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[REDACTED] Hackathon — Unleash your creativity ⚡
Recorded: Oct. 17, 2024 Duration: 0:56:10Space Recording
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Welcome to this space.
So we're just waiting a couple of minutes now so more people can join and we can kick it
off.
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touch with you.
Hey Slava, nice to see you here.
Thank you for joining us.
Ben, how are you, man?
Ben, how are you, mate?
Did you say Ben?
If you did say Ben, I'm doing great.
How are you?
Thanks for inviting me?
Thanks for inviting me.
Thanks for inviting me.
Thanks for inviting me up here.
Thanks for inviting me up here.
I'm excited to talk about some redacted stuff.
Yes, everybody has its eyes on the prize, right?
So hopefully we're going to be talking about all the bounties happening, everything around
Nier ecosystem.
But word on the street is we got the new batch of projects that are going to be supported
by Nier and Delphi Digital.
So yeah, it's exciting times, lots of stuff to discuss.
And yeah, looking forward to meet all the builders over in Bangkok.
From the New York team, is anybody joining us on that other side?
Okay, perfect.
I just didn't see that Ben from Kipom has joined us, but I don't know if it is my Twitter.
Ben, are you here with us?
Are you not?
I am here.
No, no, I'm here.
Yeah.
So, you know, the weird thing that happened on Twitter, in Twitter spaces.
So, welcome everybody.
Thank you for joining.
We will be exploring the next hour, what is the Redacted Hackathon.
It is the opportunity for builders and founders to start developing above the Nier protocol
chain, along with many other chains with the technologies that we are right now finding
available on the new ecosystem, including chain extractions, account extraction, artificial
intelligence, and others that we will explore with all of you.
So, I want to welcome, we have here with us, Benjamin, that is co-founder of Kipom.
We have Pasha, that is CMO of Code Wallet.
We have Klava, that is DevRel of Aurora.
And also, we have Claudio Cosillo, that is co-founder of Metapool.
So, welcome everybody.
And I think that this will be really fantastic spaces.
I think that we have top of the windows that are available on the new ecosystem.
So, thank you really much for giving a minute of your time to be speaking with the audience
and sharing more on how to participate in the Redacted Hackathon.
So, what is the Redacted Hackathon?
That is probably the main question that we have.
This isn't just any hackathon.
We have an opportunity to start developing technology and start creating new opportunities
for the web creator system.
I want to start discussing the first probably question that we have.
What opportunities do you see for participants looking to stand out in this environment?
What makes this hackathon different inside of the Web3 industry?
Probably we can start with Ben, Ben from Kipom.
So, Ben, do you want to tell us more?
Sure.
Yeah.
I mean, I think Redacted, right off the bat, is very different from any other hackathon
because it is so chain agnostic.
Using NIR's chain signatures, you can really develop technology on pretty much whatever chain
you want.
So, you're not locked into only building a NIR D-app or an Ethereum D-app.
I think with Redacted and with the new technology that's coming out in the space, I think it's
a really cool opportunity to build out a technology that you're passionate about without being
locked into one specific chain or one specific tech stack, which I think is really neat.
And then on top of that, I mean, the elephant in the room, the prize pool is so large.
So, if you're looking for funding, if you're looking for, you know, ways to take your idea
to the next level, I think it's an amazing opportunity to submit a project and most likely
get some sort of a prize.
In another Twitter space, I was talking about how you don't need to have coding experience
for this hackathon.
You can submit projects that are no code.
You can submit, you know, potential documentation, maybe how-to guides, videos, even ideas, right?
That's the beauty of it is that you don't have to submit a coding project and your project
is also not locked to any specific chain, which I think is really, really cool.
If I was allowed to submit a project, oh boy, it would be cool.
So, take this opportunity, submit a project.
I think there's lots of things that you can win.
Awesome.
Awesome, Ben.
I'm also taking the opportunity to ask this.
We know that Kipom has been really attractive to the people from onboarding new users.
We know the use cases that have been designed now by Shardog and a couple of other teams
instead of the New York assistant.
