Dora is running it back with another action packed APPCHAIN DAY on April 4th, as an official side event for Hong Kong Web3 Festival week!

After the overwhelming reception to the inaugural Appchain Day during EthDenver 2024, we could not wait to host another exciting day of premiere appchain content!

Discover the latest in app-specific blockchains and sovereign dApps at Appchain Day, presented by DoraHacks.

This special, one-day event will have a unique blend of showcases spotlighting the most innovative teams building on the frontier of appchain development and the very best venture capitalists, investors, and builders in the space. And it all takes place at one of the swankiest and most exclusive venues in all of HK.... SoHo House!

​​Join us for a day of discovery and meaningful connections!

Event is hosted on Floors 2/F and 3/F of SoHo House

​Mainstage Schedule
​9:00 am : Check-in Begins / Breakfast Opens

​9:20 am : Opening Remarks and Keynote by DoraHacks

​9:40 am : Panel Discussion: Why Appchains?

​Justin Wu, Ecosystem Growth — Injective

​Ben Law, CTO — Tabi

​Jess Lo, CMO — Hooked

​Denis Fadeev, Head of DevEx - Zetachain

​10:10 am : "Building services and apps with EigenDA" - Keynote Presentation by Sreeram Kannan, Founder of EigenLayer

​10:30 am : Keynote Presentation by Georgios Vlachos, Co-founder of Axelar

​10:50 am : Panel Discussion: Data Availability for Appchains

​Sreeram Kannan, Founder — Eigenlayer

​Anurag Arjun, Co-founder — Avail

​Rushi Manche, Co-founder — Movement Labs

​Ming Wu, CTO — Zero Gravity

​11:20 am : Keynote Presentation by TBD

​11:40 am : “App-rollups, why they matter and how they scale” — Keynote Presentation by Cecilia Chen, Asia Growth Lead at Layer N

​12:00 pm : Lunch Opens

​12:30 pm : Panel Discussion: Appchain Investment Landscape, Part Deux

​Tekin Salimi, Founder — dao5

​Seth Ginns, Managing Partner — CoinFund

​Calvin Poon, Executive Director — Spartan Group

​Sam Tse, VP, Head of M&A — Animoca Brands

​01:00 pm : "Rollup centric future of blockchains" — Keynote Presentation by Anurag Arjun, Co-founder of Avail

​01:20 pm : Panel Discussion: Virtual Machines for Appchains

​Alex Pinto, Co-founder — Lumio

​Ande Zheng, Core Contributor — Pyth

​Steven Li, Growth — Risc0

​CP, CTO — Artela

​01:50 pm : Panel Discussion: AVSs are(n't) Appchains

​Dorothy Liu, Head of BizDev — AltLayer

​Ranvir Rana, Co-founder — Witness Chain

​Chess, Founder — GM Network

​Henry Love, CEO — Picasso

​Special Guest from Rio

​02:20 pm : Keynote Presentation by Mizu, CMO at Susa Exchange (Sushi’s Perp DEX powered by LayerN)

​02:40 pm : Keynote Presentation by Ryan Li, Co-founder — Cyber Connect

​03:00 pm : Panel Discussion: Does Composability Matter for Appchains

​JY Kim, COO — Mitosis

​Paul Kim, CEO - XPLA

​Anil Kumar, Co-founder — Rome Protocol

​Special Guest from Persistence

​Carter Jack Feldman, CEO — QED

​03:30 pm : Panel Discussion: Real World use-cases for Appchains

​Dr. Andrew Law, BizDev & Research — IoTex

​John Patrick Mullin, CEO & Co-founder — Mantra

​Angus Ko, CEO — Zeek

​Allen Ng, CEO — Open Social Protocol

​04:00 pm : Keynote Presentation by Mo Dong, Brevis

​04:20 pm : Dora Vota Tech Talk by Steve Ngok, Core Contributor at Dora Factory

​04:40 pm : Fireside Chat with Polyhedra and Eoracle

​05:00 pm : Closing remarks by DoraHacks

​Special thanks to our sponsors:
​Hashkey, EVG, Animoca Brands, GSR, No Limit Holdings, Caladan, XPLA, J17 Capital, Bing Ventures, and Zetachain

Contact: @AppchainDay (twitter) for sponsor opportunities

​About DoraHacks
​DoraHacks is a global hacker movement and the world's most active multi-chain Web3 developer incentive platform. More than 7,000 projects from the DoraHacks community have received over $50 million in grants and hackathon prizes. DoraHacks.io has over 100,000 monthly active users worldwide. The platform offers hackathons, bounties, quadratic funding, privacy voting, and other community governance/funding toolkits. In addition, over 100 major Web3 ecosystems are currently using Dora infrastructures to fund their open-source communities.

​About Dora Factory
​The Digital Infrastructure of the Global Hacker Movement. Dora Factory creates protocols, tooling, and public goods infrastructures that help open source communities and frontier tech builders to thrive. Dora Factory is one of the fastest growing PoS validators, with over $300M in TVL. Learn more: https://dorafactory.org/staking/

​About Dora Ventures
​Dora Ventures believes in building and funding the frontier of technology in web3 and beyond. Dora Ventures recently completed the successful closing of Dora Ventures is a pre seed fund dedicated to crucial Appchain infrastructures.

​About Dora Vota
​Dora Vota is a special purpose blockchain for voting and decentralized community governance. Vota is bringing native Quadratic Funding to the Cosmos Hub for the first time. Learn More: https://research.dorahacks.io/2023/07/31/vota/

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