Space Summary
The Twitter Space What to Expect at ETHGlobal Singapore hosted by ETHGlobal. The ETHGlobal Singapore Twitter space provided an exciting preview of the upcoming event, focusing on supporting builders and fostering innovation within the Ethereum ecosystem. It highlighted networking opportunities, valuable workshops, and the overall sense of community collaboration. With a sneak peek into ETHOnline 2024, participants can expect a range of insights, career development prospects, and project collaboration opportunities. Attending these events not only enhances skills and knowledge in Ethereum but also opens doors to new career pathways in blockchain technology.
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Questions
Q: What is the focus of ETHGlobal Singapore?
A: Supporting builders and fostering innovation within Ethereum.
Q: What opportunities do events like ETHGlobal Singapore offer?
A: Insights, networking, and skill enhancement for Ethereum enthusiasts.
Q: How can participating in hackathons benefit individuals?
A: Enhancing skills, knowledge, and fostering collaborations in Ethereum development.
Q: Why is staying updated on Ethereum events important?
A: To remain informed, connected, and ahead in the evolving Ethereum ecosystem.
Q: How do events like ETHOnline 2024 contribute to the Ethereum community?
A: By providing exciting opportunities, networking, and career growth in blockchain.
Q: What role do events play in fostering a sense of community within Ethereum?
A: Events create a space for shared enthusiasm, collaboration, and connections.
Q: How can attending events like ETHGlobal Singapore impact one's career in blockchain?
A: Opening doors to new opportunities, collaborations, and skill development.
Q: Why are diverse audiences interested in both virtual and in-person Ethereum events?
A: To cater to different preferences, enhance networking, and engagement.
Q: What benefits can collaboration and project ideation at events bring to participants?
A: New project ideas, partnerships, and career growth in blockchain technology.
Q: What makes events like ETHOnline 2024 appealing to Ethereum enthusiasts?
A: Exciting opportunities, insights, and a glimpse into Ethereum's future developments.
Highlights
Time: 00:15:40
Supporting Ethereum Builders Discussion on how ETHGlobal Singapore empowers developers in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Time: 00:25:17
Innovation and Community Collaboration Exploring the importance of fostering innovation and collaboration within the Ethereum community.
Time: 00:35:29
Networking and Insightful Workshops Insights into the networking opportunities and valuable workshops at ETHGlobal Singapore.
Time: 00:45:50
Sneak Peek into ETHOnline 2024 Exciting information about the upcoming ETHOnline 2024 event for Ethereum enthusiasts.
Time: 00:55:12
Career Opportunities in Blockchain Discussing how participating in Ethereum events can lead to career development in blockchain.
Time: 01:05:19
Diverse Audience Engagement Exploring how events cater to a diverse audience interested in Ethereum's innovations.
Time: 01:15:30
Collaborations and Project Ideas Highlighting the benefits of collaboration and project ideation at Ethereum events.
Time: 01:25:42
Virtual and In-Person Experiences Comparing the advantages of both virtual and in-person attendance at Ethereum events.
Time: 01:35:55
Community Building and Enthusiasm Examining how events foster community building and shared enthusiasm for Ethereum.
Time: 01:45:10
Skill Enhancement and Knowledge Sharing The significance of hackathons and workshops in enhancing skills and knowledge in Ethereum development.
Key Takeaways
- ETHGlobal Singapore aims to support builders in Ethereum's ecosystem.
- The event emphasizes innovation, development, and community collaboration.
- Speakers and workshops will provide valuable insights into Ethereum's future.
- ETHOnline 2024 promises exciting opportunities for Ethereum enthusiasts.
- Networking at these events can lead to collaborations and new project ideas.
- Participating in hackathons can enhance skills and knowledge in Ethereum development.
- Staying updated on Ethereum events is essential for staying ahead in the space.
- Virtual and in-person events cater to a diverse audience interested in Ethereum.
- Events like these foster a sense of community and shared enthusiasm for Ethereum.
- Attending these events can open doors to new career opportunities in blockchain.
Behind the Mic
Welcome and Introduction
Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Thanks for joining us, Itai. We're just gonna wait for one more minute. Sounds great. Thanks for having me. Perfect. Welcome. Welcome, everybody. Can you give me a thumbs up or react if you can hear me speaking? Awesome. Okay, so it's officially 09:30 a.m. estimated, so we're just going to get started with the ETH global Singapore, but to expect Twitter space. So hello everybody. Welcome to our ETH Global Singapore 2024 Twitter space. I'm Maggie from the partnerships team at ETH Global and I'm super excited to be hosting the what to expect at ETH Global Singapore Twitter space for everybody here. And as we wait for more people to roll in over the next hour. And before I introduce our speakers, I really wanted to do a quick introduction.
