jam jam i didn't know when i requested for the mic I'm still listening. Okay, GemGem everybody. What should be built? I think, yeah, currently I'm actually building a DAO. Yeah, like currently. So I'm still in the community building phase.
Still taking one step at a time.
And that's it.
I think there is Moleku Edu cohorts already.
So I'm talking about what's my own experience
and what should be built in the Desai space.
I think they should have a startup founder group
or maybe Desai founders to come in and learn.
And yeah, maybe that's why don't know
about like the agentic side the technical aspect I don't really know much about it so thanks so
much for giving me the mic yeah thanks for joining the conversation. Yeah, any ideas people have don't have to be super technically figured out right now.
This hackathon on the 9th and 10th of August will also lead off of a couple hackathons that are happening at Frontier Tower in the upcoming weeks and some other co-working days.
in the upcoming weeks and some other co-working days.
So there's opportunity for people to hash out
some of those technical details ahead of time,
as well as during the hackathon.
I think the main kind of need is just having good ideas
within the DSI ecosystem to be able to really take forward
in an interesting type of way,
or at least seed some of that technical build out
during this hackathon.
So having everything completely figured out
definitely isn't needed,
more so just a dream list of,
hey, it'd be cool if someone built XYZ or, oh, we heard these different partners or this technical platform or tool might be useful in XYZ type of domain. So, yeah, definitely lots of opportunity to kind of brainstorm out and
all different ideas and backgrounds are super important to be included in the conversation
to make Desai as awesome as it can be.
DSI is as awesome as it can be.
Cool.
For anyone that might have just joined,
we're talking about an upcoming DSI hackathon
and kind of in part of the conversation,
brainstorming about different ideas
or things that you might like to see during this hackathon.
Or if there's something you want to make sure we don't just build more of something
that can also be shared as well.
So if you have any ideas, feel free to come up to the floor and share those or share them in the comments down below.
Cool.
Seeing a couple comments might have come through from Fringe Protocol.
Seeing we should develop a decentralized platform to fund engineers and applied science research.
Definitely.
Do you have any ideas on what that funding mechanism might look like?
I think there's been a lot of conversation about needing more kind of at-bats from a funding side
and that DSI could be really well positioned to do that.
And just as a whole sector, we haven't really made that many attempts yet
to explore different types of funding models or just funding platform build-outs.
So I think there's definitely interest in that,
but figuring out what does that funding mechanism look like
would probably help make projects here the most successful.
Okay, I think I raised my hand. I think you're not seeing your screen. So, how I wish like French protocol was like up here. So, how I wish like French protocol was like up here so we would actually know exactly
what he's talking about.
I want to get it like in my brain like how I processed it.
Like I think we just have funding for research work and works that have to do with clinical
trials and we don't have funding for like biotech
engineers people that actually build the hardware for science so I don't know there is no I don't
think there is much funding for that I think the hackathon most times the hackathons in this side
is just for like the researchers and the AI people building AI AI agents, but there is no funding structure
for engineers, like people that are actually building the hardware for the laboratories
or something. I don't know. I don't know how that could work. So if you're in the space,
please do also like, retweet the space, tag your friends to come in
and request for the mic to ask questions and also contribute.
I think Etete is not really is busy.
I think you should have requested for the mic by now
because he knows the technical aspect very, very well.
So but it's still okay um so do well to
like retreat the space tag your friends to come in and let's let's um let's dissect what we need
to build in the design space we know the design space is still very young and there are so many questions out there and yeah and there
was this question someone asked me about um what if a scientist account was like hacked and then
his ipnft was taken how does he take it back do they have like a record system and i don't know i kind of told him that since
the ipnft is like broken it's broken into pieces and you know there is i don't know i don't even
answered right that maybe there is a signature maybe molecule that will hold some and the
scientists will hold some of people that contributed to the scientists who work who
also hold some of the nfcs so i don't really know how that is and especially in the security aspect
i think we don't really talk about security in the design space but it's well needed because
when projects get funded i think they need to have this security backing them up so it
shouldn't be hacked.
So like, yeah, so please do well to come up to this stage.
Let's actually talk because yeah, it's this side and we are here to collaborate.
We are here to share ideas.
Thank you so much.
Awesome. Thanks for the prompt for more folks to come join the space as well.
Welcome. We have a couple more speakers up here.
Feel free to jump in,
share any thoughts you might have so far,
if there's any ideas you've resonated with or something else you'd like to elevate.
Yeah.
Sukunya, welcome.
You're welcome. Thank you for having me here.
I think that is the normal language we normally speak here.
I just want to throw on a few of my thoughts.
This is very new. Today I heard from it from Vickza when I was in another space.
So I kind of followed her and when she joined the space I got in the discussion that she joined it
and I'm surprised that people aren't much here but to return a taste of time to keep buildings,
staying consistent, eventually the numbers are going to come.
When she was talking about it, it sounds like a crazy idea, but so was the first person that talked about AI in 1970s.
And here we are today, and I believe everything is going to scale,
and blockchain is actually taking over.
Just that we have to take it slowly.
We have to start
from hospital registration, how people get their hospital profile embedded to their blockchain,
how they receive their prescription as a form of notification or something. Just baby steps
and then eventually it will be everywhere without everyone noticing a change have been
made.
And thank you for giving me the mic.
I think I'll be leaving it here.
Great.
Ateh, welcome.
I'd love to hear any thoughts you have.
Okay.
Can I hear me?
Okay. awesome. Thank you for having me. Thank you, Vex.
You're right, Vex. Actually, these days I'm very, very busy. I was just going to listen.
But I like the conversation. And then I'm talking about what we should build for hackathons.
I mean, I'm coming from a technical background.
So there's a lot of things that could be built, but would it really be impactful as of right now?
So I'm going to speak from my experience from this part of the world.
So I think a hackathon like this, I was trying to also go through the Biopunk page, try to
look at the technical implementation of the technical needs for this hackathon.
But I was going to say from my experience, from my location, I think we need to be like,
first and foremost, like educational, maybe first and foremost, to that create awareness.
This could come in form of a learn to earn educational platforms, stuff like that, you
know, to keep people engaged while they are learning more about this science.
They are also maybe getting incentives for learning, just like what we have in DeFi space.
And also, I think, yeah, mostly DeFi space.
And then mostly, I think, in my opinion, what would be very much impactful
would be to build tools that would help researchers actually do their work.
This could be a combination of things. It could be a combination of the blockchain and AI in terms of helping developers, not developers this time, but helping researchers in terms of getting access to maybe like, for instance, a data level where they can easily plug into different sources of information in terms of a general shared data level for science,
This could be a combination of things.
It could be a combination of the blockchain and AI
where they could have probably access to articles, to maybe some lab results,
something like that, like a shared level of data communication between researchers.
So if we could build that kind of infrastructure, I think it would be very impactful.
build that kind of infrastructure, I think it will be very impactful. So any researcher all
over the world can add their data there and also can get data from there. Maybe there could be some
kind of incentivizing mechanism for people that share their data and probably maybe a little fee
for people that read from that data. So modern, we have like a general data layer globally where
you have tons of information generally about science so in this case if people or somebody
is trying to maybe do a research work or yeah maybe a research work or some kind of discovery
they could have like this large data pool that they could like see and look for what they want
instead of like going from place to place looking for what they want.
So, I mean, the ideas could be enormous.
So I'm just from my, like I said, from my region, my experience,
I think that is what would, I would probably like to build,
but I would also like to know for Biopunk, the technical requirements for that.
So, yeah.
But thank you for having me.
Yeah.
Thanks for coming up. across AI, robotics, crypto, blockchain, science, hardware, lab automation, as well as kind of other types of wet lab scientists and data scientists, bioinformatics folks. are already engaged in planning on attending. So there will be a lot of cool expertise and brainstorming
to kind of dive into technically what should each of these different ideas look like.
So definitely a lot more opportunity to explore that.
We'll be having a few in-person co-working spaces as well
leading up to it, so that will also be time for people to dive in and explore different ideas
further as well. Yeah, across the data side and different funding mechanisms for science,
and different funding mechanisms for science, kind of using DCI Rails, are definitely two major themes so far,
as well as how might there be different automation, either from a lab automation kind of hardware side,
as well as from an AI agent perspective too.
AI is obviously super hot right now,
so lots of fun energy there.
Awesome.
For any of the speakers up here right now or anyone else listening in, feel free to request the mic or leave any ideas in the comments down below.
Any other ideas that you'd like to kind of throw out there, seed into the conversation?
out there seed into the conversation.
Okay.
I would like to also quickly chip in that,
in my opinion, right,
sometimes most hackathons,
people like want to build something new,
something unique.
Of course, using, for developers, we always want to use the latest technology,
so we just prove that we know it.
But I think for this science, what's so far I've gathered,
I think it would be better if we build on what's already existing
instead of trying to build something completely new.
Then why I'm saying so is that we could take something
that is already existing and just put that on the blockchain
and give it that transparency and immutability
and security, of course.
For instance, recently, of course,
I graduated from the Molecule Edu Cohort, and we had our
Carpstone project.
There were many interesting projects, but the project stood out for me.
And then the project was just going to combine, like what we have now, you see people using
medical applications like Internet of Things,
monitoring their heart rates, their working steps,
all of those kind of data.
So the providers of this service,
all of that data is siloed.
There is no shared player. So if I'm using, for instance, an Apple Watch,
I cannot export that data
if I start using Samsung or any other research.
And the same goes for the others.
So all of these providers, they operate in silos.
So, but then if we had like,
like I was talking about earlier,
a common data layer where all of these providers
could plug in, you know, share data, use data also.
This would actually help improve the data analytics
for the individual
because you're getting different pieces of data
from different devices.
And then you have a shared layer
where you can store and use this data to analyze.
And this would go a long way in terms of,
even for research right so you could have access to valid data from individuals which could maybe possibly uh i don't know
catalyst um the rate of whatsoever you're researching right so um all i'm saying is that
we could we can take what's already existing and then we can just put that on chain
instead of trying to build something completely new
because what's existing in the web tool right now,
it's working, right?
It's working.
It may have its good side and its bad side.
But with the blockchain, we're talking about ownership.
We're talking about decentralization.
So instead of trying to build something completely new, we can just take what's already existing
and we can just put that on the blockchain and make it decentralized. Thank you.
Definitely. Yeah, I think DSAI and blockchain have a great opportunity on that data layer component,
creating more shareability and compatibility as well as standards in some of these different
data types and different domains.
So yeah, I'd love to see a project in that space be built for sure.
Cool. Well, I think we've explored a good number of different ideas. Mostly just wanted to start
circulating this hackathon out there. If you know anyone that might want to get involved
or might want to have other ideas that they want to contribute in, definitely have them reach out
either to the D-Sign Mike or myself, Aaron McGinnis, listening down below. Vaxalia, do you have another thing to add into the conversation?
Okay, yes.
I wanted to add that I think other aspects of science,
other branches of science should be encouraged to join DSAI
actively and also the HACAT, not just medical sciences.
We have agriculture, we have environmental science, we have space science, we have other
kinds of branches of sciences that should actually come into this eye.
Well, most times you think it seems that it's just the medical sciences that just gets the
attention and people think it's just science, like just medicine, just medical science.
Yeah, definitely agree.
Having other types of science involved as well.
So very much welcome. And we'll work on making sure that that's known to folks. If you or anyone else has any ideas on how to make sure that that's invited and encouraged, would love to hear those ideas too.
Awesome.
If you haven't checked out the pinned tweet above,
that has the Luma link to the hackathon.
If you're in the area, definitely register to attend there or share it with anyone else you might know
in the broader Bay Area or if anyone might want to come into town for it.
It should be a really great high-energy event, and we have a cool space lined up for it as well.
as well. Another opportunity, Ethereum's 10-year anniversary is coming up on July 30th,
and there's a kind of showcase events, big celebration here at Ethereum House and Frontier
Tower as well on July 30th. And we have space to do a DSi showcase, have a room at that. So if you
have any projects that have users already or really cool visions for like where Ethereum and
the future of DSi could look like in the next 10 years, please share those ideas as well.
And we'll be able to share some of them out
with the community here during Ethereum's 10-year celebration.
So that's another invitation to get involved as well.
During that, we'll also invite people coming through
invite people coming through to brainstorm ideas for the hackathon too.
to brainstorm ideas for the hackathon too.
Well, for anyone just kind of tuning in for the last couple minutes,
there's a DCI hackathon on August 9th and 10th.
If you have any ideas you'd like to be built out at it,
or if you'd like to get involved,
please reach out to the DCI Mike account or myself, Aaron McGinnis, and I can get you looked in.
Yeah, do you have another thought?
Okay, actually, I have a question, like, right now.
Can projects, like, what type of projects, I know it's the side projects, can projects that are just starting, can they apply for the hackathon
or they have to have some technical, should I say, backup or something to register?
Or can just startups just apply?
Yeah, yeah, definitely come and apply.
Yeah, yeah, definitely come and apply.
Hackthons are a great way to make progress on a project or an idea you already have,
or even a certain feature element related to a bigger initiative you're building.
So yeah, it's a great space to accelerate different ideas you might have.
So how do we, how do projects, how do they apply?
Do they come to your account or is there a link?
I know I've registered on the Luma link already
as an individual.
So how do you register for the Hackathon as a project?
Yeah, so you'd register as an individual and then you can work on your project during it.
Sorry, I didn't really get you.
If you register as an individual, that's fine.
You don't, there isn't a way to register as like an organization
um so you'll register as yourself and then you can work on your project during it
okay thank you so much well well i'm super excited uh to see whole bunch of new cool projects being built up in the desize space.
If you have ideas for it or have something you want to see showcased at the Ethereum 10-year anniversary,
please reach out and we'll get all of that moving.
Thanks also for tuning in today.
We'll be back same time next week with a new topic.
So if you have another topic for discussion you'd like to see discussed here,
please reach out on that front as well.
In the meantime, keep building awesome stuff in DSI and hope you have a great week.
Thanks, everyone.
Thank you, too. Thank you, too.
And you, too.
