WyoHackathon 2018

Visit the WyoHackathon 2018 Website for all the details about this hackathon including rules, prizes, schedule, sponsors, and updates.

The State of Wyoming enacted five trail-blazing blockchain bills during its 2018 legislative session that garnered international attention. The WyoHackathon 2018 provides an opportunity for the global blockchain community and the State of Wyoming to converge, thank each other, collaborate, and keep Breakin' Through.

Wyoming has a rich history of Breakin' Through! Wyoming has a long record of being first: The first woman to vote in the US, the first female governor, the first national park, and the first LLC law. And it blazed a trail in blockchain, becoming the first elected body to recognize utility tokens as a new form of property that is neither securities nor money under Wyoming law. Wyoming offers blockchain businesses its most favorable tax, business entity, and privacy protections.

Join 300-400 developers from all over the world in this hackathon. With the help of our sponsors, we will be able to offer an engaging workspace, workshops, and prizes as well as food, drinks, and giveaways.

KEEP IN MIND: Once you have registered for the event via Eventbrite, YOU MUST go to https://wyominghackathon.devpost.com to register your team and submit your project for the competition.

Guest Speakers

•  Joseph Lubin - Founder, Consensys and Co-Founder, Ethereum

•  Patrick Byrne - Founder & CEO, Overstock.com and Executive Chairman, tZERO

•  Jeff Garzik - Co-Founder, Bloq

•  Ken Hodler - Chief Engineer, Key Hodler LLC

•  George Weiksner - 12 year old CEO, Pocketful of Quarters

•  Caitlin Long - Wyoming Blockchain Coalition

• G. Thomas Esmay - Director of Business Development, SingularDTV

•  Daniel Riddell - Adviser, DECENT Foundation

•  Dr. Robert MacInnis - CEO & Founder, ActiveAether

•  Mark Gordon - Candidate for Governor of Wyoming

•  Mary Throne - Candidate for Governor of Wyoming

• Others TBD

Schedule (Mountain Daylight Time)

Friday, September 7, 2018

Introductions and Team Formations - Opening Ceremony

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Registration. Sign-in, loot up with badges and swag, then check out the challenges to prep for a great weekend hacking with top developers.

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Dinner & Opening Night Reception. Meet, greet and eat with the who’s who, speakers, mentors and developers from around the world.

8:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Opening Ceremony, Sponsor Keynote. Join the excitement and hear Jeff Garzik speak as you brainstorm your strategy for winning the hackathon.

9:00 PM - 9:30 PM – Sponsor Challenges

9:30 PM – 11:00 PM - Team Formation. Drinks and Snacks. Fuel up and hydrate, then start your first long night architecting and developing your winning submittal.

All Night - Hacking. Hack Til Dawn and keep going. Survival of the fittest. Sleep is for babies!! Power nap on the cots if you must.

Saturday, September 8, 2018

Hacking all day!

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM - Breakfast. Get your grub on! Calories are starting to count. Nail your proof-of-concept.

9:30 AM – 1:00 PM - Sponsor Workshops. Ultimate freedom for geeks like us — to learn, experiment, build and master the latest technology; or learn the new WY blockchain/crypto laws.Mentor office hours

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM - Lunch. Fuel up, meet up, check out the competition, grab some swag from sponsors while picking their brains for the win.

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Keynotes & Fireside Chat with Joe Lubin. Hear the latest and greatest from the man himself, Joseph Lubin, Co-Founder of Ethereum

3:30 PM – 6:00 PM – Mentor Office Hours

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Dinner. Dinner on the blockchain, is there a DApp for that?

All Night - Hacking.

Sunday, September 9, 2018

Judging and Prizes - Closing Ceremony

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM - Breakfast. Coffee and Monster to power through to your final submittal.

9:30 AM – 12:30 PM - Mentor Office hours. Polish up that pitch!

11:00 AM - Hacking Stops. Wait, wait, I just have this one last line of code; DING! Commit it.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Lunch. Eating on the go as you polish up that preso.

12:00 PM – 2:25 PM - Line up of Speakers, Patrick Byrne, George Weiksner, Dr. MacInnis, Arie Ley-Cohen, Joe Lubin, Chris Kilroy, Mary Throne, Mark Gordon

2:25 PM – 4:00 PM – Present your challenge & Judging. The moment of truth, your baby, your heart and soul — judged on the merit, effort and sweat.

4:20 PM - Winners Circle!

4:45 PM - 6:30 PM - Celebration and Networking Reception. Collect your money, and party hearty, high fives and goodbyes before you jump on your plane home.

• Comfort Inn, 1655 Centennial Dr, Laramie, WY 82070, 307-742-6665

• Econo Lodge,1370 N McCue St, Laramie, WY 82072, 307-745-8900

• Hampton Inn, 3715 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, 307-742-0125

• Hilton Garden Inn, 2229 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, 307-745-5500

• Laramie Valley Inn, 1104 S 3rd St, Laramie, WY 82070, 307-742-4200

• Quality Inn, 3420 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, 307-721-8856

