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I came across a prayer somewhere, and since then, my mind unconsciously goes back to it in moments of reflection. The prayer goes like this:
“God show me how good it can get, surprise me with opportunities I never expected, connect me with people I never knew I needed, take me to rooms I never imagined going on my own, help me to leave survival mode and start living in growth mode, I releases every fear that keeps me attached to unproductive struggle, may my past not interfere with my future and may fear not hold me back from doing great things. Let me work in your light. Amen”
“God show me how good it can get, surprise me with opportunities I never expected, connect me with people I never knew I needed, take me to rooms I never imagined going on my own, help me to leave survival mode and start living in growth mode, I releases every fear that keeps me attached to unproductive struggle, may my past not interfere with my future and may fear not hold me back from doing great things. Let me work in your light. Amen”
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For what it's worth, the #HackJos2026 experience was truly worth it.
I've spent most of this year participating in virtual Web3 hackathons, but I decided to switch things up this time and experience an IRL hackathon.
Three solid days of building on-site, collaborating with ing ideas, and eventually presenting our work to a live audience.
It was a different kind of experience, one that reminded me how much you can learn simply by being in the room, meeting people, and building together.
Every bit of it was worth it. Definitely an experience I'd love to have again.
#HackJos2026
I've spent most of this year participating in virtual Web3 hackathons, but I decided to switch things up this time and experience an IRL hackathon.
Three solid days of building on-site, collaborating with ing ideas, and eventually presenting our work to a live audience.
It was a different kind of experience, one that reminded me how much you can learn simply by being in the room, meeting people, and building together.
Every bit of it was worth it. Definitely an experience I'd love to have again.
#HackJos2026
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Alchemist retweeted
I am excited to be moderating a session at this year's HackJos by @nHubNG
We will be exploring the opportunities, challenges, and digital solutions needed to make Nigeria's agricultural sector more competitive, sustainable, and profitable.
We will be exploring the opportunities, challenges, and digital solutions needed to make Nigeria's agricultural sector more competitive, sustainable, and profitable.
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Alchemist retweeted
If you actually take time and evaluate yourself, you will realise there is one major thing that is holding you back from achieving a lot of things and that is Ego. Not pride, Ego.
As You Were.❤️🦅
As You Were.❤️🦅
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This right here is one of the reasons X has remained my default social platform.
No matter the noise, no matter how things are going, whenever I log in, I'll always find one or two people sharing a win or celebrating something they've worked hard for.
And honestly, that alone is enough motivation to keep me pushing. It gives you this reassurance that things aren't always as bad as they seem, that progress is happening, and that with consistency, your own moment will come too.
Congratulations, @TechnicalBben
No matter the noise, no matter how things are going, whenever I log in, I'll always find one or two people sharing a win or celebrating something they've worked hard for.
And honestly, that alone is enough motivation to keep me pushing. It gives you this reassurance that things aren't always as bad as they seem, that progress is happening, and that with consistency, your own moment will come too.
Congratulations, @TechnicalBben
MY VISA GOT APPROVED!!!! After trying 3 times, i will be travelling and boarding a plane for the first time in my life!!
Master's in engineering in a top uni in Europe 🤲🏾🤲🏾 😭😭
Plus a scholarship too.
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5 DAYS TO GO! 🔥
📅 Date: Saturday, 7 November 2026
📍 Meeting Point: GSS Lamingo
⏰ Time: 7:00 AM sharp
🥾 Destination: Shere Hills, Jos
🎟️ Registration: ₦2,000 per participant
📅 Date: Saturday, 7 November 2026
📍 Meeting Point: GSS Lamingo
⏰ Time: 7:00 AM sharp
🥾 Destination: Shere Hills, Jos
🎟️ Registration: ₦2,000 per participant
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Alchemist retweeted
And we're off. NEAR HACKATHON is officially underway!
You have two weeks to take an idea, explore one of 13 tracks, and turn it into a working project.
> $250K in prizes
> Submissions open until November 14
Find your track and get started here: nearhackathon.com
You have two weeks to take an idea, explore one of 13 tracks, and turn it into a working project.
> $250K in prizes
> Submissions open until November 14
Find your track and get started here: nearhackathon.com
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Continuing to explore ways to enable normies to use agents to manage money.
Here's my full unedited session w/ @arena agent where i use a single prompt from @CoinOperatedFi to get it going with a $USDC budget on @arc. The agent is told to
1. download foundry & generate a new key
w/ the new key's address as a url param and give it to the user
3. wait for the user to confirm they've clicked the link, given the agent an allowance from their CoinOperated wallet and come back.
From there the agent can use its new ethereum key and @siweAuth to check on the user's funds, its remaining allowance or whatever else is in the api catalog.
Finally, i test if the agent is smart enough to figure out how to use the permissionless @1shotapi relayer based on @MetaMaskBuild's EIP-7710 standard to spend its allowance from the user, which it does after about 6 minutes.
TBF, i think the skills that it downloaded are to blame for the time it took to reason through the relayer call.
Take two will be having it do something harder onchain, like come back with some gains.
Here's my full unedited session w/ @arena agent where i use a single prompt from @CoinOperatedFi to get it going with a $USDC budget on @arc. The agent is told to
1. download foundry & generate a new key
w/ the new key's address as a url param and give it to the user
3. wait for the user to confirm they've clicked the link, given the agent an allowance from their CoinOperated wallet and come back.
From there the agent can use its new ethereum key and @siweAuth to check on the user's funds, its remaining allowance or whatever else is in the api catalog.
Finally, i test if the agent is smart enough to figure out how to use the permissionless @1shotapi relayer based on @MetaMaskBuild's EIP-7710 standard to spend its allowance from the user, which it does after about 6 minutes.
TBF, i think the skills that it downloaded are to blame for the time it took to reason through the relayer call.
Take two will be having it do something harder onchain, like come back with some gains.
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We all gotta self-custody our money now, can't trust anything that you can't audit with your own AI.
Thats why we wrote the signing logic for @1shotapi embedded wallet in pure javascript with no dependencies.
Hopefully the browser vendors are a little safer that PHP
Thats why we wrote the signing logic for @1shotapi embedded wallet in pure javascript with no dependencies.
Hopefully the browser vendors are a little safer that PHP
Two critical vulnerabilities have been identified in PHP, a widely used programming language that powers websites and web applications. These vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) could allow malicious cyber actors to remotely execute code in PHP core, potentially data and networks.
The FBI urges organizations to take the following steps now:
➡️ If an immediate update is not feasible it is recommended that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated.
➡️ Immediately update affected PHP installations following the guidance on php.net. Inventory where PHP runs in your environment, prioritizing internet-facing systems and vendor products that bundle PHP.
➡️ Monitor web servers for suspicious activity, including PHP processes unexpectedly launching command shells or downloading files. Ensure appropriate process-monitoring capabilities are in place to help identify potential exploitation.
➡️ If you find signs of compromise, isolate affected systems, preserve your web server and PHP logs, and report it to your local FBI field office or ic3.gov. Those reports help us identify the actors involved and warn other organizations before they become victims.
For the latest information, follow PHP’s announcement on php.net, CERT-EU Security Advisory 2026-018, and CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
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"The demand to pay with crypto is real. The gap between holding crypto and spending it is where checkout loses people."
That thesis led me to build Morva(morva-frontend-zeta.vercel.app) at the UXmaxx hackathon on @encodeclub, where it placed 2nd. Since then, almost everything I’ve built has been about checkout, from Morva to Jupa(jupa-z9gc.vercel.app) on @arc .
And the numbers keep telling the same story:
65% of crypto owners would rather pay with crypto, yet crypto is just 0.19% of global transaction value
30% of users quit at “Connect wallet”
1 in 6 crypto payments arrive for the wrong amount
10–20 min payment windows bounce late payments
$14B+ lost to scams in 2025, so people fear signing anything
Then I went through @ilblackdragon’s list of ideas he wants to see built on @NEARProtocol , and one caught my eye immediately: a universal checkout powered by intents.
That’s the missing piece. The buyer says what they want to pay, and solvers handle the chains, tokens and routing across 35 chains. No wrong network. No underpayments. No expired invoices. No gas.
The demand is already here: 88% of US merchants get asked about crypto payments. What’s missing is the checkout.
Something’s coming. Watch out.
That thesis led me to build Morva(morva-frontend-zeta.vercel.app) at the UXmaxx hackathon on @encodeclub, where it placed 2nd. Since then, almost everything I’ve built has been about checkout, from Morva to Jupa(jupa-z9gc.vercel.app) on @arc .
And the numbers keep telling the same story:
65% of crypto owners would rather pay with crypto, yet crypto is just 0.19% of global transaction value
30% of users quit at “Connect wallet”
1 in 6 crypto payments arrive for the wrong amount
10–20 min payment windows bounce late payments
$14B+ lost to scams in 2025, so people fear signing anything
Then I went through @ilblackdragon’s list of ideas he wants to see built on @NEARProtocol , and one caught my eye immediately: a universal checkout powered by intents.
That’s the missing piece. The buyer says what they want to pay, and solvers handle the chains, tokens and routing across 35 chains. No wrong network. No underpayments. No expired invoices. No gas.
The demand is already here: 88% of US merchants get asked about crypto payments. What’s missing is the checkout.
Something’s coming. Watch out.
NEAR HACKATHON is now live with $250K+ in prizes.
No signup. Just ship a public repo + public demo post between November 1st & Nov 14, 23:59 UTC.
Build on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud, & more.
Full details: x.com/i/article/2112…
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Let me be completely raw & honest with you beni, nothing in life comes easy.
Winning a hackathon isn’t just about being good at shipping a build. It’s about playing the game smart too. If you haven’t won in months, I highly recommend doing this:
1. Pick teams that actually carejust build alone in your room. Talk to their developer team. Find bugs in their tools & tell them. Show them your project before the deadline & ask for feedback. Most judges rush through demos, but if someone on their team likes your work, they will fight for you in the judging room.( This worked 99% times for me 3 different ecosystems ).
2. Use THEIR toolings, not random ones.
Judges want to see you use their tech in action. Did you use their wallet? Their code? Their endpoints or toolings? If you enter an OKX hackathon using tools built for Solana chain, you are wasting your own time. Give them exactly what they want to see.
3. Check out other submissions before submitting.
Search the timeline to see what others made. Pick the top 3 or 4 projects from returning hackaton winners most especially, ask yourself & your coding agent: Is their project better than mine? If yes, don't give up, stay up a few more hours & add a cooler feature that beats them. If your project is clearly better than the top 5 builders on your list, you have a huge chance at winning a prize.
4. Don't quit if you lose.
Don't delete your repos but double down and keep building in public. A great example is what @kenn_ronin did with Muse Mirror. When ecosystem teams see you never quit & keep improving, they will start paying attention to you.
5. Hackathons are just the start.
Hackathons are only for quick money to get you started as a founder. Build something real people actually use, even if it’s just 10 to 50 users. Save the prize money you win, focus on your one best app & attend real-life crypto events to meet people. Even getting a small $50k grant can completely Kickstart your motion or change your life.
I know it can be tough sometimes, having no money, staying up all night & feeling like giving up. But nobody who had won from the past or winning now is smarter or more special than you. Keep your head down & fight.
Winning a hackathon isn’t just about being good at shipping a build. It’s about playing the game smart too. If you haven’t won in months, I highly recommend doing this:
1. Pick teams that actually carejust build alone in your room. Talk to their developer team. Find bugs in their tools & tell them. Show them your project before the deadline & ask for feedback. Most judges rush through demos, but if someone on their team likes your work, they will fight for you in the judging room.( This worked 99% times for me 3 different ecosystems ).
2. Use THEIR toolings, not random ones.
Judges want to see you use their tech in action. Did you use their wallet? Their code? Their endpoints or toolings? If you enter an OKX hackathon using tools built for Solana chain, you are wasting your own time. Give them exactly what they want to see.
3. Check out other submissions before submitting.
Search the timeline to see what others made. Pick the top 3 or 4 projects from returning hackaton winners most especially, ask yourself & your coding agent: Is their project better than mine? If yes, don't give up, stay up a few more hours & add a cooler feature that beats them. If your project is clearly better than the top 5 builders on your list, you have a huge chance at winning a prize.
4. Don't quit if you lose.
Don't delete your repos but double down and keep building in public. A great example is what @kenn_ronin did with Muse Mirror. When ecosystem teams see you never quit & keep improving, they will start paying attention to you.
5. Hackathons are just the start.
Hackathons are only for quick money to get you started as a founder. Build something real people actually use, even if it’s just 10 to 50 users. Save the prize money you win, focus on your one best app & attend real-life crypto events to meet people. Even getting a small $50k grant can completely Kickstart your motion or change your life.
I know it can be tough sometimes, having no money, staying up all night & feeling like giving up. But nobody who had won from the past or winning now is smarter or more special than you. Keep your head down & fight.
It feels like an all time low in sentiment for hackathon builders.
Alot of builders have gone months without a win despite putting alot of efforts and spending alot on AI credits
What could be a possible solution to help these builders keep building especially when there is lack of funding?
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NEAR HACKATHON is now live with $250K+ in prizes.
No signup. Just ship a public repo + public demo post between November 1st & Nov 14, 23:59 UTC.
Build on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud, & more.
Full details: x.com/i/article/2112…
No signup. Just ship a public repo + public demo post between November 1st & Nov 14, 23:59 UTC.
Build on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud, & more.
Full details: x.com/i/article/2112…
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We need to chain Jethro, he is moving like rent is due😅.
Solid project man👏👏
Solid project man👏👏
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NIM just got a day job 💼
KhalkosPay is a mini app inside @nimiq Pay that lets you:
🛒 Buy NIM with local money (Supported in 11 countries including the US)
🏦 Cash it out to naira
📞 Do that by literally having a call with AI
🎁 Wrap NIM in giftcards
Here’s everything it does 🧵
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It might not be today, it might not be tomorrow, but surely, one day, someone will speak the truth about the Jos tech community, especially the tech events happening in this town.
And when that day comes, I'll be right here to quote, retweet, and comment.
Until then, shalom. ✌️
And when that day comes, I'll be right here to quote, retweet, and comment.
Until then, shalom. ✌️
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Who’s coming to @gdgjos2 DevFest Jos tomorrow?
Looking forward to meeting fellow builders and creatives, sharing ideas, and seeing what everyone’s working on.
If you’ll be there, let’s connect!
#DevFestJos #GDGJos
Looking forward to meeting fellow builders and creatives, sharing ideas, and seeing what everyone’s working on.
If you’ll be there, let’s connect!
#DevFestJos #GDGJos
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