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The Austin Developer Event was a free, full-day developer workshop hosted by RDX Works in Austin, Texas on 11 June 2022, timed to fall inside Consensus 2022 (9–12 June, Austin) so that developers already in the city for the CoinDesk festival could attend. RDX Works' own events page, archived the day before, listed it as the "DeFi & Scrypto Event Austin" at 800 Congress and advertised both the workshop and the evening party as free to attend. The day introduced attendees to Scrypto and Radix's asset-oriented approach to smart contracts through hands-on coding, with participants finishing having built NFTs and a simple decentralized exchange. It followed the format set two months earlier by the Scrypto Developer Event in Lisbon, and belongs to the broader run of in-person developer sessions documented in the History of Radix.

Programme

The published schedule ran from 09:00 to 19:00 and put three coding sessions between two blocks of talk:

09:00 – 10:00Registration and breakfast
10:00 – 11:00Keynotes from RDX Works Chief Product Officer Matthew Hine and CEO Piers Ridyard on their vision for DeFi on Radix
11:15 – 12:30Workshop: "Hello World" and the Gumball Machine
14:00 – 15:30Workshop: Bored Gumball Club and an event ticket system – non-fungible tokens
16:00 – 17:30Workshop: creating a simple DEX
17:45 – 18:00Networking
18:00 – 19:00Open Q&A
19:00 – 01:00Afterparty

The three workshops are the Scrypto teaching sequence of the period, and the same one the Lisbon event had used: the Gumball Machine as the canonical first blueprint, then a badge-and-NFT exercise, then a two-token exchange. All of it ran against Scrypto in alpha – more than a year before the language reached production with the Babylon mainnet in September 2023 – so attendees were building against a local simulator rather than a live network.

Reach beyond the room

The event was live-streamed and recorded, and the blog post was explicit that registration was required only to attend in person: watching the stream needed nothing. The full recording remains public as "Scrypto Developer Event – Austin, Texas" on the Radix DLT YouTube channel, published on 16 June 2022 and running 3 hours 47 minutes. Attendees were pointed at the developer hub at developers.radixdlt.com – since consolidated into docs.radixdlt.com – and at the #scrypto Discord channel and the Radix Developers Telegram group for follow-up, both of which outlasted the event.

Austin was the second and last of the 2022 conference-adjacent developer days. Radix's in-person developer outreach resumed in a different shape two years later with the university-hosted DApp In A Day series, which kept the single-day format but moved it from crypto-conference fringe events to computer science departments.

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