We’re excited to announce that we are working with Gitcoin on a global virtual hackathon and will be giving out prizes for builders working on Hedera Hashgraph. Gitcoin is a major hub for blockchain developers and can help bring much visibility within the blockchain startup base. It is part of Consensys’ open-source development strategy. You can find more information on that here. This will be Hashing Systems’ first hackathon and hopefully the first of many. We look forward to treating our participants well. We’ll also be introducing new ways to earn crypto while building on Hedera.

Hedera is an EVM-compliant decentralized network, created in partnership with IBM’s Hyperledger along with several other Fortune 500 companies like Boeing, Deutsche Telekom, and Tata Communications. It is much faster than previously decentralized ledgers, tested at over 10,000 transactions per second. It also boasts services not seen on other networks like the consensus service, and file storage.

Through this hackathon, we’ll be introducing the greater developer community to Hedera Hashgraph. The projects on the hackathon will have a wide range of difficulties and awards.

Hashing Systems is an organization that seeks to provide the developer community access to Hedera Hashgraph by building the infrastructure needed for developers to easily create on Hedera, infrastructure that automates much of the development stages specific to Hedera. This allows blockchain developers to essentially “copy and paste” the projects they are already pursuing on their networks onto Hedera.

Our goal is to empower developers to focus on the innovative components of their projects and not on core infrastructure. This journey began with Hash Name Service, a decentralized domain registry like ENS. We then built Composer, a web extension currently on Chrome and Brave, that allows users to create Hedera accounts through Google login as well as send most types of transactions to Hedera. Soon, we’ll be releasing Console, a development environment to deploy and manage smart contracts directly from the web browser. You can use Console just like you would Remix and Studio for Ethereum. Make sure you’ve updated your Composer to version 1.2 or later.

The Global Communities hackathon page is available here. You can find more information on how to build on Hedera by browsing our Medium. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to post on DailyStamp, a community-led Q&A platform.