Polkadot welcomes creatives and coders at free ETHDenver event

Polkadot (DOT/USD) welcomes creatives and coders to the free annual event ETHDenver, which started on February 11 and will run until February 20 this year. The ecosystem is hosting a Polkadot bounty worth $15,000, according to a Medium post.

Exciting talks and workshops

Today, February 16, two exciting events are taking place. The first is Parity: Substrate Seminar, described as a fireside chat with Polkadot parachain builders and professional networking. it is built on Substrate, a modular framework for building blockchains.

The second event is also related to Parity: Substrate. This is described as a series of workshops around “Blockchain Framework in Rust.”

pEVM and interBTC

Three events are scheduled tomorrow, February 17. They are Manta Network pEVM: Solidity Programmable Privacy Asset Powered by zkSNARK; Interlay: interBTC — Insured Bitcoin on any Blockchain; and Origin Trail: Asset knowledge graphs, BUIDL dApps leveraging advanced querying and discoverability with OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph.

Moonbeam

Two full days have been dedicated to the new Polkadot smart contract platform, which makes building natively interoperable blockchain applications seamless. A Moonbeam presentation will take place at 12pm on February 18, followed by a panel discussion. On February 19, there will be another Moonbeam presentation at noon.

Polkadot bounties

The network has planned two bounties this year. In the first, participants are tasked with pitching the next Polkadot parachain. The prize is $1500 per team (x5) and each team has to create a pitch deck with 15 slides maximum. They should present what a future version could do.

The second is a competition for the virtual portion of the ETHDenver hackathon. Participants must use Substrate to build a Layer-1 blockchain. The first prize is $5,000, and the second — $2,500.

About Polkadot

Polkadot is a decentralized network running on layer-0 blockchain infrastructure, which supports a number of autonomous, interoperable blockchains with shared security. The blockchains on Polkadot, called parachains, can be optimized for privacy, smart contracts, gaming, and DeFi.

People can use its prebuilt components to create their own blockchain. Substrate makes it possible to make upgrades without forks, making changes easy. Substrate blockchains can plug into Polkadot and Kusama (KSM/USD) or run independently.