POLKADOT BUILDATHON IN INDIA

Polkadot Buildathon: India is an India-focused hackathon that aims to enable coders and entrepreneurs to create the technology needed for the next phase of the internet, with a prize pool of US$14,000.

Presented by Web3 Foundation Switzerland in association with Lumos Labs, it offers workshops and networking opportunities with leading international blockchain developers, running from March 30th to May 30th, 2021.

The Polkadot Network was launched in May 2020 by Web3 Foundation, a Swiss organization dedicated to supporting the research and development of Web 3.0. Co-founded by Dr. Gavin Wood, co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum, Polkadot is a next-generation blockchain and layer-0 protocol that unites multiple specialized blockchains into a unified, scalable network. Polkadot is built using Substrate, a blockchain-building framework that makes it easy to create a blockchain optimized for any use case.

Learn blockchain technology

In recognition of India’s reputation at the forefront of software development, Polkadot Buildathon: India aims to support the development of a thriving blockchain ecosystem on the continent. The hackathon will provide workshops and networking opportunities to teach participants the skills to develop blockchain technology and generate big ideas for the decentralized web.

Focusing on Substrate, Polkadot and Kusama, Polkadot’s canary network, the hackathon caters to both developers who are new to blockchain and those who want to build on their experience in this area. The Polkadot Buildathon will run over nine weeks in two phases.

LUMUS LABS

Lumos Labs is an innovation management firm specialising in running technology open innovation programs in India.They work to help innovative early-stage startups enter the growth phase.

POLKADOT

Polkadot is a scalable sharded chain and the first protocol that provides a secure environment for cross-chain composability across multiple shards. Polkadot also introduces a highly advanced, open governance system that will allow the network to innovate and grow at a much more rapid pace than legacy networks.

⬇️DETAILS:

https://medium.com/polkadot-network/join-the-polkadot-buildathon-india-95f5dadb5660