There are three Grand Prizes available honoring the top three projects from the hackathon overall.

We will award up to $6,000 to honorable mention projects. Each of the projects that earn Honorable Mention will win an equal share of this $6,000 prize pool.

Best tooling solutions built on storage services (e.g. lighthouse or web3.storage) or using FVM (Filecoin Solidity Library) directly to make data management flow smooth as. For example industry specific storage apps xxx.storage, perpetual storage, data aggregators, data caching nodes, truestless notaries & retrieval oracles.

Note that on the Filecoin network, there are two opportunities for Storage Providers to generate revenue –through block rewards, or by accepting payments from clients who want to store data with the Storage Provider. We call the latter “paid storage deals.” There is significant demand among Filecoin Storage Providers to receive payments for paid storage deals with a stablecoin, instead of FIL. Deploy an app on Filecoin testnet that enables stablecoin payments for Filecoin deals. We hope to see a data client flow as automated as possible.

We have a strong interest in making the client paid storage deal onboarding process seamless, in ensuring Storage Providers are enabled and encouraged to accept paid storage deals, and in improving the process to retrieve data stored with Filecoin storage providers. Build software that serves as a solution to one of the following areas: * issues blocking clients from easily performing deals and uploading data * issues blocking storage providers from accepting paid storage deals * issues blocking clients from retrieving data

It is powerful to combine verifiable & decentralized storage primitives with AI. We encourage hackers to come up with use cases in the life cycle in training, developing, and using that makes use of the core competence of Filecoin Network. Ideas such as making the training process transparent, AI dataset marketplace, decentralized model distribution and storage tools, federated learning, etc. are welcomed.

Data privacy and access control are hard topics for any decentralized storage system. We want to award hackers that use zero-knowledge proofs and/or decentralized identity or other means for access control on Filecoin Network. The goal is to help keep processing of data trusted and data content privacy while keeping the verification information public.

Blockchains like Ethereum have smart contracts that let developers encode logic to change that state. As a key management network, Lit provides a method that allows developers to encode logic that dictates signing and encryption / decryption. Lit Actions are JavaScript functions that can be used read and write data across blockchains, web2 platforms, and the rest of the web3 world. You can think of them as decentralized serverless functions with access to their own public / private key pair. You can use Lit Actions to generate signatures when your specified on or off-chain conditions are met, fetch data from off-chain platforms, manage permissions for Programmable Key Pairs (PKPs), and so much more. All Lit Actions are executed within the trusted execution environment (TEE) present within each Lit node, meaning the computation remains completely private and immutable. Additionally, all Lit Actions can be chained together to create sophisticated applications and protocols. With Lit's v0.1 testnet release and v6 Beta 2 SDK release, Lit has enabled decryption and signing WITHIN a Lit Action. You can now compute over private information in a trusted environment, import and sign with web 2.0 secrets or blockchain keys across any chain, and so much more. We want to see what you can build using these awesome new privacy and integrity features!

All eligible submissions for the Best Use of Sign/Decrypt Within a Lit Action prize can be awarded the Participation Prize, distributed equally among all eligible projects.

Improve or expand on Fluence indexing [https://github.com/boneyard93501/hackfs-2024/blob/main], dashboard(s) [https://github.com/boneyard93501/hackfs-2024/blob/main] or marketplace [https://github.com/boneyard93501/hackfs-2024/blob/main]. For a link to the current explorers and dashboards see the DAR network page [https://dar.fluence.dev/]. For a little inspiration, consider: > Improve the marketplace by extending/complementing the matcher with a spot auction; > Implement (liquid) staking pools to delegators; > Implement a new faucet using a Web3 auth approach such as SIWE.

Create a decentralized application from Fluence cloudless functions. Your application should use at least three serverless functions (deployed to three different peers) composed and choreographed with Aqua. Alternatively, create a reusable Marine library with at least three distinct API functions and the matching (reusable) Aqua bindings. For either approach, provide ample test coverage with Aqua. Need some ideas? Get your AI on with Fluence and port the openai-chagpt-api crate to Marine and implement a demo application using Aqua or Embrace cryptography and port a (Rust) MPC library to Marine and implement a demo application covering key generation, signing and key refresh with Aqua If your application or library requires RPC, consider using fRPC for bonus points.

