Limone (Simone Staffa) is the co-founder of Urbe, a developer community in Italy, and the driving force behind ETH Rome, an Ethereum hackathon that is growing the Web3 ecosystem in Italy.

In this episode we cover:
(00:07) How ETHRome was built from the ground up
(01:30) Bridging the gap in Web3 hackathons in Italy
(03:50) Organizing an international event with limited resources
(04:45) The success of local Italian teams at the hackathon
(06:30) Key projects from ETHRome: Fluidkey and ZeroKey
(07:45) Tips for others thinking about organizing similar events

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Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/limone.eth
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-staffa-8b3b79158/

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LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/thekrispartner

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