Inside North America's Biggest Blockchain Hackathon
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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This CoinDest conversation is all about Consensus Toronto. |
| 0:09.6 | EZA co-founders Phil and Dom Quack join us to give us all the alpha on the EZA Consensus Hackathon, |
| 0:16.4 | which is gearing up to be North America's biggest blockchain hackathon. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome to you both. |
| 0:22.7 | Thank you very much for having us on, Jen. |
| 0:25.0 | Thanks, for having us. |
| 0:26.3 | Of course. |
| 0:26.9 | We're getting really excited over here about Consensus Toronto. |
| 0:30.2 | It's happening May 14th to 16th. |
| 0:32.6 | This is not the first time that I've talked with the both of you about the hackathons that happen at the |
| 0:38.9 | consensus conference in collaboration with EZA. But this is the biggest blockchain hackathon |
| 0:43.8 | in North America. So Dom, I'm going to kick it off to you first. Practically, what does that |
| 0:48.5 | mean? What kind of numbers are we talking about here? And how do we know it's the biggest? |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah. So we've already seen in the last couple weeks since we first announced the hackathon, |
| 0:59.0 | tons and tons of excitement from developers, sponsors, partners, you name it, coming to the hackthon. |
| 1:06.7 | So we are expecting to see over a thousand developers actually come in person to the EZA Consensus Hackathon in Toronto, which will make it the biggest North American blockchain hackathon in history. |
| 1:18.6 | And we are going to see hundreds of projects launch on different chains who are participating. |
| 1:25.6 | Some of the chains we've already announced and yeah, |
| 1:29.3 | we're looking forward to seeing all of those projects come to life. Our past Hong Kong and Austin, |
| 1:34.3 | EZA consensus hackathons have already produced projects that have been backed by some of the world's best VCs |
| 1:40.3 | and accelerators like A16 Z, Y Combinator, Draper University, etc. So yeah, we're really |
| 1:46.9 | excited to see everyone come in person and launch their startups on the world stage. |
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