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<LEARN/> ALL JUNE . <HACK/> JULY-MID AUGUST . <CELEBRATE/> REST OF AUGUST

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#DefiSummeris 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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$10,000 in Prizes

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Learing 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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Technical Complexity Practically Presentation 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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Host a Workshop

Become a judge

Become a Mentor

Do Outreach & Marketing

Contribute Ideas

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Below are some common frequently asked questions about DefiSummerHacks

Decentralizes finance is an experimental form of finance that does not rely on central financial intermediaries such as brokerages, exchanges, or banks to offer traditional financial instruments and instead utilizes smart contracts on blockchains, the most common being Ethereum.

All Summer. Broken up into 4 parts. The first month a series of educational events (all June), the next 1.5 months (July-midAugust) is the hackathon build, the next week a summit of leading speakers (August 16- 22), and the final week a celebration (August 23-31st)!

Anyone is welcome to join! Defi is for everybody.

Start by learning blockchain, smart contracts, and code reviewing the leading blockchain technologies.

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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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Stellar MPA MPA Pluto Pluto Saint Echelon Blockchain