The Polkadot Hackathon is aimed at the Hispanic public, both in Latin America, Spain and the rest of the world, since it can be done 100% online.
Polkadot has announced that the first round of trading will begin on September 26th. LATAM Hackathon 100% online, in which mentoring, work sessions and workshops related to the will be held for eight weeks DOT ecosystem.
Polkadot Hackathon seeks to attract local developers to the network, Promoting the uses of blockchain in the Latin American region, and establish new ties between the Spanish-speaking Polkadot community around the world, since it will also be possible to participate from Spain.
The event will focus on development and training in topics such as Web3 tools, blockchain, smart contracts, decentralized finance and non-fungible tokens (NFT), always on the Polkadot ecosystem.
The Hackathon It can be done completely online, although there will also be face-to-face sessions. Participants may register one at a time or in groups. teams of up to five people, and will be able to work side by side with established developers in the ecosystem, who will act as mentors and teachers.
The program is aimed at Spanish-speaking Polkadot users around the world, not only in Latin America, since it is done through the Internet. On the other hand, although it is mainly focused on developers, anyone can sign up, although at the end of the program a project must be presented, so it is advisable to participate with someone who knows how to program.
How does the Polkadot hackathon work?
The Hackathon is designed for developers or teams to working on Polkadot and its parachains, they will be able to work with developers, learn how the ecosystem's networks and parachains work, and hack whatever they want.
In the end, they will have to present a project based on the DOT ecosystem and they will be distributed $ 120.000 in prizes, as well as various recognitions from Polkadot, Kusama and other players in the ecosystem.
The program consists of the following categories:
- Web3/Blockchain Tools: This category will be dedicated to all types of public infrastructure tracks, UI/UX, interfaces, experiences, development of tools and applications that help expand the Polkadot ecosystem, including those developments focused on the improved governance.
- Smart contracts: focuses on transpilers for smart contracts, providing interoperability with Wasm, applications written on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) that run on Substrate and applications written in Wasm that run on Substrate.
- DeFi: for building all kinds of DeFi solutions, such as DEX, AMMs, stable coins or DeFi applications based on smart contracts or running on Substrates.
- NFT: development of games, art, collectibles or any other use case for NFTs, as well as applications based on smart contracts or running on Substrate.
The Polkadot community is one of the most active
In 2021, The Polkadot community was one of the largest and most active in the crypto ecosystem with a total of 1.400 developers, only behind Ethereum which then had 3.920, according to the report by Power Capital Developer Report.
In October 2020, Polkadot held its first hackathon, “Hello World,” and has since hosted several such programs in countries such as India and various regions in Asia and the Pacific, as well as North America.
This hackathon will be the second major event that will bring together the Latin community, after the Decoded which took place in Buenos Aires (Argentina) just two months ago, and was attended by more than 900 people.
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