Weekly Digest: $30K Bug Bounty, MetaMask Cook-Off, $200K Incubator for Founders, $2K Content Bounties, Dev3pack Fellowship, Learn Rust | Issue 55
Hello, amazing person,
I’m Glory Praise, your buddy in the Web3 space.
Welcome to your weekly plug for the best opportunities in Web3. From grants and hackathons to events and upskilling resources, everything here is curated to help you grow and thrive in the space.
If you come across any exciting opportunities, send them my way. I’d love to feature them and share them with the community.
Now, let’s dive into what’s hot this week!
ICYMI - This Week's Highlights
💰 Hot Opportunities
1. $30k INTMAX Bug Bounty :
Details: INTMAX just launched a bug bounty program, and there's up to $30K in rewards available. Check it out here.
2. Seedify Venture Studio:
Details: This is an incubation program offering up to $200K investment in project tokens for web3 and web2 builders and developers.. Check it out here.
3. 3 Percent Club Summer Program 2025:
Details: Founders can pitch to 20+ investors for $50K–$3M+ in funding, while also receiving coaching and grant support through the 3 Percent Club at the MVP and Ideation stages. Check it out here.
4. Codebase Incubator:
Details: Codebase is where top web3 founders come to be transformed from builders into founders and ideate, build an MVP, and launch. Each selected participant receives a $50k USD grant and the opportunity to pitch for a $500k USD prize pool at Pitch Day. Check it out here.
5. Speak At Web3Lagos Conference:
Details: Whether you’re a seasoned dev or a curious learner, there’s a seat for you. Call for Speakers & Attendee registration now open. Check it out here.
6. #500kIntern drive:
Details: This is for Interns only. Apply if you're looking for any form of paid tech internship. Check it out here.
🎓 Bootcamps, Learning & Training Programs
1. Rust for Bitcoiners
Details: Rust for Bitcoiners is a 4–6 week journey into the Rust programming language, built for intermediate to advanced devs who want to dig into high-performance Bitcoin development. Registration is opening soon. Register today!
2. Rust Blockchain Protocol Development
Details: The first-ever Web3bridge Rust class is live and open for everyone to register. For just $100, you’ll get expert training, a $5,000+ build grant, and real hands-on experience. Register today!
3. Smart Contract Auditing Training
Details: This is a bootcamp, a four-month intensive program designed to equip participants with the skills and knowledge needed for a successful career in smart contract auditing. They provide food and accommodation, 24-hour electricity, unlimited internet, learning resources, and world-class instructors. Register today!
4. kApps Bootcamp
Details: This is a 4-week hands-on Bootcamp to kickstart your journey into blockchain development using Solidity and the KRNL modular protocol. Register today!
🌍 Major Events Spotlight
***P.S. More Web3 events are coming; be sure to revisit later this week!
1. SuiHub Lagos
Date: June 5th, 2025
Location: Lagos
Details: A brand new series of events hosted at Good House in Ikeja. From hackathons and workshops to grassroots meetups and creative showcases, this is where the Sui community in Nigeria comes together.
Link: Reserve Your Spot
2. Crypto & DeFi Forum
Date: June 11th, 2025
Location: Lagos
Details: The Crypto & DeFi Forum will bring together industry leaders across the digital assets industry, regulators, investors, innovators, and users of digital assets solutions to explore emerging opportunities and contribute to shaping the future of crypto and digital assets in Nigeria.
Link: Reserve Your Spot
3. Kenya Blockchain & Crypto Conference
Date: June 12th-13th, 2025
Location: Kenya
Details: The conference brings together diverse participants to discuss and showcase advancements in blockchain technology, its applications, and its role in shaping Africa’s economic landscape.
Link: Reserve Your Spot
💼 Career Corner
Work & Earn
1. Superteam Earn:
Details: Dive into the world of crypto and blockchain by participating in Superteam Earn's work-to-earn platform. This initiative offers various tasks and projects that reward you with cryptocurrency. Enhance your skills, contribute to exciting projects, and get paid in crypto. Start earning today!