Galadriel enables you to get LLM inference (querying a Large Language Model, e.g. GPT-4) into Solidity smart contract code which is essential to building on-chain AI agents. __ Simply put an AI agent is an LLM that is called multiple times in a loop, it is prompted to "work" until it completes a given input task. Some good Web2 examples would be: 1) https://www.cognition.ai/introducing-devin 2) https://github.com/assafelovic/gpt-researcher 3) https://github.com/py499372727/AgentSims __ Taking on this challenge to build such AI agents on Web3 rails, we encourage you to be creative, here are some potential use cases: - AI-money manager/On-chain Hedge Fund - AI prediction agent - Agent Swarm / Team of Agents (Agent Sims) - On-chain fraud detection & Insurance - AI Clone & Digital Twin - Autonomous Gaming NPCs - Agent governed DAO __ Read more about building on-chain AI agents on Galadriel Devnet from our dev docs, including an end-to-end Solidity agent tutorial (link below).

We are excited to present the award for the Best Implementation of MONA’s SDK in a gaming environment. This prestigious recognition is awarded to developers who have demonstrated exceptional skill and creativity in integrating the MONA SDK into their Unity-based projects. Prize Details: - The grand prize will receive $5000 and a blog post that highlights the innovative aspects of their project on MONA’s website and an opportunity to join us on an X Space to discuss their project and direction. - The top prize will receive $3000 and a blog post that highlights their project’s innovation. - The honorable mention will receive $2000 and a blog post that highlights their project’s integration of MONA’s SDK. Purpose of the Award: The primary goal of this award is to encourage and recognize developers who effectively utilize the Unity Wallet SDK to enrich gaming experiences. By integrating Web3 functionalities, the award-winning project should demonstrate the potential to transform how players interact with digital assets across various metaverse platforms, making gaming more interactive and user-centric. These awards not only celebrates technical proficiency but also innovation in creating engaging and dynamic environments that push the boundaries of traditional gaming.

Ideas to build on for Social DApps: 1. Domain-2-domain calling: Build a react native app leveraging social graphs to create a calling app from one pseudonymous social identity to another. Use the Huddle01 React SDK to build a react native /expo app for the same. 2. Metaverse / Spaces: Bring Web3 Social communities together by levering the Communication primitives using the Huddle01 SDKs. Communication spaces like concerts, collaborative office spaces and romad around 3D interactive worlds. e.g. Farhouse - https://farhouse.club/

Ideas to Build on for AI Track: 1. AI-Assisted Video Interview Platform: Build a video interview platform where an AI can conduct initial interviews and provide real-time feedback to candidates. The LLM can generate interview questions based on the job requirements and evaluate the candidate's responses. Human recruiters can then review the AI's recommendations and conduct follow-up interviews via video chat. Similar to → https://www.hirevue.com/ 2. AI-Enhanced Remote Collaboration: Create a video conferencing tool that uses LLMs to generate meeting summaries, action items, and follow-up questions. The AI can also provide real-time suggestions and insights during the meeting based on the conversation's context. Similar to → https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/collaboration/live-share with AI summaries & followups 3. Mental Health Support Chat: Develop an AI-powered mental health support platform that offers video chat with virtual therapists. The LLM can provide initial mental health assessments, generate personalized coping strategies, and guide users through relaxation techniques during the video sessions.

The Open Innovation Track challenges hackathon participants to unleash their creativity and build groundbreaking decentralized applications (dApps) by leveraging the power of Huddle01 SDKs. This track encourages developers to think outside the box and explore innovative ways to integrate audio, video, and data communication capabilities into their dApps using Huddle01's cutting-edge tools. Some ideas to explore on : 1. Immersive Experiences: Combine Huddle01's audio and video SDKs with emerging technologies like virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) to create immersive and interactive experiences. 2. Real-time Collaboration: Utilize Huddle01's audio and video SDKs to enable real-time collaboration features within your dApp. 3. Decentralized Streaming: Leverage Huddle01's streaming capabilities to build decentralized streaming platforms for content creators, educators, or entertainers.

Recognizing the project that demonstrates the best possible enhancement to the IPFS library and functionalities used by Snapshotter nodes to store and retrieve decentralized datasets. This can also include innovations at the protocol level regarding the usage of the decentralized datasets on IPFS for consensus.

Recognizing the project that demonstrates the highest level of innovation, impact, and technical excellence in data archival using Filecoin to improve Powerloom Infrastructure

Awarded to individuals or teams contributing meaningfully to Powerloom's decentralized data ecosystem, not limited to the top positions in tracks.

Best demonstration of taking a public dataset on Filecoin or IPFS and making it more valuable by computing over it.

Best use of CoopHive that takes advantage of its ability to run arbitrary off-chain computations, including AI workloads.

You have the cure for cancer. But only just. You need a lot of computing power to find it, but you don’t have it. And you don’t have the money to pay for it. So what do you do? Faced with this question in the past, many scientists turned to volunteer distributed computing platforms like BOINC and folding@home for their computational needs. These platforms provided scientists the ability to distribute their computational workloads to volunteers around the world. Today, we can use technologies like blockchains and IPFS to store the data involved in the computations in a decentralized and persistent manner, so that anybody can reproduce the results. CoopHive is a rule set for placing IPFS CIDs on-chain. IPFS CIDs act as immutable pointers to off-chain data, meaning that the data stored on-chain is minimized relative to storing the original data itself on-chain. Enter Filecoin, with cryptoeconomics specifically designed to drive the price of public storage down to 0. With its proofs of storage, Filecoin is well-positioned to provide the necessary incentives and cryptographic primitives to store the data-heavy IPFS CIDs that result from massive scientific computing projects. Your mission, hacker, is to think of the best of use latent computing power that you can, and combine it with IPFS, Filecoin, and other data storage solutions to take advantage of enormous, untapped wealth by cryptoeconomically incentivizing using otherwise wasted resources in a productive manner.

Any type of ENS integration is eligible for this prize — get creative! The more ENS-centric it is, the better. It should feel like ENS is a core part of your project, not an afterthought. Some ideas include unique ways to register .eth names, smart contract wallets that mint subnames upon deployment, clever approaches to reducing fees for ENS users (offchain/L2 resolvers), or unique use cases for text records. For L2 projects, we encourage you to explore the EVMGateway linked below.

ENS names support a contenthash field, which is an identifier of decentralised content such as an IPFS CID. This makes IPFS content accessible via human-readable names instead of long hashes. Contenthash resolution is supported natively in some browsers like Brave, or can be accessed in any browser via gateways like https://eth.limo. This prize goes to the best decentralised website that is accessible via a .eth name!

Some ideas that are exciting to Fleek:   🖥️ JS Edge Functions - Developers can make javascript edge functions that can be used inside their apps to offload a part of the computation to Fleek. This can have multiple use cases and various libraries can be bundled and used simultaneously to provide quick responses to the user on the app.   Please ensure that you use Fleek CLI v2.1.0-staging.1 while exploring the edge functions.   🗂️ Next.js App Hosting - Fleek provides a decentralized execution environment for hosting Next.js apps. This makes the app instantly more performant and also allows for individual features of Next.js like image optimisation to be utilized as an edge function.   🤖 Virtual Machines - A huge value add to the Fleek ecosystem that a developer can provide is building virtual machines. VMs can become execution environment services for multiple languages and enable other developers to do nearly anything.   ⛓️ Nodes - We can execute the logics of another node on top of Fleek nodes. This would allow for complete blockchain infrastructures to exist (and still perform its own tasks) while leveraging the distribution and availability of Fleek nodes. Essentially replacing any centralized servers one may spin up and build a blockchain network from scratch.   🌐 Onchain DNS - An onchain solution to manage all hostings on Fleek would be an extremely helpful project for the community. As we swap centralized CDN from your stack with an extremely performant decentralized CDN, a natural next step would be to have a decentralized domain name system hosted on Fleek.   📊 Analytics - Monitoring and Analytics tooling can be built and hosted on Fleek. These can exist in the VM environment or as edge functions and trigger when a certain event has taken place. This is also an interesting use case for logging tools built on Fleek.

We're excited to power any part of your project at HackFS. Use any Fleek technology to be a part of the pool prize.

