The best way to learn something often is to just throw yourself in.

The open source community has made a ton of amazing tools for us to create blockchain, fintech, and data analytics tools. With blockchain you can create truly decentralized applications, helping people have more trust and transparency in the world. Fintech applications allow better resource managment, retirement savings, alpha seeking strategies and more. Not to mention blockchain and fintech engineers in Boston can make over $200k a year.

We invite everyone (experienced and new) to come take part in our first hackathon.

We will have workshops and tutorials on blockchain as well as introductory algorithmic trading tutorials. Woot woot!

We want users to build anything that excites them, and prompts will be given the day of. Teams of 1 - 5 people are recommended, and prizes will be given out after to see what everyone's made! This is happening at the WeWork at 31 St. James Ave in Boston, MA. The hackathon is powered by the Alpha Vantage stock APIs by default, but you have full flexibility to choose any data source as you wish - regardless of whether it is RESTful API or WebSocket. 

We hope to see everyone there!

Please register HERE on eventbrite so we can have a solid count of users 

 

You can find more about Alpha Vantage here:

Alpha Vantage | Twitter | Medium | Slack | Discord

Photo by Stanislaw Zarychta on Unsplash

 

Check out the winners posted here, and a recent industry analysis of the stock API landscape. 

Eligibility

 

Eligibility

Anyone may enter in teams of 1 - 5 people on site. You must have registered HERE, as there is limited seat open. If you're looking for a team, please join the slack group #alphavhack

 

 

Requirements

Submission Requirements

Submissions will be in the demo form, and their shown work, codebase, or project may be submitted via github, on-chain contract, notebook, spreadsheet or any form desired. 

Submission Rights & Display

The event retains the right to publize the projects that the attendees submit, but the attendees will maintain all rights to the project itself. 

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$630 in prizes

Blockchain Winner - 50 LINK (Chainlink Cryptocurrency)

For the most interesting Blockchain application we will be giving out 50 LINK(currently trading at $2.80 as of the time of writing)

Chainlink is becoming the heart of building applications on the blockchain. It is a way to collect external data onto the blockchain, for example with API calls.

Learn more here:
https://chain.link/

Fintech Winner - 6 Month Premium Alpha Vantage Data Key

For the winner on the fintech side, we will give out a premium key for 6 month at 30 calls / minute.

This means they will have uncapped monthly data requests and may build even cooler applications!

https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/

25 LINK (Chainlink Cryptocurrency) - Rookie award

This is specifically for people who attended workshops and are new to the space. This is equivalent to an amateur bracket. To incentivize people trying something new!

Judges Pick (25 LINK) (3)

Each judge will get to pick a project they thought was best! This is a purely opinion based judging metric.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Patrick Collins

Patrick Collins
Developer Advocate @ Alpha Vantage

Ayush Agarwal

Ayush Agarwal
Investment Associate @Man Numeric - CFA

Dan Lipeles

Dan Lipeles
Software Engineer @ Brave

Alex Zalutskiy

Alex Zalutskiy
Senior Business Analyst @EPAM Systems

Judging Criteria

  • Creativity
  • Fintech Applicability
  • Technical Difficulty

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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