Details About ETH Global Singapore
So today we're super excited to talk about all things ETH Global Singapore, our fourth in person hackathon this year, starting in one week from September 20 to the 22nd, focused on all things ethereum. Now, before I introduce our speakers, I do want to remind all of our listeners that you can still apply to hack for this event as well as all of our remaining 2024 events. So our full calendar is@eathglobal.com events if you would like to go check out what other events are happening for the rest of the year. We are also taking questions from the audience today, so please comment your questions or invite or request to speak, and we will invite you to speak at the end of the space if there is time. So what is ETH Global Singapore? It is our fourth in person hackathon this year with over 800 hackers confirmed building with us on all things Ethereum over 36 hours next weekend.
Prizes and Expectations
And what's even more exciting is that we're going to be giving away more than $350,000 in prizes. And part of this pool is actually coming from Eatsign, from dynamic, and from Rootstock Labs, who are our featured speakers today. So I will let them share a little bit more about who they are, what they do, and what they would like to see so that some of you guys can win these prizes. So today we have signed protocol, dynamic and Rootstock Labs, who will be going deeper into the different tech stacks that are available and that you should put onto your radar, and also how you can maximize your chances at winning some of the top prizes next weekend. So without further ado, let's get into it and start with some introductions from our speakers.
Speaker Introductions
So starting with sign protocol Jack, could you please introduce yourself briefly who you're representing and popcorn it over to another speaker on the space. Who is Itai and Ricardo or Olia? Sure. Thanks for having me. Maggie and ETH Global. So I'm Jack. I am the CTO and co founder of Sign Protocol. I'm not very interesting, so there isn't too much to talk about. But we've been sponsoring ETH global hackathons for once or twice now. I don't remember, but what really hits me the most is that the sheer number of creative projects that we get, and so we're really grateful to have the opportunity to sponsor yet another one in Singapore. I really don't know what to talk. I'm really bad at talking about myself, so I'll pop it over to Itai.
Itai's Introduction
Sounds awesome. Hey, everyone. Good morning. I'm Itai. I'm based in California, so it's a little bit early for us. So still 630. I'm the co founder and CEO of Dynamic. In a nutshell, what we do is everything when you click login. So if you go to any site or app like doodles or Magic Eden, and you click login, that's all powered by dynamic. We do kind of email login, social login, embedded wallets, and also branded wallet login across EVM, across Solana and others. Honestly, this is. I'm very excited about. We've been sponsoring the last couple hackathons. This is the first one where I think cursor AI is available, which I would argue probably is going to accelerate everyone's work and the ability to build cool stuff.
Ricardo and Olya's Introduction
Last but not least, Ricardo or Olia or both. Hi. Hello guys. My name is Ricardo. I'm a growth party manager at Rootstock Labs based in Portugal. So it's afternoon here in Portugal. Actually, this is our second acute that we are sponsoring in real life from ETH Global. We sponsored global brucells, which was quite nice. The feedback that we got not only from developers and hackers, but the protocols. My attending was really good, and with me I have Hollye that can introduce herself as well. Yeah, thanks. Hi, everyone, I'm Olya. I lead developer experience at Rootstock Labs Rootstock is a fully EVM compatible bitcoin sidechain. So what we're trying to do with our technology is, and doing quite successfully, actually, is bringing the security of bitcoin and programmability of Ethereum together.
Event Expectations and Future Goals
So we basically bring. Awesome. Thank you so much for the introduction. So, yeah, really interesting thing is. Oh, there was a bit of a leg. Sorry, continue. Olia, please continue. No, sorry, I just got a call from unknown number. Always very suspicious, but that's pretty much it. I'll tell a little bit more about how rootstock works and what we expect to be built there, but, yeah, thank you. Great to be here. Great. Thank you so much and welcome to all of you again. So, yeah, it definitely seems like all three of you are returning sponsors from previous events, and so, you know, very excited to welcome all three of you back to our next event in person in Singapore next weekend. I think my first question, actually, for all of you as returning partners is why did you choose to get involved for ETH Global Singapore specifically?
