What a Web3 Hackathon Teaches Us About Diversity in Crypto

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What a Web3 Hackathon Teaches Us About Diversity in Crypto
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CRADL’s KatherinePasem1 helped organize a new type of crypto bootcamp for founders addressing social, environmental and justice issues around the world. She discusses Web3athon, diversity and building with intention in an interview with danielgkuhn.

to help them better craft their own pitches and stories. Many of the teams that used these templates ended up winning because the judges easily understood what and why they were building.

After ideas were shortlisted by the sponsor chains in Stage 2, it quickly became clear that teams needed support finding devs to help them build. We partnered with HackerEarth, the global leader in Hackathons with a community of over 7 million developers, and encouraged them to find developers there. Once every team had engineering talent, we thought they would be off to the races, but we hadn’t anticipated how hard this technology is to understand.

Do you believe Web3 will run into similar issues that seem to plague other"public goods," like the tragedy of the commons, monopolization, spoliation, etc.? I love this project because there is so much domain expertise required to make this work. You need to understand how the carbon credits market works. You need to build partnerships with farmers to help them navigate this new technology. The ReSeed team has invested in the expertise required to create meaningful partnerships over decades of on-the-ground work.. They’re working on bringing fixed asset products like mortgages on-chain.

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