Hello everyone, welcome welcome.
We'll give folks just a couple more minutes to join.
It's good to see everyone.
Hi, I am here. Can you hear me? We can. Hello, welcome. Hello, hello. Welcome, Daniel Eric, Lena Nester. Hi, everyone. How are you?
Great. Are you all in consensus? I'm not, but I think a lot of us actually are on the ground. So if anyone's listening and is that consensus, come
Come check out some of the programming in the Reefi house. Yeah, I saw it. It's really, really amazing. What like, what are your highlights that you're really sad you're gonna miss?
Oh, I personally, and I always miss meeting everyone in person. I think it's always such good energy to chat with people IRL, but actually Nester maybe can give us a recap because I think Nester is actually on the ground while we're waiting for people to join.
Yes, I am. I am in consensus and I am in the Rify House right now. Nice live reporting live from the ground.
Yeah, if I have house is pretty good if you are down here please come and check it out
I think we can start kicking this off since we only have 30 minutes. I want to make sure we get to our content. So thank you everyone so much for joining and for attending. This today we're going to talk about BWC Hackathon series.
And just wanted to remind everyone that we'll take some questions at the end. But if you have questions coming up as you're listening to this, feel free to comment on this post, the post for this Twitter space, and then we can go ahead and read them out at the end, or you can ask them yourself at the very end.
And I think we can kick it off. So I want to first kick this off by introducing everyone. And I will pass this over first to Daniel just to introduce yourself to the group and then we'll go in the group and then we'll get starting
with the actual programming. Yeah, of course. So first happy to be here. I'm Daniel Olarte. I am part of the Developmental Foundation and along with Anna I support Hackathon. So we'll
be the faces you'll see online hackathons and IRL hackathons as well. Yeah, that's pretty much me. I'll talk a little bit about what BWC is in a bit. Yeah.
Sweet. Maybe we can have Eric.
Hey everybody, I'm Eric, I was part of the DevRel team, etc. to talk about hackathons and some of the changes and ideas that we have for this new series to really help our developer community build something.
and turn it into hopefully a project that a lot of people can use. So thanks everybody. Thanks to all the people joining to speak, looking forward to this conversation. - Sweet. Maybe Nester can go next.
Sure, hi everyone. I'm Nestor Mania, part also of the double team. And yeah, we're gonna be here to support you in any technical question that you have.
Yeah, I'm in Kagadans. Amazing. And a very welcome to our special guest, Lena, please introduce yourself and welcome. Hi, I'm Lena. I am developer advocate for Tukun and I am building a lot of developer Tukun.
so people can retire tokens using token on C-Law right now and I'm so excited for this hackathon. So if you have any questions, how to use token technology infrastructure tools in the upcoming hackathon, feel always really, really invited to reach out to me.
and I'm very happy to answer all your questions and support you. Sweet, I'm excited to dig into what that means. But first, I want to give the space to Daniel to actually introduce the BWC series and maybe tell us what it is and what can you expect from this.
Yeah, happy to do it. I have some notes here, but I'm hoping I can be brave so we can give more of it most of the time to Lena to talk about what to can has for us. But yeah, what is BWC, BWC stands for Build With, Cello? This is
an old name but a fresh new program that offers monthly opportunities for developers to hackers to try new tech and for project creators to iterate on their work.
So we are planning as years of four hackathons Actually if you go to our website BWC that sell that all RG you will see that we have four hackathons listed there The first one was just launched registrations are open right now
And the first one is on tokenized carbon, along with Tukan and the reason for this Twitter space. But yeah, every month, so that the first one with Tukan is actually the May hackathon. Every month we'll have a different theme.
tech to work with. So stay tuned for the themes for June, July and August. And then also stay tuned because after August we are preparing a big surprise for all of you. But basically again just to recap this is an opportunity for people to kind of like iterate on their work or come up with new ideas.
