Greetings, friends. Today we had 3rd day of our cryptocurrency & blockchain hackathon and meetup.

I'm going to share with you some details, results, photos etc.

Certificates

That's how they looked

Preparing the event

It started in the end of our second hackathon, when we finished our second (large) meetup in Rostov (October 2017). We plan to make middle-size hackathon to test the possibility of making crypto-hackathon in small city, such as our Rostov-on-Don.

The registration for the event started in the beginning of december. We thought we could make the event in the December, but we got a little amount of registrations, from approx 20 +/- persons or so. So we decided to move the event to january.

In jan, we made a large marketing campaign with our partners, and the event got it's throttle! We fastly got 70 registrations, than 100, 150, 200. The final result on the event was 249 persons. As far as counted our volunteers on first day on Timepad.

We thought it could be large hackahon and found many partners:

• iCommunity — Android/iOS app to check the communal payments;
• AlienCloud — cloud mining and exchange;
• Golos — mediablockchain (blockchain blogging platform);
• HouseRate — blockchain-reality platform (ICO startup);
• Millionair's club— study, meetings and different programs;
• Lisk — apps blockchain platform;
• WEST Design Center — luxury furniture and house comfort show rooms;
• The World News — the world without fake news (ICO startup);
• RND Soft — software development company;
• RUSSOL — Non-commercial startup school;
• The evolution of consciousness — modern young society of active people;

How it was

1st day, we started at 12:00 as planned with our first conference & hackathon day. After 18:00 we listened the hackathon participant team presentations. There was 6 presentations total:

• Blockchain`iki
• D-Event
• КРИПТОЛЮДИ
• YouTweak.iT
• FRAN
• Благо творители

2st day, we continued the conference and hackathon. You can review our conference topics (in Russian) here: https://meta.timepad.ru/event/618269/

On 3rd day at 12:00, we finished the hackathon and let the team finish with their products and final presentations. We had the following prizes:

• Grand Prize (0) место — 2 ETH (Ethereum)
• 1 место — 1 ETH (Ethereum)
• 2 место — 5000 Golos (Golos.io)
• 3 место — 50 LSK (Lisk)
• 4 место — 2 LTC (Litecoin)
• 5 место — 1 XMR (Monero)
• 6 место — 0.01 BTC (Bitcoin)
• 7 место — 25 STEEM (Steemit.com)
• 8 место — 3 ETC (Ethereum Classic)
• 9 место — 10 EMC (Emercoin)
• Поощрительные призы — DOGECOIN for everybody who did final presentations.

Our total crypto-prize fund was more than $ 7000. It was huge enough for our Rostov region (approx 3 million persons living in the region); but somehow not large enough to attract more participant teams so we could finish the event with 10 teams or more. So we had to drop out the prizes #6, 7, 8 and 9.

The winners:

1. (Grand Prize) - 2 ETH: Благо творители (benefactors)
2. 1ETH: КРИПТОЛЮДИ
3. 5000 GOLOS: FRAN
4. 50 LSK: Blockchain`iki
5. 2 LTC: D-Event
6. YouTweak.iT

Thank's everyone for your participation. Hope you enjoy and later we will make even larger conference and hackathon!

Additional photos

They are prepared and will be published later.

Best regards,
Den Ivanov aka @SXIII