Reasons for Choosing Singapore
Is it because of the main event itself? Is it because a lot of your team members are based in Asia? What are you looking forward to most for next week? And why did you choose to do a Singapore event? Let's start with Jeff. Okay, yeah, thank you. And, yeah, I actually forgot to introduce time for local call, which is my bad. But. So what we do is we do a couple of things. So we are a omnichannel station protocol for that assigned protocol, but we're also for our longtime followers. You might remember that we started off as e sign, which is basically docusign on the blockchain. And actually, we're going to have prizes for both of these products in Singapore.
Reasons for Sponsoring Hackathons
A couple reasons. First, selfishly, whenever someone tells me there's an opportunity to go to Singapore, I'm a strong guest. It's just an awesome place and I really hope everyone gets to enjoy kind of the fun adventures of Singapore, the incredible food, etcetera. But short answer for hackathons is in general and what we've seen historically when we sponsored ETH Global, it's a very good cheat code for us to learn what customers want. We get to sit there and talk to awesome people for 48 to 72 hours who are thinking about innovative ideas. And by definition, when they do that, they run into new challenges that they have to solve with embedded wallets or with branded wallets, and we get to hear about those. And so for us, it's very much just a cheat code to interacting with customers, with developers, with folks that are thinking about their next startup in a really kind of face to face way.
Interactions with Developers
And so that is the key reason for us to sponsor is honestly just kind of condensing what we would get through chats and messages and emails over a multi week period into two days where you can just have a bunch of these interactions. We just get. That was a very long way of saying, look, we get to hang out with really cool developers for a 48 hours period, and that's an experience that's really hard to replicate anywhere else. And so that's why we historically have chosen to sponsor and why we're sponsoring this time around. Awesome. Thank you so much. And Olia and Ricardo.
Community Growth in Singapore
Yeah, sure. I was going to say it's the food, but it beat me to it. But yeah, of course, other reasons. On top of that, well, Rootstock was originally found, rootstock clubs in LAtaM in Argentina. So we've got a very active, friendly, huge community there of supporters Singapore on the side of the world is sort of a new territory for us, but we can also see the community growing very rapidly. A lot of very interesting solutions actually coming out. A few of the recent apps deployed on the rootstock network come from that area, so it's a very new, exciting opportunity for us. In particular, bitcoin l two space and kind of programable solutions on bitcoin seem to be taking off in that area of the world. So yeah, very excited to be there.
Excitement for Future Projects
First time for us. And yeah, can't wait to see all the creativity and innovation coming out of the event. Awesome. Thank you so much for sharing. And yes, I am personally also very much looking forward to the food in Singapore, especially the Kaya toast, which I do miss quite a lot. So very looking forward to that next weekend. Awesome. So I'm really, really excited to dive into the specifics about the actual projects and also some of the use cases that you guys are looking forward to for next week. So based on some of the past hackathons that you guys have done with us, could you share a little bit more about some of the most interesting projects that you've seen come out of the past hackathons, whether it's ETH online or a previous event? ETH Global Brussels, what are some of the projects that you saw that were super interesting?
Highlighting Past Hackathon Projects
And then for next weekend, what are some of the new use cases that you're most excited about for your tech stack? Let's go backwards this time and start from Olia and then go to Itai and then Jack? Yeah, sure, I'll give it a go. So we actually just finished judging the Ethan line, and again, very impressed with the standard of all the projects submitted. So by far, out of all the hackathons and the developer buildathons that we've been involved in the recent time, by far the highest standard of projects submitted with GitHub was very interesting to see all the different things being built in terms of what kind of projects. So we always get a fair bit of defi, which I'm happy about because they kind of normally those projects that we can see being used in real life as a real use cases, and they kind of have legs in the recent submissions.
Emerging Trends in Projects
What we really like that different there's a lot of AI, which is really cool to see gaming, privacy and ownership stuff we'd like to see a little bit more deep in. We've been talking about it recently. It seems to be as a trend. We've not seen that much of implementation on the rootstock network. So that could be something interesting for us to see. But yeah, generally creative ideas normally stand out. What actually in the last one in particular, what I thought was brilliant, it was that we got to see not only the projects that were deployed on the chain, but also some of them kind of in the freestyle, tracks that we have, people would build sort of tooling to bring more developers, to educate them how to build on top of rootstock network or generally to bring them to web three. So I thought that was really interesting and very high standards.
