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Unlocking 1 million builders on Algorand with EasyA
Recorded: Aug. 13, 2025 Duration: 0:43:40Space Recording
Short Summary
The Algorand Foundation and EZA are launching new initiatives to enhance developer engagement and education, including the Startup Challenges and upcoming hackathons. With over a million users and a combined valuation of $4 billion for startups, this partnership aims to drive growth and innovation in the blockchain space.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hello everybody and welcome to today's space unlocking 1 million builders on our grant
with EZ-A.
We have an amazing lineup today so I'm going to start with some intros. I just wanted to let the music flow for a minute. I know everyone was
feeling the vibes there, but on to the intros. First of all, we have Camilo.
Hi, everyone. How are you doing? I'm Camilo, head of builder programs at Algorand Foundation,
and maybe you have seen our initiatives, the Web3 masterclasses,
and in the upcoming days, we are launching the Startup Challenges.
So I'm super happy to share this space with the ECA team
and my colleague, Sarah Jane.
The one and only Sarah Jane that you already all know.
Perfect intro to you, Sarah.
Yeah, perfect. Thank you so much, Camilo.
So big shout out to the Algo family and the GigaBrainz who are joining us.
I'm Sarah Jane from the Algorand Foundation.
I sort of work on the ecosystem side, focused on onboarding builders like yourselves and
helping people take their ideas and make them live on Algorand.
So thanks for having me.
Super excited to be joining Dom and Phil here again and diving into our partnership with EZA.
Amazing, thank you.
And onto you, Dom.
Hey everyone, great to be here with you all.
Thanks for tuning in.
Great to see so many familiar faces as well.
I know we've been interacting with many of you
on Twitter as well over the last couple weeks
since we launched these latest challenges in the EZE app.
And very excited to be here with everyone and show you a bit more about what we're doing and why we're doing it.
And also what we have coming up in real life for you to come to if you are in the cities we're coming to.
Perfect. Nice little teaser as well. And over to you, Phil.
Thank you very much for having us on the show hey everybody phil here if you haven't heard me speak before i'm co-founder and also brother
so hence why we look relatively similar in terms of those profile pictures first got into the space
in 2013 through bitcoin mining stumbled across the bitcoin white paper that was my fray into the
space just like i know many people here would have gotten through that as well. And then gradually made my way through
into the ecosystem, connected with amazing people, flash forwards a couple of years,
and Dom and I co-founded EZA together. Today, we are the biggest Web3 education app, one of the
biggest Web3 apps in the world, over a million users, and the valuation of the startups that have come out of those hackathons
that we have hosted is now well over $4 billion.
And that's actually set to triple very, very soon with one of the teams that is
actually about to raise a very, very big new round.
So very excited to be on here.
Very excited to be sharing a little bit more about what we're seeing on the ground and also what kinds of projects
that we want to see so thanks very much for hosting and that's amazing thank you
very much for that really excited to be working with you guys Sarah you're gonna
give us a brief overview of this partnership with EZA and what it means
and I think together we could EZA Algorand right yeah so obviously we know
EZA for the past few years but over over the last few months, we've decided to work side by side, create a crash course that takes developers from zero to building live on Algorand all inside of the EZA app. barriers that builders face and we believe making tech more approachable showing real use cases
and highlighting the success stories that um phil has just mentioned as well and the result of these
series we want to make it fun learning practical instantly rewarding um so yeah this is just a
start and i know we're going to dive into so much more already dom has given teasers so
we'll we'll save some of the excitement throughout
the space as well amazing thank you and and one more thing for you sarah and camilo you can jump
into you know why eza you know we wanted to work together for a long time but can you explain why
that actually was camilo would you like to go first i could go after yeah for sure. So as you mentioned, as we know, ECA has a proven track record when it comes to attract developers and builders.
challenges to bring these thousands of people and participants and partnering with them.
So our ecosystem to reach a wider pool of motivated, high-quality builders.
And also they have a lot of experience in the education and onboarding.
But maybe, Sarah, you can add more reasons why we are working with them.
Yeah, so what I really like or love about Easy A, and I say this as someone
who's actually downloaded the app and I went through it, I have currently earned 142 points,
so I want to see how many other people have earned how many points at this stage too.
Two challenges are currently live, but the main point is how engaging it is. You're learning,
but it feels like you're playing a mini game, And before you know it, you've made some actual real progress and are teaching you the real things.
