NEAR Hackathon opens with $250K+ in prizes; submissions Nov 1-14

NEAR Protocol launched the NEAR Hackathon with more than $250K in prizes. There is no signup: builders ship a public repo and public demo post between November 1 and November 14 (23:59 UTC), building on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud and more. NEAR says judges include Illia Polosukhin, Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz and builders and investors from a16z crypto, Electric Capital and Dragonfly.