LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DeSo is pleased to announce a first-of-its-kind Web3 startup competition on the prestigious Princeton campus, designed exclusively for students looking to create and launch the next Big Deal. The event begins on February 4th and students will have the opportunity to showcase their skills in front of several confirmed legendary investors as speakers and judges.

Princeton students will compete for up to $50,000 in prizes and possibly receive additional funding and mentoring from the DeSo team and all-star lineup of prominent judges. Among those confirmed are Vinny Lingham, founder of Civic and Waitroom, Robert Leshner, founder of Compound Finance, and several well-respected fund GPs including Sequoia, Pantera, Multicoin, Dragonfly, North Island Ventures and more.

The competition will be broadcast live and you can RSVP here.

Using the DeSo-powered Openfund platform, students can enter multiple different tracks for their chance to win $50,000 in prizes, including crypto startups revolutionizing traditional web2 models in AI, blogging, messaging, creator monetization, social media and games.

“For the first time, students can launch and fund startups as easily as creating an Instagram account,” says DeSo founder and Princeton alumnus Nader Al-Naji. “Projects can also launch tokens later, which can then be traded on the DeSo DEX, the world’s fastest on-chain order book exchange.”

All Princeton students will also receive $50 worth of free crypto, which can be used to contribute to other student projects.

The DeSo x Princeton startup competition is the first event of its kind, but it won’t be the last. Several other major Ivy Leagues and universities have already contacted DeSo to ask if this innovative model can be brought to their campus.

If you are interested in becoming a campus partner, please do not hesitate to contact us.

This is the latest in a recent string of successes for DeSo. The platform was recently listed on Coinbase and announced an innovative MetaMask integration. The platform also announced a USDC integration that has attracted many new builders to the ecosystem, including Openfund. Furthermore, DeSo is preparing to release a series of significant updates in the first quarter of this year in an effort to decentralize social media in the same way that Bitcoin is decentralizing finance.

Head over to DeSo to track your roadmap and claim your decentralized, censorship-resistant username at deso.com.

Contact information:
Arash Ghaemi
Growth Marketing Leader
ash@deso.org

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Princeton students will compete for their chance to win $50,000 in prizes.

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