EasyA brings together Flare Networks and XRPL Commons at Havard

In this plan:

• Flare, EasyA, and XRPL Commons are bringing together top builders at Harvard from September 20-21.
• EasyA plans to connect developers to show how Flare’s interoperability protocols and XRPL’s payments ecosystem can power DeFi, payments, and dApps.
• Developers are required to include a short description of their projects and link their public GitHub repo and Canva used in their final presentation.

EasyA is hosting Flare Networks and XRPL Commons at Harvard on September 20-21. The EasyA and Flare Hackathon aims to partner with the Harvard Undergraduate Blockchain Club to showcase the future of cross-chain innovation.

The event will include 200 top developers in a 36-hour hackathon to build the next generation of dApps and web services using Flare and XRPL. The Flare Networks and XRPL Commons teams will host workshops throughout day 1 to allow people to learn about the teams’ tech before pitching at demo day.

Flare Hackathon includes three technical workshops

Three technical workshops will be led by Flare engineers, including the Composability & Interoperability with Flare workshop, led by Victor Munoz. The workshop will focus on how to use Flare products (FTSO, FDC, and FAssets) with XRPL to create composable solutions and bring Web2 data on-chain.

Thomas Hussenet will lead the Programmable Liquidity with Flare and XRPL workshop. The session will focus on building programmable on/off-ramps that connect fiat and blockchains using Flare and XRPL.

The Flare Smart Accounts & XRPL Controlled Accounts workshop will be led by Filip Koprivec. The session will allow developers to discover how XRPL can control smart contracts on Flare and enable cross-chain account abstraction.

Notion revealed that the Hackathon includes a giveaway of $35,000 in no-strings-attached prize money. There will also be a $10,000 prize in equity-free follow-on funding for the winning projects. 

EasyA plans to onboard other developers through in-app challenges

EasyA said it’s mainly looking for projects built on the Flare Network Layer 1 Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchain. The company is also searching for projects that showcase the power of XRPLi on Flare. According to the firm, developers excited about pursuing their projects long-term beyond the hackathon will also find a good opportunity at the company.

Developers are required to include a short description of their projects in fewer than 300 characters. They should also link their public GitHub repo and Canva used in their final presentation, including the team slide.

“Our partnership with EasyA taps into their strong crypto community, helping us bring another informative resource for developers globally to learn and build on the XRPL. We are excited to see the emergence of the next major DeFi project on the XRPL.”

–Markus Infanger, Senior Vice President at Ripple.

The event will also be co-hosted with the Harvard Blockchain Research Labs and the Harvard Blockchain Club. Universities and non-students are also encouraged to attend.

Flare Network revealed that EasyA is also onboarding thousands of developers via in-app challenges that teach the company’s oracles, FAssets, and staking. The initiative aims to create a pipeline of builders ready to launch real projects in the XRPFi ecosystem.

Max Luck, Head of Growth at Flare, said the event forges a direct loop between the XRPL and Flare infrastructure. He believes it will bring economic utility, staking yield, and developer adoption to the XRPL ecosystem.