Polygon is the leading platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all major scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 18000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, ~100M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured.
ZM builders, we’re challenging you to hack with Polygon solutions to solve real-world problems.
The Polygon zkEVM launched earlier this year, it's grown to hold a TVL of $50 million and continues to attract major protocols. For this challenge, we want to see your most innovative use of the Polygon zkEVM, this is an open challenge that will see the most innovative and deserving protocols, with killer UX carry the day!
Check out these resources to get you started.
gm anon, or should we say ZM. At the heart of Polygon’s new 2.0 architecture lies the LxLy bridge. The Polygon zkEVM LxLy Bridge facilitates cross-chain communication across Polygon chains. We’re challenging you to create and extend the LxLy sample implementations and add support for different types of cross-chain messaging and assets transfer of custom ERC-20s and any other EIP/ERC you see fit such as ERC1155 etc. Check out the existing code samples and open a PR with your own contribution that facilities cross-chain communication.
Cross-Chain ideas from the Polygon zkEVM team
Self-Sovereign Identity is the future. Use Polygon ID to represent identity-based information as verifiable credentials in your dapp so your users can prove access rights to dapp features without giving up their private data. Polygon ID is also excited to announce a brand new partnership with Dock.io that will allow you to securely extend the privacy of your Lens profile using Verifiable Credentials. Using Dock's REST API credentials can be issued a few API calls. Along with issuing credentials application developers can use the API to manage issuer profiles and create and import data schemas. Dock's tooling also supports non-developers through it's no-code solution Dock Certs which provides the same functionality via a web interface.
This demo shows you how to set up your Dock.io account and begin to issue VCs. Your task is to now leverage VCs to provide additional layers of privacy and security to your Lens Dapp.
Polygon ID resources:
Ideas from the Polygon ID team:
Lens Ideas:
Create a permissionless public good dapp with an app-like UX by sponsoring your users’ gas fees using gasless transactions or by batching transactions into a single transaction. Learn more by reading up on ERC-4337: Account Abstraction and Gasless transactions.
Account Abstraction SDKs
In your project’s README, explain the UX optimization strategies you chose and link to relevant sections of code with your account abstraction implementation.
Worldcoin is building the world’s largest identity and financial network as a public utility, giving ownership to everyone. World ID is the protocol to bring global proof of personhood to the internet, built to be privacy-first, decentralized and self-custodial.
$20,000 USD are up for grabs at the hackathon for devs who build on top of World ID, distributed as follows:
ETHGlobal NYC Notion Page: worldcoin.org/nyc23
Developer Documentation: docs.worldcoin.org
Developer Portal: developer.worldcoin.org
Template Repositories:
The communications protocol for web3, WalletConnect brings the ecosystem together by enabling wallets and apps to securely connect and interact.
We have up to $20,000 USD for hackers looking to create with WalletConnect.
More details will be outlined in our Hacker Guide.
Hacker Guide: https://www.notion.so/walletconnect/EthGlobal-NYC-WalletConnect-Hacker-Guide-External-a8597f528c50421d9ddda76010f5af82?pvs=4
The 1inch Network seamlessly unites multiple decentralized protocols, empowering users to perform efficient, user-friendly and secure operations in the Web3 space.
The 1inch Network provides access to hundreds of liquidity sources across multiple blockchains. Its main components are the 1inch Aggregation Protocol, the 1inch Liquidity Protocol, the 1inch Limit Order Protocol and the 1inch Wallet – a fast and secure mobile application for storing, receiving, sending and swapping crypto assets.
The 1inch Swap Engine, built on top of 1inch’s Aggregation Protocol and Limit Order Protocol, is a decentralized trading and matching system that connects DEX users with practically limitless liquidity. The 1inch Swap Engine executes trade orders using the Dutch auction model, providing more efficiency, flexibility and tunability than regular swaps or limit orders.
Powered by the 1inch Swap Engine, Fusion mode enables users to swap tokens without paying any network fees and at the most favorable rates. In addition, Fusion mode offers users extra MEV protection. All swaps in Fusion mode are executed by resolvers – professional traders, who use the most sophisticated and efficient ways of protecting users’ swaps from MEV.
Bounty 1 - Build an Innovative Application on top of 1inch Network's Fusion API
Prize Amount:
🥇 First place: $2,500USD
🥈 Second place: $1,500 USD
🥉 Third place: $1,000USD
Bounty Description:
Build an innovative application that leverages the power of 1inch Network's Fusion API. Your application should provide unique functionalities and value-added features to users within the Defi ecosystem.
Criteria:
1 - Utilize the 1inch Network's Fusion API to access and interact with the Fusion protocol.
2 - The utilization of Fusion API should have a meaningful purpose
Resources:
1inch Network's Fusion API documentation: https://docs.1inch.io/docs/fusion-swap/introduction
Note: Your application should be an open-source project accompanied by clear documentation explaining its usage. Focus on demonstrating the unique value your application brings to the 1inch Network ecosystem while ensuring a seamless and secure user experience.
Bounty 2: Build Innovative Solutions on top of 1inch Network's Token Plugins
Prize Amount:
🥇 First place: $2,500USD
🥈 Second place: $1,500 USD
🥉 Third place: $1,000USD
Bounty Description:
1inch recently announced new library that introduces an extendable and secure system for ERC20-based tokens. By subscribing an account to various plugins, users can dynamically enhance the functionality of their tokens. Technically plugins are a collection of smart contracts that track changes in ERC20 token balances and perform supplementary accounting tasks for those balances. They are particularly useful when you need to track, for example, token shares without actually transferring tokens to an accounting contract.
Try to hack using such library. That is it.
