Celo
Updated: Feb 6
Celo is an open platform that makes financial innovations accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. As an EVM based network Celo supports solidity based smart contracts on a ground breaking light client identity architecture.

Bounty 1 - "Port the Unicorn
2 prizes of $500 - Deploy an ETH DApp on Celo It can be any of your favorite Dapp on Ethereum, from a fork of UniSwap to a DAO.Bonus points if it's with a mobile interface! Valora and DAppKit optional but encouraged (key management). We recommend looking at our docs on setting up DappKit to learn how to easily get started building on Celo. Find us on Discord if you have any questions!
Developer Links:
- Deploy and Interact with Contracts (Remotely)
- Celo MonoRepo for all Core Celo Projects
We want to make developing DApps on the Celo Platform the best experience. Please share feedback about yours in this form!
Bounty 2 - "You Had Me At Celo"
2 prizes of $500 - Social impact Focused: Mission alignment Examples: Grameen Project, Project Wren, Impact Market, micro-lending, universal basic income. If you have a social impact blockchain project in mind that would be empowered by a mobile-first approach, this bounty is for you. We recommend looking at our docs on setting up DappKit to learn how to easily get started building on Celo. Find us on Discord if you have any questions!
Useful Links:
- Deploy and Interact with Contracts (Remotely)
- Celo MonoRepo for all Core Celo Projects
We want to make developing DApps on the Celo Platform the best experience. Please share feedback about yours in this form!
Bounty 3 - "The Prestwich Special"
1 prize $500 - Best Chain Agnostic Tool/App: Interoperability focused.
If you’re a fan of bridging, interoperability, and chain-agnostic toolings, then this bounty is for you! Inspired by Celo Core Dev James Prestwich and his work around chain-agnostic and bridging tools, this bounty can be anything related to chain-agnostic dev tools that improve the ecosystem for not just 1 network but the entire space. Ideas can be tooling around JSON-RPC, IPFS or interoperability (like Connext or Layer 2 solutions). We recommend looking at our docs on setting up DappKit to learn how to easily get started building on Celo. Find us on Discord if you have any questions!
Useful Links:
- Deploy and Interact with Contracts (Remotely)
- Celo MonoRepo for all Core Celo Projects
We want to make developing DApps on the Celo Platform the best experience. Please share feedback about yours in this form!
Bounty 4 - “Cheers Guv’nor!”
1 prize $500 - Governance Tools!
Innovate the Celo voting system with any tools that improve the UX, validating operations, or Celo staking. Examples of existing apps to help inspire you can be found here and here.
The following are bonus award prizes we will be offering in addition to the bounty prizes:
Resources:
Bounty 5 - “The Big Cheese”
2 winners - $1000 each
Anyone can win this Grand Prize! Here is our judging criteria:
Mission alignment (Social Impact and Prosperity for All is Celo’s core mission) Mobile-first focused UI. Friendly interface, low barrier of entry threshold Intuitive and simple UX Integration with Valora encouraged (key management) We recommend looking at our docs on setting up DappKit to learn how to easily get started building on Celo.
We recommend looking at our docs on setting up DappKit to learn how to easily get started building on Celo. Find us on Discord if you have any questions! Useful Links:
- Deploy and Interact with Contracts (Remotely)
- Celo MonoRepo for all Core Celo Projects
We want to make developing DApps on the Celo Platform the best experience. Please share feedback about yours in this form!
Bounty 6 - "People's Choice Award": Twitter Vote
1 winner - $500
This is a bounty for the most popular project submitted to Celo.
Judging Criteria:
Twitter Poll shared by ETHDenver and Celo
The project with the most votes in our Twitter polls wins! We recommend looking at our docs on setting up DappKit to learn how to easily get started building on Celo. Find us on Discord if you have any questions!
Bounty 7 - The OG Celo Bonus: Best Original Celo DApp
2 winners $500 for an original Celo-first DApp.
Judging Criteria:
Has to be an original Celo DApp, so it can’t be something that’s ported from Ethereum.
Must be built during the hackathon. Components built before can be used but execution must be written during the hackathon.
Valora and DappKit highly encouraged (key management)
Creativity, complexity, wow factor.
Requirements
- https://github.com/celo-org/celo-monorepo
- https://github.com/celo-org/celo-dappkit
- https://docs.celo.org/developer-guide/dappkit/setup
- https://www.celocamp.com/hero-stories
- rosetta
- docs.celo.org