So I think that's powerful for onboarding, especially when you see the scale that they've achieved.
They have over one million EZA app downloads, more than a million active builders.
And their Illumini, which Phil has already mentioned, startups have a combined value of over $4 billion.
So they've worked with some of the biggest chains in the industry.
They're already proving, as Camillo mentioned, they can create real traction and results.
And now if we mix that into Algorand's tech, we have instant finality, so you never deal with rollbacks or forks.
Transactions are just a cost of a fraction of a penny and the
freedom to build your front end however you like with smart contracts in TypeScript or pure Python
thanks to AlgoKit. But put that all together and I think you've got a perfect recipe for
turning EZA's audience into real Algorand builders. And lastly lastly I think when that happens and it's already begun but I
believe it's only a matter of time before the next wave of billion dollar EZA Illumini are built on
Algorand and come from the Algorand ecosystem. Perfect thank you so much and as you said you
know that mobile first experience is amazing it's as if Duolingo meets, you know, blockchain developers. So it's really great to see people have the access to, you know, learn and build Algorand using a mobile app as well. So over to you, Phil and Dom as well. You know, why Algorand? Why, you know, did you guys, because you guys are very selective about the companies that you work with and you only really work with companies that you know you believe in so why Algorand? It's a great question
um I think we first actually met a couple of team members from the Algorand foundation and from the
Algorand ecosystem this would have been a couple of years back so it's been a while in the making
you're right though we're very selective we don't partner with every blockchain we have a big big
long wait
list and that's for a reason that's because we only want to really make sure that we can educate
people on the right things and projects that have a longer term vision so i think one of the key
things that i was impressed by with algorand was the fact that it was created not just because the founder wanted to create some project and spin up a lot of tokens around it.
It was created by Silvio Micali and his colleagues at MIT.
And this guy has really been in the space for, before really blockchain was even a thing.
He pretty much was a complete pioneer in zero knowledge proofs in pretty much what you see
has formed into Algorand. And so I view this as being almost the pinnacle of a lifetime's research,
which is why I was so fascinated by it and what really got me into the Algorand white paper. So
I think that's one of the key things that of course learners will be able to learn in the EZA
app. But really it's that journey that I think is just so cool. And I always come
back to the stories. Why was this thing created? Who created it? What was their reason for it?
And in Algorand, there's a great reason and a great person behind it.
Yeah, I think just to echo Phil's points, I mean, you know, Algorand's been really pushing the
boundaries in many aspects for many years now.
And actually, every time we host events and hackathons and these sorts of educational events at places like Harvard,
everyone always asks us because, you know, obviously, Sylvia is a professor at MIT, you know, when are you going to do something with Algorand?
And so there's been huge demand as well from our community to learn about Algorand. And we'll actually be coming to Harvard together later in the year.
But we can touch on that later in the space.
But yeah, very excited to be working together.
And like Phil mentioned, like you mentioned as well, on the Algorand side, and Sarah mentioned as well, we don't work with many different chains.
We always want to make sure we're teaching people about the ones that we are
most believing in and ultimately Algorand is one of them. Perfect thank you for answering and back to you as well Dom and Phil you know you've seen many chains you've seen developer tooling
and help on different chains what was it about Algorand's developer tooling and support that
stood out to you now that you've had time to digest the content and turn it into a learning course?
That's a really good question. Actually, when we first had some developers building on Algorand, this was in late 2022 and we saw the algorithm community as well admits this now developing with teal was uh maybe not the most comfortable experience let's say and
flash forward to today we now have full typescript support python as well and personally i have never
been to a hackathon i have never hosted a hackathon
at EZA where developers haven't been using
TypeScript in some form
or another versus
Teal. I'm not sure I've ever been to a hackathon
other than that, or Grand Hackathon where people have been using Teal,
obviously, right? So I think
that that is a massive sea change
in how developers
can actually build in the
ecosystem. And number two, also last but not least,
or second but not least, AlgoKit.
AlgoKit is really cool.
We go into it in the EZA app,
teaching developers about how they can actually use it.
We're going to see people use it live at our EZA hackathon
that we're going to be hosting at Harvard soon,
and also in London.
But really, it's just a really good developer experience.
And then you've got things like Laura the Explorer,
which is not only a great name, but also a great tool.
So I think that it's at a different,
very, very different place right now.
And that's why we were actually excited
to release the challenges at this point in time,
because I think it's a fresh way of building on Algorand
that is really just a very, very different developer experience.
