Electric House, London South Bank University, 3 Wellesley Rd, Croydon CR0 2AG
Hack the System is a 3-day community wealth building event to be held on the 19-21 September, 2025, which aims to create Web3-powered marketplaces for South London.
- Details
- Participants
- History
- Purpose & Vision
- Event Format
- Itinerary
- Friday 19th (17:00 - 20:00)
- Saturday 20th (09:00 - 16:00)
- Sunday 21st (9:00 - 16:00)
- ℹ️ Terms and Conditions
Details
DATE: 19-21 September, 2025 TIMES: Friday: 17:00 - 20:00; Saturday: 9:00 - 16:00; Sunday: 9:00 - 16:00 LOCATION: Electric House, London South Bank University, 3 Wellesley Rd, Croydon CR0 2AG COST: FREE MENTORS: TBC REGISTRATION: Eventbrite
Participants
History
HackTheSystem was conceived in 2022 by a coalition of organizations including Crystalisr, Regens Unite, and Blockchain Radicals, alongside academic partners like London South Bank University. The initiative emerged from converging interests in regenerative economics, smart-city development, decentralized arts, and participatory democracy movements.
Initially conceptualized as a single event, the first HackTheSystem gathering was postponed as organizers refined their approach and built stronger community relationships. After a three-year development period, HackTheSystem was relaunched in 2025 with a more focused methodology and clearer objectives. The initiative's evolution reflected growing interest in using blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, particularly the Radix ledger, to create community-owned cooperative structures modeled after established mutual organizations.
Purpose & Vision
To develop multiple Web3 platforms that connect local artists, creatives, and service providers with buyers in the South London Partnership area (1.2 million people), using blockchain technology to facilitate transactions and build community wealth.
Through exhibitor showcases and self-organizing teams, create diverse local supply chains where Hipsters (cultural visionaries), Hackers (technical builders), and Hustlers (business developers) collaborate to build innovative solutions. Teams will form organically around exhibitor platforms - for example, an art sales platform might attract artists, promoters, developers, and art buyers who will work together to enhance the platform according to their collective requirements.
Each team will compete to build the best community wealth building solution, with prizes awarded for the most innovative and viable platforms that keep wealth circulating within the South London community.
Event Format
- Exhibitor Showcases - Web3 platforms and tools demonstrate their capabilities to attendees.
- Team Self-Organization - Attendees form teams based on skills, interests, and supply chain opportunities around exhibitor platforms.
- Competitive Development - Multiple teams build their own solutions simultaneously, competing for prizes.
Itinerary
Friday 19th (17:00 - 20:00)
- Welcome & Introductions - Get to know participants and exhibitors.
- Exhibitor Showcases - Web3 platforms and tools demonstrate capabilities (Caper, ArtSect, XRDegen, Shardspace, etc.).
- Community Wealth Building Overview - Introduction to core concepts and competition format.
- Team Formation World Cafe - Attendees self-organize into teams around exhibitor platforms based on skills and supply chain opportunities.
- Food & Networking - Teams continue forming over refreshments.
Saturday 20th (09:00 - 16:00)
- Morning Briefing - Quick recap and final team formation for those who missed Friday.
- Team Development Workshop (Part 1):
- Teams refine their vision and requirements
- Map out their supply chains and value propositions
- Begin technical and business development
- Cross-Team Collaboration - Teams share insights and learn from each other.
- Afternoon Solution Building - Teams develop their Web3 platforms and business models.
- Progress Check-ins - Regular updates and mentoring sessions.
- Evening Social - Informal networking and collaboration.
Sunday 21st (9:00 - 16:00)
- Team Development Workshop (Part 2) - Final development push and solution completion.
- Integration & Testing - Teams finalize their platforms and prepare demonstrations.
- Solution Presentations - Each team presents their community wealth building solution.
- Prize Ceremony - Awards for most innovative, viable, and community-focused solutions.
- Next Steps Planning - Teams commit to concrete follow-up actions.
- Closing & Commitment - Ensuring participants leave energized with clear development paths.
ℹ️ Terms and Conditions
The following terms apply to participation in this workshop ("Workshop"). Entrants may create original solutions, prototypes, datasets, scripts, or other content, materials, discoveries or inventions (a "Submission"). The Hackathon is organized by the Workshop Organizer.
Entrants retain ownership of all intellectual and industrial property rights (including moral rights) in and to Submissions. As a condition of submission, Entrant grants the Workshop Organizer, its subsidiaries, agents and partner companies, a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, distribute, publicly perform, create a derivative work from, and publicly display the Submission.
Entrants provide Submissions on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO CONSENT
By participating in this Workshop, Entrants acknowledge and consent to the Workshop Organizer and its authorized representatives taking photographs, videos, audio recordings, or other media ("Media") of Entrants during the Workshop. Entrants grant the Workshop Organizer, its subsidiaries, agents and partner companies, a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, distribute, publicly perform, create derivative works from, and publicly display such Media for promotional, marketing, educational, documentation, or other business purposes in any medium now known or hereafter developed, including but not limited to websites, social media, publications, and presentations.