Criteria:
1 - Use https://github.com/1inch/token-plugins
2 - The utilization of token-plugins should have a meaningful purpose
Resources:
Anton Bukov talk about token plugins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9uCqWmH-HE
Token plugins Repo: https://github.com/1inch/token-plugins
Bounty 3: Enhance your app with 1inch Developer Portal APIs
Prize Amount:
🥇 First place: $2,500USD
🥈 Second place: $1,500 USD
🥉 Third place: $1,000USD
Bounty Description:
1inch Developer Portal do have multiple APIs (Balances, Fiat Prices, Portfolio, Swap, Limit Order). Use any of it to enhance your project. Apps with the best use cases will be eligible for bounties
Criteria:
1 - Use portal.1inch.dev APIs (Any of it)
2 - The utilization of 1inch Developer Portal should have a meaningful purpose
Bounty 4: Open Track Prize Amount:
🥇 First place: $2,500USD
🥈 Second place: $1,500 USD
🥉 Third place: $1,000USD
Bounty Description:
Develop an innovative DeFi solution on a supported EVM that has a meaningful impact on the community. Your project should introduce novel concepts or functionalities, addressing real-world problems and pushing the boundaries of DeFi.
Criteria:
1 - Open source
2 - Clear documentation about / explanation about project
Nice to Have:
Incorporate any 1inch Product.
1inch Network's Fusion API documentation: https://docs.1inch.io/docs/fusion-swap/introduction
1inch Network's smart contracts documentation:
https://docs.1inch.io/docs/aggregation-protocol/smart-contract/AggregationRouterV5
https://docs.1inch.io/docs/limit-order-protocol/smart-contract/LimitOrderProtocol
1inch Network’s Github Repositories: https://github.com/1inch
1inch Developer Portal: https://portal.1inch.dev
1inch Token Plugins: https://github.com/1inch/token-plugins
Anton Bukov talk about token plugins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9uCqWmH-HE
The Uniswap Foundation is the first Foundation of a major protocol to go through the community governance process, its mandate is to support the Uniswap protocol’s decentralized growth, reinvigorate governance, and serve as a Protocol advocate.
Uniswap is the most renowned decentralized exchange (DEX) in the world, built on the Ethereum network. The revolutionary platform has transformed the way digital assets are traded, allowing users to swap tokens without the need for intermediaries or centralized exchanges. Uniswap's innovative approach to liquidity provision, driven by its Automated Market Maker (AMM) system, has disrupted the traditional financial landscape and set the standard for other decentralized finance (DeFi) projects.
The launch of Uniswap V3 brought forth even more groundbreaking features, including concentrated liquidity, customizable fee tiers, and optimized capital efficiency. These improvements keep pushing Uniswap's position as the leading DEX and a cornerstone of the rapidly evolving DeFi ecosystem. With its massive user base, exceptional trading volume, and cutting-edge technology, Uniswap continues to inspire new ideas and drive the future of decentralized finance.
With the much-anticipated launch of Uniswap V4 and the groundbreaking introduction of hooks, the DeFi landscape has been completely reimagined. Developers now have an unprecedented toolkit to build transformative applications. To celebrate this milestone, we are thrilled to announce a specialized our Hookathon during ETH Global! This hookathon is dedicated to discovering and rewarding the most inventive and impactful hook designs. Get all the technical insights you need by diving into our comprehensive V4 Documentation at Uniswap Foundation Docs.
🎣 Hookathon - $12,000 (Pool Prize)
Prizes will be awarded to the most innovative and unique hooks!
Project Ideas:
🛠 Developer Tooling for Hooks/Uniswap V4 - $3,000 (Pool Prize)
Project Ideas:
🏆 Open/Innovation Prize - $5,000 (Pool Prize)
Build on top of Uniswap V3 or V4. Prizes will be given to hackathon participants best utilizing Uniswap's protocol.
Project Ideas:
Requirements:
To be eligible for any of the prizes, your project must integrate the Uniswap V4 Protocol or Uniswap V3 Protocol, including hooks for the Hookathon prizes. We will only accept projects that meet this requirement. Showcase your innovative ideas and groundbreaking solutions while adhering to this integration.
[Gnosis Chain is a community-run, Beacon Chain EVM Layer-1 blockchain targeting top-notch security, resilience, and credible neutrality. Secured by a global network of over 150K validators, Gnosis Chain is one of oldest and most decentralized blockchains, second only to Ethereum.
Everything that you can run on Ethereum, you can run on Gnosis Chain.
🦄 Frontend for UniSwap Prize: $3,000
UniSwap stands as a leading DeFi protocol across EVM-based chains. While it's available on the Gnosis chain, it lacks a user interface. Your task? Design a straightforward frontend for the existing UniSwap contracts on Gnosis
[UniswapV3 Factory] (https://gnosisscan.io/address/0xe32f7dd7e3f098d518ff19a22d5f028e076489b1#code)
[NonfungibleTokenPositionDescriptor:] https://gnosisscan.io/address/0x4ce075e640649ea45fc55ac0e301ff75c4cd0f0c#code and https://gnosisscan.io/address/0x7b8a01b39d58278b5de7e48c8449c9f4f5170613#code
TransparentUpgradeableProxy: https://gnosisscan.io/address/0x070b849e8f2704bec603a1dd5de26acfe48d1896#code and https://gnosisscan.io/address/0x32681814957e0c13117ddc0c2aba232b5c9e760f#code
V3Migrator: https://gnosisscan.io/address/0x16dd75c567a07082452ab56fd1e673987289e6ef#code and https://gnosisscan.io/address/0x78d78e420da98ad378d7799be8f4af69033eb077#code
QuoterV2: https://gnosisscan.io/address/0x7e9cb3499a6cee3babe5c8a3d328ea7fd36578f4#code and https://gnosisscan.io/address/0xed0d35e600ff40ac6c598c5b29468af22400fa66#code
SwapRouter02: https://gnosisscan.io/address/0xc6d25285d5c5b62b7ca26d6092751a145d50e9be#code and https://gnosisscan.io/address/0x8e041632b77fd2a23bd4d9543c0b8a0039b481b4#code
UniswapWormholeMessageReceiver
You don't need to implement a full product; it's better to tackle one feature at a time.