Discussion on Trends and Innovations
So very impressed with this. Ricardo, do you have anything to add? I know you've been judging the last lecture also. Yeah. One of the trending narratives that we try to follow is around ordinals and runes. And this is like most specific to the bitcoin technology and side chains. So this is something that if you guys are trying to, for this kind of project. So besides all of those that Ollie just mentioned, runes and ordinals are like a topic and everything that we are within, high on it. Awesome. Cool. Yeah. Excited to see what other use cases of DeFi are used for the upcoming hackathon for Restock and we'll see where that takes us next weekend.
Expectations for Upcoming Hackathon
Definitely lots of hackers that are coming across many different backgrounds, and especially for token 2049 being a, a big conference that is focused around topics of finance, I think there will also be a lot of projects that are focused around the deFi space as well. So let's see what happens next weekend. Ita, what about yourself? Yes, we get to see a bunch of really cool stuff. So the last hackathon we participated with ETH global Brussels, we actually had 50 projects build with dynamic. I think three of the top ten finalists actually ended up using dynamic and we saw a bunch of use cases we really like.
Exploring Use Cases and Innovations
So the first one is just use cases of abstracting away crypto. So crypto in the background, crypto rails, but then the front end doesn't really talk about crypto. So we saw, for instance, there was a project called Piggy bank, which just let teenagers start saving money in a really effective way very quickly. So not a trading app, but rather a way for them and their parents to deposit money, save money, grow their money, and again use crypto rails without even knowing or thinking about crypto. Right. So that was one type of project that we saw a lot that we really liked. And there are a lot of projects like this being built now, which is, hey, let's use crypto, the technology side of crypto, the way to transfer money, the way to kind of do global finance without ever talking about the fact that it's crypto.
Trends in Project Development
So that was one thing. I think the second part of the narrative there is we saw folks really leaning into everything chain abstraction. So essentially saying, when we abstract away crypto, we should also abstract away kind of all chains. Right. And that's kind of a second component that we saw come up a lot, which is, okay, how do we add more of these layers of simplicity for users so that when they log into a product, they don't really care about any of the script or stuff, they just take the action that they want to? So that was another kind of cool type of project that we saw.
Innovation in Transaction Processes
One more really clever type of thing that we saw is in Solana land, there's Solana actions, or I think they called blinks for a while, which was a way to embed Solana everywhere. And what we've seen is we've seen folks take inspiration from that and build an EVM version of that. So embed EVM anywhere. So kind of add a link on Twitter and have your wallet detect that automatically and kind of expand that link and let you run commercial transactions or commerce transactions in Twitter. Right. And so those types of crypto everywhere type use cases were really cool.
Summary of Notable Trends
So that's kind of another category that we saw. So across of those, we got really excited mostly. Again, we got excited about the crypto in the background, crypto rails, but just as a use for something else that's not crypto that folks kind of spent a lot of time on. Awesome. Yeah, I definitely think that, like, account obstructions is also a very big topic that lots of people are very interested in. And also building a lot of very interesting projects using different tools, within account obstruction as well.
Reviewing Impressive Submissions
So also very excited to see what projects come out next weekend. Thank you so much for sharing that. And last but not least, Jack, what about yourself? Yeah, I know you guys had a ton of submissions for youth online, so. Yeah, so we had. It was crazy. The previous one, which just ended one or two days ago, we had 102 submissions that use sign protocol. So definitely we're really overwhelmed in a good way. Went through all of them one by one, and we've had some really cool stuff.
Overview of Sign Protocol
Now, the stuff, the submissions that we get, they're not really defi and whatnot, because sign protocol. And for those of you who are not familiar, let me just give a brief primer. And I probably should have done this earlier, but it's okay. So for sign protocol, basically, you're able to attest data onto the blockchain. And to attest data, first you need something called a schema. So think of the schema as a set of data structure standards that's human readable, that defines how the actual attested data should be structured.
Innovations in Data Attestation
And then you can attest data that conforms to schema under that schema. For each schema, you can also define a schema hook means that you can attach the external smart contract to the schema so that every single attestation, when they're being made, the data that's attached with the attestation function call, they can go through some kind of external verifier or external hook or something to trigger some other action. Basically, went through, again, 102 projects, and we've had two, a few ones that are really cool, and I'd like to just talk about two of them.
Spotlighting Innovative Projects
The first one is called the entropy protocol that we got. It's actually, I think we actually gave them our partner prize, one of our partner prizes. And basically they're trying to replace Oracle based randomness generation on chain. So I thought that's really cool. And this is really out there compared to your defi or youre account distraction projects. And another one that I thought was pretty cool is called verifit. So it's basically a project that actually integrates with Google fitness so that you're able to attest your fitness data on chain.
