Probably Nothing 130: Writing Competition & Hackathon

The submissions for the Aptos writing competition are due this week, so don't forget to submit them! We also hosted two workshops with Aptos; check them out if you want to participate in the Aptos Code Collision hackathon.

Also, a D_D OG got married!!!

In this week's episode of DevNTell, Brittany Madruga, Co-founder of Across Protocol: an interoperability protocol powered by intents, will present Across Protocol.

​Viewers of this session will learn about Across at a high level, including the concept of intents, what makes Across' architecture special, and how they're currently approaching interoperability in the web3 space.

Join us this Friday, July 26, at 3:30 pm UTC.

Register here and add the event to your calendar to avoid missing this exciting session.

We are at the final lap of the Move on Aptos writing competition, with a prize pool of $10,000 distributed to 20 winners.

Submissions are due on Monday, July 22, by 11:59 UTC. 

Check out the submission guidelines here and submit your blog post article here.

@Aptos  is organizing its first-ever online global hackathon, #CodeCollision. #CodeCollision consists of 5 deep-dive tracks and 3 level-up bounties with dozens of events.

Register to hack and win from a prize pool of $500k. Register here.

Watch our just concluded Aptos workshops to prepare you to participate in the upcoming #CodeCollision hackathon. We are excited about what you will build.

Last week, the Aptos Lab Team presented two workshops that served as context for the Move on Aptos Writing Competition. Brain Li presented on getting started with Aptos Move, and Angie Huang presented on building a Dapp on Aptos. 

Getting Started with Move On Aptos

Watch the first workshop here

Building a DApp on Aptos

Watch Angie Huang's presentation here.

Our collaboration with Aptos Lab is to find and support the next-gen content creators in the Aptos ecosystem. So watch these workshops and all our Aptos-related materials to get started on that journey.

Last week, DevNTell was rescheduled to August 23 because of technical difficulties. Patrick Skinner, Lead DevRel at Forward Research (and an OG D_D member), will present AO, The decentralized hyper-parallel virtual computer built on Arweave.

Register here

We Congratulate our D_D members (@codingwithmanny, @rouss, and @saugardev )  for their wins at EthGlobal Brussels.

@codingwithmanny for winning $2000 in the Best use of the Polygon SDK Category with the app OnlyFarts.

@rouss and @saugardev for winning in the following categories

@0xPolygon Best AggLayer Bridge implementation

@dynamic_xyz Best SocialFi project

@ChronicleLabs Defi Track 2nd

@blockscoutcom Best use of their explorer

Congratulations!!!!!

Check out The Immutable Framework Github repo for creating immutable web apps that are secure and resilient against server-side attacks and censorship by D_D member @hazae41.

@PSkinnerTech goes on tour across 6 Asia cities with the message of AO. Join him here.

First on-chain wedding as @camiinthisthang got married!!!

Congratulations!

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