Web3 Warri Arbitrum Universities IRL Events 3.0 and Hacker House 2.0 Updates

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Greeting Arbinauts,

Introduction - web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event 3.0

I am excited to share that the web3 Warri will be hosting, for the third time, a series of Arbitrum focused university events - Event 3.0 and are expanding the knowledge and reach of Arbitrum to two new institutions (and states) in Nigeria: the University of Benin, Edo State and the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

I will be using this thread to share updates on behalf of the web3 Warri - a community of (and for) blockchain developers, smart contract developers, builders, technical writers, open-source contributors, and tech enthusiasts interested in building the next generation of the internet through collaborative learning, meetups, workshops, hackathons, and conferences.

In Phases 1 and 2 of the domain allocator program, the web3 Warri hosted a series of Arbitrum university events across three partnering institutions, reaching over 800 students, researchers, and developers.

You can catch up on our past reports and the impacts for phase 1 and phase 2.

The web3 Warri Arbitrum hacker house 2.0

We are also sharing here that we will be hosting the hacker house 2.0 devoted strictly to deep dive technical sessions and building of smart contracts on the Arbitrum chain.

This hacker house 2.0 will build on the gains and high impact we recorded in the last hacker house hosted.

We look forward to sharing the impact and updates with you.

Acknowlegdement

We are most thankful to the Arbitrum DAO and @SEEDGov team ( @JoJo ) for reviewing and approving our proposal.

What next?

Keep an eye on this thread as we will be using it to share updates and reports as we execute each milestone.

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Milestone 01 Update - Pre-event Onsite Campus Campaigns

Executive Summary

We are sharing here this week’s report and updates on the upcoming web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event 3.0 - the pre-event activation, and onsite campaigns across the higher institutions and universities.

We have commenced onsite campaigns across three of the five higher institutions where we will be hosting the Arbitrum University Event.

As mentioned last week, we published the blog post announcing the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event 3.0. This announcement was also shared on X (formerly Twitter).

Full onsite campus campaigns across three institutions have began and ongoing. These institutions include:

1. The Petroleum Training Institute - PTI, Effurun-Warri, Delta State.
2. The Delta State University - DELSU, Abraka.
3. The University of Benin - UNIBEN, Edo State.

Implementation

Core Team and Volunteers Strategic Meeting and Retreat

The web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event 3.0 expands to two additional institutions (and states in Nigeria) - The University of Benin - UNIBEN - Edo State and the University of Port Harcourt - UNIPORT - Rivers State.

And as part of the general plans towards the success of the event (one of our major KPIs), the web3 Warri team organized a strategic core team and volunteers hybrid (onsite and remote for those in other states) retreat. The retreat was to ensure that we achieve an impactful Arbitrum University event, surpassing our previous records.

We had 20 members of the team join the meeting - 12 onsite and 8 virtual attendees. See the tweet here and here.

Meetings with the partnering institutions.

Also part of the KPI for this milestone was meetings with the partnering institutions.

Onsite Campus Campaign at the University of Benin - UNIBEN, Edo State

We began pre-event onsite campaign at the University of Benin on Monday May 5, 2025.

We made a courtesy call to the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, of the University of Benin, Professor Emmanuel A Ogujor, . Sharing our vision for the web3 Warri and the upcoming Arbitrum University Event with him.

We also shared Arbitrum’s goals for institutional initiatives - bridging the gap between academia and the industry via the Arbitrum University events and the opportunities for students of the institution to become Arbitrum Ambassadors.

In his remarks, he thanked us for bringing Arbitrum to the school and look forward to the Arbitrum University Event.

We also met the with other staff members of the University of Benin, including senior lecturers, Faculty members, and student course advisers.

Next, we began the onsite campaigns within the school, addressing students in their various classrooms, sharing the informational fliers, and finding out from some of the students who agreed to speak on camera about what they think or know about blockchain, web3, and Arbitrum. This was a fun and revealing campaign exercise.

See what some of them think about blockchain in this Video.

A summary video from the ongoing campaign at the University of Benin.

web3 Warri Live In UNIBEN

Onsite Campus Campaign at the Delta State University - DELSU, Abraka, Delta State.

The web3 Warri team was at DELSU to begin the onsite campaign.

Like we did in UNIBEN, we paid courtesy calls to the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Prof. Augustine O., the head of the department of Computer Science, the staff Adviser, and proceeded to campaign on campus.