Prevention of Data Manipulation
But the catch is that you can say, well, I can just cheat. I can just say that I walked for 100 miles today. But the catch is the author of the project actually integrated. They made a ZK verifier contract as the schema hook, so that every time you attest your fitness data, before you attest it, you have to generate a ZK proof of the data that comes from the Google Fitness API. Then the schema hook, which is a ZK verifier, will actually verify if that data is legitimate, meaning that if it actually comes from Google Fitness.
Ensuring Data Integrity
And so that basically, in this case, the schema hook acts as like a gatekeeper to filter out all the fake data, and so that all data that gets past the schema hook and actually gets attested under that schema are all valid data. So this is something that's really cool. And they actually, I wanted to give them two prizes, but we made it clear that if you qualify for one, you won't qualify for the other track.
Excitement for Future Innovations
But this is, again, something that's really cool. I really can't wait to see what people are going to build in Singapore, stuff like the entropy protocol or this one. They're just using existing concepts within our protocol in very creative ways that we haven't really thought of. It's always great to see people using a protocol in really different ways. So, yeah, I'm really excited again and ready to give away all of our money to everyone.
Diverse Tech Stacks in Projects
Thank you so much for sharing. And I think it's really interesting how a lot of projects try to use as many different tech stacks within their projects as possible. Of course we want it to make sense, but I do see a world where, for example, next weekend, a hacker could come in and say, okay, I'm actually going to use sign and dynamic and with stock labs all in one. And I think that would be a really interesting combination. So just keep an eye out for any projects that do that and see if there's any interesting use cases that they can come up with.
Prize Opportunities for Developers
Okay, very cool. So for next weekend, we will, like Jack mentioned, be giving out a ton of prizes for developers who are coming out to the hackathon right now. I want to give an opportunity for our speakers to actually introduce their prizes that they will actually be awarding next weekend. So let's start from Itai this time, and then we can go to Olia and then go back to Jack. What do your prize tracks look like next weekend? What are you awarding, and how can people qualify for these itai?
Tracks and Categories of Prizes
So the short answer is we're still finalizing them, but what we've historically done is the following, and I think that's the kind of flow we're going to focus on this time around as well. We're focusing on a couple of key tracks and they reflect kind of what we saw last time. We're focusing one track which is abstract away crypto, which is how do you build an app that creates kind of value for customers without customers needing to know or care about crypto? So that's one type of track that we usually have that we've seen folks are excited about, and we're probably going to keep that.
More Prize Categories and Opportunities
A second track that, again, we've seen go well, and we're going to keep that as well, is just a, what we call the fun track, which is build something cool, build something exciting, build a game, build something that is fun and unique, and that is a second track that we have, which is, again, the goal is not necessarily to think about just financial use cases, but just fun, interesting use cases. So games or kind of fun adventures, anything of that sort falls into tracks like that. And then the third track we usually have is the track of, hey, combine multiple things together.
Themes for Prizes and Additional Resources
Right? So crypto. And one of the cool things about crypto is permissionless innovation, which is the ability for you to take five things and build on top of those. That's kind of a second part that we're going to focus on or a third part that we're going to focus on. And the tracks are probably going to be themed around those. Again, we're still finalizing those, so please go to our webpage over the next couple of days within Eat global and just refresh every couple minutes until you see them show up. But in the meanwhile, those are really kind of three themes that we are kind of structuring our rewards around.
Prizes and Starter Kits for Participants
We're going to have $10,000 in total kind of prizes. We also, shameless plug, have a starter kit that we're putting out that just lets you kind of combine multiple kind of cool tools that we've found is helpful for folks. There's just going to be a starter kit that's more of a public good for folks to get started for hacking next week. So you'll see that as well from us. Amazing. Yeah. I think the one that I would definitely be most interested in looking at next week with you is probably the most fun.
Encouragement for Creative Projects
Cool. I think when you give that space for people to be super creative, there's a lot of unexpected projects that come out of that. So very excited to see what that will look like. You and me both. Awesome. Alia and Ricardo, how about yourselves? Yes. So we actually have three main tracks. We also give out. I give an out, 10,000 USD. But we would also like to encourage imagination and flexibility and different and new ideas flowing.
