Encode London
25th-27th October, 2024
We're back and ready for London! Join us for a fun-filled 3-day research conference and hackathon right in the centre of London.
Shoreditch Exchange: Senna Building, Gorsuch Pl, London E2 8JF
Read the full event summary here!
Co-Hosted by
Previously from Encode
Research Conference and Hackathon
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Engage with leading protocols and experts at our research conference to discover the latest advancements in modularity, co-processors, AI, and more.
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Collaborate with brilliant minds, form teams, and tackle challenges to create innovative solutions.
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Whether you're attending the conference or participating in the hackathon, connect with top professionals in the field and expand your networ.
Bounties and Prizes
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Develop a dApp that leverages KRNL's cross-chain composability to execute kernels (on-chain or off-chain functions) across optimised execution environments.
Judges will look for the most innovative use cases of kernels showcasing functionality not possible elsewhere.
Prizes:
1st Place: $3,000
2nd Place: $1,500
3rd Place: $500
Honorable Mentions: $100 each
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We are looking for projects that do any of:
Enhancing the OEV searcher experience with dashboards
Build a dashboard that monitors health positions of borrowers that filters with positions near health of 1.0 and utilise this script to update a price oracle on the dashboard
Utilising an API3 oracles to create a real-world use case for our price feeds in smart contracts within DeFi.
Creating a bot that run liquidations using OEV
Prizes
2 x $1,000 per team (Utilising API3's OEV)
4 x $250 per team (Utilising API3 Price Feeds)
$ USD value in API3 tokens
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Build data-driven DApps leveraging Flare’s Data Connector for querying and integrating real-time information from connected blockchains and Web2 APIs. The Flare Data Connector (FDC) achieves consensus on information from external blockchains and the internet, ensuring it can be securely and trustlessly utilized by smart contracts on Flare.
Prizes
1st prize - $7,000
2nd prize - $3,000
$ USD value in FLR tokens
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Build DApps that utilize at least one of Flare’s Enshrined Data Protocols: FTSO (Flare Time Series Oracle) for price feeds, FDC (Flare Data Connector) or Flare’s secure Random Number Generator.
Prizes:
1st prize - $5,000
2nd prize - $3,000
3rd prize - $500 (up to 4 winners)
$ USD value in FLR tokens
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Leverage the unique power of ICP to build an app that couldn't be built anywhere else! Take advantage of features like seamless cross-chain interoperability, chain-key cryptography, or HTTPS outcalls. Whether it’s enabling Bitcoin payments directly from an ICP smart contract, executing Ethereum smart contract logic across chains, or hosting a multichain dapp with massive low-cost storage, your app should showcase what can only be achieved on ICP. The goal is to create a dapp that pushes the boundaries of blockchain technology by integrating ICP’s unparalleled multichain capabilities and making cross-chain complexity invisible to users.
Some examples:
Onchain games: Simple dice or card games that use ICP’s secure randomness for fair gameplay.
Extend an ETH dapp onto ICP: Use the external login features to allow users to seamlessly interact with ICP using their wallet of choice.
Dead Man Switch Canister for BTC: Create a dead man switch for Bitcoin, where funds automatically transfer to an exchange or designated address in case of the user's death.
Check out the Hacker Pack for more ideas!
Prizes
3 x 5,000 USD Developer Grant in ICP
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The theme of this bounty is making AI decentralised and accessible. There is a main track with 3 options for what you can do.
Develop a GUI for AI model training: Develop a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows participants to interact with FLock's training nodes, enabling them to easily adjust hyperparameters, monitor results, and experiment with different settings. This user-friendly tool aims to lower the barrier for newcomers, encouraging more community members to join and experiment with AI model training on the FLock network. It should support transparency and learning, helping users visualise the impact of their changes. A good starting point for this is referring to our Quickstart training node script.
Build an explorer for training Nodes and Validators Explorer: Build an explorer for training nodes and validators within the FLock ecosystem. This explorer would offer detailed insights, allowing users to click on a training node and view performance metrics, past contributions, and model history. Such a tool could also assist delegators in conducting research before committing resources, thus enhancing the transparency and accountability of the network. It should function similarly to a block explorer but be tailored to show AI model metrics, rankings, and earnings, helping participants understand which nodes are performing the best. (e.g. Bittensor Explorer)
Open-ended Projects for FLock: Participants are encouraged to propose and work on any project that interests them, as long as it aligns with FLock's mission of democratising AI through decentralisation. This could include developing innovative ways to integrate FLock models into new real-world applications. The goal is to leverage the potential of the FLock infrastructure to push the boundaries of decentralised AI, providing creative freedom for participants to explore new ideas.
Prizes
First place - $3,000
Second place - $1,500
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The challenge is to complete up to five tutorials from the Nillion AIVM documentation.
The tutorials guide participants through:
Install Nillion AIVM on your machine, creating a virtual environment.
Inference using LeNet5 for digit classification.
Inference using BertTiny for spam detection.
Training a BertTiny model for sentiment analysis.
Training a LeNet5 model for cat/dog distinction.
Prizes
$10 per user, up to $500 for the fastest to complete the tutorial and prove it to the representatives of Nillion in person.
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The challenge is to build a decentralised application (dApp) integrating AIVM’s inference capabilities.
Inspiration
Discord/Slack bot for sentiment classification of messages.
Email mood reader that detects emotions in emails based on the sentiment.
Browser-based image classification to identify user-drawn images.
Judging Criteria
Innovation: Creativity in using Nillion AIVM’s features.
Technical Implementation: How well Nillion AIVM’s privacy-preserving inference is integrated.
Potential real-world applications of the project.
User experience and ease of use.
Prizes
1st: $500
2nd: $350
3rd: $150
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The challenge is to implement a challenging use case utilising Nillion AIVM’s privacy-preserving technology:
Discord/Slack bot for sentiment classification of messages with a specifically trained model for the task.
Healthcare image classification for medical diagnostics based on the models and a relevant dataset.
Code language detection to identify programming languages from snippets based on BertTiny.
Email mood reader that classifies emails based on Sentiment with a custom training of a model.
Tackle a unique privacy problem based on the capabilities of AIVM privacy-preserving inference.
Judging Criteria
Innovation: Creativity in using Nillion AIVM’s features.
Technical Implementation: How well Nillion AIVM’s privacy-preserving inference is integrated.
Potential real-world applications of the project.
User experience and ease of use.
Prizes
1st: $2,000
2nd: $1,000
3rd: $500
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As autonomous systems such as robots, drones, and IoT devices become more integrated into our lives, their security, reliability, and transparency are paramount. This open track invites participants to innovate at the intersection of robotics and blockchain technology. We are particularly interested in verifiable computing applications, where blockchain and cryptography can be leveraged to ensure the integrity and trustworthiness of autonomous systems - or make these systems more secure and independent.
IdeasBlockchain-Enabled Decision Making: A robot or drone that logs its decisions on a blockchain, ensuring transparency and immutability of its operational history.
Device Security: An agent security system using blockchain to securely manage firmware updates, data transmissions, and interactions, protecting against tampering and unauthorized access.
Decentralized Autonomous Robotic Networks: A network of autonomous systems that allow agents to share information about their surroundings and make decisions collectively using a decentralized blockchain framework. This includes networks which allow robots or aerial platforms to securely navigate their environment self-sufficiently without reliance on external navigations systems (e.g. GNSS, Cellular Triangulation).
This is an open canvas, we’re interested in all ideas at the boundary between Blockchain and Robotics. Importantly, your project should demonstrate how blockchain can be integrated into autonomous systems to solve real-world security challenges.
Requirements
The system must clearly demonstrate how the idea is relevant to real-world robotics applications.
Your idea must incorporate a blockchain use-case, you are free to incorporate any ECDSA-based blockchain(s) of your choice (e.g., Bitcoin, Cosmos chains, custom L1s/L2s EVM, etc.).
🏆 Bonus Points: Physical or software demonstrations of working proof-of-concepts will receive additional recognition.
Prize
$2,000
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Nethermind invites you to build on Starknet. Build what? Absolutely anything! Yes, that's right. Absolutely anything! The most useful and creative project wins! Think about a Smart Contract that does something unique, something that doesn't exist on Starknet yet, or an integration of some kind, perhaps a tool that helps others access Starknet data.
