Beginner's Workshop: What to Expect at ETHGlobal Tokyo 2026 I Pascal Rüger

do, what our mission is, and how you can actually build and create projects at our events. Um, these two things I'm going to go over later in a bit more detail, but pretty much we have two ways that hackers can participate at the hackathon in person. You can either start completely from scratch, meaning come in with a brand new idea and building that out during the hackathon, or you come in with an existing project that you built in the past, either as your own startup, as a previous hackathon project, or something you worked in on your free time before, and you want to expand it and build something on top of that for the event, you can now do that. For both things, it still applies. The only work that is counted is what's being done at the actual hackathon in the 36 hours you're allowed to build.

We have currently $75,000 in prizes available by uh World ENS, Uniswap Foundation, 1 in Sooie, and Curve Grid. And these numbers don't fully add up. There's also a bunch of prize money that Eve Global is throwing on top of it for the top teams, but I also going to be talking about that later. You have a few informations about the event. We have a city guide if you've never been to Tokyo with a few recommendations on what to do, where you can stay, where you can eat, and a cool places to check out.

And also Pragma, which I'm going to be showing you in a bit as well, which is our one-day conference, which happens on the Saturday of the hackathon in the same venue. It's a separate ticketed event. This is a conference versus the hackathon not being a conference. I'll just uh go over this one real quick. Have the cloud file check running and going to share something about that later as well.

Right. Uh right now I'm going to focus a bit more on the hackathon. So really important you have the schedule which has all the events happening that are happening before the hackathon as well as during the hackathon. This adjusts to your time zone. So for example, I'm currently in central Europe.

So it will be showing the times that I have unless I switch them over. So say like for me it's currently 2:00 p.m. and this is the workshop. We have a team formation session on Thursday.

So, if you come into the event, you don't have a team yet, we'll try to connect people before the event. We're also going to have one at the event itself on the Friday. And the deadline to apply would be on Sunday, September 20th. For everybody here in this call, you already applied, you're confirmed, so that does not need to concern you. But you have any friends that want to join, they can still do that till September 20th.

If you're, for example, already in Tokyo, those times will shift for you. So, for everybody here, it's currently 9:00 p.m. The other session will be at 8:00 p.m.

And on Sunday, midnight is pretty much when the event registration closes for the overall hackathon. These are the times in uh Tokyo time zone right now. So, the event registration opens on Friday, September 25th at uh Toronto Hills Forum at 100 p.m. So, starting 1:00 p.

m., you can come to the event. We have dinner at 6:30. We have the opening ceremonies at 8:00 p.m.

and also at 8 between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. is where the actual hacking starts. So, you can come to the event early, sign up early, collect your swag, talk to the partners, connect with people, have a good time, and learn a bunch of stuff. We have workshops and all those things coming up as well.

They're going to be listed on the site, too. Um, but really, really important, hacking only starts at 9:00 p.m. So, you have 36 hours of actual hacking. then an inerson team formation uh workshop.

Got late night snacks. We have all the workshops happening as well. And then on Sunday, project submissions are due 9:00 a.m. So from Friday 9:00 p.

m. to Sunday 9:00 a.m. is when you can work on your projects. And then hopefully submitting time.

Then the judging starts as for the partners as well as for the finalists. I'm going to go into detail about this later as well. We're going to have uh breakfast and lunch and then around 3 p.m. the finalists are notified and they're going to go up on stage and demo their projects in front of the entire audience.

This is also where we're going to be announcing all of the other prize winners. And then after 3:30 or when the thing is closed, we end the event. Really important. Starting Friday 1:00 p.m.

till the Sunday after closing ceremony, the venue is open for you 24/7. Meaning you do not have to leave the event. You can leave the event. You only have to check in once. But after that, it's okay to hack at your hotel to if you're from the area to stay at home, completely fine.

And you can stay at the venue if you want to. There are no showers unfortunately. But we do have napping areas. So places where there's air mattresses and blankets and you can like sleep in the overall place. It's not going to be the most comfortable, but it will work throughout the week.

Fantastic. Then we have a list of our judges, speakers, and mentors that are going to be at the uh event. Jud judges are going to be the ones judging the main finalists. Speakers are the ones giving the workshops because there's no actual talks happening at the hackathon. Um and mentors that are going to be supporting you throughout the weekend, providing you technical advice, product advice, and generally helping you build the best possible projects at the event.

So, feel free to check those out and make yourself familiar. We have some really really cool faces there and some super supportive people and overall for partners we partner together with world 1 ins unisoft foundation sooie and curve grid. This is the location. So aton uh tanoman hills forum on the fourth and fifth floor with the address and this is the venue map. Just going to go to uh this one because it shows it a little bit better.

