(Hong Kong, March 8, 2023) Web3.0 Hackathon@HKU will be held from April 7-9, 2023, at the University of Hong Kong. Themed "Into the Socialverse," this event will be a genesis hackathon that focuses on the web3 social applications layer. The Hackathon is co-hosted by BlockBooster、OKX、Gitcoin, and OxU Hong Kong Blockchain Club, and supported by various units of HKU, including Techno-entrepreneurship Core, Centre for Asian Entrepreneurship and Business Values and HKU FinTech, etc.
The Hackathon will offer a total prize pool of more than 500k HKD for winners with additional sponsored challenge rewards, follow-up investment opportunities and incubation possibilities. The event will comprise three parts: builder-focused workshops, online panel discussions & project reviews and a Demo Day.
The mentor committee comes from a diverse panel of industry-leading experts, including top-ranked degens, successful founders, and builders in the fields of Defi, Governance, NFT, Game/Guild, Security, Smart Contract, and Data. Workshops will feature leading Web3 social projects such as Mask Network and Galxe.
BlockBooster aims to establish the first Web3 innovation development and project ecology cultivation center in Hong Kong, partnering with 20+ industry leaders and 10+ local financial and technological leaders and institutions.
The mentor committee includes 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 invited ecosystem partners such as Altlayer, Arweave (EverVision＆PermaDAO), Mask and NextID.