Aave Grants DAO is a community-led grants program, focused on growing a thriving ecosystem of contributors within Aave through funding ideas, projects and events that benefit the ecosystem. 

IPFS is a peer-to-peer network and protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open. IPFS upgrades the web to work peer to peer, addressing data by what it is instead of where it’s located on the network, or who is hosting it.

Filecoin, the world’s largest decentralized network offering more than 18+ Exbibytes of storage. It allows users to store, request, and transfer data via a verifiable marketplace. Filecoin is completely open-source, enabling people from all over the world to participate.

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At Optimism, we're on a mission to scale Ethereum to the masses and sustainably fund public goods in the process!

From the code to the values, we are Ethereum-aligned. We believe Ethereum has the potential to solve some of humanity’s most crucial coordination issues. Since our initial inception as a non-profit research group, we have sought to scale both its technology and values.

At present the most pressing bottleneck to the growth of Ethereum is its performance and scalability. We are building the most elegant solution to this problem. We do this out in the open because we believe in open source and its ability to accelerate innovation.

Not only do we improve Ethereum's performance by orders of magnitude, we donate 100% of the profits generated from doing so to Ethereum public goods. We do this because we believe the future of the open internet is too important to be left to chance. By operating as a Public Benefit Corporation we're able to align private incentives with public good and create a positive-sum economic model that provides a sustainable future for the internet.

Polygon is the leading platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development.** Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all major scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 18000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, ~100M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured.

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SKALE is the only Ethereum native, modular blockchain network composed of 20+ high-throughput, low-latency SKALE Chains that are optimized for Web3 user experience. SKALE offers ZERO gas fees to end-users and has advanced features such as on-chain file storage, interchain messaging, zero-cost minting, ML/AI smart contracts, and enhanced security features.

SKALE enables developers to deploy their own EVM blockchain in minutes without sacrificing speed, security, or decentralization. Welcome to the SKALEverse. 

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Superfluid is the leading asset streaming protocol that enables Web3 native subscriptions, salaries and rewards for DAOs and crypto-native businesses. It can be used to describe cash flows and execute them automatically on-chain over time in a non-interactive way. Superfluid streams transfer value in a constant flow over time between wallets, in a non-custodial and permissionless way. Streams are programmable, composable, and modular, allowing developers to build custom applications on top of the protocol. No capital is locked up, and all inflows and outflows are netted in real-time at every block without consuming any gas. Ongoing streams can be forwarded as they are received to both wallets and applications, eliminating delays and drastically increasing capital efficiency.

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Worldcoin is a Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Personhood Protocol (PPPoPP).We’re super excited to give you the first opportunity to build on top of the World ID protocol. Wold ID enables Proof-of-Personhood so that any developer can build anonymous sybil resistant apps.

Aurora is a solution that allows to execute Ethereum contracts in a more performant environment—NEAR blockchain, a modern layer-1 blockchain that is fast (2-3 second transaction finalization), scalable, and carbon neutral. Aurora is an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) implemented as a smart contract on NEAR Protocol.

Aurora provides the Ethereum 1.0 development experience, with layer-2-like speed and scalability. If you are an Ethereum developer, getting started on Aurora is as easy as changing the RPC endpoint you interact with.

Advantages of Hacking with Aurora

• Ongoing support. Our core dev support team is backing and mentoring you while you are building 
• Aurora Grants Program. We help your project thrive with our grants and investments from partnering funds.
• Ecosystem. You can quickly enhance and scale your project by leveraging quick access to Aurora ecosystem partners.

A yield derivatives layer for decentralized finance. Unlock future yield and receive it in advance. Fix interest rates on your investments or trade yield.

Embrace the modularity of the protocol to build novel yield strategies, bots, or interfaces for the APWine community.

Cronos (cronos.org) is the first EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain network built on the Cosmos SDK, supported by Crypto.com, Crypto.org and more than 300+ app developers and partners.

Cronos is building an open ecosystem where developers can create their own DeFi and GameFi applications, targeting a base of 50+ million users globally. Earlier this year, Cronos Labs launched a $100M Accelerator program to help developers build new projects and the future of Web3 within the Cronos ecosystem.

When developers build on Cronos, they can leverage all Ethereum developer tools (i.e. Solidity, Truffle, Hardhat, OpenZeppelin, Web3.js, ethers.js, ChainSafe Gaming SDK); leading crypto wallets (i.e. MetaMask, Crypto.com Defi Wallet, Trust Wallet); wrapped versions of the world’s top 50 cryptocurrencies; Cronos Play, a suite of developer tools for Unity, C++ and Unreal engine; inter-blockchain communication (IBC) cross-chain connectivity to Cosmos chains; and a rich ecosystem of composable DeFi and GameFi dApps.

Push Protocol (Prev EPNS) is the communication layer of web3. Push allows any crypto wallet / frontend to tap into the network and get the comm across. Using the protocol, any smart contract, dapp, or backend can send on-chain or off-chain notifications tied to the wallet addresses of a user in a multichain, open, platform-agnostic way. We are also launching wallet to wallet messaging feature very soon.

