It’s midnight Tuesday, and as the summer pushes on, our team discussions about ICON’s new decentralized application accelerator program are heating up in sync with temperatures.

“How many ICON DApps are we inviting from Korea to our demo day? Three feels right, but it’s going to be hard to cut the list.”

A blockchain network is only as strong as those who build on it. At ICX Station’s San Francisco (SF) Launchpad office, home to the new accelerator sponsored by Korea’s most promising blockchain project, this principle is well understood.

Our aim is to provide seed funding and guidance for projects looking to build on the ICON protocol.

To provide the best guidance possible, we are working daily to find the best service providers. Deliberations over the best options have filled the room each day since we signed our lease three months ago.

We have also signed on several service providers that offer services ranging from legal counsel to community building.These non-technical concepts are often just as confusing and complicated as getting the code right when launching a decentralized application. Such counsel is highly sought after and often difficult to attain for an emerging blockchain project. But often it proves integral to a project’s long-term success.