Um that you can see this is what the entire floor looks like. So, we have the overall hacking spaces that are like huge spaces for you to like sit, connect with other people, and build something. Small lounge areas. We have snacks and beverages that are running 24/7. So, you're always going to have something at least light to snack on to eat and always something to drink.

We have a photo booth. This is where your overall registration is happening. Um, the green tables are where all the partners are going to be set up. So, the ones that I mentioned before are going to be there throughout the weekend supporting you, giving out swag and providing you feedback on your projects and hopefully you win a bunch of prizes there. And then the spotlight section, those are uh four to five teams that were um that are from the Ethereum ecosystem or past Eve global hackers or past E global projects that turned into startups and they're demonstrating and uh showcasing what they have built in the past.

So you can chat with them as well. And if you want to be featured there, I can drop a link in there as well. So you can for the next iteration maybe in Mumbai of whatever event we're running next year be presented on that floor as well. And then for the um for the opening ceremony, we have the main stage. This is also where Pragma is going to be on the Saturday.

This is where the closing ceremony is going to be. And all of the finalist judging is also happening on the fourth floor. You only get access to that during the uh daytimes. You have a legend where you can see where everything is and this is available directly on our website. You're also going to get this in printed form at the event and there's going to be a bunch of signs how you can like actually see this uh showing up.

So yeah, this is a really really nice touch, but you should be able to locate your way around the uh event quite easily. We also have a FAQ section which goes over all the information you need to know about the event, who can attend, what the event actually is, if we're offering scholarships, how you can join as a different role. All that information is there and how you can build this all out. Perfect. So, this is the overall dashboard.

Everybody of you should already seen this because you applied for the event and I'm really sorry if my mouse is being super super loud. Um, so we're going to go to the important parts or bit more important parts now. So what you all should have access to as well is the hacker dashboard. I'm going to be pasting a bunch of links in the uh chat in the meantime as well. So this is your overall hub for everything regarding the hackathon.

This is where you're selecting your track. This is where you're going to be forming your team. This is where you're going to be creating and submitting your project. This is where you get all the information about the prizes, about the teams, about the mentors and all the information of the hackathon directly. So really, really important to be there.

The first step if you're applying, you should have filled this already out. What you're building, are you building a project completely from scratch, something that was not there before, that has no previous assets whatsoever, you would select building from scratch. If you come in with an existing project and you want to keep building on top of that one at the hackathon, you would select continuity and it provides a bunch of information on what that entitles. Here are a bunch of packs I'm going to go over later as well. And this will get filled out as soon as you create a project.

You can create and join a team. I'm going to show that as well. And you can connect to our event Discord, which I would highly recommend because this is a space where only people that are signed up for the hackathon and connected this button have access to. So you can already exchange information with people before. You can chat about your ideas.

You can talk to others, potentially form teams. And you can also talk to partner reps directly. You can do that in person, but you can also talk to them before the event. And if you require a visa invitation letter to enter Japan, you can generate that directly here as well. Fantastic.

So let's go ahead and actually start creating a project. So you can click on this tab or click on create project here. I'm going to be doing this right now. I'm going to be filling out a lot of information. Just copy paste because this otherwise is going to take forever.

Um really important the overall information if you're building something from scratch. Uh you should need version control. Uh you should use version control meaning you have to use GitHub for um the project. you have to use git and this should not be one single commit at the end of the hackathon with one commit everything is there. You should be committing frequently and often when you make changes.

So at the end we review all the winning projects to see if they actually built this out and not just oneshotted the entire thing. The project has to be open source throughout the entirety of the hackathon. So everything has to be built in public as well as for the judging because otherwise we cannot connect, we cannot review it, neither can the partners and uh the project video which we recommend everybody doing. It's a requirement if you opt in for the top 10 finalists. But overall recommen we re recommend creating a uh two to four minute demo video to showcase what you built because in case your demo is failing or in case people want to rewatch it and see how it's happening, they can always just uh just look at that.

And also we have some partner representatives that have teams that are reviewing it from external so they can have a much much easier time and reviewing all your projects. So creating this one, I'm just calling I call it Tokyo Workshop. see if this works for the name. Um, which category does this belong to? We can select from a bunch of different ones.

A note about this, you can always update those categories and all the information later. It only has to be logged in at the time of the final project submission by Sunday 12:00 p.m. Okay. Uh, and what emoji represents the project the best?

Let's say um this one. And we create a project. So now we got to get prompted with this. It's going to tell us to start submitting submitting early, which means usually around Saturday morning, we open up submissions. Means that you can select, if you built your project out already to a decent state, you can submit your project.