OUR SPONSORS

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Founder Sponsors

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DEVELOPER SPONSORS

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INVESTOR SPONSORS

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HACKER SPONSORS

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MEDIA SPONSORS

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OUR JUDGES

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 Joseph Lubin - Co-Founder @ Ethereum & Founder @ ConsenSys Shreesh Tiwari - Chief Strategic Officer @ SingularDTV Daniel Riddell - Adviser @ DECENT Foundation James Glasscock - Elephas Ventures
 Kyle Kuehm - CEO @ BullPay Alanna Gombert - Global CRO @ MetaX Denis Carriere - Co-Founder, CTO and Head of Blockchain Block Producer Infrastructure @ EOS Nation Kurt Wedgwood - IBM Pawel Mastalerz -  Co-Founder @ Stealth Blockchain Startup Yev Muchnik, Esq. - Founder @ ESQLegal Fred Krueger - CEO @ WorkCoin Sean Brennan - Blockchain Engineer @ MakerDAOKari Zimmerman - Senior Software Developer @ Happy Jack SoftwareCharles Dusek - Co-Founder @ NODE HavenJohn Carpenter - Co-Founder @ Global Blockchain SummitJonathan Lehman - Chief Strategist @ Government Blockchain AssociationMichael 'Indy' Astleford - Director, SOCOM @ Government Blockchain Association Marshall Long - Co-Founder @ EOS.fish Daniel Cowgill - Sr. Architect @ EOS.fish Eugene Luzgin - Founder @ EOS Tribe 
Curtis Roberts, Esq. - Attorney @ The Founder's Attorney Mark Gordon - Candidate for Governor of Wyoming Mary Throne - Candidate for Governor of Wyoming Bryan Lemster - President @ Halcyon Innovation, LLC. Paul Quigley - CEO @ Bloclab Enterprises Jill Richmond - Co-Founder @ Digital Asset Trade Association Jamiel Sheikh - Founder & CEO @ chainhaus

 Dr. Robert MacInnis - Founder & CEO @ ActiveAether

OUR MENTORS

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 Kirk Dameron - - Geomehme Vorf, ConsenSys

 Viktor Bunin - Token Designer at Token Foundry Matthew Garnett - Full stack engineer at Bounties Network Chris Smith - Blockchain and API Lead for Meridio Eric Tu - Blockchain software developer at ConsenSys

G. Thomas Esmay - Director of Business Development @ SingularDTV Mae Smith - Strategy and Business Development Coordinator @ SingularDTV Aaron Steinberg - Manager, Business Development @ SingularDTV Daniel Riddell - Adviser @ DECENT Foundation

 Denis Carriere - Co-Founder, CTO and Head of Blockchain Block Producer Infrastructure @ EOS Nation

 Gabriel Cordona - Founder @ BITBOX, Sr. Developer @ Bitcoin.com Anantha Krishnan - Founder / Chief Executive Officer @ Aicumen Technologies Inc. Karthik Balasubramanian - Founder / Chief Business Officer @ Aicumen Technologies Inc.
 Paul Quigley - CEO @ Bloclab Enterprises Conrad Benham - Senior Software Engineer @ ActiveAether
 Jeff Teo - Professor of Cybersecurity @ Bluefield College

 Dustin Goodwin - Co-Founder @ Opolis

OUR WORKSHOPS

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• Why Wyoming (Open to General Public) - Hear from and talk with our panel about "Why Wyoming", how the Business Council can help, and to highlight BeefChain as a use case for blockchain companies succeeding in Wyoming. Sponsored by Wyoming Business Council and BeefChain
• So you want to join the blockchain revolution? Wyoming’s trail-blazing blockchain bills and the path forward (Open to General Public) - Join lawyers from Holland & Hart LLP and local lawmakers to learn about Wyoming’s historic blockchain legislation and the resulting business environment. Learn the issues facing you, your technology, and your company as you try to thrive under these laws, including launching or moving your business, protecting intellectual property, raising capital, and litigating disputes. Explore the potential future direction and impact of these laws and what may be on the horizon. And learn how the technology that led to these laws is changing the practice of law itself.
• dApp Tokit - SingularDTV will be doing a workshop around the dApp Tokit (https://tokit.io/). This is SingularDTV’s rights management and tokenization gateway. We will discuss the entertainment industry, the inter-workings of tokenization, smart contract systems, and rights, revenue, royalty management, and challenges within the SingularDTV ecosystem.
• Solidity 101 -  Get started with the most popular programming language for smart contracts on Ethereum. Learn Solidity syntax, patterns, best practices, and how to interact with your smart contracts from your dApp. Workshop led by Chris Smith and Matthew Garnett of ConsenSys.
• Experience the adChain Registry, the First Token-Curated Registry (TCR) on the Ethereum Mainnet! - Description: Take part in a live demo of the adChain Registry dapp with Director of Strategic Initiatives at MetaX, Hunter Gebron! The adChain Registry is a community-curated list of ad-supported websites (domains) designed for the digital advertising industry. Within the Registry, members use adToken (ADT) to include or reject applied domains based on community guidelines and specific ad ops metrics. Hunter will deep dive into token weighted voting and share more about MetaX and their experience building the first TCR in the blockchain space.
• Creating Dapps Using a Stablecoin - Using a stablecoin like Dai as the medium of exchange or store of value in a dapp has many benefits, and in this talk developers at Makerdao will show you how to quickly add Dai to your smart contracts or web3 project.
• BITBOX and the BCH Stress Test - Want to create amazing blockchain apps and change the world with Bitcoin Cash? Bitcoin.com's new developer platform has everything you need to go from idea to app 10x faster than the competition. Learn about how by leveraging BITBOX, the Bitcoin Cash network recently set records processing 2.2 million transactions on the first ever Stress Test Day. Presented by Gabriel Cardona.
• Banking the Blockchain (Open to General Public) - Join the conversation about the intersection of blockchain business and banking. Discuss the challenges and opportunities when new technologies intersect with age-old laws and regulations. Learn what Wyoming is doing to bridge this divide from a regulator’s and practitioner’s perspective. Presented by Albert Forkner and Richard Slater.
• Mining Bitcoin & Other Cryptos - Truths and Untruths from a Pioneer in Industrial-Scale Mining. Presented by Marshall Long.