The future of decentralized social media is taking root. — Decentralized social networks feel like the final frontier in the rapidly-expanding world of Web3. But, like all things in that world, the future is fast approaching. For two weeks this March, our community rallied around that idea using Lens Protocol—planting the seeds of a future where users would be treated…

Highlights from our record-setting event. — We kicked off the month of February with Road to Web3—an intense, five-day hackathon & workshops built in conjunction with Polygon. Our goals were simple, onboard the next thousand developers and creatives to Web3, and introduce them to all that Polygon has to offer. …

Building the Future of Non-Fungibles — We knew the bar was set pretty high when we began work on NFTHack2022. Last year’s event was like no other hackathon we’d ever created, and it perfectly foreshadowed the rise of NFTs in popular culture. …

Here’s to an incredible new year! — When we set our eyes on this year, we had no idea how big our events would become. Thousands of hackers, hundreds of hours of content, and millions of dollars in prizes later, we think it’s safe to say 2021 was one of our biggest years yet. …

Wrapping up our first event in over two years. — For one weekend this April, we brought the Ethereum Developer community together for the hackathon-to-end-all-hackathons. ETHAmsterdam was an event two years in the making, representing everything our team had learned along the way, and opening a window onto…

Wrapping up an incredible weekend — We kicked off the month of April with style, hosting 500 hackers for one weekend of DAO-focused hacking frenzy. For 48 hours, our hackers raced to build their projects while we hosted dozens of talks and workshops featuring some of the brightest minds in the growing DAO ecosystem. Now that…

The Future of Gaming is Now — For two weeks this March, hackers from around the world joined forces for BuildQuest—a hackathon devoted to the future of gaming and the metaverse, built in partnership with our friends at Protocol Labs. Though the state of Web3 gaming has progressed by leaps and bounds since CryptoKitties graced our stage…

The future of ZK Proofs is r̶e̶d̶a̶c̶t̶e̶d̶ — December 9th, nearly two thousand viewers joined us from around the world to watch four hours of spirited discussion on the future of Zero-Knowledge Proofs in our ecosystem. This fast-growing space has become a topic of great importance as Ethereum becomes more widely adopted, and all were eager to learn…

6 IRL hackathons, 10 online hackathons, and 15 summits — We know everyone is busy this time of year, so we’ll try to be brief—thank you for making this year such an incredible success. We’ve been working overtime behind-the-scenes to gain and analyze feedback from our community, and we couldn’t be more excited to share some of what we have…