Time Period: March 2024 – March 2025

Prepared by: OpenGuild Core Team

Date: February 27th, 2025

Hello Polkadot Community,

OpenGuild was founded with a clear goal: to support Web3 builders, connect the community, and grow the Polkadot ecosystem in Southeast Asia (SEA). Over the past year, we’ve organized events, hackathons, builders incubation, fostered collaborations, and built meaningful relationships in the space.

This report covers our key activities, achievements, and lessons learned, along with a look at what’s next. (this is the first version, there are 2 more initiatives which are Indonesian bootcamp in collaboration with Mandala Chain and Philippine Hackathon coming to the end of March, 2025 then we will update soon.

Our deliverables has being late and having some changes due to we have many collaborative efforts need to involve out of our expectation like TOKEN20249, Hongkong Fintech Week, Sub0 Asia & DevCon, due to we are the some of the few key representatives of Polkadot ecosystem in SEA & broader Asia market.

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FIND OUR FULL REPORT — HERE

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What would you expect to see in the report?

OpenGuild's Community Engagement & Events

1. Online & Offline Events
2. Web3 Builders Engagement

Polkadot Ecosystem Growth in SEA market

1. Awareness & Education
2. Developers & Projects Support
   — Hackathon Campaigns
   — Open-source Contribution
   — Builders Follow-up Support

Partnership & Collaboration Effort

Community Infrastructure & Resources Development

Challenges & Key Takeaways

Rich Database Proof-of-work of OpenGuild Community

About OpenGuild:

OpenGuild is a community of passionate Web3 builders dedicated to growing the Polkadot ecosystem. Our mission is to discover, connect, and support top talents in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines) while also providing valuable resources to builders across Asia. Through collaboration and innovation, we strive to create real impact, develop groundbreaking products, and build a thriving community around Polkadot.

We focus on helping builders and organizations navigate and master Polkadot’s technology by offering well-structured resources, hands-on events, and engaging activities. Our goal is to make it easy for anyone to learn, build, and contribute to the ecosystem.

With 1,500+ members on our Discord, including majority of developers and innovators in marketing and business, plus 3,000 supporters across social media, OpenGuild is becoming the go-to hub for Web3 enthusiasts looking to explore and grow within the Polkadot ecosystem in SEA and broader Asia market.