Campaigns at the Petroleum Training Institute - PTI

We commenced campaigns on April 30, 2025 at the Petroleum Training Institute PTI. We also paid a courtesy call to the Head of the Department of Computer Science.

And began the onsite campaign at the institutions.

Summary

Team members in these institutions - UNIBEN, PTI, DELSU - are currently ongoing with the onsite campaigns.

The other campaigns in the remaining two institutions will commence later as they are currently writing exams. We will be proceeding at the point with the organizing of the first two Arbitrum IRL events - starting with UNIBEN on Friday May 23 and DELSU on June 6, 2025

And as mentioned in our proposal, these campaigns will run simultaneously across schools as we execute the next milestone - hosting the IRL university event.

We will continue to update this milestone until the end of the university’s IRL events.

Acknowlegdement

We are most thankful to the Arbitrum DAO and @SEEDGov team ( @JoJo ) for reviewing and approving our proposal.

What next?

Keep an eye on this thread as we will be using it to share updates and reports as we execute each milestone.

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Milestone 2 Report - The Arbitrum University Event 3.0 at the University of Benin, Nigeria

Here’s a report of the web3 Warri @Arbitrum University event that held on Friday, May 23, 2025 at the University of Benin - UNIBEN, Edo State, Nigeria.

Though our third in the series of IRL Arbitrum-focused universities event, this was our first event at UNIBEN. And by extension, our expansion into the University and bringing the knowledge of Arbitrum to the university and a new state in Nigeria.

The Event had 205 people in attendance, including some professors and faculty members of the university.

Attendance

Amongst some of the goals we set out to achieve at this event and in our proposal was to have a minimum attendance of 150 persons and a max of 200 persons comprising students, researchers, developers, and anyone interested in blockchain technology and Arbitrum.

We also set out to use this event to introduce Arbitrum and bridge the gap between the industry and academia - one of the key goals of the Arbitrum. We are thankful that we had a strong representation from the academic lecturing body at the event.

Not only did we surpass the number of 200 attendees. We had 205 in attendance.

We also had a strong representation of the academic lecturers and professors at the event.

In the run up to hitting this number, we printed and distributing 1000 fliers as part of an intense Arbitrum evangelism for the event across the institution. Including courtesy visits to the Dean of Faculty of Engineering and senior staff members of the institution.

You can see here, here and here, for some of the intense campaigns we ran in the institution.

Professors (and staff) of the University of Benin at the Event

One of the high point (and biggest wins for us and the Arbitrum ecosystem) was the presence of some professors and staff members of the University of Benin.

We had in attendance the following:

• Engr. Professor (Mrs) P. Orukpe. The Director of the Advanced Digital Engineering Centre - ADEC, of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Benin.
• Dr. E. G. Maju-Oyovwikowhe. Associate Professor and Assistant Dean, Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Benin.
• Engr. (Dr.) P.N. Ogbeifun. Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Benin
• And other staff members of the institution.

Sessions covered

We spoke to some of the attendees to know about their expectations and what they hope to learn in attending the event.

Hear some of the responses here.

Some Attendees share their expectations for the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event at UNIBEN

Being our first event at UNIBEN, we tailored the sessions covered to by the speakers and facilitators at the event:

1. Blockchain technology
2. Ethereum
3. Arbitrum as the leading layer 2 scaling solution.
4. Everything you need to know about Arbitrum
5. Building on Arbitrum as a developer
6. Contributing to Arbitrum and the ecosystem
7. The Arbitrum ambassadors program
8. Announcing of the upcoming hacker house - post Arbitrum University events.

It is also worth noting that we had the most engagement from attendees in this University. They came in their numbers with notes, a curiosity and willingness to learn and ask questions.

And have even requested we come again.

Reference

You can find the link to the official event photos here. And so find some posts like this on our X handle.

You can also find here a 1 minute 15 seconds video of the summary of the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event.

Thank You Arbitrum from UNIBEN

Acknowlegdement

We are most thankful to Engr (Prof.) E. A Ogujor, the Dean of the Faculty of Engineeing, Professor P. Orukpe, The Director of the Advanced Digital Engineering Centre, of the Faculty of Engineering, and the University of Benin community for making this a successful and eventful Arbitrum event.

Thanks to the Arbitrum DAO and @SEEDGov team ( @JoJo ) for reviewing and approving our proposal.

