Integrate social sign-in into your project using Masa’s .celo Soulnames and/or Social Connect
The deadline to submit your project is on June 15th at 11:59 pm PDT
Delight your community with social sign-in. Use Masa’s Celo Prosperity Passport, .celo Soulnames and/or SocialConnect’s phone number name service in your app for a chance to win prizes.
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A monthly virtual hackathon that invites developers around the globe to design and build an idea for all. Every month comes with a new challenge, use these challenges as an opportunity to iterate and improve on your idea or to bring a new idea to reality.
🏆🏆🏆 20K in prizes every month up for grabs
Partners
Masa creates identity infrastructure for developers building web3 communities. Since launching Prosperity Passport on Celo on March 10th, 2023, over 332,000 .celo Soulnames have been minted by users. Follow simple steps below and integrate .celo Soulnames into your dApp.
SocialConnect is a privacy-first naming service, made for phone numbers, email addresses and other social identifiers.
What can you build with Masa and Social Connect?
Here are a few examples of what you can build for this hackathon:
- 📱 User Interface: Display a user’s soulname or phone number in your application’s UI under a user’s profile to replace their account address.
- 🏭 Community Building: Utilize soulnames and phone numbers to connect users with similar values or interests, fostering a sense of community within the Celo ecosystem.
- 👤 User Authentication: Implement soulnames and phone numbers as an authentication method, ensuring users are genuine and not bots.
- 💸 Sending Payments: Simplify transactions by using soulnames and phone numbers as an identifier for users, replacing the need for lengthy hexadecimal addresses.
- 👾 Web3 Gaming: Integrate soulname and phone numbers minting and registration within web3 games, allowing players to use their social identifiers as in-game identities.
- 🖼️ NFT Platforms: Incorporate soulnames and phone numbers into NFT platforms to personalize and identify users, enhancing the trading and ownership experience.
Prizes
$10,000 cUSD for 10 projects. $1000 cUSD each
$10,000 cUSD for 10 projects. $1000 cUSD each
Additional Awards
If your submission includes the implementation of Masa Soulnames, you are also eligible for the Celo Soulname Integration Developer Grant. The grant is a competition to reward talented developers within the Celo ecosystem for integrating .celo domains into their application.
The top three projects that successfully integrate Celo domains (soulnames) into their applications are awarded the following prizes:
- 🥇 First place: $3,000 cUSD
- 🥈 Second place: $2,000 cUSD
Event Flow
Date | Milestone |
05.22.2023 | Registration Opens |
05.23.2024 at 7:30am PDT | Office Hours on Discord |
06.06.2023 at 7:30am PDT | Office Hours on Discord |
06.15.2023 at 11:59pm PDT | Project Submission Due |
06.23.2023 | Project Judging Ends |
06.30.2023 | Winners are announced |
Judging Criteria
Projects will be judged according to the following criteria:
- Quality of idea: How original and creative is your idea
- Impact: What is the potential value for users
- Quality of the product: Quality of code and quality of UX/UI
- Use of featured technology: Is your project using the featured technology? Quality of implementation
Upcoming Hackathons
B_WC is a series of monthly hackathons. Every month, the theme of the hackathon changes. Register to participate and get updates on all upcoming hackathons.
Judges
Calanthia Mei
Masa
Calanthia Mei is the co-founder of Masa, the world’s first Soulbound Token (SBT)-powered identity infrastructure for building web3 communities. A veteran builder and investor, Calanthia has been building, scaling and investing in leading fintech projects globally in the past decade. She was a founding member of PayPal’s Venture Capital arm, where she invested $200M+ in 25+ leading fintech companies across Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Calanthia most recently scaled a startup from 10 to 450 FTEs to an acquisition. Her work has been featured at Consensus, EthDenver, CNBC, New York Stock Exchange, CoinTelegraph, Blockworks, amongst others.
Eric Nakagawa
Celo Foundation
Eric has a background building consumer mobile and web products. He looks for clean user experienced optimized for simplicity and user experience.
Brendan Playford
Masa
Brendan Playford is the co-founder of Masa, the world’s first Soulbound Token (SBT)-powered identity infrastructure for building web3 communities. A visionary and serial entrepreneur, Brendan has founded and scaled web3, fintech, and infrastructure platforms in Silicon Valley and across the globe to millions of users. Having a decade of experience in blockchain technology since 2013, Brendan saw the need to build greater trust within the web3 ecosystem, both between users and platforms. This inspired him to launch the Masa Protocol, a composable and scalable trust stack for web3, enabling mainstream adoption of Web3 through Soulbound Tokens.
Daniel Olarte
Celo Foundation
Daniel is a community designer, architect and technologist. He is a partner at the Celo Foundation working on community development programs.
Alec Schaefer
cLabs
Alec has been an engineer at cLabs for over 3 years, and was team lead on the SocialConnect project. Before joining cLabs he worked on USDC and cold storage custody at Circle. He is most passionate about web3 projects aimed at user safety and adoption, rather than speculation. More specifically, he is interested in identity/reputation, account management, and stability tokenomics.
Anna Alexa
Celo Foundation
Anna is a community lead on the Developer Relations team at the Celo Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Anna led community growth at the Maker Foundation and has played an active role in the transition to MakerDAO. She's part of Meta Gamma Delta, Kernel, and Crypto Nomads Club, and is very happy living out of a suitcase if it means traveling the world and meeting community IRL.