🚫 Anti-plagiarism service Prize: $3,000
Finding a unique hackathon idea can be challenging. It's even more disheartening to discover post-event that your concept wasn't original. How about developing a service to cross-reference ideas with those from past hackathons?
Possible features
You don’t need to implement a full product - you can go feature by feature.
🔐 Anti-sybil service Prize: $3,000
In the Web3 industry, most projects can't distinguish between personal, corporate, or bot wallets. This situation creates potential for Sybil attacks on the protocol (like airdrop hunting, facets abusing, claiming other free resources by bots, etc.). A few solutions for this already exist (like identity protocols, Web3-captures, SBT tokens, etc.) but the cost, speed and cross-chain solutions (like Hashi or other bridges) of Gnosis Chain allow for the creation of next-level anti-sybil services. Are you up to the task?
Possible ideas
Remember: you don’t need to implement a full product - it's better to go feature by feature.
✅ Survey service Prize: $3,000
Platform for creating surveys and engaging with community members
Possible features
Remember: you don’t need to implement a full product - it's better to go feature by feature.
🚚 Tool to migrate projects to Gnosis chain from another EVM Prize amount: $3,000
There are a lot of services and dApps that are widely used on other EVM chains. Consider creating a service that helps to migrate projects from one EVM chain to another.
Possible workflow
You don’t need to implement a full product, it is best to go feature by feature.
🎮🌠 Games Infrastructure Prize: $3,000
The GameFi is dead; long live the GameFi. Let’s reinvent Web3 games by providing more than just play-to-earn mechanics. With Gnosis Chain, it is possible to implement true on-chain games (with 1 xDai you can mint 2000 NFTs and the average block time is just 5 sec).
Possible ideas
We don’t expect that you will create an AAA game during the hackathon and everything will work perfectly. Take an already existing open-source game and turn it into an on-chain game.
Don’t worry if you face some troubles that will not allow you to make a stable project. In this case, prepare documentation and tests that help to reproduce your problems.
💡 Innovate on Gnosis Chain **Project: $2,000 (shared)
Have an idea that wasn't listed above? Bring it on! Show us your vision, use case, and earn brownie points for a sound business model (if relevant). Unleash your creativity - all innovative projects are welcome. The sky (or should we say the blockchain?) is the limit!
Requirements
You don’t need to pitch your idea to us. All we need is your submission. 👍
🧾 Submission Essentials:
🏆 How We'll Judge:
Gnosis Builders Resources includes project ideas, workshops, guides, tools, directories, and more
Gnosis Chain Official Documentation
Other Resources:
Gnosis Faucet - the official xDai faucet for Gnosis Chain (Note: if the faucet is empy, please text @tacid on Telegram)
RPC Server Address for Gnosis mainnet: https://rpc.gnosis.gateway.fm and https://rpc.gnosischain.com
RPC Server Address for Chiado testnet: https://rpc.chiado.gnosis.gateway.fm and https://rpc.chiado.gnosis.gateway.fm
Gnosis Chain Recommended Bootnodes
You can auto-config your wallet on Gnosis mainnet via https://chainlist.org/chain/100
You can auto-config your wallet on Chiado testnet via https://chainlist.org/chain/10200
IPFS is a peer-to-peer network and protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open. IPFS upgrades the web to work peer to peer, addressing data by what it is instead of where it’s located on the network, or who is hosting it.
Filecoin, the world’s largest decentralized network offers more than 16+ Exbibytes of storage. It allows users to store, request, and transfer data via a verifiable marketplace. Filecoin is completely open-source, enabling people from all over the world to participate.
Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) is a runtime environment for smart contracts (also called actors) on the Filecoin network. FVM brings user programmability to Filecoin, unleashing the enormous potential of an open data economy. FVM unlocks boundless possibilities, ranging from dataDAOs, to perpetual storage, to financial services for miners (e.g. collateral lending, liquid staking, insurance protocols), to decentralized compute and Layer 2 networks (such as reputation systems, and incentive-aligned content delivery networks, and more.
Bacalhau is a platform for fast, cost-efficient, and secure computation that enables users to run compute jobs where the data is generated and stored. With the open-source Bacalhau project, you can streamline your existing workflows without rewriting by running Docker containers and WebAssembly (WASM) images as tasks. This architecture is also referred to as Compute Over Data (or CoD).
🏆 Grand Prizes: 3 teams x $2500 (paid in FIL) 🏊 Pool Prize: $12500, up to 15 teams, capped at $1250 per team (paid in FIL)
Challenge:
🪄DWeb It: Best innovations that turn current web services and applications into more open, equitable, secure, and resilient. Using one or several decentralized technologies from Protocol Labs Network qualifies for this track.
Qualifying technologies: Filecoin, FVM (Filecoin Virtual Machine), IPFS, Lilypad, IPC, Web3.storage, Saturn, LibP2P. Bonus points for building on FVM!
For inspiration, project Categories Unique to the Filecoin Ecosystem:
💾 DataDAOs: Best DataDAOs and DAO tooling solutions built on FVM to enable curation, use, storage, analysis, monetization, and/or governance of valuable datasets.
💰DeFi: Best DeFi tools and services built on FVM to create value for FIL token-holders and 3500+ storage provider systems in the Filecoin Network.
🚀 Programmable Storage markets: Best solutions built on FVM to orchestrate, aggregate and broker storage for Data clients and 3500+ Storage Providers on the Filecoin network.
🔗 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.
💻 Compute over Data with Lilypad: Best solutions to facilitate decentralized compute and/or AI and ML jobs. Build new solutions for DeSci, DAI, etc. or DApps that take advantage of the Lilypad decentralized computation network
Designed with you in mind, Arbitrum empowers you to explore and build on the leading Layer 2 in the largest Layer 1 ecosystem, Ethereum. Arbitrum continues to accelerate the Web3 landscape with a suite of scaling solutions that provide high-throughput, low-cost smart contracts, backed by industry-leading proving technology rooted in Ethereum.
For this hackathon we’re exited to introduce you to Stylus - One chain, many languages! Through the power of WebAssembly (WASM) smart contracts, users can deploy programs written in their favorite programming languages, including Rust, C, and C++, to run alongside Solidity contacts on Arbitrum. It’s over an order-of-magnitude faster, slashes fees, and is fully interoperable with the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
Tier 1 Bounties $10,000
Tier 2 Bounties $5,000
Pool Prize $5,000
Stylus: A Gentle Introduction: https://docs.arbitrum.io/stylus/stylus-gentle-introduction#:~:text=Stylus%20lets%20you%20write%20smart,tool%20to%20start%20building%20today.
Stylus Quickstart Guide: https://docs.arbitrum.io/stylus/stylus-quickstart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF1hLTGnByM
https://github.com/OffchainLabs/stylus-sdk-rs/tree/stylus/examples/erc20
https://www.notion.so/arbitrum/Arbitrum-Hacker-Tool-Kit-375a142fcbee4e6a8c62bd0022f13138
Scroll is a zero-knowledge rollup built to scale Ethereum. We're committed to Ethereum's ethos, and like to call ourselves the community-first zkEVM.If you’re experienced in building on Ethereum, your code, dependencies, and tooling work with Scroll out of the box. This is possible because our network is compatible with EVM bytecode and designed to feel just like developing on Ethereum. With the launch of the Scroll testnet on Sepolia, Scroll is inviting the developer community to join early and begin innovating.
👋 GM GM developer! Scroll is coming to ETHGlobal New York and we’re excited to see what you’re going to build.
Scroll is bringing the builders 16k in prizes:
Check out the details below how you can win a prize by deploying on Scroll.
This should just mean changing your RPC! Try out Scroll's next-generation zk-rollup by deploying your project's smart contracts on the Scroll testnet on Sepolia. With Scroll's zkEVM, users will benefit from lower costs, shorter block times, and higher throughput -- without you needing to modify your Solidity code.
$7000 pool prize
You’re here to build the latest in greatest in web3 on Ethereum — we want to see it deployed on Scroll. Use Scroll’s Sepolia Testnet for your deployment of a novel DeFi application — we’re compatible with the EVM at the bytecode level, so all your Solidity, Vyper, or YUL should just work with the change of an RPC address.
🥇3 times a $2000 per team
🥈3 times a $1000 per team - honorable mentions
StarkWare develops scaling solutions for the Ethereum blockchain based on STARK Validity Proofs. It has launched StarkEx – a SaaS scaling engine, and Starknet, a Layer 2 Validity Rollup. It has also developed Cairo, a Turing-Complete Programming Language.
Starknet is a permissionless Validity-Rollup (also known as a “ZK-Rollup”) that operates as an L2 network over Ethereum. It enables any dApp to achieve scale for its computation without compromising Ethereum’s composability and security, thanks to Starknet’s reliance on a state-of-the-art cryptographic proof system - STARK.
Prize Amounts:
🥇 First place: $4,000
🥈 Second place: $3,000
🥉 Third place: $1,000 X3 (Available for three groups, $1,000 each)
Well, the simple answer is - anything!
Starknet focuses on scalability and performance therefore - any decentralized application can be built using Cairo and deployed on Starknet. However, we have some ideas for you to get inspired from:
Fun & easy ideas:
More ideas:
Want to deep-dive and learn more?
🐺 All things Starknet: The Starknet Book
🤿 Deep-dive into Cairo: The Cairo Book
🤓 Official Cairo Lang Documentation: Cairo lang Docs
You can also refer to this document for detailed setup instructions on Cairo.
We also suggest doing this automated workshop to gain some free points.
Base is a secure, low-cost, developer-friendly Ethereum-equivalent L2 blockchain built on the OP Stack by Coinbase. Our vision is to collectively work towards an ambitious goal: bring the next billion users onchain. Base is a founding participant in the Optimism Superchain and the second core developer of the OP Stack.
🏆 BOUNTY PRIZE AMOUNT
2 Prize Pools of 3 winners each at $2.5k, $1.5k, and $1k
Build a Consumer Product
Leveraging Base, build a user friendly consumer product
Build a tool to make subscription payments easier and simpler
Build an event ticketing system highlighting benefits of on chain visibility
Fill any gaps currently not deployed on Base
Creative utility NFT Projects
Deploy a project to visualize onchain summer data and mint history
Deploy a project utilizing a paymaster to pay gas only for a specific user base (NFT holder, previous onchain activity)
Deploy a frontend utilizing account abstraction to provide a more user-friendly onboarding and transaction experience
Utilize an ERC-6551 wallet to hold nfts for a unique use case
Combine NFTs with attestations for a new utility use case
🚀 Requirements
Work must be deployed on or connected to Base in some way
Work that is open source and free for others to use
Shared artifacts (GitHub, planning documents, and a short video)
For this hackathon, the project must be a new development in order to ensure equal opportunity
⚖️ Judging Criteria
Functional prototype highlighting a solution
Creativity
Presentation
🚀Resources
https://docs.base.org/
https://docs.base.org/base-camp/docs/welcome
https://base.mirror.xyz/
https://twitter.com/buildonbase
https://base.org/discord
https://bridge.base.org/
https://coinbase.com/faucets/base-ethereum-goerli-faucet
https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/optimism-tutorial
Axiom is the first ZK coprocessor scaling data-rich applications on Ethereum. Axiom gives smart contracts trustless access to all on-chain historic data and verified compute over that data. With Axiom, developers can build on-chain applications that use data like historic contract variables, transactions, and receipts that smart contracts cannot access through the EVM. All results returned by Axiom are verified by a ZK proof, meaning that they have security cryptographically equivalent to Ethereum itself.The Axiom SDK and frontend give teams with as few as a single developer the ability to build powerful apps making use of the latest advances in ZK. Developers can write and deploy their own ZK circuit, reference historic on-chain data, and integrate into their application, all through an easy-to-use Typescript interface.
