March 5th - April 12th

It’s long been a promise that crypto would create a better financial system for all, however, most DeFi solutions that are built today lack usability and are not designed with the everyday user in mind. How can the magic of DeFi be accessed by everyday people? How do Web3 developers scale their solutions to a broader audience?

It’s time to make crypto mobile. #MakeItMobile on Celo.

If you want to better understand why mobile is the future for web3, consider this: there are already 6 billion active smartphones around the world, with additional growth projections in Sub-Saharan Africa predicted to hit 600-700 million new smartphone users within the next ~5 years. 

Celo believes the future of an inclusive and sustainable financial system means building mobile dapps that can be accessible by all.

We invite you to join the Celo #MakeItMobile hackathon on Gitcoin to test new ideas, meet collaborators, earn rewards, and build mobile-first DeFi solutions on the Celo platform that will scale to a global user base. Let’s #MakeItMobile!

Watch the #MakeItMobile Recap

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Celo is an open-sourced Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain based on Ethereum designed to support stablecoins and tokenized assets with an algorithmic reserve-backed stability mechanism. One of the main reasons Celo's ecosystem of end-users has grown so quickly is due to the mobile-first approach to the protocol. With trustless phone number identity mapping for public key management and a node structure that runs partial nodes on smartphones, Celo's mobile-first approach has created the most effective way of onboarding real-world users into blockchain-based applications.

It's easy to build on Celo with its full EVM compatibility, allowing developers to parallel track their projects with other EVM compatible blockchains. Since Mainnet 2020, Celo has over 100k wallets, generated over 2.5M transactions, and has a robust ecosystem of projects such as Moola Market, Impact Market, Muggle Pay, Ubeswap, and Valora.  Additionally, Celo is the first carbon negative blockchain.

Learn more about the Celo Technology here

Hackathon Values

Celo is founded on a set of community tenants: Designing For All, Innovating on Money, Striving for Beauty, Embodying Humility, and are looking for teams to adopt these tenants and build DApps, tools, and tutorials that reflect the Celo community values.

Over $60k of prizes designed for developers, designers, dreamers, and doers.