The Stellar Development Foundation and DEV announced the winners of the Build Better on Stellar: Smart Contract Challenge, with over $50,000 in prizes distributed across tutorial and dApp categories. Winners included projects like Soroban by Example, Entry X (decentralized ticketing), and DVILLA (sustainable e-commerce), with overall winners receiving $13,000 and all-expenses-paid trips to Meridian conference.
The Build Better on Stellar: Smart Contract Challenge concluded with announcement of six category winners and two overall prompt winners from a competitive field of submissions. Tutorial winners included Soroban by Example by Andrew Miracle (overall), The Ultimate Stellar Supreme Tutorial by Morpheus (Wonderfully Written), and 100 Seconds of Stellar by Cyril Kurmann (Vivid Video). dApp winners featured Entry X, a decentralized ticketing platform (overall), DVILLA, a sustainable e-commerce app promoting healthy living (Super Sustainable), and a blockchain-based Snake Game (Glorious Game). Overall winners received $13,000 USD gift cards and fully-funded trips to Meridian 2024 in London, while category winners received $6,000 USD. The article also highlighted next steps for participants including the Stellar Community Fund, SCF Kickstart, and Hack Meridian hackathon in October.