How to Become a 10x Web3 Developer (Austin Griffith & Nader Dabit) - BuidlGuidl's Builder Bootcamp

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Welcome & Panel Introduction (Nad & Austin Griffith AMA)

[Music] Okay. Hello. Hey. Um, I hope you're all having a good time uh speaking to the companies and and getting to know each other. Um, but we're going to quickly do a panel right now with u Nadder and Austin Griffith like OG's in the Ethereum space where you can like pick their brain about any questions that you have. Yep. So yeah. Uh yeah. So yeah. Uh could I Yeah. Could I get everyone to settle down? Uh we're going to quickly break for like a ask me anything session with with Nad and and Austin.

Yeah. Awesome. Yeah, of course. Hey, what's up? How's it going? All right. So, uh here's how this is all going to work. So, obviously Ner and and Austin have a lot of experience in the space and they have a lot of knowledge that you know you guys can uh capitalize on and and get brain dumps on. So, there's a QR code right there which you can scan and you can like ask your questions live and as and when they come in like I'll have a look and I'll I'll keep like posing it to uh the panelists and and and just feel free to like shoot over your questions.

Panel Setup: How to Ask Questions & Setting the Context

Awesome. Thank you for having us. Yeah. But before we start, maybe we can like do some uh context settings so people sort of uh get a little bit to know get to know you all a little bit and and and a little bit of your background as well. So maybe we can start off with uh both of youall talking about how you got into the Ethereum space, what attracted you and and what's making you stick around so far. Yeah. Yeah. Yo, so I'm Austin Griffith. Uh I do developer growth for the Ethereum Foundation. Uh I got into the Ethereum space 2016 learning 2017 building. Uh I started building games. They didn't really resonate back then. Uh then I

Austin Griffith's Journey to Ethereum & Why He Fell in Love with It

started building tooling and doing Devril and that really caught on and was really helpful metatransactions and burner wallets. Uh what really excited me about Ethereum? I was doing lots of stuff like being down a Docker rabbit hole and new technologies like that really excite me just like AI is right now. Being able to oneshot apps is really exciting. But back then the idea of building unstoppable apps that can't be tampered with and live forever was really neat. And just seeing a smart contract for the first time and seeing how a smart contract could work and seeing that you could, you know, have $8 billion locked up in a smart contract. There was just a lot of

really really neat properties to that that got me excited and that's kind of what had me fall in love with Ethereum. I think it works now. Great. Yeah. For me, I was working at Amazon and I was kind of on the career path to be be a senior level person that would be kind of in a very boring position. And then I learned about crypto um through a couple of talks from Juan Benet and Yaniv Taal. And uh within like maybe a couple days I was really just hooked and I realized that this was like a much earlier space than cloud was and a lot more exciting and a lot more challenging and a lot more fun and I decided I wanted to work here. I applied to join the graph which was a good opportunity for me because I knew GraphQL really well and they were in a GraphQL company and

Nad's Journey (Leaving Amazon) and the Ethereum Community Ethos

I got my foot in the door there and uh same things that kind of Austin said immutability censorship resistance being able to build like unstoppable applications all that seemed really exciting even though the scale at the time was like not really there it was more about the potential of what was possible and um and now that's been almost almost 5 years. And actually, one of the first people I reached out to was Austin and he didn't know who I was. Um, but I just dropped in his DMs and he like took a lot of time out of his day and helped me out helped me out and actually helped me get started. And I think he's done that for a lot of people. So, I just want to thank Austin again for helping me kind of get my foot in the door and show me um a lot of Well, I think it's like

he embodies like the ethos of the the culture of the Ethereum community as a whole. There's a lot of people like him, people that are like willing to selflessly give you their time without any expectation of anything in return. And that's been a really another cool draw of the Ethereum ecosystem that I don't really think I see in other places. Yeah. There's this like idea of coming for the money and staying for the ethos that I think really resonates true. When you figure out you can program money, you're like, I know how to program. I can program money. I can probably make money programming money. And then you get in and you realize this whole like open source cippher punk ethos uh is something that helps people stick.

Good Dev vs. Great Dev: The Power of Shipping & 10x-100x with AI

Awesome. Um yeah, so you guys have been around for quite some time. Um and so maybe just for like all the students in the room and all the developers in the room, uh what do you think differentiates a good dev from a really great dev? uh based on like ev everything that we've seen so far. Um I think the ability to just to just ship like not to and also to have like a lot of of agency without needing to be handheld through things because over time that's kind of what you need to be successful. And uh the the definition of a good dev today is way different than it was a year ago.

Actually, I think the ability to lean on the most bleeding edge AI tools and kind of be 10x 100x more uh effective than you were last year will set you apart. So, the next time there's like a layoff or the next time there's a big opportunity, you're not the one getting laid off and you are the one that gets that opportunity. And I think that's the only way you can stand out. It's to really be 10x 100x more effective than everyone else. And it's pretty simple to do that just by taking action. Uh staying on top of the latest models and the latest IDEs and all the best tools that help you get [ __ ] done because really I still see people and I know people that like work in software that don't believe in using AI uh tools. And I just

don't know how long those people are going to last. And then once they do decide to get into like start using them, they're already so behind on like what's out there. And I think there's also people on the complete opposite end that literally just like live and breathe Bob coding and they're just insanely productive. So I would like to be on that that end of the spectrum. Yeah, the the steps like you said are easy, but the uh the actual work and execution of being a 10x developer and being just just having the tenacity to just like ship and ship and ship until something works is is actually very hard. It takes a lot of work. So, I think you have to have the tenacity. You have

to be able to be constantly shipping like are are you coming to me with excuses or are you coming to me with apps that you've built and trying to throw something at the wall, right? And there were some guys up here doing some really awesome stuff. There were parlays on top of prediction markets are exactly the kind of [ __ ] that I want to see. I want to see people shipping different weird ephemeral prediction markets on top of apps that are already existing and going to people where they are and helping them like possibly even custodying their cryp crypto at first which is like against the ethos. You want self-custody eventually, but we need to be going to people where they are and we need to be trying things. We need to be throwing things at the

wall and building really interesting apps. So, it's sort of like if if you're coming up to me and you're saying it's too hard to figure out how to build an Ethereum and it's too hard to figure this out and like don't come to me with excuses. Come to me with apps and you should be shipping apps like weekly because crypto or with AI crypto is so much easier to build on top of. Nice. So, I guess the key message is be a lean mean shipping machine. Yes. Uh use AI if you need to. You use whatever tool is is latest in the market and and just be super productive. Great. That's awesome.

Advice for Web3 Developers Starting Out & Landing Your First Job

So, we have a bunch of questions that are coming in through the Q&A. Uh, let's start with the most upvoted one. U, so the one that has the most votes is, what recommendations would you give to a web 3 developer who's just starting out and wants to land their first job? Hopefully, they're a web 2 developer already and they're getting into web 3. We don't know that, though. I think you uh you need to learn the syntax of Solidity, but it's a little bit different now with AI. You can kind of just be like, I need to build this thing. Uh there's a little bit of like understanding the kinds of things you build on Ethereum. You you don't have like a cron job that checks in every night to to do a thing, right? You need to actually build an incentive

system that incentivizes anyone in the world to check in and pay to check in and then they get incentivized to do so by getting paid. There's little things like this that that exist in the Ethereum world that don't exist in other places that you need to understand. And one place I suggest people go is speedrun Ethereum. You can go to speedrun ethereum.com. You can take on all these challenges. But the TLDDR is like there's a lot of incentives and weird mechanisms built in. And to get those, you just need to build a bunch of things and then look through a bunch of protocols. So once you build your first crowdsale app, once you build your first token vendor, once you build your first DEX, your first lending protocol, your first stable coin, your first prediction market, your first ZK voting app, once you build all of those, you should go to different

Essential Learning: Speedrun Ethereum & Understanding Incentive Systems

protocols like unis swap v2, unis swap v3, morpho, a you should understand how those protocols work. You should be able to like look at the smart contracts and understand how they work. And if you go there and you don't understand, you need to rewind and get more smart contract knowledge. But then you need to start like adventuring at the frontier and start shipping things and see what happens. What do you think? Yeah, I agree with all that. And then um like if you're doing that and you also are able to stand out from everyone else in different ways, there's a lot of opportunity to kind of do that today. I think that uh you know going viral for building something really cool is a great way to get a lot of job offers. I mean, I've seen people that just get flooded with job

The "Hack" to Getting Hired: Civil-ing Your GitHub Profile

offers because they put out the right thing that got the right people's attention. Um, there was like recently this this AI agent competition where the guy was charting like different models trading against each other that went insanely viral. Um, you could have like maybe decided to copy that in in some way and and build something similar or just kind of like come up with creative ideas that visualize and showcase the things that you built that that may get attention because it is hard to stand out today because of how simple it is to generate applications, you know. Um, you you know there's always a hack like every every time in in you know any moment in history in this this industry there's been a hack you know that you can kind of uh take. I think the hack today might

be people still use GitHub to uh like vet people, right? So like if if I look at someone's GitHub profile and they haven't shipped anything, you know, it it might make me uh like uh consider them less than an equal participant that does have like an insane GitHub. Now, in the past, it took a shitload of work to have an insane amount of repos on your GitHub that were not forks. Today, you can literally generate five apps per day. you know, like what if you decided that to to to ship five apps per day for the next six months, you'd have like hundreds of of individual unique applications and it doesn't take that much work, right? But if someone went to go hire you and they saw that you had experimented and built all these things and hopefully you're actually going

into the code and understanding what the [ __ ] is going on as well. Um, then you're going to actually stand out and you're getting hired. That that would be the hack that I would take today. When I got when I was getting opportunities, the hacks that I took were writing a book about something I didn't really know that much about, but by the time I was done writing the book, everyone thought I was an expert and I was an expert because I had to [ __ ] write a book about it. Um, answering questions on Stack Overflow, stuff like that. I don't know. There's always a hack. The hack today in my opinion would just to be to like civil your GitHub profile with a bunch of like in unique applications. I I Yeah, f five a day is a lot, but like one every

five days could be really good. like spend the time. It takes me a few days still. Like in terms of nights and weekends, it takes me a few nights and weekends to build a really nice app that people can use. So five a day is pretty tough. That'd be pretty lean. Uh just but just to double down on some of his points here, uh CryptoT Twitter is a cess poolool, but it's also full of recruiters and people that are looking for hiring interns and building apps. So get established on crypto Twitter. Follow people, get followed. uh just doing cool things on crypto Twitter and then doubling down on like build something and show it off. Random idea X42 is hot right now. So make an X42 poker game and then pick a bunch of models and have them play against each other and

then post the results of those different models playing poker with each other and see who wins and try to make a viral post that kind of shows off that build. Just do that over and over again. I would say one app every 5 days, not five apps a day, but like maybe somewhere in between those two and just be posting it all the time and you'll get recognized eventually and something will come from that. Awesome. So, uh, build in the open, build in public and make yourself visible and find the hack that you need to stand out. So, here's a very interesting question uh that's people in the audience want to know. Uh for a beginner with a project in mind, would you recommend to learn

How to Find Great App Ideas to Build (Hint: ChatGPT & Trends)

and build the project? Why or would you recommend learning while building the project? What was the first option? First option is to like just learn, get a rundown on how things work and then start building the project once you have that idea. You don't really know until you start building though, right? It's like reading a book about sailing a boat. you kind of probably need to get some basics, but you need to get out on the water, you know, and I think that's the same thing for building here. You you should be sort of building and learning all the time in parallel, and those things are not mutually exclusive at all. And it's kind of like a collective path of both of those things happening at the same time, right? Yeah. Yeah, that makes that makes

sense. Uh, another question here is, uh, you guys talk about shipping apps weekly. What happens if you don't have a idea for a great app? What do you then go out and build? Skill issue, bro. You got you got you got to be coming up with ideas like crazy. Uh go to ChatGpt and have ChatGBT give you 10 ideas. Pick the most favorite one and build it even if it's not that good. Uh I think a lot of my ideas come from following uh awesome people in the space and seeing what's hot. I just mentioned X42 is hot. I kind of like gambly gambly-ish games. So, that's where that X42 poker thing came in. And then you mentioned uh the whole like using different models to invest

and then showing those on a graph. Like I just put all those ideas together just now to say make X402 poker and have the models play each other and then make a viral post about it. Like that just comes from those different ideas and mixing and matching. So get on crypto Twitter, follow a lot of people. Sorry, crypto is a cesspool. Sorry, crypto Twitter is a cesspool. Uh, everyone's always pitching a bunch of crap and there's a lot of noise, but if you watch for trends and even though it's kind of a trailing indicator, pay attention to what's going on in the space by watching crypto Twitter, you'll find these new things. 8004 is another great example of an interesting technology. Uh, it's like it's like yellow pages for agents to be able to like

check in to discover each other and then have a reputation model. Go build something. Go build go build an agent that generates images. Go build an an agent that generates copy and then go build a marketing agent that you can talk to to uh run ads for you and have that marketing agent have a budget and have it pay off the copywriting and the image generation image agents and have this whole system working together so you can just like yolo go run ads and tell me how they work and come back to me and then tweet about all of that on Twitter. So I think finding ideas is about like mixing and matching things that are uh hot and interesting and trying things that are if you just start like

dinking around. There's there's a lot of things that emerge from that. So yeah, and then finally just like go to chat gbt and say give me 10 ideas. Yeah, I I think one of the most interesting ideas I've seen recently is uh on Salana sadly it's like punk cade and it's like a browser extension that allows you to run a prediction market on top of pump. fun or on top of an existing stream. And I think this is a really good idea like fig figure out uh where people are right now, Tik Tok streams, Instagram streams, other like existing places and run things on top of that that use prediction markets or uh interesting like stable coin mechanics or DeFi mechanics. I I also think

that like uh lowrisk DeFi is really interesting right now. go to people where they are and give them an easy way to yolo money in and have a stable coin and have that stable coin locked up and earning 5%. You you are basically creating a brand new bank and make it really easy for people to use stuff like that is these ideas are all over the place in the space if you're paying attention to what the the meta is. Yeah, I agree. I couldn't said it I couldn't have said it better myself. Nice. Awesome. Um so maybe let's ask some more inspirational and personal questions about your journey that have come up. Um so one question here is what's something you wish you could go back and tell your younger self? Ethereum price.

Personal Regrets: What They Wish They Told Their Younger Selves

Uh for me it would be like uh putting myself out there, building in public and um not being afraid to put out my ideas because like all the opportunities I've I've had have been because I've put my ideas, my code, you know, my writing, my videos, like all all the stuff I've put out there um and some form or fashion has gotten me opportunities. And uh I think for the first like six years, I thought I was too stupid and I wasn't like good enough to share my ideas. But the first idea that I shared like went really insanely viral and helped like literally I think you know millions of of readers have read that and so many people have kind of reached out about that first piece of content I put out there and that kind of really changed the way I viewed uh that and I've had a lot of failures and

a lot of things that have been cringe and a lot of people that get pissed off of me because I've said something that ended up being wrong or whatever but but everything else that was good overshadowed all that. So, it's still very very awkward to kind of put yourself put myself out there and I'm been doing it for a long time. And I think it stops a lot of people from like talking or doing or saying or or whatever just acting. But I think for me that's kind of the the one lesson. I know that that for developer relations and all that it might be a little different for uh for me than maybe like a software engineer or something. But I I do think there's an aspect of like putting your code out there that a lot of people are scared to do. I've talked to a lot

of people that don't want to push up certain code to GitHub because they literally are worried about did they format like a function right. Like no one actually cares to be honest. Um as long as you're not I mean I can't really think of too many things that you could do wrong. Um maybe like stealing someone else's code and claiming as your own. I don't know. But for the most part like putting your stuff out there will result in positive things. That's my one thing. And I probably spend too much time experimenting. I think if uh if I couldn't tell myself the price uh of what Ethereum is going to be, I would go back in time and I would get myself to connect with idea guys more often and like CEO types just like find the most like arrogant intelligent person I could

find and try to partner with them and be the CTO to their CEO because I'm always like building interesting things but I never really like make the business or the company out of it. And I think that that's the thing that I have always been lacking. And I think if I could go back in time, I would grab 2017 me and I would say the burner wallet is great. Like make the burner wallet a product. Here is an arrogant C CEO type that just thinks he's right all the time or she's right all the time and will help you make your product uh a reality. Go make it a reality and stop prototyping. Nice. Yeah. Well, that's very cool. Uh, here's a very spicy and controversial

Controversial Question: GitHub vs. GPA — What Matters More?

question. Uh, what do you think matters more, my GitHub or my GPA? GitHub 100%. That's not even spicy. Like the piece of paper you're going to get from your school is not that important at all in crypto. So, do you think we've moved away from the stage where uh companies care about where you went to school, what you did in school, or like they just care about like what portfolio you have? I mean, it gets you in the door for sure. Like when I hear like, "Yeah, I'm a MIT grab." I'm like, "Fuck yeah, come here. Tell me tell me more." Right? And but like the next thing is what does your GitHub look like? What are you shipping? What's going on? So sure, it'll get you in the door. But really, like you should be going to these top schools to like

find your friends and your co-founders and your spouse. Like that's what you should be doing right now. That like have fun, be social, meet people, meet co-founders, meet spouses. that's what you should be doing at the top school right now. Like the piece of paper is not going to be the thing that's valuable. Yeah. If I could go back in time, I would definitely get my degree. But uh so if you have just a degree or if you're just a good coder, um like the the good coder with the good GitHub will probably end up standing out obviously, but if you have both, you're going to stand out even more. So if you have a degree, that's incredible. Also be an insane uh you know, shipper. Um, but if you don't have a degree, you can do better than anyone in the world if you

just like, you know, kick ass and um, you know, don't stop shipping. So, for sure, GitHub will be number one. But, you know, both would be ideal, but not having a degree has never stopped anyone in our industry that I know. Nice. Okay. I think we have uh time for one last question and I think this is the one that I think would take the most time. Um so the students have asked what value do you think Ethereum provides uh for the apps that are built on top of it and I guess a good extension could also be to talk about IE cloud like what what value do you think that I cloud also provides uh for like developers who are looking to build on top of it right now checking the sponsor box very nice I think uh Ethereum and the Ethereum ecosystem uh you know Ethereum is

The Unique Value Proposition of Ethereum

maybe like a settlement layer and we're talking about building on L2s and then when we're talking even farther We're talking about iigen cloud, but I think these new types of applications are sort of the the frontier of what apps will be like in the future and what uh future customers will demand of their products. Future customers will want apps that are always on. Future customers will want apps that can't be tampered with. Uh this is a coming thing like it's sort of like HTTPS for the future, right? So future apps will be built on these platforms. They'll be built on L2s. They'll be built on L3s. they'll settle to Ethereum. Uh I don't know that too much about IGEN cloud but maybe you can take over from there. Well, Ethereum enabled IEC cloud um just

like Ethereum has enabled thousands of companies, businesses, uh tens of thousands of jobs, probably maybe more than that, I don't know. Um but for cloud, we are essentially offering a handful of different products. At the core level, we have infrastructure that allows you to build verifiable services. So uh recently layer zero um infura redstone like oracles all types of stuff um bridges kind of build at that base level level that's kind of like building almost like an L1 type of product and then we've ver like vert vertically built our own stack of products that we manage. We have IGNA which is the most scalable data availability layer on the planet 750 times

