Event Type

Hacker House

February 26th - March 3rd 2024, Archipelago Mansion, Denver

The Blockspace was the ultimate hacker base during ETHDenver in 2024, taking place in a historical downtown mansion. WebZero hosted different events and workshops during a seven-day duration. With hundreds of builders coming through the door, the program had something for everyone! 

kampe.la hosted a soldering workshop, premiering their hacker kit, with security engineer Rose and WebZero’s head of IT Daniel guiding participants through the process of making their very own kampela signer. 

The Polkadot bounties were championed by substrate veteran & Parity DevRel alumni Sacha Lansky from start to finish on behalf of the WebZero strike force, including other polkadot ecosystem heavyweights coming in as judges and mentors. 

The workshop program was hosted in Denver’s coziest attic; designed and moderated by “the ecosystem’s hardest working devrel force” Sacha Lansky. The workshops were constructed around the polkadot Buidlthon challenges, with other prominent educators like Bill Laboon and Bader Youssef from Web3 Foundation, Alberto Viera from Moonbeam & Tanssi, Andreas Gassmann from Acurast and many others providing further knowledge. We also were delighted to welcome Phala with Automata and TheGraph for their Multi_prover Hack Day, the Algorand Foundation and their student initiative for a workshop and lunch and the ladies from the crypto girls club for a brunch and workshop!

The hacker house featured its own pop-up restaurant run by gastro veteran Chef Daniel Forbes, who made sure all hackers ate healthy and stayed hydrated. Admittedly everyone was extremely spoiled by the WebZero F&B crew over the whole duration! We are very grateful we found so many friendly Denver natives to support our team and help us spoil our guests.

Evenings were busy with mixers or parties featuring two bars, with Galxe hosting a VIP dinner on Thursday, Aleph Zero packing the mansion on Friday before Subsquid, Chainsafe and DFG hosted an epic get-together on Saturday. 

To our team this felt like an epic band trip, complete with the polkadot bus (no candy), and we got to meet so many great builders that we can’t wait to do this again next year!