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@Permissionless II Hackathon w/ @CoreumOfficial
Recorded: Sept. 7, 2023 Duration: 0:43:09Space Recording
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Hey, team.
GM, GM.
We'll give it just a couple more minutes to make sure that everyone else is joining.
And then I think we need to make sure that we can bring permission to us on stage, and
then we'll get started.
All right.
GM, how's it going?
Good, good.
All right.
We'll give it a second, and then we can go ahead and amplify.
Cool.
Okay.
One moment.
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Cool. Well, how's, how's everyone doing in preparation for the weekend?
Doing good. Excited to kick off permissionless, starting with the hackathon.
That's right.
Get over here. Ready to go.
Are you, um, are y'all in Austin already?
We are not. We fly in tomorrow.
Oh, nice. I'm, I'm flying in and in four hours. And then if you hear in the background, uh, a laundry machine, that would be me getting ready to pack for my flight happening very, very soon.
Nice.
Yep. All right. Well, we'll go ahead and kick things off. And then, um, I think earlier this week we, we had a few listeners tuning in later, but, um, we'll probably get some folks listening in a little later as well.
But welcome y'all. Um, this is our last sponsor spotlight Twitter spaces before permissionless begins, uh, or the permissionless hackathon begins to, uh, kick off permissionless week this Saturday, which is super exciting.
And shoot, where do I begin? Um, we've got, uh, permissionless on the line. We've got four, four, four, four, I, why can I speak today?
Four, oh, four Dow. And we've also got Giovanni from Corium here. And we're going to be talking about the last of their challenges.
And then, um, I'm just going to run through the list too, for, uh, the challenges that we didn't cover.
But as a reminder, are we still, um, are we still accepting, uh, hackathon signups? When, when do those close?
We are, we are still accepting hackathon signups that is going to run until, uh, Friday, I believe. Um, good news is we're kind of crushing the attendance totals.
And so it looks like we will be maxing out space on the event. Um, so there may become a point that we have to close those off just based on hitting capacity.
So if people are still interested, you know, please get your registration in now to help secure your spot.
Right on. Yep. And, uh, that being said, I'll just do a quick run through of the schedule. Um, the hackathons kicks off on this Saturday, September 9th.
That's going to happen before we know it. Uh, the check-in begins at 10 a.m. and opening ceremonies begin at noon.
Um, and I know Jensen, you've amplified this, uh, among the hackers, but, uh, there is going to be a team matching ceremony or team, I'm sorry, team matching workshop for any hackers that do not have a team that will be starting at 1230, uh, the day that the hackathon kicks off.
So, um, if you are not part of a team and you haven't gotten the chance to, uh, coordinate in the team formation channel, um, in permissionless, on the permissionless thread on the Biddlebox discord server, uh, then be sure to attend that.
Um, and, uh, with that being said, I'm going to go ahead and, uh, introduce Giovanni with Corium. Welcome, Giovanni.
Hey, what's going on, team? Thanks for having me or us.
Yeah, yeah. Awesome. So, um, what do you do over at Corium? And then if you wouldn't mind, uh, give us a brief intro on, uh, what Corium does, if I'm pronouncing it correctly.
Yeah, sure, sure. So my name is Giovanni. I've been an engineer for about 15 years. Uh, been building in this space for about seven, eight years.
Um, I'm currently the director of blockchain here at Corium. And what Corium is, this is a layer one protocol built on top of the Cosmos SDK.
So we've built some enhancements on top of the base Cosmos SDK. Um, one of our main, you know, focuses is something we call smart tokens, where you pretty much you're able to make native tokens that have built in functionality that you can enable.
So, like, mintability, burnability, access control list, et cetera. Um, and what's interesting is, you know, our whole foray into these hackathons with teams like yours, it's always because we are a new chain.
Our main net just launched in March. So we're always trying to incentivize more developers to build. Um, so for anyone who's listening, who actually builds, you know, decentralized applications, our smart contracts run on something called, uh, Cosmosm, which is pretty much you using Rust to write smart contracts.
It's a little bit, it's a little bit, it's a lot of bit different from solidity world, but, you know, it's pretty, it's not rocket science to jump between the two. So, um, but yeah, so, you know, we're pretty much focused on providing an L1 for enterprises and businesses. Right. So like, you know, that's pretty much our bread and butter.
And, you know, we have a lot of internal innovative projects I could talk about all day, but I guess that's a good intro.
Yep. Yep. That sure is. And it also looks like that, uh, y'all have three challenges, uh, posted in the, uh, in the permission list to hackathon. Um, let's go ahead and run through some of those, uh, and yeah, let's, let's kick it off and, uh, start with your favorite one, I guess.
Okay. Yeah, sure. Actually, you know, I'll, I'll start with what I think people's most interesting one is going to be. So we have three challenges. Top challenge is 5k USD. Second challenge is 3,500, uh, lower challenge is 1,500.
So the top challenge is we're looking for developers to build cross chain applications using smart tokens to an EVM based blockchain. So if you have experience building, you know, simple bridges from EVM to X chain, uh, we can also help you with this, right?
So we have some prototypes of building, uh, um, um, those type of bridges from Corium to EVM world. Um, but the point for that is we want developers to use our native smart token functionality and build a cross chain application to some EVM chain.
The second one is we are looking for a team to build a cross chain decentralized application using IBC. Um, and IBC is a protocol in the cosmos space for different cosmos SDK enabled chains to talk to each other using, and then, you know, you pretty much, it's the same thing as building bridges in Ethereum world.
You have an entity, which in this world, they call them relayers that are sitting in the middle of both of those chains, both of those IBC chains. And they're pretty much as routing packets.
So we're looking for teams to build some type of interesting cross chain application using IBC. And that's for 3,500 USD. And then the last one here is, you know, we're being generous here is pretty, pretty straightforward, but just show us an innovative use case or demo of using our smart tokens in any decentralized.
application. So this would be, you know, obviously the more smart token functionality or the more innovative your approach is to using our smart tokens, the better. Um, yeah, that's the only three that we have now. And, you know, they're not rocket science that we have seen some very interesting projects come out of just those three basic concepts. So we're pretty excited to see what the devs that permissionless can do with that.
That's awesome.
That's awesome. That's awesome. And, um, shoot, let's start with the $5,000 price. So I'm creating a cross chain application, using smart tokens to an EVM based blockchain. Um, I know that, which we we do need to get those up. But where can developers go to get resources for that? And I know you mentioned that.
Um, uh, there are, there are, there may be some, I guess, like skill sets or prerequisites that are required from developers to be able to participate in, in this challenge or the other challenges.
Here, here's a few verses I would say for devs who are interested in any of these challenges, look up something called Corium dash JS. It is an unofficial slash official, um, library, uh, that's supported by one of our internal team members. It is a JavaScript library that allows you to enter the Corium nodes pretty much. Right. So if you want to build something on the front end, look into Corium JS.
If you're going to build some smart contracts, I would urge you to look at, look for Corium Wasm SDK. And this is actually the Corium Wasm SDK on our GitHub. So if you go to github.com slash Corium foundation, you'll see our GitHub on there. You know, actually, if you just go to the, the cargo, if you could just download, um, Corium Wasm SDK from there, uh, at least locally. Right. So I'm just saying,
obviously, but yeah, so you can look up the Corium Wasm SDK that'll help you build actual smart contracts and use our smart tokens in rust, uh, in Cosm Wasm. That'll help you there for the EVM side.
So, um, you know, you could pick your, pick your poison, right. You could use truffle or hard hat, right. Or you could go, you know, my favorite route, look into something called foundry. This, this allows you to just spin up a quick little project. And, you know, if you combine that with ganache, which you can use inside foundry, then you could spin up your own, you know, local node to kind of test your bridge.
Um, what we could probably do, we, we built a bridge for ETH Toronto and, um, we kind of, on that. So what we could probably do before the hackathon starts, if people are, if someone's interested in building the EVM part, you know, we can show you the basic EVM bridge that we prototyped and showed in ETH Toronto. That's not a problem. Um, yeah. So I think if you stay there and then fundamentally use our docs.corium.dev,
that will give you all of our documentation that has all of our IBC channels, all of our tutorials on there for using smart tokens, how to interact with the Corium chain and go, how to do it in JavaScript using Corium JS, right. So, so many resources on there. Take a look at that. Um, yeah. And I will say last thing for anybody who needs help. And this is important because we're not going to be there during the hackathon. We're arriving on the first day of the conference, right. So, well, of the, you know, the non-hackathon part, I guess.
But, so it's, I think it's important for the devs on the call to know if you need to reach out to our team, hit our Discord. You can hit us anywhere, right. Hit our, um, our Twitter. You can actually email our DevRel team if you want. That's DevRel, D-E-V-R-E-L, at Corium.com. It's a distribution list. You can hit us on our Discord, obviously. You can hit us on Twitter, obviously, right. So, you know, and obviously you can ping me directly, right.
J-O-V-O-N-N-I on all social media if you need any help. Because the point is, you know, we want as many people to try these challenges as possible. And, um, let me see. Any other resources? I think that that's good for now. Yeah.
Awesome. We'll make sure we...
Yeah. Well, um, I'll ping y'all after this to make sure we get those all, uh, filled up on the challenges, too. But, um, so I guess this is a broader question, um, that goes into, uh, Corium's participation in the hackathon and, uh, just the way that, um, you all work with devs. But, uh, what are some current, uh, I guess, like, challenges that, um, you're facing that can be resolved by builders in this hackathon?
And, um, yeah.
Good question.
We'll start there.
Good question. So, you know, we, for those who don't know, um, look into the Sola Foundation. You know, they received a grant. This is actually our parent or our, you know, close partner. I don't know what you want to call it. But, um, it's the foundation that funds Corium.
And we received a grant from the Ripple Foundation, I believe, for 200K. It was just before, um, anyways. But from that, you know, eventually we ended up making Corium, right? And so, but always know that there's a, there's a close tie to the Ripple ecosystem.
Not, not formally, right, in terms of, like, us being a part of them, but, you know, we still operate Solodex, which is, I think, the biggest decks on, in the, uh, XRPO world.
So, with that being said, anybody who has any interesting applications that connect the Ripple world and Corium world, we're always going to be interested in stuff like that, right?
But if you're really thinking about technical advancements, you know, we're interested in things like privacy, right?
Like, we've, we've entertained ideas using zero-knowledge proofs, you know, and then, like, homomorphic encryption.
Like, we, we've entertained these ideas. I think those are interesting. You know, we, we have an internal project where we're building a developer tool called the Playground so people can quickly build and deploy their applications.
So, we're heavily interested in dev tools. Um, I think that, obviously, because we have IBC connections now, it's only to X amount of chains, we're going to have more cross-chain applications to special chains that do interesting things, like app chains.
I think that we're always going to be interested in that. So, let's say if you had a, let's say if you built something to talk to, like, noise chain or something like that, then people can, you know, like, use random number generation in a decentralized oracle way.
Things like that would be very interesting, right? Because we've spent time focusing on is the foundation of building a solid L1.
And so, all of the subsequent things that can be built on top of that to introduce advanced, advanced concepts, like, you know, even more advanced DAOs, right? Like, you know, I could talk about this all day, right? But I think that we're very interested in crazy ideas.
That's where I'm trying to go. We're very interested in crazy ideas. And so, anybody who really has a dream out there and wants to do something interesting, talk to us because we also have a grant program, right?
And we're very supportive of teams that are supportive of us. So, please, you know, let us know. The sky's the limit, I'd say. I don't know if that was a great answer or a bad answer, but that was a true answer.
No, that was awesome. Thank you. Thank you very much for sharing. And we're all, we're bullish on crazy ideas.
But real quick pause, because I know we did get some, we did get, or at least one quick question, but I think they tuned out. And just to recap on what we just discussed.
But as a reminder for those who are listening now or those who may be tuning in in the future, this year's theme or the overall theme of this hackathon will be Hacking for Good.
Good. And we've got, shoot, Jen said, how many sponsors do we have total now? They keep adding none.
I know you put me on the spot. Let me pull up the list real quick. I can kind of take a look at, you know, the exact number that way.
So, you know, obviously we're partnering with 404 Down Biddlebox in terms of, you know, providing kind of the infrastructure and the support to actually host the hackathon.
So, kind of our official hackathon partners there. In addition to that, we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Now 10 sponsors.
Oh, wow. Awesome. So, yeah, some of those sponsors, I've just pulled this up too.
And let me know who I'm leaving out because I am seeing a count of eight that have challenges currently.
But we've got ZK Sync Era, a.k.a. Matter Labs. We've got Axler, EY Blockchain.
We've got Quorium here on the call. We've got Wanchain, Scroll, Fireblocks, and our friends at Gitcoin as well.
We've covered most of those challenges, but for those who are just tuning in, we are discussing Quoriums.
They've got three challenges in the hackathon. Don't worry, Giovanni, I am not going to make you repeat every single one.
So I will do that liberty for you.
For a $5,000 prize, we've got create a cross-chain application using smart tokens to an EVM-based blockchain.
We've also got for $3,500 cross-chain DAP using IBC.
And then lastly, smart token usage in a decentralized application.
And all crazy ideas are encouraged.
I did post, I think I shared one of the links for documentation.
But again, as a reminder, all of the challenges are going to be shared when the hackathon kicks off.
And really quick, oh no, I was just on that portion of the document.
I'll share the Notion space again.
We've got Jack with 4.4 DAO on the call.
He put together this awesome hackathon, getting started pack.
I'll call it that for now.
And hey, Nick.
Hack pack, for sure.
Yeah, the hack pack.
We definitely spent a lot of time organizing this event and putting this together for our builders.
But I'll really quickly go over what that schedule is looking like for right now.
And I will respond to the person who asked in the chat.
But the hackathon kicks off Saturday, September the 9th.
That's this Saturday.
I feel like if I blink and I open my eyes, it will be that time already.
But the check-in time is at 10 a.m. to noon.
And then opening ceremonies again at 12 to 12.30.
The hacking officially begins at 12.30 p.m.
And we've got a couple workshops lined up with, it looks like Fireblocks and EY Blockchain will be hosting workshops there.
And hacking will be, shoot, just about 24 hours.
And the submission deadline is going to be, is that 11.59 a.m.?
Okay, cool.
I almost thought it was going to be a 12-hour hackathon.
Thank goodness.
So the hacking ends at 11.59 a.m.
And winners will be announced on the main stage at 1.30 p.m. on Monday, September the 11th at the Permissionless Conference.
We've got meals and snacks provided for all the builders.
Hacking will be taking place at the Hotel Van Zandt, not at the actual Permissionless Venue.
But the winners will be announced at the Permissionless Conference on day one, which is super-duper exciting.
So right back to it, Giovanni, I know you mentioned that all crazy projects are encouraged.
What are some current projects that you've seen developers build in Corium that you'd maybe like to shill or like to highlight?
Or if you have any project ideas for some of the challenges that y'all have posted, just to get our builders' brain flows moving.
Yeah, sure, sure.
You know, I'm not going to shill a project, but I will say, you know, and if they're listening, they'll know who they are.
But we have a handful of groups who are using NFTs in a very interesting way.
Because Corium, we allow for certain, like I said earlier, right, we have smart tokens.
And so obviously NFT being a type of token, you have some smarter functionality that just comes out of the box if you enable it.
And so teams are using NFTs in some really interesting ways with NFT marketplaces that they're building.
We have another team that is pretty much empowering businesses to use decentralized technologies like smart contracts to like govern and support their own business and partner and collaborate with other businesses.
And then they have like using smart, they're one of the teams who is using a token as an internal token.
Like for those listening, you know, sometimes a smart contract project would have a set of internal tokens that you may get, but you can't trade them anywhere, right?
Like if you stake, you know, you get a staking token, right?
Like sometimes they have internal tokens that represent certain things.
So this is one of the first teams that's using a smart token as an internal representative token, which is pretty cool.
You know, we also have another building, a DEX.
They already have a POP DEX on another chain, and now they're building that DEX on Corium using native smart tokens.
So you have a handful of DEXs doing that.
You know, and, you know, if you think about it, these are like very foundational projects to any L1 ecosystem.
And so we're always going to be interested in these as well.
You know, I think earlier when I was answering the question, in my mind, I was thinking about more crazier ideas, because honestly, I think all these blockchain ideas are crazy ideas and really think about the disruption.
But I think, you know, what I was referring to for this conference is, you know, maybe something that we haven't seen before that people may want, right?
Because it's going to be an ecosystem on the chain and it is building.
So, you know, it's just an inviting diversity of thought.
I think that that's super important.
And also, I will say, too, we actually have an AMA happening right after this.
So if you look at Corium official, you know, if you guys know, that's a show, if anything.
Right.
But hopefully that answers that question.
Yeah.
Right on, right on.
And I know you did mention this earlier, but you mentioned, like, because we always like to ask about support for developers after the hackathon ends.
So I know you mentioned that there is a grants program that Corium does have.
Can you tell us a little bit more about that?
