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### Hackathon Locations Map
### Hackathons Location Map

<img width="6460" height="3403" alt="MapChart_Map" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1d318fa7-a06c-441f-bc7e-25d91d781e9b" />

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## Ethereum Privacy Ecosystem: Hackathons

### Quick Headline Numbers & Averages (Jan.-Oct.)

| Metric | Value |
| ----------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| Total Hackathons | 31 |
| Total Hackers | 10,357 |
| Average Hackers per Hackahton | 357 |
| Total Projects | 4,290 |
| Average Submission per Hackathon | 138 |
| Total Privacy Projects | 310 |
| Privacy Submission Ratio | 7.23% |
| Average Privacy Submissions per Hackathon | 10 |
| Average Price Pool | $120,056 |
| Median Prize Pool | $40,425 |
| Total Prize Money | $3,601,683 |
## Ethereum Privacy Ecosystem: Hackathon Overview (Jan.-Oct.)

### Quick Headline Numbers & Averages

| Metric | Value |
| ------------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| Total Hackathons | 31 |
| Total Hackahtons (with privacy submissions) | 23 |
| Total Hackers | 10,357 |
| Average Hackers per Hackahton | 357 |
| Total Projects | 4,290 |
| Average Submission per Hackathon | 138 |
| Total Privacy Projects | 308 |
| Privacy Submission Ratio | 7.18% |
| Average Privacy Submissions per Hackathon | 13 |
| Average Price Pool | $120,056 |
| Median Prize Pool | $40,425 |
| Total Prize Money | $3,601,683 |

### Correlation Chart Between Submissions and Prize Pool

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> **NOTE:** *A few events (notably ETHBelgrade and ETHTokyo) show extremely high privacy intensity — in Belgrade 50% of submissions were privacy-related (though total submissions there was only 20). Larger hackathons (e.g.: ETHGlobal Prague, ETHGlobal Cannes, ETHGlobal New Delhi, and ETHGlobal ETHOnline) produce many privacy projects in absolute numbers but are lower on intensity % because they have many non-privacy projects.*

### Absolute Contributions Chart
### Absolute Contributions Barchart

<img width="3336" height="1540" alt="TotalSubmissionsVSPrivacySubmissions" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/02c87f48-22aa-4a3d-b2e6-49b336078c05" />
<img width="3336" height="1540" alt="absolute contributions chart 1" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7ae96892-6627-4ed8-b331-48590b93461e" />

### Hackathon Organizer Privacy Submissions
### Hackathon Organizer Privacy Submissions (23/31)

| **Event** | **Total Submissions** | **Privacy Submissions** |
| ----------------------------- | --------------------- | ----------------------- |
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| NapulETH | 11 | 1 |
| ETHJaguar | 12 | 1 |

### Privacy Contributions Barchart

<img width="3345" height="1003" alt="absolute contributions chart" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4bcc50de-87af-4a9d-a3de-aedad2619c3c" />

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## WIP

### Privacy Project Categories {TBC}

| Category | Count | % of Total Projects |
| ---------- | ------- | ------------------- |
| Finance | 101 | Y% |
| Social | 76 | Y% |
| AI | 37 | Y% |
| Auth | 19 | Y% |
| Gaming | 11 | Y% |
| Healthcare | 10 | Y% |
| Identity | 9 | Y% |
| DAO | 8 | Y% |
| Wallet | 7 | Y% |
| Storage | 6 | Y% |
| Infra | 4 | Y% |
| Security | 4 | Y% |
| Interop | 2 | Y% |
| Governance | 2 | Y% |
| Moderation | 1 | Y% |
| Browser | 1 | Y% |
## Ethereum Privacy Ecosystem: Projects Overview (Jan.-Oct.)