What Next?

The web3 Warri team will be hosting the second university event at the Delta State University Abraka, Nigeria on June 6, 2025.

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Milestone 3 Report - The Arbitrum University Event 3.0 at the Delta State University - DELSU, Nigeria

Here’s a report of the web3 Warri @Arbitrum University event that held yesterday June 18, 2025 at the Delta State University, DELSU, Nigeria.

The event originally scheduled for Friday June 6, 2025 was postponed as a result of the national public holiday of this year’s Eid-El-Kabir celebrations.

We had an amazing time at the DELSU event sharing and bridging the gap between academia and the industry as we shared the knowledge of Arbitrum with 196 attendees.

And like it was at the University of Benin, we also had some faculty members of the Delta State University in attendance.

Attendance

Amongst some of the goals we set out to achieve at this event and in our proposal was to have a minimum attendance of 150 persons and a maximum of 200 persons comprising students, researchers, developers, and anyone interested in blockchain technology and Arbitrum.

We intentionally set out to use this third edition of the Arbitrum event to reiterate Arbitrum’s commitment to bridging the gap between the industry and academia.

We are thankful that we had a strong representation from the academic lecturing body and students from different disciplines joining us at the event.

What was most striking for us at the event was the recording of a substanital percentage of female representation.

Sessions covered

The sessions covered by the speakers and facilitators at the event:

1. Blockchain technology
2. Ethereum
3. Arbitrum as the leading layer 2 scaling solution.
4. Everything you need to know about Arbitrum
5. Building on Arbitrum as a developer
6. Contributing to Arbitrum and the ecosystem
7. The Arbitrum Ambassadors program by Samuel from the Arbitrum Foundation.
8. Announcing the upcoming hacker house - post Arbitrum University events.

A recurring theme of the Arbitrum University event is the curiosity (they came with their writing materials and questions), and the engagement from the attendees of the institutions. They engaged us like we experienced at the UNIBEN event.

References

A summary of the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event 3.0 at the Delta State University, DELSU

You can find the link to the official event photos here. And our thank you post on X to DELSU for turning up.

Enjpy this summary video of the event here

Some attendees from the event shared their expectations and experience of the event.

Some attendees from the web3 Warri Arbitrum University at DELSIU talked about their expectations

Next Stop?

The web3 Warri team will be hosting the third university event at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

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Milestone 4 Report - The Arbitrum University Event 3.0 at the University of Port Harcourt - UNIPORT, Nigeria

Here’s a report of the web3 Warri @Arbitrum University event that held yesterday July 16, 2025 at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

The event originally scheduled for Tuesday July 15, 2025 was moved to Wednesday July 16, 2025 due to the sudden demise of the former president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. This led to a declaration by the government of Nigeria for Tuesday, 15 July, 2025 as a Public Holiday In Honour Of Late Former President Muhammadu Buhari.

Though our third in the series of IRL Arbitrum-focused universities event, this was our first event at UNIPORT. And by extension, our expansion into the University and bringing the knowledge of Arbitrum to the university and a new state - Rivers State - in Nigeria.

The Event had 189 people in attendance, including representatives from the Dean of the Faculty of Computing, the Head of the Department of Computer Science, Senior Lecturers from the Faculty of Sciences, and a strong representation of faculty members from the University of Port Harcourt.

Pre-Event Campaigns

To hit the goal we set out for ourselves - a minimum of 150 attendees and a maximum of 200 attendees, we had to strategically run an intensive onsite publicity camoaign. Printing and distrubiting 1,500 phyiscal fliers in classrooms, including a special onsite campaign at one of the University of Port Harcourt fellowship.

Courtesy calls to the institution’s management and faculty members

We also made courtesy calls to some management members of the institution including but not limited to:

• The Dean of Student Affairs, University of Port Harcourt.
• The Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Port Harcourt
• The Dean of the Faculty of Computing, University of Port Harcourt
• The Head of the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing, University of Port Harcourt

Welcome and tour by the President of the Faculty of Science Student Association

On the day before the event, the web3 Warri team was received by the President of the Nigerian Association of Science Students, University of Port Harcourt Chapter.

He took the team on a tour of the University and shared the excitement of the students about the events.

Attendance

We recorded 189 attendance at the event.

What was most striking for us at the event was the recording of a substanital percentage of female representation.

