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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Solana announces DeFi hackathon offering $200k in seed funding

Solana will host a DeFi hackathon offering a $200,000 prize pool and $200,000 in seed funding to aspiring developers.

Solana has announced an upcoming DeFi hackathon offering $200,000 in seed funding from the Solana Foundation.

The hackathon, which is scheduled to take place from Feb. 15 through March 1st, will be hosted in partnership with Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX’s Project Serum.

Bankman-Fried will also offer mentorship to hackathon participants alongside Solana CEO Anatoly Takovenko. Bankman-Fried stated:

“A lot of an ecosystem's success depends on how much the community builds on it. I've been really happy with the growth of Solana so far building out the world's fastest, most scalable on-chain ecosystem; I'm excited to see some projects come to market!”

Participants will also compete for a $200,000 prize pool, with the event’s judges including crypto-notables Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, Aave CEO Stani Kulechov, CoinShares CSO Meltem Demirors, and CoinGecko Co-Founder Bobby Ong.

The announcement encourages developers to explore Solana’s bi-directional Ethereum bridge “Wormhole”, in addition to Solana’s new Chainlink oracle integration.

Speaking to Cointelegraph, Takovenko noted his excitement to see what recurring participants who took part in Solana’s Q4 2020 hackathon will build in the upcoming event. Takovenko emphasized that Solana offers benefits to developers through its support for traditional compiler toolchains like Rust, making it “more accessible for folks outside of crypto.”

On the subject of DeFi adoption, Solana’s founder emphasized the need for the sector to “break out among general consumers:”

“This could be as simple as: I get a Wrapped BTC savings account, but in the background, it's earning a DeFi yield. And the end-user, a general consumer, isn't really dealing with smart contracts or the complexity of [DeFi], but they actually get access to all of the entire pipeline.”

Takovenko predicts that such a “BTC savings account” could exist within the near future, stating: “That one use-case would require the entire stack to work [...] I don’t know if this is going to happen in 2021, but it feels like everything is ripe for that.” 

“The tools are much better, key management is much better, you can ship applications on iOS and Android with secure keys [...] I’m excited to see who actually pulls it off and scales [DeFi] to one million or ten million users.”
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