TBD Launches Hackathon To Drive Payment Innovation

By Trek Africa Newspaper

TBD, a subsidiary of Block, has announced the launch of the TBD Hackathon in collaboration with the Africa Bitcoin Conference.

The competition aimed to drive innovation and technological advancement in payment systems across Africa using the tbDEX open-source protocol.

The organisers said in a statement on Monday that developers across Africa were invited to participate by developing a payment application that leverages the power of tbDEX.

The challenge involves building a wallet application integrated with tbDEX with access to a sandbox of, for example, participating financial institutions to test functionality.

According to the firm, developers will work in teams of up to two people and are expected to build their projects using the tbDEX SDK.

It added that six teams of finalists would be chosen and flown to Nairobi, Kenya, to attend the Africa Bitcoin Conference and pitch what they have built to our panel of judges.