Welcome to Build with Celo, a virtual hackathon that invites values-aligned founders and builders worldwide to design and, ultimately, ship their best ideas on the Celo carbon-negative, open source, mobile-first blockchain. Millions of people currently benefit from assets and applications built on Celo, and with this hackathon, Celo is primed to help many more.
The Build with Celo hackathon, like all Celo hackathons, offers the opportunity for high-potential projects to win the support they need to jumpstart a new company or direct them to startup programs or accelerator programs offered by the Celo Foundation and partners.
- Click here for the celo.org Github Repo
- Join the Discord link below to stay up to date, form teams, find mentors, and work directly with the Celo developer team.
- Review the "Awards and Prizes" tab. The first 50 submissions get 50 cUSD.
- Review the "Guidelines" for the project submission calendar.
You will need to fork the repo to participate. Please refer to the "How will this work?" tab and the "Guidelines" tab to review the submission calendar and incentives (also posted below).
Click here to see how to manage Github and commits
All submissions to the Build with Celo hackathon must focus on one of the following themes: ReFi, DeFi, DAOs, NFTs, GameFi, and SocialFi. Projects whose focus includes the theme of ReFi, or regenerative finance, will be given preference.
While each theme offers unique and creative build opportunities, all are intrinsically linked by the Celo mission: to create the conditions of prosperity for all. (Learn more about Celo’s overarching mission here.)
We’re incredibly excited to kick-off the Build with Celo hackathon, and hope it will inspire and encourage builders everywhere. In the spirit of Charles Eisenstein’s Sacred Economics, let’s make more of what we want to see in the world, like pristine forests and oceans.
Building on Celo means participating in a world that empowers local economies to regenerate global ecologies––it’s time to build for change.