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This Week
Upcoming Events
DevNTell: How to use 0xCord with Chainlink VRF V2 both on-chain and off-chain (0xCord.com is a web3 infrastructure hub for developers ) presented by Gilad on Friday, April 21st, at 3:30 p.m. UTC. To join the event, register here.
D_D workshop: Using Cookbook to find smart contracts for your next dApp will be presented by @jackson_felty and @PSkinnerTech on Wednesday, April 19 from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM UTC. Register for the event here.
ETHGlobal: DDW is sending hackers to ETHGlobal in Lisbon, Portugal and will be giving $1000 to each selected hacker. The event takes place from May 12–14, 2023.
Hackathon Alert: @Axelar and @Flipside are organizing the Interchain Hackathon, and D_D members are invited. See the Initiative Updates section for more information.
Steward Council: The summary of the Steward Council meeting, which was held on April 14, 2023, can be found in this Discord thread.
Jobs of the Week
Lead Full Stack Engineer at Alkimiya
Mobile Frontend Developer (React Native) at Sesame
Frontend Developer Experience at Sesame
Junior Frontend Developer at Sesame
Community Highlights
D_D DevNTell: Spect's Web3 Forms presented by @chakra [video] [article]
D_D Workshop: How to create and deploy an SVG NFT on-chain presented by @velvet_shark
How to build Reddit's NFT Marketplace using Polygon and Paper by member @megabyte0x
A New Developer’s Bullet-Point Guide to Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies by member @0xfmoi.
Ecosystem
Bitcoin, Ether Turn Upward in a Busy Week of Ethereum and Inflation News
Ether Surges To 11-Month High Despite $2B In Pending Withdrawals
Dogecoin Surges 5.8% as Traders Anticipate Elon Musk's Next Move
Sweden Drives Final Nail Into Its Bitcoin Mining Industry With Tax Hike
Vitalik Says Ethereum Will Focus On Scalability Post-Shapella
Web2’s Lesson for AI: Decentralize to Protect Humanity
Bored Apes Drop 8% As Major Holder Exits
What's happening with Tornado Cash and Coinbase
Initiative Updates
Hackathon
The Mailchain hackathon concluded on April 14, 2023, with members participating. Sponsors are becoming more interested in the hackathon series, and it is gradually becoming a recurring sequence. The current hackathon guidelines are available on the Dev Dao Wiki.
Starter Kits development is to be rolled out for D_D members to contribute and as a resource for developers to get started quickly with projects. Please see the starter kit guidelines here as work on a demo starter kit is in progress.
Axelar and Flipside have partnered to bring you the Interchain Hackathon and are inviting D_D Members to participate. This is the perfect opportunity for those with a Web3 project or idea to take the leap and earn funding. The prize pool is $90,000, with a grand prize of $40,000 and a chance to get your project funded by industry leaders. See the #announcement channel for more details and the commencement of the hackathon.
Community
We are currently working out a biweekly schedule for community workshops, which will begin soon. The workshops will be experimental and depend on contributors' availability. A guideline for contributor payment and communication is being developed. Please keep an eye on this space as the process progresses.
D_D Women
The Sol.Ladies scholars head to Austin next Thursday, April 20, 2023. @scarlett | build pr3tti will be meeting them and getting IRL feedback on their experience.
In the future, DDW will prefer to select scholarship applicants who are relatively local over global applicants. US hackathons, for example, would prioritize US-based applicants, while European hackathons would prioritize Europe-based applicants, and so on. This information will be included in any future DDW-sponsored hackathons.
P3RKS
Get discounted access to world-class smart contract auditing from our friends @CyfrinAudits. Head to @getP3RKS, sign-up/login, connect your wallet, and follow the instructions to redeem.
D_D has partnered with @RoverX_io to bring NFTs to your mobile. All D_D members have been whitelisted for 3 months of free access to the Roverx mobile app. Head to @getP3RKS, sign-up/login and follow the instructions to redeem 🎉
Academy
The team discussed and agreed upon a vision for the next iteration of the Academy platform. The redesign will feature a sequential/linear project tracks page with three tracks focusing on an intro to Ethereum, building a tiered NFT, and building an ERC20 token.
The team aims to create a well-rounded learning platform with good aesthetics, functionality, user registration, progress saving, pedagogically sound content, and thoughtful quizzes, aligned with the initially set OKRs.
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