But how do you think that these chain-agnostic tracks can also leverage Kipom's tools
to make Web3 more accessible?
What do you think on that side?
Yeah.
I mean, straight off the bat, like some of the onboarding technologies that we allow for
is like a one-click Connect experience.
Now, that is going multi-chain in the future, but utilizing that technology, like our one-click Connect stack,
you can instantly log into the app without needing to go through a login flow.
Also, we're putting out tons and tons and tons of examples, documentation, as we speak about like multi-chain trial accounts and stuff like that.
I think just like, honestly, I, you know, if you want to use the tech, go for it.
But I think it's, it's, it's way cooler to come up with an idea that you think is passionate about and then explore how you can do that.
Now, if onboarding is something that you're interested in, you know, Shardog, Kipom, Bitay, Mintbased,
all of those protocols are really, really good for onboarding new users.
But yeah, I mean, there's, there's lots and lots and lots of tech that you can build out.
And there's so many tools out there.
So just go for it and build whatever you think is cool.
Awesome, man.
And I think this will be helpful for all the builders that we have here on the audience.
And I think that we can move to Slava, Slava DevRel of Aurora.
Probably we can start with the original question.
What, what makes this hackathon different for the Web3 industry?
What makes this hackathon different?
Could you repeat the last part of your question?
Yeah.
What makes this hackathon different within the Web3 industry?
What, why it is different than any other hackathon that we have on, on Web3?
Oh, yeah, I guess like, as people already stated, it's like the chain agnostic approach.
But also, I believe it's also really big event with a really nice price pool.
Just from that simple point of view.
Yeah, not, not sure what, what, what, what could I say else?
Like, it's just a really big event for like, for the near ecosystem and blockchain ecosystem in general, because of the chain abstraction.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
And probably we can recover the experience on Aurora.
We know that Aurora has been an OG project inside of the near ecosystem.
And with this, well, let's explain that Aurora is one of the first intersections that we have between Ethereum and NIR.
So it, it is Aurora that we have also a rainbow bridge and this explore of being multichain and now moving to chain agnostic.
What projects do you believe will, will be presented on this chain agnostic track?
Probably on your experience, you can tell us what, what you, what, what you are willing to see in this track.
And also, if you can explain us how, how can Aurora contribute to the, to the success of these projects?
Yeah.
So actually it depends.
If we are talking about our bounty on the reducted, we are talking about consumer dApps.
So, and to speak simply, we just want something like really easy to use and causing some needs of the users.
May it be gaming or may it be sports or may it be mindfulness, like anything, or maybe some defy.
So, I mean, we have a really general bounty, which is aimed towards the users.
And like the virality factors are so like just to cover as much user base as possible with something simple.
Like you don't need to overthink that.
We have a price pool of $65,000 there.
And the, the first three places we have a chance to run their own blockchain on NIR.
We can actually talk about that later, I believe.
But what can I say more like about the chain obstruction in Aurora?
Like it's still a big road down to it.
Like, I mean, in terms of the cross chain connectivity, Aurora is a smart contract on NIR.
So like you, you may have heard that it's kind of like a layer two solution, but it's not because it doesn't scale NIR in any way.
It just allows NIR to be ethereum compatible.
So it's kind of just an interface ethereum like interface on top of NIR.
So you can just keep learning how to write trust smart contracts on NIR for a moment.
And just to kind of stay with your Solidity contracts if you are an EVM developer and try developing NIR without re-learning everything from scratch.
Right.
But meanwhile, you are maintaining the full ecosystem cross connections.
I mean, you can still cross interact with NIR contracts.
And because of that, you still can interact with, for example, chain signatures contract and like gain your signature.
It's still, I mean, it's possible in theory, but I haven't seen anyone yet developing that.
In the case, someone will do that.
You can actually make your Aurora Dapp cross chain natively via the NIR contracts and via NIR chain signatures.
But like, as for now, we also will accept these submissions without the chain, the abstraction in there right away.
