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irwingtello.eth 🇲🇽

@irwingtello

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Proud to launch an #EVM tool for #Discord communities, where users can easily retrieve #NFTs information from any EVM #blockchain without programming skills and at an affordable price. Thanks for the support @withBackdrop . #OpenSource #PublicGood #Base #PolygonZKEVM #EVM

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Backdrop Labs

@withBackdrop

🚀 it’s launch day 🚀 4 weeks ago we welcomed builders with one simple goal: launch something new at the edge, together. today, hundreds of those projects go live 🚢 congrats and hello world, Build V2 ⚡

5:39 PM · Nov 29, 2023

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Gema Parreño

@SoyGema

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Building and shipping consistently ... is Hard. Learned a lot during these weeks about LLM adversarial attacks ... optimization + report creation. Received some useful feedback as well. Good focused empathetic program from @withBackdrop fellows! Hey, Thanks @raphacaixeta ✨

8:51 PM · Nov 28, 2023

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David Hurley

@davidhurley87

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WordDuel selected as a finalist 📈 Big thanks to the @withBackdrop team. I simplified the game over the weekend. No more XP tokens. In game tokens suck. There's a prize pool of 0.5 Base ETH. Big thanks to @BuildOnBase for the supporting grant. Demo:

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7:01 PM · Dec 4, 2023

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xuying li

@li_xuying

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Immense gratitude to @withBackdrop for their invaluable inspiration and support on our journey with 'Personalized AI NewsPodcast'. Thrilled to announce we've made it to the finalists! 🌟 This journey has been transformative, and breaking free from the perfectionist cycle has been…

2:50 AM · Dec 4, 2023

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Luca

@whitenoise

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After 4 weeks in the amazing @withBackdrop program, we launched "Scientific Document Insight Q/A". Our application aims to find insight into scientific articles, with a special focus on #materials_science and other STAM disciplines.

12:32 AM · Nov 30, 2023

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berzan

@berzanorg

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I've launched an NFT lending platform on Solana for a hackathon of @withBackdrop. Even though I was too late to start and had very little time, I've managed to get it done. I say never give up until it's done. I'm glad it is done. The repository: github.com/solana-devs/nf…

8:23 AM · Nov 29, 2023

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Incented

@GetIncented

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Over the moon to have been selected as a finalist in the @withBackdrop #backdropbuild program. The level of quality among 170 amazing submissions was incredible, and we want to congratulate everyone that participated. Thanks @joey_debruin @raphacaixeta and the rest of the team.