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#DefiSummer is a summer long celebration, summit, and hackathon for decentralized finance. Starting June 1st, developers from all around the world can team up with each other and get direct access to industry professionals to solve the biggest issues surrounding the #decentralized finance space. Global banking solutions. Blockchain consultancy. NFT marketplaces. Smart contract development.

Trading automation. Blockchain governance. Find a team, learn how to do it, build a project, win prizes & internships, and celebrate all summer. Organized by the Minority Programmers Association looking to bring more diverse talent into STEM &#blockchain.

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$14,000 in Prizes

Prize

Learning Incentivization

Learning Incentivization: Develop an e-learning application that rewards individuals crypto for learning STEM concepts. The winners of this will be given a chance at Blockchain Engineering internships with MPA.

Prize

DefiSummer NFT Art Grand Prize

You are to design a one of the kind DeFiSummer NFT. Make it iconic. Think the DeFi Woodstock. Your non-fungible token will be forever minted in DeFi Hall of Fame.

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Blockchain Consulting Award (2)

Blockchain Consulting: Case Study - Design a system that turns Minority Programmers Association into a DAO with its own utility token. Winner with be given an Internship as Blockchain Research Intern at Minority Programmers or Echelon Digital Consulting

Prize

Trading Automation Prize - Enzyme ($4000 in $MLN)

Trading Automation: Develop an interface and bot that allows hedge funds on Enzyme finance to easily build trading strategies, fund allocation, etc generates and a bot that uses the enzyme protocol to trade accordingly.

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“Choose Your Own Adventure Governance” - PlutoPepe ($1000 in $PLUTO)

“Choose Your Own Adventure Governance” - Build a dAPP with a stunningUI that allows individuals to vote on the outcome of a storyline for having a certain amount of tokens in their wallet.

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NFT Meme Marketplace Prize - PlutoPepe ($1000 in $PLUTO)

NFT Meme Marketplace - Develop an NFT marketplace on BSC/Matic that allows anyone to easily build a meme, use as nft, share on social media, bid, buy and view and even respond with NFT comments.

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Gaming Utility Token - PlutoPepe ($1000 in $PLUTO)

This goes to the team that can implement a smart contract game; ex; CoinFlip, Predictions, Roulette, Dice, that pays out rewards in $PEPE token

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Stellar Challenge - 1st Place ($1500 in $XLM)

1 Winner - $1,500 cash value

The way the global financial establishment is structured today, people are born into an economy just like they’re born into a political system. Stellar is a way out: it lets people participate in a worldwide, stable financial network regardless of where they live. In this challenge, your job is to build a project on the Stellar test network that solves a specific real-world problem. Examples include Uhuru Wallet, a WhatsApp-based wallet that allows for sending intra-African payments, Vibrant, a dollar-savings app for Argentines, and DSTOQ, which makes investing accessible and affordable for people in emerging markets.

Prize

Stellar Challenge - 2nd Place ($1000 in $XLM)

1 Winner - $1,000 cash value

In this challenge, your job is to build a project on the Stellar test network that solves a specific real-world problem. Examples include Uhuru Wallet, a WhatsApp-based wallet that allows for sending intra-African payments, Vibrant, a dollar-savings app for Argentines, and DSTOQ, which makes investing accessible and affordable for people in emerging markets.

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Stellar Challenge - 3rd Place ($500 in $XLM)

1 Winner - $500 cash value

In this challenge, your job is to build a project on the Stellar test network that solves a specific real-world problem. Examples include Uhuru Wallet, a WhatsApp-based wallet that allows for sending intra-African payments, Vibrant, a dollar-savings app for Argentines, and DSTOQ, which makes investing accessible and affordable for people in emerging markets.

Prize

IDLE - Protocol/Strategy Integration

Implementing Idle as yield sources into other protocols or build something on top of Idle Awarded in $2000 in IDLE ERC-20 token to the BEST project for this prize track

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IDLE - Open Track (2)

Open track: an opportunity to bring innovation and develop new ideas that involve Idle protocol. Here’s a list of some inspirations that might help you to build projects, but we encourage you to experiment with more ideas: Flash loan case-study (https://developers.idle.finance/integrators/flash-loans) Enable automatic reinvesting of stablecoin profits into other assets (e.g. ETH,WBTC)

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June

1st

Time

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Title

Prize Tracks Announced

June

4th

Time

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Title

Kick Off Ceremony

June

8th

Time

5:00 PM EST

Title

Introduction to Blockchain/Defi

June

9th

Time

3:00 PM EST

Title

Introduction to NFTs

June

10th

Time

2:00 PM EST

Title

Introduction to DAOs,Governance, Business Use Cases

June

11th

Time

12:00 PM EST

Title

Introduction to Stellar

June

14th

Time

3:00 PM EST

Title

Deploying NFTs on Testnet

June

14th

Time

3:00 PM EST

Title

Deploying NFTs on Testnet

June

15th

Time

12:00 PM EST

Title

How to get started developing on Stellar

June

16th

Time

6:00 PM EST

Title

What is On-Chain Asset Management, Intro to Enzyme

June

17th

Time

6:00 PM EST

Title

Look at Governance Platforms & Designing A DAO

June

18th

Time

11:00 AM EST

Title

Blockchain Consultancy: Case Study 1

June

21st

Time

6:00 PM EST

Title

Building React dApps

June

22nd

Time

3:00 PM EST

Title

How to Integrate Web3 Wallets

June

23rd

Time

6:00 PM EST

Title

Blockchain Consultancy Case Study 2

June

24th

Time

-

Title

Designing Gaming Contracts

June

28th

Time

2:00 PM EST

Title

Tokenomics Workshop

June

29th

Time

5:00 PM EST

Title

Learning Incentivization Explained - Combining eLearning & Blockchain

June

30th

Time

TBD EST

Title

Using Enzyme SDK

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Technical ComplexityPracticallyPresentation of Product

Quality of Features

Are your features meaningful and add to the overall quality of the product?

Accesibility

Will your solution work in places with no access to financial systems? Mobile

UX Design

Does your UX Design consider a wide variety of applications?

Comprehensive Project

Does your solution have comprehensive feature or does it look like you just put something together?

Did you tackle multiple proniems at once concering decentralized finance?

Effectiveness

Does it actually solve a problem converning decentralized finance?

Code Cleanliness

is your code easy to understand?

Efficiency

is your code efficient? Do you use an efficient algorithm? Do your plugins and APIs run smoothly

Portability and Usability

is your code easy to run and works on multiple systems?

Originality of Work

is your idea novel? Do you not plagiarize and property credit others for their contribution?

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Prize

Host a Workshop

Prize

Become a Judge

Prize

Become a Mentor

Prize

Do Outreach & Marketing

Prize

Contribute Ideas

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Below are some common frequently asked questions about DefiSummerHacks

What is DeFi?

How long is DefiSummerHacks?

Who can participate?

How can I get prepared before June?

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Shadman Hossain

Blockchain Engineer

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Roshaan Khan

Product/ Strategy @Block-One

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Mona El Isa

Founder of Enzyme Finance

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Robin Roy Thomas

Content Writer, Ethereum Push, Notification Services

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Kirill Kazakov

Senior DevOps Engineer

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Alexander Makeev

Software Engineer @ Arcadia

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Taras Baranyuk

Senior Data Scientist @Bideose

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David Medvedik

Principal Software Engineer

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Aliaksandr Shulyak

Senior SRE

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Aleksandr Zakharov

Software Engineer at Recall Masters, Inc

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