LayerX Monthly Report – February 2024

Ah, February—the month that somehow manages to feel short, yet lengthy. This was a productive month for LayerX, filled with a lot of behind-the-scenes work and collaborations. Let’s take a look back at February’s key highlights.

LayerX

Team Spotlight with Mário Ribeiro Alves, CEO at LayerX

The Team Spotlight is our content series where we bring our team to the frontline and share a bit about the amazing people that make LayerX. In February, we brought Mário, CEO at LayerX, to the spotlight to learn what it’s like to be an entrepreneur in the web3 ecosystem and steer LayerX on its journey of growth.

Read the full article here.

iExec series on the LayerX Academy

iExec is a blockchain company that is leading the way in Privacy-Enhancing Marketing, a new approach to marketing that prioritizes user privacy and consent. iExec will soon host an online hackathon to give builders hands-on experience with its innovative tech stack.

In the LayerX Academy, you’ll learn about these tools and how iExec is combining blockchain and confidential computing to build future-proof marketing on web3. Here are the topics you can dive into:

TAIKAI

Top 10 web3 events for 2024

Web3 and blockchain are one of the most cooperative ecosystems in the world, with the community and industry leaders coming together in organized events and conferences to drive forward the awareness and growth of decentralized solutions.

2024 is already in full swing, and we’ve decided to bring you the top 10 web3 and blockchain events happening globally this year so you can stay ahead of the curve.

🌐 Check the full list of web3 events for 2024.

Release of TAIKAI 3.11.1

This month we rolled out TAIKAI 3.11 which brings new features and various improvements to the platform.

In this version, our focus was on enhancing security measures, optimizing user experience, and refining our backend infrastructure. These improvements represent our commitment to providing a secure, efficient, and user-friendly platform for our community and enable both hackathon participants and organizers to have the best experience possible.

As always, please feel free to share your feedback with us so we can keep improving 🫶

Starkware Winter Hackathon comes to an end

All good things come to an end, and so did the Starkware Winter Hackathon.

The results and winners were announced, showing off many projects brimming with talent and creativity.

The winning projects spanned a wide range in terms of scope, technology used, and innovative approaches to address the challenges proposed by Starkware and each of the sponsored tracks. From price prediction bots to web3 games, and coffee monsters, the hackathon had it all.

To help you inspire for your next hackathon, we invite you to explore the winning projects of this challenge 🏆

Web3 hackathons for everyone!

2024 is starting strong, and we’re proud to be hosting so many web3 hackathons. This success reflects the strategy we have been implementing in recent months, and it's now coming to fruition.

Visit the TAIKAI Hackathon page to explore the upcoming challenges, where you’ll have the opportunity to learn from leading blockchain developers and work on projects that address the inherent challenges in web2 and centralized industries.

Explore upcoming web3 hackathons.

Bepro

Late last month, we released Bepro 2.19, a significant update to the Bepro UI that had been in development for some time. Following this release, we have been actively monitoring the platform and addressing a few minor bugs that emerged.

Additionally, as highlighted in our last Roadmap Talk, our current focus is on grant program applications. We believe these grants could attract large-scale projects and their communities to Bepro. Rest assured, as soon as we have updates on this end, you’ll be the first to know :)

What's coming?

We work continuously on bringing more high-quality hackathons to our community and, of course, on improving the user experience of both participants and organizers. Next month will be no different and we will continue our efforts to make the user experience even better for everyone involved. There is some upcoming news we are very excited about and looking forward to sharing with you, but that will have to wait for the official announcement next month!

For now, come and join our Discord so you won't miss any of the exciting news and sneak peeks of everything we're preparing!