Polygon is pleased to announce the hackathon winners of Polygon Bootcamp Africa 2022, launched in partnership with Nigerian startup Xend Finance.
Developers in Africa showed up in a big way for Polygon’s first continent-wide bootcamp and hackathon combo: more than 5,400 applications were received from 43 countries for two tracks, Beginner and Master.
Eight weeks later, the stats are in:
The bootcamp culminated with a Hackathon Winners Livestream on Dec.19, a must-watch celebration of developers.
To all the participants who spent hours honing the skills they need to build a more decentralized, creator-centric future on Polygon: thank you. A big shout-out for the time and commitment you put into this program. Polygon is playing its part in supporting the builders of the future: from India to Asia-Pacific, and now Africa. The future web is decentralized, built with the most performant Ethereum scaling solutions, and on the Polygon network.
So please help us congratulate the winning hackathon projects!
The top three beginner projects will take home $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively, while the 10 runner-ups will receive $500 each.
The top three mastery projects will take home $10,000, $7,000 and $5,000, respectively, and the next 15 runner-ups will receive $750 each.
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