Octant DeFi Hackathon 2025

Submission Window

Welcome to the DeFi Summit!

We'll explore 2 trends: DeFi reaching escape velocity and now being more widely recognised at the institutional level, and the multiple innovative DeFi primitives that are being developed.

DeFi trends - innovations and what we can expect in 2026

DeFi becoming less and less risky is giving ecosystems the confidence to use it to fund themselves: from marketing campaigns, to regular operations to grants programmes.

Superfluid

Founder

Francesco Renzi

Octant (octant.app)

Head of Impact

James Kiernan

Community lead

Nico Gallardo

Ethereum Foundation

Funding Coordination Lead

Vinay Vasanji

Argot Collective

Ecosystem & Fundraising

Lea Schmitt

DeFi for Ecosystem Funding

Stablecoin TVL is growing at exponential levels, and with it multiple challenges and opportunities for all stakeholders emerge.

Chief Strategy Officer

Joao Reginatto

Aragon

Ivan Fartunov

Miden

Communications Lead and Senior Advisor

Ben Schiller

spark.fi

Head of Strategy

Monet Supply

Stablecoins – Challenges and opportunities

DeFi is no longer a niche buzzword. Many people are developing a career in this category. From analysts, to developers, to strategists. We explore the wide range of possibilities to build a career in DeFi.

Stealth

Elliot Friedman

Defiscan.io

Tokenbrice

Head of Growth

DeFiDave

1inch Network

Head of Business Development

Aleksandra "Daosasha" Fetisova

How to successfully build a career in DeFi

Fragmented liquidity has been in the discussion since the beginning of DeFi. A lot of progress has been made, yet there's still room to improve here. What's been done, and what is being built to solve this problem?

DeFi and cross-chain liquidity

We've seen a surge in both private and public companies using ETH as a reserve currency. We dive into this trend to understand what happened to reach that level, and possible future scenarios.

Digital Asset Treasuries

Closing Remarks

Team Formation Session

If you missed this session, visit [cherry.builders](https://cherry.builders) to find teammates!

Head of Marketing

Mashal

Welcome Remarks & Orientation

DeFi Workshops

Spark

Head of Defi Growth

Sarah Grace

Spark Keynote

Yearn

Kalani Lead Developer

murderteeth

How to deploy a vault on Kalani (Yearn)

Uniswap

Developer Community Manager

Angela Ocando

Exploring new possibilities with Uniswap v4

Senior Smart Contract Engineer

Maxime Viard

How to write yield-donating strategies with Octant v2

Flow State

Co-Founder

Graven

How to integrate with Superfluid

Golem Foundation

Ferit

How to use Regen staker

Maximize your hackathon success with Scaffold-ETH 2! This workshop is specifically designed for Octant DeFi Hackathon participants, covering advanced SE-2 techniques and rapid prototyping strategies. Learn how to build & deploy faster and Speedrun some of the main DeFi concepts

Developer Growth & Open Source Builder

Austin Griffith

How to build a hackathon project with Scaffold-ETH 2

Deep dive on how to write QF/voting strategies

Closing remarks

In order to make your submission valid, you’ll need to do a check-in. 

There will be 4 general check-in opportunities. At least 1 is mandatory. Mentoring sessions also count as check-ins – but make sure to express that during the session!

The check-in sessions will happen on November 4th, 6th, 6th and 8th from 2pm to 4pm UTC.


Instructions

- The check-ins will happen on voice channels on our Discord.
- You can come to the check-in at any point during the time window.
- At least 1 member of your team needs to show up and provide the names AND Devfolio usernames of all your teammates.
- You can use this opportunity to ask quick questions or feedback. However, time will be limited so if you have more questions we encourage you to schedule a slot with your assigned mentor. You can find their scheduling links in the Hacker Manual

Octant DeFi Hackathon 2025

Octant DeFi Hackathon 2025

Joao Reginatto

Elliot Friedman

Tokenbrice

Francesco Renzi

Andrei Duma

DeFiDave

Aleksandra "Daosasha" Fetisova

James Kiernan

Nico Gallardo

Azeem Khan

Sandeep Nailwal

Ivan Fartunov

Vinay Vasanji

Ben Schiller

Graven

Angela Ocando

Maxime Viard

Mashal

Ferit

Monet Supply

Lea Schmitt

Sarah Grace

murderteeth

Austin Griffith

Kolten

Q B

Julio

Mmilien.eth

Matthew

Gabubu

Dayit