Celo Africa DAO CodeJams - Mini Hackathon is a weekly hackathon series that focuses on educating the community, fostering creativity, and overall bringing out great projects that will enrich the ecosystem. In 2024 this series is focused on building mobile applications.

As a mobile-first, EVM-compatible, carbon-negative blockchain, Celo is built for the real world. We want you to build dApps for the phone with a great user experience leveraging Celo's lightning-fast transactions, low-cost, and multi-currency gas fees.

This mini hackathon focuses on solutions for small businesses and building real-world use cases for the phone. We want you to rethink how small businesses can leverage the blockchain, e.g., incentives like gifts and rewards, operational tools like billing and accounting, and much more.

Build for the chance to compete for 150 USD in prizes for the Mini Hackathon 

And later 10K USD in prizes for the main Hackathon coming up from 28th June

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Requirements

What can you build?

  1. Merchants (B2B) - empowering small businesses with Web3 tools - Loyalty management systems

  2. Spending - offering more spending and gifting options to consumers - Enabling users to purchase gift cards like Bidali / Bitgifty

  3. X to Earn - Enabling MiniPay users to earn income through web3 - Microwork - perform smaller tasks to earn - Gig work - rideshare/ grocery delivery etc

  4. Yield - Expanding investment opportunities for wallet holders - Access to T-bill yield like OpenEden, Ondo, Midas - Reliable on-chain yields on stablecoins with simple UX

Submission Criteria:

  • Build Mobile-First

  • Build for MiniPay

  • E-commerce focused

  • A working prototype (demo video or deployed)

  • A public GitHub repository

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$150 in prizes
1st Prize
Cryptocurrency logo
1 winner

2nd Prize
Cryptocurrency logo
1 winner

3rd Prize
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Charles Mabwa

Charles Mabwa
Celo Africa DAO

Jordan Muthemba

Jordan Muthemba
Celo Africa DAO

Judging Criteria

  • Functionality
    How effective and scalable is the solution? Is it user-friendly and functionally comprehensive? What is the quality of the technical design and code? Could a library improve it? Is the service practical and how extensively has it been implemented?
  • User Experience (UX)
    How is the ease of use and intuitiveness of the solution from an end-user perspective? Does it provide a seamless and satisfying experience for users?
  • Innovation
    How unique and creative is your solution? Does your solution have the potential to make a significant impact?
  • Technical Implementation
    How technically challenging is your implementation?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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