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Yearn Finance is a decentralized investment aggregator that leverages composability and uses automated strategies to allow users to earn high yield on crypto assets. Yearn has deployed more than 200 strategies and has over 2B in TVL. Yearn's core product, the yVaults , is a set-it-and-forget-it yield aggregator running on top of DeFi's yield-generating protocols like Compound, Aave, Curve, and Convex. Vaults benefit users by socializing gas costs, automating the yield generation and rebalancing process, and automatically shifting capital as opportunities arise. Because of yVault's open design, other protocols have repurposed the generated yield as a design component in their protocol, including Alchemix, QiDao, Abracadabra, Shapeshift, and SteakWallet.

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) enables you to have a cross-platform web3 username and profile, to simplify crypto payments for any blockchain, and decentralized websites. ENS supports .ETH names natively, as well as importing DNS names you already own. ENS is integrated in over 300 services, including wallets, dapps, and browsers.

Abacus is an interchain messaging API for your interoperability needs. Built as a network between blockchains, you can use Abacus to easily create interoperable applications.

XMTP (Extensible Message Transport Protocol) is an open protocol and network for secure, private messaging between Ethereum accounts. With the XMTP SDK, developers can enhance their applications with a universal inbox for direct messages, alerts, and announcements, or build new tools for dapps, DAOs, creators, and protocols to re-engage users via web3 messaging. Its primary contributor, XMTP Labs, is funded by some of the industry’s top venture capital funds including a16z Crypto and Coinbase Ventures.

📥 Want to try out XMTP?

To try out XMTP, we have built a reference client at xmtp.chat - you can then send a message to petermdenton.eth and experience native, secure web3 messaging. You can also fork this example client and build your own here.

What is Livepeer?

Livepeer is the world's open video infrastructure. Founded in 2017, Livepeer provides cost-efficient, secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure that can handle today's high demand for video processing. Livepeer's decentralized network includes over 70,000 GPUs and currently processes millions of minutes a week. Learn about how Livepeer works.

What is Livepeer Studio?👩‍💻

Livepeer Studio, which you’ll be using in your hack, is a video toolkit that makes it easy for builders to access the decentralized Livepeer network.

UMA is an optimistic oracle (OO) that can record any knowable truth onto a blockchain. The OO empowers and secures a diverse ecosystem of web3 applications including the Across bridge and Outcome.Finance, a suite of DAO tooling products.

Tableland is a decentralized database network. Anyone can create & own a programmable TABLE, equipped with on-chain access controls & accessible with SQL. Build dynamic, web3-native experiences using low cost reads & writes on EVM chains.

Tellor is a decentralized oracle protocol that incentivizes an open, permissionless network of data reporting and data validation, ensuring that data can be provided by anyone and checked by everyone.

Built for any data type, our network of reporters supports your basic spot prices, more sophisticated pricing specs (TWAP/VWAP), Random Numbers, Snapshot Vote Results, or any custom data needs you have. If your data can be verified, Tellor can bring it on-chain.

Valist is a web3-native software distribution platform powered by best-in-class decentralized protocols. Valist enables developers and DAOs to coordinate, publish, and share, and optionally monetize software without relying on centralized services like GitHub or Steam.

The Streamr Network is a layer zero protocol for real-time data transport, delivering a bulletproof pub-sub messaging layer. The Network transports streams of messages from data publishers to subscribers, appearing to the user as a global publish/subscribe messaging service. It is similar in functionality to message queues, enterprise messaging systems, MQTT brokers, Apache Kafka, or pub/sub cloud messaging services. Your Ethereum account is your Streamr account and identity. Every data point on Streamr is Cryptographically signed with the Ethereum private key.

Web3 projects can use the protocol in many ways, for example it allows the implementation of real-time features like chats and notifications, or collecting node metrics from a distributed network and sharing them on aggregate level to empower the community.

The Graph is an indexing protocol for organising and efficiently accessing data from blockchains and storage networks. The Graph has been running a hosted service since January 2019 with over 2,300 subgraphs deployed for Web3 and DeFi applications built on Ethereum and IPFS, like Synthetix, Uniswap, Aave, Balancer, Gnosis, Aragon, and more.

Ceramic is a decentralized data network that brings unlimited data composability to Web3 applications. With Ceramic's permissionless data streaming network, you can store streams of information and ever-changing files directly on the decentralized web – and share updates with anyone in the world.

