Encode Club Hacker House with Wormhole and Pyth, July 17th to July 22nd 2023 — Summary and Overview
The Encode Club Hacker House with Wormhole and Pyth and sponsored by OpenZeppelin turned a historical venue in Le Marais into a web3 hub, running for six days between July 17th and July 22nd.
Our schedule consisted of a variety of events, such as the Wormhole Hackathon, Solana Day, Zero to Dapp Day and more. Keep reading for the details!
We’ve had A LOT on our schedule during Eth CC week!
The week kicked off with the Wormhole Hackathon — four days of technical workshops and building, supported by the Wormhole and Encode teams. The hackathon culminated on Thursday, July 20th with an exciting live pitching finale and prizegiving!
We continued our learning journey with Zero to Dapp Day on July 18th, a full day of workshops taking you from beginner to deploying a dapp in just a day.
Talent specialists of web3 gathered for Le Brunch du Talent, an exclusive mingle session hosted by Encode Club, Up Top and Proof of Talent on July 19th.
On the same day, we had the pleasure of hosting Solana Day at the hacker house! It was filled with awesome technical workshops and panels, as well as one very special announcement.
- Future of…., July 20th
- H.E.R. DAO x Talent Protocol Brunch, July 20th
- Mini Conference, July 21st
- BUIDL Demo Day, July 22nd
- Coworking spaces open throughout the week
Keep reading for a summary of our fantastic week in Paris!
Wormhole Hackathon, Jul 17th to July 20th
We kicked off the week with the Wormhole Hackathon, a four-day event dedicated to building on Wormhole or tackling partner bounties. With a prize pool nearing $100k, there was a bounty for everyone :)
The hackathon featured an amazing lineup of partners: Automata, Biconomy, Celo, Circle, Mysten Labs, Moonbeam, OtterSec, Pike Finance, Solana Labs, Threshold and Wormhole!
Read the full summary to find out more about the hackathon finalists and winners.
Zero to Dapp Day, July 18th
On Tuesday 18th July, hackers had the unique opportunity to go from zero to shipping a dapp with the help of expert-led workshops as part of Zero to Dapp day, hosted by The Graph, SAFE, Chainlink, Push, Connext, OpenZeppelin and Scaffold-eth.
The first of many workshops was “Build a Full Stack dapp Using Scaffold-ETH” hosted by Kevin Jones from The Graph.
Next up we had The Graph workshop—Indexing and Querying Blockchain data with The Graph, hosted by Pranav Maheshwari.
Building Web3 Messaging, Notification & Video Apps workshop by Push Protocol was a hit! Harsh Rajat really knew how to get the crowd's attention.
The fourth workshop of the Z2D day was “Building on top of Safe{Core} Protocol” hosted by Richard Meissner from Safe.
Up next was “Connecting the World with Chainlink”, hosted by Solange Gueiros.
Our participants and dapp enthusiast were hard at work gathering all info from the Building Chain-Abstracted xApps with Connext workshop, hosted by Rahul Sethuram.
Last, but not least, we rounded up the Zero to Dapp day with a fireside chat with Ariel Barmat, VP of Engineering Edge and Node, working on The Graph and Hadrien Croubois, Research Engineer at Open Zeppelin.
And, of course, we can't forget to mention the Zero to Dapp happy hour 🎉
Le Brunch du Talent, July 19th
On July 19th, Encode Club, UpTop and Proof of Talent hosted a special private brunch event dedicated to the Talent and People specialists in web3.
We had a blast hosting our first IRL talent-dedicated event and are looking forward to hosting more in the future!
Solana Day, July 19th
Builders and Solana enthusiasts gathered at the hacker house on July 19th for a dedicated Solana day!
We kicked off the day with a ‘Building DeFi Market Making Bots’ workshop hosted by Cindy Leow and David Lu from Drift.
Alex Smirnov from deBridge hosted the second workshop of the day, ‘Building high-performance cross-chain applications with native interoperability.’
Solana Labs’ own Jon Cinque taught us How to Token, while Simeon Kotashki from Neon EVM demonstrated how Ethereum dApps can be deployed and run on Solana.
From technical workshops to exclusive panels, Solana Day had something for everyone on its fantastic schedule.
We had the delight of hosting Sean Young’s ‘Solidity on Solana’ workshop on the same day Solana Labs announced Solang, a compiler which helps bridge the gap between EVM developers and the Solana ecosystem.
Tamar Menteshashvili moderated the ‘Web3 going mobile: the flywheel we need for the next cycle’ panel, featuring Jonathan Moore (TCG Crypto), Robin du Fayet (Octo Gaming) and Arthur Pfalzgraf (Ultimate Wallet) as panelists.
We finished off the official learning sessions with ‘WTF are cNFTs?’, a talk hosted by Courtney Jensen from the Solana Foundation.
Future of…. July 20th
During a special afternoon of talks and panels with industry experts, we discussed the Future of Media with CJ Huntzinger (Galaxy), Tracy Wang (Coindesk), Lexi Wangler (Mysten Labs) and Dawson Botsford (Bankless).
The discussion continued, this time with a panel on the Future of Identity featuring Rod Carraresi (Ledger), George Kassis (JP Morgan), Omer Sadika (Odsy) and Saturning Pugnet (Worldcoin)
Our participants also had the chance to learn how to level up their DeFi application with Ali Behjati from Pyth Network.
H.E.R. DAO x Talent Protocol Brunch, July 21st
We were delighted to host the H.E.R. DAO x Talent Protocol Brunch at our Hacker House! Coffee and croissants were followed by two extremely insightful workshops — a massive thanks to everyone involved!
First up — we were joined by Solene Daviaud and Aya Belarbi from H.E.R. DAO, who shared their top tips for hackathon success. Very useful for our upcoming events!
Luminita Florea and Filipe Macedo from Talent Protocol kept the ball rolling by sharing their insights and experiences of travelling to global web3 events! It was great to hear their tips on how to travel to these events for free!
Mini Conference, July 21st
On Friday 21st July, we were delighted to host a mini conference series!
A huge thank you to all of our speakers for presenting these amazing workshops!
The amazing Sarah Thiam from Protocol Labs presented our next workshop, talking about leveling up your data with the Filecoin Virtual Machine! Such an insightful discussion, providing a great opportunity for the audience to learn about everything Filecoin!
Marc Tillement from Pyth hosted an insightful workshop—Pyth Network: Past, Present, Future. It was an incredible way to showcase what Pyth is all about.
We had a great Intro to Avalanche workshop! Nadim Chamoun of AvaLabs did an amazing job, presenting such an engaging discussion all about Avalanche!
Next up, we had “Crossing the Interoperability Bridge: A deep dive into building interoperable dApps with IBC”, hosted by Dan Burck.
The amazing Morgan Weaver from Open Zeppelin joined us for two incredible workshops over the course of the day. After sharing 7 top tips for bridging the gap from tutorial hell to Web3 developer, Morgan then discussed NFT monitoring in Sandbox!
BUIDL Demo Day, July 22nd
On Saturday 22nd July, we welcomed Buidlers Tribe for their Paris Demo Day:
An afternoon of startup pitches and an awesome investor panel with Sam Kim from BigBrainVC, James Parillo from Figment Capital and Praneeth Srikanti from EtherealVC.
Also, buidlers had the unique opportunity to pitch their projects to an audience of investors and fellow founders!
Coworking spaces open throughout the week
We were delighted to be able to host hundreds of builders in our open coworking spaces throughout the entire week!
A Huge Thank You
We’ve had massive amounts of fun hosting the Paris Hacker House and we can’t wait to welcome you again at one of our upcoming events. Stay tuned for updates and exciting announcements of our future IRL events!
About Wormhole
The Wormhole Network is a generic message-passing protocol that connects high-value blockchains and allows applications leveraging the messaging layer to facilitate interoperability between ecosystems. Secured by 19 guardians, developers are able to leverage the protocol to send arbitrary data cross-chain including tokens, NFTs, oracle data, governance decisions and more.
About Pyth Network
The Pyth Network is a specialized oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind the “walled gardens” of centralized institutions. The Pyth network is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this unique data on-chain and aggregating it securely.
For more information about the Pyth network, please visit pyth.network
About OpenZeppelin
OpenZeppelin is the premier crypto cybersecurity technology and services company, trusted by the most used DeFi and NFT projects. Founded in 2015 with the mission to protect the open economy, OpenZeppelin safeguards tens of billions of dollars in funds for leading crypto organizations including Coinbase, Ethereum Foundation, Compound, Aave, TheGraph, and many others.
About Encode Club
Encode Club is a web3 education community learning and building together through fantastic programmes with the leading protocols in the space. Together we organise programmes like education series, bootcamps, hackathons, accelerators both online and in person. We then help our community get jobs and funding for projects and startups.
Questions
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