The Hackathon of Consensus Easya, organized from May 14 to 16 in Toronto, was the biggest hackathon linked to the blockchain in the history of the North American – and its organizers, the Brothers Phil and Dom Kwok, plan to become even greater next year in Miami.
“We had very good results, really cool projects,” said the duo at Coindesk recently in an interview. More than 1,000 developers have joined the event, which were all carefully checked beforehand. The candidates had to demonstrate their coding experience via their Github and LinkedIn pages, the objective being to recruit developers with a proven assessment. “This is why so many projects are really exceptional this year,” said Dom Kwok, head of the Easya operation.
The potential price? Millions of dollars in funding, gracked five blockchain networks: Aptos, Stellar, Polkadot, Bahamut and Forte.
The highest point of the conference, however, was when the representatives of Universal Studios invited one of the projects (APTAP, which won first place on the Aptos track) to show what they built at the Universal management team in Orlando. “It was crazy,” said Easya CEO Phil Kwok.
With a community with more than a million developers, Easya is one of the largest and most popular web learning applications in the world. The company has organized more than 30 hackathons since its creation in 2019.
The winners of the Toronto hackathon were determined by teams behind the blockchain on which they lean. Each network had its own mission statement – Stellar, for example, was “Web3 UX does not have to suck. Prove.” The overall objective is to continue to finance winning projects over a long period, which means that most of the award price is in fact distributed later.
“The developers do not only come to these hackathons, win prices, then go to the next one. Like many others, the objective of our hackathons is to ensure that people really continue to build and add long -term value to crypto,” said Dom Kwok.
As mentioned above, APTAP, a project that facilitates first place for users to access their Aptos portfolio on their phone, made first place on the Aptos track. Stellar’s winner, CycleBuddy, helps women follow their menstrual cycle while winning tokens. On Polkadot, Sutanpu, an application that allows travelers to hit the NFTs from the places they visit, took the crown. Bahamut, a relatively new blockchain, handed over the Grand Prix to Namevault, a decentralized name service similar to the ETHEREUM STEs. Finally, a protocol that aims to make the allocation of airlines more fluid, GASS, arrived first on strong.
The other winners include:
