awesome-decentralized-communities

A list of awesome decentralized hackathons that are NOT tied to a specific blockchain.

Conferences

• BCRA : Discusses advanced applications, technologies, and theories in blockchain research.
• Blockchain Expo World : International blockchain fair.
• Consensus : Consensus is the world’s a large gathering focused on crypto and blockchain.
• Devcon : Breaking the rule here a little, because this is an ethereum focused event, but Devcon also has a layer of decentralized application building that is outside of ethereum and is a very large conference. Their focus is to push the boundaries of possibility in our mission to bring decentralized protocols, tools, and culture to the world.
• DICE : Intent to foster collaboration and work together on the adoption of a dignified digital identity between governments, citizens, and companies across Europe. Annual in March.
• Decentralized Web Summit : The Summit & meetup is a two-day event for high level discussions among leaders from around the globe working on decentralized technologies.
• European Identity and Cloud Conference 2024 : Europe’s Place to Be for the Digital ID Multiverse
• Identity Week Amsterdam : Conference and exhibition bringing together the brightest minds in the identity sector to promote innovation, new thinking, and more effective identity solutions.
• IEEE DAPPS : Facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the area of Decentralized Applications (dApps) based on Distributed Ledger Technologies, Blockchains and related technologies
• International Congress on Blockchain and Applications : This annual congress will bring together researchers and practitioners of blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies (DLT), who will share ideas, projects, lectures, and advances associated with those technologies and their application domains.
• International Workshop on Emerging Digital Identities : The International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security.
• Penn Blockchain Conference : Seeks to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the pursuit of building and using decentralized systems
• Nonprofit Software Development Summit : Community that comes together from around the world to share knowledge, build relationships, and collectively envision the future of free, open and equitable digital tools and practices to support social change. ( Annual ~November)
• Future Identity Festival : Dedicated community of identity, security, and customer experience innovators from financial services, retail, healthcare, government, information technology and other key sectors. Annual in November.
• Hybrid Identity Protection Conference (HIP Conf) : A global events series focused on helping organizations meet the identity and access management challenges that arise in today’s fast-moving business environment. Annual. Mid November. Orleans.
• Trusted economy forum commonsign 2024 : November. Warsaw. The well-known conference brands, Trusted Economy Forum and CommonSign, are joining forces to create a one-of-a-kind event focused on the digital market in Poland and Europe.
• DID:UNCONF AFRICA : DID:UNCONF AFRICA brings together local and international innovators, leaders, and activists to shape the future of digital identity in the SADC region. This event fosters innovation, collaboration, and interoperability, making a significant impact on the inclusive development of digital identity in Africa. Annual in February.

Hackathons

• Blockchain Summer Institute Blockathon : Theme based hackathons hosted by UBC
• Decentralized Identity Foundation : Hackathon hosted by the Decentralized Identity Foundation.
• Developer Week : One of USA's largest challenge-driven in-person and online hackathon
• DappAthon : Two week online hack to create dApps or migrate your existing apps by adding components of Web3 and empowering it with Web3 Infrastructure
• Digitizing Africa 2024 Hackathon : Design inclusive and accessible financial services, promote financial literacy, and address challenges in traditional financial models.
• SF Hacks 2024 : Hack in SF with this hackathon. Different themes every year.
• WildHacks : Northwestern's largest hackathon, WildHacks is an opportunity for students to learn programming skills and develop a final project in a collaborative and inclusive environment
• WiNGHacks : University of Florida (UF)'s hackathon specifically created to uplift Women, Non-binary and Gender-nonconforming students in their technology journey.
• LLM Agents Hackathon: We hope this hackathon with these specially-designed tracks can help demonstrate that we are entering a new phase of maturity and practicality of LLM agent technology where: Every developer can learn to use LLM agent technology for building innovative applications (Applications Track). Decentralized community collaboration can effectively bring the community together to build key technologies and infrastructure for LLM agents, serving as important foundations and public good for the community in AI (Benchmarks, Fundamentals, Safety, and Multi-Agent Tracks).

Programs/Grants

• Summer of Protocols : Runs a number of programs and grant cohorts.
• UBC Blockchain Program : multidisciplinary research cluster focusing on blockchain technology as a central component in investigating the broader research question “How can emerging technologies be leveraged to benefit Canadians and the world?”
• Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund RFP : The funders circle sustains a platform for academics and practitioners to better understand how open digital infrastructure is built and deployed.
• SovereignTechFund : The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure.
• NSF 24-606: Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems: The Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program aims to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance.
• Canada-UK Collaborative R&D - Innovation Funding Service: UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million for collaboration with Canadian SMEs on joint R&D projects. (November 4, 2024 - Wednesday 16 April 2025)

Venture

• Brinc : Brinc is a venture accelerator firm founded in Hong Kong in 2014. Brinc has offices in Hong Kong, Bahrain, Dubai, and India.

Workshops

• TPAC : The W3C annual conference aims to coordinate solutions to technical issues by gathering in a single event several meetings between the W3C Members and Boards, W3C Working and Interest Groups, as well as a series of breakout sessions determined by the attendees.
• Internet Identity Workshop : Unconference around user centric identity located in North America.
• DID UnConf: Africa : DID:UNCONF AFRICA brings together local and international innovators, leaders, and activists to reshape the future of digital identity in the SADC region.
• DWeb Camp : Camp in the nature and discuss decentralized web projects for a week.
• Blockchain Technology Symposium : A forum where academic researchers, industry professionals, and decision makers come together to present recent advancements, discuss adoption barriers, tackle common challenges, and explore future roadmaps surrounding blockchain and its related technologies such as consensus algorithms, smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, and distributed ledger technologies.
• RWOT : Rebooting the Web of Trust (RWOT) is a unique event that brings together professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts to collaborate on decentralized identity and trust solutions. Their goal is to support our community in generating and developing ideas that allow us to better remain in control of our assets, our accounts, and ourselves online!
• DICE : Europe's version of IIW.
• DID-based Cross-Border Identity Summit: Exploration of cross-border zero-PII KYC use cases.

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