First Place, $12,000 (Sponsor - University of Wyoming) - Token Subscription Team
Second Place, $8,000 (Sponsor - University of Wyoming) - Peregrine Team
Third Place, $4,000 (Sponsor - University of Wyoming) - WyoFlow Team
Most Creative, $1,000 (Sponsor - University of Wyoming) - Cowgirl Technologies Team
Audience Favorite, $1,000 (Sponsor - University of Wyoming) - Rawhide Team
Best Use of Technology, $1,000 (Sponsor - University of Wyoming) - Topicless Team
ConsenSys Challenge, 3 ETH - Etherize.it Team
SingularDTV Challenge, Up to $5,000 Music Festival Tickets - Top 100 Musician Billboard Team
Best for Wyoming Challenge, $9,375 each (Sponsors - Caitlin Long, University of Wyoming, Visceral Art, Wyoming Technology Business Center, JAM Escrow) - Rawhide Team, Electronic Corporate Formation Portal Team
BullPay Challenge, 3 ETH - Pokkit Team
DECENT Challenge, 10,000 DCT each - Trustin.Me Team, Shoshoni Team (Plus DECENT engineers will mentor this Shoshoni HS team), JAJNTT Team (Plus DECENT engineers will mentor this Laramie HS team)
MakerDAO Challenge, 500 DAI each - Token Subscription Team, Peregrine Team, WyoFlow Team, Trustin.Me Team, Rawhide Team, Electronic Corporate Formation Portal Team, Topicless Team, Undertaker & Petrix Team
MetaX Challenge, 2 ETH & Ledger Blue - Municipal Bonds on the Blockchain Team
Best Government Blockchain Solution Challenge, 4 Passes to Government Blockchain Summit - Trustin.Me Team
EOS Tribe Challenge, $2,000 - EOS EasyAccount Team
ShapeShift Challenge, KeepKey Hardware Wallet - Peregrine Team, Electronic Corporate Formation Portal Team, Undertaker & Petrix Team, WYO.LLC Team
ActiveAether Challenge, 10,000 FogCoin each - Electronic Corporate Formation Portal Team, WyoMesh Team
Green House Data Prize, Oculus Rift - Shoshoni Team
Unless you have been under a rock, and that is fine, Wyoming is the new place to be for Blockchain related entities. Even Kanye has staked land in the state.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sign-in, loot up with badges and swag, then check out the challenges to prep for a great weekend hacking with top developers.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Meet, greet and eat with the who’s who, speakers, mentors and developers from around the world.
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Join the excitement and hear Jeff Garzik speak as you brainstorm your strategy for winning the hackathon.
9:00 PM - 9:30 PM
9:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Fuel up and hydrate, then start your first long night architecting and developing your winning submittal.
All Night
Hack Til Dawn and keep going. Survival of the fittest. Sleep is for babies!! Power nap on the cots if you must.
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Get your grub on! Calories are starting to count. Nail your proof-of-concept.
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Ultimate freedom for geeks like us — to learn, experiment, build and master the latest technology; or learn the new WY blockchain/crypto laws. Mentor office hours
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Fuel up, meet up, check out the competition, grab some swag from sponsors while picking their brains for the win.
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Hear the latest and greatest from the man himself, Joseph Lubin, Co-Founder of Ethereum
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Dinner on the blockchain, is there a DApp for that?
All Night
Dinner on the blockchain, is there a DApp for that?
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Coffee and Monster to power through to your final submittal.
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Polish up that pitch!
11:00 AM
Wait, wait, I just have this one last line of code; DING! Commit it.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Eating on the go as you polish up that preso.
Patrick Byrne, George Weiksner, Dr. MacInnis, Arie Ley-Cohen, Joe Lubin, Chris Kilroy, Mary Throne, Mark Gordon
The moment of truth, your baby, your heart and soul — judged on the merit, effort and sweat.
4:45 PM - 6:30 PM
Collect your money, and party hearty, high fives and goodbyes before you jump on your plane home.
University of Wyoming, Memorial Fieldhouse
Adjacent to War Memorial Stadium West Stands
Laramie Regional Airport (LAR)
2 flights daily between Denver (DEN) and Laramie (LAR), 20 minute flight
Green Ride Shuttle (More Information)
Departs Denver International Airport (DEN) every 2 hours and 20 minutes from 8:10 a.m. to 1:10 am.
Driving distance from Denver International Airport (DEN)
2 hours 35 minutes
Are you coming from out of town and need to book a hotel? To book, you must call the hotel directly. Each person attending the WyoHackathon is responsible for their own accommodations. The University of Wyoming is not responsible for any charges incurred during your stay.
Comfort Inn
1655 Centennial Dr
Laramie, WY 82070
307-742-6665
Econo Lodge
1370 N McCue St
Laramie, WY 82072
307-745-8900
Hampton Inn
3715 Grand Ave
Laramie, WY 82070
307-742-0125
Hilton Garden Inn
2229 Grand Ave
Laramie, WY 82070
307-745-5500
Laramie Valley Inn
1104 S 3rd St
Laramie, WY 82070
307-742-4200
Quality Inn
3420 Grand Ave
Laramie, WY 82070
307-721-8856
Joseph Lubin - Co-Founder, Ethereum & Founder, ConsenSys
Shreesh Tiwari - Chief Strategic Officer, SingularDTV
Daniel Riddell - Adviser, DECENT Foundation
James Glasscock - Elephas Ventures
Kyle Kuehm - CEO, BullPay
Alanna Gombert - Global CRO, MetaX
Denis Carriere - Co-Founder, CTO, & Head of Blockchain Block Producer Infrastructure, EOS Nation
Kurt Wedgwood - IBM
Pawel Mastalerz - Co-Founder, Stealth Blockchain Startup
Yev Muchnik, Esq. - Founder, ESQLegal
Fred Krueger - CEO, WorkCoin
Sean Brennan - Blockchain Engineer, MakerDAO
Kari Zimmerman - Senior Software Developer, Happy Jack Software
Charles Dusek - Co-Founder, NODE Haven
John Carpenter - Co-Founder, Global Blockchain Summit
Jonathan Lehman - Chief Strategist, Government Blockchain Association
Michael 'Indy' Astleford - Director, SOCOM, Government Blockchain Association
Marshall Long - Co-Founder, EOS.fish
Daniel Cowgill - Sr. Architect, EOS.fish
Eugene Luzgin - Founder, EOS Tribe
Curtis Roberts, Esq. - Attorney, The Founder's Attorney
Mark Gordon - Candidate for Governor of Wyoming
Mary Throne - Candidate for Governor of Wyoming
Bryan Lemster - President, Halcyon Innovation, LLC.
Paul Quigley - CEO, Bloclab Enterprises
Jill Richmond - Co-Founder, Digital Asset Trade Association
Jamiel Sheikh - Founder & CEO, chainhaus
Dr. Robert MacInnis - Founder & CEO, ActiveAether
Kirk Dameron - Geomehme Vorf, ConsenSys
Viktor Bunin - Token Designer, Token Foundry
Matthew Garnett - Full stack engineer, Bounties Network
Chris Smith - Blockchain and API Lead, Meridio
Eric Tu - Blockchain software developer, ConsenSys
G. Thomas Esmay - Director of Business Development, SingularDTV
Mae Smith - Strategy and Business Development Coordinator, SingularDTV
Aaron Steinberg - Manager, Business Development, SingularDTV
Daniel Riddell - Adviser, DECENT Foundation
Denis Carriere - Co-Founder, CTO, & Head of Blockchain Block Producer Infrastructure, EOS Nation
Gabriel Cordona - Founder, BITBOX & Sr. Developer, Bitcoin.com
Anantha Krishnan - Founder / Chief Executive Officer, Aicumen Technologies Inc.
Karthik Balasubramanian - Founder / Chief Business Officer, Aicumen Technologies Inc.
Paul Quigley - CEO, Bloclab Enterprises
Conrad Benham - Senior Software Engineer, ActiveAether
Jeff Teo - Professor of Cybersecurity, Bluefield College
Dustin Goodwin - Co-Founder, Opolis
Why Wyoming (Open to General Public) - Hear from and talk with our panel about "Why Wyoming", how the Business Council can help, and to highlight BeefChain as a use case for blockchain companies succeeding in Wyoming. Sponsored by Wyoming Business Council and BeefChain. (Saturday, September 8, 2018, 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM - Live Stream Replay)
So you want to join the blockchain revolution? Wyoming’s trail-blazing blockchain bills and the path forward (Open to General Public) - Join lawyers from Holland & Hart LLP and local lawmakers to learn about Wyoming’s historic blockchain legislation and the resulting business environment. Learn the issues facing you, your technology, and your company as you try to thrive under these laws, including launching or moving your business, protecting intellectual property, raising capital, and litigating disputes. Explore the potential future direction and impact of these laws and what may be on the horizon. And learn how the technology that led to these laws is changing the practice of law itself. (Saturday, September 8, 2018, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM - Live Stream Replay)
dApp Tokit - SingularDTV will be doing a workshop around the dApp Tokit (https://tokit.io). This is SingularDTV’s rights management and tokenization gateway. We will discuss the entertainment industry, the inter-workings of tokenization, smart contract systems, and rights, revenue, royalty management, and challenges within the SingularDTV ecosystem. (Saturday, September 8, 2018, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM)
Solidity 101 - Get started with the most popular programming language for smart contracts on Ethereum. Learn Solidity syntax, patterns, best practices, and how to interact with your smart contracts from your dApp. Workshop led by Chris Smith and Matthew Garnett of ConsenSys. (Saturday, September 8, 2018, 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
Experience the adChain Registry, the First Token-Curated Registry (TCR) on the Ethereum Mainnet! - Description: Take part in a live demo of the adChain Registry dapp with Director of Strategic Initiatives at MetaX, Hunter Gebron! The adChain Registry is a community-curated list of ad-supported websites (domains) designed for the digital advertising industry. Within the Registry, members use adToken (ADT) to include or reject applied domains based on community guidelines and specific ad ops metrics. Hunter will deep dive into token weighted voting and share more about MetaX and their experience building the first TCR in the blockchain space. (Saturday, September 8, 2018, 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM - Live Stream Replay)
Creating Dapps Using a Stablecoin - Using a stablecoin like Dai as the medium of exchange or store of value in a dapp has many benefits, and in this talk developers at Makerdao will show you how to quickly add Dai to your smart contracts or web3 project. (Saturday, September 8, 2018, 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM - Live Stream Replay)
BITBOX and the BCH Stress Test - Want to create amazing blockchain apps and change the world with Bitcoin Cash? Bitcoin.com's new developer platform has everything you need to go from idea to app 10x faster than the competition. Learn about how by leveraging BITBOX, the Bitcoin Cash network recently set records processing 2.2 million transactions on the first ever Stress Test Day. Presented by Gabriel Cardona. (Saturday, September 8, 2018, 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM - Live Stream Replay)
Banking the Blockchain (Open to General Public) - Join the conversation about the intersection of blockchain business and banking. Discuss the challenges and opportunities when new technologies intersect with age-old laws and regulations. Learn what Wyoming is doing to bridge this divide from a regulator’s and practitioner’s perspective. Presented by Albert Forkner and Richard Slater. (Saturday, September 8, 2018, 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM - Live Stream Replay)
Mining Bitcoin & Other Cryptos - Truths and Untruths from a Pioneer in Industrial-Scale Mining. Presented by Marshall Long. (Saturday, September 8, 2018, 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM)