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.