You can learn more and get started building with the following resources: Developer documentation Code examples To chat with our team, check out the following: We are hosting an in-person developer workshop in our New York office the day before ETHGlobal New York. Register at the event page. Telegram discussion group
ApeCoin is an ERC-20 governance and utility token for decentralized communities building at the forefront of culture and web3.
Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club ecosystem, is a contributor to the APE ecosystem and is adopting ApeCoin as the primary token for the BAYC ecosystem as well as upcoming metaverse and gaming experiences.
APE adoption will be driven largely by communities who are driving culture forward through NFTs, art, gaming, entertainment, community and events.
ApeCoin serves several purposes including:
- Governance - allows ApeCoin holders to participate in the ApeCoin DAO
- Unification of Spend - shared and open currency across more NFT native communities
- Access - exclusive games, merch, events, and services
- Incentivization - tool for third-party developers to incorporate APE into their services, games, and other projects
Best Integration: Best use of ApeCoin in a dApp or application. This includes things like payments and gaming.
Best Contribution: Relates to tooling and experiences around using NFTs in games, phygital, or metaverse experiences. Should use ERC-6551, ERC-4337, ERC-6981 or another new ERC standard in its architecture. The ERC / project should benefit this community (i.e. wallet security, interesting NFT use cases, etc)
Airstack: The Easiest way integrate everything web3!
ERC6551, NFTs, POAPs, Farcaster, Lens, ERC20, ERC721, ERC1155. Combinations. Snapshots.
Airstack enables complex queries that combine on-chain, off-chain, cross-chain, cross-project, and identity data. 1 API for all the integrations you need.
🤖 The Airstack AI engine 🤖 enables you to query with natural language (e.g. “show me all tokens held by Vitalik.eth, images of his NFTs, and his Lens and Farcaster usernames”) — a great way to get started learning the APIs!
🤝 Combinations enable you to get holders in common between tokens/NFTs/POAPs or all wallets that have mutual token holdings -- great for recommendation engines!
⏱ Snapshots enable you to get token holders or token balances as of a specific date, time, blockstamp.
🪆 ERC-6551 -- Airstack is the only way to query all details about ERC-6551 token bound accounts and the assets they hold!
📪 XMTP -- you can now use Airstack to query if a wallet or social account has XMTP!
🔥 Web3 Identity Resolvers -- Query across ENS, Lens, Farcaster, POAPs and NFTs with a single Airstack query/response. Build the future of web3 social interoperability and recommendation engines with Airstack.
👩💻 Projects building with Airstack include XMTP, Lens, Farcaster, ERC-6551, CRM, marketing engines, ad platforms, portfolio balancers, ZK attestations, Farcaster, decentralized social, messaging apps, wallets, token-gated membership solutions, data visualization, and more. What will you build?
With Airstack APIs you can build a fully functional app at the hackathon. The Airstack team will be judging your apps based on their completeness, innovativeness, and specific use of Airstack to make the 🪄 happen.
We're offering the following Airstack prizes in New York:
Special considerations will be given to apps that use Airstack for ERC-6551, XMTP, Lens, POAP, Farcaster, and ZK use cases. Want to learn about 6551? Ask our team!
The XDC Network was established in 2017 by a community of developers, early adopters, and advocates who champion the adoption of XDC's blockchain technology. The network's long-term vision is to solve real-world problems, such as enabling small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to participate in trade finance and ensuring transparent and trustless delivery of charitable funds. The XDC Foundation, established in 2021, supports the growth, development, and adoption of the XDC Network, fostering a community-driven initiative with developers, world trade experts, and content creators.
Hackathon Categories
XDC Foundation aims to accelerate the expansion and development of the XDC ecosystem with a focus on network adoption and utility. To align with this focus, hackers should submit projects that provide utility to users in a real-world setting. Submissions should be built using the XDC Network mainnet or testnet, provide a demo, and public GitHub for review. The following categories have been recommended but participants are welcome to interpret them creatively and submit projects of their own idea.
🧑💻Developer tools: Build a developer tool or resource that can be used by the community. This submission should either enhance current processes, improve developer experience, or provide a public good for developers and the community.
🏦NFT base fintech applications: Create financial instruments and automate a service by using NFTs. These can be ETFs, mutual funds, derivative assets, or any other instruments that provide financial services.
💸Money Coupons in the form of NFTs: Create a ground-breaking proof-of-concept system that transforms money coupons into NFTs,. Emulate and improve upon traditional money transfer systems by highlighting the advantages brought by blockchain technology.
🚀 Crowdfunding / Fundraising Platform: Build a dynamic platform that facilitates aspiring founders to initiate public fundraisers post a thorough KYC process. The platform should oversee secure transactions and creatively incentivize contributors with rewards proportional to their contributions. Give special consideration to the KYC process, user interface, and the architecture of the smart contract managing funds.
🎟️ Token Gated Attendance Activities: Develop a system that verifies event attendance based on token ownership. Strive to build a secure, user-friendly platform that can authenticate token holders and grant them access to designated events or activities.
🌈 Freestyle: Feel free to come up with your own ideas and concepts that can leverage the capabilities of the XDC Network.
Prizes Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 overall projects and best submission in each category. If a project wins a top 3 overall prize, they will not be considered for the category awards.
Category Specific Prizes:
Resources
Mantle is a high-performance Ethereum layer-2 network built with modular architecture delivering low fees and high security.
Builders can leverage Mantle’s unique design to build dApps with exceptional UX, all while relying on Ethereum’s unrivaled security.
All eligible teams will split the pool prize
(please check Submission Requirements!!!)
Challenge Description
Deploy your smart contract on Mantle (testnet or mainnet) and provide links to 1) smart contract on Mantle, and 2) a tweet to qualify.
Submission Requirements
Judging Criteria
Everyone who followed submission requirements is eligible.
Split between 2 winning teams, $1,250 each
Challenge Description
Create an innovative DeFi implementation (such as core protocol tools, ecosystem tools, use cases for NFTs and the Metaverse, DAOs, DeFi, and DApps) on Mantle.
Submission Requirements
Judging Criteria
Split between 2 winning teams, $1,250 each
Challenge Description
Build an NFT or web3 gaming-related project. Ideas:
Submission Requirements
Judging Criteria
Split between 2 winning teams, $1,250 each
Challenge Description
One of the most challenging problems in Web3 is creating an intuitive and seamless User Experience for dApps. Build a dApp that raises the bar for blockchain UX. Make sure to explain in your submission in detail what you’ve done to make UX more accessible. Ideas:
Submission Requirements
Judging Criteria
Starter Guide: https://mantle.to/mantlefordevs
Mantle Linktree - https://linktr.ee/mantle.xyz
Mantle Discord Server - https://discord.com/invite/0xmantle
Mantle Devs Telegram Channel - https://t.me/mantledevs
Mantle Docs - https://docs.mantle.xyz/introducing-mantle/a-gentle-introduction
Mantle Developers Website - https://www.mantle.xyz/developers
Mantle GitHub - https://github.com/mantlenetworkio
The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) enables you to have a portable web3 username and profile. Use it to establish an online identity, simplify crypto payments for any blockchain, and host decentralized websites.
ENS supports .eth
names natively, as well as any DNS names you already own. There are millions of ENS names, 700k+ unique users, and hundreds of integrated services including some of the largest wallets, dapps, and browsers.
$2,500 to the Best Overall Use of ENS
Any type of ENS integration is eligible for this prize.
$2,000 to the Best Use of ENS Subnames
ENS subnames can be onchain or offchain (including L2). This prize covers either approach.
$2,000 to the Best Implementation of ENS with Account Abstraction
Explore how ENS can be used to improve the user experience of account abstraction. Submissions might use ENSIP-11 to aggregate a user's smart accounts across multiple chains, or implement a smart account that sets a primary ENS name when being deployed.
$1,000 to the Best Use of Thorin
Thorin is our design system and React component library that makes building premium web3-native frontends faster and easier.
$500 x 5 to Honorable Mentions
Open to your creativity! We recommend at least implementing ENS name and avatar resolution.
All winners may have the opportunity to present at an ENS ecosystem call or Twitter space after the hackathon.
Safe brings digital ownership of accounts to everyone by building universal and open contract standards for the custody of digital assets, data, and identity.
Safe will be giving $10,000 for the best hacks using Safe{Core}. To be eligible, developers must build with one of the following options:
Biconomy is a Web3 developer and transaction infrastructure platform that helps developers build effortless experiences for their end users.
As pioneers of Account Abstraction (ERC-4337) and Gasless transactions, we accelerate the mass adoption of Web3 through simplified UX, achieved with a powerful decentralised UX stack.
Developers use our Account Abstraction-compliant SDK to easily remove UX complexities, onboard users, and scale their dApps.
Total prizes - $10000 Prizes:
Best use of Modules with Biconomy SDK - $2000 x 2
Best one click Defi Recipe with Biconomy SDK - $1000 x 2
Best web2 experience onchain - $1000 x 2
Pool prize - $2000
To be eligible for any prize, you must:
Execute at least one successful user operation
Integrate at least two of the following:
Gasless transactions via Paymaster
Paying for gas with ERC20 Tokens
Social logins to create smart accounts
Session Key module
Multi Chain Module
Best use of Modules with Biconomy SDK - $2000 x 2
The Biconomy SDK has gone modular; we now offer validation modules that can help extend the functionality of our Smart Accounts to help you unlock more powerful use cases in dApps. Build a dApp that utilizes our modules, here are some ideas on what to build:
Cross-chain air drop manager dApps using our multichain module
Combine web2 automation tools with onchain actions by using our session keys module
Fluid web2-like experience with onchain games unlocked by our session keys module
These are just suggestions we want to see you unlock experiences that have meaning to you!
Best one-click Defi Recipe with Biconomy SDK - $1000 x 2
The Biconomy SDK allows you to create one click experiences by batching transactions together. Explore use cases for this in defi and make defi protocols simpler to use for everyone, web3 native or not. You could very easily combine this prize with some of the other defi protocol sponsors in the hackathon. Unlock 1 click experiences for Uniswap, Aave, or 1inch. For inspiration check out the links below:
https://twitter.com/RadadiyaSunny/status/1651918011065053185
https://twitter.com/Rahatcodes/status/1664617863733207040
Best web2 experience onchain - $1000 x 2
Onboarding users who are not native to web3 can be a hassle. To maximize the number of users on your platform, you may want an easy onboarding process for users not native to Web3. Leverage Social Logins for easy smart account creation and use our Paymaster service to help sponsor transactions in your dApp for a gasless experience within your dApps.
This should be more than just a Youtube or Reddit dApp on chain, you should include compelling reasons why blockchain is needed for your project and how AA helps to bring more users to your platform.
Pool Prize - $2000
Pool prize to be distributed among runner ups who had good projects but may not have won other categories. Successful execution of userops is a requirement to be considered for this pool prize.
Lens Protocol is the social layer for web3.
The Lens social graph enables creators to take ownership of their content wherever they go across the dozens of high quality apps across the Ecosystem, with new ones coming online every month.
With Lens, you can easily build social applications or integrate social features into your existing applications. For developers, one of Lens' most powerful features is that it eliminates the need to build, maintain and pay for back-end infrastructure, allowing developers to focus 100% on building the consumer experience.
Teams with as few as 1 developer are able to build polished experiences on Lens using the variety of APIs and SDKs available to builders.
🏆 Best Lens App $4,000.00 🫡 Most Original Lens App - $2,500.00 👩🏻💻 Best SocialFi Lens App - $2,500.00 🤝 Best Lens Integrations (x2) - $500.00
You can learn more and get started building with as few as two lines of code with the following resources:
Celo is the carbon-negative, mobile-first, EVM-compatible PoS blockchain where developers can build decentralized applications that create the conditions for prosperity — for everyone.
Celo Foundation will award 5 prizes to the best teams building for Access: onboarding the next billion users utilizing Celo and tools like Account Abstraction and mobile payments.
Best dApps on Celo blockchain
We've put together this starter project to help you get started quickly, using contracts already deployed to either testnet or Celo mainnet. The project provides: a storage example, how to iterate through a subgraph.
Advanced developers can use Celo Composer from command-line to customize exactly what platform you want to build for: React, React Native (with or without Expo integration), Angular, or Flutter. It includes a Subgraph integration if you need it.
Celo Composer - quickly build, deploy, and iterate on your dApp using Celo Composer CLI - Celo composer tutorials
Need some testnet tokens? Use the alfajores faucet
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 new tools for dapps, DAOs, creators, and protocols to re-engage users via web3 messaging. Its primary contributor, XMTP Labs, 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, we have built a reference client at demo.xmtp.chat **- you can then send a message to petermdenton.eth and experience native, secure web3 messaging. You can also fork this example client and build your own here.
🥇 - Best use of XMTP - $2,500 USDC XMTP is an E2EE messaging protocol with an extensible payload structure that can securely transport media, digital goods, etc. Showcase what can be done with a secure, E2EE messaging protocol like XMTP.
🥈 - Nearly Best use of XMTP - $1,500 USDC XMTP is an E2EE messaging protocol with an extensible payload structure that can securely transport media, digital goods, etc. Showcase what can be done with a secure, E2EE messaging protocol like XMTP.
🥉 - Almost, Nearly Best use of XMTP - $1000 USDC XMTP is an E2EE messaging protocol with an extensible payload structure that can securely transport media, digital goods, etc. Showcase what can be done with a secure, E2EE messaging protocol like XMTP.
😄 - $750 - Create a web3 Linkedin-like connection requests/networking. Using Airstack and XMTP, enable users to find who they know who know other people, and then get opted in introductions and messaging.
🐋 - Whale Alert - $750 - get notifications whenever people/wallets you are interested in take certain onchain actions: e.g. follow new people on farcaster/lens, buy or trade certain tokens.
👉 - $750 - Connection builder - get an XMTP notification whenever someone you follow on Farcaster is able to be followed on lens, and vice versa.
🎉 - $500 - Unexpected - Use XMTP is an unexpected way.
Developers
✨ Built with XMTP: https://xmtp.org/built-with-xmtp 📖 Documentation: https://xmtp.org/docs 🥷🏻 Hackathons: https://xmtp.org/hackathons 📚 Guides: https://xmtp.org/tutorials 📹 Quickstart Video: https://youtu.be/aOV1iX0Bsas
Connect with Us
👾 XMTP Discord: https://discord.gg/xmtp 🐦XMTP Twitter: https://twitter.com/xmtp_ 🌐XMTP Website: https://xmtp.org/ 📖XMTP Labs Jobs: https://blog.xmtp.com/careers/
A crypto wallet & gateway to blockchain apps
Buy, store, send and swap tokens
Available as a browser extension and as a mobile app, MetaMask equips you with a key vault, secure login, token wallet, and token exchange—everything you need to manage your digital assets.
Explore blockchain apps
MetaMask provides the simplest yet most secure way to connect to blockchain-based applications. You are always in control when interacting on the new decentralized web.
Own your data
MetaMask generates passwords and keys on your device, so only you have access to your accounts and data. You always choose what to share and what to keep private.
Connect with MetaMask SDK
MetaMask provides the simplest yet most secure way to connect your blockchain-based applications to millions of MetaMask Wallet users via MetaMask SDK.
Our goal is to enable delightful user experiences for your apps that are built for diverse communities of users and use-cases, and compatible with various platforms.
Linea
A developer-ready zk rollup for scaling Ethereum dapps.
Projects across web3 are building with Linea to unlock new capabilities without compromising the security and developer experience of L1 Ethereum.
Get Linea test ETH by navigating to https://xmtp.chat/ and message absolutelabs.linea-build.eth to automatically receive testnet ETH
Deploying on Linea is exactly the same as deploying on Ethereum! All you have to do to be eligible is deploy a smart contract.
Consider forking our boilerplate code to see what a robust, winning project would look like: https://github.com/Consensys/Form-XChange
Linea is an EVM equivalent zk-rollup that offers faster finality and low gas fees to help you scale your dapps. Learn more at https://linea.build/.
Beyond your winnings, you have the opportunity to work alongside ConsenSys post-hackathon to apply for a MetaMask Grant program. We want to build with you, and with a well-fleshed-out submission, we can help you take your idea to the next level, finish those features you couldn’t get to, or take your project to production.
Requirements:
In your GitHub README:
Criteria:
Verax is a shared, public attestation registry that can be used by dapps to store attestations that can be easily accessed and composed together by anyone that's interested.