Freestyle and Defi Categories
So one of our tracks, $4,000, is freestyle. So it's best use of rootstock, blockchain of the chain. But also that would include projects that basically aimed at. This is what I was talking earlier about, is kind of simplifying the road to learning on how to build within web three on rootstock. So that's one of the categories. Then we have a special category for $4,000 for Defi on Rootstock. It could be any defi.
Creative Space for Projects
And again, there's a lot of space there for playing around with different tokens and ideas. So nothing in particular that we aim in at there. So you can be as creative as you want. And then finally, as mentioned at the start of the space by Ricardo, we are encouraging folks to try and build with ruins and audience. We are given $2,000 for the best project using runs ordinals.
Introduction to Resources and Workshops
We actually have some reference implementation on GitHub for people to and folks to basically pick up and play around with. I will be given a workshop and I'll point out to the resources. So that's our third track. So yeah. That's us. That's rootstock Labs. Awesome. Thank you for sharing. And Jack from sign.
Finalizing Prizes and Categories
Yeah. So we are also finalizing our prizes yet. Mainly because we're going to add a new one which is our ETh sign SDK which is the document signing our document signing product. But for sign protocol I imagine the prices will stay mostly the same. At least the technical ones I know because I am in charge of that one.
Focus Areas for Technical Prizes
Best technical integration of schema hooks and also best ZK attestation verifier with schema hooks. So the focus again will just be on using schema hooks. And also there's obviously going to be a pull price that's split between all the projects that just use us. But I do have Maggie, you mentioned a lot of projects they try to.
Project Perspective and Judging Insights
Well, not a lot. Some products they try to use as many different protocols as possible. I just have like something to. I just have some comments from like a project perspective and from a judging perspective. I feel like, you know, there's nothing wrong about trying to get like all the poll prizes and whatnot. But I feel like it would.
Balancing Act in Winning Prizes
I don't know. I feel like, you know, it would. It would better, obviously if I. The users of the various different sponsor protocols are more organic instead of just trying to get the full price. But I'm not saying trying to get all the pool prizes isn't a valid way to gain the system. But definitely the ones that we did end up giving away picking for our specific prices, they were really focused.
Insights on Organic Usage
They had organic and really good uses of our specific protocol. So that's just some comment, offhand comment for me. But definitely, guys, stay tuned. We're going to give away I would say at least 20K USD in total. And I'm not sure if that 20K includes the esign stuff or we're going to add onto it.
Excitement for Upcoming Opportunities
So definitely check it out next week. Awesome. Thank you so much for sharing, Jack. And I completely agree. I think there are definitely cases where people do try and gamify the system a little bit and try to blindly apply to all of the different poor prizes that exist at the same time.
Creative Idea Collection and Filtering
I think it's a good way to also just collect a lot of very creative ideas and then it's kind of up to us to filter out, you know, which ones are ones that actually make a lot of sense versus ones that maybe don't make as much sense this time, but, you know, anyways, good try. And then disqualify from them from this round and then just tell them, hey, better luck next time.
Encouragement for Future Participants
If you build a little bit more towards what we're asking for, then you'll qualify for the pool prize. But definitely like a balancing act there. And so we're excited to see if next week we're able to get some more builders that really are eager to build because they actually want to test out the tech stack and not because they just want to farm a bunch of random prizes.
Final Thoughts and Recommendations
So. Awesome. Very good to hear. And the next question that I have for all of you is actually recommendations that you have directly for builders. So we talked about, you know, building very organically and also making sure that the projects themselves, there is a certain level of quality to them.
Specific Advice for Builders
So if you were to talk to hackers today or for those who are listening on the call, do you guys have any specific recommendations for builders who are planning to hack next weekend at ETH Global Singapore? Jeff, let's start with you this time and then we can go to Itai and then Olia. Yeah, of course.
Advice on AI and Technical Packages
So I have, I mainly have like two pieces of just like offhand comment slash advice for builders. The first one is stop using the word AI in your project. If it's, you know, I get it's cool. But like, sometimes, like this phrase is overused and it becomes a reflex on my end where, like, when I see the word AI, I just kind of, you know, I just kind of get triggered a little bit because it's been so overused.
Technical Guidance for Use of Tools
And the other piece of advice is when you're building on us, try to pay attention to actually which package you're using because we have some people that are actually built applying for the sign protocol price, but they were using the esign STK by mistake. So unfortunately, we've had a couple of projects that are like really cool, but we can't give them the prizes because, although it's really cool, but it's not technically the use the ROM package.
