Building something related to decentralized finance (DeFi)? You have one week to register and submit your project as part of our online hackathon! Over $42,000 in bounty prizes! Deadline: 28 October 11.45 pm SGT/GMT+8

To help us champion the DeFi movement, increase crypto adoption, and support developer talent around the world 🌍 , Kyber is working alongside our #KyberDeFi Ecosystem Builders!

Each of these projects are adding tremendous value to the blockchain and developer ecosystem in their own special way. They are also helping Kyber spread the message of decentralized finance to talented developer communities globally.

Today we’d briefly introduce them and learn about what they do.

BitGo

BitGo is a digital assets custody solution for institutional clients. It also provides staking as well as clearing and settlement services. BitGo is the current custodian for WBTC (Wrapped Bitcoin), an ERC20 backed 1:1 with Bitcoin. BitGo ensures the exact 1:1 between minted WBTC tokens and the Bitcoin stored by them, with an on-chain proof of reserve. When WBTC token holders redeem their tokens for Bitcoin, the tokens are burned. The minting and burning of tokens are in turn tracked and verifiable on the blockchain. WBTC is already being used by popular DeFi projects such as Compound, Fulcrum, Nuo, and Betoken.

BitGo is sponsoring a bounty prize of $2500 in WBTC tokens! We’re also glad to have Benedict Chan, CTO of BitGo, as one of our hackathon judges.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitGo

CoinGecko

CoinGecko aims to provide a fundamental analysis of the crypto market. In addition to tracking price, volume and market capitalization, CoinGecko tracks community growth, open-source code development, major events and on-chain metrics. CoinGecko’s objective is to elevate crypto participants’ understanding of fundamental factors that drive the market. CoinGecko is one of the largest and earliest crypto data aggregators, operating since early 2014. It tracks around 3,000 tokens from more than 230 cryptocurrency exchanges.

CoinGecko has a good example of a KyberWidget integration that allows token swaps to be performed directly on a website!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/coingecko

Dapp.com

Dapp.com aims to be the world’s largest dapp distribution platform, listing over 2,200 dapps that are built on seven major blockchains: Ethereum, EOS, TRON, Steem, TomoChain, IOST and Blockstack. Dapps are showcased based on trusted data analytics, community reviews and user comments. Dapp.com works closely with over 50 of the best decentralized apps in the world, including KyberSwap, as well as publicly-listed companies, such as Animoca Brands.

In addition, Dapp.com has the largest decentralized app community in the world, with 150,000+ monthly unique visits, over 100,000 registered users; and over 100,000 followers across all social media channels.

Recently, Dapp.com organized an AMA for their developer community, inviting Anton and Shane from Kyber to share about how people can build DeFi DApps by using our liquidity protocol.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dapp_com

Defiprime.com

Defiprime.com aims to be the digital media and analytical services provider for the DeFi community. Its mandate is to inform, educate, and connect the community as the definitive source of news dedicated to decentralized finance space — including our #KyberDeFi Online Hackathon! Defiprime was founded by Nick Sawinyh, an LA-based crypto entrepreneur.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/defiprime

Devfolio

Devfolio believes that when it comes to your career, your skills should be the only thing that matter, not your college, credentials, or where you come from.

Devfolio is a community-powered developer talent network. Being at the forefront of the hacker movement in India, the platform helps developers find meaningful jobs in companies they’d love to work for! The Devfolio team has experience helping ETHGlobal organize 2 successful ETHindia hackathons, and is also helping Kyber with our online DeFi hackathon.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/devfolioco

#Hashed

Based in Seoul and San Francisco, Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed’s mission is to accelerate the mass adoption of blockchain by investing and empowering a new wave of entrepreneurs and innovators who are building this future. They look for blockchain geeks, dreamers and trend setters passionate about navigating the ever complicated cross section of engineering, game theory and economics.

Today, Hashed is the most prominent blockchain venture fund in Korea, backing over 40 visionary projects and founders all over the globe who are pioneering this industry, including Klatyn, Terra, and Kyber Network.

We welcome Hwisang, Co-founder of Hashed, as one of our online hackathon judges to find the next epic DeFi project!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashed_official

IBC Media

IBC Media is made up of a talented team of storytellers, branding gurus, PR experts and marketing tacticians who are passionate about emerging technology. The IBC Media team has built global communities of over a million people, managed PR and branding for billion dollar companies and have relevant experience in emerging technology marketing, namely Blockchain, AI and IoT. Through industry partnerships, government endorsement, investor community support, inroads to India’s vast developer community and a vital influencer community, IBC Media helps projects get mindshare in the Indian market.

IBC Media will be helping to educate more developers in India about Kyber’s role in decentralized finance. In November, Kyber will also be participating in Bangalore Genesis Devcon organized by IBC Media.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/IBCMedia_

Unitimes

Part of Linktime Tech, Unitimes（unitimes.io）is an online media & community operator and a PR & marketing company in the fast-growing crypto world in China. They manage an online media & community platform which specifically focuses on the Ethereum and blockchain community in China. Unitimes has attracted and connected a broad range of online media, industry insiders, blockchain professionals, and people who are interested in Ethereum and blockchain technology. In addition, they serve as a platform for people to share news of industry trends, blockchain technology, online & offline events, and last but not least, creative ideas of the crypto world.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/UnitimesHQ

EthPlanet

ETHPLANET(ethplanet.org) is a non-profit Ethereum community organization mainly focused on Ethereum community building and development. With the spirit of open source, sharing, and mutual growth, EthPlanet is committed to better serving the Ethereum ecosystem including developers, communities, projects or related platforms mostly via organizing different online and offline activities, including global conferences, forums, hackathons etc, so as to grow together with Ethereum.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethplanet

MetaCartel (DAO)

MetaCartel is a community DAO that is funding native web3 application layer experimentation around new use cases and business models. Some of the projects that have been funded by MetaCartel are rDAI, PoketMoloch, Mintbase, DAOsaka, and Kickback. Peter Pan, who runs a podcast called Wizard of DApps, is one of the members helping to steer MetaCartel.

Helping to recognise and support global developer talent is one of Kyber’s objectives for our online hackathon. The top winners of our #KyberDeFi Hackathon will get the chance to pitch to MetaCartel and potentially receive continuity grants for their winning applications. This helps high quality teams receive the financial or technical support necessary to continue improving on their product, even after the hackathon ends.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/meta_cartel

Signum Capital

Signum is a well-known Singapore-based firm that exclusively consults in Blockchain-enabled companies. Their mission is to realize the future of the Blockchain economy by consulting in game changing projects and companies — including Kyber Network, Tomo, Zilliqa, Aelf, and Velo. They have experience participating in both Token Generation Events and Equity investments.

Signum is led by founder John Ng, who is also a #KyberDeFi Hackathon judge!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Signum_Capital

#KyberDeFi Virtual Hackathon!

Submission deadline: 28 October. 11.45 pm SGT/GMT+8

Building something related to DeFi? Come join the #KyberDeFi Virtual Hackathon! Help us build the future of DeFi with bZx, Chainlink, Compound, Melon, Synthetix, WBTC, and other ecosystem builders.

💰Over $42,000 USD in prizes to be won!

Please contact Shane on Telegram for more information.

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