ETHDenver Teams Up With Kauri, the Technical Content Hub for Web3

The Ethereum community is using Kauri to open source the tools it needs to keep building beyond next month’s #BUIDLATHON

Kauri Team
ConsenSys Media
4 min readJan 29, 2019

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Building on Ethereum? Check out the full stack dApp tutorial series and more on Kauri.

Technical content ages fast in the blockchain ecosystem. We built Kauri as a devoted Web3 support structure to help the Ethereum community keep technical documentation fresh and of the highest quality. The Kauri knowledge network is a distributed environment of IPFS nodes, with authorship, reputation, and collaboration occurring on-chain. The Kauri team believes that technical content is best when it’s open source and curated by the community.

We’re thrilled to see Kauri go full-steam next month at the 2019 ETHDenver BUIDLATHON, where Kauri will be the official project submission platform. This will be our second time at ETHDenver and we couldn’t be more excited. The level of knowledge sharing, collaboration, and community involvement we experienced at last year’s event was phenomenal. Everyone was welcome and involved, new and experienced, young and old. The tools, libraries, and best practices that had been in development in the years prior were finally on display, and everyone came away with a better understanding of how to use them to their advantage going forward.

This year’s ETHDenver will be an opportunity to move beyond the market hype and get up close and hands-on with the tremendous progress our ecosystem has made over the past year. Evan Van Ness, who writes the popular Week in Ethereum newsletter, perfectly captured the spirit of the event on /r/ethereum:

“Adoption isn’t ICOs or lambos; it’s integrating Web3 tech into daily life. ETHDenver 2019 is doing just that with a fully integrated Dai payment system for food trucks, an ERC721 ecosystem collectibles game & more. And it’s free to attend.”

We’re excited to be there alongside standout ecosystem projects like Gitcoin, Bounties Network, uPort, Grid+, Rhombus, Status, Maker, Dharma, and so many more. ETHDenver is once again proof that, as Joe Lubin asserted at Devcon4 last fall: “The next killer app is a killer ecosystem.”

Discover and Publish Technical Content on Kauri

This year, as a technology provider and sponsor of ETHDenver, our goal is to help everyone understand Web3 development as rapidly as possible, and contribute to their full potential. We suggest everyone explore Kauri to learn more about building on Ethereum, while also contributing back to the collective knowledge base of articles, tutorials, documentation, and best practices.

In the lead up to ETHDenver, we encourage you to visit beta.kauri.io and offer feedback on knowledge gaps. You can discover articles via our “Discover” page, and curate any set of articles into a collection of your own.

A snapshot of Kauri’s full stack dApp tutorial series

We’d love to see community members with specific domain knowledge share previous work. You can import articles from Medium (we have a tool for that!), or contribute in any way you feel benefits the ecosystem. Be creative with your contributions! (Hint: Kauri accepts most types of content, images, videos, graphs…)

If you’re looking for inspiration, just think about the problems that you’ve run into in your own Web3 development, large and small. Have you ever spent a hackathon debugging why your dApp wasn’t working only to find out of date dependencies, a rogue semicolon, or network issues? Write something up and share it with the community so you can bail out others in the heat of the BUIDLATHON.

How to Use Kauri at ETHDenver

ETHDenver and other ETHGlobal events are exciting and educational, but we should remember that not everyone is able to attend. So let’s push the community forward by leaving our ecosystem in a better state than it was before ETHDenver.

A snapshot of the ETHDenver hackathon project submission collection on Kauri

On Kauri, you can find resources from many of the sponsors, and submit your entries at the end of the ETHDenver. Before the BUIDLATHON starts we recommend you:

  • Install Metamask
  • Create an account on Kauri
  • Take a look at the ETHDenver collection to find out more about the sponsors, their technology, and most importantly, their prizes!
  • Download any dependencies and libraries you might need.
  • Read our help section. Let us know if you have any questions or issues.
  • If you have time to experiment with any technologies before the hackathon, note any knowledge gaps or issues you encountered. There will be team members on hand to help you solve them, and you can contribute to the project to fix them, or write a post on Kauri about how you solved the issue.
  • Import your own existing content to Kauri. We have a markdown editor, or you can use the Medium importer.

We’re incredibly thankful for those who’ve contributed to Kauri and followed our progress from our Rinkeby launch in early May 2018 to now. Many technical experts from across the ecosystem have contributed, written, revised, and imported their own content to Kauri for everyone’s benefit, and for that, we are both grateful and humbled. We’re excited to be a part of ETHDenver 2019 and are invested in the ecosystem’s success!

If you haven’t already, join Kauri and the rest of the community by applying to ETHDenver today. Applications close January 31st. See you there!

Disclaimer: The views expressed by the author above do not necessarily represent the views of Consensys AG. ConsenSys is a decentralized community with ConsenSys Media being a platform for members to freely express their diverse ideas and perspectives. To learn more about ConsenSys and Ethereum, please visit our website.

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Kauri Team
ConsenSys Media

A decentralized technical support and knowledge network for the Ethereum ecosystem: https://www.kauri.io