OpenBuild Dev Digest #38 | AI Hacks, Ethereum Open Intents, and BTC Lending Evolve
Feb 15 - Feb 21
Welcome to OpenBuild Dev Digest #38, your concise guide to the latest developments in the Web3 space.
This week, we're highlighting exciting AI hackathons on BNB Chain and beyond, unveiling the Ethereum Foundation's new Open Intents Framework for seamless cross-chain transfers, and exploring the evolving landscape of BTC-backed lending. Plus, discover new opportunities for building full-stack onchain apps and browse the latest grant and bounty programs.
BNB AI Hack: Hack the Future of AI on BNB Chain
📅 February 12 – 📍Online 💸 700,000 USD Apply
BNB Chain’s Vision as an AI-First Blockchain Ecosystem. We are excited to introduce the BNB AI Hack, a dynamic and flexible event designed to foster the adoption of AI technologies on the BNB Chain. This hackathon is open on an ongoing basis, allowing projects to sign up and participate at their own pace, whenever they're ready. It’s a unique opportunity for top-tier talent from universities, builder communities, innovative projects, and industry leaders to collaborate and push the boundaries of AI and blockchain.
The Verifiable AI Hackathon
📅 February 19 – May 4 📍Online 💸 50,000 USD Apply
AI is transforming the world but fostering distrust due to its use in scams and manipulation. Deepfakes and impersonations are real-world examples of this threat. The core issue is ensuring AI's trustworthiness and ethical use, not just its advancement. The AI TruthRise Hackathon aims to build verifiable, secure, and ethical AI systems. This involves creating transparent agents, authenticating content, and verifying datasets. Ultimately, the goal is to rebuild trust in an AI-driven world by fostering trust-first AI ecosystems.
Build & Brew - Espresso Global Hackathon
📅 February 21 – April 2 📍Online 💸 100,000 USD Apply
Espresso is hosting Build & Brew, a hackathon focused on composability for Ethereum, with $100k in prizes. Espresso aims to create a world where chains seamlessly interact, unified by its speed and security. This hackathon is designed to bring chains and applications to life on Espresso. It seeks to engage builders who will shape the future of composability and developer experience. The goal is to unlock a new era of cross-chain applications powered by Espresso. This is the first in a series of hackathons to achieve this vision.
✍️ Ethereum Foundation: Announcing the Open Intents Framework 👉Read(EN)
The Open Intents Framework aims to accelerate ecosystem-wide interop on Ethereum by simplifying cross-chain asset transfers. It's a modular, open framework designed to make intents seamless across all chains, improving user experience. Instead of building intents from scratch, developers can collaborate and innovate on shared intent infrastructure. The framework modularizes components like solving and settlement, offering flexibility and preventing vendor lock-in. It is live today and supported by various L2s, wallets, and infrastructure providers. Developers can now easily integrate and scale intents using this framework.
✍️ Introducing: Prompt full-stack apps on base in seconds 👉Read(EN)
Base is encouraging the creation of more mini-apps and Base-based apps using the OnchainKit suite. OnchainKit aims to bring more users onchain, regardless of their technical skill. Building occurs on Base, and OnchainKit can be easily integrated through prompts or manual selection. Developers can mention "Base" for automatic inference or add "OnchainKit" to the prompt. The project encourages developers to star the OnchainKit repository on GitHub. This initiative is made possible by the combined efforts of OnchainKit and Base teams.
✍️ The New Era of BTC-Backed Loans 👉Read(EN)
The collapse of crypto CeFi lending giants like BlockFi and Genesis made "CeFi lending" a cautionary phrase, leaving the space dormant for some time. Their failures stemmed from multiple issues: lack of transparency, rehypothecation of collateral, issuing undercollateralized loans, and maturity mismatches, to name a few.Today’s CeFi lending model has evolved significantly, offering lenders greater control and visibility.
💸 Spectral Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $100,000 👉 Apply
Spectral is building the future of DeFAI—a world where anyone can deploy swarms of autonomous on-chain AI agents that collaborate to achieve specific objectives for the community.Rewards are distributed according to the impact of the vulnerability based on the Immunefi Vulnerability Severity Classification System V2.3.
💸 Pyth Network Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $250,000 👉 Apply
Pyth Network is the largest and fastest-growing first-party oracle network.Rewards are distributed according to the impact of the vulnerability based on the Immunefi Vulnerability Severity Classification System V2.3.
💸 Panoptic Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $250,000 👉 Apply
Panoptic is a decentralized and permissionless options trading protocol built on Uniswap V3 and V4.Instead of relying on thin and centralized order books, Panoptic takes the form of an advanced lending market for Uniswap positions.
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