Reaching Out for Assistance
And actually a third thing is just reach out to us on Discord. There's a reason why we have our partner channels. We're always very active on Discord to help you debug and everything.
Advice on Collaboration and Debugging
So, you know, and, you know, it's a great way to, before committing to an idea even, you know, to check with us to see, to do like a temperature check to see if we like it, if we think it's something that's maybe too trivial or maybe it's something interesting and you should explore more. And, oh, and also, I think this goes to everyone. When you ask us for help when debugging something, try to provide more context instead of just saying it doesn't work, because then we would be able to help you better. There's a website called tenderly which basically allows you to simulate transactions. We're actually able to see the stack trace of your transaction and help you debug a lot more effectively. But if you just send us like a contract that you wrote that you haven't verified and tell us that it's not working, it's a little bit difficult, you know, for us to help you. So this is just from my perspective as like a pretty technical person, some, you know, I would say a real world advice to all the builders out there.
Importance of Shipping Projects
That's probably the most real advice I've actually heard from any speaker in our past Twitter spaces so far. So thank you so much for sharing that. And itai, what about you? What are, what are some pieces of advice that you would like to share with? Yeah, so I thought to your point, that was really great advice from our end, a couple things. The first one is on the dynamic. Let's divide it to dynamic advice and then general advice. Right. So on the dynamic, specific advice, if you're building with dynamic, you know, come chat with us. Dynamic should be something that you implement in your project within five to seven minutes. If it takes a significant longer amount of time, then we're probably doing something wrong when supporting you. And so come to our booth. We're going to have a booth. We're going to have engineers there chat with us. Dynamic should not be the core of your project. The core of your project should be the cool, innovative stuff that you're building.
Utilizing Features and Tools for Better Development
So chat with us. Let us unblock you, please. You know, the biggest thing I could say is take advantage of the fact that we're there and we can't go anywhere to just sit with us until we resolve your issue. So that's kind of dynamic suggestion number one that's important. The second part specifically is we have a feature around no transaction MFA, which essentially removes pop ups during embedded wallet kind of login or implementation. It, you know, it has some security trade offs, so it's not necessarily for all production use cases, but it's definitely relevant for all hackathon use cases. So if you're interested in that, come to us. We'll turn that on for you as a feature flag and you can play around with it more general advice I would suggest is going around booths and chatting with everyone and seeing what people are offering.
Identifying Potential and Tools for Efficiency
There are a lot of tools out there that are really great to build with and can both inspire ideas but also kind of help you accelerate what you are already going for. And so that's one more thing to take into account. The last thing general advice I've been, and I know we mentioned AI is being used a lot, so apologies here, but I've been obsessed with this tool called Cursor AI, which is an id, just a nicer way to program over the past couple months and, you know, over nights and weekends. I think I was able to build more in the last couple weeks than I have for a very long time. I highly recommend kind of playing around with that tool and seeing it, whether it can accelerate your work over the weekend and building what you want to build so you can actually go into cursor, add the dynamic docs and have it index it and automatically chat with our docs.
Maximizing Efficiency Through Tools
So just on tool side in general, kind of hacking is all around, I think, being very efficient with the time you have to build cool stuff and frankly, cutting as many corners as humanly possible in order to get to that state. And so a cursor, I think, again, not production ready code, but for stuff like this, I highly recommend it. I'm checking it out right now. Let me know what you think. Let me feedback. Welcome. Like I highly recommend. You know, I have strong words, but I'll call it's awesome. I have words between it's an awesome, but like let's stick with it's awesome. Yes. Conversation. Yeah. Those were some really good tips.
The Importance of Being Productive
And yeah, I think one of the most important things is actually just to something like you mentioned is I think a lot of people think that, oh, you know, by the 36 hours period, like they have to build something perfect. And if it's not perfect, then it's like not going to win a finalist prize. But actually what we've seen over the past many years of running these hackathons, we actually see that the most, the best projects are just projects that I've actually shipped something super small but is actually working versus projects that are, that have a very big scope and actually not get to what they wanted to built overall. So thank you for sharing that. And yeah, Olia would love to also hear from you.
Adding Value and Asking Questions
Yeah, sure. I love the. Let's get back to I, maybe it should be challenge of if global Singapore changed Jack's perception of AI projects. Let's see what comes out with. Yeah, lots of good advice. Just a couple things, I guess, from Ristakota I would like to add. One of them is that we do value, or like give of importance to the criteria of adding value to the ecosystem. So I would probably recommend to always start with the why. Why is this project been built? Is it solving a potential real time, real world issue? Is there potential real world impact, etcetera? So that's just from experience.
