Nervos global hackathon promotes universal interoperability

Nervos announced the global Web3 World Championship, a hackathon aimed at supporting, highlighting, and promoting the best Web3 talents, Invezz learned from a press release on PR News Wire. The winners will receive exclusive NFTs and a prize pool of $75,000 in the native token of the Nervos Network, CKB.

The hackathon started online today and will continue until May 2, 2022. Participants can compete in team and solo activities such as relay, art, 100 m dash, and a marathon. Here are the details

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Relay

Participants will create a dApp and launch it on Nervos’ EVM compatible Layer 2, Godwoken, in teams of three. The winners get $12,000 in CKB. The team that comes second wins $7,500.

Art Attack

Teams mint an NFT on Nervos’ flagship NFT platform, kollect.me. The 10 best NFTs each win $1,000 in CKB.

100 Meter Dash

Competitors race to port their Ethereum (ETH/USD) dApp project to Nervos. The first 10 each win $1,000 in CKB.

Marathon

Last but not least, teams will compete to create a meaningful dApp and launch it on Godwoken. The team ranking first, second, and third will receive $15,000, $13,000, and $7,500 in CKB respectively.

Kevin Wang, cofounder at Nervos Network commented:

The world of Web3 offers unprecedented opportunities for creativity and innovation powered by blockchain technology, and that’s the inspiration for this hackathon. The Web3 World Championship, one of the first events of its kind, will not only showcase how easy it is to port an Ethereum dApp to Nervos but also give developers and team a clear path to contribute to our burgeoning ecosystem.

Nervos will host a series of learning spaces and sessions as well as live sessions to help participants do their best in the hackathon. They will be able to pursue further marketing, funding, mentoring, and launching opportunities after the hackathon.

On a mission to achieve interoperability

Nervos is on a mission to achieve interoperability 2.0, which relates to a fully interoperable blockchain ecosystem. To this end, the network is giving people more and more opportunities to create and launch apps transcending individual blockchains.

Events like Web3 World Championship pave the way for seamless work across every chain in the ecosystem. Nervos’ native token is currently trading for $0.01 and ranks 153^rd by market capitalization.