Blockbooster Web3.0 Social Metaverse Hackathon will be held in Hong Kong from April 7 to 9, 2023
HashKey Capital's Research Director Zheng Jialiang stated: "Through the Web3.0 hackathon, core developers will come together to collaboratively develop innovative blockchain products, advancing together with the entire community and participants, and laying the foundation for Hong Kong as a Web3 hub."Author: Blockbooster
(March 8, 2023, Hong Kong) The Web3.0 Hackathon @ The University of Hong Kong will be held from April 7 to 9, 2023, on the HKU campus. The theme of the inaugural event is "Entering the Social Metaverse," focusing on the Web3 social application layer. This event is co-hosted by++BlockBooster++ in collaboration with++OKX++,++Gitcoin++, and the Hong Kong University Blockchain Community, with support from the HKU Innovation and Technology Centre, the Asian Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business Value at the Business School, and HKU FinTech.
The event will provide a prize pool worth over HKD 500,000 to the winning entrepreneurial teams, as well as additional sponsorship challenge rewards, follow-up investment opportunities, and incubation chances. The event will be divided into three parts: workshops for entrepreneurs, online sharing discussions, and Demo Day.
Lennix Lai, Managing Director of Global Institutional Business at OKX, stated, "Hong Kong is destined to open a new Blockchain narrative, and OKX is ready. We are excited to witness the birth of more creative and innovative SocialFi projects alongside Blockbooster. OKX also looks forward to providing them with more support."
During the event, industry leaders will discuss topics such as the development trends of Web3 social, market conditions, and ecosystem development. Blockbooster mentors will provide offline and online project consulting support to entrepreneurial teams, including product-market fit feedback, market strategies, and contract audits. The goal of the event is to help entrepreneurs correctly position their product direction and accelerate the development process.
On Demo Day, top industry venture capital firms and exchanges will participate in the evaluation, helping entrepreneurial teams connect with investors and industry resources. The event will also collaborate with Gitcoin and DoraHacks to explore funding matching opportunities for projects themed around the Hong Kong hackathon.
Mr. Joseph Chan, Director of the Asian Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business Value at the HKU Business School, stated, "This is an exciting platform where we will witness the combination of creative human-centered design and technological innovation. I look forward to seeing participants make impactful blockchain explorations, create value, and promote community and societal transformation!"
The mentor committee for this hackathon comes from various fields, including decentralized finance (DeFi), decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), non-fungible tokens (NFT), social gaming/guilds, security, smart contracts, and data from leading industry institutions. The event also invites top-ranking degens, successful founders, and developers from the industry, including leading Web3 social project teams like Mask Network and Galxe to share their insights.
Zheng Jialiang, Research Director at HashKey Capital, stated, "Through the Web3.0 Hackathon, core developers will gather to collaboratively develop innovative blockchain products, advancing together with the entire community and participants, laying the foundation for Hong Kong as a Web3 hub."
The mentor committee includes but is not limited to Azeem - Gitcoin, Chess - Quest3, Chris - Conflux, Duan Wei - NextID, Jeff Hu - Hashkey, Johnson - Hooga Gaming, Joshua - RSS3, Jun Hao - Altlayer, KC - Hooga Gaming, Mark - DODO, Meow - Cavis, Mike - Go+, O - SCB10x, Outprog / XiaoJay - EverFinance / AR, Sam & Li Ni - Avalanche, Wenqing - KNN3, Xin - EthSign, Yajin - Blocksec, Yisi - Mask. The event also collaborates with ecosystem partners such as Altlayer, Arweave (EverVision & PermaDAO), Mask, and NextID.
By collaborating with over 20 industry leaders and more than 10 local financial and technology leaders, BlockBooster aims to establish the first Web3 innovation development and ecosystem project incubation center in Hong Kong, building strong and long-term partnerships with overseas and domestic Web3 teams to promote the sustainable development of hackathons and future incubation projects.
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