Polygon-Grants Hackathon Officially Opens on HackerLink
Odaily news, at 20:00 on August 30, 2021, Singapore time, Polygon's first global Grants Hackathon officially opened the project submission channel on the DoraHacks developer platform HackerLink. The initial prize pool of this Hackathon is US$100,000, and a rich bounty and a large number of technical workshops have been set up. Developers from all over the world can participate in the Hackathon and the second-party funding Grant through HackerLink.
The opening live broadcast of the Polygon Grants Hackathon will be broadcast live simultaneously with Polygon’s official Youtube channel at 22:30 on August 30 (Monday), Singapore time, in the live room of DoraHacks station B. At that time, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal, Polygon growth VP Arjun Kalsy, and DoraHacks team Eric Zhang and Steve Ngok will introduce Polygon and the rules of this Grants Hackathon to the community.
The initial bonus pool of this hackathon is provided by Super Funders and Funders. Among them, Super Funders include Stardust, ParaSwap, Furucombo, Pocket Network, Protocol Labs; Funders include Biconomy, Balancer Labs, Chainlink, Covalent, Chainstack, Deri Protocol, HASHKEY, QiDao, TOPS LABS LTD, Unmarshal.
In addition, Alchemy, ArGoApp, Figment, GETBLOCK, Tenderly and ND LABS will join this contest as educational partners. DFG, Fundamental Labs, Gate Labs, JSQUARE, SevenX Ventures, Spark Digital Capital and Mentha Partners will be the capital partners of this competition. Polylauncher will be the distribution platform partner of this contest.
The Polygon-Grants Hackathon project submission will start today on HackerLink, and the quadratic funding will start on October 1, 2021, using the Quadratic Funding V2 protocol, and the quadratic voting will use the Polygon mainnet $MATIC.
The judging panel of the Polygon-Grants Hackathon includes Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal, Polygon user growth VP Arjun Kalsy, Moralis CEO Ivan, Ethereum community developer Austin Griffith, Decentology founder Nik Kalyani, Kickback co-founder Makoto Inoue, Pool Together co-founder Founder Leighton Cusack, Chainlink Labs developer Harry Papacharissiou, Protocol Labs growth leader Vukasin Vukoje, Balancer Labs Davis Ramsey, HashKey Capital investment director Xiao XIAO, Furucombo CEO Hsuan-Ting, Covalent developer leader Emmanuel Oaikhenan, ParaSwap founder Mounir Benchemled, Chainstack Chief Growth Officer Alex Albano, Stardust CEO Canaan Linder, Unmarshal founder Manohara Kolagondanahalli, Pocket Network CEO Michael O'Rourke and other well-known developers, founders and Polygon ecological builders.
In addition, Alchemy, ArGoApp, Figment, GETBLOCK, Tenderly and ND LABS will join this contest as educational partners. DFG, Fundamental Labs, Gate Labs, JSQUARE, SevenX Ventures, Spark Digital Capital and Mentha Partners will be the capital partners of this competition. FinStreet and MEXC will serve as marketing partners for this competition. Polylauncher will be the distribution platform partner of this contest.
