Event Overview:

Ethcon Korea, the volunteer-organised Ethereum community event in South Korea, took place from 1 - 4 September 2023. Led by Jenna Park and a team of 30 volunteers, the event featured a hackathon and conference, and introduced Quadratic Voting (QV) to the South Korean community for the first time ever.

Event Details:

• Website: https://2023.ethcon.kr/
• Location: Seoul, South Korea
• Attendees: 235 (110 hackathon participants and 125 conference attendees)

Quadratic Voting Round:

This QV round was very special as it was the first ever, community-run round! The organisers of this round ran it independently without sponsors funding the QV prize pool. The team obtained funds for the voting pool via donations from the community. The team also implemented the round independently without the Ethereum Foundation’s Quadratic Funding team’s help - they merely forked the open source application code and customized it to their needs.

What’s even more amazing was that the ETHCon KR team managed to secure the highest voter participation rate since quadratic funding & voting was established and tracked in the past 2 years, at 40%!

Some stats highlighting the track as follows: 👇🏻

• Hackathon Highlights:
  • Tracks:
    • Open track (no requirements)
    • Sponsors’ bounties (requirements set out by sponsors)
    • QV round
  • Total participants: 110
  • Mentors: 17
  • Judges: 6
  • Projects Submitted: 37
  • Projects in QV Track: 28
  • QV voters: 44
  • QV Voter participation: 40%
  • Funding pool: 3 ETH

Timelines:

• Hackathon start date: 1 Sept
• Quadratic Voting - projects’ hackathon submission deadline: 3rd Sept
• Pitching, voting, announcement of winners: 3rd Sept

Hackathon guideline:

• Any project created during the hackathon was able to then submit their application for the QV round.