Requirements
You must demonstrate that your project is executable on the Starknet Testnet.
We will value projects that propose cryptographic protocols that are effective and creative in tackling the project’s goals.
Prize
$2,000
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Nethermind invites you to build MEV infrastructure to help align MEV in Starknet!
MEV, or Maximal Extractable Value, is a concept in blockchain that refers to the maximum value that a miner, validator, or block producer can extract from manipulating the order, inclusion, or exclusion of transactions within a block.
MEV is neutral, and when properly built and accounted for the positive forms of it support healthy markets and good pricing for retail users, which is critical for adoption. Some positive forms of this are solver infrastructure like Cowswap or UniswapX, or mempool infrastructure like flashbots. Due to Starknet’s current architecture MEV strategies that relies on gas manipulation or transaction ordering are less effective, but there are other ways to support healthy markets! As Starknet decentralizes, this will be more and more important to take into account for dAPPS. Your task is to find one of this ways and implement an application that leverage Starknet’s unique characteristics.
This can include: Starknet MEV Mempool dAPP infrastructure that allows dAPPS to integrate MEV Similar to Privy as wallet infrastructure Intent Markets Support solvers providing best pricing for retail users New and novel ideas! This field is being heavily researched, and new ideas are welcome!Prize
$2,000
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In the world of blockchain, smart contracts are the foundation of decentralized finance (DeFi), NFTs, and countless other applications. However, smart contract vulnerabilities can lead to major security risks, including loss of funds and exploits. Your task is to build a tool/framework that enhances the security of smart contracts by detecting vulnerabilities, providing automated reports, or improving and composing existing security tools/frameworks.
Requirements
The tool must be usable in existing and/or new projects building Smart Contracts using Solidity and/or Cairo. Tools for detecting vulnerabilities can be fully automatic or guided. Consider using techniques like Static Analysis, Fuzzing, Formal Verification methods, and/or AI.
Prize
$2,000
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Build a cryptographic tool that supports social good/that benefits society. Your project can focus on areas such as privacy, accessibility, or identity, but is not limited to these fields. Requirements: We welcome any application, provided you can demonstrate how it serves the greater good.
Judging Criteria:Impact on public good:
How ambitious is the problem your project addresses?
How many would benefit from it?
What additional applications could your project enable?
The usability of the project and its entry barriers
Economic barriers
Hardware barriers (possible decentralisation)
Prize
$2,000
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Build an innovative financial service or application leveraging Stellar’s blockchain infrastructure to create more opportunities for financial inclusion.
Focus on providing services like inflation-protected savings accounts, peer-to-peer money transfers, or micro-lending to populations in the Global South, with special attention to rural areas and households headed by women.
Prizes
1st - $10,000 in XLM
2nd - $5,000 in XLM
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Leverage Stellar’s Horizon API, JavaScript SDK or other libraries to integrate Stellar functionality with widely-used Mobile Money Open APIs, like the GSMA Mobile Money API.
Prizes
1st - $10,000 in XLM
2nd - $5,000 in XLM
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We’re looking for AI-driven projects using the OpenAgent framework. Build and showcase how your application can push the boundaries of decentralised AI & the web3 ecosystem.
Prize
$1,000 worth of RSS3 tokens + access to grant from OII
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We'd love to see you build an application on the RSS3 protocol. Show us how your project leverages RSS3 to redefine decentralized data and content experience!
Ownership Economy, User-Owned Data, Open Information Application, anything you can think of!
Prize
$1,500 worth of RSS3 tokens + access to grant from OII
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Using Koii’s task-template, build and deploy a production-ready version of your dApp on Koii Network alongside your own KPL token.
Your submission must be a deployed task on Koii
Your submission must have a minted KPL token
Prizes
Grand Prize: $500 USDC and 5000 $KOII to the best built project!
Best Business Use-Case: $200 USDC and 5000 $KOII
Most innovative Project: $200 USDC and 5000 $KOII
Honorable Mentions: 30 x $100 USDC and 1000 $KOII
Up to 200 $KOII available to anyone who participates in the challenge (to cover gas or similar fees only)!