using the different tech we will make available each month. Let's see, I guess so much specific details that might be really important for folks to keep in mind is that this is, I believe I
shorter version of hackathon for us we usually do longer hackathons. So every month you can think about this hackathon is happening in the first two weeks of the month we are actually launching it a little earlier so for for may for example we launched this hackathon on April 22 to celebrate of course
Earth Day and we will try to do that. So around the 20th of May we'll be launching the version for June and then folks have until mid until mid-month to submit their their projects. So in the case
of these hackathon that tokenized carbon hackathon with Tukun folks have until 11, 59 PM, BST time on May 14th to submit their projects. A few other details before I added someone else talk.
So everyone is welcome to apply. You can apply of course with a new idea as long as you build it within the time frame of the month. Or as I said, you can bring, uh, approach you, you're working on as long as you're building a new component for your project within the same time frame of the month. So something super important that I
I want to mention here is that you need to submit a short video of four minutes max, a demo link, and a link to your GitHub repository to be eligible for prices. And on prices, and with this, I will end my part. We have set aside
20k USD, 20k USD each month for prices. For this first iteration we have a first price of 5k USD, a second price of 3k USD, a third price of 2k USD, and then finally we have a pool price
of 10k to be divided among the next 10 finalists, so 1000 COZ each. So we designed this price structure to our world as many prices as possible and basically support builders as they kind of like try to create something new.
So with that, I think that Anna, you can take it away. But yeah, I believe that's kind of like a good overview of the BWC Hexpin. Sweet. Thank you so much. Yeah, you kind of touched on this a little bit, but I'm also interested to hear maybe from Eric. I know we run a lot of Marquis Hakathons in the past, but how
and why are we doing this now? And what are we hoping to kind of let people have this fias opportunity for? Yeah, no, Terri, thank you Anna. So one of the things we learn from running some of the larger hackathons is people want more time. Well, people, it's two things. People want to
They want prizes sooner, right? They want to win something sooner, but they need more time to build often, you know, a project that they can turn into something real. And one of the things that we came up with or solutions we came up with to help solve this is to run a series of these throughout the year so that people have more of a running start for a
a larger Marquis Hakathon at the end of the year. So with the series with Build With Sello, we want folks to really bring their ideas, build them together with the support of our team or devral folks and bringing in partners like Tukan and Lena here.
and helping them understand how can they build something or integrate something like, especially around the region, concepts, how do you actually integrate those into a project? Because if you get people using projects like Tuken, we think that one, it gets more usability for a project built on Solo, which is great.
And also it helps them to think through potentially using a project that they might not have considered before. And so if you've ever been to a physical hackathon, in many cases you have partners that offer prizes and things like that, they want you to build on their platform to familiarize yourself with that. So we're taking a concept of that. But by stringing it out over time, we think that people can, for example,
build like a login component in month one and then in month two maybe they build in their you know some sort of protocol piece integrating to can or another partner and then someone and so forth. Now folks that join on at the beginning will have a little bit of an advantage but the reality is some hackathons I can go to like an e-th global hackathon. Those
So, we actually think giving folks multiple opportunities to work on a project, and in many cases some folks aren't able to do this full time, so maybe they're moonlighting or they're doing this on the weekends and evenings, giving them that opportunity to build that through the course of several months, hopefully,
Hopefully will give them more confidence in their project, give them some chances to kind of iterate and test certain things. And then with the prize pool component of our hackathon, we think that if you're dedicating two weeks to build these things, it's not for nothing, right? It gives you a small chance, a high chance
a large chance actually for a small prize but a reasonable opportunity to really kind of wow the judges and get a chance to get some funding to potentially spend more time on these projects. So we're really looking to kind of react and respond to the kind of
changing nature of how we see hackathons evolving. And we want to shorten the overall period of time that people are building, but do it periodically so that at the end, I don't want to spoil it for Daniel here, but at the end of this, they have a bigger opportunity to really launch something that hopefully
gives them a chance to run something, show off some skills, right? They could potentially raise money after one of the larger hackathons at the end of the year and really prove it to themselves. And one of the things we've also seen with some of the hackathon participants in the past is they go on to find a job. Not everybody's looking to start a