Professors (and staff) of the University of Port Harcourt at the Event

We had a strong representation of the academic members and non-academic members of the university honoring our invitation and joining us for the event.

Some of the school’s staff attendees included:

1. The Dean of the Faculty of Computing, ably represented by Dr. H. Okparaji.
2. The Head of the Department of Computer Science, ably represented by Dr V. Onyinyechi.
3. Dr P.O. Onyagbodor, of the Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, AEB
4. Dr Bunmi O., Health Department, University of Port Harcourt.
5. Mr Stephen Success, Information and Communication Technology, University of Port Harcourt.

Sessions covered

Being our first event at UNIPORT, we tailored the sessions covered by the speakers and facilitators at the event:

1. Blockchain technology
2. Ethereum
3. Arbitrum as the leading layer 2 scaling solution.
4. Everything you need to know about Arbitrum
5. Building on Arbitrum as a developer
6. Contributing to Arbitrum and the ecosystem
7. The Arbitrum ambassadors program
8. A speaker session on “what is a contract from the legal perspective” by the President of the Law Students Association, University of Port Harcourt.
9. Announcing of the upcoming hacker house - post Arbitrum University events.

It is also worth noting that we had a very energtic and engaging attendees in this University. They came in their numbers with notes, a curiosity and willingness to learn and ask questions.

References

You can find the link to the official event photos here. And so find some posts like this on our X handle.

You can also find here the summary of the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event.

Summary of the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event 2025 at the University of Port Harcourt Nigeria

Next Stop

By this report, we have gone mid way into the milestones set out for this project. We have also reached a total of 586 people across three institutions so far.

Our next institution is the Petroleum Training Insistute - PTI, Warri, Delta State.

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Milestone 5 Report - The Arbitrum University Event 3.0 at the Petroleum Training Institute, PTI, Nigeria

Here’s a report of the web3 Warri @Arbitrum University event that held on Friday, August 8, 2025 at the Petroleum Training Institute, PTI, Delta State, Nigeria.

We had an amazing time at the PTI event sharing and bridging the gap between academia and the industry as we shared the knowledge of Arbitrum with 206 attendees.

Worth noting also was the presence of the Registrar of the Petroleum Training Institute, who was ably represented by the director of the Student Affairs department.

Pre-Event Campaigns

To hit the goal we set out for ourselves - a minimum of 150 attendees and a maximum of 200 attendees, we had to strategically run an intensive onsite publicity campaign applying the same principles we used for the other past events.

Printing and distributing 1,000 physical informational fliers in classrooms.

Courtesy calls to the Director of the Student Affairs Unit and faculty members

We made a brief courtesy call to the director of the Student Affairs Unit and some staff members of the institution on the morning of the event.

Collaboration with the Student Affairs Unit of the Institution

One of the notable wins of this Arbitrum University event at PTI was the strategic partnership and collaboration we had with the school’s management through the Student Affairs Unit.

The director of the Student Affairs unit - who also represented the Registrar of the institution - used the event to address the students about avoiding cyber crimes and embracing Arbitrum and blockchain technology as a way to contribute meaningfully to society.

He also encouraged the attendees to learn as much as they could about Arbitrum so they can embark on research and build valuable products on the Arbitrum chain.

Attendance

We had 206 attendance at the event. Including a significant female representation at the event.

Sessions covered

The sessions covered by the speakers and facilitators at the event:

1. Blockchain technology

2. Ethereum

3. Arbitrum as the leading layer 2 scaling solution.

4. Everything you need to know about Arbitrum

5. Building on Arbitrum as a developer

6. Contributing to Arbitrum and the ecosystem

7. Announcing the upcoming hacker house - post Arbitrum University events.

References

You can find the link to the official event photos here. And this summary post on our X handle.

A summary of the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event at the Petroleum Training Institute, PTI

You can also find here on YouTube the summary of the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event.

Next Stop

This brings our reach to a total of 792 people across four institutions so far.

Our next institution is the Federal University of Petroleum Resources - FUPRE, Delta State Nigeria.

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Milestone 6 Report - The Arbitrum University Event 3.0 at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources - FUPRE, Nigeria

Here’s a report of the web3 Warri @Arbitrum University event that held on Saturday, August 30, 2025 at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, FUPRE, Delta State, Nigeria.

We had an amazing time at the FUPRE event sharing and bridging the gap between academia and the industry as we shared the knowledge of Arbitrum with 182 attendees.

