Hello and welcome back to my blog.
This is my fourth year on this blockchain and I have never attended an offline Hive event despite living so close to Delhi. But that was about to change as I prepared to attend an event about a week ago.
This event (TRYST 2025) was a science and technology festival organized by the students of IIT Delhi and HIVE was the co-title sponsor of this event. A hackathon was organized focusing on Hive.
The coding challenge already started a few days ago and the shortlisted teams were invited to IIT, Delhi to present their projects. I was there to meet the community and see the talented budding developers who could be the next big project on Hive.
It was a three-day long event focused on promoting Hive and no better venue than a tech fest in the capital of the country in one of the biggest technology institutes in India...right?
I planned to go to the second day, the day of presentations, specifically the 11th of March. It takes about an hour from my place to get there. I had no trouble entering this place, I just had to sign up on a given website at the gate.
The only person I knew that I could rely on there was @blackheart1. He was the one managing this event along with @finfarm. You might know him from his gaming projects like Dungeon Cities and Mutera on Hive.
I was a bit late and once you enter the institute, you will see infographics about HIVE all over the place.
These were placed in multiple locations, where you will not be able to miss them. But I miss there were directions on it to reach the Lecture Hall complex. That campus was massive and I had never been here. This was my first visit. Many students in India dream of studying here but a very competitive scene kills those ambitions and dreams. I wasn't one of those hard-working students lol.
(I would recommend watching Kota Factory if someone wants to know what it takes to study in one of such institutes in India)
It was a large lecture hall where a presentation on Hive was going on. I just caught the last few minutes of the presentation. It was well put by Aryan Malhotra, the speaker and founder of FinFarm.
Afterwards, it was time for the participants to give presentations. I talked to some team members there and shared my experience of being with Hive with them. Not publically on the stage but just meeting them after the presentation. Most of them were students and freshers taking part in coding hackathons.
While many ideas were generic like Analytics tools, some were interesting. For those who couldn't attend in person, there was an option to participate virtually and present it online too.
@blackheart1 was busy with all the work and I didn't want to disturb him. We had some talks in between the busy schedule.
I was excited to meet him in person. I have had a discord interview of sorts where he was the guest speaker and we had a long talk about his Mutera project. But that was a couple of years ago. I don't know what I was expecting but one thing was sure, I wasn't expecting him to be that nice. Reminded me of myself, a soft-spoken nerd lol.
I am a big introvert, especially meeting with someone for the first time in person. I made some new friends there. I wanted to go back the next day but something came up at home and I couldn't go. But I promise I will go and meet everyone at the next event. Hopefully, there will be a meetup somewhere in Delhi. Wouldn't be too hard to organize...right, @blackhear1 bhai?
Many other fun activities were happening all over the campus. As the weather became cooler in the evening many people started gathering around the various stalls and activities.
The HIVE team had a busy stall too. It was a simple dart game giving you a chance to win Hive merchandise for free. All you had to do was follow some social media accounts related to Hive and get a chance to throw the dart. Depending on your score you could win cool merch like hats, stickers, stationery items with HIVE branding etc.
I tried my hands on it too. It was fun and believe it or not that was somehow my first ever dart throw too. Such a simple game and I never played it, can't believe lol. Anyway, I still got into the outer ring and managed to win some goodies. Also, at the end of the presentation part in the lecture hall, all the teams were given some Hive merchandise as well.
They were nice enough to give me some goodies too. You already saw the hat, here are some more. I love the quality of those products too, especially the bottle.
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There were some online competitions as well like a meme contest based on the event.
We took some group photos as well. Not sure if they were uploaded somewhere. I can't see them on the social media accounts. You can find more videos of the event at the @HiveBharat account on X.
https://x.com/i/status/1901176169493655907
It was a fun event and I enjoyed my stay there. Big shoutout to the entire management team. It is not easy to
Other events were happening at this festival. Some of them were just exhibitions by technology giants. One of those giants is the Indian Space & Research Organization (ISRO) itself. Recently we landed a rover near the south pole of the moon and India was the first nation to do it. They deserve to showcase this technological prowess here!
Can't wait to meet up with everyone again and expect more Hiveians to come the next time. I know many lives around Delhi. Hopefully, we can organize a small meetup soon.
Winners were announced yesterday on a Twitter Space. Congrats to all the winners and participants.