The EasyA Consensus Hackathon, hosted on Could 14-16 in Toronto, was the biggest blockchain-related hackathon in North American historical past — and its organizers, brothers Phil and Dom Kwok, are planning on going even larger subsequent yr in Miami.
“We had some actually good outcomes, actually cool initiatives,” the duo informed CoinDesk in an interview just lately. Over 1,000 builders joined the occasion, all of whom have been rigorously vetted beforehand. Candidates needed to reveal their coding expertise through their GitHub and LinkedIn pages, the goal being to enlist builders with a confirmed monitor report. “That’s why so most of the initiatives are actually excellent this yr,” EasyA chief working officer Dom Kwok mentioned.
The potential prize? Tens of millions of {dollars} in funding, courtesy of 5 blockchain networks: Aptos, Stellar, Polkadot, Bahamut and Forte.
The spotlight of the convention, nevertheless, was when representatives of Common Studios invited one of many initiatives (ApTap, which gained first place within the Aptos monitor) to showcase what they constructed to Common’s govt workforce in Orlando. “That was loopy,” EasyA CEO Phil Kwok mentioned.
With a group counting over 1 million builders, EasyA is among the world’s largest and hottest Web3 studying apps. The agency has organized over 30 hackathons because it was based in 2019.
The winners of the Toronto hackathon have been decided by groups behind the blockchain they have been constructing on. Every community had its personal mission assertion — Stellar’s, for instance, was “Web3 UX doesn’t must suck. Show it.” The general objective is to proceed funding the successful initiatives over a protracted time period, which implies that the majority of the reward prize is definitely distributed additional down the road.
“Builders don’t simply come to those hackathons, win prizes after which go on to the following one. Like many others, the objective of our hackathons is to ensure that folks truly proceed to construct and add long-term worth to crypto,” Dom Kwok mentioned.
As beforehand talked about, ApTap, a challenge that makes it extraordinarily simple for customers to entry their Aptos pockets on their cellphone, made it to first place on the Aptos monitor. Stellar’s winner, CycleBuddy, helps girls monitor their menstrual cycle whereas incomes tokens. On Polkadot, Sutanpu, an app that permits travellers to mint NFTs of the locations they go to, took the crown. Bahamut, a comparatively new blockchain, gave the massive prize to NameVault, a decentralized naming service akin to Ethereum’s ENS Domains. Lastly, a protocol that goals to make airdrop allocation smoother, GASS, got here in first on Forte.
Different winners embrace AptosAI Guard, MMO, FailSafe, Borrowhood, Automated Financial savings Coverage, OrbitSwap, DotStriker, Merge Fund, Proctodot, SmartTrust, Ratezilla, MilkyPay, Quick Credit score, VYB and MLOps.
