I’ve spent enough time around this space to say this with confidence:
The next generation of crypto isn’t being designed in conferences in my honest opinion...
It’s being brute-forced in messy dev chats, late-night commits, and rough demos during events like these.
So if you think DEX routing can be better, go build it.
If you think the yield landscape is broken, prototype a fix.
If you just want to be around the people actually shipping things, show up at Hackatons.
Curious fact: @1inch was born at the hackathon, like many other colossus. Which is funny and cool to now see them hosting their own hackathons to back early-stage builders.
$525K prize pool is nice, sure.
But the bigger prize is accidentally starting the next 1inch in my opinion.
A thing that, like every other protocol, most people miss about 1inch...
It wasn’t VC-funded at birth.
It wasn’t a whitepaper idea.
It was hacked together in 36 hours at an ETHGlobal event, by two devs frustrated that DEX routing sucked.
That’s what hackathons actually are:
Not marketing bullshit. Not meme prizes.
We can even call them pressure cookers where real DeFi infra gets shaped lmao
Uniswap V2’s ERC20<>ERC20 swaps? Hackathon.
Aave flash loans? Hackathon.
Gitcoin? Hackathon.
If you’re curious about attending one:
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