Celo X Bunzz Hackathon on techFiesta

The Celo X Bunzz hackathon on techFiesta was held to promote technological growth and cooperative innovation among the African developer community.

Clients: The Celo Foundation Africa DAO and Bunzz

Execution: Over four weeks, a hybrid hackathon took place. It began with teams submitting their ideas online. All ideas were accepted by The Celo Foundation Africa DAO and Bunzz, leading every team into the second stage which is the development phase. This phase included online practical workshops to help them in the building process.

The event ended with an in-person, showcase of the top 11 projects. This mix of online and in-person elements created a well-rounded learning experience. It showed a successful model for innovative and inclusive events.

Workshops: “Bunzz Ecosystem and Celo Deployment” and “Introduction to Celo Composer” gave the hackers the necessary skills to build their projects.

Result

• 21 projects were built.
• Over 500 developers learned how to build on Celo and deploy smart contracts to the Celo Network through Bunzz.
• The projects were built across diverse sectors such as document security (TIỌWỌ̀BỌ́), decentralized platforms (Solvre), collaborative marketing (Chainwise), music industry rights management (Yoshka), and digital literature preservation (Akwụkwọ), all harnessing blockchain technology for enhanced efficiency and transparency.

Hackathon Details

• Format: Hybrid (online and in-person)
• Duration: 4 weeks

Hackathon Task and Tracks

Hackers were expected to build on Celo and deploy smart contracts to the Celo Network through Bunzz.​

Hackathon Tracks — DeFi | NFT/Art/Gaming | Social Good | E-commerce | All Things Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies

Hackathon Bounties

The top five winners received USDC transfers directly to their digital wallets through the techFiesta platform. The participant with the highest score was awarded $2,000. The second and third-place participants received $1,500 and $1,000, respectively. The fourth and fifth-place finishers each received $250. To acknowledge the effort of all participants, each was granted an NFT representing their contribution. This method of offering financial rewards and NFTs serves to recognize the commitment and innovation of the participants in the hackathon.

Winning Project Details

TIỌWỌ̀BỌ́ offers a solution for document sharing and signature appending, utilizing technology for secure and efficient processes.

Chainwise enables collaborative campaigns by connecting product creators, influencers, and communities to achieve specific goals.

Solvre introduces a new approach to bounty platforms, focusing on decentralization to ensure reward fairness and transparency.

Yoshka provides a method for song ownership through tokenization, aiming for equitable royalties and clear value management in the music industry.

Akwụkwọ introduces the concept of NFT-based book libraries, digitizing literature for preservation and access.

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About Celo Foundation

The Celo Foundation was founded in 2017 to support the growth and development of the decentralized, open-source, and mobile-first Celo platforms. Its platform helps build a carbon-negative financial system that creates conditions of prosperity for all. The Foundation is guided by the Celo community tenets. It contributes to education, technical research, environmental health, community engagement, and ecosystem outreach — activities that support and encourage an inclusive financial system.

About Bunzz

Bunzz is the largest DApp development platform in the Asian region, and supplies modules for the most frequently used smart contracts, allowing it to deploy them on all EVM networks with a GUI. This reduces development time for smart contracts by 99%. The modules are audited, allowing users to avoid the great expense of security checks. Smart contract modules can be uploaded to the repository and published by the users themselves. Bunzz has the potential to become a Docker Hub in the Web3 space.

About techFiesta

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