ETHGlobal New York 2025 Closing Ceremony and Finalist Demos I Kartik Talwar

Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM

ETHGlobal New York 2025 concluded with a high-energy closing ceremony, celebrating over 950 attendees and 690 hackers from 51 countries, 37% of whom were new to web3. The event focused on building and demoing real-world web3, DeFi, AI, and crypto projects, with 275 submissions across categories like DeFi, payments, and AI. Key integrations included Typescript, Python, Solidity, Flow, CDP, Dynamic, and Ethereum mainnet. The top 10 finalist teams—X42 Flash, Hardhat 3 Ledger, Noah, Pumpkin Spice Latte, KaPay, Primer, TX Delay Insurance, Swap Pay, Rivals, and Pika Vault—demoed innovations in payments, security, inheritance, DeFi, stablecoin swaps, AR gaming, and cross-chain vaults. Over $275,000 in prizes were awarded, with special thanks to 192 partners and 18 judges. ETHGlobal Plus and new onchain perks were announced, and a major ETHGlobal conference is set for June 2026 in NYC. The event emphasized community, live deployments, and onboarding new developers to web3. 00:00 Introduction 02:12 Event Overview & Stats 03:44 Partner Acknowledgments 04:21 Hackathon Focus & Hacker Demographics 05:58 Project Submissions & Trends 06:50 Judges & Project Evaluation 07:12 Finalist Teams Announcement 08:51 All Projects Recognition 09:40 Feedback & Community Engagement 10:28 Finalist Demo 1: X42 Flash 16:18 Finalist Demo 2: Hardhat 3 Ledger 21:26 Finalist Demo 3: Noah 27:47 Finalist Demo 4: Pumpkin Spice Latte 32:32 Finalist Demo 5: KaPay 37:38 Finalist Demo 6: Primer 44:02 Finalist Demo 7: TX Delay Insurance 49:38 Finalist Demo 8: Swap Pay 54:20 Finalist Demo 9: Rivals 1:01:02 Finalist Demo 10: Pika Vault 1:09:36 Finalists Recap & Live Deployments 1:10:26 Onchain Packs & ETHGlobal Plus 1:12:35 Prize Announcements 1:28:21 Finalist Packs & Next Steps 1:29:40 Prize Verification Process 1:30:45 ETHGlobal Conference Announcement 1:32:08 Thank Yous & Closing Remarks _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 🇺🇸 *ETHGlobal New York* This workshop is specifically for ETHGlobal New York, a 3-day hackathon held August 15-17, bringing together the most skilled web3 developers, designers and product builders from all around the globe for a weekend-long adventure to advance the Ethereum ecosystem! Watch the full ETHGlobal New York 2025 playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXzKMXK2aHh4Xze0ZeSWCSGsw25clPpvZ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ✅ Follow Kartik Talwar X: https://x.com/TheRealKartik ✅ *Follow ETHGlobal* X: https://x.com/ETHGlobal​ Warpcast: https://warpcast.com/ethglobal Website: https://ethglobal.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ETHGlobal _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Are you interested in Ethereum development and entrepreneurship?_ 👉 Sign up for the next ETHGlobal event: https://ethglobal.com/events 🎁 Get exclusive access and perks with ETHGlobal Plus! https://ethglobal.com/plus 📣 Want us to throw an event in your city? Tell us where! https://ethglobal.com/city _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _