Production will start today and will be ready 4 days before the event, so we are on schedule.
For the hackathon, it was decided to use the Taikai platform, where participants will form their teams and upload their projects. Once it is ready, I will share the page with the participants.
We have already had 3 X espaces where we have talked about Astar and its technology, our participation in the hackathon and the prizes, with this we are looking for an increase of users in social networks.
I am already in Mexico City, tomorrow I will meet with some communities to coordinate previous events that we can do together with Astar.
Also, the organizers of the hackathon have obtained relationships with some universities, I have already contacted some of them so we can do Astar Substrate and Astar zkEVM workshops for university students.
The director of technological development of Mexico wants us to have a meeting with all the partners of the hackathon to look at investment possibilities, I will be at the meeting representing Astar network and its benefits.
The water balls with the Astar logo are ready, I will pick them up on Friday.
We have gained more than 15 new users in our Astar telegram group in Spanish.
After everything we are putting together here in Mexico, 3 new people have decided to support Astar from their cities here in Latin America.
Mainly, I will be visiting this Monday and Tuesday three of the universities that will be participating in the hackathon. I will be teaching three pretty precise topics on blockchain infrastructure, application creation and tools, all using Astar as the main network.
It is important to keep in mind that the students who will participate in the hackathon, are pursuing careers at the end of technology: software engineering, programming and more.
In addition to this, the organizers of ETH Cinco de Mayo have already been visiting these universities providing them with workshops on the basics of blockchain.
Finally, there has been information on national television and press channels:
I wish you every success with the Hackathon. I am aware of the organized work you do, so I know that many more people will join in. Mexico will fall in love with the ecosystem.
We have successfully concluded the event! Eight projects have applied to be winners of our tracks, of which we have selected six for their outstanding ideas.
As agreed, the six winning projects of our tracks will receive only 30% of the funds earned; the remainder will be delivered once they have been deployed on our Astar zkEVM mainnet.
I am currently preparing the final report to provide transparency about the work done. In the meantime, here are some photos and information:
37 projects were submitted! Many with quite attractive ideas but with low implementation. The projects presented for the Astar tracks will receive my guidance to help them finalize and successfully deploy them.
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. Today, I’ll post more updates that have been happening 
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