company, some people are really looking to level and skill up and then find a job in the cello ecosystem. So we're trying to do a lot of things here, but really we want to do it over time and also provide the support over time. But in a more compartmentalized manner where it's not just one, two, three, four months
long hackathon that's just a lot of work, but little bite size so that it gives them an opportunity to build, demonstrate, potentially win prizes, and then kind of keep going throughout, you know, try again and again and again and again. And when you build a company, you know that the work is never done, and you know that you're always adding new features, you're always modifying things, you're always improving
things and so we want to reflect the reality of like what life outside you know it is really like and we're hoping that this works out so we're excited for folks who are on this call and anybody that's listening later through one of the recordings and we are again excited about partners like like to can and I'll pause in a little bit and like you know had the back to to ask
But we think that giving a hackathon plus a showcase to allow folks to try some new things and talk to the people actually building on these partner protocols can give a lot of the developers a kind of a leg up in terms of how fast you can build a solution. So really excited. You've got a lot of
a lot of people rooting for you folks and we're looking forward to seeing what people build and supporting you folks throughout this journey. And so yeah, thanks all. Yeah, I'm personally really excited about the iterative nature of this. I think that's going to be a really interesting format for us to experiment with. And I want to
of gears to what is this first series about. So we introduced that this is going to be a four-part mini series. And the first one, Daniel already mentioned, is going to be all about building tokenized carbon with 2Kan. So actually when I hand it off to Lena to explain kind of what is 2Kan in general for those maybe who are not familiar and what is tokenized carbon
is built in tokenized carbon on salamine. Hi, yes, of course, first of all I just want to like say again how much I love hecka fans and Eric also what you said about how many different opportunities that can give also it's finding jobs or just like app-skilling
I mean, I love hackathons. I'm so happy you're doing this. We're doing this together. But yeah, what is Tukin? So Tukin create infrastructure to facilitate, set us up all to tokenize carbon credits. That means like taking carbon credits from traditional registries
is being on the blockchain which makes it just way more accessible to trade and to buy and sell carbon credits without having to rely on middleman or carbon brokers. And then also we provide
because like this provides you with infrastructure to create carbon-created marketplaces for like bigger or smaller clients, we provide tools to create carbon pools which actually solve liquidity issues. So that is
like a huge issue in traditional carbon credit markets. And then also we provide this open climate registry which makes like net zero claims much more transparent or like better because now companies can actually say like hey everybody can see
what we were tired from what projects and so you don't like you can prove it way better and can like again fight against the stigma of just greenwashing because you can actually like just like very transparently show what kind of credits you were tired which was really
cool. Yeah, so that's too can. And I think, yeah, well, I was actually going to just follow up with that. So this is what kind of projects can, can you give me some examples of what kinds of projects you're really excited
about for people to build. Yes. What kind of possible to build on to you can. Of course. Yeah, based on what I just explained what we offer. First of all, you can like super easily now that you can buy and sell a carbon credit. So easy, you can just set up a carbon stock
front where you can sell credits that are available in our pools. You can also just create automated that you automatically buy the carbon credits or like trigger something, for example, if you have an e-commerce platform for every
buy everything. I tend somebody buys you offset something or if you build the Web 3 Uber or whatever, you can just trigger automatically offsetting retirement credit. You can also
You can also develop improved pull design, which would also solve the tendency for the price to drift downwards. And then, as I already said, you can make better net zero claims. So what we're looking for is boards that show, for example,
create leaderboards for organizations or also work with our partners and figure out what are certain standards and that it's not only like who retired how much carbon but like really look into what kind of credits have what kind of message are
and villages and for fill which kind of standards and kind of like based on that build leaderboards or help certificates and what you can also do would also be like a social climate
app and it includes a social protocol where people can show off their climate impact. So I think this is like already a great, great broad range. And then of course what we also very, very excited for is people actually
building up on two-kins infrastructure tools, like using taking our smart contracts and building new smart contracts that reference these. Like, for example, create auto-retire contract
that just like automatically whenever somebody would send some tokens to that contract, the contract would buy full tokens and retire them. Or what would also be excited to see what kind of defied solutions you would come up with, like
how it's like how it's currently integrated in DeFi protocols and how to bring more utility to tokenized cabins. Like what you can also do is go to our blog. We already highlight a lot of our partners.
