CryptoCanal ETHDam 2023 Recap
ETHDam gathered the best Privacy and DeFi builders for a hackathon and conference, this May in Amsterdam. A CryptoCanal event made with love and purpose, to stand up for all cypherpunk builders! 🌷
ETHDam was focused on enabling more financial privacy, sovereignty and resilience. We gathered 450 guests, 237 hackers, 67 speakers and 33 volunteers! This 29 hours hackathon, hatched 53 projects for a juicy 67K prize pool. Along side 14 side events which were hosted during the week including 2 after parties ✨
On Saturday 20th, the stage opens with the man himself, Alexey Pertsev introducing his lawyer to tell us more about the Tornado Cash case in the Netherlands.
and giving the stage to amazing speakers, panel discussions and workshops
some sharing some more personal, inspirational takes on the industry
some more controversial…
In any case, The Bow Tie Guy made sure everything went smoothly 🎀
While others were just playing around
or enjoying the food trucks 😋
or the magician
some were actually coding! ✨
In the end, at Sunday at 2pm, after 29 hours of hacking, we were delighted and surprised to receive 53 hackathon submissions! 🤩
The All Stars Track ⭐
Bob is Safe A Safe app and module integrated with zkBob to allow private payments from a smart wallet account.
Prepago Scratch off, prepaid crypto cards for bankless onboarding
Revoke.Cash Over $260M has been stolen through token approvals in the past years. Check now if you are vulnerable.
ETHDam Top 10
Secret Angels: Collusion-resistant social recovery. Built on top of Sismo leveraging Safe account abstraction.
Alpha Zikileaks: Alpha Zikileaks (aka Zikileaks) helps whistleblowers publish leaks, experts assess the validity of claims, and donors support human rights in a privacy-preserving, peer-to-peer way.
Cicleo: The first payment system to offer a mean to pay in any chain with any token and with decentralization.
ProofShake.it: An actual user-friendly way to proof ownership of an address or the assets it holds in under a minute. ProofShake.IT is a tool that is ready to simplify use and enable mass adoption of Web3.
idw3: A PoS portal facilitating private B2C transactions for web2 & web3 markets. It uses SISMO and Railgun to provide selective exposure to sensitive user details in order to undertake transactions for physical product with legitimate, verified businesses.
fusion-zk: Enabling private swaps at the best rates with fusion-zk.
Combining 1inch fusion and RAILGUN zk privacy to enable swaps at best rates that respect personal data. On Polygon Blockchain, with gasless features, fusion-zk is the step forward to connect DeFi values of open finance and Cypherpunk ideology of human right to Privacy.
Gozzip: Combining the power of P2P chat-protocol with tokenized voting for high-valued content. Can example be used for moderating FAQ as a streamer.
1inch Address NFT: NFTs allows deploying arbitrary smart contract to specific address.
aaaand 🥁
ETHDam DeFi Winner ZKPay offering a single - & multi-send private payments with integrated swap functionality to pay out in any desired currency.
ETHDam Privacy Winner 3kkie built an anonymous Tikkie: private payment requests. - a very smart spin on the very popular Dutch Tikkie.
In addition, 15K were allocated via a Quadratic Fund, in which all attendees could vote for their favorite projects, with the audience top pick going to ZikiLeaks a decentralized, privacy-focused, peer-to-peer WikiLeaks that allows whistleblowers to get reach and financial support for their publications without trading their privacy.
Last but not least the hackers had 50K in bounties from our amazing hackathon partners, 1inch, Railgun, Aleph Zero, Sismo and Scroll!
👏 A round of applause for all the wonderful teams of hackers, for dedicating their time, their brains to building beautiful open source tools for the world. Enabling more privacy to empower users and build resilience. We look forward to incubating and reinforcing this community of builders. 👏
The feedback has been heartwarming! 💌 And we heard you, we will offer more meat, fine tune the judging and offer more hacking time next year. If you have any other suggestions, ideas please send them our way here
Others have said some really nice things about ETHDam 🥰
❤ ETHDam would not have been possible without our amazing partners, our army of volunteers, photographers, magician, the team at Pakhuis de Zwijger, the Ethereum Foundation Ecosystem Support Program and the core CryptoCanal team, special shout out to Alina, Federico and Nicoletta❤
Ps: We are growing the CryptoCanal team, reach out if you want to take part in our shenanigans.
“Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think” Aaron Swartz
and another one because I couldn’t choose
“Ultimately, saying that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.” ― Edward Snowden