I participated in DEFY'24, a 36-hour Web3 hackathon at VIT Chennai. Our team reached the final round from a large applicant pool and worked in the Public Goods category.

We explored decentralization, transparency and public-good use cases rather than using blockchain simply because it was part of the event.

We did not finish in the top two. That was useful. It pushed me to think more critically about the difference between a technically interesting idea and a convincing product.