So you can see what kind of projects already exist, what kind of marketplaces have been built in which which ones you think are really missing in the ecosystem. So yeah, there's so much I have more ideas in here. So like please always just come to me come with your idea and we can figure out how to better
But yeah, if you want to have a very simple example, I don't know maybe Nester can tell you something because we've got something really cool. You can also check out our video, but yeah, maybe Nester. Well, I was actually doing Nester. I know that you worked super closely on a lot of
resources for this hackathon, so maybe in a mystery, you can also give us some examples of some projects that you're excited to, for people to build, and also where people can connect with you during this hackathon. They have ideas and they want to run them by you. What kinds of, yeah, what kind of office hours or help might be available during this hackathon for them?
Yeah, sure. Thank you, Ana. Thank you. Lina. So first of all, I would like to mention this coding session that Lina and me fit on how pretty much pretty much in this video, you will be able to see how to claim retire at least credit cardinal rights.
So if you want to check it out, the latest video on the Spark series, you can check it out on the seller, Twitter accounts and the seller devs also. And basically that will get you prepared to hack on the challenges that we have prepared for you. So yeah, and the three challenges that Lena mentioned.
I think that it's very exciting to test hacking on the via by and self-credits easily and also on how can we make better net sewer claims to and also
related to the social part. I think that would be very good to see one project that used that social impact as a social signal in to I don't know, probably do some gated communities around of these. So I'm very excited for that.
Super cool. Yeah, and we'll have all these links. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, I just wanted to say yeah in the video you can also see how we use the token SDK which we also just released for Celo which which which you can really retire carbon credits in the
a few lines of code, which you will also see in the video. I just added the link into the conversation here. And yeah, I think we're going to set up the office hours and we will also post them right very soon. And but also feel free to get me on Discord.
here and also here on Twitter please reach out and also in our two-kin channel and you also have a discount channel in Celo Discord right for the second one set up and if I'm right
So actually I was going to hand this over to Daniel so that we can talk really quickly before we move to questions real quick logistics for how do you register how do you plan to submit and what are the dates and Where can you get help and then we'll move on to questions I know some people already are submitting some questions. Yeah, so quick facts
First the website, so that is www.thelo.org. It will take you to where you can register, which is actually happening on Hacker Earth. Wait, so the Hacker Earth is live, you can register now, and you can submit your project
until 11.59pm, PST time on May 14th. Remember, you need to submit a video that is 4 minutes or less, a link to a demo and a link to
your GitHub repo. On the website that I mentioned before, we have a suite list of resources, developer resources you can check, and we will be posting the tutorial Linux created and the video necessary in a created as well.
But those are really good resources for anyone that wants a primer on Tukan. And then we'll be having office hours for hackers on the CeloViscord, just as you show at 7thary AM/PST on Tuesday. The next one is on May 9th.
