ETHIndia Hackathon by Devfolio and ETHGlobal was a blast! More than 300 hackers headed to the MLR Convention in Bangalore, India’s ‘Silicon Valley’, to hack for 36 hours and compete for over $11,000 in bounty prizes. Kyber was a sponsor along with other well-known projects in the Ethereum space such as Matic, Lendroid, NuCypher, Aztec, Torus, Aave, ENS, QuikNode, and DAOstack.

ETHIndia was a special trip for the Kyber team. It was the very first time Kyber had visited India to meet our friends and community there. Moreover, Kyber was part of InstaDApp’s (last year’s ETHIndia finalist) journey to the top, and they are now one of the most prominent DeFi projects today. This year, we continued to witness strong Kyber representation, with 9 projects using our protocol. One project was among the 6 winners, and another received an honourable mention!

Overall, it was amazing to see the composability of different blockchain systems and protocols in action through the variety of quality submissions. The passion and talent of the developer community in India is a big inspiration to us all.

Key Highlights

On the first day, we were overwhelmed by the sheer number of community members that came to the conference and dropped by the Kyber booth. We were touched to hear that some of them had travelled long distances to attend the talks and to meet the Kyber team and other projects.

Introduction to Kyber Network

Before the official start of the hackathon, Kyber developer Desmond conducted a 30 minute presentation about Kyber, and how it provided on-chain liquidity for the decentralized economy. He covered the different reserve types that are currently plugged into Kyber, and highlighted some issues to consider when designing DApps.

Kyber Technical Workshop

Anton also demonstrated the various ways to quickly integrate projects with Kyber’s liquidity protocol. This included showing our Workshop Repository, teaching hackers how to incorporate Kyber’s smart contract into their own, how to use web3 to interact with Kyber’s smart contract, and how to utilize the widget generator to easily accept token payments in their website or application within minutes.

Full house at ETHIndia!

Of course, an Ethereum hackathon isn’t complete without grabbing some Kyber SWAG. Our new ‘I am Satoshi Nakamoto’ shirts were a hit at ETHIndia, and we gave out 200 special promo e-gift cards, which meant another 200 users learnt how to swap tokens in a fast, simple, and secure way through KyberSwap.com!