{"id":48286,"date":"2021-08-25T17:05:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48286"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:29:01","slug":"near-foundation-to-host-hackathon-with-1-million-prize-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/near-foundation-to-host-hackathon-with-1-million-prize-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"NEAR Foundation to host hackathon with $1 million prize pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nonprofit organization <a class=\"tracking_link\" href=\"https:\/\/near.foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NEAR Foundation<\/a> announced the hackathon <a class=\"tracking_link\" href=\"https:\/\/nearspace.info\/metabuidl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MetaBUIDL<\/a> with a prize pool of $1 million. Offline events (Hack Nodes) will take place on August 27 and September 12 in Bogot\u00e1, Kyiv, Lisbon, Mukachevo, New York, Beijing, Nigeria, San Francisco and Hangzhou.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the hackathon is the interaction of Web3 technologies with work and entertainment. Organisers will award $1 million to winners across five categories:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>challenges from hackathon partners;<\/li>\n<li>local Hack Nodes prizes;<\/li>\n<li>prize for the best project;<\/li>\n<li>challenges in DeFi, ecosystem management and building business processes;<\/li>\n<li>challenges in arts, games and entertainment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, MetaBUIDL winners will be able to receive development funding from judges \u2014 venture investors and NEAR ecosystem funds: Open Web Collective, NEAR Foundation, NEAR Asia.<\/p>\n<p>To participate in the hackathon, you need to register on the MetaBUIDL page. You can join a development team via the service<br \/><a class=\"tracking_link\" href=\"https:\/\/metabuidl.nearspace.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MetaBUIDL Team Matching<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NEAR is a platform for building [simple_tooltip content=\u2019decentralized applications\u2019]dapps[\/simple_tooltip], which runs on the Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus algorithm and uses sharding to optimise performance. The NEAR <a class=\"tracking_link\" href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/sostoyalsya-zapusk-osnovnoj-seti-near-protocol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launch<\/a> took place in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the NEAR team <a class=\"tracking_link\" href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/razrabotchiki-near-protocol-zapustili-protokol-vtorogo-urovnya-dlya-ethereum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched<\/a> the Layer-2 Aurora protocol for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nonprofit organization NEAR Foundation announced the MetaBUIDL hackathon with a prize pool of $1 million. Offline events (Hack Nodes) will take place on August 27 and September 12 in Bogot\u00e1, Kyiv, Lisbon, Mukachevo, New York, Beijing, Nigeria, San Francisco and Hangzhou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"2","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1196,1216],"class_list":["post-48286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-competitions","tag-near-cryptocurrency"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"2","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48288,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48286\/revisions\/48288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}