🏆 IPFS & Filecoin is awarding $100,000 in prizes at HackFS!

🧙‍♂️ Storage Wizard — The best use of IPFS for content addressing and/or Filecoin for persistent, decentralized storage.

• 🥇 $15,000
• 🥈 $10,000 (x2)
• 🥉 $5,000 (x2)

🧙‍♀️ Storage Mage — $20,000 divided between the next top 30 projects!

🗃 Best use of web3.storage or nft.storage

• 🥇 $2,500 (x3)

🎮 Gaming/Metaverse/DAOs — Best use of IPFS or Filecoin for DAO Tooling, Gaming or the Metaverse.

• 🥇 $2,500 (x3)

👏 Social Good Warrior — Best Use of IPFS/Filecoin for social good (e.g., sustainability, advancing science, preventing misinformation, etc.)

• 🥇 $2,500 (x3)

📅 Daily Hack — Best Hack Project We’ll Use Every Day that uses IPFS, Filecoin, Libp2p (e.g., chat app with p2p, social network or social media tools, web scrapers, personal management systems (calendars, maps etc.), coffee maker, thermostat, IoT, home automation)

• 🥇 $2,500 (x3)

3️⃣ Web3 it! — Best IPFSing/Filecoin'ing of your favorite Web2 data or tools

• 🥇 $2,500 (x3)

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👉 Please read and ensure you understand the eligibility criteria for all IPFS & Filecoin prizes 👈

🏆 Build the next generation of Dapps on Polygon focused on decentralized storage.

• 🥇 $5000
• 🥈 $3000 
• 🥉 $2000
• 5️⃣ $1000 (x5)

Some ideas

• Songs based NFTs
• Video streaming platforms
• Decentralized mobile app based on Polygon & IPFS
• New tools & Standards of NFTs
• Utilizing new Seaport’s capabilities to build NFT marketplaces.

Submission Criteria

• Should be deployed either on Polygon testnet/ mainnet.

🏆 The Graph will award $10,000 in prizes!

🕸 Best use of existing subgraph(s) on The Graph Explorer:

• 🥇 $2000
• 🥈 $500

🆕 Best new subgraph on The Graph Explorer:

• 🥇 $2000
• 🥈 $500

🏆 Fluence is offering up to $10,000 in prizes:

Best use of Fluence off-chain compute

🥇 $3500 USDC

🥈 $1500 USDC

• Move complex computations for your Defi/NFT project to off-chain Fluence network
• Plug DAO proposals to trigger off-chain computations
• Build a data processing engine for IPFS/Filecoin
• Any ideas of yours!

Best P2P protocol using Fluence

🥇 $3500 USDC

🥈 $1500 USDC

• Decentralized cross-chain bridge relay for any EVM-based blockchain
• Decentralized access to any decentralized network node RPC
• Decentralized oracle for any blockchain
• Decentralized off-chain governance protocol
• Any other protocol built with Aqua that uses several nodes/services across the network

🏊‍♂️ NFTPort Pool Prize — $5000

• Split between any team making meaningful use of NFTPort. To qualify you must accurately report your use of the API.

Most Innovative POAP Integration

• 🥇 $2500
• 🥈 $1000
• 🥉 $500

🏊‍♂️ POAP Prize Pool — $1000 split between all non-winning but qualifying teams that submit for a prize.

Use Cases We’ve Seen

• Anti-Farming (Sybil Resistant) Minting or Claiming Solutions
• Displaying and Interacting with Existing POAPs
• Novel ways to Distribute POAPs
• Event Creation (Creating POAPs) from within an app
• Token Gating Systems

Ceramic is offering:

🥇 The most innovative application using Ceramic as a database layer - $2,500

🥈 Best new Ceramic tooling - $1,500

🥉 Best use of Ceramic alongside another sponsor - $1,000

4️⃣ Best projects published on the platform, use the SDKs, Soft License NFTs, or other implementation of Valist tooling — $500 (x4)

🏊‍♂️ Prize pool split between projects that leverage the platform in some way — $3000

🏆 XMTP is offering the following for the best use of Web3 Messaging in Dapps, DAOs, and DeFi:

• 🥇 1st - $2000
• 🥈 2nd - $1500
• 🥉 3rd - $1000
• 🤝 Display of "powered by XMTP" on messaging experience - $100 (x5 each)

Some Hackathon Ideas

Below is a list of project ideas that we think could be great hackathon projects. 

XMTP + Lens - inbox filters

Using Lens Protocol, and the XMTP example chat app (or any messaging front end), create filters for a user’s inbox so they can choose who they want to receive messages from based on Lens filters.

XMTP + Lens - send and receive messages when certain Lens events happen

Using Lens Protocol, and the XMTP example chat app (or any messaging front end), create event listeners that send messages when certain events happen. For example, I would want to receive a message a proposal has been created in a DAO.

E2EE messaging for Gitcoin

Currently, there is no way for bounty owners and bounty workers to chat on Gitcoin. Using the Gitcoin Github repo, and XMTP JS create a chat widget for a Gitcoin bounty page that allows bounty workers to chat with bounty owners. To get an idea of how this could work, take a look at this “Intercom” type widget example.

Chrome Extension Notifications Client

Currently there is no Chrome Extension to notify me when I get a new message on XMTP. Clients like DAOPanel have enabled browser notifications when the tab is open but it would be helpful to be able to get notifications through a Chrome Extension. The user coudl then click on a notification and open a web-app like daopanel.chat for the conversation view.

🔑 Best use of Key Pair Apps + Tools — $2500

Lit Programmable Key Pairs (PKPs) are a decentralized distributed custody cloud wallet platform.

PKPs work in tandem with Lit Actions, which are JS functions that instruct the PKP to sign a txn or message to write to a state machine, such as Ethereum or IPFS.

For this prize, we're looking for tooling to be built on PKPs including SDKs for user-owned social networks, such as a token gated chat SDK for read and write, DeFi automation, and other ecosystem tools like explorers.

If you'd like to work on this prize, feel free to reach out to our team for guidance in forming the project idea at any point! PKPs are under active development and new features may roll out during the course of HackFS

🥷 Private Data on the Open Web — $2500

For this bounty, create a novel tool or application that uses Lit to store private data on the open web. Check out this guide for tips on how to implement it. In the past, teams have built products like token gated chat and unlockable NFTs.

To win this prize, the judges will be looking for uniquenesses and general applicability.

🏆 Tableland will award:

• 🥇 $1,000 — Most Innovative Use of Tableland
• Rewarded to the teams that demonstrate a novel use case using dynamic, relational (meta)data.
• Bonus points — cross-chain SQL queries (e.g., SELECTs, JOINs, INSERTs, etc.) using at least 2 of the following networks: Ethereum, Optimism, and/or Polygon.
• 🏊‍♂️ A $4,000 Pool Prize
• Rewarded to teams that use Tableland’s JS SDK, CLI tool, or Smart Contracts to store relational (meta)data based on any of the example use cases defined here (or related ideas): https://docs.tableland.xyz/use-cases

Covalent is offering:

🏊‍♀️ $5,000 USD (in stablecoin) prize pool for all projects that make meaningful use of any Covalent API endpoints for their HackFS 2022 BUIDLs.

The prize pool includes a top prize of $1,500 and a minimum prize of $300 to qualifying projects at Covalent’s discretion. (The minimum prize might be adjusted depending on the number of submissions.) To qualify, projects must, at the very least, use one Covalent API endpoint and pull on-chain data from any supported blockchain into your application.

Projects that are multi-chain and make use of our NFT-specific and Event-specific endpoints will be given special attention.

Our API is ideal for building multi-chain projects related to:

• NFT storefronts / marketplaces / galleries
• On-Chain Analytics / Dashboards
• Wallets
• Asset tracking, ROI, cost basis and tax calculators

For ideas and examples of past hackathon projects, please see our:

• Events blog
• Use cases outlining how to build popular Web3 projects like OpenSea, Zapper and Uniswap

Judging

Projects will be scored on a 1-5 scale for each of the following key factors:

• Originality, creativity, and feasibility of your project (do you provide a good solution to a real problem?)
• The specific Covalent API endpoints used
• User experience (good front-end design and data presentation)
• Technical competence (well organized and written code)

🔟 Top 10 projects who have used Spheron for hosting their web app will be awarded 200 USDC.