OpenBuild Dev Digest #33 | 2025 Insights, Hackathons & Opportunities
Jan 4 - Jan 10
Hey builders! OpenBuild Dev Digest #33 is your guide to 2025 and beyond.
Dive into crucial insights on institutional liquidity coming onchain, and discover how innovative solutions can address cross-chain challenges. Plus, don't miss out on upcoming hackathons and bounties programs.
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Electroneum Hackathon 2025
📅 January 8, 2025 – March 8, 2025 📍Online 💸 52,500USD Apply
Electroneum is a fast, low cost, and secure smart contract platform built on a unique IBFT consensus protocol. Electroneum is a Solidity & Vyper compatible chain and you can easily get started building with tools you’re already familiar with: Remix, Truffle, and MetaMask. We’re calling on you to build a working software application that integrates with the Electroneum blockchain!
Gear Mega Hackathon
📅 January 10, 2025 – January 12, 2025 📍Online 💸 10,000 USD Apply
Gear Mega Hackathon is for developers, designers, project leaders, or Web3 technology enthusiasts! Get ready to showcase your skills in a competitive and collaborative environment at the Vara Mega Hackathon, which will take place in Mexico City from January 10 to 12, 2025. With multiple physical venues in Mexico and online participation worldwide, you’ll have the chance to build innovative solutions using emerging technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence, and more.
Desci Mania at Zo
📅 January 14, 2025 – February 12, 2025 📍Online 💸 2,700 USD Apply
A month-long hybrid hackathon experience aimed at catalyzing innovation in the Decentralised Science (DeSci) ecosystem. This event leverages Zo Houses as IRL nodes to create a unique phygital hackathon experience.
✍️ Stop Making Me Bridge: A Look at Crypto’s Cross-Chain Failures (and How to Fix Them)👉Read(EN)
An article produced by Cumberland delves into the complexities of cross-chain bridging and the potential of “intents” to address its most pressing challenges. Traditional bridging often involves multiple steps—locking tokens on one chain, minting wrapped assets on another, and managing risk along the way. According to the piece, “intents” shift this burden away from the end-user by allowing them to specify a desired outcome, such as exchanging one asset for another on a different network, without juggling the underlying processes themselves. This model proposes that once a user submits an intent, specialized entities or protocols (often referred to as “solvers”) handle the routing, liquidity sourcing, and final settlement, essentially hiding much of the current complexity behind a more user-friendly interface.
✍️ Frontier Ideas For 2025 by Multicoin Capital 👉Read(EN)
2025 is poised to be a pivotal year for the industry. The path to the first pro-crypto regulatory framework, combined with the technical maturity of Layer 1 blockchains, DeFi protocols, DePIN networks, and stablecoins, is creating fertile ground for the next wave of frontier innovations.
✍️ 2025 will be the year we see real, deep institutional liquidity come onchain.👉Read(EN)
2025 will be the year we see real, deep institutional liquidity come onchain.
The stage is set:
- New admin is extremely pro crypto.
- CEX-level performance environments & primitives that live entirely onchain (Mega & GTE)
- Real retail demand happening entirely onchain (Phantom > Coinbase downloads, Photon / Pump fees, etc)
The stars had to align like above for this to happen. But now, it is inevitable.
Around the world, users will get deep, liquid trading venues, while exchanges minimize counterparty risk by verifying finance onchain.
This will be called the ‘great liquidity migration.’
💸 Deri Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $10,000 👉 Apply
The Deri Protocol is the DeFi way to trade derivatives: to hedge, to speculate, to arbitrage, all on-chain.The goal of this Bug Bounty Program is to encourage responsible security research by providing incentives for finding and reporting vulnerabilities in the Deri Protocol codebase and related systems.
💸 Uniswap Labs Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $15,500,000 👉 Apply
The Uniswap Protocol is a peer-to-peer system designed for the swapping of value.The Program includes vulnerabilities and bugs in the latest deployed versions of the specified Uniswap contracts below, and commit b619b67 of the specified undeployed v4-core contracts.
💸 Hibachi Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $40,000 👉 Apply
Hibachi is a DeFi trading platform built for professionals, secured by zk math, and powered by Celestia, Risc Zero and Hashflow. Rewards are distributed according to the impact of the vulnerability based on the Immunefi Vulnerability Severity Classification System V2.3.
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