Blockbooster Web3.0 Social Metaverse Hackathon will be held in Hong Kong from April 7 to 9

23-03-08 12:30

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The Blockbooster Web3.0 Social Metacomes Hackathon will be held on the University of Hong Kong campus from 7 to 9 April, with the inaugural theme "Into the Social Metacomes", a Hackathon focused on the Web3 social application layer. This event is organized by BlockBooster And OKX ,Gitcoin And Hong Kong University students blockchain community, and the University of Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Center, Business School of Asia Entrepreneurship and Business Value Center, HKU FinTech and other departments to jointly support.

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The event will provide a prize pool with a total value of more than HK $500,000 to the winning entrepreneurial team, as well as additional sponsorship challenges, follow-up investment opportunities and incubation opportunities. The event will be divided into three parts: workshops for entrepreneurs, online discussions and Demo Day.

Lennix Lai, managing director of OKX's Global Institutional Business Unit, said: "Hong Kong is destined for a new Blockchain narrative, and OKX is ready for it. We're excited to see more creative and innovative SocialFi projects emerge with Blockbooster, and OKX looks forward to supporting them even more."

During the event, industry leaders will discuss topics such as Web3 social trends, market conditions and development ecology. Blockbooster mentors will provide offline and online project consulting support to startup teams, including product market adaptability feedback, marketing strategies, and contract auditing. The goal is to help entrepreneurs position their products and speed up the development process. During Demo Day, top industry venture capital firms and trading platforms will participate in the review to help the startup team connect with investors and industry resources. The event will also partner with Gitcoin and DoraHacks to explore opportunities to match funds for Hong Kong Hackathon-themed projects.

"This is an exciting platform where we will witness the integration of creative human-centred design with technological innovation," said Mr Joseph Chan, Director of the Asian Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business Value Research at the University of Hong Kong Business School. "I look forward to seeing participants make influential blockchain explorations that create value and contribute to community and social change!"

The Hackathon has mentor members from all sectors of the industry, including industry heads for decentralized Finance (DeFi), decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), non-homogeneous Token (NFT), social games/guilds, security, smart contracts and data. The event also featured top Degen, industry-successful founders and developers, including leading Web3 social project teams like Mask Network and Galxe.

"Through Web3.0 Hackathons, core developers will come together to jointly develop innovative blockchain products, move forward with the entire community and participants, and lay the foundation for Hong Kong as a Web3 hub," said Andrew Cheng, research director at HashKey Capital.

This tutor committee includes but is not limited to Azem-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, isi-mask. The campaign is also working with eco-partners such as Altlayer, Arweave (EverVision&PermaDAO), Mask and NextID.

By partnering with more than 20 industry leaders and more than 10 local financial institutions and technology leaders, BlockBooster aims to establish the first Web3 Innovation development and eco-project nurturing centre in Hong Kong, building strong and long-term partnerships with overseas and domestic Web3 teams, To promote sustainable development of Hackathons and future incubators.

For more information, please visit Blockbooster Or contact the BlockBooster team at contact@blockbooster.io.