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OneBlock The 2023 Polkadot Summer Hackathon proposal
This proposal aimed to provide funding for the 2023 Polkadot Summer Hackathon by Oneblock in China - for operations and prizes. OneBlock, in collaboration with Parity Asia, successfully organized, operated and promoted the four Polkadot Hackathons in March 2021,June 2021,June 2022 and December 2022. OneBlock proposed to continue the Polkadot Hackathon program in summer 2023, an essential part of the Substrate promotion and adoption initiatives in China, to promote Substrate as an open-source framework for developers and convert the Substrate learners from OneBlock’s ongoing Substrate courses to Substrate builders.
Current Progress and Comments:
Allegedly, 300000 USD worth of DOT tokens were given away as prizes and the rest was used for the organization of the event. This makes the Summer hackaton to have one of the highest prices in all hackathons across all ecosystems. From the list of all hackathon participants and winners (https://archive.ph/BRN9c), we can see that most of the names have not been heard of ever since. It is important to question the impact these funds on the broader pool of potential developers. It is also important to evaluate how many of the previous hackathon participants since March 2021 had any influence on the broader ecosystem on any shape or form.
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