And you'll see as well as you dive into the ecosystem, you'll see that some of the documentations is like a developer portal that's like an old developer portal.
Right.
It's like it's a completely new experience, completely new learning journey.
So I think that it's I mean, you ask about how it feels, how it is, what I'm excited about.
It's completely different to how it was a couple of years ago.
Anybody who's tried out Algorand and didn't really like the developer experience should just try it out again now in 2025.
Because it's, yeah, it's very, very different.
Amazing.
Thanks for the answer as well.
And back to you, Camilo and Sarah, you know, in terms of this, you know, partnership with EZA, you know, which developer segments are you most excited
to, you know, reach? Is it the students, career devs, Web2, engineers, Web2.5,
Web3, or just excited about it all?
That is a wonderful question, Michael. As you know, EZA already have a lot of
Web3 developers, so we can show them the latest in developer tooling
that we have in algorand and i'm i'm sure that they will say oh my god this is amazing as they
just mentioned algokit is a game changer for us and also we can use the same narrative to
start onboarding more Web2 developers.
But the most important part is to show them how blockchain is a complement.
Because for so many years, for so many times, we tried to convince everyone that they need to move everything from Web2 to Web3.
But we realized that the good recipe could be working around Web2.5.
that the good recipe could be working around with 2.5.
And for sure, with the boom of AI,
we can attract all the builders
that they are just playing around with by coding.
And they realize that the Algorand course in ECA
could be an amazing starting point for them
to understand the potential of Algorand.
And also they can start converting their ideas in a working proof of concept to understand the potential of algorithm. And also, they can start converting their ideas
in working proof of concept to testing the market.
Yeah, and I guess to also add on to Camillo's answer,
and if we were to, there's so many groups out there,
but if I was to hone into maybe three, which the EZA audience
are, is first students, because if you can start
learning and building early, you set this foundation for long-term success in Web3,
in the broader industry as a whole, which I think is super important. Second is, as Camillo mentioned,
career developers, those who are in Web2, but they're curious about blockchain, but they want a smooth on-ramp and EZA is the perfect
platform to do that, I believe and then
Algorand's tooling it just feels familiar to them. Like I believe it was Phil who mentioned
the TypeScript in hackathons. You see it everywhere and now we have it as well which is super helpful
and then I guess the third point to echo Camillo is we're seeing more non-technical founders using
AI and no code alongside Algorand to get a proof of concept or an MVP live faster and cheaper so
more affordable than ever and so we also show that in our programs like web three master
classes as well um but honestly easy a is challenge model like their app works for all of them you can
jump in at any skill level get hands-on quickly and walk away with something real you know something
tangible and begin building on allogrand or continue building on Allagrand with EZA.
And that's a nice segue into our next question as well, which is, we'll go to Dom and Phil for this,
but in terms of gamified learning and challenge campaigns, how does that help you to onboard the next billion developers?
Because this kind of, I want to call it the duolingo method of making learning fun,
it's proved really, really efficient in other industries, right?
And you guys are some of the first to be doing this with blockchain developers. duolingo method of making learning fun. It's proved really, really efficient in other industries, right?
And you guys are some of the first to be doing this with blockchain developers.
100%. Yeah, I can take that.
Gamification is really at the core of a lot of what we do in the EZ-A app.
At the end of the day, you don't want to go through
and wade past reams and reams of documentation,
look at tons and tons of code.
That's why for every single challenge in the EasyA app, we focus actually not on teaching
people the code itself initially.
We focus on the why.
So if you look at any one of our challenges, we start with a story.
Why was it actually created?
And I mentioned earlier that we started with Silvio and why he actually created Algren.
And one thing that I didn't actually know
before going a little bit deeper into it
was why Algorand is actually even called Algorand.
Right.
And I'll leave people the easy AF
to figure out why it's actually called that.
And maybe we can go into that at the end.
But it's really, really fascinating.
I always thought, oh, Algorand is just called Algorand.
It's just a name.
But it has a reason.
There's a method behind the madness there.
And that's part of the gamification.
I think gamification people often think,
oh, it's just getting points.
And yes, there are points in the app.
It's very, very fun in that respect.
But I think gamification is also turning it into a journey.
Every game I used to play,
a lot of Call of Duty as a kid.
I used to play a lot of Grand Theft Auto,
Age of Empires,
every one of these games.
Yes, it's a game and it has points and levels
and all sorts of things.
