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Join Us For The First Community Smart Contract Challenge With $50,000 In Prizes!

dev.to staff on July 10, 2024

We are thrilled to collaborate with the Stellar Development Foundation to introduce the community to blockchain technology. Running through August...
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Fraser Young

$50k 🤯

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FrontEndWebDeveloping

I can't say what the rest of the community thinks... 🙂but I liked it better when the dev challenges where small and friendly. Now their so big and up there that it excludes a lot of devs.

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Mr. Algorithm

Yeah, but I think the tutorial challenge is great because anyone can participate and learn. You can document what you learn, which helps reinforce your understanding. It's a way to both learn and contribute.
Definitely, the dapp development challenge is not very beginner-friendly.

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FrontEndWebDeveloping

Yes. And the high money, makes it very competitive.

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Mr. Algorithm

Yeah 🤧

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Ben Halpern

This is good feedback. Will definitely Keep this in mind

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FrontEndWebDeveloping

Thank you!

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Lief Storer

You might surprise yourself. The Stellar community is really supportive of devs at many levels of experience. The other cool thing is that even if you didn't take a prize out of the hackathon, Stellar has multiple different funding programs to support projects well past the Challenge. Check out SCF

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Peter Kim Frank

So excited to launch our most ambitious DEV Challenge ever. A huge thank you to Stellar for partnering and making this possible. Can't wait to see what everyone builds!

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Mr. Algorithm

Hey, so I am working on the tutorial challenge
Do we have to create a website or something, I have an idea to make a website with a few tutorials over it and so can I use each tutorial as a separate entry?

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Jess Lee

You'd be able to use each tutorial as a separate entry, yes!

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Mr. Algorithm • Edited

Thanks a lot for clarification

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sahra 💫

Whew, I see we're no longer in the little leagues😅🔥. Can't wait to see what the participants come up with.

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Karthikeyan

Good opportunity to learn about the smart contracts

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Ted

Fill out this form on the Stellar website

Is it only me or the linked page is broken and there's no form there? 🙄

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Lief Storer

Are you still having issues with this @turma ? Let me know- I've seen this a couple times caused by a bad request to Hubspot. I can look into it, but if all fails, then you can submit on this webform.

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Ted

Are you still having issues with this

Mmm... yes, I guess... there's no form on the page (linked in the post) currently at all 😅 unless I'm missing something...

you can submit on this webform

And I get a blank page here... 🙄

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Jess Lee

@turma are you still having issues now?

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Ted

Yes, I am unfortunately. I was able to open the form by the direct link provided above when I opened it some time before, but now it seems to be broken for me again, as well as the embedded form on the official challenge page. (I see the same loading state there as before) I dunno, maybe some network/ISP issues, if others can open it perfectly fine. (I just don't get why the direct link did work actually)

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Jess Lee

Hm okay, @turma feel free to submit to DEV as you normally would and leave a message directly in your submission post that you're having trouble accessing the form on stellar's website. This way, your submission will still be valid.

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Ted

Thanks a lot ❤️

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Ted

OK. Looks like I was eventually able to find out what is the problem here. My browser of choice is FireFox, and while the form can easily be opened in Chromium-based browsers, FireFox seem to have hard time with that. I assume it's related to this known HubSpot issue (as you mentioned you use HubSpot forms). FYI @jess, @lief_storer_fff38ed6bd2d2.

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Cappy-OO7

Hello.

I am trying to play catch up on the original repo and I am clueless and could seriously use as much help, advice, and guidance as I can get.
I am winging this blind folded with no experience.
Thank in advance!
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Jess Lee
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Alicia

Im considering attempting, your post is encouraging 😊. Wish you the best 🙏😊

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Mr. Algorithm

Gonna be fun as I'm going to learn then just document it as a tutorial for others and my participation will also be done, so one challenge and three benefits.

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Kelsey Hale

At some point I thought there was another Frontend Challenge slated to start the same day as this challenge, but now it seems to be missing from the upcoming or current challenges (although its page still exists for Frontend Challenge v24.07.10). Was its original listing a mistake?

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Jess Lee

@kelseyrh we realized we didn't have the bandwidth to coordinate a new frontend challenge while launching this one, so decided to remove it from this launch cycle. We will have a new frontend challenge for our next launch date on July 24!

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Jess Lee

Very excited about this one, good luck to everyone participating!