All winning participants will be granted the opportunity to apply with special priority to join Koii Ocean, Koii’s accelerator program, where winners can gain access to special resources (such as investment opportunities) to launch their dApp as a business and gain access to grants/private funding opportunities.
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Dive into our DeFi database and analyse data from Uniswap, Aave, and GMX on Ethereum and Arbitrum. Your goal is to uncover patterns and trends in the data. This is your chance to show off your data crunching skills and contribute valuable insights to the DeFi community. Think JIT liquidity provision on Uniswap or how to leverage volatility insights for better decision-making.
Requirements:
SQL skills
Industry knowledge of DeFi
Some form of data visualization
Outcome
An interesting and engaging analysis of real DeFi market data. Think of a blog post with nice visualizations, or an intriguing streamlit dashboard to host.
Prizes
400 ARB
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Take part in an intense DeFi trading competition where your task is to design the most profitable trading strategy on Uniswap and GMX!
You'll compete with other hackers building strategies in DeFi. First, you develop the strategy using our backtesting tool. At the end of the event all traders will compete against each other in a common backtest, to see who is the best trader. Can you create the ultimate money making machine?
Requirements:
Python knowledge
DeFi knowledge
Prizes
900 ARB + 1 year Dojo License
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Step into the world of market impact modelling by creating DeFi market agents with Dojo. This research-driven project invites you to build agents capable of simulating various market conditions, including stress testing for extreme but plausible scenarios.
Mastering stress testing is one of the most valuable components in trading, as it equips you to identify risks and analyze potential outcomes. This challenge requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and agent-based modelling to design agents that assist in robust risk management, scenario analysis, and decision-making.
Examples:
Liquidity & Price Shock Simulation: Build an agent that simulates sudden liquidity withdrawals or market maker exits, alongside extreme price swings, to test market resilience and track their impact on portfolio risks. For example: Develop a Uniswap risk score based on volatility and liquidity depth to help traders manage risks more effectively.
Volatility surge: stress test strategies under extreme price swings, modeling reactions to major events
Interest rate shifts: model changes in DeFi lending rates and their effects on liquidity and liquidations
Requirements:
Python
Financial modelling
Research skills
Prizes
800 ARB + 1 year Dojo License
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Blockchain archive nodes store massive amounts of data, often requiring up to 10TB of storage—making them impractical for everyday developers, researchers, or enthusiasts. But what if we could shrink these data-heavy nodes down to just the most critical information needed for DeFi applications? In this challenge, you’ll create a pruned version of an archive node that keeps only the most relevant data for DeFi applications. For example, you might decide that only transactions with the WETH contract would be kept; or only transactions that interacted with (or within!) Uniswap. This is a perfect challenge for anyone who loves getting deep into blockchain infrastructure, optimizing databases, and ensuring scalability.
You’ll help democratize access to data, making it easier for anyone to dive deep into DeFi insights and blockchain infrastructure without needing massive hardware setups.
Requirements:
Blockchain infrastructure knowledge
Database optimization
Python
Prizes
$1,000 USDC + mystery gifts + potential job offer
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You are invited to be among the very first to try Blocksense’s new Oracle Script SDK. With oracle scripts, any real world data available via API can be securely brought onchain and used in your dApp.
Let your imagination go wild and see what kind of new use cases this game changing capability allows you to build onchain.
Prize
$1,500
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Blocksense offers a range of data feeds, empowering builders spanning from DeFi to prediction markets. Feeds are easy to integrate, using interfaces compatible with other major oracle providers, and have high security guarantees coming from Blocksense’s novel Schelling Point consensus and ZK rollup architecture.
Your challenge is to read from Blocksense’s catalogue of data feeds to use in your dApp.
Prize
$500
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HyperIndex serves as the backend layer between your smart contracts and your app. This prize is awarded to the team that best utilizes Envio’s HyperIndex for indexing and retrieving data in their web3 application.
You must make use of Envio's HyperIndex to index data and serve it to their application. Bonus points for deployment to Envio's hosted service. You should customise and extend your indexer.