But at the end of the day, it's a journey that you're going on
and there's a storyline.
And I think that it's no different in life as well.
When you're going through, you've got to figure out
what's the journey that I want to take.
In some ways, actually even going through life
is a bit of a journey, a bit of a game
in terms of the journey
that it is as well it's like what am i going to do here how am i going to level up and taking users
on that story on that journey it's like what we just talked about algoran itself is leveling up
as well it is getting typescript well it has now typescript has python it has algo kit it's just
leveled up another level and i think that's like the journey that we want people to be on as well
it's this journey of treating it like a game in some respect,
leveling up, and then that actually translates
into much better retention.
So the completion rates in our app are far, far higher
than you'll see in any MOOC traditional learning course,
Udemy, typically about three to five times higher,
sometimes even higher seven times, because it's just much more interesting so that
i guess to uh jump in here as well um on the gamified learning part i think gamified learning
works because it's fun just like phil's mentioned
it's social it's addictive um in a way as well especially as a gen z that's how a lot of us have
been learning and growing up using mobile phones and i think eza makes it easy to start and i guess
i guess that's why it's called eza if we we're talking about how was Al Grand named, I say I could take a guess that Easy A is called Easy A because it's
easy and it just captures that energy really. It actually kind of reminds me of storytelling
in a way. So learning like that I feel like just naturally sinks into our brains better
and you can sort of visualize while you're reading.
And the pictures you use while you're
learning in the EZ-A app also helps.
Yeah, I think along with that, if we're sort of focus
on Algorand, it's the next gen way
to turn it into real scalable applications.
So hopefully, people go through their learning journey, they acquire the knowledge and the skills, and can start to put it to real scalable applications. So hopefully people go through their learning journey,
they acquire the knowledge and the skills
and can start to put it to work with the help of EZA
and our own programs as well
to build their real world applications
or their DeFi applications and so many other ideas
which we'll get into later as well.
Definitely, thanks Sarah for that.
And I think just to chime in on that,
when Phil and I started EZA many years ago, our goal was really to bring in the next billion developers
into crypto, into Web3. And not only developers, but also over the last couple of years,
many people beyond that specific demographic have started using EZA to learn about crypto and
blockchain and the technology behind the different tokens that they hold. And for us, you know,
that's a really important and really big breakthrough actually,
because it means that we are educating people
on not only the tech side,
but also then how the tech
and how everything that they hold
relates to the broader world.
And so that's why, like you were saying, Sarah,
we always try and make everything into a story.
We always try and make it
so that it's relatable to people.
They can understand exactly why they're doing what they're doing. And then for us, you know,
that's, again, helping towards our goal of bringing much more widespread adoption to the
space. And that's really how things will grow longer term. So that's really important for us.
And ultimately as well, you know, when you look at sort of all the big crypto apps out there, all the crypto companies that people think of when they think of the space,
you know, Coinbase, Binance, now Robinhood as well, they're all mobile apps. And that's really
the way that you actually get people's attention. And it's where you find people where they spend
most of their time. Everyone's on their phone. Everyone's always looking for a new app to
download, a new thing to actually do. And between Twitter and ETA, that's probably where we spend most of our time.
And ultimately, it's a really great way to drive mass adoption for all of the different blockchains
that are on our platform and give them a whole, whole new host of communities and eyeballs to
actually tap into and learn from. So for us, mobile has been a real game changer. I don't
know if anyone here remembers Rosetta Stone, but they used to be sort of the leading way people learned
about languages. And now obviously Geolingo has taken over because they just made it super easy,
super fun for anyone to use and ultimately free as well. You know, everything that we offer for
users and learners at EZA is completely free from the hack phones to the actual EZA app itself.
And we never charge anyone for anything.
So it's a really, really powerful tool for anyone to use and anyone in the space.
Definitely check it out.
Definitely download it.
You know, start learning, start leveling up and getting ahead.
Amazing.
Thank you for that.
And back to you, you know, Dom and Phil, you know, what sort of projects are you excited
to see being built on Algorand as a result of this, you know dom and phil you know what sort of projects are you excited to
see being built on our ground as a result of this you know partnership with eza you know knowing
our ground strengths you know what are you excited to see really good question what i'm excited about
seeing is i think in this particular cycle we are seeing a lot of real world applications being built. And I know the Algorand has traditionally
not necessarily been one of those chains
that has been used by,
or even designed for those applications
which have been maybe a little bit more degen
in that respect.
And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
I think it's actually very, very cool
that a chain has chosen to actually take
a different path and i think that's actually we're seeing in this cycle a lot of those chains who
focused more on that real world adoption actually start to gain a lot of traction so that's what i'm
most excited about seeing i think we've seen a lot of stablecoin adoption of course Algorand really being designed ultimately for finance and those sorts of applications being the way to go.
And if we look at the white paper, it's actually quite prescient that that's really how it was described originally.
And that ultimately is really what Bitcoin itself was built for, a form of peer-to-peer electronic cash and we're really starting to see a return to those original
principles that really drove crypto early on as opposed to maybe some of the more speculative
or slightly maybe i don't want to dismiss the speculation too much but i think there's been
a lot in crypto which is maybe of doubtable net value to the overall world and so that's what i'm excited
about seeing i think i'm excited about seeing applications that touch real people and actually
really genuinely improve the lives of the everyday person because it's an application
that they actually want to use and that of course is within the realm of decentralized finance
amazing thank you and back to you camilla and sarah the same question you know what type of decentralized finance. Amazing.
And back to you, Camilo and Sarah,
the same question,
you know,
what type of projects
are you excited to see
being built
as a result of this partnership?
I totally agree with Phil.
I want to see more
payment-related solutions
to showcase
the potential of Algorand.
But at the same time,
I want the builders
to start focusing their effort and energy
in how you can use blockchain as a complement
and how this technology can add real utility to your end users.
Because usually, we put blockchain in the center of our product development journey,
but we never identify what are our real user needs.
So I believe that with this approach,
we can show them that there is a real utility
for this technology, but the most important part
is to identify what is the kind of problem
that you are solving.
Then you will find if blockchain for payments make sense, what are the kind of utility that you are solving. Then you will find if blockchain for payments makes sense,
what are the kind of utility that you can give to the NFTs for loyalty, for tokenization,
and all the common use cases that we have seen in the previous years. But I believe that
right now there is a better understanding of the potential of this technology.
of the potential of this technology.
And it's great that we are having more builders
and the builders come with better business ideas.
So I believe that ECA can help us a lot
in that front as well.
Yeah, to completely echo Camilo, actually,
blockchain is an enhancement
to your current business or tech idea.
And I guess something we're excited about projects that utilize Algorand and what Algorand does best. So anything that needs speed, scale or reliability, that
could be DeFi apps pushing transaction volume or real-world asset
platforms that need instant settlements or you know those remittance
payments um even consumer apps like ticketing and gaming where low fees can make the experience
a lot more seamless and we all know user experience is so important just like education is the
gateway to unlocking mass adoption and what eza are achieving achieving but also user experience is so
important to continue to engage those users so we love seeing builders take
web 2 ideas and sort of reimagine them in web 3 as well that's always fun but
there's ideas that don't need to completely reinvent the wheel and then
of course in web 3 there are these completely new economic models that you can and
even social models that you can build um and create your own cyberpunk city uh at some point
um but i'd also like to uh point out to the algafam here in the space as well when when the
gigabrains from eza come over and they're learning about algorand i think it's super important that
we welcome them in we support them as well.
Maybe they have extra questions and things like this
so we can all be in the journey together
to really build the ecosystem of Algorand.
Awesome, thank you very much.
And just to touch on something
that was mentioned earlier as well, Dom, Phil,
you know, the companies that have been built
as a result of EZA have a valuation combined
of over 4 billion.
So what advice would you have for anyone that's building on our ground using EZA on how to be successful?
Great question. I can kick it off and then hand over to Dom.
Really, I think the magic, and we refer to this a little bit, it's the EZA magic.
There's this amazing community that we've had
build up over the past couple of years and if you come to one of our hackathons i will sprinkle a
little bit of easy magic dust on you so make sure that you do come to harvard and to london
it's being there with some of the brightest people in the world and i think it really really boils
down to that you have here behind every single number in the EZA app.
There's somebody who is excited about Web3 and there's somebody who's very, very passionate.
And of course, we have people from the best universities in the world.
We have people who have just been grinding on their own for many years and they come and this is their moment to build.
And so if you are coming into your journey here the this narrative this journey this story
that we've been talking about and you're just starting we've only released um the first two
modules so far if you're on this journey and completing those in the run-up then definitely
take the opportunity if you can't come to one of our hackathons in person then connect with
everybody who's sharing their journey online as well and we have had people who literally met online just become the best friends start their
own projects and then come to meet in person literally like two or three years later so i
would take advantage of this amazing community but dom's also seen a lot of hand over to him for
his advice as well yeah definitely i mean i you know, one great thing for people to
do, obviously, is complete the challenges in the EZA app, learn all about it. But then also,
you know, think about and also really dive into some of the previous projects that have come out
of EZHackathons in the past and really see, you know, what they're building, what they're focused
on, what they've really, you know, decided to commit themselves full time to building. Because like Phil and I and everyone else here has said, the hackathons
really are a launchpad for people to actually launch their ideas, continue building in the
ecosystem long term, and not just show up to and then leave. Obviously, that's great too. We welcome
everyone and everyone should feel free to come and learn. But ultimately, if you're interested in
actually building a company, launching something and, you know, really adding that
long term value to this ecosystem, you know, to crypto as a whole, and Algorand, obviously,
in this case, that would be really, that's really cool. And so see what other people have done,
see their journey from app to hackathon to demo day to launching their projects and actually
raising their first round of funding. Because that's something that, you know, we hope many people will do and ultimately they will. So yeah, feel free to
reach out to us as well. If you are interested in connecting with any previous teams who have come
through EZA, who've learned about different ecosystems and what their experiences have been
like, and then ultimately, you know, we'll be happy to connect you and make sure that you're
set up for success because you know there's so much to be done in the space so much to build i
know it sounds cliche and everyone says it but we really are still so early you know the whole space
is just over a decade old pretty much and uh there's so much to build um so yeah very excited
to welcome everyone in person as well and watch all your journeys online phil and i are always active on x you know so yeah looking forward to it awesome and back to you camilla and sarah in terms of the journey what
will be the journey for builders on our ground after completing the crash course on the easy
app you know what are the next steps that we'd look to send someone towards. Thanks for the question, Michael.
I believe that the most important part is to offer a journey, as you mentioned.
And right now, they can participate in the hackathon that will take place in Harvard
in London.
I believe the EC18 can share more details about it.
But also, we are launching our new program, the Startup Challenges.
So it's a new initiative that you will see live in three weeks.
I think so.
We are working with our team super hard to finalize all the details.
But the intention of this program is to keep supporting the builders and developers that they realize that they want to keep building, but they need to strengthen their business skills
and also the pro-development skills.
So we are putting together a 10-10
10-10 Did Camillo cut out there?
Just double checking.
Small rug, small rug.
Zero downtime on Algorand, but a bit of downtime
on Camillo's X today, unfortunately.
But Sarah, I think you can take over, then we'll go to Dom and Phil with more details on the hackathons.
Yeah, of course. So just to compliment Camilo there. So with the startup challenges that we're
launching very soon, there's over, well, I guess this is some alpha, there's over $100,000 that will be going out for that for rewards. But I think the main
point of the journey is wherever you are on whatever skill level, whether you're a solo
founder or you already have a team, there is a place for you in the Algrant ecosystem. So we
have the masterclasses to help you take your idea into a proof of concept, whether that's helping with the integration. Without writing a single line of code, we can help you with AI tools and our own
tooling to be able to build a good proof of concept. From that, you'll enter inside of our
startup programs where you have a chance to learn more about business and the technical side,
a bit of networking and to build your team,
really refine your NDPs as well. And from that, once you graduate through that program as well,
and of course if you go through the EZ-A app you're going to be a step ahead of the rest,
but we also have our accelerator programs where you can really work with experts, whether it's
externally from the foundation
or some of the experts inside of the foundation as well,
to get tips, tricks, look into funding opportunities,
and also marketing help or developer help
and things like this as well.
So whether you're at the very start
or maybe you're already growing
and wanting to reach enterprise level level we have a place for you
in the Algrant ecosystem. Perfect thank you and something that was touched on earlier was that
we will have two hackathons with EZ8 one in London and one in Boston at Harvard. Dom and Phil do you
want to touch on that slightly? 100% These are going to be two flagship events.
So Harvard, of course, where some of the coolest startups in the world were Bell.
You don't need to look very far to see them.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, literally just on campus.
Bill Gates as well.
So it's going to be a very very fun time we have our Algorand Harvard hackathon coming up
in just over two weeks six to seven September and the one in London on 18 to 19 October so
just over one month apart it's going to be able to build up a momentum so if you're in the states
come along come along to the east coast if you're New York, you don't have any excuse not to come.
And of course, there's everything to win as well.
So we have these amazing opportunities that Sarah Jane has just talked about.
And of course, really, I think that the key thing that you'll get out of this is being
able to meet those amazing people, the Giga Brains in the EZA community.
And as Dom mentioned, those people who have been completing those challenges
together with you online,
you'll be able to get to meet all those people in person.
So definitely make sure that you're following EZA,
you follow Dom and me as well.
We'll be posting a lot more about it.
And we're really, really excited to see you there.
Awesome. Thank you, guys. And just to round things off as well for easy and for our brand as well
um you know with everything you've learned about our brand the developer tooling the community
the use cases you know if you had you know 30 60 seconds to convince someone who's skeptical
about building on our brand to build on ourgorand, what would you say to them? We can start with you,
Dom, maybe. Yeah, I mean, I'd say definitely check out the Algorand courses on the EZA app.
I mean, I think that's the easiest way to start getting bullish and start figuring out what your idea is and where you can get started. And also learn the basics. Never been an easier way than
on EZA. Awesome. Nice little rhyme runner and uh phil what about yourself for me
the episode that sylvia mccully did with lex friedman that would be maybe a bit of a cop-out
because the interview itself or the episode is actually very very long and typical leg style but definitely
that episode is really really good it doesn't just talk about algorithm it also just talks about
the broader journey it talks about some of the philosophy behind crypto and blockchain so i
think it's just really really cool to understand the broader space and also how sylvia mccali was
thinking about it is thinking about it which is where the space is going.
So I highly recommend checking it out.
If you look up Silvio Macaulay, Lex Friedman,
I'm sure it will come on.
Amazing. Legendary episode for sure.
And over to Camilo and Sarah.
I want to start showcasing the most important use cases in our ecosystem because that is the best way to understand why blockchain and why algorithm.
And then show the developer tooling because it's game changer of the kind of things that you can build and do in algorithm without smart contracts.
But also if you want to add another level of complexity, you can create a smart contract using Python and TypeScript.
So if you show the builders and the developers that they have the correct skill set to start
playing around with this technology, they will say, okay, I want to play around with
And also for all the BIVE coders, they can start using the set of tooling that we have
available to convert our ideas in
reality and using blockchain as a complement so that could be the the approach and for sure we
can share with them the links to the sylvius micali presentation and all the relevant information for
them to keep learning more about this yeah and i guess um to answer the question as well, I'll repeat it just to make sure.
So if you had 30 seconds to convince a skeptical Web2 dev to build on Algorand, what would you say?
So I would think if you're coming from Web2, Algorand feels familiar, but it gives you superpowers.
So you get the things like instant finality,
which means you have no risk of reorgs or rollbacks.
So you don't even need to worry about that.
You have fixed fees that are just a fraction of a penny
and powerful features like assets, NFTs,
and atomic transfers built right into the layer one
of Allogrand.
So obviously if I was talking to a web2 person i
probably wouldn't say layer one but um you the main point here is you don't need to develop a
smart contract for creating nfts and tokens on allogrand which is also new in the blockchain
space as camillo mentioned um you can also keep your existing front-end stack. So use an
algo kit when you're developing your front-end, so the web page. It's
completely agnostic. You can choose what you want to use and of course we start
you off with TypeScript and React. And you can just write smart contracts for
any complex ideas you have in TypeScript or pure Python and be live in hours or actually in minutes with AlgoKit.
To be honest, it gives you the whole working backend
and frontend to get you started.
So you can just focus right on coding
and maybe even vibe coding.
So I guess to round it off, Algorand, it's fast,
it's reliable, it's carbon negative.
So any projects that you build will benefit from the carbon negative part of that as well.
And you'll spend more time shipping instead of troubleshooting as well.
So I guess that's the round off I would give on that.
Big shout out to Dom and Phil once again for joining us today.
And I really want to see people posting their points that they earn from the Algorand challenges.
For sure.
And just to echo that, thank you so much, Dom and Phil, for joining today.
It was an amazing space, really to the point, and educational as well.
And we're really looking forward to working with you, especially on the hackathons as well in london and in boston and yeah it's gonna be a great partnership and we're gonna
get some unicorns built on algorand for sure let's do it let's go thanks everyone for tuning
in it was great to be here with everyone and thanks as well uh for hosting algorand team
amazing thank you have a great evening everyone see everyone Have a great evening, everyone. See you, everyone. Have a great day. Bye. Thank you.