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Tiani Pierce

I actually have a question regarding ALL challenges, current, past, and future ones; what we make from them are we able to add them to our portfolio and still have them have weight to them for being a challenge from this community? Asking here because I never heard back from the email I sent and it’s been racking my brain. 😅😅 I’m wanting to utilize them to not only showcase my skills but to also showcase my growth and capabilities.
Also, this looks interesting, definitely going to check out Stellar.

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Jess Lee

@tiani91 not sure I fully understood your question, but you can definitely showcase your projects from any challenge on your portfolio! That's a great reason to tackle these.

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Tiani Pierce

That actually answered it, thank you very much Jess Lee!! Your comment is very much appreciated!!

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waseemclick • Edited

Whoa, that's really fascinating. I appreciate the details. Visit our website for further information if you need it. Car with driver service in Dubai

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waseemclick

Excellent chance to become familiar with smart contracts

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Jess Lee

Indeed!

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Mr. Algorithm

Hey, so I am working on the tutorial challenge
Do we have to create a website or something, I have an idea to make a website with a few tutorials over it and then can I use each tutorial as a separate entry?

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Lief Storer

@ravixalgorithm You could possibly put multiple tutorials in a single post and we can review each tutorial individually - so you don't have to put a bunch of submissions into the webform or in loads of posts on Dev.to.

That said, the upside of having multiple Dev.to posts is that you might be able to implement better SEO for builders that are looking to solve for issues.

Hope that makes sense and looking forward to see what you put together!

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Chris Anatalio

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waseemclick

The Smart Contract Challenge is something I'm very excited about! Test your abilities, be creative, and have a chance to win a portion of $50,000 in rewards. This is an amazing opportunity. It's the ideal opportunity to learn and show off your skills, regardless of whether you're a developer or just interested in blockchain technology. Let's get started.

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Morpheus

Have any of the winners already won the prize? I haven't received any news about it yet.

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Chieloka Madubugwu

Hello @jess, we haven't gotten the prize yet

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Jess Lee

@_0xmorpheus @chielokacodes we sent all winner information to our fulfillment team yesterday to begin the administrative process. It looks like those who opted for PayPal already received their prizes, while those who opted for wire transfers will need to wait a few more days for everything to process. We will be in touch via email if we need more information from you. Thanks for your patience!

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Shweta Kale • Edited

Is the prize awarded in cash or some other format?

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Lief Storer

Rewards are distributed in USD directly from Dev.to

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Shweta Kale

okay, thanks!!

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nursyah21

although I have never made an app using smart contracts but it seems very interesting to join

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Nacho Colomina Torregrosa

Really exited to participate !!

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Emmy Steven

I'm getting this $50K

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Augusto Domingos

Such a good opportunity. Working on it right now 💪🔥

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chintanonweb

Exited to participate !!

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Morpheus

@jess @peter @ben what's the next steps for the winners?

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Jess Lee

Hey @_0xmorpheus, you should have just received an email from us about prize fulfillment. Congrats again!

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Morpheus • Edited

can i submit more than one solution for this hacka in different themes ?

i want to send one solution w/ a team of 3 people and another team/idea just w/ me.

@jess @peter @ben

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Jess Lee

@_0xmorpheus sure can, just make sure each submission is a different post and that team members are clearly indicated on the appropriate one.

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Morpheus

thxxx

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Faith Amara

Thank you for this opportunity dev and stellar, though I am just seeing things. Just started my journey into web3. Definitely gonna explore this

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Kuberdenis

can we submit in multiple prompts (e.g. blog, video, dapp)?

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Chris Anatalio

🚀🚀🚀

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mohamed karim

Great work

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mohamed karim

That a great challenges

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Morpheus

the forms isn't working :/

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Jess Lee

@_0xmorpheus is the form working for you now?

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Morpheus

yes thank you!

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cauhlins

Hello organisers, I've got 2 questions.

1) I don't see the form on the linked page
2) Can I submit multiple entries?

Thank you.

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Jess Lee

Hi @onwuagba yes, you can submit multiple entires! Are you seeing the form now?

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Langham94

50+ 🍷🎨

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P Yogesh

If anyone is looking to team up or already has a team and need a member, Please reply to this or ping me on discord MrGeraffe #mrgeraffe

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Lief Storer

@mrgeraffe I saw on the #Dev-Hack Discord channel for this, Augusto Domingos was looking for a teammate for this if you want to connect on there.

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Hamza
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FrontEndWebDeveloping

Why'd you send a link to Rasheed?

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Jonathan Yong

Hello, everyone!

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TOMEGAH

Is it in team or anyone participate alone ?

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Md Shykat

Ummm..... Spicy