Another weekend, another hackathon at @ETHGlobal with 1200 other hackers. Snagged 2nd for @hedera's agent kit & A2A prize for Dark Matter Markets, an agentic voting incentive marketplace.
ethglobal.com/showcase/dark-…
Useful learnings in 🧵
1.) My hackathon strategy this year was optimizing for "most interesting and unique", not necessarily what is most useful thing to exist today. This helped me to stand out from other projects, especially when many teams are actually doing the same thing as each other.
4.) I am convinced that to be an ETHGlobal finalist, you need a "woooww" demo that you can quickly run live on stage. Broad, ambitious ideas which are complex to communicate, or involve too many steps to demo, are not competitive for being a finalist.
3.) DDD makes sure you don't waste effort building/debugging things which you don't have time to show anyways. 2/2
3.) Consider "demo driven development". With AI, as a solo hacker, I was actually able to realize my full vision BUT found that there wasn't enough time to demo/explain it all. Start with planning your slides & demo, and then build against that. 1/2
2.) "Why, how what" from Simon Sinek is still a relevant framework for presenting an idea, even if it's just a 3-5 minute hackathon demo.
Won 1st place in the Hypurrfi Track at Hyperliquid Hackathon in Argentina last weekend... 90% built on a plane after being stuck at a Brazilian airport for 40 hrs.
HY-007 is an AI agent which autonomously manages your leveraged position. 🧵
@StakingSummit @KurtG @HypurrFi
PR with code & video
github.com/stakingrewards/hy…
It's only a POC now, but for a vision of a more general agentic infrastructure which could connect to other AIs, live data, your own tools & MCPs etc. Basically managed "at your direction", but empowered to do everything in your best interest while you do more productive things.
Kevin Stubbs retweeted
Congrats to all Hyperliquid Hackathon winners! 🚀
Thanks to everyone who submitted, the energy was incredible. Appreciate the hard work, creativity, and momentum. Let’s keep pushing HL forward with bright minds building on it.
GlueX: @luduvigo
Lava: @aj_success
HypurrFi: @0xlizards @crypto_vib @miura4life
Looping Collective: @yuvrajlakh @Utility6151
Wildcard: @crypto_vib @miura4life
Huge thanks to our judges and sponsors: @FiliusJff & @GluexProtocol, @yaircleper & @lavanetxyz, @KurtG & @HypurrFi, and the amazing @looping_col team @0xpdjsh @koholaa.
Hyperliquid
Kevin Stubbs retweeted
🎉 Huge congrats to all the Hyperliquid Hackathon participants & winners! 🎉
It was incredible building together around the “what’s only possible on Hyperliquid” vision - from trading bots to new DeFi infra. Thanks to our sponsor tracks by @lavanetxyz, @GluexProtocol, @HypurrFi & @looping_col for making this possible.
Shoutout to all the winners: @luduvigo, @aj_success, @0xlizards, @crypto_vib, @miura4life, @yuvrajlakh, @Utility6151 @cryptobro2019 🙌
Big thanks to the dedicated judges: @skinnaj @0xpdjsh @FiliusJff @yaircleper @KurtG, Fernando @ChorusOne & @koholaa
Thank you to everyone who joined, built, and contributed to pushing the @HyperliquidX ecosystem forward. 🚀
Kevin Stubbs retweeted
W3PN HACKS Winners are here ➠ github.com/web3privacy/hacka…
7 tracks, no bounties—just passion and dedication driving open, human-centric innovation ✨🏴
Had a great time co-hacking (alone but together) with new friends in Berlin! Thankful for the win & can't wait for the next one.
Kevin Stubbs retweeted
we built an anonymous & private whistleblower platform at the @web3privacy hackathon this weekend w/@steel_feel_
historically, sharing sensitive information has carried the greatest risk for informants, yet it’s precisely these revelations that drive critical changes.
ProofLeak uses @NoirLang to generate a ZK proof attesting that a whistleblowers email address belongs to an organization using a DKIM signature, ensuring credible disclosures, while fully preserving the whistleblowers anonymity. these proofs are then submitted onchain for verification through @ZKVProtocol.
to build even greater trust, individuals from the same or related organizations can independently attest to any leak, creating a decentralized credibility system.
thank you to the organizers & mentors for support, as well as to the other hackers for the good vibes. @0xjei @0xYvanik @henophilia @post_polar_ @PG_CDG @winprivacy @rakymnft @alinalatinina @nicksvyaznoy @zkLumi & everyone else 🫶🏻
GitHub link: github.com/web3privacy/hacka…
Kevin Stubbs retweeted
Our peepz are @ETHGlobal hackathon finalists
feat @0x_m_f, @jensei_, @FlowTranquil + @0xlizards
DUST.OPS is a cross-chain token sweeper with an optional privacy router.
ethglobal.com/showcase/dust-…
Kevin Stubbs retweeted
🧹 DUST.OPS
DUST.OPS is a cross-chain token sweeper that declutters your wallet. Swap illiquid tokens into ETH, exit through Railgun for privacy, and withdraw to a fresh wallet. No clutter, no trace.
Built by @jensei_, @0xlizards, @FlowTranquil, @0x_m_f
ethglobal.com/showcase/dust-…
