# Probably Nothing 198: DevConnect Cooldown

**Published by:** [Probably Nothing](https://pn.developerdao.com/)
**Published on:** 2025-11-24
**Categories:** hackathon, education, programming
**URL:** https://pn.developerdao.com/issue-198

## Content

This week, we have: Asset protection on DevNTell 👩🏽‍💻 An AI hackathon Community Wins D_D members from all around the globe had an awesome time at DevConnect in Buenos Aires! BillyJitsu with the winners of our WalletConnect Content Creation Contest! D_D squad @DevCon Upcoming Events DevNTell - The Future of Digital Asset Protection with American Fortress This week on DevNTell, Michal "MeHow" Pospieszalski, CEO of American Fortress, will be our guest. American Fortress is a platform that makes crypto transactions safer and easier by replacing long, risky wallet addresses with simple, human-readable names. Come learn about American Fortress and how to get started with the platform. Register to get notifications when the episode begins. 🧑🏻‍💻AI Partner Catalyst Hackathon – $75,000 in Prizes Await Calling all AI builders, cloud enthusiasts, and full-stack creators! The AI Partner Catalyst Hackathon is your chance to build groundbreaking applications using Google Cloud’s cutting-edge AI (Vertex AI, Gemini, etc.) together with industry leaders Datadog, Confluent, and ElevenLabs. Deadline: December 31, 2025, @ 11:00 pm GMT+1 Format: Fully online · Open to individuals & teams worldwide Total Prize Pool: $75,000 in cash + social media promotion for 1st-place winners Pick Your Challenge & Win Big Datadog Challenge Create a next-level observability system for an LLM-powered app. Utilize Vertex AI/Gemini and Datadog to stream telemetry, create intelligent dashboards, establish detection rules, and trigger actionable alerts/incidents. Confluent Challenge Power real-time AI with data in motion. Combine Confluent Cloud + Google Cloud ML to deliver live predictions, dynamic experiences, or solve real-world problems using streaming data. ElevenLabs Challenge Transform your app into a truly conversational experience. Integrate ElevenLabs Agents with Vertex AI or Gemini to enable natural, voice-first interaction — users talk, your app talks back like a human. Every submission must combine Google Cloud AI + the chosen partner’s technology. Prizes (Per Challenge Track) 🥇 1st Place: $12,500 + social media feature 🥈 2nd Place: $7,500 🥉 3rd Place: $5,000 That’s nine cash winners across three tracks! Ready to build the future? Register here if interested. 🤝 Community Highlights Last week on DevNTell, Joe Petrowski, Director of Runtime Engineering at Parity Technologies, was our guest. Parity Technologies focuses on the core engineering of Polkadot, overseeing all on-chain functionality and integrations, including staking, governance, bridges, smart contract execution environments, and cross-chain communication. You can catch up on the episode on our Spotify or Apple podcast, and mint and own it on Pods. Job Seekers Disclaimer: Please do your due diligence about a role posted here. @pluto_0x seeks frontend developers to implement a unique staking frontend in Next.js for an Ethereum/EVM project. Send a message in the D_D Discord if this interests you. @joisboss121 wants to connect with folks building hyperliquid trading bots. Initiatives DevConnect attendees Telegram Group If you're planning to attend DevConnect in Buenos Aires next month, a TG group has been set up for easy coordination between D_D members. The link is in the Discord Channel. D_D Cloud Incredibly, Ethereum is now 10 years old! All great things require time to mature, and, amazingly, it took a decade for an RPC option like D_D Cloud to emerge. We're putting the final touches on the first-ever hybrid cloud built for web3, and it’s almost showtime. Want front-row seats when the doors open? Join the waitlist & be the first to know. Developer DAO Ventures Founders: Scale Your Web3 or AI Product Faster. D_D Ventures partners with bold builders to reshape the future of decentralized tech and AI. We help early-stage teams like yours: Build smarter with Web3 and AI infrastructure expertise. Grow globally with proven strategies to amplify your reach. Got vision? Let’s talk. Contact us today to elevate your product to category leadership. D_D Arweave Gateway Delegate your ARIO tokens to our Arweave gateway, as we will share 10% of the rewards with you. You can delegate your ARIO tokens here. If you don't have ARIO tokens yet, visit the ar.io website to learn how to obtain them. Community News The Future of DeFi Curation: From Opaque Art to a Verifiable Science by @mannyornothing Ecosystem News Polymarket Seeks $12 Billion Valuation After Record-Breaking Month Polymarket is experiencing explosive growth as it chases a potential $12 billion valuation after two consecutive record-breaking months. The decentralized prediction platform handled more than $3 billion in trading volume in October, its busiest month ever, and is on track to reach $3.5 billion in November. Much of this surge came from the high-profile New York City mayoral election, which alone attracted nearly $430 million in bets. Top DEXs Aerodrome, Velodrome hit with front-end compromise Aerodrome, the top DEX on Base, and Velodrome, the leading DEX on Optimism, suffered a front-end compromise early Saturday morning, and urged users to use decentralized mirror links to access the platforms. The compromise comes nearly two years after a similar attack took down their front-ends in 2023. Billions in crypto liquidated as bitcoin crashes to $82,000 Bitcoin tumbled to $82,000, triggering nearly $2 billion in crypto liquidations within 24 hours, more than $1 billion of which came from BTC alone, marking its worst monthly drop since the 2022 Terra/Luna crash. With sentiment sinking into “extreme fear” and Bitcoin now down 34% from last month’s all-time high, analysts are warning that another crypto winter may be forming. WAGMI!

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