I got the “so, how’s the hackathon going” question a lot by friends and colleagues last week probably expecting me to respond with “it’s going great!”. When I start answering how things are going from my perspective I feel it takes them off guard. We wouldn’t be here if

Take a closer look at the projects that walked away with the total prize pool of 101,775 USD during The Blockspace Synergy hack, sponsored by Polkadot, kusama, Solana, Hyperbridge, Polkadot UX Bounty, and Polkadot Marketing Bounty. From cross-chain solutions, ZK, learning experiences

Insights from being a judge at a $ 96,784 hackathon - so you can win your next one.

The hackathon is just a starting point to start seriously cooking.

Congrats to all the participants of the Synergy Hack 👏

What an honour it was to host all you builders at the Synergy hack. Now comes the fun part where 9 winning teams need to continue shipping their MVPs to claim their milestone 2 payouts. Time to grind. Stay tuned for what’s next 👀

A lot of teams asked us where we can see all the projects who submitted to the Synergy hack. Here's a sneak peak of what I've been building over the past month in preparation. Say hello to "BlockSpace Stadium" (v1), an app for anyone can to see the progress of projects from the

RFP: make it possible to set your on-chain identity with USDC or USDT. Who's working on this already? This might be a good one for the new kids on the Hub 👀👀

Super proud that we’ve already paid out the first milestone prizes for the Polkadot Main Track winners from the Synergy hack. I participated in hackathons where it sometimes takes months to receive the advertised prizes. A 4-12 week window should not be the norm. At WebZero 🔜 sub0, Buenos Aires 🇦🇷

its all just bytes and wires. bite the wire, hang in there

👏👏 spot on — let’s move the needle away from “participation theatre” only.

Polkadot hub is exactly what the ecosystem needs to get out of this rut. - Easier platform for builders - EVM-RISCV contracts for advanced zk protocols - $DOT as gas token for a hyperscalable contract environment. - Trustless bridging via hyperbridge & snowbridge

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every marketer i meet has the same broken goals: - "10k followers by end of Q3" - "1M impressions this month" - "5x our engagement rate" you guessed it: these should not be called "goals". they're vanity metrics dressed up as strategy. so, instead of setting targets, pivot to

Sums up how we think about things in this neck of the woods. Culture is everything.

See you in Buenos Aires, frens?

Bank the unbanked with any mobile phone, no strings attached. Simchain is working towards launching this on Polkadot.