September 12-14, 2025 in San Francisco

At Frontier Tower in San Francisco, hundreds of developers, designers, entrepreneurs and investors gathered for a special cooperative hackathon that made history. 

The group collectively performed miracles:

• Launched a brand new foundational AI model that provides privacy, transparency & speed
• Delivered data tools that anyone with web browsing skills can use
• Produced dozens of useful apps across education, XR, fashion, employment and healthcare
• Created a “cognitive agent” that learned to code using advanced Intelligent Data

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With the help of our previous champion and founder of Help.fun:

• We proved a new fundraising model for nonprofits using cryptocurrency that has raised over $145,000 so far

Group, Judges and Winners

Thank you to Bill Tai, Dave Andre, Kristopher Floyd, Yasmeen Drummond, Lisa Yu and Dan Lynch for your valuable time, feedback and insights. 

Congratulations to all who presented, each of whom received something special for their work. Everyone who presented in our Idea Showcase a winner. 

The top four groups together earned 1.5% of the $developer token supply, with 1% awarded as our highest honor and 0.5% shared amongst the remaining members.

Grand Champion

Brayden Levangie

Our most valuable community member is the person who helps the greatest number of people over the weekend. Brayden not only produced the most impressive demo with his cognitive agentic framework, but did so with enough time to help countless other teams. Well done!

Best in Show

Ethan Ernst, Ray Torres, Abhay Vashist & Bella Deanhardt

Runner Up

Dan Zeitman

Honorable Mention

Sophia Dew 

Behind the Scenes

Our success as a community is a function of our dedicated team and amazing sponsors who lean in to participate before, during and after each event.

Thank you to our organizers Anna Spisak, Paula Rosales and Ken Nim. Your tireless attention to detail and wonderful spirit inspire us all. This event was the best ever, because of you. 

Respect and gratitude to all of our sponsors, especially Mitch Weller, Joy Wan and Helena Zhang who came early, stayed late and became thought partners to the team and others in the community. We could not have done this without you. 

Behind the Lens

Documenting all of this were the talented Gray Whale interns Leo Sagolla and Nathan Alvarez (known as dc3d.photos). Their tireless work during the weekend has given us hundreds of amazing photos of the event to help us celebrate this vibrant community — with lots of videos to come as well. Thank you, guys!