Together with Filecoin Orbit Nigeria, Blockheader, a community of passion-driven web3 enthusiasts who are keen on accelerating web3 education, hosted the first web3 hackathon in Northern Nigeria recently to drive a new wave of innovative solutions.
The three-day event titled: “Build the Future” was a workshop and hackathon hosted for web3 enthusiasts and developers. It was a hybrid event held at the Cola in Kaduna Tech City.
The hackathon was geared toward solving problems, incubating ideas, and building solutions to the most pressing challenges in Nigeria and Africa on the Blockchain. It further advanced Blockheader’s mission of convening innovators who will use web3 capabilities to develop innovative solutions.
The hackathon featured multiple discussions about web3 and a few teams were able to showcase some of the solutions they had designed.
Among the participating teams were Team Stay which presented a crypto to fiat solution, Team Node which developed a decentralized ticketing solution, Team Satoshi which designed a decentralized blockchain-based voting system and Team Noble which showcased Prochain, a blockchain solution that adopts NFTs in the products supply chain.
After carefully examining their solutions with reference to uniqueness and originality of solution, usage of web3 technologies and tools, use of IPFS, and code quality and documentation, Team node emerged the winner and received a grand prize of $500.
Team Noble and Team Stay took the second and third positions and received $250 and $100 prizes.
Some of the speakers at the workshop included Chukwuemeka Mbaebie, Lead at Filecoin Nigeria, Timi Dan, Solidarity Smart Contract Developer, Victoria Enebeli, Developer Advocate at Polygon, Mudia Imaseun, Lead Product Designer, Bloc, Babajide Ayoade, Software Developer; Abubakar Khalil, Bitcoin Core Developer; David Nnamdi, Blockchain Developer; David Pius, Blockchain Developer among others.
It appears that Blockheader is blazing the trail on the correct footing to accomplish its purpose based on the success of the event and the attendees’ enthusiasm.