2. OnlyDust:
Details: For developers, join OnlyDust and become part of a community dedicated to forging a legacy in decentralized development. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting, OnlyDust provides resources and projects to help you make your mark in the blockchain world. Forge your developer legacy now!
Job Openings
Arbitrum is hiring a technical expert
Sonic SVM is hiring ambassadors
KRNL Klub is hiring ambassadors
🎯 Growth Opportunities
Grants
1. Gooddollar Launches $250K Ecosystem Fund on Celo:
Details: The GoodDollar Ecosystem Fund aims to drive innovation and growth with the GoodBuilders Program ($220K) - Year-long support for building dApps, G$ integrations, and platform enhancements, including Gitcoin QF rounds, mentorship, and engagement rewards. $30K for Community Initiatives – Funding for community-driven projects. Check it out here.
2. The Seed Grant Program:
Details: It is designed to provide teams with grants up to $25,000 in USDC in non-dilutive funding to enhance the growth of the Starknet ecosystem. Check it out here.
3. Questbook Compound Grants
Details: The Compound Grants Program empowers innovative projects by providing funding to builders, researchers, and developers within the Compound ecosystem. It aims to support cutting-edge dapps, security tooling, cross-chain initiatives, and DAO operations, ensuring a transparent, decentralized, and efficient allocation of resources. Check it out here.
Open Source
4. Celo & Scout Game
Details: Celo is partnering with Scout Game to support developers who contribute to the ecosystem. Celo has a prize pool of 5000 cUSD to distribute to talented developers! This is the chance for you to learn and grow, and make connections, even if you are new to open source.
Link: Start here
Fellowship
5. The Next Billion Fellowship
Details: The program seeks to enable the flourishing of populations, communities, or individuals underrepresented in the Ethereum ecosystem today. Fellows receive support from the Foundation to complete a small quest inside a big narrative.
Link: Start here
6. yAcademy Fellowship Block 7:
Details: Applications are now open for yAcademy’s Block 7 Fellowship, offering tracks in Smart Contracts and Zero Knowledge. The fellowship is a public good designed to train top security talent and strengthen the Ethereum ecosystem. Register here.
7. Dev3pack Fellowship:
Details: Dev3pack is a global fellowship program for women+ and student developers coming from Web2 and want to become Web3 developers. Register here.
Internship
8. Ethereum Season of Internships
Details: The Ethereum Season of Internships directly addresses this retention gap by creating a coordinated collection of internship opportunities across the ecosystem. Registration is opening soon.
Link: Start here
Bounties
9. Ethereum Foundation Bug Bounty
Details: Earn up to 250,000 USD and place on the leaderboard by finding protocol, client, and language compiler bugs affecting the Ethereum network.
Link: Register Now
10. $20K Circle Developer Bounties
Details: Circle Developer Bounties invite you to build real-world solutions with Circle's suite of smart contracts, APIs, and SDKs.
Link: Register Now
11. $1000 Toby Network Content War:
Details: This bounty invites creatives to create craft creative contents that leave an impression. Check it out here.
12. $1000 MycoDAO Content Bounty:
Details: This bounty invites creatives to create content for MycoDAO in a Twitter thread of up to 8 tweets. Check it out here.
Hackathons
13. MetaMask Card Dev Cook-Off
Details: The MetaMask Card Hackathon is designed to inspire developers, designers, and innovators to build innovative applications that integrate the MetaMask Card, LI.FI and USDC.
Link: Register here
14. Modular Worlds Hackathon
Details: A global hackathon from Protocol Labs to accelerate breakthroughs in the foundational layers of the internet. From secure, censorship-resistant infrastructure to AI grounded in verifiable truth and economic systems that reward open collaboration, this hackathon challenges you to reimagine the digital stack for a freer, more intelligent world.
Link: Register here
📺 Featured Content
The SECRET to Breaking In and Building Successfully In Web3
Overview: In this first episode of Seen, I sit down with Mr. Simeon Nofa, founder of Pengage Finance, to talk about entering Web3 later in life and thriving.
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🐦 Tweet of the Week
🏆 Featured Tweet: @superSaiyanSkai
Want to read the full tweet? The link to the full tweet is here.
🔗 Let's Connect!
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Talk soon,
Glory Praise Emmanuel