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👩‍💻 Phala Hackathon Series Kick-off, D_D Fridays, and more 😎

📅 This Week

Kick-off: D_D x Phala Network Hackathon Series

• Get ready to build, learn, and win big prizes in the D_D x @Phalanetwork two-part hack series. Watch the teaser video here!

• Let’s unpack what the 2 parts are all about, and how you can participate👇

Part 1: Phala x Lens Protocol API Oracle Challenge

1. Kick-off Workshop: Reward Your Social Media Users with LensAPI Oracle — Tue, Aug 22, 5pm UTC, hosted by Billy Jitsu and Joshua. Register here.

   

2. Hack: LensAPI Oracle Challenge — from Thu, Aug 24 to Sat, Aug 26. Sign up here to receive a D_D NFT with which you can access Discord where you can look to form a team or just vibe 😎.

• Hacking rewards:

  • 💰$2k in bounty prizes

  • 🧑‍🚀Access to D_D Discord

  • 🔥Airdrop for mainnet deploys in the second part of the hackathon

• Full details on Part 1: Phala x Lens Protocol API Oracle Challenge here👇

Part 2: Phat Functions Mainnet Hack

1. Kick-off Workshop: Phala Deep Dive — Mon, Sep 4. Full details and RSVPs will be released after the first hack.

2. Hack: Phat Functions Mainnet Hack — from Wed, Sep 6 to Mon, Sep 11.

• Hacking rewards:

  • 💵 $11,000 more in bounties and merch

  • 🚀 Mainnet deploys funded by @phalanetwork

• Good luck to everyone participating, let’s BUIDL 🏗️!

Other Upcoming Events

• D_D DevNTell: Buildshare — Fri, Aug 25, 3:30pm UTC. In this week's episode, D_D member Mattia Pomelli will give us an overview of Buildshare. Register here.

• D_D Fridays — Fri, Aug 25, 5pm UTC. Come vibe, hang, and play games with other D_D members. This event is part of a series, register for this week’s hang here.

D_D Job Board

• Learning Designer for Web3 Bootcamps and Courses at Rise In

• Part-time developer at WeMintArt

• Backend Developer — Golang, JS, TS at Cashmere Labs

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🤝 Community Highlights

• D_D DevNTell: Hosting Decentralized Frontends with dAppling Network [video] [article]

• D_D Workshop: Learn the Ins and outs of Postman with Manny and Billy Jitsu

• Lens Social Explorer by @dabit3

• Build on Base with Account Abstraction by @Rahatcodes

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📰 Ecosystem News

• Social tokenization protocol friend.tech becomes top revenue maker among crypto protocols in just over two weeks

  

• Coinbase wins approval to offer crypto futures to US clients, becoming the first regulated entity in the US to offer both spot and futures trading

• MakerDAO’s money market Spark Protocol maxes out $200m DAI debt ceiling as decentralized stablecoin sector heats up

• Sam Bankman-Fried goes to jail after a federal judge revokes his bond

• Liquidations all around in a tumultuous week for crypto:

  • Crypto traders suffer $1bn in liquidations in sharp sell-off for Bitcoin, Ether

  • Single trader loses $55m on Ether long

  • Binance bridge hacker hit by $30m liquidation on Venus

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😎 WAGMI

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