We made it - the first edition of our hackathon was a real success 🎉
Thanks to everyone involved - the global energy was unmatched!
🏗️ 382 projects
👩💻 682 hackers
🏆 30 finalists
🌍 84 countries
🏡 40+ hubs
💸 10K+ prizes
🤝 70+ mentors & judges
Meet ALL winners 🧵
@Barosky_Dev@dev3pack Glad to be part of the team that built SolTip @dev3pack and @Colosseum hackathon . SolTip is a must have for all creators on X . We keep building and keep pushing
Ghana to the World 🌍 🇬🇭
COMMIT 🇬🇭 just won Top 3 Best Hackathon Project 🥉 on @solana and top 10
From an idea to a real product people believe in.
Thanks to @dev3pack , @solana@Ledger and other sponsors for this amazing opportunity and team mates @chiinaza0x5
More wins 🥳🥳
Just submitted "SolTip" to the Dev3pack Global Hackathon! 🚀 @dev3pack
SolTip is a browser-extension-powered tipping platform
Check it out 👇 https://t.co/g9IHPWEp5j
Hackathon kick off at 2PM UTC 🎉
After receiving 4K+ applications - we are so excited to welcome selected hackers around the world for this global movement 🇧🇷🇦🇷🇨🇱🇧🇴🇵🇪🇪🇨🇻🇪🇨🇴🇭🇳🇨🇷🇵🇷🇪🇬🇳🇬🇰🇪🇺🇬🇪🇹🇹🇬🇿🇲🇿🇦🇫🇷🇮🇪🇩🇪🇷🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦🇹🇷🇦🇪🇵🇰🇮🇳🇹🇭🇮🇩🇲🇾🇨🇳🇹🇼🇯🇵
Are you ready for the kick off? Tell us what you are planning to build!
For real utility and economic impact across the continent, we must begin building stablecoins that are pegged to our local African currencies. That’s how we unlock faster payments, better cross-border transactions, financial inclusion, and stronger digital economies for everyday Africans#.. share your thoughts . #stablecoins
I have been officially selected to participate in the largest student hackathon focused on AI & Web3, co-hosted by @dev3pack, @vercel, @elevenlabs, and @solana https://t.co/QDWldvgQS4
Tim Cook just told eight billion people what the next decade is going to cost them.
He didn’t mention chips. He didn’t mention software. He didn’t mention revenue.
He diagnosed something permanent about human nature.
Cook: “Whatever you do with your life, be a builder.”
That wasn’t a commencement speech. That was a verdict on the century.
On one side, the people who make things. On the other, everyone who watches them do it.
For twenty years the internet blurred that line. You could scroll, react, repost, and convince yourself you were participating.
Artificial intelligence just closed that window. Permanently.
If your reflex is to consume, AI will feed you content until you are perfectly, comfortably irrelevant.
If your reflex is to build, AI just handed you the output of a thousand engineers on a single screen.
Same technology. Opposite trajectories. The fork happens the second you touch it.
This is the most lopsided advantage ever given to ordinary people.
One person with the right architecture now ships what entire departments couldn’t build three years ago.
One creator with the right process now produces what agencies billed seven figures for.
The leverage is not marginal. It is generational.
And it only compounds if your default setting is creation.
Cook: “The best founders… spend most of their time building, piece by piece.”
Not theorizing. Not consuming someone else’s roadmap. Not waiting for the perfect model to arrive.
Stacking. Quietly. Relentlessly. Brick by brick while the crowd argues about whether the building is even real.
The gap between the person building and the person commenting on the build is about to become the defining fracture of this century.
Not wealth. Not credentials. Not access.
Orientation. Whether your hands move toward the tool or away from it.
Cook: “True builders believe their work will one day be bigger than them.”
That has never been more literal.
We are constructing intelligence that will outlast the species that designed it. What you lay down today compounds across decades you will never see.
The divide ahead is not rich and poor. It is not credentialed and uncredentialed.
It is the people who build and the people who watched.
You either pick up the tools or you become the foundation someone else pours.