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About Encode Club
Encode Club is a London-based developer education organisation that connects chains, infrastructure projects and developers through online bootcamps, hackathons and accelerators, drawing engineers and early founders moving into Web3 and AI. It does not sell courses; sponsors supply the stack and bounties, and participants build a working prototype against a set brief over several weeks, filtered by a scoring system plus human judging, with the strongest teams moving into an accelerator. The Encode Hub in Shoreditch hosts in-person hackathons, a conference day and shared workspace for startup teams.
It functions as a talent and deal pipeline, complementing the developer-relations teams at chain foundations: they provide documentation and grants, Encode provides structured learning and screening. Curriculum tracks the sponsor stack, with Arc, Canton and Solana programmes the main current sources, and a three-day London event in late October 2026 combined a hackathon with a conference day on AI and crypto.
Encode Club was founded in 2020 by Anthony Beaumont and Damir Bandalo, focusing on Web3 education through bootcamps, hackathons, and accelerators, while building recruitment and investment pipelines. In 2021, it trained over 15,000 developers, and more than 60 venture-backed startups emerged from its community, forming a Web3 talent ecosystem. In 2022, it raised a $5 million seed round led by Lemniscap and Galaxy Digital, aiming to scale annual training to 100,000 people. In the same year, it introduced NFT certificates to record participants' achievements and levels as proof of competence, laying groundwork for future decentralized community governance.
On February 9, 2026 the Encode x Solana Accelerator opened, an eight-week online programme co-run with the Solana Foundation for up to eight teams per cohort, with weekly workshops on product-market fit, go-to-market, community, legal basics, fundraising and marketing, one-to-one progress calls, and full ownership retained by teams. The structure is designed to move hackathon prototypes into fundable shape.
On September 29 applications opened for the Encode Hub Scholars Programme, running November 2026 to February 2027 at the London space on Pitfield Street with 24-hour desk access, founder mentors and priority entry to events. Together the three lines form a funnel from course to hackathon to physical incubator.
Encode Club makes the London hub a permanent base, tailors accelerators to individual chain ecosystems, and uses the alumni network to supply first cheques and first users to early projects.
Anthony Beaumont — Co-Founder & CEO; holds a PPE degree from the University of Oxford, co-founded Encode Club in 2020 with Damir Bandalo.
Damir Bandalo — Co-Founder; exited his startup in 2018 and launched the project to focus on Web3 and AI developer education.