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PRESS RELEASE. Neo, the open-source, community-driven blockchain level wherever developers are gathering the aboriginal Smart Economy, contiguous announces the motorboat of its caller APAC Hackathon successful concern with OKX. The lawsuit includes a full prize excavation of $120,000 for lawsuit winners and a post-hackathon assistance money of $1 million, provided by Neo Foundation and dedicated to fostering Web3 maturation successful enactment with caller affirmative regulatory developments successful the APAC region.
The Hackathon volition instrumentality spot from July to October and features in-person events crossed 5 cities successful Asia — Tokyo (Japan), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Bangalore (India), Seoul (South Korea), and Singapore, each with a two-day hacking play to let elite Web3 developers to showcase skills and forge invaluable connections. There volition besides beryllium a bid of virtual sessions featuring workshops and mentoring from the Neo team, alongside sheet discussions and ongoing support, for those who whitethorn not beryllium capable to be the in-person events, ensuring that each those funny tin get involved.
On July 22nd and 23rd, Neo is going to kick-start the Neo APAC Hackathon offline lawsuit bid successful Tokyo, hosting Tokyo GAS Station. Participants of the Tokyo GAS Station on-site volition get the accidental to triumph the pursuing prizes and opportunities.
- Excellence Prizes: $5,000 X 2 teams.
- Travel grants to the Hong Kong Finale successful October: $1,000 X 2 teams.
- Chance to stock the $1 cardinal post-hackathon assistance fund.
- Media coverage, manufacture transportation and concern opportunities.
For those who are incapable to be the Tokyo GAS Station offline event, they tin inactive enactment by registering and submitting their projects online for the Neo APAC Hackathon connected its website.
Building connected the astounding successes of erstwhile hackathons, Neo volition denote the wide winning squad astatine a prestigious solemnisation successful Hong Kong this October. All 20 finalist and shortlisted teams, from the in-person events and projects submitted online, volition showcase their projects and present engaging demos astatine the celebration.
Neo volition supply each 20 teams with grants towards their question funds to be the finale successful Hong Kong. To registry for the Hackathon, delight spot Neo’s dedicated website: https://hackathon.neo.org/.
Categories
Participants astatine this year’s Hackathon tin make crossed 5 categories: DeFi and Payment; NFT and Gaming; AI, Social and DAO; Infrastructure and Tooling; and General. Each class has a last prize of $10,000, which volition beryllium announced astatine the finale successful Hong Kong and volition beryllium awarded successful NEO tokens.
Neo, the astir developer-friendly blockchain platform, volition alteration participants to take from among the astir fashionable processing languages to physique on. Reflecting its presumption arsenic a operator of innovation and practice crossed the blockchain industry, Neo is for the archetypal clip this twelvemonth opening its doors to EVM-based (Ethereum Virtual Machine) projects successful parallel with Neo N3 projects.
Neo’s Collaboration with OKX
Neo’s concern with OKX recognizes the combined synergy and interaction that volition beryllium made imaginable by joining forces. As portion of the partnership, OKX volition beryllium designing a bid of unsocial NFTs for participants successful the Hackathon, successful summation to promoting opportunities for participants to collaborate and innovate further with OKX.
Launching the Hackathon, Da Hongfei, Founder with Neo said: “The full squad present astatine Neo is perfectly delighted to motorboat this year’s Hackathon for the APAC region, gathering connected the resounding successes of our erstwhile events and nether the favorable regulatory situation of the APAC region. Through our Hackathon, we purpose to pull and enactment the finest successful blockchain and Web3 talent, alongside breathtaking startups moving successful the blockchain industry, and genuinely present radical to the capabilities that processing connected Neo provides. I promote each developers funny successful blockchain and Web3 to get progressive successful our Hackathon. We look guardant to seeing an exceptional acceptable of projects, celebrating the victor astatine our prestigious lawsuit successful Hong Kong, and showcasing the finest endowment successful the APAC region.”
Jason Lau, Chief Innovation Officer astatine OKX, stated, “We person ever been committed to the improvement of web 3 manufacture infrastructure. This collaboration with Neo for the APAC Hackathon is different large example. We eagerly enactment the maturation of the web3 developer assemblage successful APAC and look guardant to what these builders volition accomplish.”
For much details astir the Hackathon, delight spot Neo’s dedicated Hackathon website here. Neo’s Hackathon Handbook is disposable to presumption here.
About Neo
Founded successful 2014, Neo is an open-source, community-driven blockchain level designed to invited developers into the Smart Economy. By enabling developers to digitize and automate the absorption of assets done astute contracts, Neo is built to recognize the optimized integer satellite of the future. As the astir developer-friendly blockchain, Neo meets developers wherever they are by integrating seamlessly with the world’s astir wide utilized languages and tools, and providing the astir feature-complete blockchain level for gathering full-stack decentralized applications. With autochthonal enactment for almighty infrastructure including decentralized storage, oracles, and domain sanction service, Neo is the perfect instauration for developers to physique the adjacent procreation Internet.
About OKX
OKX is the second-largest planetary crypto speech by trading measurement and a starring Web3 ecosystem. Trusted by much than 50 cardinal planetary users, OKX is known for being the fastest and astir reliable crypto trading app for traders everywhere.
As a apical spouse of English Premier League champions Manchester City FC, McLaren Formula 1, golfer Ian Poulter, Olympian Scotty James, and F1 operator Daniel Ricciardo, OKX aims to supercharge the instrumentality acquisition with caller engagement opportunities. OKX is besides the apical spouse of the Tribeca Festival arsenic portion of an inaugural to bring much creators into web3.
Beyond OKX’s exchange, the OKX Wallet is the platform’s latest offering for radical looking to research the satellite of NFTs and the metaverse portion trading GameFi and DeFi tokens.
OKX is committed to transparency and information and publishes its Proof of Reserves connected a monthly basis.
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