You can resubmit it and change it as many times as you need until the submission deadline. So we recommend for people to do this early. So if everything goes south, if there's an issue close to submission deadline, you at least have one submission in and have like at least a kind of working product in um because you have the requirement of submitting a project to get your stake back. So you're all staked to be able to access the hackathon, you will get this refunded 100% if you submit a project. If you do not submit a project, the stake will be slashed.

Um record a proper demo video. If you plan on being a finalist, you have to record a video. Otherwise, it's optional, but it's still recommended. It has to be between 2 and 4 minutes long, 720p for the minimum resolution, and it has to include audio, but should not have music. That means you should speak over your project.

Explain what it does. And I'm going to give some recommendations about the videos later as well. And what I said earlier, commit frequently to your GitHub repository. It should not just be one single commit. We should see how this was built out over the weekend.

With all that information in, we can create our project. So, it's going to ask us for a bunch of things on the submission page, on the project page, uh the demonstration link. So um if we want to be a finalist project, if we want to be uh like successful and qualify for the top 10, we have to have a work in deployment meaning this has to be deployed on like on Versel on Replet on your own personal server on whatever site, but it has to be publicly accessible so people can test it out. And the demonstration link has to go in here. If you want to opt in for the top 10 file list, you need a short description about 100 characters, a longer description, and how it's made.

For those two, I would recommend take your time and fill these out properly because this is what's going to show on your showcase page. This is what you're going to be judged upon. Meaning, if you give a good description on what your project does and not just like some AI slot that you're slapping in there, this is going to help your project immensely. And same if you're building it out, if it uses certain technologies, feel free to add all that information in there. You cannot really overshare, but be as detailed as possible.

And then you have to connect your uh GitHub directly. So you would have to either uh own a repo like own that repository or own the um or own the uh organization or be part of the organization that owns a repository. It's going to ask you to uh connect and authorize with GitHub. Um, let me just do that off screen. Sorry, this kicked me out last time.

So, let's try this again. Connecting my GitHub account. This will ask me to either allow access to all repositories or just to certain repositories that I'm selecting. And then once that is done, just going to quickly do a page refresh. And then my account is connected and for those account I can select up to five repositories that I've been working or that I'm going to be working on.

I'm going to just put everything in a mono repo but we could for example differentiate between front end backend contracts or just everything everything in there. So just to show you how this would look like for a different event for example that I created before I could add additional ones as well. So if I have code on all of those they could be considered. I always can only have one primary, but I could, for example, say these are my front as my front end. Those are my contracts and this would be the back end.

And then I can go ahead and uh save the changes after I filled everything out. So I'm going to do that now for the description. Again, just going to copy paste a bunch of stuff which you should not do. So please take some time and uh fill this out as properly as possible. It's just going to help you score better at the hackathon.

So take some time on the description B decides what does your project do what problem does it solve and then on the how it's made how you built it out and for the demonstration link again this is something that should also be a live deployment uh in that case this is obviously not real but if it would be real it would get in there I can just save the changes uh by the time Tokyo rolls out we're going to have auto save features in a bunch of those as well so don't worry about that then we have to upload a bunch images. We need at least three screenshots of the project. We need a logo for our project and a cover image. I'm going to do these now as well. Let's see.

Should be in here in the workshop. I'm going to have the logo, which is our lovely mascot. Here, we're going to upload the cover image. Just going to do this one. And we're going to upload three screenshots here as well.

These are obviously just placeholders, so I would recommend making them nice, polish them up because this is how your project is going to get represented at the end. And we can hit hit save changes as well. And we're also getting a bunch of information and a bunch of pieces of information up here as well throughout the submission. Um, submission is obviously not open yet. So, not everything will work, but I'll show you as much as we possibly can.

For the technology, we can list a bunch of stuff that we built the project with. So, for example, which tooling did we use? We try to keep this updated. It's not updated all the time. So, there might be some technology missing.

In that case, just fill something in. Let's say we used uh apttos and zerog. Um, programming languages obviously bash and assembly. um web frameworks. Let's just say we use spelt database.

We can say we used let's say SQLite design tools used Illustrator. And if we used anything else that maybe wasn't on the list, we can add that in here. And then really important thing, you can use AI. We encourage usage of AI for development. We wouldn't recommend it for planning and for ideiation because for ideiation it's simply not good.

But AI assistant development is completely fine. But please credit where you're using it. So say what you did, say how you build it, say what tools you were using. It just helps out helps us understand how your project was built out. And in your repositories as well, if for example, you're not really writing a single line of code, but you're using like spectriven development providers with all the information.

You cannot really overshare. If there's like any markdown files with uh ideas, with sketches, with um with prompts, put everything in the submission so we can review everything. It just helps you overall. But be transparent about this because also it's usually pretty obvious if somebody committed like 5 million lines of code in 3 days, they probably didn't write that themselves. If they say they do, not ideal.

Cool. Now we're going to the uh judging and prizes. So I have my uh project selected to building from scratch. So saying I built something completely new. And we have two submission types.

One being partner prizes only. This is if you do not care about um the judging process. If you just want to build something, submit it. Don't present it. Completely fine.

You can do that. You would just opt in to get prizes from the partners for the ones that you apply to. you can apply to a maximum of three. So for example, let's say I built something on ENS, Uniswap and 1 in, I can select those three. If I try to select the fourth one, it will not let me.

We do this to prevent people from bounty hunting and actually build proper integrations into the tools. So you can build with none. You can build with one, two, three, four, five, whatever. But you can only apply to uh to sponsor tracks of three of those companies max. So what is top 10 finalist?

So I briefly went over the live judging which would happen at 9:30 on the Sunday. So if you want to qualify to be a top 10 team to be able to get some extra prize money to get all the glory, all the fame and to demo your project live in front of judges and the top teams also demonstrate their projects at the end of the event and get some extra um extra perks as well. I'm going to go over that as well. And then you can opt in for the live judging. That requires two major things.

One being the video. So the video on this track is 100% mandatory. Is not optional. And again the requirements for those between 2 and 4 minutes long. This is a hard requirement.

If the video is shorter it will fail. If it's longer it will fail as well. So make sure to check those requirements and really really make sure that all of this is there because if not it will automatically be rejected by the system. And it's really bad if you're 5 minutes before the submission deadline and the video fails and you have to redo it again because it takes longer than 4 minutes to record a 4-minute video. That being said, videos can be edited.

It does not have to be a oneshot. Once we confirm and understand, we can fill out the information. So, um assuming I select all of this after the submission is done and it's 9:30 on the Sunday, um I'm just going to skip back to the venue map. Uh, everybody that opted in for the top 10 fundless judging would go to the judging rooms. It's happening between 9:30 and 12.

We always recommend to do this as early as possible. You would line up there. You would get a room assigned. So, you would get into a room with two judges and a volunteers. You have 4 minutes to demo your project and there's a 3minut Q&A session.

Afterwards, you get a I demoed sticker. You can take a photo uh with your team and then um after all the projects are being judged, the uh judges gather, select the top projects, they will get notified, they will get briefed and then for the closing ceremony on the main stage, they will be brought on stage. So, if I want to do this, then I would opt in for that. If I don't want to demo, if I don't care about any of that, I'm going to only opt in for the partner prizes because demoing at in front of the partner booths is optional. we still recommend it so you can get some feedback on your project.

And then again for the project itself you would fill out let's say you included ENS you would write in like what you did like how you built like how you integrated ENS you would link the line of code or like the file wherever you integrated that actual piece of code. So the ENS team for example can look into it and see how it was integrated and it can rate how easy it was for example to integrate ENS into your project. um be fair about it. So if it was great, feel free to actually give them 10 stars. If it was bad, then rate them low, but also provide feedback because this is what those companies want.

They want constructive feedback on how they can make their tooling better and more usable. So if you find a bug in their system, fantastic. Let them know and you can work with them to uh to buff it out. And yeah, so the more feedback you provide, I would say generally the better it is. Once you filled out and saved all that, you can upload a video.

Again, video is recommended for everybody, but it's mandatory for the finalist judging. So, if you opt in and want to be a finalist, you have to upload a video. And again, I say this a lot, but people still ignore it every single time. Has to be between 2 minutes and 4 minutes. Cannot be shorter.

cannot be longer because the uh the system is running some checks and it will fail if it doesn't match the requirements. And also important the resolution because even if you record it at a high resolution but the format is off it has to be at least 720 or 1080 but the format actually has to match. Then [snorts] we ask you if you want to for example get future funding or grants are interested in that. You can select that here. See the video past the checks.

So, it's in my project now. And at the end, which I cannot do right now because submissions are not open, it's going to tell me submissions are not open. It's going to show me that I'm not eligible for prizes, which makes sense because only people that checked into the event, meaning they were physically there at the hackathon at least one time, checked in, scanned the ticket, got their wristband, got their badge, they are eligible. If you have five people in your team and four people didn't show up at the event, they will get kicked out at the submission. So only people in person in Tokyo at the event can be part of a team and can actually submit.

And once that is done, again, you can submit your project and you can redo this as many times as you need uh throughout the event week. um pretty much only the last submission or when the submission cuts off, it's when you can no longer make changes. But until the deadline, you can submit as many times as you need. And again, I would recommend to do this as early as possible just to avoid any confusion down the road. This is anything about the or everything about the project submission.

If you have any questions, feel free to drop them in the chat. Again, also going to have a Q&A at the end. [snorts] Okay, then team management. So, I talked about teams a little bit. Important thing here um you can hack solo, you can hack with a maximum of four other people.

So the minimum team size is one, the maximum team size is five people. Important, you can only be part of one team and you can only create one project. Meaning you cannot sign up multiple times. You cannot build on different things. You can integrate multiple partners and multiple technologies.

But it has to be one coherent project. So you can join one team, you can submit one project. So for your team, if you want to invite somebody like one of your friends, you would enter their name and their email so they get the invite. They have to still be signed up and confirmed and staked for the event. You already have a team invite link here.

So you can share this for example with your friends in DM directly or you can have the uh link here as well or just uh copy the um uh copy the invite code. You can also join and leave teams at any time and you can select whatever position for example you are or what your skill sets are and if you want to join another team for example let's say this would not be my code but somebody some uh code from some friends of mine I could put that here join the team and I would automatically be added to the team if they still have space on that end. Um just going to quickly answer one question in the chat. Is there a deadline for hackathon check-in at the event? Yes, there is.

That's a great question. That should be on the schedule. If it's not, we're going to be adding it here. So, uh, yes, the check-in at the event is from 100 p.m.

on Friday till 9 uh, till 1000 p.m. So, you should be at the event between 100 p.m. and 10:00 p.

m. Any time in between there works, but I would recommend to get there as early as possible. are pre-existing projects um built during the hackathon judged separately. Um there those would be falling under the category of continuity track. So the partners offer different prizes for the from scratch and for the continuity.

I'll jump into that one in a little bit as well. But yes, there are that judge the same, but they have uh different prizes. And during the finalist judging, they're also separate rooms, but overall, we only judge the work that is being done at the actual event. Okay. Um I'm going to jump with the questions for now because now there's everybody jumping in right now.

But yeah, I'll answer all of them in a little bit. Um, overall I already said something about AI usage, which is fine, but I'll dive a little bit more into detail about that one, too. Okay, so we have the team, we have the project. Let's go to the mentors tab. So, these are all the mentors that are not directly affiliated with any of the partners.

They're going to be at the event 24/7. Not everybody all the time, but there's going to be at least two to three people at the event at all times. They're going to be wearing super bright yellow vests that say mentor on the back. just approach them if you have any questions, if you want feedback, if you need like some support. Um, some might be a bit more technical than others, but all have product experience.

They all been in the space for a while. So, they can support you when it comes to how you're building out your projects, what might be a good one versus not such a good project, and just generally chat with you and unblock you wherever possible. It um says where the uh the companies, where they're from, what they're doing. It lists their skills and how you can contact them on uh Discord as well as their Twitter handles. So again, those will be at the uh event.

They're also going to be on Discord and they're super super visible. We also have a mentor station which is like on the second hacker space uh between the partners. So there should always be somebody there, but you can spot them at the event. Feel free to just talk to them. They're super super nice.

Then we have info pages. I would say the info pages are a condensed version of these this entire workshop. So if you want to get all the information about the hackathon, use the get started here. Any information about the rules, the judging and the projects, everything is in here as well as all the rules and a list of tools and resources for the event that are not specifically to Eve global but also to anything based Ethereum. So for the judging got important rules, what applies to the start from scratch, what applies to the continuity, the usage of AI.

So all the information is there. Um how you submit your project, what the judging sessions look like, what the judges are going to be judging you on. So the rubric would be they're judging you on technicality, on originality, on practicality, on the usability, and just if they're blown away by your project. You see the partner judging, how this looks like, and general tips for the video. So, if you have like 20 minutes before the event starts, like between now and the hackathon, really read through those info pages.

They're going to help you a lot and they're definitely going to unblock you during the hackathon. And the info pages overall for the starting, it shows you on how you can connect to Discord, how you can chat with fellow hackers, where you get guides, the resources again like explanation of the tracks. So pretty much this entire workshop just in written form can highly highly recommend to check this one out as well uh because it's going to save you a bunch of time and confusion at the hackathon as well as sessions on how to contact us directly and the tools and resources have our YouTube the ethereum.org org website speedrun Ethereum what are NFTTS what are Dows like Ethereum research and development so all the information you could you could possibly need if you have never like dabbled in web 3 or in Ethereum before everything is there really really nice everything al together then the part a lot of people are super super keen about which are the prices so you can get to that section directly by the price tab or from the overall dashboard as well so we have six partners that are going to be representing at the event. We have World 1 in ENS, Uniswap, Sooie, and Curve Grid.

And they're all going to be offering prize money and for tracks at the event. Um, not all the prizes are updated yet. This will change in the next week leading closer to the event. It gives you information about the individual company like the links on how you can access their website and their socials. For example, um, 1 in already has everything filled out.

So it gives you the explanation of what they want. They want you to build an uh app using their Aqua technology. They're awarding money for the first, second, and third prize. And they have this pretty much on two sections. One being the built from scratch.

So this is new projects being built in integrating Aqua. Uh and this is existing projects on the continuity track that are integrating uh Aqua. So important if you're opting into build from scratch only this one here will work for you. This one you're not eligible for because it's continuity and vice versa. If you build if you have something coming into the hackathon like an existing project you're building on top of that you want to integrate 1 in then only this one would apply for you and these are the only ones you can select at the price selection screen which I showed you earlier too.

So if a partner does not offer continuity, you unfortunately cannot get prize money from them or win something from them. So only the ones listing continuity do continuity and the prices that they're listing. So uh ENS has the same thing. So uh best use of ENSV2 gives a total of 6K. Three for the first, two for the second, and one for the third.

And if you're building on top of an existing project, integrating ENSV2 into your project, first place two, second place 1,000, and third place also a,000. So make sure to check which ones are continuity versus which ones are from scratch. If this says continuity, it's for continuity. If it says nothing, it's from scratch. It's pretty easy.

Again, those prices will be uh updated in the next couple of days as well. So, for example, the uh Sooie one, they don't have continuity. They just have the regular ones. Uh Curve Grid doesn't have the prices up yet as well as world. So, make sure to keep an eye on those.

And also really, really cool, these pages have information on the docs as well. So, for example, for Sooie, you have the Sooie docs directly, SUI tooling, starting templates. All the companies will have booths at the event, meaning there's going to be devrils there that can support you. they can answer questions which I would highly recommend to talk to as many people as possible because these are the people that building out like they're building the protocols, they're building the tooling. This is the stuff that you're using and if you have questions, if you're running into any issues, they're the ones that can support you.

They're the ones that can fix it and also they're the ones that want your feedback as well. So, for example, if you're saying like, hey, it was really really great to build on that tooling, but it would have been better if XY Z perfect. Or for example, you found a bug in any of the doc, you found like an issue in the documentation, something's outdated, you found a bug, let them know, work with them through it. It's first of all going to increase your chances of winning if you actually help them make their stuff better and your project is also good, but also you help the entire ecosystem uh get better tooling. So the next time somebody builds something, for example, on one in or on world, they're going to have a better time and a much better experience.

So yeah, I can highly highly recommend that. Fantastic. So, we had prizes, we had a dashboard, we had projects, we had teams, we had info pages. Let me just quickly uh check the chat for any questions and then we can keep going. Um, okay, I answered that one before.

Um, can we use AI to generate our test code? All our testing will affect our score or performance. You can use AI 100%. This is completely fine. I mentioned this before.

AI usage is at this point encouraged because everybody uses it anyways. So use it wisely and just show us where you used it. But specifically for tests, that's completely fine. Uh even for code, if you barely touch your code, if you barely write any code, that's still fine. But give attribution on where it's used and provide us with information.

Meaning if you're using Spectrum Development for example, just put all of the spec files in your repository as well. So we can see how this was built out. Very very simple, very straightforward. Uh can we use third party SDKs, W APIs like Alchemy and Third Web? Absolutely.

You can use every single tooling that you want to use. It does not have to be specifically technology from those six. So if there's stuff that you want to build, it's like losing stuff like Scaffold E. If you want to use like Alchemy, like any RPC provider, completely fine. You can use whatever you want to build uh whatever you want to build the best possible project.

If this uses something that's not on here, that's still completely fine. Okay, nice. Um then I briefly I just want to head to the dashboard real quick. Um on the dashboard, I showed this at the beginning as well. There's a button that lets you connect to Discord.

I'm already connected and I'm just going to show you quickly what the discord actually looks like. So you have uh information about the uh hackathon. So pretty much again a condensed version of this workshop. Um the info center, the resources, the rules on judging. Um we have a find a team channel.

So you can send an introduction and let people know like who you are, maybe what you've built in the past. It gives you a great link that I'm also going to be sharing where you can look for other team members. You can filter by specific skill sets and you can see who else is looking for a team and then just get together. It's great. Again, you can come into the hackathon without having an idea, without having a team and still find people there, but it's usually encouraged to have something at least touched on a little bit before.

Makes it easier. We have an overall Tokyo chat. We have the event schedule which is going to ping you for all the workshops and all the events happening. It did it for this workshop here as well. And then we going to have a mentorship help channel where you can get help directly from the mentors if you cannot really find anybody in the uh in the venue directly.

Um one piece of advice if you're doing something asynchronously if you're asking for support on something like Discord ask your question. Do not ask to ask a question. Do not ask them hey I want to talk to somebody. Can somebody reach out to me? Say like hey I have this specific issue.

Um these are the pieces of information. can somebody help me? You're going to get a much much better and quicker faster response versus asking if you can do something versus just asking. And yeah, so again, a good spot to just talk to people. You can create a support ticket if there's something that should not be public, but Eve Global should be aware of.

And in any case, you can always reach out to hello@global.com. I'm the one managing this email. So, if there's anything happening before the hackathon, during the hackathon, let me know and we can contact you or try to unblock you as best as we possibly can. Okay, another question.

Do we need to put real money in for demo the project or is it about the offchain trading or payment? This highly depends on what you're building. Um, in general, test net deployments are fine. So unless a partner specifically asks you to deploy something on their mainet which is almost never the case um test net is completely fine. So you don't have to deploy on like mainet Ethereum if you don't have any funds there you can for example since it's just a hackathon deploy on like any L2 that has lower fees for example.

So if you're testing something, most people just use Seapoleia like Ethereum or base Solia um because they don't want to like move actual funds. So having money on like a chain is not necessarily needed. But a good point that you brought it up because uh we also have something really really cool. Speaking of funds, we do have a test net faucet, meaning um you can get free testn net ETH on 16 different chains. So, specifically ETH and Bolia, I would say, are the most popular ones as well as USDC on B on Ethereum and those numbers are going to bump up.

So, default is 0.05 E a day. If you connect to the uh event website and mter hacker pack, it's 01 E a day. If you get our second largest pack is 0.5 E a day and the largest one is one E a day that you're getting on test net funds.

I'm going to show you something about packs after this one as well. Um I do not have access to the information channel on Discord. How can I get access to it? If you connect your uh discord directly on eglobal.com in the dashboard, so on this one and click connect or reconnect, it should automatically assign you with all of the information directly.

So you should get access to all of the uh channels that have Tokyo. Um I'll double check later if all the permissions are set correctly, but if you can only see Tokyo channels but not this one, there's an issue. If you don't see any Tokyo channels whatsoever, then you have to get access to the event. Uh, are there any hotels you can recommend? Um, not really.

I would just recommend looking for something close by to the event. Um, just like Google Maps, search for hotels. There's a bunch of like cheap hostels, I think, or like part hotels closest by. Uh, but I don't have direct hotel recommendations, unfortunately. Okay, we still got 10 minutes.

Doing good on time. So I briefly talked about okay we have faucets. I'm still going to go over the showcase and on packs and on uh pragma and then we should be good to go to ask a few more questions. So let's do showcase and then packs. So I talked about the project submission and the information that we request from you.

So I if you remember correctly it asks for like a 100 um character description. This is what you would be seeing here. The name of the project and the uh cover image of the project. I'm just going to so I don't use the first one. I'm just going to use let's use this one because it's also a good example of what a good project looks like.

So this is the project showcase. Every single project that was ever created and submitted at an E global hackathon is in there. Meaning this should be over 17,000 projects at this time. you can uh search for them by name, by prizes, by event. So, it shows this is what's going to show publicly.

So, it has all the screenshots and it has the demo video. So, you can check all those out after the event. It's also going to show you if they qualif if they won any prizes. So, this one for example won uh the best prize for 1 in as well as the second place for graph and they were an EVE global finalist. So, they got some extra stuff from us.

you have a link to the live demo as well as the source code, project description and how it's made. So can highly recommend to just browse through the showcase, see what people were building, see what actually turned out great. I would recommend to take inspiration but not try to just rebuild the application. So just because some project made finalist got out of prize money does not mean the exact same project is going to be successful at the other event. But you can definitely look how like they were structuring their project, how the video was done or um like how their screenshots for example looked like, how their code was structured.

You can filter by every single event. You can select by different partner prizes and select for them as well. And you can select for different categories. So all the categories that you select at the beginning, they're going to show up here. So let's say we're looking for projects that were built at.

1 in and uh Ox Park and that use wallet payments then only those will show up and we can also filter and break them down even more. So I would say pretty cool and your project will also be showing up there if you submit your project during the hackathon. All projects show up after sub uh after the closing ceremony. So you're going to going to see a lot more projects after tomorrow because we're currently finishing up our Eve online hackathon. So all those projects will be available there as well.

Then I briefly talked about some limits and I have the wrong URL. Um and I talked about packs. So packs are onchain NFTts that are tied to your wallet or to your account that give you certain perks. So, everybody participating at the hackathon has the hacker pack. If you have not minted it yet, please do so because it gives you access to our Discord server.

It gives you access to discounts. It gives you access to, like I said before, extended um faucet claims. So, instead of 0.05 E a day, you can get 0.1 E a day, for example.