I mean, you can always add it later.
But in fact, in theory, it's still possible.
And it's possible to make Aurora chain abstracted as well as NIR because Aurora is NIR.
Well, well, well, well, fantastic.
I think that, well, since I've been in Aurora has always been proposing interesting tooling for the ecosystem and work.
Let's see what other windows can contribute also inside of the, of this hackathon.
So, also we have with those Pasha that is CMO at HotWallet.
HotWallet has been an outstanding project inside of the NIR ecosystem.
And right now exploring different solutions for access and security inside of the network.
So, probably the icebreaker question is why people should participate on this hackathon, Pasha?
What can you say?
Hello, everyone.
I think the key opportunities for participating in this hackathon lie in the chance to develop innovative solution that address real-world challenges in the web-free space.
This event provides multi-chain or chain agnostic environment to promote interoperability, which is becoming increasingly important now in the industry.
And I hope, I hope to see more apps in the hackathon that focus on, on the end user experience, making users' lives easier, improving onboarding processes and streamlining everything in that direction.
Okay, perfect, Pasha.
And here the question is, what HotWallet is offering to all the participants in this hackathon?
Even, it can be technical support or mentorship.
What will you provide to developers looking to integrate wallets into their projects?
How will you make more easy the journey to the developers hacking on this hackathon?
Yeah, at HotWallet we offer an SDK available on our website that allows you to connect a wallet in any network inside Telegram.
It used to only work with Tone, but now it's compatible with NIR, EVM and other chain using our SDK.
And the user flow is super simple.
Users can create and connect their wallets to the apps in just 20 seconds.
From a technical standpoint, we can assist with integrating this SDK for wallet connection.
Fantastic.
Yeah, well, you can look at all the profiles of Pasha, Slava, and Ben to look at the projects and see the documentation that they have for this hackathon.
Well, in general, for the projects and that you can use for the hackathon.
So, it is an easy way for people to start getting the information for start hacking on Redacted.
And last but not less for this section, we have Claudio from Metapool, our home project.
So, Claudio, I think I want to also repeat this question.
Why people should be participating on the Redacted hackathon?
Yeah, I think first of all, this Redacted hackathon has been going on for a few weeks, right?
So, I think it's a month-long hackathon.
The app prices are good, right?
The support is quite good as well.
But for me, it's a chance to showcase different ideas on a global scale, right?
And very important, right?
It's like chain agnostic.
I think that's a very, very important thing to put on the table, right?
I think a lot of the hackathons are very, very specific to chains.
And we've been saying this over at Nier Ecosystem for quite a few years, right?
The future is multi-chain.
And it all started with Aurora being built on top of Nier, right?
I think we've continued to build on top of that ethos.
Metapool as a project as well, right?
We launched the first multi-chain governance.
Dao as well.
And so, definitely, it's a chance to build applications that are chain agnostic, that leverage the full
technology of the Nier development stack.
And most importantly is, like I said, this year, the hackathon is going to be around in
Southeast Asia, specifically in Bangkok.
For those that have not visited or had the chance to visit this city, I definitely would
advise to come and explore Thailand.
I know, I see here ABV.
Hopefully, he'll come up and he can talk a little bit more about what's happening at the
Hacker House in Chiang Mai.
And so, definitely, it is a chance to showcase what you got on a global scale, to a global
audience.
And more importantly, start to really put, like Pasha said, right?
Like, easy to use applications.
I think here, HotWallet has done a tremendous job at building on top of the Nier stack and
on other technologies as well, right?
With their Telegram applications.
And so, definitely, like I said, it's just feeding off of each other.
And more importantly, getting inspiration from other builders, competing on the global scale.
And in the case of Metapool, yes, again, we're supporting any builder that wants to use our liquid-taking
asset or any of our liquid-taking assets in their projects.
We're more than welcome to help them, integrate them, and more importantly, leverage a yield-bearing
asset.
And so, for that, like we're super excited to be participating in the Redacted Hackathon.
There's going to be a lot of announcements during that event.
So, be on the lookout for Crypto Twitter on November 9th to the 11th.
And hopefully, I'll see you there in person in Bangkok.
Fantastic.
Claudio, probably you can explain more details about the SDK that we have at Metapool for
integrating how this can be an opportunity for the developers and how this is related to
the track that is proposed by Metapool.
Yeah.
So, we're abstracting the complexity of minting and an LSD, right?
And so, that's something we're allowing anybody to do.
They can grabbing their NIR and then it automatically gets, you get to mint an LSD asset, which is,
again, it's accruing in value every 12 hours.
And so, we're basically, yes, allowing folks to easily interact with the NIR token and mint the STNIR liquid-staking token.
And so, we're making that super easy.
Of course, we want to explore, and I've seen this, I've been here in Asia for the last six, seven weeks, and I see a lot of GameFi projects as well.
Shout out to the Contribution DAO.
They showcase a really cool application built on Telegram, and it's a game.
And so, definitely, GameFi is going to be something we're going to be looking into to support.
We believe that the next onboarding of millions of users as HotWallet, as the HotDAO has done, it is through simple applications that allow folks to have fun, right?
Using blockchain technology, using the different crypto assets that are available to them in the NIR ecosystem and other ecosystems as well.
And so, that's where we believe that the next bounce of the ball is going to come.
And definitely, we're here to support a lot of the GameFi projects that are coming in.
Of course, AI projects is one of the focus of this hackathon as well.
And so, definitely for us, we'd like to explore how can we integrate better with AI agents, right?
And just explore the opportunities around them.
So, definitely, that's kind of one of the many things, use cases and verticals that we're going to be looking into.
Well, perfect.
This was kind of the end of the first section of these spaces.
So, we already heard the precious peanuts of this, bring it by long-term builders inside of the NIR ecosystem.
But right now, as mentioned, the prices are big, more than $900,000 to be distributed among all the winners.
So, there are many tracks proposed by many projects inside of the NIR ecosystem and others that are being proposed by the NIR Foundation.
So, a fantastic opportunity for the people to start hacking and to start getting involved.
Shame diagnostic now opens an opportunity for people to start building for any shame or how some people say for no shame.
Just building application for anyone that is interested in being independent of the shame that you are interested to start developing.
But these have a lot of challenges and we have probably one of the main goals that you have inside of a hackathon is to solve an issue or to solve a problem and have the idea, the imagination and also the vision to solve any of the problems that you are focused on to solve inside of this hackathon.
But, well, this is always an opportunity for hackathon.
And I want to talk more about this.
And I think that we can start moving inside of this question.
And I want to circle back with Ben.
Ben, I have this question.
What do you think is the biggest obstacle or the biggest issue that we have to make decentralized apps as usual friendly as traditional apps?
What do we need for making it easy and not have to be facing all these issues around that we have when you're trying to start interacting with Web3?
Yeah, that's a that's a great question.
You know, I think it's something that a lot of projects have been trying to solve for for a couple of years.
You know, as one of the judges in the redacted hackathon, something that I'm going to be looking for is projects that are really pushing the boundaries on solving real world problems.
I think that that's, of course, one of the ways to to reach that mass adoption that we're all sort of striving for.
But with that being said, in terms of obstacles, one of the biggest problems to getting, you know, an everyday user, your grandma, your mom to start using applications is, of course, the onboarding issues.
Right. So any projects in the hackathon that are focused on onboarding, not just like abstracting the wallets, but making it as user friendly as other Web2 apps.
So integrating some some form of social login, sign in with Google, some form of on ramps buy with credit card, buy with Stripe, buy with PayPal, buy with Google Pay.
I think that those are all really important pieces of technology that are missing right now in this space.
Like even something as simple as I want to purchase a ticket to a conference with my credit card or with crypto.
And it doesn't have to be purchased with me.
It can be purchased with Ethereum, purchased with, you know, through Polygon, purchased through Arbitrum, purchased with any crypto that I want or purchased with something like a PayPal or Google Pay.
Like that is something that is severely missing in the ecosystem right now on ramps, social recovery, social logins is really missing.
And then once you've sort of abstracted away that onboarding and made it as user friendly as something like buying a ticket on my ticket master, then you can start implementing the cool ideas.
Right. Implementing, you know, whatever the heck you want to do, integrating Omni tokens, integrating tokenized real estate, integrating conference engagement, ticketing, like really whatever you want to do.
They do gamified tokens, like all that stuff.
But the number one step, I think, in striving towards a more user friendly and mass adoption environment is fixing that onboarding and integrating on ramps, integrating, you know, Google sign and stuff like that.
Thank you, Ben.
Thank you, Ben.
And now I want to move with Pasha from Food Wallet.
And security is key in many projects and more when you're talking that you have digital assets on the onboarding ecosystem.
So, let's talk about this.
What do you think are the security challenges that developers can face while integrating wallets or other tooling inside of their projects?
What tips or suggestions can you provide to these hackers?
Yeah, we are facing the usual challenges, honestly, when it comes to the product, it's pretty standard audits and improving the code.
But for us, the biggest challenge is to educate users, especially beginners, on how to use crypto safely.
There are so many scammers trying to steal phrases or lead users to phishing sites.
We constantly warn our users in the app through posts and in our chats and inside the app and many, many other ways trying to educate our users.
But we also are developing 2FA on top of hot protocol to protect newcomers from scammers.
Yeah, and we also have support team available in Telegram, which can be found in the profile of our official channels or chats.
And this is, I guess, the main problem for Ubis to use crypto, is that one key, one key, if you lose this key or if you send this key to the scammers, you will lose everything.
And this is the biggest challenge.
Yeah.
Interesting.
I mean, basically, trying to understand what you are doing on Web3 is a challenge.
Yeah, I'm totally agree on that and education and also share that it is probably one of the biggest opportunities that we have inside of this ecosystem to make it more easy for people to have a safe exploring of Web3.
So thank you, Pasha, thank you for sharing these insights.
And I will move right now with Slava from Aurora.
Shade agnostic, multi-shade, moving from one ecosystem to other.
That's like the job that has been done by Aurora since a couple of years.
And we want to know right now what technical difficulties we can find when trying to make a chain agnostic or multi-chain project.
And from the experience of Aurora, what tools, strategies or tips can you provide to the hackers to make this more easy or to have another way to solve these kind of issues?
Yeah, before I will answer this question, I want also to join the stuff Ben was talking about and onboarding.
I just have a comment about that.
I mean, recently and like during this year, actually, I've seen a lot of activities going on in Telegram and Pasha, HotWallet team, they are witnesses of that new wave.
And what seems to me like has created that wave is the intimate connection between the messenger and the blockchain technology and like inside the application, like mini apps inside the messenger.
And it's really cool that some something like a telegram, like a messenger application has such a nice way like to integrate some mini apps which kind of are perceived by the users as like boundary less substances.
So you kind of almost you don't need to install anything, you know, on your phone, you just click button but joins like interface loads right away in inside your app and kind of makes the interaction almost seamless.
Like except maybe there is a little bit more of a problem with creating wallet because you need like to put some legal marks like accept this and that and then maybe copy your seed phrase for security reasons.
But like overall, like it looks really nice right now, mostly we stop like games, but still like it seems it has a nice direction and I hope that like maybe more platforms in future will support this.
I don't know like Discord or WhatsApp or Viber, I'm not sure but it would be really nice if this will happen, you know, and more web tool like applications will support better connectivity and better tools to create something similar to telegram mini apps.
Yeah, yeah, I'm talking about chain abstraction and Aurora and like overall, like I mean, the whole history of Aurora was kind of like bringing bring the ethereum compatibility to near and make it as seamless as possible for ethereum users to use near.
So we started back then like three years ago with this problem and for the last year or year and a half, we were working on sharing our wisdom with everyone and we are pushing a lot on Aurora cloud part, which is actually creating your own blockchain, your own EVM atop of near.
And we had that big vision in our heads while doing that, that like you shouldn't multiply separated chains.
I mean, like separate liquidity, separate validators, etc.
You should be concentrated in one inside one ecosystem.
And that's what we were pursuing for the last like years and our solution as a virtual chain or like you can also think about this as a smart contract on top of the near blockchain is one way to kind of have separated environments in terms of the interface, but still being interconnected via the near blockchain underneath and still not be really separated.
So like in truth, like still be connected in terms of liquidity and among themselves and still being able to scale by using near infrastructure and still has still to have like the security measures and the validators from near being available to these.
So that's what we were working on lately in terms of like infrastructure part of it.
And like, of course, we were like working a lot of on helping near to improve.
You will see one really interesting release really soon on the redacted conference where we will introduce something fascinating about TVM wallets in near.
So be prepared for that.
So be prepared for that.
But overall, we were also working a lot on the diffuse, like the cross chain decks on here.
You can go to, I believe it's diffuse.org and read more about it.
Plus on the user side, we also were working on Web3 wallet or a pass plus a seamless gas management on all of these virtual chains, Aurora included.
And by this, I mean that on Aurora, actually, like you don't need special like relayers.
Like you see how it's like 4037, I believe, like about the construction and relayers on Ethereum.
But basically like Aurora is natively relay or has relay based architecture.
So you can actually relay your transactions.
Plus, we have developed really smart way to catch your transactions.
We are kind of like regular expressions for transactions.
And what it means for you as a company or a user, it means that for users, you are getting your gas free transactions and like gas abstraction and account abstraction here.
And for producers and apps developers, it means that you can run promotions really flexibly.
I mean, if you have like geo based conditions, we have time based conditions.
So, for example, you can run a promotion for your product on the blockchain in Germany only on Halloween night, for example.
And that's only like a little bit of it.
And yeah, so I guess I can stop here.
I mean, so we are trying to work on virtual chains, this gas management stuff, Web3 wallet, Aurora Pass, diffuse cross chain and also like building near together.
Yeah.
Sorry for a long answer, but there were a lot of stuff going on lately.
Don't worry, Long, but good answer that you are providing.
I mean, we know that on this year, there's been a lot of tooling developed by Aurora.
So nice to hear that.
Surely one hour is not enough to talk about all the details on all the projects that we have for these spaces.
But we hope that next time we can invite each one of you in an individual session so you can provide us more or more on how to talk.
So let's let's discuss that for next time.
But yeah, really appreciate it for all the all the thoughts shared on this participation.
And I think that we can move with we can move back with Claudio.
Claudio, well, we know as we are both working on Metapool.
So liquid staking is not always as easy as you expect to explain to the regular people.
And well, for developers, it's also a bit challenging to start understanding what is happening on liquid staking.
So can you tell to the audience what are the kind of challenges that people have for explaining what is liquid staking?
And how can they prepare to overcome all the challenges?
Yeah, I think it's we kind of there's I think this happens to most of us.
Right. After being more than a few years here in the space that we assume people will understand from the get go.
Many of these concepts. Right. I think that as we progress and as we start to abstract most of this,
most of these activities such as staking as well. Right. I believe right now.
One of the areas that I'm like super keen to explore is and I think the experiment with the go token and an AI agent creating trading a mean coin.
Right. And and recent Horowitz funding it with like fifty thousand dollars of Bitcoin is something that I'm really keen to to explore.
Right. Because at the end of the day, do folks.
And this is a a something that we we've come to realize at Metapool DAO is that liquid staking is a commodity.
Staking is a serve a commodity service. Right.
Something that every user that has a an asset that can be staked should be doing staking, of course.
But at the end of the day, it's a commodity. If we do it, if you do it on Metapool,
if you do it on Metapool, if you do it on Linear. Right. Or if you do it in Ethereum with Lido, you do it with Rocketpool or with Metapool.
And in Solana, if you do it with a marinade or you do it with us, X, Y, Z. Right.
Doesn't doesn't really matter. Right. Because at the end of the day, you get the yield and then the utility for the token is really important.
Is the narrative around decentralization, making the protocol more capital efficient, something that is that you sure users should know about.
To be honest, the reality is no, they shouldn't know about that. Right.
We understand the underlying benefits of it because we're the builders behind it. Right.
And the nerds and the geeks. Right. And when we were talking yesterday with a couple of folks talking about this narrative around the DGENs and the retards. Right.
At the end of the day is simplicity is the most valuable feature that we should be striving for.
Now, we understand the liquid staking. It's sometimes a little bit of complex. Right.
Because you need to explain to them what staking is, why it is important, why they should matter about that.
But then again, if we want to reach one million users or one billion users, we need to really not think about that or for it to be the center of the conversation.
But at the end of the day, yeah, we're taking it one step at a time.
I believe right now the most important thing that we should be focusing on for builders is how do we make it simple?
How do we make it easy for folks to understand?
And for us in medical, what we're how we are describing liquid staking is a digital auto compounding savings account in crypto.
And so that's something we're going to be working on really, really hard for this Q4.
The reason that I'm here in Southeast Asia, trying to understand what's the best way to approach normies around it and allow retards and vegans to just have a good time.
And more importantly, like abstracting some of the complexity behind leveraging an LST.
So that's that's where we sit right now.
I really like these spaces.
I think that there is a lot of insights very valuable for all the community.
I really appreciate that all the ideas that you have.
And I say this is because I really feel that I think that I haven't been on the spaces of this kind in a long time.
So thank you really much all for joining.
And I think that we are coming to the last track of these spaces.
And well, probably is now the opportunity that we have for inviting more people to participate in that redacted hackathon.
So I believe that hackathons are an awesome opportunity for discovering new founders, builders and very valuable people inside of any technological ecosystem and more here on the Web3 ecosystem.
So we expect to find the talent that will be able to start creating a project that will be solving problems for the whole community on Web3.
And that's probably what we are going to be discussing on this last track.
Before than that, and I want to mention, we have an open mic.
Everyone is invited to start making questions.
So if you have interest to make any question for our speakers, just raise your hand or make something so we can know that you are there and start asking for the microphone.
Or probably I can look if we have any questions on here on the comment.
Seems we don't.
We don't have any questions so far.
But I will start looking at that.
If you have any question, you can leave it on comments and you can look at it.
Or you can directly jump and request the microphone to start asking any questions related to the redacted hackathon.
Moving to this last part, two questions.
Well, more than two questions.
It's probably two things that I want to ask you is give to the audience.
As we mentioned that we have new people participating on these hackathons and there are probably the new talent that we are willing that can come inside of the Web3 ecosystem.
One advice that you can give that can change the lives of participants on this hackathon.
So what is the words that you are going to say to these participants so they can start right now changing their life and making more projects on Web3?
That's the first part.
And the second part is there is something that we are missing to say.
So you have the chance to tell us what are we missing to say inside of these spaces.
So let's start this last track with Pasha.
Pasha, one advice that you can give to the audience and what we miss to say on these Twitter spaces.
Yeah, I want to say that while it's easy to focus on, for example, winning the hackathon, think about how your project could evolve beyond the event.
Build something that you are passionate about and could continue developing after the hackathon ends.
I think it will be the key of success.
Awesome.
And there is something that we missed to say on these spaces that you want to take the opportunity?
I guess, no, I guess everything was mentioned on our Twitter space.
Perfect.
Thank you, Pasha.
Slava, one advice that you can give to the hackathon participants?
Yeah, I actually maybe won't be so technical in this.
And I would say that he, like, I would advise to find the right people around you and maybe also do some inner work,
not maybe on the hackathon or maybe during or maybe after.
But I mean, but this, I mean, that, like, the less emotional depth you have on yourself, the more you can actually achieve in real life.
And the more you can actually create.
And especially with the right people around you.
