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Decreasing Frictions in DeFi Hackathon

William Doom — Mon, 29 May 2023 02:37:06 +0000

0x, Family, Polygon Labs, and AWS are excited to invite you to participate in our “Decreasing Frictions in DeFi” hackathon, an online hackathon where builders can showcase their innovations to solve real-world financial frictions.

“Decreasing Frictions in DeFi” brings together a group of sponsors whose tools work synergistically to help DeFi builders and teams of all sizes to bring their ideas to reality. We are looking for novel financial applications that use ERC20 token swaps to solve real-world financial frictions.

A total of $30,000 in prizes ($10,000 USD +$20,000 AWS credits) will be up for grabs!

In addition to prizes, we will be showcasing the top 3 winners on 0x’s marketing channels! This is a great opportunity to gain exposure and take your project to the next level.

Prize Pool

In short, there is a MACI Quadratic Funding prize pool totaling $10,000, plus three winning projects will receive $20,000 AWS credits for a total of $30,000 worth of prizes.

0x + Family + Polygon: $10,000 USD Quadratic Funding Pool
AWS 1st Place: $10,000 in AWS credits
AWS 2nd Place: $5,000 in AWS credits
AWS 3rd Place: $5,000 in AWS credits
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Schedule

Over the course of the hackathon, we will be holding virtual workshops on building with 0x. For more information on workshops, check out the full schedule.

June 2 - July 2: Hackathon starts and submission period begins
July 2: Hackathon ends at 11:59PM PT
July 3 -July 7: Review and Judging
July 10: Winners announced
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How to Join

Step 1: Read through the requirements 📖
Step 2: Fill out the signup form 📝
Step 3: Join 0x Discord. After you submit the form, you will be added to the #defi-2023-hackathon channel to coordinate 🤘
Step 4: All team members should register on DoraHacks ✅
Step 4. Attend the workshops and build your projects 🌱
Step 5: Submit your entry with all teammates included via DoraHacks based on the submission requirements and judging criteria 🤖
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Click here to register!

We are looking forward to meeting all the builders and seeing what novel financial applications you build to help solve real-world financial frictions!

OpenSea Stream API a NEW Websocket-based Service

William Doom — Fri, 06 May 2022 02:09:50 +0000

⚡️ Today OpenSea is launching a beta version of the Stream API, a new websocket-based service that enables developers to receive events as they occur across our marketplace.

We’ve built the Stream API to support a range of use cases that rely on dynamic data, such as price fluctuation, listings, bids and ownership changes. Instead of polling for updates, you subscribe to receive events as they occur.

Developer docs: https://docs.opensea.io/reference/stream-api-overview

The Stream API makes it easier to build new features such as:

Push notifications to alert people when they receive new bids
Activity feed that provides a timelines of sales from a collection
Real-time dashboard that visualizes key trends and metrics

We’ve created a JavaScript SDK to manage connections and subscriptions to the Stream API and its events: https://github.com/ProjectOpenSea/opensea-stream-js-sdk

And a example where we’ve used the Stream API to send events to a Discord webhook: https://github.com/ProjectOpenSea/opensea-stream-discord-webhook

To learn more, check out our blog post: https://nft.mirror.xyz/HhXSvsS7ZhVns6FuJB1rUGP53gW-qDVCv5gfx9cDGco

Reach out on Discord if you have any questions, issues or feedback.

We can’t wait to see what you build!🏗️

Hello NFT World Virtual Hackathon

William Doom — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:06:05 +0000

Join OpenSea and Replit for the Hello NFT World 🌐 virtual hackathon.

Registration is now open, sign up and get ready to BUIDL for your shot at $45K in prizes. 💰 Hack From your Home 🏡
Hello NFT World is exclusively online. So find your comfiest pair of sweatpants and start hacking.

This Hackathon is supported by DoraHacks, one of the leading Hackathon organizers! Partners include buildspace and Infura.

The Hackathon aims to encourage the advancement of web3, bringing together creators, artists, developers, and entrepreneurs to create innovative web3 NFT Projects.

Explore concepts like NFT DeFi, peer-to-peer renting of NFTs, innovating on what NFTs can do, or new types of NFT utility applications.

Each team is required to develop a web3 NFT project aligning to one of the four tracks:
🕹️Gaming and Metaverse
🚀Onboarding for All
🎨Most Creative
🐸Most Hilarious

📆Timeline:
📝Registration period: March 10, 2022 – April 7, 2022 Register Here
🏗️Hackathon kick-off: April 7, 2022 Join us on Twitch for the LIVE Kickoff on April 7th at 3 PM PST. https://www.twitch.tv/repl_it
🚚Submission deadline: April 14th, 11:59 PM PST
⚖️Judging period: April 15, 2022 – April 18, 2022

🥳Winners Announced: April 19, 2022🏆

Tracks to #BUIDL💡
🕹️Gaming and Metaverse Hop on board, fam; we are about to save the world." The future of the metaverse is in your hands. Look at digital identity through different angles such as blockchain, NFTs, Lootboxes, art, design, data, or anything you could imagine as part of the virtual world.

🚀Onboarding for All Create an application or tool to improve the user experience of minting or owning NFTs. The best projects will put creators and users first in their designs and seek to solve friction points prevalent in the NFT ecosystem today.

🎨Most Creative Does creativity ooze from your ideas? If so, show off your talents by creating an imaginative NFT project or new application.

🐸Most Hilarious Knock, Knock. Who’s there? The funniest NFT is waiting to happen!” If you're a jokester or class clown, this prize is perfect for you. (seize the memes of production).

FAQ 🤔
Where do I register 👉 Replit & OpenSea Hackathon page https://nft.replit.com/

I am flying solo/Looking to join a team. Find a team on the #hello-nft-world-find-a-team-channel Discord. Create a post telling us a bit about what you are interested in:
1. What skills do you have?
2. What do you want to learn?
Have an idea? Pitch it here so that people looking for teams and projects can tag you to connect!

New to web3? Blockchain & Ethereum onboarding. It is essential to know the fundamentals.👇

What is Blockchain? https://blockgeeks.com/guides/what-is-blockchain-technology/
How does Ethereum work anyways? https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/how-does-ethereum-work-anyway-22d1df506369
ETHhub Reading & Community Resources https://docs.ethhub.io/
NFT intro guide https://blog.opensea.io/guides/non-fungible-tokens/
How to Start Coding in Web3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1yi_J-CqI&t=1s