We at Covalent believe that access to organized blockchain data can unlock a billion possibilities and so we provide the best single unified API to bring full transparency and visibility to assets across all blockchain networks. With the Covalent API, there is no need to invest developer resources in writing SQL or other queries since granular, decoded, multi-chain data is immediately available for 30+ blockchain networks including Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, Fantom and Avalanche. Covalent is fast becoming the go-to data provider, with the Covalent API powering over 1,000 industry-leading projects such as Zerion, ChainGuardians, 0x and Reef.The Covalent Unified API is the fastest way to get blockchain data for your ETHNewYork 2022 Hackathon project!

deBridge is a generic messaging and cross-chain interoperability protocol that enables anyone to build powerful cross-chain applications where value and messages flow seamlessly. The protocol is a secure infrastructure and framework for:

• Cross-chain composability of smart contracts
• Cross-chain swaps between any assets. deSwap is one of the applications built on top of deBridge
• Bridging of any arbitrary asset and message in one transaction
• Interoperability and bridging of NFTs

NFTPort is the Stripe for NFTs: one-stop, simple NFT Infrastructure and APIs for developers to bring NFT applications to market in hours instead of months. NFTPort takes care of the infrastructure so that developers can focus on building their application. NFTPort provides APIs for multi-chain NFT data and NFT minting, together with out-of-the-box NFT search, recommendations and detecting NFT counterfeits. NFTPort is used by 5000+ devs, including leading projects such as POAP and Nifty Gateway. Built by a team of ex-NATO, Nvidia & Monese and backed by the Co-Founders of Polygon, Skype & Wise.

Oasis is the leading privacy-enabled and scalable layer-1 blockchain network. It combines high throughput and low gas fees with secure architecture to provide a next-generation foundation for Web3. Oasis Network separates consensus and execution into two layers, the Consensus Layer and The ParaTime Layer, for better scalability.

Sapphire is the first and only confidential EVM-compatible runtime. Sapphire offers Solidity developers a familiar development environment, but with the added benefits of Oasis’ privacy-preserving technology.

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Sapphire allows for:

‍Confidential smart contract state, end-to-end encryption, confidential randomness

• EVM compatibility
• Easy integration with EVM-based dApps, such as NFTs, Metaverse, crypto gaming and DeFi
• Scalability — high throughput of transactions
• Low-cost — 99%+ lower fees than Ethereum

QuickNode is the premier Web3 developer platform, helping today's most cutting-edge apps run with speed, reliability, and scale. Powering top projects & businesses, and empowering developers with instant access to 15+ chains across a global node network.

Sismo enables users to generate ZK Badges proving their reputation or identity without compromising their privacy. A ZK Badge is a Non-Transferrable Token which represents an attestation (e.g I donated on Gitcoin, I am part of Proof of Humanity registry, I sent more than 100 transactions on Ethereum etc..). As ZK Badges follow the ERC1155 Standard, they are very easy to use to gate your app in a privacy preserving way. Sismo is a modular and open protocol: anyone can easily create its own Badge for its app or community.

Unlock is a protocol developers, creators, and platforms can use to create memberships. Unlock’s goal is to ease implementation and increase conversion from “users” to “members,” creating a much healthier monetization environment for the web.

In short, Unlock is an open-source, collectively owned, community-governed, peer-to-peer system that creates time-based memberships.

There are a number of interdependent components of Unlock. These are:

• Unlock Labs: The core team that created and currently maintains Unlock Protocol.
• Unlock Protocol: A suite of upgradable smart contracts that create memberships as NFTs.
• The Unlock Ecosystem: A community of creators, distributors, and consumers who share ownership of Unlock Protocol through their contributions using the protocol.
• Unlock DAO: A decentralized organization of token holders who govern and control Unlock Protocol.
• Unlock Tools: Front-end convenience applications built by Unlock Labs to further sustainable innovation on Unlock Protocol.

Unlock Labs created Unlock Protocol to provide an open, shared infrastructure for memberships that removes friction, increases conversion, enables scale, reduces costs, and evolves the web from a business model built on attention toward one based on membership.

Unlock Protocol belongs to the Unlock Ecosystem, not Unlock Labs, and is governed by the Unlock DAO.

We aim for Unlock Protocol to be the primitive for every membership, both online and offline, around the globe. Together, we will create an internet owned and monetized by creators and their supporters.

Connext is the interoperability protocol of L2 Ethereum. Connext enables sending value and calling contracts across Ethereum-compatible chains and L2s, with plug-in support for non-Ethereum systems. Unlike other approaches, the Connext does this without weakening economic security by introducing third party validators - it instead has the same trust considerations as the underlying chain(s). 

Unstoppable Domains makes your crypto currency payments simple and allows you to build censorship resistant websites.

Do more with your DAO.

Āut is an extendable Protocol designed to power the next generation of human Coordination.

The DAOs 2.0, if you like, or a DAO Renaissance.

It does so by "expanding" any Standard DAO Contract - with custom Membership modules on top.

Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph. It lets creators take ownership of their content wherever they go in the digital garden of the decentralized internet. With Lens Protocol, you are in control. You own your profile, where you use it, how you use it, and even how you monetize it. That means you have the power over your content, and it’s all right there, as an NFT, in your wallet. It’s not just easy. It’s how digital identity should be: yours.

Spruce lets users control their data across the web. We believe that the world is evolving toward one based on cryptography, networks, and digital economies that are user-controlled. Today, the dominant use case for user keys is the signing of blockchain transactions, but we think this barely scratches the surface of what is possible. Soon, the entirety of a user’s digital interactions will be based on their keypairs, and we’re unlocking this transition with our constellation of products. We meet users where they are, and empower them to use their existing keys to Sign-In with Ethereum, manage their digital identity, private storage, and more.