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Browse the submissions for Polkadot Hackathon: North America Edition 2024! Kudos to all who submitted 🎉

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Resources


Here are just a few resources we have curated to help you get started. You may research to find more tools to help you work on your submission too!

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What is Polkadot?

Polkadot is a layer-0 protocol and multichain network founded by Dr. Gavin Wood, co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum. Polkadot provides security, scalability, and interoperability to a diverse network of layer-1 blockchains called parachains. Polkadot offers several advancements over legacy blockchain networks, from governance to customization, upgradeability, energy efficiency, and more.

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What is Substrate?

Substrate is a blockchain development framework for building and customizing parachains in the Polkadot ecosystem, as well as standalone or ‘solo’ chains. It features a completely generic state transition function and modular building blocks for common blockchain components like consensus, networking, and asset creation. By building with Substrate, development teams can significantly speed up production, reduce the cost of building a blockchain, and get much more power and flexibility than building on a smart contract platform.

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What is Kusama?

Built on nearly the same codebase as Polkadot, Kusama is a layer-0 protocol and multichain network. Kusama provides security, scalability, and interoperability to a diverse network of layer-1 blockchains called parachains, and serves as Polkadot’s ‘canary net’. Designed for radical innovation and experimentation, Kusama is used both as a live, value-bearing proving ground for Polkadot technology and as a deployment environment for early-stage startups and experimental blockchain use cases.


Getting you started on the Hackathon

The folks at Web3 Foundation have put together a Polkadot Hacker’s Guide.

The guide contains useful information such as:

You can reach out to the Polkadot specialist mentors and catch recordings of the hackathon workshops as well →

🎉 Join our community!

We have multiple channels where we are waiting for connecting with you!

Join the developer community on the Substrate StackExchange, or our Polkadot Hackathon Discord Server to kickstart conversations.

👷‍♂️ Technical Support

🎬 Hackathon Session & Workshop Recordings


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