So believe in yourself, find the right people and nice friends and just have fun, make and build useful projects and success will come inevitably.
Okay.
Thank you, Slava.
Do you want to take the opportunity that there was something that we missed to say on these spaces?
Not sure.
Like, overall, I just want to repeat that we have our Aurora bounty and you can actually take a look at it at the DevPost introductory hackathon page.
Please go there, read more about the prizes.
And just to stress out once again, you will receive a chance to have your own blockchain for three months free of any charges and run your project inside of it.
Fantastic.
Thank you, Slava.
And Benjamin, Benjamin, the same ask.
One advice that you can give to the participants so they can share their lives inside of this hackathon.
Sure.
Yeah.
I mean, so outside of having fun and building something that you love, I've judged dozens and dozens of hackathons, especially in the near ecosystem.
And a piece of concrete advice that I would give to all hackers is that when we judge these hackathons and we judge a submission, something that we're really looking for is a project that has some sort of a go to market baked in.
Right. If it's if it's an infrastructure tool, then some sort of validation as to why you're building it and what the need is.
But if it's more of like a consumer application, having some sort of a go to market or how you can take this project to the next level outside of just the hackathon.
Right. Once the hackathon is over, if you win, what are your next steps?
Right. That's something that I look forward or I look for in judging is projects that have thought about not just what's happening in the hackathon, but what's going to happen at the next steps.
Right. So if I were to give you that advice, I'd say maybe put some thought into that in your submission and also making it so that it's not super technical when you're when you're presenting to judges.
Right. So making it so that it, you know, it's wrapped up, it looks nice, but then also having a go to market baked in is really important.
So just keep that into consideration when you're building your projects.
Sounds good. Yeah, totally agree on what you mentioned.
I think that but but on the hurry, when you're participating on a hackathon, you are always like trying to have to cover everything, but you need to still focus on what is really valuable.
So yeah, I share many of what you mentioned, Ben.
Well, also this part, there was something that we missed to mention on these spaces, Ben.
No, I don't think I have anything on my end.
Just make sure you submit a project. It doesn't have to be coding.
It can be a no code project, but just submit something and have fun.
Have fun.
Have fun. Fantastic tip. Yeah, thank you.
And Claudio, one advice to change the life of participants in this hackathon.
Yeah, I think a very important part here is understand that it's it's not going to be your your first if it's your first hackathon.
Understand that it's not not going to be your last if you do not finish.
Right. If you do not deliver, don't don't be too hard on yourself.
Just understand that it is a process.
It is an ongoing learning process. Do not be afraid to ask for help.
Right. There's mentors around the hackathon.
Reach out to them.
There's definitely a lot of a lot of help that you can tap into. Do not do not be shy about it.
I think everybody here is is learning something new every day.
Even many of us that have been in this industry for a couple of years, we're still learning.
And just come with an open mind to to also change your mind. Right.
If you come in with a specific project and then you want to push for and you pivot or you find inspiration for something, don't don't be afraid to drop what you're doing right now and start. Right.
I think it's an important aspect of building on top of any blockchain technology that it's always the landscape is always changing.
Try to adopt. Try to have an open mind. And more importantly, like you said. Right.
And let's have fun. Right. It's like building needs to be a process that you enjoy.
You will suffer a little bit in the sense that there's going to be some blockers, but there's definitely a lot of help.
And just, yeah, go for it and put it put 100 percent into it.
And thank you very much, everybody, for coming here, reporting here live from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.
Really excited. Southeast Asia is a must for anybody that's building.
Come explore the different regions here.
Definitely you will be amazed. And there's definitely a lot here that we should be learning from.
And, yeah, really exciting times. See you, everybody, at Bangkok.
Well, I think this this is the end, but it's not the end because we keep hacking.
So thank you very much. I really appreciate all the participations.
Thank you, Pasha, Benjamin, Slava, Claudio, everybody.
Thanks for joining all the audience.
And you know that we also have a last piece of music for the ends of these spaces.
So thank you, guys. See you soon. And start hiking on Redacted.
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