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Are you passionate about Metaverse, NFTs, and Blockchain solutions? Join the first edition of ZENCON, organized by Zeniq, to fight for a 100k USDC prize pot in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Registrations close on 16 May 2022, apply now!

Zeniq is taking the world by storm with the first-ever edition of their annual event ZENCON! The Hackathon & Award event is searching for developers ready to go outside their normal grounds and make new technological advances to the next level all over the Metaverse.

The Metaverse is Taking a Trip to Mexico

ZENCON will take place from 3-8 of June 2022, when you will prove yourself in front of well-established developers and the global tech community. Will you be able to hack your way into the Grand Hyatt located in Playa del Carmen, Mexico? In total, 200 slots are up for grabs, and of them can be YOURS. There will be five challenges revolving around the hot topics in today’s tech community:

Challenge 1: Metaverse/Gaming

How will you impact the future of the metaverse in gaming? Are any of your inspirations: CryptoKitties, the Sandbox Game, Axie Infinity, or Gods Unchained? Then, this is the right challenge for you!

Here are some of the ways you can tackle this challenge:

  • Develop unique in-game collectibles (characters, avatars, and other items players can collect to assist in their gameplay)
  • Create more transparency and legislation in the gaming business, by providing in-game asset ownership
  • Model play-to-earn business model
  • Develop NFT-based games or Blockchain-based games

Can these examples motivate you to create something better?

  • A cross-chain wallet multi-games to unify all your wallets

Challenge 2: NFTs/Tokenization

Get ready to reveal the potential of NFT and tokenization. Go beyond owning pictures, create tools using smart contracts. Here are some of the ways you can tackle this challenge:

  • Propose a booking system for businesses and trading
  • Enable the adoption of the usage of smart contracts by creating new examples of smart contracts’ business adoption
  • Ease the smart contract usability in various industries
  • Think about NFT and tokenization as authentication systems, reinvent ownership
  • Build a marketplace for art
  • Create fan tokens

Can these examples motivate you to create something better?

  • A booking system for hotels and travellers
  • Carsharing booking system using tokenization (eLoop)
  • RealT, a solution powered by blockchain where investors around the globe can buy into the US real estate market through fully-compliant, fractional, tokenized ownership

Challenge 3: Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

The goal is to get rid of the third parties that are involved in all financial transactions. Build your financial blockchain tools allowing anyone with internet access to lend, borrow and bank without going through middlemen. Here are some of the ways you can tackle this challenge:

  • Borrowing & yield protocols
  • Lending protocols
  • Trading bot
  • DAO builder, DAO makers
  • Beneficiary contracts
  • Make a safer and more reliable authentication system
  • Token wrappings & token bridges

Can these examples motivate you to create something better?

  • PancakeSwap, allows the users to farm by providing liquidity. Trade, earn, and win crypto on the most popular decentralized platform in the galaxy
  • Pionex, trading bot

Challenge 4: The world of Web 3.0/Tools & Infrastructure

This is the crypto sector that is expected to blossom in the coming year — also claimed to be the future of the internet. It’s the third generation of internet services for applications and websites focused on utilizing a machine-based understanding of data to create a semantic and data-driven internet. Be part of the creation of Web 3.0, join now!

Here are some of the ways you can tackle this challenge:

  • Wallets
  • Blockchain-explorers
  • Dashboards, data visualization
  • Chain analysis
  • Hardware security elements tied to blockchains
  • Decentralized identity

Can these examples motivate you to create something better?

  • A dashboard to track food supply chains
  • Data visualization app for analyzing shipping containers
  • TRM Labs, helps financial institutions to fight crypto money laundering activities, prevent fraud, and stay in compliance.

Challenge 5: B2B/B2C Solutions on the Ecosystem

Show ZENCON the power of Blockchain for businesses and their customers. Here are some of the ways you can tackle this challenge:

  • Create supply chain and traceability solutions
  • Develop the integration of third parties
  • Reduce the costs of transactions by removing middlemen.

Can these examples motivate you to create something better?

  • Smart contract managing software licensing
  • An app for urban industry, bus infrastructure, or health tracking
  • AORA, a Blockchain-powered global buying platform which looks into cross-border eCommerce and end-to-end crypto shopping

Do you have what it takes to fully immerse yourself into a new reality and get the shot at a 100k prize pool plus the opportunity for an incubation period for your project? Then join the program breaking records – let’s meet in Mexico!

ZENCON at A Glance

  • What? ZENCON, a Hackathon-format organized by Zeniq
  • Where? Playa del Carmen, Mexico at Grand Hyatt
  • When? 3-8 June 2022
  • Who? Innovative developers from all over the world with a passion for the Metaverse, NFT, and Blockchain solutions
  • How? Register by 16 May via ZENCON’s website

Why ZENCON is the Right Event for You

ZENCON invites software developers, coders, and hackers with a passion for the Metaverse, NFT, and Blockchain solutions from all over the world!

The event gives you the chance to explore and expand your talent, ideas, and proficiency, but also the opportunity to exchange experiences, relax on the beach or go for a quick swim if you need a break. In short, this is what you can expect:

  • High-Level Networking
  • Trip to Playa del Carmen, Mexico
  • 100k USDC Prize Pool
  • Engage with 200 Innovative Developers
  • Opportunity to Fund Your Idea
  • Incubation Period for Your Project
  • Joining the First Edition of a Groundbreaking Event

Register for ZENCON by 16 May 2022!

Be the top developer this summer at ZENCON – the event that is driving innovation through the Metaverse. Bring your A-game and show the world why you’re deserving of that 100k USDC prize pool!

The Metaverse is waiting for you – register by 16 May 2022!

 

 

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