Global HackerHouse: 2023 Coding Oasis in China
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Global HackerHouse: 2023 Coding Oasis in China
This time, we've carefully selected six trending topics and are building HackerHouses across six different cities, hosting sharing sessions and collaborative events to co-create projects from scratch. Through brainstorming and mentorship from industry experts, we'll develop these projects together and showcase the latest results at Demo Day.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights
The HackerHouse model has matured overseas and gained significant traction, yet it remains relatively unknown and often misunderstood in China—there hasn't been a transformative opportunity to reshape perceptions and drive its adoption.
Global HackerHouse (GHH), initiated by Antalpha Labs and co-organized with Rebase, LXDAO, 706 Shenzhen, Starknet Astro, BuidlerDAO, and SECBIT Labs, aims to establish HackerHouses worldwide and host integrated online-to-offline developer co-creation events. The initiative expects to engage thousands of developers and researchers across China, ultimately selecting 60–80 creative and technically skilled participants to build together. We envision this event as a spark that ignites the path forward, injecting fresh narratives and vitality into China’s developer ecosystem!
The first edition of GHH, 2023 Coding Oasis in China, launches in August. We warmly invite developers and professionals from around the world to join us. This edition features six cutting-edge themes—DAO Infra, DAO Tools, AA+AI, ZK, Public Goods, and Cairo—hosted across six cities (Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Dali, Suzhou, and Chengdu). Each location will host a HackerHouse with workshops, knowledge-sharing sessions, and collaborative building from scratch. Through brainstorming and mentorship from industry experts, teams will develop projects and showcase their results at Demo Day.
We welcome hackers worldwide to apply for Co-Building & Co-Living HackerHouse programs in different cities and thematic tracks!
Join us now—let this spark ignite a prairie fire!
Glance of GHH in China
A HackerHouse is a shared-living accommodation model primarily designed for tech professionals—especially independent developers, entrepreneurs, and digital nomads. It typically offers shared living, working, and social spaces, fostering a creative and innovative community where residents collaborate and share resources to advance technology and innovation.
During the HackerHouse program, each house focuses on a dedicated research theme to ensure high-quality engagement. Participants connect with like-minded peers, exchange ideas, and collaboratively bring concepts to life—deepening their understanding of project development. After an intensive closed development phase, HackerHouses organize offline meetups to foster cross-project collaboration and culminate in a Demo Day to present final outcomes.
Each HackerHouse will invite senior experts who provide technical guidance or case studies based on participant needs, sparking project inspiration and offering advice for team formation and development.
For this edition of GHH, we’ve curated six key themes across different cities and timeframes:
01 DAO Infra HackerHouse
Organizer: BuidlerDAO
Location: Shanghai
Dates: Aug 15 – Aug 27
Participants: 10–20
Main Focus: The Ideal and Reality of New Forms of Autonomous Organization
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AI + DAO: Integrating AI technologies into on-chain and off-chain DAO scenarios—such as onboarding, ice-breaking, governance decisions, and internal data management—to reduce manual overhead and coordination friction. Projects could include intelligent onboarding assistants; product formats are open-ended.
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Social + DAO: Exploring unique social dynamics within and between DAOs (DAO2DAO), lowering trust barriers and improving efficiency to foster serendipitous connections among interesting individuals.
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DAO + Service: Investigating how decentralized organizational models can integrate with other industries through technical tools—empowering sectors such as creator economies via DAO toolkits.
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Collaboration Tools: We also welcome explorations of other DAO infrastructure tools—privacy voting, governance incentives, transparent financial reporting, automation, etc.
02 Web3 Public Goods (Open Source, Non-excludable, Non-rivalrous)
Organizer: LXDAO
Location: Dali
Dates: Sep 2 – Sep 9 (Note: Hackers must arrive by the evening of Sep 2 for registration and depart after the evening of Sep 9)
Participants: 10–20
Theme Overview: Web3 Public Goods (Open Source, Non-excludable, Non-rivalrous)
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“Web3 Public Goods” refer to resources or services in the Web3 environment that are openly accessible to all, where usage does not prevent others from using them or diminish their availability.
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Web3 represents a new phase of internet development—decentralized by design, emphasizing privacy, openness, and inclusivity, enabled through blockchain technology. In this context, public goods may include open-source software, decentralized protocols, public datasets, open APIs, educational content, knowledge platforms, and shared digital spaces.
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The core characteristics of public goods are non-excludability (anyone can use them without restricting access for others) and non-rivalry (one person's use doesn’t reduce availability for others).
Suggested Project Directions for Web3 Public Goods:
1. Web3 Educational Products
2. Web3 Social Reputation/Credit Systems Based on ERC-6551
3. Fair Distribution Mechanisms
4. Anonymous Voting
5. Decentralized Collaboration and Incentive Models
Important Notes:
1. Public goods ≠ Charity
2. Revenue models for public goods projects may include tokenomics, transaction gas fees, donations, sponsorships, etc.
03 Starknet Stack and Cairo 2.0
Organizer: Starknet Astro
Location: Chengdu
Dates: Aug 21 – Aug 27
Participants: 12
Main Focus: Starknet Development Technologies
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Starknet: Introduction to Starknet’s network architecture, STARK proof systems, ecosystem progress, network data, and developer community.
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Cairo 2.0: Developers write contracts on Starknet using the Cairo language. From Cairo 0 to Cairo 2, the syntax, compiler, and intermediate representation have been significantly upgraded, with ongoing exploration into Cairo-to-MLIR. We’ll dive into Cairo’s evolution, future outlook, and contract syntax.
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Starknet Layer2/Layer3: Built on StarkEx engineering experience, recent innovations like Kakarot and Starknet Stack reveal promising technical trajectories. This session analyzes how Starknet L2/L3 works and includes hands-on engineering demos.
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Starknet Account Abstraction & Contract Wallets: Starknet is one of the few blockchains with native account abstraction. We’ll explore its underlying principles and cutting-edge implementations of account abstraction and smart contract wallets.
Requirements:
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Basic understanding of blockchain and Starknet
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Prior experience with Rust and Cairo
04 AA+AI Theme HackerHouse
Organizer: 706 Shenzhen
Location: Cactus Digital Nomad Space, Dapeng, Shenzhen
Dates: Aug 21 – Aug 27
Participants: 10
Main Focus: Co-exploring Innovative Web3 Products via AA + Onboarding, AA + RWA, Web3 + AIGC
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“Onboarding next billion users”: Focused on “AA”, explore potential projects in the RWA space to onboard more new users. Under “AI”, encourage hackers to leverage automation and AI to enhance efficiency across the entire Web3 stack.
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Co-create innovative projects at the intersection of Web3 and AI, aiming to foster collaboration and innovation between Web3 and artificial intelligence.
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The synergy between Web3 and AI opens up vast narrative possibilities and immense room for imagination. Now, we want to hand the storytelling power of AA and AI innovation directly to developers.
If you want to ride the wave of innovation at the intersection of Web3 and AI, don’t miss this event.
05 ZK Research HackerHouse
Organizer: SECBIT Labs
Location: Suzhou
Dates: Aug 21 – Aug 27
Participants: 6–10
Main Focus: Frontier Research in ZKP
Description: Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) represent one of the most dynamic areas in the crypto community. Over the past three years, ZKP theories and technologies have advanced rapidly due to strong industry momentum. This HackerHouse will gather 6–10 participants for a week-long deep dive into research and whiteboard discussions. Topics may include:
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Nova folding theory and recursive zero-knowledge proofs
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Common lookup proof schemes and development trends
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Sumcheck and multivariate polynomial commitments
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Various zkSNARK/PIOP protocols including PLONK, Marlin, Spartan, etc.
Requirements:
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Demonstrated depth in at least one ZKP subfield
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Complete understanding of at least one relevant academic paper
06 Rebase HackerHouse DAO Tool
Organizer: Rebase
Location: Wuhan
Dates: Aug 3 – Aug 9
Participants: 10
Main Focus: Research and Innovation in DAO Tools
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What are your thoughts on existing DAO tools? Which ones frustrate you? What tools do you desperately need but aren’t available in the market?
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With the rise of numerous DAOs, DAOstar proposed ERC-4824—the DAO Interface—to enable standardized API access across DAOs, enabling interoperability. Are you interested in such meta-DAO concepts?
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This HackerHouse provides a short-term, face-to-face setting to exchange ideas and build your own DAO tools.
Requirements:
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Basic understanding of blockchain and smart contract languages
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Some hands-on experience with DAO governance tools
Apply now via the registration link.
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