HackFS 2023

America/New_York

What is HackFS 2023?

Who can attend this event?

How much does it cost to attend?

I'm new to Ethereum - can I still participate?

Can I participate remotely at this event?

Can I start working on my project before the event?

How many members are allowed on my team?

What can I build during the event?

Do I need to submit an application if I'm already part of a team?

What is the role of a mentor?

What is the role of a volunteer?

Can I join two teams/projects?

Can I hack solo?

Should I be worried if I don’t have a team yet?

I don’t have any ideas for what to build. Help!

Where can I find all projects ever built at an ETHGlobal event?

How can I get ETHGlobal to host a hackathon at my city?

Am I allowed to work on my project before the hackathon begins?

If I’m working on my project before the hackathon begins, will I be eligible for sponsor prizes?

Where can I find current and past video content?

Where can I find some great content and resources about Ethereum and our community?

How can I partner or collaborate with ETHGlobal?

When must I stop working on my project?

Who do I go to for help if I’m stuck on my project? 

What are some tips and tricks for a successful hacker application?

How come I cannot submit my application because an optional field is blank?

Why haven’t I heard back about my application?

Why am I on the waitlist?

I’m on the waitlist but have a team waiting for me. Can I be accepted?

Why was my application rejected?

Can I change my wallet address?

Can I change my email address?

I marked my stake as reusable but want it returned to me. Help! 

I cannot afford to stake. Can you override my stake?

Can I apply for a mentor or volunteer role if my native language isn’t English?

What do I do if I staked my spot but my dashboard is still asking me to Stake?

What do I do if I accidentally double-staked?

Why is my stake is stuck pending?

When will I get my stake back?

I can no longer attend due to a conflict. Can I have my stake returned?

Can a friend take my spot if I can no longer attend an event?

How come I don’t see my returned stake transaction?

What is Project Check-in?

What happens if I miss my Project Check-in? 

How can I remove somebody from my team?

Can I edit my project name, description, etc. after it is created?

How come I have not received my stake return yet?

Andrew Hill

Textile

Juan Benet

Protocol Labs

Raul Kripalani

Molly Mackinlay

Masa 'Senshi' Kikuchi

Secured Finance

Ayush Ranjan

Huddle01

Alec Wantoch

Valist

Discordian

IPFS & Filecoin

Lukas Bresser

Ally Haire

Dawn Kelly

Sarah Thiam

Developer Advocate

Matt Hamilton

Nandit Mehra

Lighthouse.Storage

Ainhoa Aldave

Zondax

Gabriel Anderson

Graph Paper Capital

Ruth Galvin

Outlier Ventures

Kartik Talwar

ETHGlobal

Co-founder

Rory Arredondo

Prashant Maurya

Spheron

Adwit Mittal

Facture

Arman Aurobindo

Independent

Samarth Saxena

Shardeum

Luís Pinto

ChainlinkPT

Community Advocate Portugal

Irwing Tello

dfhcommunity.com

Xin Yan

EthSign

**🏆 Grand Prizes:**

*   3️⃣ 3 teams x $5,000 (paid in FIL)

**🏃‍♂️ Runners up:**

*   🔟 10 teams x $500 (paid in FIL)

**Categories to explore:**

**💾 DataDAOs:** Best DataDAOs and DAO tooling solutions built on FVM to enable curation, use, storage, analysis, monetization, and/or governance of valuable datasets.

Examples: Industry specific dataDAOs for decentralized science, machine learning models, biotech etc

**💰DeFi :** Best DeFi tools and services built on FVM to create value for FIL token-holders and 4000+ storage providers in the Filecoin Network.

Examples: Lending markets, staking pools, fundraising tools, automated market makers, decentralized exchanges, token collateral services, derivatives and more, etc.

**🔗 Tools, Infra & Bridging:** Best tooling solutions built on FVM to make the Filecoin Storage Network more accessible and easy-to-use for developers across Web2 and/or Web3 ecosystems.

Examples: Access control, decentralized ID infrastructure, data retrievability improvement ideas on Filecoin, bridges to other chains, etc.

**🚀 Programmable Storage markets:** Best solutions built on FVM to orchestrate, aggregate and broker storage for Data clients and 4000+ Storage Providers on the Filecoin network.

Examples: Storage bounties, full sector auctions, Filecoin sector rebates and incentive schemes to drive a more efficient data economy, etc.

**🪄DWeb It:** Best solutions that turn current web services and applications into more open, equitable, secure, and resilient. Using one or several distributed technologies from Protocol Labs Network qualifies for this track.

**Inspiration:**

*   [Request for Startups](https://rfs.fvm.dev/)
*   [Business Ideas in the Filecoin Ecosystem](https://medium.com/tldrfilecoin/business-models-on-the-fvm-23cd71fdd3f1)


Filecoin Virtual Machine

Filecoin

**Best Integration**: Best use of ApeCoin in a dApp or application. This includes things like payments and gaming.

*   🥇 $3,000
*   🥈 $2,000

**Best Contribution**: Relates to tooling or services that can contribute to the ApeCoin ecosystem. Should be relevant for the ApeCoin community, but with broader applications across the ecosystem. This includes things like DAO tooling, NFT applications, and other services.

*   🥇 $3,000
*   🥈 $2,000


ApeCoin DAO

**Prize Pool:** $10,000 split equally among up to 5 teams (paid in FIL)

**💻 Compute over Data and/or AI:** Best solutions on FVM to facilitate decentralized compute and/or AI jobs. Build new solutions or decentralized versions of services like Amazon Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Kubernetes, OR or solutions for DeSci, DAI, etc. – using tools like **Bacalhau, Lurk (ZK proofs), Lilypad (ethical AI art generation)** and more!

