ETHSofia Announces $10K Hackathon Bounty and Stellar Line-Up

The inaugural edition of ETHSofia conference and hackathon is coming to Sofia Tech Park on October 17-19, gathering world-class builders, educators, investors, and regulators to drive the Ethereum ecosystem evolution.

Aiming to explore various verticals of today’s blockchain landscape, while also showcasing Bulgaria’s high-skilled development talent, ETHSofia is to combine an enlightening conference featuring visionary speakers with a three-day programming competition offering a prize pool of $10K and growing!

Over the last couple of months, ETHSofia was awarded sponsorships by Ethereum Foundation’s Ecosystem Support Program and Liquid Ethereum Staking behemoth Lido, a considerable praise for its efforts to establish Bulgaria’s first multifaceted crypto event. What is more, joining Blocksense and RavenDAO, top industry leaders pledged their support for the ETHSofia hackathon and its ambition to give valuable insights into cutting-edge technologies and empower hackers to solve pressing industry problems. 

They include:

• Ethereum-based oracle network Chainlink
• Ultra-scalable and performant blockchain ICP
• On-chain AI Agents pioneer Fetch.ai
• Decentralized data storage and distribution platform Swarm 
• Payment provider Zota
• Smart contract security firm Pashov Audit Group and its founder Krum Pashov 

ETHSofia is also poised to supercharge crypto education by getting prominent local institutions on board, namely UNWE, the university gearing up to offer one of the world’s first master’s programs in Cryptoeconomics, and software engineering academy SoftUni.

In addition to the first cohort of speakers announced in April, the conference part of the event now expands its impressive line-up with Evgeny Yurtaev, co-founder and CEO of Zerion, Will Shannon, Head of Strategic Initiatives at Lido, Qi Zhou, active Ethereum contributor and founder of EthStorage and QuarkChain, Ingo Rübe, founder of Kilt Protocol, Noelle Acheson, former Head of Research at CoinDesk and author of Crypto is Macro Now, Stilyan Mitrev, Product Manager for VillageDAO by Consensys, Chris Bradbury, CEO at Summer.fi, Valentin Mihov, angel investor at Daedalus, Pawel Zaremba, Lead Engineer at Chronicle Protocol, Yuriy Myronovych, co-founder and Head of Trading at RavenDAO, and Elena Tsvetinova, COO at Eunice. Vanina Ivanova, Marketing Director at Serotonin, BeInCrypto’s Strategic Events and Partnerships Director Lejla Muratcaus Blagojevic, Svetlin Konsulov, legal counsel and regulatory expert at Llama Risk / Curve, and Vladimir Sotirov, blockchain and financial services lawyer, will also grace the ETHSofia stage.

Go here to secure your ETHSofia ticket, but hurry up because the Early Bird tickets, providing a significant discount off the regular price, will only be available until the end of June. Make sure to follow the ETHSofia social media channels on X, LinkedIn, Telegram, and subscribe to their newsletter to stay in the loop on all the latest updates.

About ETHSofia Conference & Hackathon

Crafted as the brainchild of devoted blockchain professionals and enthusiasts, ETHSofia is set to welcome a vanguard of thought leaders and builders innovating in ZK proofs, account abstraction, AI, L2s, security, and decentralized infrastructure. The goal? Design a global, scalable free market built on open-source blockchain technology.