Gitcoin New York Blockchain Week (Stellar) #1
Description
Gitcoin New York Blockchain Week (Stellar)
Prize Bounty
- Grand Prize: 35,000 XLM (~$2,000)
- Runner-up: 12,500 XLM
- Third place: 7,500 XLM
Bonus: We highly recommend continuing to build your project beyond the hackathon to participate in the Stellar Community Fund, a community-voted, quarterly competition where 8 winners split 3 million lumens.
Challenge Description
About Stellar
Stellar is an open network for storing and moving money. Stellar makes it possible to create, send, and trade digital representations of all forms of money: dollars, pesos, bitcoin, pretty much anything. It’s designed so all the world’s financial systems can work together on a single network.
Challenge
Most engaging application demonstrating the Stellar network's ability to connect the worlds' currencies.
Submission Requirements
- Stellar must be a fundamental part of the application
- The product has to focus on a good user experience
- In addition to the app, you must provide a video or demo that shows how it works and explains the business model
- We prefer open source projects
Resources
We’ve also created a #hackathon channel in our public Keybase team. Feel free to join and discuss things with others building on Stellar!
Submission Deadline
11:59pm Eastern on May 27, 2020
Judging Criteria
Projects will be judged by their practicality, potential business model, completeness, and usability.
Winner Announcement Date
Winners will be announced within a day or two of the submission deadline.