Yeah, sure, sure.
So actually, another show.
Thanks, Sue.
You're doing my job for me.
So we actually just released our GrantWave3 application.
So if you go to Corium.com slash grants, you can see our application is open.
And if you click on the application, you'll see some of the categories we're interested in.
You know, we have like zero-nulls proofs on there.
We have DAOs on there.
We have some DeFi stuff on there.
So I would say, you know, for anyone who has a really interesting and maybe crazy idea, we're open to supporting you financially as long as we figure out what your roadmap looks like and, you know, kind of agree on the approach, etc., etc.
You know, our grant process is very transparent as we try to make sure that we're kind of in the seat with the entrepreneurs and help them win in whatever way that they need to bring their vision to life.
So, you know, all I would say is not every team has such an interesting grant program as ours.
And I'm just being honest because some grant programs, they just give you money and then help you do it.
But we actually try to help you get there as well because, you know, you win if we win and we win if you win.
So, yeah, I think that if any, you know, teams look into our grant program, corium.com slash grants, and you'll see the things we're interested in.
You can also see some of the past teams as well, see what type of stuff they're building.
So hopefully that answers that question.
Yeah, awesome.
So there's a grant program for developers that are interested in continuing or taking their project to the next level with Corium.
That is awesome to hear.
And to quickly sum it all up, because I know we've got a couple more listeners in the audience, there are three challenges with Corium.
There's a, I'm not going to name every single one yet again, but three different challenges and documentation is available.
So, I listed, Giovanni, I put in docs.corium.dev.
Is there, like, I know you listed quite a few resources.
Would that be the main source for developers to get started?
Yeah, for sure.
That one's good.
And if anyone, if you want to type it, it's github.com.
Actually, you can just Google Corium blockchain GitHub.
That's probably an easy way to find it.
But that's all of our resources, you see, and all of the libraries I mentioned earlier, Doc's site, too.
So, no worries.
Right on, right on.
Okay, cool.
Let me, uh-oh, was my phone freezing?
Okay, no.
We're still here.
Perfect.
So, really quickly, we're going to take a short pause from that.
If any developers, or not developers, but if anybody in the audience has any questions, feel free to hit the chat, or you can raise your hand, and I will go ahead and bring you upstage.
But, in the meantime, since this is the last Twitter spaces that we're hosting before the hackathon kicks off, shoot, Jensen, Jack, how are you all feeling?
Pretty good.
Bullish is right.
Exactly.
And I didn't get the chance to introduce you all earlier, which I'm zero for two in doing that in previous cases.
But we'll start with Jack.
Why don't you tell us a little bit about who you are, what you do, where you're based.
Tell us about 4.4 Dow.
Absolutely.
Sure, yeah.
So, I'm Jack Cignotta.
I'm the COO.
I'm one of the co-founders of 4.4 Dow.
Now, 4.4 Dow is Atlanta's City Dow.
Our goal is to make Atlanta a Web3 innovation problem, and we do that through three basic things.
We have a professional governance team.
We run a Web3 accelerator, and we host Web3 ATL, which is Atlanta's premier Web3 conference every year.
We've been brought on to help permissionless with hackathon logistics, a little bit of outreach, and just making the event successful.
And look very much forward to seeing you all there.
That's right.
That's right.
And Jensen, the man behind the permissionless Twitter handle right now.
Yes.
No, that is me.
I am a project manager here at BlockWorks, helping on kind of various initiatives.
And right now, my primary focus is the permissionless hackathon.
Awesome, awesome.
And then we also have Giovanni from Corium.
We handled intros there.
But really quickly, so for those of you who didn't get the chance to tune into our previous spaces that we held,
because the challenges are not going live until the hackathon kicks off this Saturday, September the 9th,
with opening ceremonies at noon, challenges have not gone live yet.
So if you do want the inside scoop, I highly recommend you can hit our Twitter.
You can probably search our previous spaces.
And we've gotten a chance to talk to, I believe this Tuesday was Matterlabs, a.k.a. ZK Sync Era team on theirs.
A quick recap on that.
It's a $15,000 price, or actually, yeah, $15,000 price pool across three different tracks.
Last week, we got to talk to the Gitcoin team.
They've got a total of $10,000 of prizes as well, over two different challenges.
We've got Fireblocks, which is, we spoke, I think we spoke to Fireblocks first, but they've got three challenges as well.