Pre-Event Campaigns

To hit the goal we set out for ourselves - a minimum of 150 attendees and a maximum of 200 attendees, we applied the same principles from the other past events - running dedicated onsite campaign in the campus.

Printing and distributing 1,000 physical informational fliers in classrooms.

Collaboration with the Student Union of the Institution

We leveraged our long-term partnership with the university and the student union government of the institution to ensure that the Arbitrum University event was a success.

Attendance

We had 182 attendance at the event. Including a significant female representation at the event.

Sessions covered

The sessions covered by the speakers and facilitators at the event:

1. Blockchain technology

2. Ethereum

3. Arbitrum as the leading layer 2 scaling solution.

4. Everything you need to know about Arbitrum

5. Building on Arbitrum as a developer

6. Contributing to Arbitrum and the ecosystem

7. Announcing the upcoming hacker house - post Arbitrum University events.

References

You can find the link to the official event photos here. And this summary post on our X handle.

Summary of the web3 Warri Arbitrum Event at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources - FUPRE

You can also find here on YouTube the summary of the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event at FUPRE.

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Milestone 7 Report - The web3 Warri Hacker House and Hackathon 2025

We successfully hosted and ran a five-day hacker house from Monday October 27 to Friday October 31, 2025.

This year’s hacker house is the second edition. 60 people were selected from over 150 applications for the hacker house.

Of the 60 participants selected, 52 showed up.

We had technical workshops on writing smart contracts for Arbitrum from some past alumni and the Ethereum ecosystem like Elliot Alexander of the Ethereum Foundation, Mayowa Tudonu Solutions Architect at Chainlink Labs.

The Projects Built and Deployed

Caveat: Do note that the projects deployed to the Arbitrum mainnet have not gone through security audits, also the projects showed some basic functionality and the teams will continue working on these projects.

These are the nine projects that were built and deployed on the Arbitrum Sepolia Testnet and some to the Arbitrum Mainnet.

Project Category - Tooling

These are the projects built during the web3 Warri hacker house and hackathon under the tooling category.

1. Project Name - OrbitLaunch - Arbitrum Orbit L3 Chain Registry & Deployment Platform

Project Overview: The platform/tool for registering, tracking, and managing Arbitrum Orbit L3 chains on-chain.

OrbitLaunch is a tool built on Arbitrum that allows users to easily deploy and customize their own Arbitrum Orbit Layer 3 (L3) blockchain, enabling them to “own” a dedicated chain in the Arbitrum ecosystem.

Smart Contract Live on Arbitrum One (Mainnet): 0x3a2D0ac1CD3389A6a9E842d81806A5457e0a1fA0

**Smart Contract Testnet (Arbitrum Sepolia):**0x4D7d440a869E5Aadd2b4589bAeaEbff3391a3232

Github Repo:

https://github.com/gisuals/orbitlaunch-forge

Project URL hosted on Vercel:

https://orbitlaunch-forge.vercel.app/

2. Project Name: KAIRO: Stylus Smart Contract Library (OpenZeppelin for Stylus)

Project Overview: KAIRO is an open-source smart contract library built for Arbitrum Stylus, designed to make decentralized application development in Rust faster, safer, and more efficient. Just like OpenZeppelin serves as a foundation for Solidity developers, KAIRO provides ready-to-use, audited templates for common smart contracts such as ERC20, ERC721, and access control. The project’s primary goal is to enable developers to build on Arbitrum Stylus without having to start from scratch or risk introducing security vulnerabilities.

GitHub Repo: GitHub - Team-Oracle/kairo

Project URL: https://frontend-kairo.vercel.app/

3. Arbiscan - Arbitrum L3 RPC Analytics Dashboard

Project Overview: Arbiscan is a lightweight, powerful, and self-contained dashboard for real-time analytics and health monitoring of Arbitrum Layer 3 (L3) RPC endpoints. Built with pure HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript, it provides developers, node operators, and blockchain enthusiasts with an efficient tool to instantly assess the performance and status of any Arbitrum L3 network without the overhead of a complex frontend framework.

