The Largest Blockchain Hackathon Ever In Africa Kicks Off Today With Google and Binance Smart Chain As Judges
Powered by Xend Finance's Layer-2 DeFi Protocol, More Than $1 Million In Prizes Is Being Offered For Winners
As part of our efforts to continue to grow Africa’s accessibility to blockchain technology and DeFi opportunities around the world, we have the great honor and privilege of announcing “Decentralizing Africa and Beyond: Xend Finance DeFi Hackathon 2021”!
More info here 👉🏾 Hackathon.Xend.Finance
The Hackathon will be the largest blockchain Hackathon to ever take place in Africa with over 100 organizations, companies, and universities participating (so far!). We’re also featuring an all-star lineup of judges, speakers, panelists, and sponsors, including Google, Binance Smart Chain, Coindesk, Huobi, Polygon. Our Opening Ceremony starts today, September 21, at 1:30pm EST/ 5:30pm UTC.
Our headlining speaker is Mike Novogratz, CEO of Galaxy Digital, the billionaire former hedge fund manager and partner at Goldman Sachs. His speech is scheduled to start at 2pm EST/ 6pm UTC today.
You can watch the opening ceremony livestream below here:
We’re also proud to welcome a panel of judges, speakers, and panelists that includes Gwendolyn Regina, Investment Director at Binance Smart Chain (BSC) Accelerator Fund, Julian Tan, BSC Ecosystem Coordinator, Zack Seward, Managing Editor of Coindesk, Onajite Emerhor, Head of Google for Startups Accelerator Africa, and Sandeep Nailwal, Co-founder and COO of Polygon, amongst many others!
Besides some of the amazing panel sessions, which include topics such as,
”Building Real Solutions: How to Bridge Decentralized Finance and the Real World”
“How to Pitch Investors & Fundraise for your Crypto Project”
“CBDCs and how Stablecoins Can Replace African Fiat Currencies”
we also have over $1 million in prizes and grants!
As one of the most prominent blockchain companies that came out of Africa in 2020, we feel it’s very important to help foster the growth and continued development of Africa in regards to making the continent borderless and bring stable cryptocurrency saving and investing opportunities to all.
Africa has long had some of the world’s worst currency devaluations and citizens shouldn’t have to worry about being paid in currencies that have minimal standing in the world’s economy. Our Layer-2 DeFi protocol and platform is free for all to build on and use, which saves entrepreneurs time and money, while opening up products to hundreds of millions of people.
We hope you will take some time to support our mission and the people of Africa and those in underserved regions around the world, by taking part and following us!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/xendfinance
Telegram: https://t.me/xendFinance
Telegram Developer’s Group: https://t.me/XendFinanceDevs
Participate as a Developer (groups are welcome!) or watch the speeches and workshops for free by registering here:
https://hackathon.xend.finance/
#XendFinanceHackathon
Sincerely,
The Xend Finance Team