Inside North America's Biggest Blockchain Hackathon
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🗓️ 1 April 2025
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A preview of the EasyA Consensus Toronto Hackathon with co-founders Dom Kwok and Phil Kwok.
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EasyA co-founders Dom Kwok and Phil Kwok join CoinDesk to share news about their upcoming event, the EasyA Consensus Hackathon. Plus, they share insights on past successful projects and their outlook on Web3 innovation. Set to be the largest blockchain hackathon in North America, the EasyA Hackathon will be a highlight of Consensus Toronto. Apply by April 4 to be a part of it!
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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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