There's Wanchain.
And then the two challenges that we did not get to cover, sorry to take the Corium shine real quick,
just because we didn't get the chance to speak with them yet.
But we've got EY Blockchain.
I don't see a prize.
Okay, there is a prize amount.
I'm going to have to get that fixed on here before we launch those challenges.
But EY Blockchain, they've got a total prize pool of $5,000.
And I'm not going to speak for them and try and explain their challenge for them.
But just high-level explanation is they'd like you to incorporate privacy features into your project or your solution.
And then who else did we not speak to?
We have Scroll and Axlar.
Axlar is their challenge.
I believe this looks like it is a $5,000 prize pool as well.
And they've got a prize for using Axlar.
I hope I'm pronouncing that correct.
Axlar GMP for sending interchain messages and tokens.
And the other one I did not cover, we did not get to cover, is Scroll.
$2,500 prize pool and deploy your smart contract on Scroll.
As a heads up, in the hackathon, if you are participating, you can apply to as many challenges as you'd like in this hackathon.
There are plenty to choose from.
And I think combined across all of our sponsors, there's over $51,000 in prizes put together across 10, looks like we've got 10 total sponsors.
I think the ones I did not mention, OKX, they are not going to be posting prizes in the hackathon, but they are absolutely a sponsor in the permission list too, hackathon.
Is there anyone else that's missing on there, Jensen?
I know I'm putting you on the spot.
No, I think you nailed all of them.
We did have a couple sponsors that kind of came in a little bit last minute, which we still very much appreciate their help that way.
So we'll be working to get them set up on Biddlebox and challenges launched, you know, leading up to the event.
Ooh, so there's going to be some last minute challenges.
What's up, Jack?
Yeah, something to include, to transition a little bit.
Yeah.
The hackathon that was sent out this past week has a graphic that you guys can put on Twitter.
We're giving away, I can't remember the exact numbers, either 10 or 15 monitors for people or for hackers to use during the hackathon itself.
And if you tweet out, there's some instructions on that hackathon, but if you tweet out the photo, tag permissionless, and do hashtag hackforgood, you are eligible to win one of those monitors.
There's been less done so far than there are monitors.
So right now, if you do it, you're guaranteed one.
So I highly recommend checking that out.
That is right.
That is right.
And let me make sure I get into this chat and tweet out the link to the hack pack for those who did not receive it.
A couple other housekeeping things, too.
So you'll definitely see this in the hack pack.
But it is very important if you have registered for the permissionless to hackathon and you've been accepted.
You'll be receiving that communication on whether your registration is accepted via email.
But you will also need to have a Biddlebox account and you'll need to be registered for the hackathon or signed up for the hackathon as well on Biddlebox in order to participate in any of the challenges and to submit your project and win prizes.
I'm going to go ahead and tweet the link to that hack pack now and I'm super excited.
We've actually seen quite a few.
Let me send that and I will put that on the Jumbotron.
Oopsies.
That came from my personal Twitter.
But regardless, the message is still the same.
I've been seeing we've got a couple of builders that have posted that graphic, too, which is super exciting.
And what else?
I mean, what else do we have in store in terms of, like, just general programming for the builders?
I'll pop corn to Jack.
So, we mentioned the workshops that will be going on.
So, we'll have two of those.
I mean, the main programming is the hackathon itself.
So, there's quite a few problems that you guys are able to do.
And we'll update you throughout the day on kind of what has a lot of attention and maybe what doesn't.
So, you can kind of play some game theory and figure out, you know, what might be worth your time.
But we're doing really well in the attendance numbers.
So, it should be a really, really good crowd.
A lot of very qualified builders.
So, we're excited, you know, to get everyone there to make this event a success.
Right on.
I think we're expecting, I don't know the official, official number just yet.
And I know somebody had asked this, I think, on Tuesday's space.
And I did get the chance to answer.
So, hopefully, if you are in the audience, here is your answer.
I think it's looking like it's going to be over 350 builders so far.
Is that, I think that's correct.
That is correct.
Yeah, that's correct.
And I think capacity is, you know, right around 400.
And as we lead up to the event, there's going to be a big push to add more.
So, you know, we may just get to that capacity number, which would be awesome.
Oh, my goodness.
24-hour hackathon.
So, shoot, I'm sure there will be, I think what we mentioned in one of our meetings is
that there will be energy drinks provided.
