Easya Consensus Hackathon, who hosted 14-16. May in Toronto, was the largest blockchain-related hackathon in the North American history and its organizers, the brothers Phil and Dom Kwok, plan to go even bigger next year in Miami.
“We had some really good results, really cool projects,” the duo told Coindesk in an interview recently. Over 1,000 developers joined the event, all of which were carefully monitored in advance. Applicants had to demonstrate their coding experience through their GitHub and LinkedIn pages, where the goal was to get developers into a proven track record. “That’s why so many of the projects are really excellent this year,” said Easya Chief Operating Officer Dom Kwok.
The potential price? Millions of dollars in financing, thanks to five blockchain networks: Aptos, Stellar, Polkadot, Bahamut and Forte.
The highlight of the conference, however, was when representatives of Universal Studios invited one of the projects (APTAP, which won first place in the Aptos track) to show what they built for Universal’s Executive Team in Orlando. “It was crazy,” said Easya CEO Phil Kwok.
With a society that counts over 1 million developers, Easya is one of the world’s largest and most popular web3 learning apps. The company has organized over 30 Hackathons since it was founded in 2019.
The winners of the Toronto Hackathon were determined by the team behind the blockchain they were building on. Each network had its own mission declaration – For example, Stellar’s was “Web3 UX doesn’t have to suck. Prove it.” The overall goal is to continue to finance the winning projects over a long period of time, which means that most of the reward price is actually distributed further down the line.
“Developers don’t just come to these hackathons, win prizes and then move on to the next one. Like many others, the goal of our hackathons to make sure people actually continue to build and add long -term value to crypto,” said Dom Kwok.
As mentioned earlier, Aptap, a project that makes it extremely easy for users to access their APTOS tektbook on their phone, came to first place on the Aptos track. Stellars wins, Cycle Buddy, helps women trace their menstrual cycle while serving tokens. At Polkadot, Sutanpu, an app that allows travelers to mint NFTs in the places they visit, took the crown. Bahamut, a relatively new blockchain, gave the big prize to Namevault, a decentralized naming service similar to Ethereum’s similar domains. Finally, a protocol aimed at making AirDrop allocation smoother, Gass, first into Forte.
Other winners include:
