Sign is building a global verification platform to make all digital information, such as identity, ownership, and certificates, verifiable onchain. Sign Protocol offers a suite of tools, infrastructure, and standards to create a future where verifiable attestations drive all claims and assertions on the web and the world around us. We are excited to see Sign Protocol usher in a future where we can trust but, more importantly, validate all data using attestations to enable improved governance protocols, point systems, reward distribution systems, trust and referral networks, and much more.
Prizes
🏆 Sign Everything Pool Prize ⸺ $5,000
Split with up to 81 teams (capped at $62 per team)
Sign Protocol is an omni-chain attestation protocol, enabling users to freely attest and retrieve structured and verifiable data onchain. This prize will be split among project teams using Sign Protocol’s schemas, attestations, and indexing service to add core functionality to their project.
Qualification Requirements
- You must use schemas, attestations, and Sign Protocol's indexing service.
- Sign Protocol must be a part of the core logic/functionality of your project.
- Project must have a working demo.
🪝 Best Technical Integration of Schema Hooks ⸺ $3,000
Up to 3 teams will receive $1,000
Sign Protocol’s Schema Hooks allow builders to extend the core attestation protocol, adding custom Solidity logic that is triggered each time an attestation is created or revoked for a specific schema. Schema hooks can whitelist attesters, receive payments, or perform any custom application logic. This prize will be granted to three project teams that each must utilize at least one schema hook in their core project logic in a unique, technical, and innovative way. ZK logic does not qualify for this prize.
Qualification Requirements
- You must create at least one schema that utilizes a custom schema hook.
- The schema hook must solve a specific need for your project (e.g. whitelist, payment, custom data verification, etc).
- Sign Protocol must be a part of the core logic/functionality of your project.
- ZK hooks do not qualify for this prize.
✅ Best ZK Attestation Verifier With Schema Hooks ⸺ $3,000
Up to 2 teams will receive $1,500
Sign Protocol’s Schema Hooks allow builders to extend the core attestation protocol, adding custom Solidity logic that is triggered each time an attestation is created or revoked for a specific schema. Schema hooks can be utilized to whitelist attesters, receive payments, or perform any custom application logic. This prize will be granted to three project teams that each must utilize at least one schema hook in their core project logic in a unique, technical, and innovative way. ZK verification logic is required to qualify for this prize.
Qualification Requirements
- Your zk verifier must be used as a schema hook.
- Your zk circuit must prove something about the attestation, likely parsing the attestation data to prove information for your project’s core functionality.
- A user must be able to generate a zk proof of their attestation securely and privately.
- This proof’s verification must be used to perform some central action in your user-facing project (i.e., access control).
🎨 Most Creative App for Community Engagement ⸺ $3,000
Up to 3 teams will receive $1,000
Participate in a unique opportunity to make a difference by tackling social challenges through innovative projects. Choose from one of our exciting tracks: Community Engagement, Memecoin Safety & Transparency, or General Business.
To qualify, your project should clearly define the social problem it addresses and showcase how it benefits the target audience. Plus, be sure to include a working demo to bring your idea to life!
Our community prizes will recognize the project that stands out in creativity, future potential, problem-solving, and entertainment value. In addition to a cash prize, we’re offering ongoing support to help you take your project to the next level—with consulting, connections, and resources to help you scale.
Qualification Requirements
- You must create and clarify what social problem you are solving and what the target audience can benefit from.
- Project must have a working demo.
- Sign Protocol must be a part of the core logic/functionality of your project.
- Scored on creativity, future application, problem-solving capability, and entertainment value.
🪙 Best Use Case to Enhance Memecoin Transparency ⸺ $3,000
Up to 3 teams will receive $1,000
Participate in a unique opportunity to make a difference by tackling social challenges through innovative projects. Choose from one of our exciting tracks: Community Engagement, Memecoin Safety & Transparency, or General Business.
To qualify, your project should clearly define the social problem it addresses and showcase how it benefits the target audience. Plus, be sure to include a working demo to bring your idea to life!
Our community prizes will recognize the project that stands out in creativity, future potential, problem-solving, and entertainment value. In addition to a cash prize, we’re offering ongoing support to help you take your project to the next level—with consulting, connections, and resources to help you scale.
Qualification Requirements
- You must create and clarify what social problem you are solving and what the target audience can benefit from.
- Project must have a working demo.
- Sign Protocol must be a part of the core logic/functionality of your project.
- Scored on creativity, future application, problem-solving capability, and entertainment value.
👔 Best Consumer Application for General Business ⸺ $3,000
Up to 3 teams will receive $1,000
Participate in a unique opportunity to make a difference by tackling social challenges through innovative projects. Choose from one of our exciting tracks: Community Engagement, Memecoin Safety & Transparency, or General Business.
To qualify, your project should clearly define the social problem it addresses and showcase how it benefits the target audience. Plus, be sure to include a working demo to bring your idea to life!
Our community prizes will recognize the project that stands out in creativity, future potential, problem-solving, and entertainment value. In addition to a cash prize, we’re offering ongoing support to help you take your project to the next level—with consulting, connections, and resources to help you scale.
Qualification Requirements
- You must create and clarify what social problem you are solving and what the target audience can benefit from.
- Project must have a working demo.
- Sign Protocol must be a part of the core logic/functionality of your project.
- Scored on creativity, future application, problem-solving capability, and entertainment value.
Mina is a lightweight ZK blockchain for proving anything privately and securely. Its blockchain uses recursive zk-SNARKs to design an entire blockchain that can be verified in just 22kb, the size of a couple of tweets.
Mina will transform the way information is verified online, by empowering individuals to prove their sensitive information safely, where anyone can easily verify it with its lightweight ‘proof of everything.’
Prizes
🧠 Best Mina application or library built using Protokit ⸺ $14,000
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1st place
$7,000
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2nd place
$4,000
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3rd place
$2,000
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4th place
$1,000
Step into the innovative realm of the Mina Protocol and the Protokit framework (a modular and privacy enabled application chain development framework for the MINA ecosystem.) Build an application or library that reshapes privacy.
This challenge seeks projects that harness Mina's lightweight blockchain to redefine secure transactions and interactions. By leveraging Protokit's frameworks - privacy-enabled modules, succinct zkVM, and seamless wallet integration, your creation should offer a new practical utility.
Prize amount will be split as $7,000 for first place, $4,000 for second place, $2,000 for third place, and $1000 for fourth place. All winners and participants will earn recognition for contributing significantly to advancing privacy and security using Mina's groundbreaking technology!
Qualification Requirements
-The project must be implemented using protokit
-Correct usage of the on-chain execution model using runtime modules (bonus for usages of hybrid execution model)
-Demo UI that showcases the project (suitable projects only)
-Tests required for projects that don’t have a UI, bonus for all other
-Correct implementation of application in the provable code model
🎮 zkGaming on Mina ⸺ $6,000
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1st place
$3,000
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2nd place
$2,000
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3rd place
$1,000
Discover the world of provable, zero-knowledge game development on Mina Protocol! Create your own fair game environment based on the modular “plug and play” SDK From ZkNoid.
ZkNoid is a modular framework bringing all the infrastructure you need to easily deploy games on Mina Protocol. Have an idea for a game? Split it into provable and visual parts, Start coding and plug in the layers you need from the SDK!
Prize amount will be split among 3 winners. $3,000 for first place, $2,000 for second place, and $1,000 for third place. Winners will be provided with technical support and will have the opportunity to launch their games to the ZkNoid store. This is your chance to contribute to the future of gaming!
Qualification Requirements
-The project must be implemented using ZkNoid SDK
-Demo UI that showcases the project
-Game contracts should be meaningful and integrated to the game
LayerZero is a smart contract protocol that enables applications to move data across blockchains, uniquely supporting censorship-resistant message delivery and permissionless development through immutable smart contracts.
Prizes
🏆 Most Innovative Omnichain Solution ⸺ $20,000
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1st place
$13,000
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2nd place
$6,250
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Best Developer Feedback
$750
Create the most innovative omnichain solutions using LayerZero V2. Leverage our permissionless infrastructure and composable execution to win!
Qualification Requirements
To qualify for the most innovative solution track, participants must adhere to the following criteria:
1. Omnichain Messaging:
Implement omnichain messaging solution via LayerZero integration, ensuring the application is built on Endpoint V2 for seamless cross-chain communication.
2. Innovative Contracts:
Utilize our toolkit and documentation to develop original contracts that introduce groundbreaking functionalities, features, optimizations or establish new contract standard. Potential projects include but not limited to:
- OApp: Cross-chain governance with multiple composed messages
- OFT ERC6551: Omnichain Token Bound Accounts
- OFT ERC4626: Omnichain Vault Standards
- OFT for Rebasing Tokens: Omnichain Rebasing Tokens
- ONFT721 Extensions
- ONFT1155
- DVN Adapters: Adapting different GMP bridges to use the IDVN.sol interface for OApp security stack compatibility.
3. Working Demo:
Utilize the 3-week hackathon to explore our protocol. We encourage you to build a well-rounded and polished project.
4. Feedback Form:
Improve our tools and documentation by submitting valuable feedback. The best submission will receive a $750 prize. The form is available under "Resources".
Ethereum enabled writing smart contracts to build dApps. Similarly, Galadriel enables developers to build AI apps & agents like smart contracts — decentralized and on-chain. We support a range of AI usage: from simple LLM features in existing dApps to highly capable AI agents like on-chain AI hedge funds, in-game AI NPCs, AI-generated NFTs, and even agent swarms.
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Galadriel is built on a parallel-execution EVM stack and brings AI inference on-chain in a low-cost, low-latency manner through teeML which allows querying any open and closed-source LLM models in a verifiable manner.
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Galadriel is in devnet. Join the mission in building user-owned AI.
Prizes
💎 Best Multi-Agent System ⸺ $3,000
Build and deploy more than 3 on-chain AI agents, that are interconnected and can communicate with each other via a shared interface, on Galadriel Devnet. <><><><><><><><><><> Such systems are called multi agent systems, which could be implemented as Sims-like games where multiple AI agents roam in a shared environment, and interact as NPCs, or a multi agent system can be thought as a team of agents working together to solve a given task (think like a team in a company). <><><><><><><><><><> For this track, we'd expect most of the effort going into figuring out how the on-chain agents can be built to communicate with each other on-chain. <><><><><><><><><><> So the best is to start by 1st understanding how LLMs work on Galadriel, then go through a single on-chain Agent example (both available as tutorials in our docs), and after that think how to connect more than one agent for your specific use case.
Qualification Requirements
1. The project must be deployed on Galadriel Devnet.
2. Must include clear instructions on how to use it.
3. A short description is included that explains how Galadriel is used in the project.
4. Must contain effective communication between agents.
5. The project must involve on-chain AI features by Galadriel. The team will manually check for this. Also, deploying just regular EVM contracts without any AI use case will not count.
NB! When picking the winner Galadriel team considers 1) usability, 2) uniqueness, and 3) technical execution.
👾 Multi-Agent / Agent Swarm ⸺ $3,000
Create a multi-agent system where AI agents interact, collaborate, and coexist within a shared on-chain environment. This category encourages the development of interconnected AI agents capable of simulating complex ecosystems, virtual towns, or collaborative environments. The agents should demonstrate effective communication, decision-making, and interaction, showcasing the potential of decentralized AI networks.
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Example Ideas:
1. On-Chain Agent Town:
- Concept: Walk around a LOTR-style world, where each NPC is powered by its own AI agent. These NPCs offer quests, change behavior based on user interaction, communicate with each other, and perform everyday tasks.
2. Hive Mind Strategist:
- Concept: Manage a colony of insect-like creatures, each controlled by an AI agent with specific roles. The goal is to expand the colony, gather resources, and defend against rivals. Players fine-tune agent behaviors to create a powerful colony.
3. AI Ecosystem:
- Concept: Create and manage a digital ecosystem where AI-driven creatures interact, survive, and evolve. Adjust species, conditions, or AI parameters to maintain balance and solve ecological puzzles.
4. Agents SimCity:
- Concept: Build a city where each resident, worker, and vehicle is an AI agent with unique needs. Design the city and balance agent needs with urban efficiency as they autonomously navigate their environment.
Qualification Requirements
1. The project must be deployed on Galadriel Devnet.
2. Must include clear instructions on how to use it.
3. A short description is included that explains how Galadriel is used in the project.
4. The project must involve on-chain AI features by Galadriel. The team will manually check for this. Also, deploying just regular EVM contracts without any AI use case will not count.
When picking the winner Galadriel team considers 1) usability, 2) uniqueness, and 3) technical execution.
Category specific judging criteria: Gameplay innovation, AI integration, technical execution, and user experience.
🗣️ AI x Creator ⸺ $3,000
Develop a social platform or tool that leverages AI within a Web3 environment using Galadriel’s blockchain infrastructure. This category challenges developers to explore how AI can enhance social interactions, content creation, or community building in a decentralized framework. Your project should showcase innovative use of AI agents that interact with users, generate content, or simulate social experiences in novel ways.
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Example Ideas:
1. AI-Generated Social Profiles:
- Concept: Create AI-driven social profiles mimicking the personalities of famous figures or fictional characters. Users can interact with AI personas like Gandalf, Sonic, or Elon Musk, who respond based on their unique traits. These agents can also interact with each other, creating interesting conversations and bonds.
- Usage: Users engage in conversations with these AI personas, exploring their behaviors in various scenarios.
2. Content Generation Companion:
- Concept: Develop a platform where AI agents generate social media content based on user-defined styles. The AI could learn from specific profiles to create tweets, posts, or replies, automating content creation. Additionally, an engine could generate memes based on input text, art style, or topic to enhance content creation.
- Usage: Users input preferences, and the AI generates and posts content, simulating real-time social platform engagement.
Qualification Requirements
1. The project must be deployed on Galadriel Devnet.
2. Must include clear instructions on how to use it.
3. A short description is included that explains how Galadriel is used in the project.
4. The project must involve on-chain AI features by Galadriel. The team will manually check for this. Also, deploying just regular EVM contracts without any AI use case will not count.
When picking the winner Galadriel team considers 1) usability, 2) uniqueness, and 3) technical execution.
Category specific judging criteria: Innovation in social interactions, creativity in AI application, technical execution, and impact on Web3 social dynamics.
🤝 AI x Social ⸺ $3,000
Up to 2 teams will receive $1,500
Create a financial tool or platform that integrates AI within a Web3 environment, leveraging Galadriel’s blockchain technology. This category invites developers to explore how AI can revolutionize finance, from automated trading to personalized financial management, within a decentralized system. Your project should highlight how AI agents can enhance financial operations, decision-making, or market analysis in innovative and practical ways. <><><><><><><><><><> Example Ideas:
1. AI Memecoin Generator:
* Concept: Build an automated platform where AI generates memecoins (pump.fun), including images, descriptions, and marketing strategies. The AI handles everything from coin creation to promotion, simplifying the process for users.
* Functionality: Users input basic parameters, and the AI manages the entire lifecycle of the memecoin, from design to launch and marketing.
1. AI Hedge Fund:
* Concept: Develop a tool that uses AI to analyze market sentiment, financial data, and news to provide personalized investment recommendations. The AI adapts to user-defined risk levels, offering strategies tailored to individual needs.
* Functionality: Users set risk preferences, and the AI offers real-time investment advice, continuously refining strategies based on market changes.
Qualification Requirements
1. The project must be deployed on Galadriel Devnet.
2. Must include clear instructions on how to use it.
3. A short description is included that explains how Galadriel is used in the project.
4. The project must involve on-chain AI features by Galadriel. The team will manually check for this. Also, deploying just regular EVM contracts without any AI use case will not count.
When picking the winner Galadriel team considers 1) usability, 2) uniqueness, and 3) technical execution.
Category specific judging criteria: Financial innovation, effectiveness of AI-driven insights, technical execution, and the overall impact on Web3 finance.
🎖️ Most Unique / Team Favorite ⸺ $1,000
Up to 2 teams will receive $500
Awarded to the project that stands out for its originality, creativity, or unexpected innovation. This bonus prize is for the submission that captivates the Galadriel team, whether through its concept, execution, or impact on the Web3 ecosystem.
Design and deploy innovative on-chain AI agent(s) on the Galadriel Devnet. Galadriel enables the creation of sophisticated AI agents within Solidity smart contracts, going beyond a simple LLM call. An AI agent encompasses several essential components that work together to deliver complex functionalities on-chain. <><><><><><><><><><> Core Components:
1. LLM (Large Language Model): The core engine driving any language-based AI agent. It processes inputs and generates relevant outputs
2. System Prompt: The initial instruction to the LLM, defining the agent’s behavior and persona. This prompt guides how the agent interacts and responds to various scenarios.
3. Memory: Incorporates chat history and knowledge base (RAG) to provide the LLM with context from previous interactions and specialized knowledge, enriching the agent's responses.
4. Tools: Extend the agent's capabilities by allowing it to interact with external environments, such as performing web searches, executing code, or generating images.
5. Running in a Loop: Continuously calls the LLM within a loop, enabling the agent to reason through tasks by processing previous outputs to refine its actions.
Qualification Requirements
1. The project must be deployed on Galadriel Devnet.
2. Must include clear instructions on how to use it.
3. A short description is included that explains how Galadriel is used in the project.
4. The project must involve on-chain AI features by Galadriel. The team will manually check for this. Also, deploying just regular EVM contracts without any AI use case will not count.
When picking the winner Galadriel team considers 1) usability, 2) uniqueness, and 3) technical execution.
The SSV Network is a fully decentralized, open-source DVT infrastructure. It provides an open and simple infrastructure for splitting and distributing a validator key into multiple KeyShares, for the purpose of running an Ethereum validator across multiple non-trusting nodes.
The infrastructure allows developers to distribute validators permissionlessly among globally decentralized node operators in a trust-minimized manner. By registering validators to SSV, re/staking applications can seamlessly plug into the network and utilize highly performant node operators as the backbone of their product.
This award is for the most outstanding enhancement to any of SSV's tools, processes, or onboarding systems.
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Example projects include:
Bulk Validator Registration Tool: Currently, onboarding a large number of validators requires scripts to perform multiple contract calls. Integrating this functionality within a user-friendly GUI would significantly improve accessibility for non-developers.
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Validator/DKG Keys Creation Client: At present, creating validator keys and conducting the DKG ceremony are script-based tasks. Developing a GUI for these processes would greatly enhance user-friendliness for non-developers.
Qualification Requirements
Make use of existing SSV tooling.
Valid SSVNetwork contract call or valid keyshare file output.
💰 Best use of SSV for Restaking ⸺ $1,500
Up to 2 teams will receive $750
These prizes are for building a restaking application using SSVs tooling. Points will be awarded for creativity for a staking app, overall look of the UI, and completeness.
Qualification Requirements
Project must be able to register a validator on testnet which is restaking.
📊 Best use of SSV Data ⸺ $500
This award recognizes the best project showcasing practical SSV Network statistics. Eligible submissions include dashboards displaying data on SSV validators, operators, clusters, and related metrics.
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Example projects include:
Comprehensive Account Owner Dashboard: This tool would enable SSV account owners to examine multiple validators and operators that they own, providing an address-based overview of all relevant statistics.
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Historical Data Metrics Dashboard: This dashboard would present aggregated metrics, offering insights into historical data trends.
Qualification Requirements
Integrate with SSV Subgraph and use it's API calls to obtain statistics
🛠️ Best enhancement to SSV tooling ⸺ $3,000
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1st place
$2,000
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2nd place
$1,000
## This award is for the most outstanding enhancement to any of SSV's tools, processes, or onboarding systems.
## Example projects include: Bulk Validator Registration Tool: Currently, onboarding a large number of validators requires scripts to perform multiple contract calls. Integrating this functionality within a user-friendly GUI would significantly improve accessibility for non-developers.
Validator/DKG Keys Creation Client: At present, creating validator keys and conducting the DKG ceremony are script-based tasks. Developing a GUI for these processes would greatly enhance user-friendliness for non-developers.
Qualification Requirements
Valid SSVNetwork contract call or valid keyshare file output.
Lit is a decentralized key management and sealed compute network. Builders of apps, wallets, protocols, and AI agents use Lit to advance digital ownership with decentralized keys and private, immutable programs.
If you're building in the following categories, dive into the tools!
- DeFi Automation
- Chain Abstraction
- Compute Over Private Data
- Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS)
- Stablecoin Apps
- Embedded wallets
- Private Data
- User Identity / Proof of humanity / KYC
- Media / Licensing
- Data Marketplace
In order to simplify your development process, please feel free to build on the Datil-devnet!
Prizes
🔒 Best Compute Over Private Data Application / Protocol ⸺ $3,000
In order to win this prize, use the "Decrypting and Combining Within an Action" to decrypt data within Lit and then compute on that data with a Lit Action. (linked below)
Applications and protocols that leveraging Lit for computing over private data can be across a wide variety of spaces, including AI, Identity and more.
Check out the below post for more inspo.
Qualification Requirements
All projects competing for this prize should take advantage of the "Decrypt within an Action" feature.
Additionally, prizes will be judged on the following:
-Completeness of Technical Implementation
-Innovation (Originality + Impact)
-Functionality (Working prototype or MVP)
-User Experience
-Documentation
-Potential for growth and wider adoption
-Security
✍️ Best Signing Automation Application / Protocol ⸺ $3,000
In order to win this prize, use the "Sign within a Lit Action" method to sign and broadcast transactions with Lit Actions.
Applications and protocols that leveraging Lit for signing and broadcasting transactions can be across a wide variety of spaces, including Chain Abstraction, Identity, Wallets, and more.
Check out the below post for more inspo.
Qualification Requirements
All projects competing for this prize should take advantage of the "Broadcast and Collect Within an Action" feature.
Additionally, prizes will be judged on the following:
-Completeness of Technical Implementation
-Innovation (Originality + Impact)
-Functionality (Working prototype or MVP)
-User Experience
-Documentation
-Potential for growth and wider adoption
-Security
📱 Best Telegram Mini Apps ⸺ $3,000
Up to 2 teams will receive $1,500
This is a prize that can be won by up to two teams that use a PKP with Telegram auth to build a mini app! This prize can be combined with any other prize listed.
Qualification Requirements
-Completeness of Technical Implementation
-Innovation (Originality + Impact)
-Functionality (Working prototype or MVP)
-User Experience
-Documentation
-Potential for growth and wider adoption
-Security
🏆 Participation Trophy ⸺ $1,000
Up to 4 teams will receive $250
This prize will be split between teams that are competing for the "Best Compute Over Private Data Application / Protocol" and "Best Signing Automation Application / Protocol" who are not selected as winners or as a runner up.
Qualification Requirements
-Completeness of Technical Implementation
-Innovation (Originality + Impact)
-Functionality (Working prototype or MVP)
-User Experience
-Documentation
-Potential for growth and wider adoption
-Security
Kinto is an L2 focused on providing safe access to on-chain finance. It's built on top of the Ethereum network using the Arbitrum Nitro Stack, and it's non-custodial, transparent, permissionless, and governed by the community.
Kinto is fully EVM-compatible but Kinto has two idiosyncratic differences that you need to understand. The first one is that Kinto has User-Owned KYC, meaning every user needs to be verified before sending any transaction. The second one is that Kinto has native Account Abstraction, meaning that users are forced to have a smart wallet instead of plain EOAs and users do not have to worry about or pay gas.
Benefits of Building on Kinto include:
- Free KYC, KYT and AML. You get all this compliance tooling out of the box.
- Sybil resistance.
- Better UI/UX through Account Abstractions.
- Higher level of security through Hypernative and Ironblocks.
- Insurance Policy to all Kinto users.
- Mining rewards for developers based on the usage and TVL of their applications.
Learn more in our Docs and Development Guide.
Prizes
🥇 Best Kinto App Overall ⸺ $5,000
One application will obtain a $5000 prize for having the best Kinto application implemented during ETHOnline
Qualification Requirements
This application has it all, a great idea implemented to perfection. To be eligible for this prize applications will be required to use both:
- Kinto Smart Contract APIs ( https://docs.kinto.xyz/kinto-the-safe-l2/building-on-kinto/smart-contract-reference)
- Kinto Wallet Connector (TBA)
📄 Kinto Smart Contract APIs ⸺ $2,500
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1st place
$1,500
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2nd place
$1,000
Two prizes in this category with 1st place taking $1500 and 2nd place taking $1000 of the prize fund.
Qualification Requirements
These applications focus on useful implementations of one or more of our Kinto Smart Contracts.
🔗 Kinto Wallet Connector ⸺ $2,500
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1st place
$1,500
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2nd place
$1,000
Two prizes for Kinto Wallet Connector integrations, with 1st place taking $1500 and 2nd place taking $1000 of the prize fund.
Qualification Requirements
These applications focus on integrating our Kinto Wallet to new or existing applications to expand or create new functionality.
Rootstock is the top and oldest running Bitcoin Layer 2 Blockchain, fully EVM compatible, aiming to address the shortcomings of Bitcoin by leveraging Ethereum's scalability and programmability.
Rootstock uses Solidity programming language, making it fully EVM compatible. You can build any EVM dApps and products on Bitcoin using Rootstock without any additional tools or knowledge.
Prizes
🏆 Best DeFi dApp on Rootstock ⸺ $4,000
Create an everyday DeFi application using the Rootstock network and/or RIF technologies, such as lending protocols, decentralized exchanges, yield farming strategies, liquidity pools, insurance protocols, decentralized credit scoring, or trading bots.
Qualification Requirements
- Smart contract deployed in Rootstock and at least 2 on-chain (testnet) successful transactions.
- Projects must have a description and a GitHub repository with a descriptive README.
- The README should include:
1) a clear short one-sentence description of your submission.
2) a short description of what you integrated Rootstock with and how.
3) a short description of the team and their backgrounds.
4) clear instructions for testing the integration.
5) feedback describing your experience with building on Rootstock.
6) optionally, a short video demo or slide deck.
🔥 Best Runes or Ordinals project on Rootstock ⸺ $2,000
Ride the wave by tapping into Bitcoin's liquidity and engaging with the latest trends. Develop dApps that use ordinals and runes for unique digital asset creation, offering fresh ways to interact with and manage these assets on the blockchain.
Qualification Requirements
- Smart contract deployed in Rootstock and at least 2 on-chain (testnet) successful transactions.
- Projects must have a description and a GitHub repository with a descriptive README.
- The README should include:
1) a clear short one-sentence description of your submission.
2) a short description of what you integrated Rootstock with and how.
3) a short description of the team and their backgrounds.
4) clear instructions for testing the integration.
5) feedback describing your experience with building on Rootstock.
6) optionally, a short video demo or slide deck.
🌎 Best use of Rootstock Blockchain ⸺ $4,000
Give freedom to your mind and build whatever you want on top of Rootstock blockchain. From AI, to RAW, DePin or other, feel free to build your top EVM dApp on Bitcoin with Rootstock.
Qualification Requirements
- Smart contract deployed in Rootstock and at least 2 on-chain (testnet) successful transactions.
- Projects must have a description and a GitHub repository with a descriptive README.
- The README should include:
1) a clear short one-sentence description of your submission.
2) a short description of what you integrated Rootstock with and how.
3) a short description of the team and their backgrounds.
4) clear instructions for testing the integration.
5) feedback describing your experience with building on Rootstock.
6) optionally, a short video demo or slide deck.
Hedera is an open-source, decentralized layer 1 network that operates on a proof-of-stake model, using the innovative hashgraph consensus algorithm. This algorithm is leaderless and provides strong security through asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance (aBFT). The network is governed and operated by a diverse and decentralized council of top enterprises, universities, and web3 projects globally, ensuring responsible and transparent governance.
Hedera's optimized EVM smart contracts enable developers to easily build applications using familiar EVM-based tools and infrastructure, and facilitate smooth deployment or migration across multiple chains. In addition, Hedera offers native services for tokenization and consensus. The Hedera Token Service (HTS) enables developers to create and manage native digital assets that interact with the EVM. These tools empower developers to build robust, real-time web3 applications and ecosystems, making the vision of a more connected and efficient internet a reachable goal.
Hedera provides deterministic finality within 3 seconds, low fixed and predictable transaction fees, and fair transaction ordering with consensus timestamps. Its robust and scalable infrastructure makes it a reliable choice for developers.
Prizes
🔥 Ecosystem Builder Bounty ⸺ $6,000
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1st place
$4,000
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2nd place
$2,000
- Build something that is new to the Hedera ecosystem, or brings value to the Hedera ecosystem. Visit: hedera.com/ecosystem
Qualification Requirements
- Must be deployed on (or send transactions to) the Hedera Testnet.
- Must use at least two of the following: HTS, HCS, or HSCS.
- The top 3 submissions will be judged and awarded based on the judging rubric.
- Cannot be combined with beginner category prizes (EVM Starter or Hedera-Native Services Starter).
🏎️ EVM Starter Bounty ⸺ $2,000
Up to 4 teams will receive $500
- Build anything you like
- Submissions that use multiple Hedera services will be prioritized.
- Otherwise, submissions are prioritized based on the order of submission.
Qualification Requirements
- Must be deployed on (or send transactions to) the Hedera Testnet.
- Must use Hedera Smart Contract Service (HSCS).
🎉 Hedera-Native Services Starter Bounty ⸺ $2,000
Up to 4 teams will receive $500
* Build anything you like.
* Submissions that use multiple Hedera services will be prioritized.
* Otherwise, submissions are prioritized based on the order of submission.
Qualification Requirements
- Must be deployed on (or send transactions to) the Hedera Testnet.
- Must use at least one of Hedera Token Service (HTS) or Hedera Consensus Service (HCS).
The industry standard oracle network for powering trust-minimized applications across Web2 and Web3 ⬡
Prizes
🏆 Best use of Chainlink CCIP ⸺ $6,000
Up to 3 teams will receive $2,000
Build something awesome using Chainlink CCIP! The Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) provides a single simple interface through which dApps and web3 entrepreneurs can securely meet all their cross-chain needs, including token transfers and arbitrary messaging.
Possible use cases: Cross-chain DeFi app with liquidity across multiple chains Cross Chain DeFi yield aggregator Token bridge powered by CCIP Multihop CCIP Router. You want to send cross-chain message from blockchain A to blockchain B without worrying if the lane between them exists.
Use our CCIP Local Simulator to speed up your development on your local Hardhat, Foundry or Remix network, then use our Faucet to easily get testnet funds when you're ready for testnet. Links to both at the bottom in the 'Resources' Section!
Qualification Requirements
Each project must use Chainlink CCIP in some form to make a state change on a blockchain, otherwise it will not be eligible for the Chainlink core prizes. This means that a front end simply reading from Chainlink Data Feeds doesn't count. Using Chainlink CCIP inside your smart contracts is required, though you are encouraged to utilize Chainlink Data Feeds, Chainlink Data Streams, Chainlink VRF, and Chainlink Proof of Reserve as well.
🌎 Connect the World with Chainlink ⸺ $4,000
Up to 2 teams will receive $2,000
Build something awesome using Chainlink! Anything that came from the Chainlink Documentation counts - using Price Feeds, Data Streams, PoR, VRF, Automation or Chainlink Functions!
You can see examples of successful implementations of Chainlink services here - https://blog.chain.link/smart-contract-use-cases/
Qualification Requirements
- Each project must use a Chainlink service in some form to make a state change on a blockchain, otherwise it will not be eligible for the Chainlink core prizes. This means that a front end simply reading from Chainlink Data Feeds doesn't count. Using Chainlink inside your smart contracts is required.
- While all project submissions are evaluated holistically, there will be bonus points given to projects that use multiple Chainlink services in a meaningful way.
- Please let us know how you use Chainlink in the project description.
- It must be possible for the judges to find the Chainlink use in your code. Only the intention to use is not valid.
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 mini apps like Bots and Frames. Its primary contributor, Ephemera, 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 use it's official client Converse https://converse.xyz - you can then send a message to fabri.converse.xyz and experience native, secure web3 messaging.
💬 Send me a DM at fabri.converse.xyz
Prizes
🤖 Messaging Mini apps (Bot, Agents & Frames) ⸺ $7,000
Up to 4 teams will receive $1,750
MessageKit is a powerful framework that simplifies the process of building messaging bots on XMTP. With its robust set of tools and integrations, you can quickly create bots that can handle integrate web3 primitives like on chain transactions, mints, games and more.
Ideas:
- Tipping Bots: Facilitate peer-to-peer tipping within chats, rewarding helpful or interesting contributions.
- Betting Bots: Allow users to place bets on events or outcomes within the chat.
- Game Bots: Engage users with interactive games like Wordle, Rock Paper Scissors, or trivia.
- Transaction Bots: Assist users with executing and confirming transactions directly within the chat.
- Alpha Bots: Share alpha information, market insights, and exclusive updates.
- AI Agents: Implement web3 crypto AI agents that can performa transactions and manage services.
Qualification Requirements
- Build a Bot using MessageKit
- Test the bot through Converse or Coinbase Wallet
📣 Best use of XMTP ⸺ $3,000
Up to 2 teams will receive $1,500
Use XMTP to let users message each other, subscribe to newsletters, get updates from creators, or receive notifications from brands. This method makes communication secure and reliable. It helps creators grow their audience with trusted opt-in only wallet subscribers.
Ideas:
-Newsletter Subscriptions: Allow users to subscribe to weekly or monthly newsletters.
-Creator Updates: Enable users to get the latest updates from their favorite content creators.
-Brand Notifications: Let users receive promotional messages and updates from brands they follow.
-Event Reminders: Allow users to subscribe to event notifications and reminders.
-Product Announcements: Enable users to get updates on new product launches and features.
-Transaction Confirmations: Send confirmations for completed transactions or actions.
-Chat app: Group chat client, converse fork or embedded messaging inside your app
Qualification Requirements
- Create a subscribe mechanism in your dapp
- Test sending messages to your subscribers using Converse or CB Wallet
The Chiliz Chain is the open layer 1 protocol for sport and entertainment, supported by the business infrastructure of the Chiliz Group. Socios.com was built on top of the first iteration of the Chiliz Chain, together with our native utility token asset class - Fan Tokens.
Prizes
🛠 Fan Utility Projects ⸺ $5,000
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1st place
$2,500
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2nd place
$1,500
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3rd place
$1,000
Retail facing platforms which optimally utilize Fan Tokens for social, commerce, live event etc experience focuses.
Qualification Requirements
Operational smart contracts Direct utilization of 1 or more Fan Token assets.
Scoring based on:
-Idea/concept
-Technical
-Execution rating
🏈 SportFi Projects ⸺ $5,000
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1st place
$2,500
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2nd place
$1,500
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3rd place
$1,000
M2E, Ticketing, Sport Membership, Marketplaces, Prediction markets, Sportsbook, P2P Fan Token battles, Fantasy and football manager games, along with SportFi infrastructure projects such as Pyth, Azuro, RaribleX
Qualification Requirements
Operational smart contracts deployed on Chiliz Spicy Network (testnet) focusing on SportFi (see info for inspiration)
Scoring based on:
-Idea/concept
-Technical
-Execution rating
DIMO is a connected car network that puts drivers back in control of their car data. Today, car manufacturers make millions by selling user data to third parties. DIMO allows users to access that valuable data and earn weekly rewards. We have over 100k cars on the network each producing valuable data. DIMO is making it possible to develop apps for cars for the first time ever. Tap into the network and see what you can build!
Prizes
🚀 Most Breakthrough Mobility Solution ⸺ $1,000
The old-school auto industry is slow to innovate. DIMO welcomes you to challenge some of these norms and rethink how we can do things better, whether that be car washes, car sales, maintenance, warranty, insurance, and anything else you can think of.
Qualification Requirements
All projects building on the DIMO Network are subjected to the following criteria:
- Creativity
- User Experience
- Completeness of Technical Implementation
- Social Impact
- Presentation & Documentation
🏎️ Best Car Nerd Solution ⸺ $1,000
Simply love cars? This is the track for you. What’s the best way you can leverage driving data to improve your car experience? Is it a social racing platform or something more creative? The floor is yours.
Qualification Requirements
All projects building on the DIMO Network are subjected to the following criteria:
- Creativity
- User Experience
- Completeness of Technical Implementation
- Social Impact
- Presentation & Documentation
🚚 Best Gig Economy Solution ⸺ $1,000
The gig economy is everywhere… food delivery, ride hailing, car rental, you name it. This track looks for the best project that focuses on enhancing the gig economy through DIMO vehicle data.
Qualification Requirements
All projects building on the DIMO Network are subjected to the following criteria:
- Creativity
- User Experience
- Completeness of Technical Implementation
- Social Impact
- Presentation & Documentation
🌎 Most Humanitarian Solution ⸺ $1,000
Car’s impact everyone’s lives on a daily basis. Create a solution that leverages cars in the day to day for sustainability or a social cause that you're interested in.
Qualification Requirements
All projects building on the DIMO Network are subjected to the following criteria:
- Creativity
- User Experience
- Completeness of Technical Implementation
- Social Impact
- Presentation & Documentation
👨👩👧👦 Team Favorite ⸺ $1,000
DIMO is built by a team of blockchain and auto industry veterans. In order to win this track, you'll build something that utilizes the vehicle data via the DIMO API. We'll share your project with the DIMO team and vote on the winner.
Qualification Requirements
All projects building on the DIMO Network are subjected to the following criteria:
- Creativity
- User Experience
- Completeness of Technical Implementation
- Social Impact
- Presentation & Documentation
The fastest, most flexible way to get on-chain data.
HyperIndex - A blazingly fast blockchain indexer
HyperSync - An extremely performant raw blockchain api
Prizes
🏆 Best Use of HyperIndex ⸺ $1,500
HyperIndex is the backend layer between your smart contracts and your app. This prize is awarded to the team that best utilizes Envio’s HyperIndex for indexing and retrieving data in their web3 application.
Qualification Requirements
Must make use of envio's HyperIndex to index data and serve it to their application. Bonus points for a deployment to Envio's hosted service.
⚡ Best Use of HyperSync ⸺ $1,500
HyperSync is an extremely powerful and performant tool for accessing raw blockchain data. Think transactions, balances, logs.
Use it to build headless block explorers, data visualisations and analytics, catered api's
For example in <10 seconds , Hypersync can:
• scan 200 million blocks
• retrieve and decode every `PoolCreated` log emitted by Uniswap V3 Factory
That’s 20 million blocks per second. Clients available in Python, Rust, Go or Typescript
Qualification Requirements
Use of HyperSync in their application, must show clear examples of how HyperSync was used to get sensible data for their application use case. Optimal access is via a client although considerations to using the JSON api will be considered too.
🥈 Best Runner-Up for Use of HyperIndex or HyperSync ⸺ $500
Awarded to the best runner-up team that has effectively used either HyperIndex or HyperSync in their project
Qualification Requirements
Outlined in Best Use of HyperIndex and Best Use Of HyperSync. Emphasis on applicable usage.
🎨 Most Creative Application of Envio’s Features ⸺ $1,000
Awarded to the team that demonstrates the most creative and innovative use of multiple Envio features, including HyperIndex and HyperSync.
Qualification Requirements
Showcase how various Envio features are combined to solve a unique problem.
Emphasize creativity and innovation in the application.
🌟 Best Overall Project ⸺ $500
Awarded to the team with the most outstanding project overall, considering innovation, functionality, and impact. This category is open to projects with potential in the web3 space that utilize either HyperSync or HyperIndex.
Qualification Requirements
Overall project quality, impact, and execution.
Use of Envio’s tools and technologies.
Web3Auth seamlessly onboards mainstream users into a non-custodial wallet via social logins and passkeys. Developers building on top of Web3Auth are able to utilise a full suite of tools that would allow them complete control over their onboarding flows on any platform, web or mobile, and across blockchains.
You can directly integrate Web3Auth with almost all the co sponsors in this hackathon. Check out our resources section to find some guides we have created for direct integration with multiple co sponsors. You can also integrate with ones not mentioned or request our team to explore some particular integrations if needed. If you have questions, you can ask directly in the discord or the support community of Web3Auth.
Prizes
⚡️ Best Use of Web3Auth Web SDKs ⸺ $1,500
Up to 2 teams will receive $750
Create a seamless non-custodial primary login experience within your web application and abstract away the web3 elements from it. Showcase your demo with the generated Web3Auth wallet within your app. Transfer your test tokens to showcase all the features of your application.
Bonus Points for:
1. Using Custom Authentication using your preferred social provider
2. Using Web3Auth Wallet Services to enable extra features like Built-in wallet ui, Interoperability with Wallet Connect, Fiat on Ramp
3. Using Hooks for React based applications
4. Using Wallet Pregeneration to generate wallet addresses even before someone logs into the dApp.
Qualification Requirements
1. SDKs: Use any of the Web3Auth Web (non MPC) SDKs, namely:
a. Web3Auth Core Kit Single Factor Auth Web SDK
b. Web3Auth Plug and Play No Modal SDK
c. Web3Auth Plug and Play Modal SDK
2. Demo: Use Web3Auth generated wallet as your main method of wallet connection, and be able to share a link to your deployed project with a working demo with Web3Auth.
📲 Best Use of Web3Auth Mobile/Gaming SDKs ⸺ $1,000
Use any of the Web3Auth Mobile or Gaming SDKs to create a native web2 login experience within your mobile/gaming application and abstract away the web3 elements from it. Showcase your demo with the generated Web3Auth wallet within your app. Transfer your test tokens to showcase all the features of your application.
Bonus Points for
1. Using Custom Authentication using your preferred social provider
2. If using PnP Mobile/ Gaming SDKs - Web3Auth Wallet Services to enable extra features like Built-in Wallet UI, Interoperability with Wallet Connect, Fiat on Ramp
3. If using SFA Mobile SDKs - Using Wallet Pregeneration to generate wallet address even before someone has logged into the dApp
Qualification Requirements
1. SDKs: Use any of the Web3Auth Mobile or Gaming SDKs, namely:
a. Web3Auth PnP Android/ iOS/ React Native/ Flutter/ Unity/ Unreal SDKs
b. Web3Auth SFA Android/ iOS/ React Native/ Flutter
2. Demo: Use Web3Auth generated wallet as your main method of wallet connection, and be able to share a link to your deployed project with a working demo with Web3Auth.
🚀 Best use of Web3Auth MPC Core Kit SDK ⸺ $1,500
Use the Web3Auth MPC Core Kit SDK in your Web/ React Native application and create a fully customised non custodial, seamless social login experience for users. Utilising MPC-TSS, create an experience within your web application to abstract away the web3 elements from it. Showcase your demo with the generated Web3Auth wallet within your app. Transfer your test tokens to showcase all the features of your application.
Bonus Points for:
1. Enabling MFA within your application with your choice of MFA
Qualification Requirements
1. SDKs: Utilise Web3Auth MPC Core Kit SDK in your Web/ React Native application.
2. Demo: Use Web3Auth generated wallet as your main method of wallet connection, and be able to share a link to your deployed project with a working demo with Web3Auth.
🌟 Grand Prize for Overall Best Web3Auth Integration ⸺ $1,000
Awarded to the project that demonstrates the most innovative and effective use of Web3Auth across any of the above categories. MPC Core Kit is our most preferred SDK for the prize, so integrating that will definitely give you bonus points. Showcase your demo with the generated Web3Auth wallet within your app. Transfer your test tokens to showcase all the features of your application.
How do we judge the best integration:
1. Technical Execution: Integration and usage of advanced features provided by the SDK, e.g. passkeys, mfa flows, custom authentication, wallet services, etc.
2. Use of MPC Core Kit SDK will give you extra bonus points
3. User Experience Design: How easy it is for your users to onboard to your application
4. Idea Feasibility: How pragmatic your platform/product would be to solve real world issues
5. Demo: Use Web3Auth Global Account as your main method of wallet connection, and be able to share a link to your deployed project with a working demo with Web3Auth.
Bonus Points:
1. You have shared your project's Web3Auth integration on Twitter/ X
2. You are active on the Web3Auth Community
Qualification Requirements
1. Must participate in at least one of the above Web3Auth prize categories.
2. Demonstrate exceptional innovation, user experience, and integration quality.
Nillion is a secure computation network that decentralizes trust for high-value data, similar to how blockchains decentralize transactions. Using Nillion’s Python-based MPC language, Nada, developers can write programs that handle secret inputs from different users. These programs perform “blind computation,” ensuring that the underlying data remains hidden.
Prizes
🙈 Best Blind App on Nillion ⸺ $3,000
Up to 3 teams will receive $1,000
Build a Blind App on Nillion. A blind app runs blind computation on Nillion using one or more privacy-preserving Nada programs. Nada programs compute on secret integers without ever seeing the underlying input values, making them ideal for sensitive data operations. Check out examples of Nada programs in Nada by Example.
Qualification Requirements
- Follow our Blind App Quickstart to create an app that preserves privacy for users with our secure secret storage and retrieval and our blind computation with Nada programs
- Your submission should include a Nada project with at least 1 Nada program - check out Nada by Example for examples of cool Nada programs
- Store your Nada program on the Nillion Testnet. Within your README, tell us the program id.
- Use our new @nillion/client-react-hooks npm package to work with Nillion from your web app frontend.
- Host your web app and provide a live link that we can try out
- Post a link to your hackathon submission showcase page in our Github Show and Tell forum, linked above.
💬 Nillion Feedback Award ⸺ $1,000
Submit a project that includes at least 1 Nada program and provide awesome, actionable feedback that helps our team improve the Nillion developer experience of at least one aspect of Nillion.
Qualification Requirements
- Your hackathon submission includes a Nada project or uses our new Nillion React Hooks npm package. How do you create a Nada project in 5 minutes or use our npm package? These is a great question to ask the chatbot that lives in our Nillion Docs!
- Developers on your team filled out our Nillion feedback form, which will be posted in the Nillion sponsor discord channel the last week of the hackathon.
🪓 Best Nillion Developer Tool ⸺ $1,000
Build a developer tool, API, or project template that improves the development experience for Nillion devs in some way. Tooling can be around Nillion user keys, Nillion permissions, user id sharing while using Nillion with multiple parties, a Nillion Python Streamlit template, etc.
Qualification Requirements
- Deliver your open source tool and describe what you built and how it improves the lives of Nillion developers.
- Share your tool in Nillion's Github Discussions Show and Tell forum, linked above
Stackr provides a comprehensive batteries included framework in Typescript to build custom app-specific rollups aka Micro-Rollups from scratch.
Build variety of use-cases like gaming, DeFi, infra and more!
Prizes
🕹️ Best "Proof of Gameplay" Implementation with Micro-Rollups ⸺ $2,000
Up to 2 teams will receive $1,000
Build on-chain games with Stackr's Micro-Rollup SDK
Game ideas -
1. Turn-Based board games
2. Tower Defense games
3. Dungeon Crawlers
4. Card-Based games
5. Retro high-tickrate games
6. Autonomous worlds
Game Infra ideas -
1. ECS system on top of the base SDK
2. Build unique infra that enables different type of game mechanics
Qualification Requirements
- User Experience: Is the game intuitive and enjoyable to play? and provide a seamless user experience?
- Functionality: Does the game leverage the Micro-Rollup SDK effectively?
- Innovation: What new possibilities does the project unlock in the onchain gaming space
💸 Best DeFi use-case with Micro-Rollups ⸺ $2,000
Up to 2 teams will receive $1,000
This prize goes to the most innovative DeFi use-case built with Micro-Rollups at the core.
Qualification Requirements
- User-Experience : We highly promote consumer centric system design, Does it provide a seamless user experience?
- Functionality : How does this solution add value to the ecosystem?
- Innovation : What new use-cases are unlocked or made simpler by using a micro-rollup?
- Integrations : What additional third-party protocol integrations are made?
💡 Best Innovative use-case built using Micro-Rollups ⸺ $1,000
Our Micro-Rollup SDK is versatile and can support a multitude of use-cases. We'd like to be surprised by a new innovative application built using the framework. Be creative and "build whatever". We encourage third-party integrations.
Qualification Requirements
- Sky is the limit but the application must utilize the Micro-rollup framework at it's core
- Third-Party integrations are encouraged
- Brownie points for consumer centric use-cases
Avail is a Web3 infrastructure layer designed to enable modular execution layers to scale and interoperate in a trust-minimized way. Avail is built to serve as the unification layer that coordinates interoperability and liquidity across the rollup-centric future.
Prizes
📝 Build with Avail ⸺ $1,000
Split with up to 9 teams (capped at $111 per team)
This pool prize is here for hackers to built something outside the scope of CDK/rollup infra. The goal here is to let your modularity creativeness run wild. Build anything meaningful such as:-Using Risc0/SP1 to build custom application-specific rollup that uses AvailDA as the data availability layer. -Multichain/Appchain explorers - As we head to a rollup-centric world, there’ll be a need to explore the states of multiple rollups running on Avail DA. Create an explorer that can fetch and view states of multiple rollups running on Avail. -he Avail Light Client uses the Kademlia DHT for its P2P network to store addresses of peers in the network. The client uses a protocol called "Identify" to detect peer addresses (often referred to as multiaddress in libp2p).
Qualification Requirements
Only Eligible projects will qualify for the prizes:
- Projects integrating Avail for data availability or using the Avail network in a meaningful way (with utility) are eligible.
- Projects using Avail's light client P2P network are also eligible.
- Projects building upon or improving any of Avail's existing tools and technologies are eligible.
- Projects that expand Avail's ecosystem are eligible.
- Needs to be a new project. Any pre-existing project MUST mention what has been done beforehand and explicitly state what was accomplished during the hackathon.
📝 Best use of any rollup SDK with AvailDA ⸺ $2,500
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1st place
$1,500
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2nd place
$1,000
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3rd place
$500
Avail DA is a robust DA base layer for developers to spin up fast, cheap, and secure rollups.
Build your project that utilizes AvailDA’s expandable blobspace meaningfully or build a project that helps developer/user experience and improves the Avail ecosystem.
* Use RISC Zero zkVM or co-processors and submit data to Avail DA.
* Use Arbitrum Orbit with Avail DA's Orbit adapters to build your rollup.
* Using Polygon CDK and light client to verify data posted by the sequencer
* Build a micro-rollup with Stackr SDK
* Build an NFT marketing rollup built on Avail DA
* Liquid Staking for Avail and many more ideas can be found in the cheatsheet below!
Qualification Requirements
Qualification Requirements
Only Eligible projects will qualify for the prizes:
- Projects integrating Avail for data availability or using the Avail network in a meaningful way (with utility) are eligible.
- Projects using Avail's light client P2P network are also eligible.
- Projects building upon or improving any of Avail's existing tools and technologies are eligible.
- Projects that expand Avail's ecosystem are eligible.
- Needs to be a new project. Any pre-existing project MUST mention what has been done beforehand and explicitly state what was accomplished during the hackathon.
🛠 Best Core Tooling project ⸺ $500
Build anything that improves Avail's existing ecosystem, and developer tooling (Some ideas include: Avail DA efficiency cost calculator/visualizer, Developer Toolkits, Dashboards, Validator Operations such as automated payout claiming, Liquid Staking, etc)
Qualification Requirements
Only Eligible projects will qualify for the prizes:
- Projects integrating Avail for data availability or using the Avail network in a meaningful way (with utility) are eligible.
- Projects using Avail's light client P2P network are also eligible.
- Projects building upon or improving any of Avail's existing tools and technologies are eligible.
- Projects that expand Avail's ecosystem are eligible.
- Needs to be a new project. Any pre-existing project MUST mention what has been done beforehand and explicitly state what was accomplished during the hackathon.
Blockless is a Peer to Peer serverless compute network. It has a WASM secure runtime and automatically matches compute workloads with nodes in the network.
Prizes
📱 Best dApp Built on Blockless ⸺ $1,650
Win $1650 for building the best showcase of a dApp on the Blockless Platform.
Qualification Requirements
Build you best use case of a dApp that utilizes the Blockless Network and the built in technologies.
Examples of what you can build:
*Best use of triggers for intent driven execution
*Best implementation of a consensus driven execution (pBFT, Raft, Aggregation)
*Best implementation of a Blockless Web App
🚉 Best Platform Enhancement ⸺ $2,000
Win $2000 for the best platform modifications, SDK enhancements, or core protocol changes.
Qualification Requirements
Contribute to the Blockless Network platform.
Examples of what you can build:
* Platform enhancements for SDKs Typescript, Rust, Go, AssemblyScript
* Platform protocol enhancement, execution flow control.
🪚 Best Tooling for the Blockless Network ⸺ $1,350
Up to 2 teams will receive $675
Win $1350 building the best Developer tooling for the Blockless Network.
Qualification Requirements
Win by building tooling that is responsible for driving the Blockless Network.
Examples of what you can build:
* Tools Developer Experience Visual Code Extension
* Tools Runtime Debugging, and Execution
* Starter Templates for the CLI
Fhenix is the first Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) powered L2 to bring computation over encrypted data to Ethereum. Through the use of FHE rollups, Fhenix enables developers to seamlessly build confidential smart contracts and provide end-to-end encryption of users’ data, all while using familiar tools such as Metamask, Hardhat and Remix.
Prizes
🔐 Best use of Fhenix Stack ⸺ $5,000
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1st place
$2,500
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2nd place
$1,500
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3rd place
$1,000
Fhenix is an L2 on ETH that uses Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to provide confidentiality. For our track, we are looking for developers who are interested in building full-stack applications in the Fhenix ecosystem that use encrypted computation. This can be anything from on-chain social media, dark pools, private lending, confidential voting, etc. We’re open to ideas and look forward to seeing what you and your team come up with!
Qualification Requirements
We require a full stack application demonstration, live hosting is preferred but not mandatory. However, creating an application that others can play around with from their own machines would be beneficial for the team's prospects of being selected. A Github repository with a history of commits is also required. In addition to a corresponding readme that makes it easy for developers, judges and our team to understand the overarching architecture of the project submission. Finally teams must submit their official application before the deadline in order to qualify for prize considerations.
Textile (creators of Tableland) have launched Basin (https://basin.textile.io), a high throughput object storage layer with S3 compatibility. We're looking for builders the have data-intensive applications (AI, ML, etc.) and need decentralized storage (built on a subnet scaling layer with onchain permissions).
We're still working on Tableland (https://tableland.xyz), too, which provides an onchain SQL database and clients (SDK, CLI) to interface with it.
Note: Basin is written in Rust, so knowledge of Rust is expected to build with the Basin SDK. If you don't know Rust, the Basin S3 adapter (https://github.com/textileio/basin-s3) allows you to run a background binary that any non-Rust language (Python, JavaScript, etc.) can easily interface with using any S3 library. There's a Basin CLI tool, too.
Prizes
🏆 Best use of Basin (object storage) ⸺ $5,000
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1st place
$1,500
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2nd place
$1,250
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Runner ups
$750 ×3
Data-intensive applications that require decentralized object storage with S3 compatibility. Examples include:
- ML pipeline that stores source dataset and subsequently labeled dataset in a bucket
- AI inference that loads a model and RAG data from a bucket
- Community-sourced datasets written with onchain rules
Qualification Requirements
- Usage of Basin (https://basin.textile.io)
- Optionally, usage of Ceramic (https://ceramic.network)—e.g., store data at the edge, then write to Basin for persistence
Note: Basin is written in Rust, so knowledge of Rust is expected to build with the Basin SDK. If you don't know Rust, the Basin S3 adapter (https://github.com/textileio/basin-s3) allows you to run a background binary that any non-Rust language (Python, JavaScript, etc.) can easily interface via any S3 library. There's also a Basin CLI tool.
As the first optimistic zkEVM Ethereum Layer 2 solution, Morph is 100% EVM compatible.
We have 3 main modules:
Decentralized Sequencer Network
Optimistic zkEVM & Responsive Validity Proof (RVP)
Modular Architecture
Building on morph is just like building on Ethereum. If you’re experienced in Ethereum development, you'll find your existing code, tooling, and dependencies are fully compatible with Morph.
Prizes
💡 Consumer Centric Track ⸺ $5,000
Up to 3 teams will receive $1,666
We're looking for innovative consumer applications built on top of our Morph Holesky testnet. This track challenges developers to build user-centric dApps that leverage Morph's tech to deliver value to consumers. Winning projects will demonstrate a friendly UX/UI, creative use of our tools, and potential for real-world impact in the application.
✅ Ideal Project
Technical Innovation: Uses Morph's technology to leverage the application. Like our usage of our zkEVM and modular design.
- User Experience: Provides a seamless, engaging, and intuitive experience for end-users.
- Practicality and Impact: Shows clear potential for solving real consumer problems and gaining market traction.
- Integration and Scalability: Integrates well with existing consumer apps and scales efficiently on-chain.
Join us in creating the next generation of consumer-centric dApps and compete for a chance to win the 1st, 2nd or 3rd prize in the Consumer Centric Track!
Qualification Requirements
To qualify for this track, you must follow the next requirements without exception:
- All the projects should be deployed on Morph Holesky testnet and link the contract address.
- Code: Github repository attached to the project and clean code.
- Starter Guide: Provide detailed documentation, including setup instructions and a user guide.
- Video Demo: Submit a video demo showing the consumer app and its functionalities.
- Feedback: As a way to improve the developer experience for future hackathons, you must leave your constructive feedback on how was your experience building on Morph.
Evaluation Criteria
- Technical Prowess: Demonstrates advanced use of Morph's Holesky testnet features.
- Consumer Focus: Prioritizes user needs, delivering a high-quality, user-friendly experience.
- Innovation and Creativity: Brings fresh, original ideas to the consumer app space.
- Feasibility and Scalability: Presents a realistic plan for development and scaling in the real world.
Nethermind is a blockchain research and software engineering company empowering enterprises and developers worldwide to work with and build on decentralized systems. Our work touches every part of the blockchain ecosystem, from fundamental cryptography research through security to application-layer protocol development. Nethermind is a core contributor to the development of Ethereum, and we are active builders of the Starknet ecosystem.
Prizes
🏆 Build Starknet.anything ⸺ $1,000
Nethermind invites you to build on Starknet. Build what? Absolutely anything! Yes, that's right. Absolutely anything! The most useful and creative project wins! Think about a Smart Contract that does something unique, something that doesn't exist on Starknet yet, or an integration of some kind, perhaps a tool that helps others access Starknet data.
Qualification Requirements
To be considered your project source code must be hosted on a code repository like Github. The code must be your own work. You must demonstrate that your project is executable on the Starknet Testnet.
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