Those are kind of like the quick fact I believe. >> That actually touches on one of the questions we already got in the chat. One of the questions says work tools are available for building using 2Kan. And Lena you mentioned the SDK and Daniel you mentioned that we have a list of resources. But do you have any other
Anything else to add, Lena maybe for what tools are available for you for building? Yes, of course in our docs you will find the developer and the developer resources you will also find all the important smart contracts and their functionalities like how you can
in more detail how you can build up on them. So that's very, very useful. As I already said, the SDK and we will also get you another tutorial in the next week where you can also, where we will help you to guide you through how to
create your own queries to like custom queries to create this subgraph to get all the information you want to about all tokens and retirements and so on. Sweet. And then we have two more questions and they're actually both pretty similar so I'm going to read
them out both and then maybe Daniel or maybe also Eric can chime in on this. But one of them says, what is the judging criteria? And the other one says, do you accept existing projects? If not, how will you plan to ensure the code is fresh? So yeah, Daniel or Eric, if you want to take this one on the judging piece.
Yeah, I'm happy to take this.
So for projects that are already existing, this is really generally a challenge. And that's why you see a lot of hackathons who specifically indicate that only new code is required to win a prize.
The challenge for us is understanding which pieces kind of got added. Right. And so what we want to do is especially folks have already deployed a project on cello. Then we want to we want to help support you folks kind of add new functionality as a chance to participate in these hackathons. If the project is something that's come
something from another chain. It's like a, you know, maybe a fork of a existing project. Then what we're really going to look for is the time of that fork and then the changes from the beginning of the hackathon. So stuff that you've kind of been working on, you know, some people may want to keep building before the hack
of on-starts and we understand that. But we really to kind of make this more as fair as possible because we are allowing existing projects. We're going to pay very close attention to the changes that are made. And that's why we need to see your GitHub and make sure we understand that in what the project is trying to do. And you're very clear
into what you are adding as a part of the hackathon. So that's how we're going to look at this. And we also, you know, in any hackathon we're a part of, the team will very often go through the public repo and review the changes. And so we're going through very often with a fine tooth comb looking for and trying to understand the
the changes were made during the time that, during the actual period of time when we're measuring. Correct me if I'm wrong here, Danny, but I think it's like two weeks of development time, right? So we're going to be looking for those. In terms of the judging criteria, each hackathon is going to be slightly different
So we're going to work with different partners in this case for starting with a very partnered to can. And so that's going to have every project on cello is going to have a regenerative finance, refi, like we're going to look for that. Not all projects are going to be doing that or trying to build for those things, but we're going to definitely be looking for a way that that's
connected. And you know, one big question we get is often like, what does Rify, what does it mean? And there's actually a great post from the two-cantying that tries to better describe what it is. And maybe this is something we can share in, you know, follow up tweet from several devs as part of the criteria of what we define Rify to be. That doesn't mean that's
the only things you need to build, they can build beyond that. But we want to have people thinking about this because it's so important to sell as a chain. I mean, we launched on Earth Day now three years ago about a couple of these back three years ago. So we want to keep that in the forefront of any project that's coming through. It may prevent some
might be as from coming through more easily, but I think people can be creative. And if you can integrate projects like Toucan into the upcoming first hackathon of the series, I feel like you have a very great shot at winning a prize. So it's a mixture of building for values that, you know, sell you, sell a tens of value. And this is
is helping people have more access to what we call as "parasparity." We also want to have projects that have a refy focus. And stuff that goes beyond that, we want you folks to bend your idea into including something that is what we call positive externalities, not just about generating
But also helping people in a positive way. So to recap, we're looking for projects that are, if they are existing, we're going to look and make sure that on the completion of the hackathon that the changes were made, the changes that are being kind of outlined as part of your submission were made
during the period. For new projects, it's going to be a lot easier for us. So we actually appreciate that. But we want to, through the course of this, give people a chance to bring that project with them from the first month to the second month to the third to the fourth. And, you know, we want to be there to help support you folks. So bring your idea. If you have
Just the starting of an idea. Remember that for Hackathon 1. If you start off with a brand new idea, you can bring that idea to Hackathon 2. And then you can bring that, whatever you build from there, to Hackathon 3. So you can start new ones, you can build upon things. We want to reflect, again, the reality that there's a lot of stuff that people are working on. And we want to
meet you folks where you folks are. So we're hoping that this allows you folks to do that. And then one final note on judging, if there's a project that comes through that has had years of development, we're going to expect a lot more from you than if you're starting from scratch. So it's going to be a mixture of the work that's making ensuring that the work's been done during the time period.
And that, like, it's commensurate with, like, the level of that work that's been done. So it actually makes sense for you to start a new idea and then integrate that into an existing idea versus bringing a big project that already exists because we're going to expect way more from you, especially for your team, is larger or there's just more moving parts to it. And the more time you
have obviously the more polish you can apply to it. So for the first one I think we're going to be you know finding our way by the second one we'll have a much more established process and again very excited to see what people build. I know Lena had shared some ideas for how to integrate Touken but we will list a lot of the products
and primitives and things that are already available in a ways that can help you build something very quickly but then decide if you want to iterate further or you want to put it into a new project. So that's my recap. I'm handing it back to Daniel in case I missed anything. Sweet, yeah, I think that was a great recap.
up on judging and speaking of beginners and getting more people to build. The other question was, is there dedicated support for people that they might get stuck? So I was actually going to pass it over to Danielle. Maybe you can speak about the dedicated support or also add anything about the judging criteria if you still have any more comments about it. No, very cover. It's pretty well.
I just wanted to reiterate the eight so yes folks have roughly two weeks. We are giving folks an extra week the last at the end of the previous month so you can get started now but again submissions are due on May 14th and then for folks who are
We have our two things. So the resources page on the BWC website is kind of like designed for folks who are getting started. There is a ton of resources there. My favorites are all the tutorials that the community is creating with the CELSH program. Those are linked there.
There is a lot of content there for you to get started. And then if you have specific questions and need specific support on something you are stuck with, you can come to the developer office hours. We host every Tuesday at Tuesdays at 7.30 AM PSD time.
Sweet and I think we have time for just one more question and I said one just came in and it is about Let me go ahead and read it out. So there's actually three different questions. I don't know do we
have time to continue to. I think we can run over just a couple minutes, but there's another question. Is it possible to automatically bridge pre-funding NFTs with TCO2? How is the certification with varieg going? Can I
prioritize redeem, retire, a carbon credit generated through our platform. Maybe this can be a question to Lena, but I wonder if this is actually a good opportunity for a office hours working session. Let me know what you think the best format is.
I think it's better for me to answer these in office hours. But let me see if one of these I can answer now. Certification is where it's currently halted. We are working also with other registries.
to make the pool bigger if tokenized carbon credits that is currently existing. So stay up to date with announcement on that side. So like, even though it's currently not going on this fair, they will be coming new carbon credits very soon.
And yeah, the other one I think I don't understand completely, so I would have to like, maybe let's chat in the office hour and what do you mean here about the carbon-credits?
If you can prioritize to redeem something, yes of course you can always have to, like you can auto-redeam or you can just choose exactly which token you want to redeem and you can get the symbol, you can get the token
and then redeem exactly and retire exactly that token. So yeah, that's totally doable. So to your first question, I think I would need more information, like read more up on it. So please bring that to the author's hour.
Thank you so much. And I think this is a great point to end on. I think just to summarize, maybe we can give one more one sentence summary of this for to remind folks again for dates and to come if you have any more questions, please. You can still comment them and we will answer them a
and be available for the rest of this time too. You have to take questions async and help anyone. But yeah, maybe Daniel, you can just wrap us up and remind folks of when they need to submit. Yeah, so go to www.cdl.org at the www.cdl.org.
So I have all the information there for you. May 14, 1159 PM PST is your deadline to submit proposals for this first hackathon and stay tuned for the themes and tech we will be featuring in the next three iterations of the hackathon.
I feel like that's my quick pitch before we close. Awesome. Thank you so much. And thank everyone so much for joining and asking great questions. We're all really excited to see what you build. And yeah, looking forward to connecting with you all during office hours. Thank you, everyone.
Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you.