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Movement Labs unveils finalists for Web3 hackathon with $2M in prizes

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Movement Labs, the builder of a new blockchain that uses the Move smart contract language, announced 85 finalists for its hackathon.

More than $2 million is at stake in the “Battle of Olympus” hackathon. The two-month event attracted 2,100 project submissions from Web3 developers worldwide. Movement Labs said this response underscores the growing interest in Move-based blockchain technology and its potential to reshape the future of decentralized applications.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.