From karate to pitching to meeting the top leaders in Web 3, CoinDisc's Consensus

24 is gearing up for a 10th anniversary to remember.

Welcome to this special edition of CoinDesk Daily.

I'm your host, Jen Sanassi.

Consensus 2024 is just days away. And as the industry makes its way to Austin, Texas, we've rounded up three events you won't want to miss. At the heart of consensus lies CoinDisc

pitch fest, the startup competition that spotlights promising early stage web three companies from around the

world who participate

in a live onstage pitching battle. Four out of the 40 pitch fest finalists will join an episode of the TV

series Meet the Draper's, which will be filming live on the consensus floor. The show gives entrepreneurs

and founders the chance to pitch their ideas to legendary VC Tim Draper and his family.

The winner will secure a $50,000 investment and an invitation to the finale for a shot

at a $1 million grand prize.

Karate is coming to consensus.

Karate Combat, the full contact striking league and the first sport to be governed and gamified by a token,

will host 10 professional karate combat fights as well as the second installment of its

influencer fight club format.

Karate combat president Asim Zaidi said, quote, it was our mission to team up with the top

crypto conference on the planet.

With this partnership, we're bringing the world's most captivating fighting league to over 15, the top crypto conference on the planet with this partnership. We're bringing the

world's most captivating fighting league to over 15,000 top flight web three attendees. I mean it when I

tell you, you won't want to miss this one. End quote. And the EZAA consensus hackathon, we'll see

builders build and present a Web3 project in front of world-class investors and ecosystem teams.

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