38th Chaos Communication Congress · Germany · 2024

38C3 Hub Digital Badges

Expanded assembly-created Hub badge system

The 38C3 Hub archived an expanded digital badge system where assemblies created discoverable event badges for visitors, grouped into categories such as General, Exploration, and Help.

38C3 Chaos Communication Congress Germany Digital Badge Hub Assembly Achievement Community Hamburg

Event38th Chaos Communication Congress

SeriesChaos Communication Congress

LocationHamburg

CountryGermany

People

Authors & Credits

38C3 organizer and Hub publisher

Chaos Computer Club

The official info page identifies CCC and volunteers as Congress organizers; the Hub page is the public badge catalogue.

Source

digital badge creators

38C3 assemblies

The Hub page says assemblies created badges that visitors could find during the event.

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Why It Mattered

It records a major official Congress badge surface that is easy to confuse with hardware badgelife: 38C3 had a large public badge catalogue, but the recovered evidence identifies Hub/community badges rather than a shipped electronic admission artifact.

Hardware

No physical or electronic badge hardware is claimed. The public artifact is a Hub-managed digital badge catalogue associated with assemblies and visitor interactions.

Software & Apps

The archived 38C3 Hub page says assemblies could create badges in the backoffice and that users could redeem badges during the event; after archival, the redeem function is disabled.

Lore

The catalogue includes visitor and assembly badges such as 38c3 - Du warst dabei!, Assembly Visitor, Badge Hacking-adjacent community achievements, Chaos Post, Church of Cryptography, Kidspace, RPG Assembly, and Hub Team badges.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

digital badge workflow archived disabled

Backoffice badge creation

The 38C3 Hub page states that assemblies could create new badges in the backoffice and that the redeem function is disabled after archival.

Compatibility: 38C3 Hub backoffice

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digital badge workflow archived

Categorized Hub badge catalogue

The 38C3 Hub page groups badges into categories such as General, Exploration, and Help while listing assembly and community badge names.

Compatibility: 38C3 Hub

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

archive-state caveat note

The archived page says the redeem badge function is no longer available after the website was archived.

The badge workflow is historical; live redemption behavior should not be inferred from the archived page.

Confidence: official archived Hub page
Status: documented
Timeframe: post-event archive
Source note: 38C3 Hub Badges page.

digital badge classification note

The source describes Hub badges created by assemblies and grouped by category, not physical or electronic admission badges.

The catalogue models this as an official digital/community badge system and avoids hardware claims.

Confidence: official Hub page
Status: documented
Timeframe: 38C3
Source note: 38C3 Hub Badges page.

missing rights-cleared image note

No 38C3 Hub badge image is published because the recovered page is an archived catalogue and no reusable badge artwork or screenshot provenance has been cleared.

The record stays image-free rather than copying archived UI screenshots, logos, or unknown-rights badge icons.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and 38C3 Hub Badges page.

Resources

38C3 Hub Badges official badge catalogue · Archived Hub badge catalogue explaining assembly-created badges, categories, and the disabled post-archive redeem function. 38C3 info pages official event page · Official event info source for Hamburg, December 27-30, 2024, and the Hub navigation that includes Badges and you.

Sources

38C3 Hub: 38C3 - Badges Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for assembly-created digital badges, categories, event discovery/redeem workflow, and archived post-event state. Chaos Communication Congress: 38th Chaos Communication Congress Infos Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for 38C3 in Hamburg, December 27-30, 2024, and the Hub navigation surface.