Project URL: https://arbitrum.temonecoenergy.org/

GitHub Repo: GitHub - Lucifer-010/chain_squad: Offchain communication endpoint

Project Category - Gaming

1. Project Name: PlayRoom

Project Overview: PlayRoom is a decentralised multiplayer tournament platform built on Arbitrum. It allows users to create and join tournaments, compete, and receive automated on-chain payouts. The platform aims to introduce transparency, instant settlement, and trustless ownership to sports competitions through Web3 primitives such as staking mechanisms, event contracts, and on-chain player identity systems.

GitHub repository: GitHub - HopesonOgaga/playroom

Project URL: https://playroom-blue.vercel.app/

Project Category - DeFi

These are the projects built under the DeFi category.

1. Project Name: DeFi IdentityPass - The Reusable KYC Layer for Enterprise

Project Overview: The DeFi IdentityPass project addresses a critical challenge in decentralized finance (DeFi): enabling regulated financial institutions (banks, funds) to participate in the DeFi ecosystem while adhering to Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations, without compromising user privacy or the decentralized nature of blockchain.

Live URL: KYCGuard

Frontend GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Kvngleno/verid-key-41108.git

Backend GitHub repo: https://github.com/Kvngleno/kyc-server.git

Deployed Smart Contract address: 0x556ee8706371bE299fc88d2E6B22E52374270598

Project Category - Stablecoins

These are the projects built under the stablecoins category.

1. Cross-chain Stablecoin Settlement Switch

Project Overview: This is a comprehensive cross-chain settlement switch platform designed to revolutionize how users transfer assets across different blockchain networks. The project addresses the fragmented nature of the current cross-chain ecosystem by providing a unified interface that aggregates multiple bridge protocols to find the most cost-effective and efficient routes for asset transfers.

Project Link: https://ordeal.vercel.app/

GitHub Repo: GitHub - EmmaExcel/settlement-switch

Project Category - Payments:

These are the projects built under the payments category.

1. Project Name: SETTIX – Web3 Payment Solution

Project Overview: SETTIX is a Web3 payment platform built to make online transactions faster, secure, transparent, and more reliable. It uses smart contracts to automate settlements between users so payments can happen instantly without needing centralized systems or third-party control.
Project link: https://settl-x.vercel.app/
GitHub Repo: GitHub - Chigozie0706/SettlX

2. Project Name: LiveLedger - Real-Time Payment Streaming Protocol
   
   

Project Overview: This project focuses on addressing the critical issue of cash flow lag, high transaction friction, and centralized control in traditional payment systems, emphasizing its significance and relevance within the Web3 and Arbitrum ecosystem.

Project Live link: https://liveledger-server.onrender.com/health

GitHub Repo: liveLedgerHackerHouse25 repositories · GitHub

3. Project Name: Stablecoin Cash-Management for Corporates
   Project Overview: This is an all-in-one treasury platform that empowers any business to manage their corporate cash flow using the speed and efficiency of stablecoins. Think of it as the "Brex’ or “Ramp” for Web3, giving finance teams the power to hold, sweep, and execute mass payouts on Arbitrum with the click of a button.
   GitHub Repo: GitHub - destiny340/Maverick-Protocol20

Part of our goals is to support these teams and projects is to incubate them while banking on the support from the @Arbitrum DAO.

To have these teams come together to build for Arbitrum in five days is worthy of all the support and the need to move this conversation forward.

And now we present to you the projects built at the web3 Warri Hacker House 2025.

All teams received prizes but we also selected the top three for their ingenuity and creativity.

In summary, we had an amazing time learning and building on the Arbitrum chain during the five day hacker house and will be sharing a detailed and final report in the coming days.

Noteworthy Highlights

• We recorded 52 participants. Of this number? We had 9 females - a significant improvement in the number of female participants from the previous hacker house.
• We had a strong representation of the Delta State Government of Nigeria (comprising the legislature and the executive) present at the demo day of the hacker house.
  • The Delta State Commissioner for Science and Technology was represented by the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
  • A member of the Delta State House of Assembly was also present.
  • The executive chairman of the Uvwie Local Government (The local government of the venue of the hackathon) was represented by the executive secretary of the Uvwie Local Government.

Reference

You can find the link to the official event photos of day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, and day 5 - the demo day of the hacker house and hackathon.

Some curated tweets from the official web3 Warri handle-

• web3 Warri tweets participants arrivals
• web3 Warri Day 1 tweet
• Hacker House Day 1 Tweet
• Some faces at the hacker house
• Day 2 hacker house tweets
• Demo Day tweet

Some curated tweets from participants

• Charles Freeborn catches up with Hackathon participants on Day 2
• Charles catches up with hackathon participants cont’d
• This participants looks forward to next hacker house
• Co-organizer shares his experience.
• The biggest hackathon in South South Nigeria
• Team Harley post

Acknowlegdement

We are most thankful to the @Arbitrum DAO for the support.
Special thanks to the @SEEDGov team ( @JoJo ) for reviewing and approving our proposal.

What Next?

Per our original proposal we will continue to support these amazing builders, mentor and help incubate their ideas and MVPs into meeting the market and the needs of the Arbitrum ecosystem.

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Final and Impact Report of the web3 Warri Participation in this Domain

Executive Summary

• Name of our project: web3 Warri
• Link to our Questbook application
• Official website
• Official X (formerly Twitter) handle
• web3 Warri LinkedIn Page
• web3 Warri YouTube Page

TL;DR: The web3 Warri for the third time in a row, hosted a series of Arbitrum focused university events across five universities and higher institutions by bringing the knowledge and reach of Arbitrum to total number of 978 people.

We expanded to two new states and instituitons in Nigeria - the University of Benin, Edo State and the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

We also hosted a five-day hacker house and hackathon that had 52 teams participating with nine projects built for Arbitrum which were deployed on the Arbitrum Sepolia testnet and mainnet, across verticals like Tooling, Gaming, DeFI, Payments, Stablecoins

The tremendous support and impact recorded in this group was made possible through the grant we received.

Performance Against KPIs

In our proposal we set out to host five Arbtirum University IRL events with a minimum of 150 and a maximum of 200 attendees per institution. TWe did hit the goal with the following numbers.

• The web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event at the University of Benin had 205 in attendance.
• The web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event at the Delta State University - 196 attendance
• The web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event at the University of Port Harcourt - 189 attendance
• The web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event at the Petroleum Training Institute PTI - 206 attendance
• The web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, FUPRE - 182 attendance

For the hacker house and hackathon we set to have a minimum of 50 participanrs and a maximum of 60 participants. We had 52 partipants with 9 females. Nine projects were built and deployed on the Arbitrum Sepolia testnet and Arbitrum mainnet.

See the full report of the hacker house and hackathon.

Qualitative Impact & Community Feedback

The participants were extremely grateful for the opportunity to learn in a conducive environment and build for Arbitrum.

Nine projects were built and deployed on the Arbitrum Sepolia testnet and some on mainnet. Please see the report of the projects built here.

Here’s a video summarizing the five-day hacker house including feedbacks from some participants.

web3 Warri Hacker House 2025

Curated tweets from the official web3 Warri handle

• web3 Warri tweets participants arrivals
• web3 Warri Day 1 tweet
• Hacker House Day 1 Tweet
• Some faces at the hacker house
• Day 2 hacker house tweets
• Demo Day tweet
• Special shout out to the ladies

Please find below curated tweets from some participants and teams.

• Team Kairo Project on X (formerly Twitter)
• Another team’s thread on X
• Team Arbiscan thread on X.
• Team Playroom thread on X
• Payment project thread on X
• Team Ordeal thread on X
• Team SetIX thread on X
• Team Orbit Launch on X
• Charles Freeborn catches up with Hackathon participants on Day 2
• Charles catches up with hackathon participants cont’d
• These participants looks forward to next hacker house
• Co-organizer shares his experience.
• The biggest hackathon in South South Nigeria
• Team Harley post

Future Plans & Continued Ecosystem Alignment

Our next step is to support the developers, builders and incubate the projects built using the web3 Warri Creative Hub to help bring their projects to users which in turn will grow the Arbitrum ecosystem.

Per our original proposal, we will be writing a proposal to bring the top developers and builders as interns on Arbitrum. This is one way to help support post-hacker house and hackathon.

We also strengthen the Arbitrum ecosystem through our involvement of the Delta State government during the hackathon.

Here I took the representatives of the Delta State Ministry of Science and Technology on a tour of the hub.

Additional remarks

The web3 Warri got a significant partnership to set up the web3 Warri Creative Hub and we can’t wait to share with the community how this will significantly improve our work with Arbitrum and the ecosystem at large.

This is our most impactful execution yet.

Acknowlegdement

We are most thankful to the @Arbitrum DAO for the support.

Special thanks to the @SEEDGov team ( @JoJo ) for reviewing and approving our proposal.