This is true.
That's great.
And I will be ordering, well, maybe not enough for 400 people, but I will be ordering, you
know, a couple cases of Celsius to get me and my team through the night.
So, there will be additional energy drinks in the mix if anyone is into Celsius.
But with that being said, if anyone else does have any questions, feel free to hit the chat.
Or, team, if you have anything else that you'd like to mention.
Giovanni, anything you'd like to say to the builders before we, before the weekend kicks in?
Sure, sure.
Once again, like I said, we have a Twitter space.
It's actually started already on our Corium official.
Oh, we won't hold you.
No, I'm really not for you guys.
I'm just saying, this is really a shill for anyone who's after this.
But I would say, you know, one thing, just a word of advice,
is bad practice to input submissions to a challenge that actually don't really even try to meet the challenge.
So, for anyone, you know, who's going to try, before you, you know, bow out of the competition and do that,
contact us and let us help you in the right direction, right?
Like, that's why we're here.
So, you know, if you're going to try, reach out to us so, you know, your attempt could be as quality as possible.
Because it actually sucks when we review a bunch of submissions and they're not really attempts,
but they're kind of trying to make it seem like attempts.
And maybe it just became difficult as they were trying, right?
So, before you go down that route, let us help you.
Like I said, docs.corium.dev.
You can reach out to me, at Giovanni.
Reach out to at CoriumOfficial.
Come on our Discord.
You know, I think you gave the DevRel email so you can reach out to them.
Yeah, and I think that'll go a long way.
So, and if anyone tries, I think that, you know, I want to thank you in advance.
So, that's really it.
Yeah, right on, right on.
And plus one on that, I mean, this year's theme is hacking for good,
but what I like to say is, like, build or biddle with intent.
You also want to create projects that matter and that can be carried on.
What I really love to see among these hackathons is seeing these hackathon projects develop into
something even greater that then roll over and receive funding from different grants programs,
such as the one that Corium has, and develop into, like, its own startup or its own protocol.
Well, we've seen that happen in the past, and it's really great to hear from different sponsors that have programs like that
and also offer resources to developers to help develop their projects into something greater.
So, that's really good to know.
Corium will be there, I believe, during the conference for those of you who haven't or didn't catch that earlier.
But during the hackathon, definitely get them on, hit them on Discord.
We've got their DevRel email, and they will be available virtually to assist with any of your questions or any of your needs as well.
And I think, I'm not sure which sponsors will be particularly on site.
I mean, for sure, there will be Fireblocks at EY hosting workshops.
But we've got amazing partners here that are sponsoring this hackathon.
Awesome teams on these, or awesome teams from our sponsors that are here to support, here to support all the developers, too.
So, the resources are there.
And, shoot, let's see.
With that being said, I shared the Twitter space.
I mean, not the Twitter space, the Notion site with all the information that you're going to need to get you started.
And, again, Jack mentioned there is a giveaway for, I want to say it was 10 monitors.
I feel like that number is flying on, but don't quote me on that.
But, if you are predicting...
You get to keep them.
You don't just get to use them.
You get to keep them.
Yes.
Okay.
Oh, I'm seeing on the space, it's 15 monitors to give away.
So, as long as you're pre-registered for the hackathon and you tweet the super awesome graphic that says,
I'm hacking permissionless, then I think I've only seen a few builders tweeting it.
So, I guess it's first come, first serve.
Is that what that's looking like?
Time will tell.
Time will tell.
Yes.
That's right.
All right.
With that being said, let's...
I mean, I'm looking forward to the weekend.
It's going to be...
It's just going to be jam-packed.
And then we've got the conference to look forward to afterwards.
Oh, forgot to mention, we will be...
Also, the BiddleBots team will be on site here to help with any platform issues or just here for emotional support.
And we also have really cool hats and shirts to give away to our builders and also conference attendees.
And with that aside, I think that might be all I've got for you today.
Any last words from y'all?
See you all soon.
Excited to see you there.
LFG.
LFG.
And thank you so much, Giovanni.
And if y'all are listening now and you have any questions or any additional questions for Aquarium, then be sure to hit their AMA after this.
And with that being said, I will go ahead and close the space.
Thanks, Giovanni, for joining us.
Thank you for having me.
We appreciate it.
All right.
We'll see you all soon.
Bye-bye.
All right.
Bye, everybody.
Later.
