Recorded 96 AI x Crypto projects during developer activity in the last 2 months of 2025, focusing on autonomous trading agents, x402-powered agentic payments, AI credit scoring, fraud detection, compliance intelligence, and multi-agent coordination.

Reported 506 DeFi and payments projects built by developers during the last two months of 2025, focusing on cross-chain DEXs, stablecoin rails, prediction markets, and wallet-integrated payment solutions.

Co-hosted a Year-End Happy Hour event in Vancouver alongside Launch Academy and Stand With Crypto CA during the week of December 9-13, 2025, bringing together the local crypto ecosystem.

Partnered with 1inch to establish a direct developer connection channel through the @1inchdevs initiative for builders in the DeFi ecosystem.

2025 schedule includes hackathons in Taipei (Taiwan), Prague (Czech Republic), and New Delhi (India) in addition to previously announced Buenos Aires and New York locations.

MBC will fly three builders to ETHGlobal New York in June as part of a collaboration initiative.

Octav enters discussions with 2 Buenos Aires hackathon teams for potential integration and awards custom Ledgers to all winners.

EigenCloud offers free AI inference credits to builders at the Argentina hackathon for developing verifiable AI applications.

Espresso announces $5K in bounties for apps on Espresso-integrated chains including Celo, ApeChain, RariChain, and others. Octav offers free credits, CherryServers VPS, and DefiLlama API access for hackathon participants building data platform widgets.

The Buenos Aires hackathon adds Ronin as a partner, offering $5K in bounties for builders to create gaming projects at DevConnect.

The Buenos Aires hackathon features $10k in bounties from Hyperlane.

ETHGlobal hosts its first ever Demo Day on November 19 in Buenos Aires, showcasing 10 ecosystem teams with Citrea and Ledger as partners.