over 1 year ago
The DIF Hackathon 2024 is Now Live!
Greetings to all participants in last year’s DIF Hackathon,
We're excited to announce that the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) Hackathon 2024 has just been launched! This year we have tripled our number of sponsors and amassed a prize pool of ~70K USD.
This hackathon offers a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of innovation. With challenges spanning education, reusable identity, travel, and ZKPs, there's something for everyone interested in shaping the future of digital identity.
Key Details:
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Hacking Period: October 1 - November 4, 2024
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Tracks: Education, Reusable Identity, Travel, and ZKPs
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Prize Pool: ~$70,000 USD
How to Participate:
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Register…
about 2 years ago
DIF Hackathon: Let us know how we did
Greetings and Happy New Year!
Congratulations to all who submitted to the DIF hackathon. This was by no means an easy ride so please take the time to celebrate your accomplishment!
Also we are looking for feedback on how we can make our future hackathons better. Please take the time to to answer this brief 5 question survey and let us know how we did.
We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming hackathons and please say hello to us at Eth Denver!
Best,
Limari Navarrete
Sr. Director of Community Engagement | Decentralized Identity Foundation
Questions?
If you…
about 2 years ago
DIF Hackathon Winners Announcement, Wednesday December 20th, 2023
Hello Everyone,
Please join us tomorrow when we announce the winners of the DIF hackathon and sponsor prize challenges! Please join through eventbrite at 11am PST / 7pm GMT on Wednesday December 20th.
See you then!
Best,
Limari Navarrete
Questions?
If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.
over 2 years ago
Announcement of DIF Hackathon Closing Session on December 20th
Hello Everyone,
In case you have not heard, the judging period has been extended and the announcement of the winners will now take place on Wednesday December 20th at 11am pst/ 8pm cet. Here's the link to join the closing session on 12/20. I look forward to seeing you all there!
-Limari
Questions?
If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.
over 2 years ago
New Winners Announcement Date
Hi everyone, thank you for all the patience so far. Our judges are working hard to score all of these great projects. We'll be pushing back the winners announcement until December 20th. Thank you for understanding!
over 2 years ago
Deadline Extension + Important Categories Update!
Hi everyone,
Great news, we've extended the hackathon submission deadline to Sunday, December 3rd at 11:45pm PT.
We wanted to make sure you know that you now can submit your project to more than one judging category -- you can edit your submission as needed to be sure you'll qualify for the judging categories that you are intending to enter.
Best of luck!
over 2 years ago
Final call for submissions!
There are only 3 days left to complete your submission for Decentralized Identity Foundation Hackathon. If anyone of you is running into problems and could use some mentorship or help, you can send your questions over to Discord or shoot us an email at [email protected].
Best of luck over the coming days!
The DIF Team
over 2 years ago
DIF Hackathon Closes this Friday!
Greetings everyone,
As a reminder, the deadline to submit for the DIF Hackathon is this Friday 12/1 at 11:45 pst. If anyone of you is running into problems and could use some mentorship or help, you can send your questions over to Discord or shoot us an email at [email protected].
We’re excited to see you at the finish line!
Best,
The DIF Team
Questions?
If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.
over 2 years ago
Join us for office hours on Thursday 11/16 at 10am pst!
Hello Hackers,
We at the DIF team have been inspired by seeing so many developers come up to speed on decentralized identity and DIF work items over the past three weeks. If you missed any of our education side sessions, make sure to check out our YouTube channel where you'll find the full listing. If you still have questions, members of our DIF community are standing by ready to help in our hackathon Discord server and during office hours. We'll have a series of office hours over the next week starting at 10am pst on Thursday November 16th at 10am…
over 2 years ago
DIF Hackathon Office Hours!
Hello Hackathon Participants,
We just had two awesome weeks of live educational sessions and there's still plenty of time to get hacking. Most session are now on YouTube with more to come.
We know that everyone is coming to this event from various levels of knowledge and we want to make sure as many people as possible make to the finish line. Starting tomorrow we will be holding a series of office hours on our hackathon Discord server. Make sure to stop by if you have any technical questions regarding some of your ongoing work. Here's the lineup so far:
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over 2 years ago
Ontology's ONT ID Challenge Tomorrow at 8am PST/ 11am ET/ 5pm CET!
Don't forget to register for our session with Ontology tomorrow at 8am PST/ 11am EST/ 5pm CET!
In this session Ontology's Head of Community, Humpty Calderon, will lead us through Ontology's ONT ID challenge, offer tooling and answer questions from hackathon participants. You won't want to miss this fun and exciting session!
The Challenge: Build a Web3 app using ONT ID. If ONT ID can be applied in an app that solves a real world privacy and data protection problem it will score higher.
For more details see our sponsor prize challenge description page.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/751267430107?aff=oddtdtcreator
See you there!
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over 2 years ago
Next Week at the DIF Hackathon!
With four weeks of hacking left, there's still plenty of time to form a team and submit to the DIF Hackathon. This week we had some great sessions including an Intro to DIDs with Markus Sabadello, an Intro to Veramo with Mircea Nistor and an Intro to Trinsic with JP George. All Sessions are now available on YouTube.
Next week we have even more great sessions that you don't want to miss in including one from our newest sponsor Ontology. Here's the lineup:
Ontology's ONT ID Challenge - Tuesday 11/7 at 8am PT
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/751267430107?aff=oddtdtcreator
TBD's Web5 and Decentralized Web…
over 2 years ago
A Recording of the Hackathon Opening Session is Now Available
Thank you to everyone who was able to make it to todays opening session. We really appreciated your enthusiam for learning about and working with decentralized identity. If you did not get a chance to attend the session in person a recording is now avialbe at this link.
If you have any questions please post to the discussion forum listed below or join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/B3NvR7C8Er
Happy Hacking!
Best,
Limari Navarrete
Senior Director of Community Engagement (DIF)
Questions?
If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.
over 2 years ago
The Decentralized Identity Foundation Hackathon Opens tomorrow!
Hello Everyone,
We are thrilled that we are less than a day away from the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) hackathon opening session! If you haven't claimed your spot make sure to head over to eventbrite to register now.
We also want to let people know that that more money has been added to the prize pool. Here are the updates:
TBD
Third place has increased from $500 to $1000
Ontology
We're also happy to announce that Ontology has just joined as a late sponsor to our hackathon with a $1500 prize pool. Read about their challenge and learn more about Ontology's …