Examples: Scheduling decentralized compute, paying for compute jobs, or cataloging resources globally, AI generated content, integrations with Bacalhau or Lurk.


Bacalhau

Push Protocol

🏆 $5,000 split equally among up to 5 teams (paid in FIL)

⚡**Filecoin’s Fastest:** Best application leveraging the improved finality and throughput properties of FVM on IPC subnets.


Consensus Lab (IPC)

Consensus Lab

**Prize Pool:** $5,000 split equally among up to 5 teams (paid in FIL)

**💬 P2P consumer or developer apps:** Best peer-to-peer consumer web apps or developer tools that use Helia (JS IPFS), Kubo (Go-IPFS) or other IPFS implementations for native IPFS support.

These apps can be across: social networks, video or audio streaming, ecommerce, chat applications, file sharing systems, software development platforms or others.

📂 **P2P Data Basics:** Best use of Helia, Kubo or other IPFS implementations to add or retrieve data in IPFS networks.


IPFS

🏆 **Prize Pool**: $5,000 split equally among up to 5 teams (paid in FIL)

**🤝 P2P Apps & Services**: Best use of libp2p in the networking layer to build peer to peer web/mobile services or applications making use of essential qualities such as interoperability, NAT traversal, universal connectivity, security, robustness & more!


libp2p

Lit Protocol

🏆 Most inventive use of DataverseOS

*   🥇 $2,500
*   🥈 $1,500
*   🥉 $1000

**What we want you to build**:

*   🖼️ Explore the DWeb, DAOs, SocialFis and AI use-cases.
*   🔐 Integrate Dataverse wallet to interact with FEVM
*   🔧 Create toolkits with partner technology to demonstrate DataverseOS composability


DataverseOS

*   🥇 $2,500
*   🥈 $1,500
*   🥉 $1,000

**Task**

**Building DATA Connector** Best data connectors that will enable data to be migrated from any existing Web2 data storage layer to Spheron Storage. For example a connector that can create a backup of MongoDB via Spheron or a building connector to migrate data from S3 to Spheron

**Building Docusigner** Use Spheron Storage SDK to build the Docusign onchain utilising the FVM

**NFT or DeFi** Launch your NFT or DEFI apps on Spheron end to end, which can utilise Spheron SDK to Web hosting to compute.

**DAO Deployment** Build an app that can connect to any existing DAO's and can trigger web deployment on proposal pass.

**Spheron Storage SDK X FVM** Build an app that will allow the file upload via Spheron storage SDK to IPFS and then create the deal on FVM.

**Encryption Module** Add the encryption module on the Spheron SDK, that will allow developers to encrypt the files via a wallet public key or by a user-generated password.

**Launch your web app** Launch your dApp Web Site on Spheron and attach your domain.


*   🥇 $2,500
*   🥈 $1,500
*   🥉 $1,000

**What you could build:**

*   dynamic NFT metadata
*   high speed, low-cost DEXs
*   collaborative & verifiable oracles
*   web3 social


Polybase

Livepeer

🏆 **Prizes:**

🥇 $2,500

🥈 $1,500

🥉 $1,000

**What do we want you to build:**

🤝 **Best use of ComposeDB models/composites for DAO contributor reputation data**

DAO space is an extremely interesting area where data sovereignty as well as interoperability are important aspects for this space to grow and evolve. We would like to challenge developers to build tools and applications that can improve the collaboration between DAO contributors - better ways to facilitate discussions, proposal reviews or tools to make it easier to track member contributions and enable DAO members to build their interoperable contribution profiles.

Key requirement for this bounty - the tool must demonstrate data interoperability by reusing at least one existing data model.

🤖 **Best AI-powered application built using ComposeDB on Ceramic**

AI is an extremely exciting space right now with so many tools being developed. We would like to challenge developers to build innovative AI-powered applications that leverage ComposeDB models for storing the data, making data more accessible and creating better user experiences through AI and data interoperability. Collaborative prompting, web3 AI assistants, data marketplaces - those are just a few ideas for you to consider.

🔧 **Best integration between Ceramic and another sponsoring partner technology that demonstrate data interoperability**

We want you to be extra creative and showcase your best attempt at creating dApps that integrate Ceramic and at least one more sponsoring partner. Your dApp should showcase the power of data interoperability by reusing at least one existing data model.


Ceramic

Tableland

🥇 $2,000

🥈 2x $1,000

🥉 5x $200

**🤔 Where can you leverage Huddle01?**

Web3 Social, DAO Toolings, Collaboration Tools, Creator Tools, Online Education, Events, DATADAOs, Healthcare and much more.


**🏆 Prize Pool:** $3,000 split equally among up to 5 teams (paid in FIL)

**🎮 P2P** **Games**: Best peer to peer games storing data on Web3.storage or NFT.storage.

🎥 **Worth a 1000 words:** Best Video, Audio or Photo apps storing data on Web3.storage or NFT.storage.

💚 **Social Good Warriors:** Best Use of Web3.storage or NFT.storage for social good (e.g., sustainability, tackling the energy & logistic crises, preventing misinformation). Examples could be indexing chains, creating energy dashboards based on NFT or other Graph data. using the Filecoin Green API


NFT.storage and Web3.storage

nft.storage

Lighthouse Storage

**🏆 Total Prize Pool:** $2000 split equally among up to 5 teams (paid in FIL)

**Challenges**

⏰ Time lock encryption: Best apps built using the Time Lock encryption algorithm of Drand.

🎲 Randomness: Best use of Drand that solves an everyday problem, improves the security profile of a blockchain use case, in games, or improves the drand ecosystem.
