On April 13th, the ETH Global Tokyo Hackathon opened in Tokyo. Ethereum supporters and developers from all over the world gathered at the Digital Garage in Shibuya, Tokyo for on-site interviews, product launches and exchanges.

On the second day of the opening, some well-known projects have given speeches and introductions, and many development teams are also intensively developing. Some established projects and new teams also expressed their views on the current market and development.

ETHGlobal joint venture Kartik Talwar invited Aya Miyaguchi, executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, to the stage for a series of interviews. Miyaguchi emphasized: "The way of Ethereum is to involve these developers in the idea generation and brainstorming stage." “The Japanese work hard to learn new things like programming languages, but events like hackathons and Ethereum communities can teach or inspire people to venture into new lands beyond the limits of traditional culture.”

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In addition, some participants also organized and published what they saw and heard. Encryption researchersTaiki NaritaListed the projects and introductions he paid attention to during the conference.

Skale Network

Skale Network CEO Jack O'Holleran introduced the project through an online video. The project is a scalable and secure project with a modular blockchain, which also appeared in Messari's annual trend report. The project has obtained It has received financial support from institutions such as Multicoin, Hashkey, Consensys, and Winklevoss.

Mina Protocol

An introduction to Mina Protocol, provided by the project's founder, Jason Steinhauser. Mina Protocol is a zk-SNARK-based privacy-preserving layer-1 blockchain protocol that allows data and computation to be processed off-chain and verified on-chain. Applications (zkapps) can be written in TypeScript and supported with JS libraries and VSCode.

Hyperlane

The CEO of Hyperlane introduced that the protocol is a product based on the Modular Blockchain Thesis, which aims to solve the problem of interoperability. It provides APIs and SDKs for inter-blockchain messaging, accessible from various chains. Last September, Hyperlane secured $18.5 million in funding in a seed round led by Variant.

Taiko

The Taiko project is a zk rollup (Type 1 zk-EVM) solution similar to Ethereum. It is community-driven and fully decentralized. The project will release the third generation test network in the near future.

Superfluid

Superfluid is a project that claims to have the next-generation Token standard. CEO Francesco Renzi mentioned that the original intention of the project is to implement Web2-like services in Web3. In order to meet the real-time transaction requirements, Superfluid can realize balance confirmation every second and support multiple blockchains. .

The Graph

Graph Protocol is an open source protocol for classifying, indexing and providing APIs for data on the blockchain. The protocol is mainly used by DeFi and research institutions. Last January, Graph Protocol received $50 million in funding, backed by organizations including Tiger Global.

Safe

There is no need for any excessive explanation about Safe, which stands for smart contract wallet. While Safe’s multi-sig functionality gets a lot of attention, it also has many other features. It is worth mentioning that 10.7% (5 billion USD) of USDC is currently stored in Safe's wallet, which is a very staggering figure.

Livepeer

Livepeer is a decentralized video network, introduced by Shann, Head of Ecosystem Growth. The project solves the challenges of video streaming, which accounts for 80% of internet bandwidth; provides developers with an API and SDK; playback capabilities combined with IPFS and chain-independent development; and a new video streaming platform @Livepeer is developing.