Prize
Best Use of HyperIndex: $1,500
Best Runner-Up: $500
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HyperSync is an extremely powerful tool for accessing raw blockchain data, such as transactions, blocks, and logs. It can be used to build headless block explorers, data visualisations, and analytics, or catered APIs.
For example in under 10 seconds, HyperSync can:
Scan 200 million blocks
Retrieve and decode every PoolCreated log emitted by Uniswap V3 Factory
That’s 20 million blocks per second. Clients available in Python, Rust, Go, or TypeScript.
You must use HyperSync in your application, showing clear examples of how it was used to retrieve sensible data. Optimal access is via a client, though JSON API use will be considered.
Prize
Best Use of HyperSync: $1,500
Best Runner-Up: $500
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Awarded to the team that demonstrates the most creative and innovative use of multiple Envio features, including HyperIndex and HyperSync.
Showcase how various Envio features are combined to solve a unique problem. Emphasize creativity and innovation in the application.
Prize
Most Creative Application of Envio’s Features: $1,000
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Awarded to the team with the most outstanding project overall, considering innovation, functionality, and impact. This category is open to projects with potential in the web3 space that utilize either HyperSync or HyperIndex.
Judging Criteria:
Overall project quality, impact, and execution.
Use of Envio’s tools and technologies.
Prize
Best Overall Project: $500
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This bounty is focused on helping developers build on Solana by creating tools that can visualize program interactions or by developing near-real-time on-chain applications.
Example Projects:
Build a tool to help developers visualize Solana’s memory management and CPI calls for on-chain programs.
Build a near real-time on-chain collaboration tool, similar to Google Docs, where multiple participants can collaborate using Solana’s blockchain infrastructure.
Prizes
1st Place: $2,000
2nd Place: $1,000
3rd Place: $500
4th Place: $500
5th Place: $500
And up to $6,000 USDC in Grant Funding
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The objective of this research bounty is to provide the opportunity for a talented UK researcher to expand on our Future of Work report (to be published at Zebu Live). This includes examining changes in work environments, organisational hierarchies, cultural values, and the overall impact on human interactions within these evolving structures. The aim is to offer insights that could inform policy, business strategy, and technological development towards a more integrated understanding of what might be termed the 'Network State.'
Research Suggestion Tasks:
1. Literature Review: Conduct an extensive review of existing academic and industry literature to understand how decentralized technologies are impacting global work environments and the social implications of these changes.
2. Anthropological Analysis: Dive deep into anthropological research to examine how decentralization is altering human interactions, organizational structures, and cultural norms in the workplace.
3. Technical/Statistical Approach: Utilize technical data analysis and statistical methods to track and forecast the growth of decentralized work models, including gig work, DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations), and blockchain adoption across different sectors.
4. Local Experiment: Design and possibly execute a localized study or experiment to observe firsthand the adoption and impact of blockchain and crypto-based work models in specific communities, assessing social, economic, and cultural shifts.
Prizes
1st Place: $2,000
2nd Place: $500
Plus up to $6,000 USDC in Grant Funding
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Share Your Encode London Experience!
Earn rewards for creating quality on-the-day content during the event. Whether it’s live tweets, videos, or blog posts, contribute quality content and get recognised.
Prizes
20 x $50 USDC
Plus up to $2,000 USDC in Grant Funding
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You will be provided orderbook + candle dataset. Developers have to use existing LLMs/news sources but depending on the use case we can support by guiding to the correct endpoints.
Developers are also free to collect data from lending markets, LSTs, orderbook data from a CEX. The requirement is that any strategy built for an agent at least has 10k unique datapoints to ensure a meaningful sample size
Goal:
Provide a detailed notebook which contains all the steps from data aggregation, strategy design/indicator selection to backtested results.
Provide a pseudocode for deploying an agent which will interact with the DeFi primitive, LLMs using the strategy and also formulate all the steps in the agentic workflow.
Prizes
2 x $1,000
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Your goal is to build an off-chain agent workflow across new DeFi primitives. Build your own version of our agents (Atlas, Ganesh or Apollo) or one of the following:
LSTs Restaking portfolio agent: Restaking is a significant trend led by Eigenlayer. Our goal as a restaking agent is to navigate the complex landscape of restaking protocols and their payoffs. Use social data, analytics and estimate the dollar value of payoffs, use this to constantly enter and exit a position maximising the staking rewards.