more scalable than the next um I would say best option in terms of throughput. Um we have IGEN AI and IGEN compute. Uh you can kind of think of it like EC2, S3, Lambda maybe on top of AWS the data center being at the bottom for us. IEG layer is at the bottom. Uh IDA I compute and I get AI are managed services that we kind of maintain. Um I AI verifiable inference for you for for you to be able to build blockchain primitives uh out of AI. Essentially you can kind of think of bringing AI on chain. Uh, I compute is a way to run verifiable uh, I would say runtimes or to be able to build like applications that typically would run on in the cloud but that need verifiability. Um, today

we actually just really kind of like announced our our biggest major use case so far of AI. It's only been out maybe about a month or so, but Poly Market and Kaido AI are using it to enable like ephemeral and autonomous prediction market. uh like outcomes I would say um because you know to resolve a prediction market it's not really that simple you often need some human intervention but using verifiable AI you can actually do this um autonomously so that's one uh really cool thing that we've kind of put out there today if you want to kind of learn more about a like real world use case um and it's actually also our biggest paying customer so that's awesome we're not paying them

grants they're paying us money to use our product it's a win-win situation there there's another idea for people looking to build is uh AI oracles, right? Oracles that resolve prediction markets, get a bunch of different AI models and have them resolve prediction markets. I think you even did something uh recently about like deterministic uh results from AI. Is that right? That's really interesting. I'm trying to find the term that uh we kind of use. You coined a term and forgot it already. No. Well, the the the coin the term was coined by Kao I I believe today. Um I guess verifiable mind share markets a lot. Yeah. Um but yeah so I mean I AI

Idea for Builders: AI Oracles & Verifiable Determinism

is a characteristic of it is determinism. So when you think of like blockchains and how you can say I want to reexecute the history of Ethereum today and then uh Austin will do that tomorrow and this person will do it a year from now. um when we all reexecute the state we all come to the same um output right because it is objective and is deterministic like when you put in the same inputs you get the same outputs and you kind of like can re replay the history over time you can't really do that with uh with AI inference because it is non-deterministic by nature um it's become like a big challenge to to defeat this for certain use cases because you don't really need you don't

need determinism for most things but you do need them to do audits you do need them to to bring like money and finance and in order to have like inference on chain and things like that. So we've we have a technique that we've kind of like uh I would say discovered that enables determinism. Um there's another company in the AI space called thinking machines. It's actually the CT the X-CTO of OpenAI started this company. Uh I think they just raised like $50 billion valuation and they recently released a blog post called defeating non-determinism. Um it kind of goes into some uh similar techniques that we have. I don't believe that their product is live yet. Um ours is live

and we're going to release our white paper um in the next week or so that'll kind of explain how we did that. But the two characteristics of IEI are verifiability and determinism. You need both of those I would say to kind of build like uh I would say verifiable AI applications. Uh the determinism means no matter uh like how many times or when you re-execute the inference it always gives you the same result. And then the verifiability aspect is that you can verify that the prompt, the model and the response are actually what came out from the inference. So the TLDDR today is that learning solidity and learning how to build on Ethereum is actually really easy. Learning what to build is

the hard part. Go do uh Solidity by example. Well, go do speedrun ethereum.com. Then start building a bunch of things. Establish a Twitter address. Make sure you start following people, tweeting about your work. Uh follow other people, get people to follow you. Uh build a bunch of things. Be using crypto like you should be using it randomly. Like go to Abstract Chain and gamble a little bit. Go to Bass and get on Farcaster. go to arbitum and do some DeFi stuff. Uh get in a DAO. Uh do do all the things on chain and find your own uh use cases where you have problems. Come up with

fun gambly games and put them out on Abstract or base or arbitrum. Uh you you really will discover the things these ideas will emerge from you using the chain and building interesting things. So go build a bunch of things and see what emerges and uh push the frontier, please. We're counting on you guys. Nice. Awesome. All this is great. Um thank you so much again both of you for your time. U I'm sure you can find them around. If you have any more questions, you can always come up to them and ask them. They won't bite. They're pretty friendly. Uh but yeah, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Uh so thank you. So, next up, we'll be having our final demo for the day uh

from Marcelo, who will be uh showing his project, Mint Up. Um and after that, we'll just be opening up the space for networking and uh for you guys to like meet each other for the rest of the time. Thank you. authorities.

Project Demo: Introduction to Mint Up (Event App on Base)

He Okay. Um, thank you for having me here. I'm going to present my mini app. It's a mini app built on base. It's called Mintab. It's uh live right now. You can try it. You can search it uh in the base hub and in forecaster. Uh this is a events app. So basically you can um register for an event. This is the homepage. Uh currently I'm hosting um one event. So you can see the details, some details of the event, uh the host attendance

Mint Up Demo: Farcaster Profile Sync, Tickets, and Smart Contract Integration

and a little description about the event. Uh, I think the connection is a little slow. Okay. Um, here's an event that I uh I'm

attending. So, I'm registered for this event. I can uh view the ticket. This is a onchain ticket. is stored in the in the blockchain. This is some information about the event. Uh this is um it has a QR code as well. Uh I can share the ticket and it will it will pop up um a cast editor if the internet wants. So I think it's very very very slow.

Okay. Okay. So, you can search for events. This is the search page. Um you have also um profile you can edit some information but it's um the base

information is from your forecaster profile. So I fetch the information for your profile using your FID and I will um fill up the form for you. So you don't have to uh fill information about you if if you don't want. I just pick up your information from Farcaster. So the on boarding is easy, easier. You can fill some information about your profile, your um professional profile. Um you can sync your information if maybe you edit something in your Farcaster profile and it gets

out of sync. You can sync it with this button. So now now let me just uh for example this is an event that I'm not registered yet. So I can um I can share it. It will pop up the cast editor uh with some uh prefilled information and the link to the event.

Okay, I'm going to buy a ticket. So, there is two tickets, a free free one and a paid one that it's uh five USDC. So if I choose this um it will open up the um this um that let me transfer USDC. So if I click um confirm So, I don't know if I can do it in the

in the mirroring because it's not my um it doesn't have my pass key. But um maybe if I can choose a free one just to show you. Okay, the I'm registered right now. I'm in the list of attendees. Uh I can view my ticket as well. I can share my ticket and it will open up another uh cast editor but with a dynamic image. This is um this will be a dynamic image that is

generated uh with the with the event details from this specific event. I think it's not charging because the of the internet. Um but yeah this there is an uh another screen. This is for communities. So communities can create their own community here. Currently is dev and lima. I can see the community page and I can see what events they they hosted in the past. uh what

the me what their members are and a leaderboard. Well, I can switch between themes. Um and finally, I can create my my own event. So, I can choose the name, a color. Uh I can choose a category.

Uh let's choose gaming. I can choose a date and time, uh location, description, tickets. So this is um this is an interesting part because you can create free um free tickets, but also you can create uh paid ones. So for example, if I choose uh to create a paid ticket, I can choose how much I want to charge for each ticket and this will interact with the smart contract.

So the event details and ticket details will uh will be stored in the smart contract and once um a person wants to attend and wants to buy the the ticket um the money once um will be transferred directly to the organizer. So yeah that's my um that's my presentation. Um this is my GitHub profile and this is my link. You can scan if you if you want to. Um, thank you so much. [Applause] You can take your laptop. Okay. Thank

you for that wonderful presentation. We have one more really quick actually. It's not a demo, but it's more community oriented. I think it's a community that many people haven't interacted with before. So, very excited to hear Jennifer's presentation. Um, you can plug in your laptop. But yeah, I'm Cynthia. I lead Stanford blockchain. and I'm an undergraduate in the United States. I'm working with the theorem foundation here at Devcon and beyond to host more university initiatives. I think it's great what you guys have put on. So big shout out to Sham and the team and also Mustafa. Let me see how can I make Oh, okay. Is it like this one?

Presentation: Building a Student Developer Community (SH DAO in Taiwan)

Yeah, ready. So, yeah, thanks for the host. Thanks for the Cynthia to uh still let me get on the stage at the last minute. So, this is Jennifer. Yeah. So, what I'm going to demo later is probably a little bit different than what people just shared. So, it's about community. I want to show uh how I built a student community in Taiwan. And uh yeah, just want to share with you. So this is a little bit background of myself. So I'm from Taiwan. I'm the co-founder of SH DAO. So we build a DAO a developer focused DA in Taiwan. And a little fun fact is I actually work in Mastercard and uh somehow that because I built a community for like couple years and a little bit hard to find a synergy between my full-time job and what I'm do

building after job. So right now I really want to seek for opportunity to shifting to web 3. Yes. So uh this is so I joined a lot of a hackathon actually before and uh this is what I joined this August in East Gobo New York and but personally I'm not a developer. Yes and yeah so uh what our vision is actually to show the world that Chinese student can build. So as you may know that Taiwan is famous for our semiconductor. So TSMC or something some brand that you may heard about before and kind of sad that a lot of the talented like most talented students in Taiwan they want to join TSMC and they didn't even give a look for web 3. So that's what we want to promote in Taiwan

that make more people understand about blockchain understanding about web 3 and probably join this uh industry as a uh talent as well. Yeah. So, uh since we have launched in Yeah. last year, we got a lot of the media repost in Taiwan. Also, I got selected as one of the most uh influential people like 30 influential people in Taiwan. And this is what we have done before. So, uh since our launch, we host a hackathon directly. So within the three months of the hackathon preparation, we got uh secure 11k USDT USDC in the prize pool and we have 120 student hacker registered for

the hackathon. In the end, we got 25 projects submitted. I don't uh I'm not sure I think that this number probably not that promising uh still like but I think it pretty much show that we have this kind of the vibrant ecosystem in Taiwan within students that are interested in blockchain interesting in web 3. Yes. And what we offer usually as a developer community we host a lot of the uh workshop like solidity 101 and we host a regular co-learning day and a lot of the technical workshop. So I'm here also open for any collaboration. If you want to promote your project in Taiwan or basically in AP pack uh share that we will very like love to help. Yes. And we

are also have a lot of engagement with Ethereum ecosystem. So we host the Ethereum 10 year uh anniversary event. We are the main host and uh we also have a like every ETH global we will have a promotion code from Shal. So if you are a student you uh feel free to adopt our uh like a promotion code you will get the discount for East Globbo and we host East Taipei. I personally will host East Taipei next year as well. So uh if you want to join the app pack industry you should I like no sorry in app packac ecosystem welcome to reach out later. We can get you on the East Taipei and yeah also other than Ethereum like uh ecosystem we also collaborate with local

events. This is Taipei blockchain week a huge event in Taiwan as well. So for shared for a builder community we host a whole day workshop. Uh we host a stage and we host a whole day technical workshop there. We want to promote more builder voices in the local events. And lastly this is kind of like cool that we host a global learning hackathon fund also good luck have fun. So it's called GHF program. So we try to make this scholarship more sustainable. So we sponsor a student go hack abroad and uh this is we have sent two batch of student before to ETH Tokyo and Defcon Bangkok last year. So this is like we cover all the flights and accommodation but if you want

the prize you have to donate some portion of your prize money back to the uh scholarship. So we try to make this uh scholarship more sustainable and we are open to uh more sponsorship as well if you are interested in sponsoring student to go hack abroad and I know a cow is here today. So actually uh we have some ambassador from Agonal also the contributor of SHA. So we host uh this is just happened like before I come to Argentina we host the Agonal theme study group in Taiwan and right now every events we will have more than 100 student or people sign up so we are quite big in Taiwan already and yeah that's all about my journey thank you for listening and

welcome to follow us and this is my personal contact here as well so yeah really nice to have this chance to share with you thank [Applause] All right. Yeah. Thank you so much. So, uh that brings us to the end of the planned programs that we have for the day. Uh the rest of the time can be spent in just open networking. Again, uh find companies, find students and and just talk to each other. Um, another quick plug for the EF internship program that's currently active.

Final Thank You and Closing

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