 What's up guys so over the weekend we were at ETH Waterloo the world's biggest Ethereum hackathon and we're gonna do a quick recap and obviously we got Hasib as you know he's our evangelist right evangelist developer for Block Geeks so Hasib man how was the weekend? It was awesome it was awesome lots of hackers showed up there was lots of energy in the building and most of all it's a lot of great ideas being thrown around by the finalists including the other the other hackers that were there as well yeah and also the some of the talks the technical sessions that were given by like Parity and X and like Tinderman and all those guys I thought those were really great yeah one that really stood out to me was the Parity technical session on some of their reactive JavaScript Ethereum APIs and as you know reactive programming is you know a paradigm that's picking up really fast and it was really cool to see you know libraries that developers can actually use to build their apps yeah anything else listed out to you watch to your Uport representation so what did you like about it so Uport I thought was really cool in the sense that you know sovereign self-identity giving users control over their data and their identity online and the implications that's gonna have and this was the first time that I had actually seen a demo of you know a self-identity app so Uport I thought was was super cool in that sense because that's supposed to be like the killer app that actually brings mainstream adoption to the blockchain so I thought that was really awesome anything else I also thought the blockchain panel with Vitalik was really great as well as his opening his opening keynote you know just bringing you know clarity to some of the privacy techniques and some of the new sort of math and sort of ring signatures ring signatures exactly like super cool stuff and like the different applications of that and the problems that that can help us solve that we have today in building our apps so I mean I thought that was just like wonderful wonderful information and yeah we'll be we'll be creating courses on that as well beautiful did you see any cool projects with the hackers in residence over there yeah so I actually checked out the closing ceremonies with the finalists you know third eye obviously was the winner and they had a really interesting idea they're kind of monetizing like code review so you know developers want to create smart contracts but we want to make sure that they're secure and that they can't be hacked so typically you know to maintain code quality we do code reviews right but this is kind of like an incentivized code review so exactly so you upload your source code and you can stake some ether for it and you let other developers come in and point out bugs to you and you know if it is a valid bug you can give some of that ether that you state as a reward to that develops good yeah I thought that was great in terms of you know improving the code quality and the ecosystem and also just the new way to monetize for developers because in traditional code review systems you're kind of depending on people's generosity or them being paid a salary to actually look at your code but in this case people have actual monetary rewards for helping improve the ecosystem which I think is wonderful cool any other ones you liked I also thought what was some other pocket was really cool which was like this sort of game between children and their parents where parents can sort of control how their children spend their money and it's sort of a gamification of that so it's a way to introduce you know kids to you know first of all ethereum and and just getting them used to it getting them used to crypto because you know they are the future they are going to be the mainstream adopters the mainstream users of ethereum so I thought that was absolutely wonderful that they were able to combine sort of the financial sensibilities as well as crypto as well as like a game between children and parents I thought that was really really great did you have any surprising takeaways from the weekend anything kind of like took you by surprise would you say surprise takeaways or unexpected well one idea that thought was kind of unexpected and like that thought would have like a high impact and it's like a very obvious problem today was this group of hackers from the US who created this sort of decentralized exchange for healthcare services so right now is you know like the American healthcare system is going through you know a lot of you could say turbulence so these guys created a platform where you know people offering healthcare services like hospitals who are offering like x-rays you know they can sell they can sell tokens for each x-ray right and doctors who run clinics and need x-rays for their patients they can buy those tokens and sort of buy those services from the hospital directly without needing any you know intermediary insurance companies or anybody really so I thought that was really profound and I thought that that could have a really high impact with with healthcare which is you know obviously affects all of it so I thought that was really great as well cool yeah so if you had to summarize your thoughts for each one of you what would it be I mean it's like super exciting stuff but yeah at the end of it is like despite you know the volume of ideas it's the number of people that were there like it's still day one so the beginning it's still day one so there's there's so much more to come and yeah I'm super excited for it awesome well thanks brother yeah thank you all right guys if you have any questions leave a comment below this video and we'll see you guys soon peace