🏆 Prize pool up to $200,000 and a spot on the Telegram team: A new contest for coders

⚫️ The Telegram Contests official channel has announced the first round of the Blockchain Contest in collaboration with TON Core. The competition features two main challenges: Blockchain Validation and Trustless Bridge. Participants can choose to tackle both tasks or focus on just one.

Contest deadline: February 4, 19:59 UTC.

⚫️ The total prize pool ranges from $100,000 to $200,000, distributed among participants based on their contributions. Additionally, a second round with a similar prize fund is already planned.

In the TON Block Validation Challenge, developers are tasked with optimizing the original block validation algorithm for TON based on the provided data. The performance will be judged on execution time.

In the TON Trustless Bridge Challenge, participants will use two networks — TON Testnet and a special Fastnet network — to build a trustless bridge, proving the existence of transactions from one network in the smart contracts of the other.

⚫️ And here’s the most exciting part: winners will have the chance to receive support for launching their own TVM sidechain for TON or even join the Telegram/TON Core teams. If you’re a developer eager to become part of the ecosystem, this is an opportunity you won’t want to miss.

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