<aside> 👉🏻 As part of Bifrost’s strategic initiative in fostering innovation within its ecosystem, we will be actively participating in Hackathons and partnering with third party developer community programs.

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Objectives

• Increase developer awareness of building on Bifrost and engaging with the developer community.
• Build products and primitives that compliment the Bifrost ecosystem of liquid staking and primitives that can leverage off the Bifrost infrastructure.
• Educate developers about how they can integrate Bifrost into their protocols.

Guidelines

• Bifrost will consider participating in Polkadot led hackathons whereby a Bifrost led bounty and/or joint bounty with a partner project will be issued.
  • Single and Joint bounty initiative budget - $1,000 to $2,500 worth in BNC.
• Bifrost will consider hosting its own specific hackathon with third party partners such as DoraHacks and developer communities such as Oneblock.
  • Bifrost led hackathons $25,000 worth of prizes in BNC.
  • Developer community partnerships - open for strategic collaborations.

Builder tracks and ideas

Here are a few types of builder tracks that we are pushing in hackathons :

• Product expansion
• Consumer adoption
• Data Analytics and Dashboard

<aside> 💡 Our key resources to read are : SLPx Integration and Our Omni Chain Liquid Staking Vision

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Recent initiatives recap

• Bifrost single bounty at the Encode x Polkadot Spring 2023 Hackathon .
• Bifrost single bounty at the Polkadot Decoded 2023 Encode Hackathon in Copenhagen.
• Joint bounty with Astar at the Polkadot Hackathon 2023 Summer hosted by OneBlock and Parity.
• Joint bounty with Moonbeam at the Polkadot Hackathon APAC Edition 2023 .