Dates: 24th - 26 November

What to build:

​Celo x Opera MiniPay   (Bounty: $3000)

​Celo Foundation is excited to announce a $3,000 cUSD prize pool for developers building real-world use cases on Celo, with a specific focus on Opera Minipay.

​With the recent launch of MiniPay, a lightweight payments wallet built into the Opera Mini browser and powered by Celo, there is an opportunity for developers to leverage this new infrastructure to create meaningful applications.

​Some key details on Opera MiniPay: it is a 2 megabyte self-custodial stablecoin wallet that allows instant sending and receiving of transactions with sub-cent fees, it is integrated directly into Opera Mini, the popular Android browser, and it introduces Celo and stablecoin payments to millions of users across Africa.

​Onramp solutions like Fonbnk allow users to easily purchase cUSD using local currencies.

• ​Prize Pool: The $3,000 prize pool can be allocated to a single project or split between multiple projects based on the judging criteria below.

• ​Types of Ideas: Please see 'ideas to inspire you below' Categories include: Mobile banking, loyalty/rewards program, payments at merchants, microinsurance, microlending, prediction markets, mobile gaming, cross-border remittances

• ​Requirements: Code must be deployed on Celo Testnet (Alfajores) or Celo Mainnet

• ​Judging Criteria:

  • ​Innovation

  • ​Ease of use (UX)

  • ​Fit for the Mento ecosystem

  • ​Economic viability  Developers should think creatively about how to integrate and build on top of MiniPay to drive adoption and use cases. Reach out to the Celo Foundation with any questions!

​Carbonhood x Celo (Bounty: $3000)

​Carbonhood is a DeFi exchange built on Celo that allows both swaps and leverage trading. Traders have access to Forex (cUSD, cEUR, cReal), Crypto and Carbon markets.

​Carbonhood is looking for 1) trading strategies or 2) trading pools to compliment the exchange.

• ​Prize Pool: $3,000 cUSD (can be allocated to a single or multiple projects based on judging criteria) 

• ​Description / Types of ideas: Create applications that enhance the Carbonhood platform. These include:

  • ​On-chain automated trading strategies

  • ​Dashboards for tracking LP (liquidity provider) performance

  • ​Hedging tools and strategies for LPs

  • ​Tools for traders to build their own automated on chain trading strategies

• ​Requirements: Needs to use Carbonhood or compliment Carbonhood and be built on Celo

• ​Judging Criteria:

  • ​Strategy PnL

  • ​Usefulness of tool

  • ​Innovation of trading tool

​Mento Labs  (Bounty: $3000)

​Mento Labs is looking for innovative ideas for the algorithmic cStablecoins (cUSD, cEUR, cReal) built on Celo. 

• ​Prize Pool: $3,000 cUSD (can be allocated to a single or multiple projects based on judging criteria) 

• ​Description / Types of ideas: Create innovative applications using Mento Stablecoins (cUSD, cEUR, cReal, cXOF) on Celo. We're looking for DEXs, payment solutions, yield solutions and other innovative ideas for payments, remittances, FX, lending and borrowing with the Mento Stable Assets 

• ​Requirements: Needs to be an application that uses Mento Stable Assets or direct improvements of the decentralized Mento platform. 

• ​Judging Criteria:

  • ​Innovation

  • ​Ease of use (UX)

  • ​Fit for the Mento ecosystem

  • ​Economic viability  

​Envio.dev  (Bounty: $1000)

​Envio is offering prizes to projects that use Envio as their Indexer for their querying their on-chain data. The indexed data is easily accessible through GraphQL queries, providing developers with the flexibility and power to retrieve specific information from the Celo blockchain.To get started with Envio, developers can utilize the Envio CLI, allowing for easy configuration and execution of the indexer.  Envio offers automatic code generation and flexible language support. Resources: [Envio Installation] [Envio Quickstart] [Envio Example (UniswapV3 swaps)]

​Prizes will be distributed as follows:

• ​$500 distributed evenly to all teams building on Envio

• ​Specific team prizes

• ​1st prize $300

• ​2nd prize $150

• ​3rd prize $100

Project and Submission Requirements

Each project needs to submit:

• ​3-5 minute demo of product or trading strategy performance (live or backtested)

   

• A link to GitHub repo

• Instructions of how to test the product (or trading strategy)