The call aimed to activate 50 builders. It ended with 192 registrations, 19 Mini Apps presented, 11 COPm integrations, and a Demo Day with 19 evaluated teams.
Colombia sent a clear signal for the Celo ecosystem: a call that aimed to activate 50 builders ended with 192 registered participants.
Camilo Sacanamboy shared the results of the hackathon organized with Celo, Celo Colombia, and Universidad Icesi. The public recap reports 19 Mini Apps presented, 11 COPm integrations, one Mini App in MiniPay, and an NPS of 95, with an average score of 9.8 out of 10 across 19 teams.
The image in the post shows a session titled “From localhost to production,” held on Friday, June 5 at the Banco de Occidente Auditorium, Building E, at Universidad Icesi in Cali, with a virtual option. The Demo Day deck completes the story: the process included 8 hours and 30 minutes of bootcamps across four sessions, three weeks of learning and building, and five hours of office hours with mentors.
The initial goal was to activate 50 builders. The result nearly quadrupled that expectation.
That number does not prove by itself that every participant will keep building. It does show something more immediate: there is demand for spaces where Colombian developers can learn, test, present, and receive technical context near active communities.
It also changes the conversation about regional talent. Instead of measuring the scene only by capital raised or media presence, this result looks at signals closer to the work: registrations, applications presented, integrations completed, and products evaluated by judges.
The results page published each project's final score, calculated as the average from three judges, along with the criteria breakdown and anonymous comments. The rubric evaluated fit with MiniPay and real utility, product quality, integration with Celo and stablecoins, verifiable traction, and originality.
First place went to P2Pmoney.xyz, by Harold Giraldo Valencia, with 84.7 out of 100. The project proposes P2P stablecoin exchange against fiat money through an intelligent escrow deployed on Celo Mainnet.
Second place went to Choco, by Luis Cárdenas, with 84.3 out of 100. Choco turns text or voice instructions into remittance plans inside MiniPay; the user keeps confirmation and signature control over each action.
Third place went to Frontle, by David Naranjo and Santiago Florez, with 81.7 out of 100. Frontle is a daily geography game inside MiniPay, with stablecoin prizes and localization for Colombia.
The 19 Mini Apps presented help ground the learning. A small app forces decisions: what problem to solve, what flow to show, what part to integrate, and what can be explained in public.
The 11 COPm integrations point in the same direction. It is not enough to say that a technology can be useful. The team has to connect it to a case, a local currency, or a concrete need so the rest of the community can evaluate it.
The project list also shows variety. Teams built around remittances, social saving, local microtasks paid in COPm, interactive education, support for microbusinesses, creator microcontributions, games, microcredit, professional guidance, agent-assisted commerce, and prediction markets. Not every project reached the same maturity level, and the judges' comments make that clear. That transparency is part of the exercise's value.
The role of Universidad Icesi and Celo Colombia gives the result a local reading. The activation does not look like an outside visit that passes through the country and leaves. It looks like a piece of community infrastructure: university, technical community, and the Celo ecosystem working against a measurable goal.
For Frutero, that is the most interesting part. The region does not need more abstract speeches about adoption. It needs spaces where someone can enter with curiosity, leave with a delivery, and understand what they would need to improve before presenting again.
The final number is not just “192 registrations.” It is a working hypothesis for Colombia: when an event asks for production, not just attendance, builders respond.
