FirstBlock has announced Kaupr as an ecosystem partner of FirstBlock-athon.

The organisers point to coverage as the contribution: bringing attention to what blockchain is used for across industries, and to the work being built onchain beyond finance.

The reasoning, from both sides

Fati Hakim, founder of FirstBlock, and Morten Myrstad, editor at Kaupr, set out their reasoning in a conversation published earlier: the Nordic conversation about blockchain stops at finance and cryptocurrency, while what is built outside that gets too little attention.

Read the full story about the partnership — in English, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish

FirstBlock-athon runs 7–11 September in Stockholm as part of Nordic Tech Week 2026. Applications are open.

More on what's built on the blockchain beyond finance in Onchain Build.