Welcome to the 23rd edition of OpenBuild Dev Digest!
This November, we’re spotlighting hackathons that will push the boundaries of Web3, AI, and privacy tech—including the [REDACTED] event in Bangkok, Privacy4Web3’s online hackathon, and the Decentralized Identity Foundation Hackathon. These are fantastic chances for developers to showcase skills, win from prize pools totaling over $700,000, and gain access to valuable resources.
Alongside the hackathon excitement, we’re covering must-read updates in the blockchain ecosystem, from crypto and AI deep dives to essential tips for Solana builders. And don’t miss out on high-stakes grants and bounties from projects like Zenlink, Ref Finance, and Magpie.
Dive in to make November your month of innovation and growth!
[REDACTED] Hackathon
📅 November 9-11 📍Bangkok, Thailand 💸 500,000 USD
Deadline to Apply 2024/10/26 2024/11/1 11:30
[REDACTED] is a global convergence to shape the future of User-Owned AI and Chain Abstraction—a future where technology belongs to the people, not corporations. The [REDACTED] hackathon is a call to developers, creators, and visionaries to take on the biggest challenges in Chain Abstraction and at the intersection of AI and Web3.Guided by expert mentors and using the best developer tools, you’ll have the opportunity to build game-changing products alongside peers, unleash your creativity, and push the limits of AI x Web3.
Privacy4Web3 Hackathon: 2nd edition
📅 November 1 – 10 📍Online 💸 130,000 USD
Deadline to Apply 2024/11/02 07:00
What do web3 and AI have in common? Both need privacy that’s customizable, interoperable, and easily accessible. The second edition of the PrivacyForWeb3 hackathon is a chance for developers to build with Oasis’ confidential EVM, Sapphire, and our freshly launched Runtime OFf-chain Logic (ROFL) framework. ROFL allows offchain components to communicate with the onchain realm, extending Sapphire and opening up a new world of composability!
Decentralized Identity Foundation Hackathon 2024
📅 November 21 📍Online 💸 69,000 USD
Deadline to Apply 2024/11/05 07:00
A groundbreaking hackathon where seasoned developers and newcomers alike will come together to push the boundaries of decentralized identity. This is your chance to innovate, collaborate, and solve real-world challenges alongside pioneers in the field. With generous prize pools and challenges sponsored by leading community members, this event promises to be a milestone in the future of decentralized identity. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to work with cutting-edge companies and make a lasting impact in this rapidly evolving space!
✍️ Pantera on Crypto x AI deep dive 👉Read(EN)
The collision between crypto and AI agents has officially begun. Deep dive into the world of autonomous AI agents on blockchains, discuss the evolving role of agents, AI-driven market changes, and whether blockchain is the natural substrate for AI. Are AI agents on blockchains the obvious future? And how do scarcity and abundance interact in this new era?
✍️ Stop using EVM RPC providers when you’re building on Solana 👉Read(EN)
EVM RPCs are making the chain look bad with awful landing rates and upwards of 6 seconds of landing latency, use a Solana-first RPC which has the best landing rates onchain.
✍️ The first mainstream crypto app with tens of millions of people use without knowing its crypto 👉Read(EN)
Polymarket is the first mainstream crypto app tens of millions of people use without knowing its crypto. $2.5B+ in volume not possible without Ethereum though. Two types of Polymarket users: viewers of markets and traders of markets. There are tens of millions of viewers of markets who don’t know crypto is being used under the hood.
💸 Zenlink Bounty
Maximum Bounty $30,000 👉 Apply
Zenlink DEX Protocol is the underlying unified and universal cross-chain DEX Protocol, which enables parachains to quickly have DEX functionality and share liquidity with other parachains. In addition, Zenlink DEX Aggregator can connect to all DEX DApps on Polkadot, which together form the Zenlink DEX Network with full liquidity.
💸 Ref Finance Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $250,000 👉 Apply
Ref Finance is a community-led, multi-purpose DeFi platform built on NEAR Protocol. Ref takes full advantage of NEAR’s low fees, one-to-two second finality, and WebAssembly-based runtime (hello, Rust smart contracts!).
💸 MagpieXYZ Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $200,000 👉 Apply
Magpie is a BNB Chain native yield boosting platform that maximizes governance benefits for veTokenomics based protocols. Incubated by Wombat Exchange, Magpie is focused on locking WOM tokens to own governance rights and boosted yield benefits as liquidity provider on Wombat.
💸 Econia Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $100,000 👉 Apply
Econia is a back-end settlement layer built on Aptos’s Block-STM execution engine. Econia’s Move-native codebase leverages Aptos for composability and parallelism, providing integrating protocols and market makers with a suite of extensible features. Built by developers, for developers, and with developer feedback, Econia unlocks the base layer of Aptos DeFi.
💸 Horizen Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $75,000 👉 Apply
Horizen technology offerings and crypto advisory services help organizations leverage the blockchain to solve a broad range of complex use cases. With deep experience in the crypto space, our passionate and committed team of blockchain experts, solution architects, product managers, and developers are accelerating the adoption of blockchain technology by focusing on the critical components of security, confidentiality, speed, and innovation.
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