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The Minima Innovation Challenge is designed to support and encourage individuals and teams to create innovative solutions using the Minima Protocol.

13.07-22 – 30.08.22

10 prizes of USD $1,000 in Minima for Phase 1 winners
2 prizes of USD $5,000 in Minima for Phase 2 runners-up
Top prize of USD $20,000 in Minima to be won

What is Minima?

Build on Minima, the world's first truly decentralized blockchain network, enabling everyone to freely connect and prosper.

Competition Structure

The Minima Innovation Challenge is designed to support and encourage individuals and teams to create innovative solutions using the Minima Protocol.

The challenge will be split into two phases.

All Phase 1 & 2 submissions should be completed in GitHub.

Use the button below to enter your application now.

1. Ideation Phase

Over the course of three weeks, teams will have access to educational resources and office hours with the Minima and EdenBase teams to brainstorm and ask questions.

At the end of the three weeks, teams will not need to deliver any code yet, however, a brief presentation of the idea accompanied by a written description will need to be shared. This includes a discussion of market fit, why the idea is uniquely suited for the Minima Protocol, and what the competitive landscape looks like.

From the Ideation Phase, the top 10 projects will each receive $1,000 in Minima tokens and be invited to Phase 2.

2. Coding Phase

The Top 10 teams from the Ideation Phase will build their solutions using Minima, and provide at least a Proof of Concept (PoC) at the end of the sprint.

From the projects that submitted a PoC, the top 5 will be invited to feedback and mentorship sessions that will provide them with further technical and business support in developing the dApp use case and code.

We are looking for outstanding submissions. Teams that show more long-term thinking, including ideas around how to productize their idea, will have a higher chance of winning.

Topics of interest

Social impact / Healthcare / Education / Sustainability / NFTs / P2P payments / Crime prevention / Censorship resistance / Integrity and provenance of data / media / Gig economy / Gaming / Cross border usage in under-privileged countries / De-demonization of DeFi to regulators / Self sovereign identity /  Energy efficiency / Tech for migrants / P2P Communication / Enterprise applications / DeFi borrowing and lending / DEXs / Decentralized social media and others that we haven't thought of!

Judging criteria

The submissions will be evaluated based on the following criteria.

Concessions may be made if an idea is amazing, even if the deployment of it still requires extra support.

The Minima prize pool

The total prize pool is USD $40,000 in Minima Tokens.
The Top 10 teams from the Ideation Phase will receive USD $1,000 worth of Minima Tokens and will move on to the Coding Phase of the Innovation Challenge.

The 2 runners-up in Phase 2 will receive USD $5,000 in Minima Tokens each.

The overall winning team/project will receive USD $20,000 in Minima Tokens.

Making it real

The Top 10 teams from the Ideation Phase will build their solutions using Minima, and provide at least a Proof of Concept (PoC) at the end of the sprint.

From the projects that submitted a PoC, the top 5 will be invited to feedback and mentorship sessions that will provide them with further technical and business support in developing the dApp use case and code.

We are looking for outstanding submissions. Teams that show more long-term thinking, including ideas around how to productize their idea, will have a higher chance of winning.

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