announcing the judges for the zcash zypherpunk hackathon - cobie - toly - balaji - eli - zooko - sean bowe - imran khan (alliance dao) - me come build cypherpunk systems, start a startup, and make everlasting impact sponsors apply below — hackathon starts on the 10th
mert
@mert
28 Oct 2025
announcing the first-ever Zypherpunk Hackathon for Zcash what: build cool shit, win cash, start startups where: online when: Nov 10 - Dec 1 what's next: we need sponsors! to sponsor, click the link in the next tweet for builders, no action; just brainstorm until the 10th

Nov 2, 2025 · 12:05 PM UTC

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you get to present your project in front of literally the most based people in crypto (excluding me), just look at that list so many things to be built explorers, data, L2/L1 interoperability, payments systems, multisigs, wallets, protocols let's gooooo
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also would love to have you as a judge for a zcash <> ethereum track @VitalikButerin if you're up for it
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new judge since this tweet: @ilblackdragon, founder of NEAR based
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new judge: @eddylazzarin CTO of a16z crypto! this might be the most stacked lineup of judges I've ever seen for a hackathon onward
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emails now sent
mert
@mert
10 Nov 2025
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update: I'm going to delay this by 2 days because we had much more interest from sponsors than I thought if you applied to be sponsor, you'll be getting an email shortly
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Add @chameleon_jeff to that list and you probably have the most goated list possible.
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happy to have him on if he's interested as well
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This has to be exclusively on ZEC right?
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nope, can be interoperability to other chains, like a light client on Solana
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@mert would you be interested to come chat with tyler, mando and I on @fomohour?
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sure boss
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Haven’t gotten an email back on sponsorship
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will get back within 2-3 days confirmed receipt tho
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how can non builders contribute to this mission?
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advocate, write, make content
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happy to advance privacy and Zcash tech with this, thanks for running it Mert!
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I nominate the @EclipseFND intern to manage marketing for zypherpunk
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I don’t have a clue about the tech but would like to be a judge if anyone drops out
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IF YOU ARE ENTERING THE HACKATHON HERE IS SOME ALPHA FROM MERT HIMSELF (make zashi work with the seeker wallet) x.com/0xmert_/status/1985529…
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Bruh what a line-up
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You need an agent sponsor + judge? I submit Solana + Coinbase + Stripe + dozens of others backed @atxp_ai CTO @davidnoelromas. He also controls the prize purse strings
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This is awesome / will you guys stream it on X?
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this lineup looks like it could start a new internet
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You know who would be amazing on this, but maybe not touching crypto but @jarredsumner practically the goat of development to me.
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Zamazing !
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I'll be a sponsor.
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@Snowden?
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Damn quite the LINEUP!
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wooo time to shine @enkrion - zcash halo2 implementation
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I nominate @mrkit2u
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Goated line up tbf
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solid list here, hackathon for privacy protocols
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