🏆 United Nations AltFinLab Challenges — Are you ready?

🏆 ABC is Heating Up — Are You In?

Workshops, bounties, and the first submission deadline — here's what you need to know this week at the African Blockchain Championship!

What’s New This Week? We’re halfway to the first major milestone: the Round 1 Submission Deadline on April 14th, 12pm GMT. You can read more about how this all works on the “How to win” Notion page and the Timeline page to learn what to expect.

Now’s the time to:

• Finalize your team (1–5 members). You can get started here

• Explore the bounties and dig into the tech (links later in this email)

• Align your project with the theme: Blockchain for Development, either by coming up with your own problem to solve or by building a solution to address one of the UNDP Challenges

• Join upcoming workshops to level up your skills (see section below)

All the above links can be found right here on the ABC Public Notion page — so we recommend you bookmark this page.

🔥 New Workshops This Week

Whether you're just starting or ready to dive deep into blockchain tech, this week's workshops will get you there:

💡 Cardano #1: Building with Cardano (In-person, Nigeria)
Get hands-on with Cardano and learn the fundamentals.
Register here →

📍 More workshops are coming soon — you can stay tuned by subscribing to the African Blockchain Championship lu.ma calendar and keeping an eye in the Telegram community.

Want to start preparing?

👶 New to Blockchain?
Start with the Blockchain 101 workshop to understand blockchain basics and what crypto wallets are. Then, check out Yash Goyal’s MVP-building session using AI (password: ) to accelerate your project. 📚 You'll find all the recordings, slides, and links on the ABC Notion page.

More advanced?

To get started with preparations for the Bounty Prize sponsors, check out the Learning Centers for the different sponsors (see picture), also inside the ABC Notion page:

Remember:
You can win by completing bounties, or by building a project that wins the Championship. Or, like we say at ABC — by simply doing something new 💥 Join the Telegram community to start networking and finding team-mates!

"Success doesn’t come to you. You go to it."
– Marva Collins

See you at the workshops (virtually or in person)!

From the Amazing Continent of Africa,

Moses Kahure
African Blockchain Championship