Um after the hackathon ends, you submit a project, you get a free ENS domain for one year on us and a bunch of other cool stuff here as well. The hacker pack is the first pack that we have. Then the second pack which unlocks if you attended two events, one IRL, one async, if you won at least $100 in prizes, if you have at least two submissions or you were an event finalist. This pack has a bunch more things like um for example extended faucet limits. So instead of 0.

1, you get 0.5. You get city pack discounts. You get auto accepted for certain events. You get additional discounts for alpha conferences and um yeah generally I would say like larger discounts for a few things.

You get $100 in circle developer credits and you get six months of notion pro for free. And then the largest public pass that we have is the Pioneer Pack which you can only unlock if you are finalist or made $1,000 in prize money attended to hackathons and have the previous pack. This gives you even more discounts. This gives you free uh cloud compute. This gives you a $50 render credit for example bigger discounts for Eve Global Plus as well as OB conference and you get one testn net e a day and also pretty cool $5,000 in AWS credits for your startup.

So yeah those are adding on top of that and then the biggest biggest pack that we have is Eve Global Plus which you can buy. It's $828 a year. It gives you access to every single event that we're running across across the globe, including Eve Conf, a big conference in New York City. The ticket price for Eve Conf is going to be over $1,000 uh by the um right before the event. So if you buy plus e conf is pretty much paid for itself but this also includes all of our pragmas.

You get access to all of the happy hours that we're running across the globe all community meetups all co-working spaces pretty much wherever it says eve global except for the hackathon because these are still just for builders but everything else is pretty much free entry with that thing. And the cool thing is why I encourage people to build cool projects if you are an e global finalist. So, if you're one of the top 10 teams, you get one year of Eve Global Plus Plus for free, meaning you get access to every single event. You can follow us across the globe. You get free launch access.

Um, you get like a discounted priority pass and a bunch of really, really cool stuff. We're going to re uh work this entire thing. So, this is going to be much nicer and much better in about a month. Um, and yeah, I can highly recommend if you do not want to pay for this, completely fine. Uh but you can get this by being one of the top 10 teams at the EV global hackathon.

And then the thing I briefly touched on earlier as well on the Saturday of the hackathon we have our Pragma conference which is our one-day conference. This is not a hackathon. This is a fully ticketed event. So um you can attend it if you are a hacker. It's 50%.

It's it's heavily reduced, meaning you can pay $49 versus uh the 69 for the full pass. If you get the network pass, it's $29. It does not include food. It's happening on the Saturday of the hackathon. These are all of our speakers.

There's some really really big names specifically uh from like the Japanese ecosystem. Um the schedule will be updated in a couple of days as well. We have some partners there too. And again, it's going to be happening on uh the same venue, but a separated area where the main stage is going to be. So, as hacker, you do not get direct access to that.

You would still have to get tickets for this one. But just as an information that that this would would also be running at the weekend of the hackathon. Okay, that was a lot of talking. That was a lot of information. I hope this was a useful session.

You can re-watch this at all times at our YouTube channel. It's youtube.com/eglobal. You can check out our Twitter as well, which is x.com/eveglobal for highlights and information about the event.

We still have a few minutes. Are there any more questions like anything about the hackathon, about logistics, something that wasn't really clear, feel free to post that in the chat or unmute yourself and ask. Just again, this is getting recorded, so if you do not want to, you do not have to. Um, if you need to know anything between now and the hackathon, I sent the email. You can send it to hello edifyglobal.

com. You can uh check the Discord. If you don't have access to the Discord, I'm just going to link this one again here, global.com/isord and connect directly from your hacker dashboard because you automatically get all the roles assigned for Tokyo specifically. So, you're always directly in the know.

Fantastic. Well, if there are no further questions, thank you very much for your time. Much much appreciated. Again, my name is Pascal. If anything was unclear, if you need to know anything, if there's any issue, anything that's just uncertain, you just want to know, feel free to reach out to me directly on Discord or via email.

We're looking forward a lot to welcome every single one of you in Tokyo. It's going to be my first time in Japan, my first time in Tokyo. I'm incredibly excited about this event. I had this circled in my calendar for an entire year. So, this is going to be fantastic.

I'm excited to meet each and every single one of you in person. Feel free to just talk to me directly. I'm uh the one person with the big ears if they don't get cut out. So, I might look scary, but I'm actually a real nice person to just talk to me. It's completely fine.

Uh it's my job to talk to people. So, I'm super happy about that. Feel free to bounce ideas off of me. And yeah, if you need anything, let me know. I wish each and every single one of you a fantastic rest of the week.

Have a great day and see you all in Tokyo. Bye-bye.