### Privacy Project Categories

| Category | Count | % of Total Projects |
| ------------- | ------- | ------------------- |
| Finance | 104 | 33.8% |
| Social | 76 | 24.7% |
| AI | 36 | 11.7% |
| Auth | 19 | 6.2% |
| Gaming | 11 | 3.6% |
| Healthcare | 10 | 3.2% |
| Identity | 9 | 2.9% |
| DAO | 8 | 2.6% |
| Wallet | 7 | 2.3% |
| Storage | 6 | 1.9% |
| Security | 4 | 1.3% |
| Communication | 4 | 1.3% |
| Infra | 4 | 1.3% |
| Interop | 2 | 0.6% |
| Governance | 2 | 0.6% |
| Reputation | 2 | 0.6% |
| Moderation | 1 | 0.3% |
| Music | 1 | 0.3% |
| Browser | 1 | 0.3% |
| Insurance | 1 | 0.3% |

### Category Distribution Chart

<img width="4065" height="1608" alt="category distribution" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bb258f3d-1dd2-458a-a151-1cdb83d4eb82" />

### Keyword Frequency

| Category | Count | % of Total Projects |
| ------------- | ------- | ------------------- |
| private | 70 | 22.7% |
| zk | 65 | 20.8% |
| ai | 48 | 15.6% |
| proofs | 46 | 14.9% |
| chain | 39 | 12.3% |
| decentralized | 33 | 10.7% |
| preserving | 33 | 10.7% |
| data | 28 | 8.1% |
| anonymous | 20 | 6.5% |
| payments | 19 | 6.2% |
| secure | 18 | 5.8% |
| system | 17 | 5.5% |
| wallet | 17 | 5.5% |
| encrypted | 16 | 5.2% |
| defi | 16 | 5.2% |
| verification | 16 | 5.2% |
| protocol | 15 | 4.9% |
| confidential | 14 | 4.5% |
| app | 14 | 4.5% |
| web3 | 14 | 4.5% |
| identity | 14 | 4.5% |
| token | 11 | 3.6% |
| ens | 11 | 3.6% |
| ethereum | 11 | 3.6% |
| blockchain | 11 | 3.6% |
| crypto | 10 | 3.2% |

> **NOTE:** *"ZK" (zero-knowledge) is the single most frequent token by far, followed by "AI" and "proofs", confirming heavy focus on zero-knowledge proofs and AI across project descriptions. Words related to privacy and confidentiality (preserving, encrypted, confidential, anonymous, private-related tokens) are common. Finance/DeFi vocabulary (defi, payments, token, ethereum, bridge/cross) also appears frequently. "chain", "blockchain", "protocol", "platform", and "wallet" indicate infrastructural or plumbing projects.*

### TOP 10 Keywords Sunburst Chart

<img width="628" height="665" alt="keyword sunburst" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4e75754b-5438-42e6-96ea-4d3c4804dbb1" />

### Privacy Technologies Detection

| Category | Total Occurrences | Projects with Keyword | % of Total Projects |
| ------------- | ----------------- | --------------------- | ------------------- |
| ZK | 226 | 103 | 33.44% |
| AI | 71 | 57 | 18.51% |
| TEE | 12 | 7 | 2.27% |
| MPC | 6 | 6 | 1.95% |
| FHE | 4 | 4 | 1.30% |

> **NOTE:** *Counts are derived from regex-based detection across project descriptions. "**Total Occurrences**" counts all matches; "**Projects with Keyword**" counts distinct projects whose description mentions the keyword at least once. Regex-based matching was used for each target with some common variants (e.g., 'zk', 'zero-knowledge' and 'zero knowledge', 'encrypted', 'encrypt', 'fhe' and 'fully homomorphic', 'mpc' and 'multi-party', 'tee' includes 'trusted execution', 'nitro', 'tdx', 'secure enclave', etc.).*

### Technologies Used Barchart

<img width="2461" height="1177" alt="technology detection" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ee082b56-9b32-4783-8c1f-b40f4f29f2d5" />

# {TBC}
--- MORE CHARTS (HACKATHON OVERVIEW) ---

--- PRIVACY THEMES TRENDS ---

--- EXTRACTION OF MOST INTERESTING FOR DEVCONNECT ---
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