SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10, 2025 /ennovaterz/ — Hyperweb, an end-to-end Typescript ecosystem for building decentralized applications, is excited to announce a $25,000 grant program in collaboration with the Blockchain at Berkeley student organization. The initiative will engage UC Berkeley students in developing the next generation of the internet through creating smart contracts in Typescript on Hyperweb.
“I’m thrilled to be collaborating with Blockchain at Berkeley to encourage the innovation it’s become known for,” said Dan Lynch, Founder of Hyperweb. “Fellow members of the Berkeley community have built forward-thinking projects like Osmosis, Stride, Saga, Evmos, and Babylon, but that doesn’t mean you need to be a full stack developer versed in an arcane web3 language to succeed in the space. Hyperweb is all about democratizing the ability to build onchain by making it as simple as writing Typescript.”
The collaboration with Blockchain at Berkeley will drive development of foundational smart contracts on Hyperweb, ranging from decentralized identity verification to subscription-based service payments, and multi-signature wallets, with students also given the freedom to be creative in developing other onchain programs.
Breaking into web3 has been challenging to date. Ravi Riley, Head of Consulting for Blockchain at Berkeley reflects: “I’ve been teaching new devs full stack web3 engineering for over a year now, which presents unique challenges. From standard web2 apps in one environment, to writing contracts in an entirely separate one, and then integrating the two with new libraries, it’s a lot to grok. Hyperweb enabling full-stack type safety, among other benefits of writing apps, business logic, and smart contracts all in the same language, is a huge unlock for future developers and enables anyone building apps in web2 to easily integrate web3.”
Lynch has a long history of involvement in Berkeley’s entrepreneurial community. While earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and completing the MOT Program at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, he simultaneously launched two companies, famo.us and Brandcast, no-code platforms for building apps and websites, respectively.
During this same period, he conceived Mathapedia as a graduate research project under Professors Babak Ayazifar and Edward Lee, developing the platform in collaboration with the American Mathematical Society to create 350 pages of signal processing materials for EECS courses that students continue to use more than a decade later.
Post-graduation, he co-organized the Founder School startup program with his co-founder at famo.us, where he served on panels, facilitated operations, and helped guide participating startups—six of which went on to raise a collective $6M in funding. In 2016, he expanded his involvement by becoming a mentor at The House (now The House Fund), a UC Berkeley-focused startup incubator and venture capital arm supporting university founders.
Continuing his commitment to Berkeley’s ecosystem, Lynch and Hyperweb are collaborating with Blockchain at Berkeley, furthering the university’s legacy of making technology accessible to developers worldwide. Through this grant program, Berkeley students will shape the future of web3 development as they build on the Hyperweb platform ahead of its testnet launch.