Lending agent: A lending agent is similar to a morpho optimiser The goal is to use an agent to maximise the supply rates using the p2p model, with a twist of using agents to optimise the spread.
Goal
Provide a complete workflow for the agent: interact or use a core model, connect to api for the agent to identify state, execute planning actions and demonstrate the workflow in a short video. Submissions must include working code
Explain the methodology i.e. basic backtesting for the strategy, developers can also combine it with bounty 1 to provide a more comprehensive result. Submission in the form of a short paper with backtesting results.
Bonus points for using multiple agents such as long+short term inputs to share information, achieve goals.
Prizes
1st Place - $5,000 USD
2nd Place - $3,000 USD
Preference will be given for a working MVP over a partial product.
Challenges should be completed during the event.
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This is an open bounty for the best project built on Base.
Base, incubated within Coinbase, is an Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) network offering a secure, low-cost, developer-friendly way to build decentralized apps onchain. Additional information and developer resources can be found at Base’s developer docs here.
Bonus scores will be given to the builders using the following tools to superpower their onchain apps: Coinbase Smart Wallet, Coinbase Verifications, Coinbase Paymaster, and OnchainKit.
Prizes
1st - $2,500 USDC + virtual mentorship session with Base Team + Coinbase swag
2nd - Virtual mentorship session with Base Team & Coinbase swag -
This bounty will be awarded to the team who comes up with the best real world Blockchain use case.
Project submissions can include dApps, infrastructure services, or additional blockchain features. They will be evaluated on their utility for real-world applications across diverse industries such as transportation, healthcare, supply chain, telecommunications, and more, with a focus on practical, social use cases of blockchain technology. The technology should not be the product here!
Prizes
1st - $2,500 USDC + virtual mentorship session with Base Team + Coinbase swag
2nd - Virtual mentorship session with Base Team & Coinbase swag -
This is a prize that anyone attending can win. Capture behind-the-scenes content, document your hackathon experience, and be rewarded.
A large part of what we do at Stand with Crypto in the UK is championing the pioneers, looking to shine a spotlight on the exciting innovations they are working on to help spread awareness around the impact that blockchain technology can have on the world. And you can help! This is a prize that anyone attending can win.
Capture behind-the-scenes content, document your hackathon experience, and be rewarded. We are looking for awesome content to amplify across our social channels and promote why more people should get involved with Stand with Crypto in the UK and to highlight the importance of the mission.
Some ideas for this:
Create a vlog of the hackathon experience (video) - from start to finish! Capture snippets of short form content and give a behind the scenes look at what you’re working on and the overall hackathon experience.
Interview your fellow builders (video) - help them shout about what they’re building and why it's a great real world use case with a series of short video interviews.
Live Tweets (with photos) - we recognise not everyone can make the hackathon, so keep your fellow builders up-to-date with a series of live tweets over the weekend and help share the buzz of the weekend with those further afield.
Showcase your hack with a blog post - part of the Stand with Crypto mission is helping educate wider society about the benefits of blockchain and its applications and easy-to-access blog posts can be a great way of doing this.
For the submission guidelines, check out the Hacker Pack!
Prizes
8 x 50 USDC + Stand with Crypto merch.
Potential to become a Stand with Crypto social ambassador.
