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Hackers — get your teams together, brainstorm your ideas, and get ready to build bleeding edge lending applications using Dharma protocol. The dharma.js developer library will be live and at your disposal at ETHDenver, so come ready to rock and contribute to the decentralized financial system of tomorrow.

With ETHDenver just one week away, the Dharma team is excited to announce that we are offering $3,000 USD to the best application built on top of Dharma protocol at the event.

The prize will be awarded by a panel of judges (to be announced soon) who will evaluate projects based on their creativity and impact on the decentralized financial ecosystem.

Interested in Dharma but don’t know where to start? Here are some ideas to get your creative juices flowing:

Collateralized Collectibles — Build an application that enables borrowers to get cash for their crypto-collectibles without selling their digital goods by putting the assets (CryptoKitties, Etheremon, CryptoPets, plots of Decentraland, etc) up for collateral in a Dharma debt instrument.

Relayer for debt instruments — Lenders need a place where they can go to evaluate potential investments, and borrowers need a place where they can list their loan to potential investors. You could build the first Dharma debt relayer, helping borrowers and lenders find each other.

Structured Finance: CDOs & CDSs — To run as efficiently as possible, debt ecosystems need healthy derivatives markets in insurance, asset-backed securities, and more. You could help build these markets by creating a trustless Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) or a Credit Default Swap (CDS) using smart contracts and Dharma debt agreements.

Create contracts for decentralized margin trading— Healthy markets demand short selling, but in order to short an asset someone has to lend it to you. Marry Dharma debt agreements with 0x orders in order to create an end-to-end trustless short selling instrument.

Dharma Debt Explorer (a la 0x Explorer) — Build an explorer to track the volume flowing through the Dharma smart contracts, to see what types of debt agreements are most popular, and to analyze what the prevailing interest rates and collateralization rates are.

Looking for teammates?

Email Brendan at brendan@dharma.io. Put [Seeking ETHDenver Teammates] in the subject, and let us know if you have any ideas about what you’re interested in working on.

We’re giving away goodies!

So make sure to stop by our sponsorship booth and say hello! You won’t be disappointed :)

Excited by our vision for an open financial system?

We’re hiring. If you’re a blockchain developer take a look at our open job listings here.

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