The cash will come from the exchange's $100 million OKEx BlockDream Ventures fund, which invests in blockchain projects.
The fintech showcase has three $50,000 cash prizes for three regtech focus areas.
Drawing inspiration from Reddit's r/place, AstroCanvas is an experiment in boosting staking participation – without appealing to financial incentives.
Unable to meet in person, developers around the world collaborated by videoconference for a 48-hour stretch to refine Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
Natalia Ameline's nonprofit, CryptoChicks, is spreading the blockchain gospel in emerging markets.
A New York Blockchain Week ended last Friday we spent time at an ethereum hackathon where developers came together to build blockchain tools with social impact.
Everything from applications to attend ETHDenver to the processes for submitting, judging and voting on projects will be supported in some way through blockchain platforms.
Under its new "CoinList Build" brand, CoinList will be co-organizing hackathons with protocols that are looking to court developers.
Chaincode is launching a new "residency" in New York that will focus on helping developers build their own Lightning Network apps
The state of Illinois is continuing to engage with blockchain innovators, this time by throwing a month-long hackathon.
BlockBox won CoinDesk’s Consensus 2017 hackathon for its bid to make drones and smart cars safer to operate with blockchain. Black boxes have long been used to collect critical data during crashes and accidents, as explained Samuel Brooks, one of the team members, during BlockBox’s presentation. But the team wanted to expand that idea to drones and […]
CoinDesk's Consensus 2017 Building Blocks hackathon is fast underway, with teams competing to realize the next big ideas for the emerging tech.
The government of the United Arab Emirates is sponsoring a virtual hackathon dedicated to blockchain, with $140,000 in prizes up for grabs.
Even larger blockchain startups are making the effort to get involved in hackathons. The reason? It's good for business, sources say.
The first day of the Consensus 2016 Hackathon saw over twenty blockchain entrepreneurs pitch their ideas and concepts to a wide array of developers.