Speakers,
Mentors and Judges
Mads Mathiesen
Maven 11
Research Partner [Speaker]
Asim Ahmad
KRNL
Co-Founder & CEO
[Speaker]
Nicolas Mohnblatt
Geometry Research
Researcher
[Speaker]
Andrew Lewis-Pye
LSE
Professor
[Speaker]
Vasilios Mavroudis
Alan Turing Institute
Principal Researcher
[Speaker]
George Kassis
JPMorgan Chase & Co
Web3 Identity Lead
[Speaker, Judge]
Jiahao Sun
FLock.io
CEO
[Speaker]
Michael Zaikin
Starkware
Exploration Engineer
[Speaker]
JonJon Clark
ENVIO
Co-Founder
[Speaker]
Magnus Ahmad
Blocksense
Product & Ecosystem
[Speaker]
Billy Campana
API3
Developer Relations
[Speaker]
Tahir Mahmood
KRNL
Founder
[Speaker]
Yvonne-Anne Pignolet
DFINITY
Director of Research
[Speaker]
Dias Alymbekov
Dune Analytics
Software Engineer
[Speaker]
Andrea Bracciali
University of Turin
Professor
[Speaker]
Giacomo Giuliari
Mysten Labs
Research Scientist
[Speaker]
Horia Magureanu
Flare
Research Scientist
[Speaker]
Moritz Fuller
DFINITY
Developer Relations Engineer
[Speaker]
Adnan Salehin
JPMorgan Chase & Co
Senior Associate Software Engineer
[Judge, Mentor]
Caleb Shack
Big Brain Holdings
Researcher and Investor
[Judge, Mentor]
Madalina Buzau
FCA
Tech Lead Data Scientist
[Mentor, Speaker]
Didar Gelici
Ladies of London Hacking Society
[Mentor]
Avinash Pilay
Koii
Developer Advocate Engineer
[Speaker]
Lukas Scheucher
Compass Labs
Chief Technology Officer
[Speaker]
Laurence Kirk
Extropy
CEO & Senior Blockchain Developer
[Speaker, Mentor]
Daniel Savu
Hyperlane
Senior Software Engineer
[Mentor]
George Giamouridis
Cybersecurity Research Group, University of Southampton
PhD Candidate
[Speaker]
Finn Suzuki
SAFE
Events Lead
[Speaker]
Yimika Erinle
DLT Science Foundation
Research Associate
[Speaker]
Abdulla Al-Kamil
Coinbase
Senior Smart Contract Engineer
[Speaker]
Ox Bid
BASE
London Community Organizer
[Speaker]
Felix Meng
XTrace
CEO
[Speaker]
Denisa Diaconescu
Nethermind
Consensus Researcher
[Speaker, Mentor]
Julian Sutherland
Nethermind
Head of Formal Verification
[Speaker]
Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach
Flashbots
Research Scientist
[Speaker]
Guillaume Claret
Formal Land
Founder
[Speaker]
Filip Rezabek
Technical University of Munich
Research Associate
[Speaker]
Henry
RSS3
CTO
[Speaker]
Filip Koprivec
Flare
Head of Developer Relations
[Speaker]
José Cabrero-Holgueras
Nillion
Cryptography Engineer
[Speaker]
Finn Casey Fierro
Nethermind
DeFi Research Analyst [Speaker]
Denis Aksenov
Consensys Mesh
Portfolio Manager
[Judge]
Thomas Crow
Fabric Ventures
Investor
[Judge]
Chris Anatalio
Stellar
Senior Developer Advocate
[Speaker]
Ossie Amir
Wormhole
Global Integrations Lead
[Mentor]
Zeta Avarikioti
Common Prefix
Chief Scientist
[Speaker]
Keith Bear
Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Fellow
[Speaker]
Sponsors, Partners & Friends
Season Partners
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Partners
University Societies
University Representatives
Nottingham’s Advancing Black Careers (ABC)
Malachi
UCL Entrepreneurs
Veronika
Royal Holloway AI Data Science
Milan
KCL FinTech
Jiya
City Computer Science
Danylo
Imperial AI
Shaafi
Bristol Blockchain
Zeyn
Birmingham MedTec
Adwit
Universities that joined our previous events
FAQs
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No, the event is free! Once you register, our team will approve your spot, and you'll receive a follow-up email with your ticket.
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The event is a combination of a conference and a hackathon. We'll feature both academic and technical talks that align with the hackathon tracks. You are welcome to attend just the conference for the talks, participate in the hackathon, or enjoy both!
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Anyone can take part in the research conference and hackathon - as long as you’re there in person!
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No, you can hack solo.
If you’d like to form a team, we will help you connect with other hackers.
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Yes! The Encode team will be on the ground to direct you to the best person to address your technical query.
Some of our mentors will also have office hours available to sign up for!
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Yes, you can, but only if your project hasn’t raised significant funding already and significant feature changes have been made during the hackathon weekend.
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Yes, you/your team is the sole owner of your project.
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Yes! We actively encourage this.