Awarding the project that showcases exceptional innovation, impact, and technical excellence in leveraging Lilypad’s distributed compute capabilities.

Squid's SDK and API allow you to execute any action from any chain. Our postHooks and preHooks allow actions before or after a cross-chain swap to be executed. Use cases in production include depositing to derivatives DEXs, buying NFTs across chain, lending across chain, repaying a loan and sending the assets to another chain. Squid’s SDK offers all of the main functions in typescript, while Squid’s API allows for writing your own client code. If you’d prefer not to use Javascript or ethers/wagmi, Squid’s API is probably for you. Integrate Squid and take any single chain action and allow a user to execute it no matter where their assets currently are.

We challenge you to enhance Beryx by developing new features, integrations, and improvements to enhance user interaction and functionality. Focus on the following key areas: -Tooling and Widgets for Developers: Create tools such as new widgets, data converters, or utilities to enhance the development experience. Take inspiration from our tools like the address converter and gas estimator. -Visualization/Design: Redesign or improve Beryx’s user interface, page layouts, and overall aesthetics to make it more intuitive and visually appealing. -Dashboard Structure: Modify or rebuild our dashboard to offer deeper insights into the Filecoin Ecosystem, better data management, and customization options to help users make informed decisions based on real-time and historical data. -Integration for Storage Providers: Identify crucial data for storage providers and propose innovative ways to display it. This might include widgets, components, and user interactions to improve their experience on Beryx. -Deals Integration: Propose ways to display deals with user-friendly interfaces, data visualization techniques, and interactive elements. Feel free to explore beyond these categories. While we’ve outlined specific areas, it’s not mandatory to choose one. If the Beryx API does not meet your needs, use mock data to showcase and evaluate your project.

WeatherXM has deployed more than 5k stations in over 80 countries, with the goal of creating the largest decentralized weather network. To support this, we developed the Explorer, a web app that let's you discover all weather stations deployed worldwide and view real-time weather conditions. We'd love to see you enhance our Explorer. To kick things off, we prepared ideas to give you a sense of direction. Feel free to use them, or just come up with your own: 1. Weather Layers: - Use our public API to make the explorer display more weather data such as temperature, precipitation, and wind heat map layer (e.g. like windy.com). 2. Decentralized Cell Bounty: - Create a decentralized tool to incentivize station deployments in specific cells (areas with no stations). - Users can connect their wallet, add a bounty (in tokens) for a particular cell, and once a station is deployed in that cell, the station owner can claim the bounty. 3. Cell Modelling Information: - Enable the explorer to display all cells, including non-active ones (cells with no stations). - Show cell-modelling and capacity-related information for each cell. - Introduce a cell ranking system where each station within a cell is ranked based on their latest rewards. 4. Come up with your own idea: - Experiment with our repos or data, come up with any idea and create something out of the box, without building on top of the explorer. Top 3 teams will also receive a WeatherXM weather station! Best of luck!

Awarded for the most innovative MVP (Minimum Viable Product) developed on Starknet. Eligible projects include (but not restricted to): * Machine Learning on-chain: Utilize Giza for on-chain agents or verify PyTorch model integrity. * Gaming: Create games using Dojo. Applications may be initial MVPs showcasing potential and creativity. Participants are encouraged to engage with the Starknet Foundation for potential discretionary Seed Grants if their projects show promise (https://www.starknet.io/ecosystem/grant/).

We are thrilled to announce the award for Best SDK Extension to our open source modular Web3 Unity SDK! This prize is designed to recognize and reward developers who push the boundaries of innovation and create the most impactful and useful extensions or contributions to our SDK.

We are excited to announce the Best Marketplace Implementation Award for our hackathon! This prize is designed to recognize and reward developers who create the most impressive and effective implementation of our marketplace in their video game using the Web3 Unity SDK or on a website. We want to see how you can leverage our marketplace offerings to enhance user experience and drive innovation in the gaming and Web3 spaces.

We are excited to present the Best Lootbox Implementation Award for our hackathon! This award aims to recognize and reward developers who create the most impressive and effective implementation of our lootboxes in their video game using the Web3 Unity SDK or on a website. We want to see how you can utilize our lootbox offerings to enhance gameplay, increase user engagement, and innovate within the gaming and Web3 ecosystems.