# June 2024 Updates and Announcements

> Hackathons, bounties, product updates, galore!

**Published by:** [buidlbox](https://paragraph.com/@buidlbox/)
**Published on:** 2024-06-06
**Categories:** web3, hackathons, events, bounties
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@buidlbox/june-2024-updates-and-announcements

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Hackathons and Bounties Just Announced: Permissionless III Hackathon 🏔 Permissionless III: October 7–8; Salt Lake City, Utah We are excited to announce our upcoming collaboration with Blockworks and Bankless as the official hackathon partner for the second installment of the Permissionless Hackathon! With the theme, “A Multichain Future,” the Permissionless III hackathon is a call to builders to improve the on-chain user experience. Space is limited, so register today! Happening now: HackMeter ⚡️ HackMeter: May 29 — June 30; Virtual Hackathon Organized by Meter.io, HackMeter invites developers to build on a consensus-based EVM chain. With three different tracks and 25,000 $MTRG in prizes, technical and nontechnical buidlers can showcase skills and collaborate with others. It’s not too late to sign up! Meter leads the blockchain revolution with its HotStuff-2 consensus-based EVM chain, delivering exceptional performance and instant finality. Unique features include front running/MEV resistance, stable/low gas fees with flatcoin MTR, interoperability with multiple blockchains, highly decentralized validators, and robust security and liveliness through its PoW + PoS design. New Bounty Alert 🚨 1inch Network is seeking a skilled translator to localize Help Center articles, blog posts, and a Wikipedia article into Korean. Earn $1000 USDT! Help us streamline the experience for Korean-speaking users. Get more info and apply here. Product Updates Referrals/Leaderboards 🏆 Hackathons are more fun with friends! Invite fellow builders to join a hackathon using your custom link, and you could be featured at the top of the leaderboard and earn potential rewards! Guest sign in 👤 As of this week, new buidlers have the ability to create a buidlbox account within the hackathon registration flow. This means signing up for a hackathon has never been easier! Better discord functionality & buidlbot updates 👾 Have questions about an upcoming hackathon? Need to form a team? With our recent Discord and buidlbot updates, users are able to more easily find the Discord channels they need to succeed. Avatar builder 🎨 Our team is beyond excited to share this product feature: our new avatar builder, built by @atenyun during our 2023 buidlHACKS open hackathon. Check out his full project here. To update you buidlbox avatar: Go to settings, scroll down, click “update avatar”, and have fun! 🤩 If you don’t yet have a buidlbox account, sign up today and build your avatar during the account creation process. “It was super fun working on the avatar builder because it’s been something that users want and it allows people to showcase who they are on our platform.” – @easonchaiii, buidlbox Full-stack developer More News buidlbox CEO Irina Marinescu Featured on Hackernoon: Insights into Buidlbox and Web3 Innovation 📰 We are thrilled to share that our CEO, Irina Marinescu, was featured in an insightful Hackernoon interview by @TerezaBizkova! Irina discussed her inspiring journey from Wall Street to web3, and her vision for buidlbox as a hub for developer engagement and growth. Learn more about her thoughts on the future of web3 and the transformative power of hackathons in the full interview here. — Have a product feature you’d like to see? Let us know!

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