​🧠 Cognition: AI & Web3 Hackathon @ EthCC 2025 💻🧠

​📆 Date: 28th June 2025
🕦 Time: 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM

​Where artificial intelligence meets blockchain creativity. Where thinkers become builders. Welcome to Cognition.

​This isn’t your typical hackathon. Cognition is a high-energy, short-format builder sprint designed to bring the brightest minds of EthCC 2025 into one room to co-create what’s next at the intersection of AI and Web3. Packed into a tight three-hour pulse of collaboration, brainstorming, and rapid prototyping, this is where minds stretch, hands code, and innovation breathes in real time.

​Forget weeks of planning and layers of protocol politics. At Cognition, ideas come alive fast. You’ll form teams on the spot or bring your crew ready to go. Dive into challenges that push the boundaries of on-chain intelligence, autonomous agents, decentralized data governance, or AI-enhanced dApps. Whether you’re writing code, sketching UX flows, fine-tuning prompts, or simply facilitating chaos into clarity—there’s a role here for every kind of builder.

​🔍 Why Cognition Is the Brainpower Boost You Didn’t Know You Needed

​We’re living in a pivotal moment. Blockchain is no longer just a ledger, and AI is no longer just a model. Together, they’re forming new paradigms of programmable economies, autonomous systems, and decentralized intelligence.

​Cognition is your chance to move from observer to originator. It’s a live experiment in co-creation where prompt engineers jam with Solidity devs, crypto economists team up with AI tinkerers, and UI designers collaborate with researchers to craft future-proof concepts.

​This isn’t about polished decks or perfect execution. It’s about idea velocity, interdisciplinary friction, and unapologetically raw experimentation. Whether you walk away with a working prototype, a breakthrough question, or your next collaborator—you’ll walk away transformed.

​🎤 What to Expect: Three Hours of Flow State

​Hack, Learn, Share, Repeat.
The energy kicks off with a sharp orientation and challenge drop. Then it’s into full-blown flow mode.

• ​Rapid Fire Challenge Launch – Get inspired with a series of bold challenges across categories like “AI Agents for DAOs,” “LLMs + Wallet UX,” “ZKML Tooling,” and “AI Governance as a Protocol.” Pick one or propose your own.

• ​Formation Circles – No team? No problem. Jump into thematic circles based on your skills and interests and get matched with collaborators in minutes.

• ​Builder Zones – A hybrid of co-working chaos and laser-focused creation. Expect whiteboards, sticky notes, raw sketches, quick commits, Figma frames, and a lot of healthy noise.

• ​Mentor Loop – Roving AI + Web3 mentors will float between teams, offering guidance on architecture, product thinking, and technical implementation. Need a data pipeline for your agentic oracle? Someone here can help.

• ​Lightning Showcases – Wrap the sprint with a community spotlight session where select teams share what they built, what they broke, or what surprised them most. The mic is open. Bravery is rewarded.

​🍽️ Food for Fuel, Not Just Thought

​You can't code on an empty stomach—and you shouldn’t have to.

​We’ve got a specially crafted hacker lunch bar to keep your energy levels high and your mind sharp. Think handheld power foods, nutrient-packed bowls, energy bars, and caffeine in every form imaginable. Cold brews, iced teas, fresh juices, and a surprise “AI Potion Shot” made from nootropics and natural boosters will keep you in builder mode.

​Refuel without slowing down, and come back to your build station better than before.

​🎁 Giveaways That Feed the Grind

​Every good hack deserves good perks. We’re turning up the volume with exclusive giveaways and limited drops just for attendees.

• ​Cognition Builder Kits – Claim yours at check-in. Includes sketchpads, marker packs, tech stickers, and a secret NFT card.

• ​Live Drops – Surprise draws for the most original concepts, best team synergy, and unexpected brilliance. Prizes include hardware wallets, AI API credits, and unreleased beta tool access.

• ​Proof-of-Build Tokens – Mint your presence with a commemorative token that shows you were there when the sparks flew.

• ​Special Mentorship Raffles – Enter for a chance to win 1-on-1 post-event advisory sessions with veteran AI founders and Web3 product leads.

​🤝 This Is a Community in Motion

​Cognition is more than a hackathon. It’s a spark station for new teams, radical ideas, and unexpected relationships. Whether you’ve been shipping for years or are just now discovering the overlap of AI and Web3, this space is built to welcome you. Everyone’s a contributor. Everyone’s a node in the room.

​You’ll sit beside open-source maintainers, protocol experimenters, academic minds, and startup builders. The collision potential is high—and intentional.

​Ideas won’t just echo in notebooks. They’ll leap off whiteboards and into your repo, your roadmap, and your reality.

​📅 Don’t Just Attend EthCC—Build at EthCC

​Cognition: AI & Web3 Hackathon isn’t about winning. It’s about waking up your inner builder and letting it run wild. If you’ve been absorbing inspiration all week and need a place to pour it out—this is your lab. Your playground. Your dojo.

​Arrive hungry. Leave sweaty. Build something no one saw coming.

​Spaces are limited. Secure your laptop, your notebook, and your spark. The future won’t wait.