Focus on the Success and Usability of Projects
Looking kind of like what normally wins in the eyes of rootstock and a couple of other things is this has been said, but yes, please do ask questions. It's quite disheartening to then look, go through the submissions and see notes like, oh, we couldn't deploy this, but, you know, with that, when it was a really tiny error in something, or like an incompatible version of solidity being used, like a config arrow, a lot of this little error is very easy to fix and we will be also there to help you. So please ask questions and ask for help. And then, yes, I kind of touched on this earlier, but it's always a multi heart basically, to see when you read the description that something's been built specifically for rootstock ecosystem and that's been taken into consideration versus seeing a project when it's been just deployed to every EVM chain that's representative of a certain hackathon event.
Judging Perspective and Emphasis on Usability
So, yeah, that would be my tips. I just have something to add really quickly, Maggie, because what you said kind of reminded me. So this time I had the honor of being a finalist judge and I have some, actually have some advice from that perspective. So, Maggie, you said that just ship something that works. And I can't agree more with it because there are projects. So the way that, and this is, you know, secret advice to, the ten, the seven listeners that we have. But, but like when you're being judged for the finalist, list, I guess. Finalist list.
Effective Presentation and Project Impact
Each judge give, gets to watch your four minutes of demo video and then three minutes to ask questions. So there's like a, a rather limited amount of time that we have to judge a project. Obviously, after we go through the projects that are assigned to us, we get an extra hour to go back and look at things. But I guess I'm saying this just to try and emphasize the importance of shipping something that works. That has a live demo and that isn't too technical because it's a shame when projects are super technical, but then it's really too much focus on the technical side and not enough focus on the uI, ux, or demo side. And it's a shame when I look at their source code and it's really technically complex, but then I have no idea how to use it in a short period of time, given four judges, I have no idea how to use it.
Balancing Technical and Usability Aspects
I have no idea what it's used for. There are no obvious use cases besides the fact that it's a really cool piece of tech. So my advice would just be, I'd rather see the promise of something technically really cool, the potential, and then also solid use cases, than to see, actually something really technically cool being built out. But then you spend all your time on that, and there's like, nothing else that, we can interact with or, that we can do. So, just keep that in mind when you're trying to go for like a finalist thing.
Emphasizing Fast Shipping and Community Building
Thank you so much for that. And yes, I think it's very important just overall, to quickly summarize, everything that you guys have talked about is, you know, ship quickly. Not quickly, but like, ship, just ship something. I think, like, at the end of the day, doing something faster is not going to necessarily better, but shipping something faster will definitely get you to get better feedback to make your project a lot better. So definitely don't be scared of the tech. Just send something. Just ship something. You're not going to create the perfect project at the end, so just do it. And I think the big thing that from an ETH global perspective, we always ask builders to do at hackathons is also remember that hackathons are all about the people.
Final Reminders and Call for Questions
And it's not necessarily just about building straight on. There are so many opportunities to learn about different things, to meet and get inspired by ideas and the people that potentially compliment you at hackathons. And so take some time to also get to know the people while you're there, because we don't do this every single weekend, and we only do this six times a year, so don't forget that as well. Before we end, I also wanted to give an opportunity for the audience to ask some questions. So if you guys have any questions in the audience, please raise your hand, and then we will put you on speaker.
Closing Remarks and Upcoming Events
But in the meantime, I would love to share some closing reminders. So the application will close on Tuesday or Wednesday. Of next week, so you do have a couple more days to apply. If you are looking to come to eat global Singapore next weekend, the dates will be September 20 to the 22nd at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. So join us in real life and all of our events are always free for builders. And so if you are planning to come, whether you are a seasoned hacker or you are just getting started in web three, please, please apply. We would love to see you there and we have many workshops and mentors that will be there at the hackathon to support you.
Final Thanks and Send-Off
And everything will be happening throughout the hackathon all in one place. So it looks like we don't have too many questions right now, but this session is recorded and so if any of you do have questions for any of our speakers, please feel free to reach out after the twitter space ends and some final remarks from me is I would love to say thank you to all of our speakers, Jack, Itai and Olia, for joining us. We are super excited to kick off this event with you all next weekend and we really hope that you enjoy the rest of your week and also next week and we'll see you on Friday for the kickoff and opening ceremony. So safe travels and see you all soon.