We want you to build a subgraph indexing Verax data and an optional dashboard that visualizes that data.
Read more about Verax here: https://verax.gitbook.io/verax/
Continuing Grant: Winners moving forward can work with the Linea team to further build out this public good with support from our grant program.
Requirements:
Find the full spec here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zukSdc4QoMNS6FvZ3-A1o6OmT6qRDEyeavFvdxRIJJ4/edit?usp=sharing
Deliverable:
Create a Subgraph using The Graph that indexes all event logs from Verax’s four contracts and exposes a number of queries to obtain useful information from the data.
Optional bonus points:
Create a dashboard that shows visualizations of high level statistics for Verax, from data obtained from the smart contracts using the subgraph.
Criteria:
We want to see you build the next decentralized chat, identity, or social media dapp on Linea, an EVM equivalent zk-rollup.
Build with a social/identity protocol (i.e. XMTP, Push, and Lens) and deploy a smart contract on Linea to be eligible.
XMTP and Lens are sponsoring prizes too! Building with them means you can submit to their bounties as well.
Beyond your winnings, you have the opportunity to work alongside ConsenSys post-hackathon to apply for a MetaMask Grant program. We want to build with you, and with a well-fleshed-out submission, we can help you take your idea to the next level, finish those features you couldn’t get to, or take your project to production.
Requirements:
In your GitHub README:
Criteria:
This second iteration of the Transaction Insights API, defined in SIP-11, brings about the notion of severity. It allows your snap to flag an insight as critical, prompting the user for additional confirmation.
We want to see you build any innovative transaction insights snap using this new feature.
Requirements:
Criteria:
In an effort to increasingly modularize the wallet and allow for resolution beyond ENS, we decided to open up domain and address resolution to snaps!
We want to see you build an innovative domain resolution snap for the chain(s) of your choice.
Requirements:
Criteria
PLEASE NOTE: Using the SDK is not the standard way of interacting with MetaMask that you might be familiar with. Please check our dev guide and examples page to get familiarized with it. Any project that does not use the SDK will not be eligible for prizes.
Develop an outstanding decentralized application (dapp) that uses the MetaMask SDK for secure and seamless integration with our mobile wallet. We are interested in any sort of creative solution you could think of, but if you need some ideas things we particularly like are:
NFT/Gaming - Create a project in the realm of NFTs or web3 gaming, which involves innovative utilization of NFTs, enhances wallet interactions within games, or tackles any of the difficulties in the current gaming landscape. You can also check our “Unity SDK” LINK
DeFi - Create a dapp that enhances the DeFi ecosystem, such as new protocols, enhancing existing derivatives, ecosystem tools, application of NFTs in DeFi, better financial inclusion, DAOs.
Social: Create a project that combines social aspects to decentralization, such as p2p messaging dapps, marketplaces, content creators tools, social proof validation.
*If you are building a React application we encourage you to use our React companion libraries for state management, which can be found in our SDK links section.
Your Dapp should demonstrate innovation, functionality, and a compelling user experience . The winning submissions will highlight the potential of the MetaMask SDK and offer compelling solutions within their respective categories.
Beyond your winnings, you have the opportunity to work alongside Consensys post-hackathon to apply for a MetaMask Grant program. We want to build with you, and with a well-fleshed-out submission, we can help you take your idea to the next level, finish those features you couldn’t get to, or take your project to production.
Requirements:
Criteria:
MetaMask Snaps
MetaMask SDK
Linea
Hyperlane is the first interoperability layer that enables you to permissionlessly connect any blockchain, out-of-the-box. With Hyperlane you can connect your app to any chain, and easily have interchain function calls or asset transfers. Hyperlane has a one of a kind modular security stack, that allows you to configure your security model, and customize the security protocol you use to fit the action of your users.
Browse hackathon ideas here: Hackathon Success Guide
🥇Top prize - $4,000 - Best use of Permissionless Interoperability
To qualify to win this prize you simply need to deploy Hyperlane on a new blockchain or Rollup. Once deployed, how you utilize your new-found interoperability capabilities will dictate how likely you are to win the grand prize! Could you be the first one to bring Hyperlane to Scroll? Or Fuel? What about other chains participating in the hack? You could even deploy to your own chain! The most compelling submissions will be those that have built an application through their deployment. Additionally an extremely compelling Interchain Application that does not leverage a unique Hyperlane deployment can be eligible as well. See below for more ideas about Interchain applications.
🎼 $2,000 - Best Interchain Application
An interchain application is an app that communicates between chains, it either transfers assets or has interchain function calls. The winner of this prize would be the most compelling application that leverages Hyperlane, and benefits from its presence on multiple chains!
💸 $2,000 - Best use of Hyperlane Warp Routes
Warp Routes are Hyperlane’s unique take on token bridging. They are unique and instanced expression of bridging as opposed to the traditional omnibus token bridge design. Each Warp Route can have its own security model, using Hyperlane’s Interchain Security Modules. Perhaps most importantly, Warp Routes are completely permissionless! No one can stop you from bringing whichever asset you’d like to any chain you’d like.
So how can you win this prize? While the only strict requirement is that you use Warp Routes in your submission, the more creative you get with it the better!
🌐 $2,000 - Write new Interchain Security Modules (ISMs)
Hyperlane’s Modular Security Stack is premised on a variety of available Interchain Security Modules that developers can use to secure how applications can communicate between chains. While a few ISM’s are already available, and more are in the works, the hackathon is a great opportunity to build new ones.
UMA is an optimistic oracle that can verify any natural language statement as true on the blockchain, so contracts asking for that data can be settled.
Across, is a cross-chain bridge that supports cheap, secure, and near-instantaneous transfers between L2s and to L1. Across transfers are secured by UMA’s optimistic oracle.
Builders can use UMA as a decentralized truth machine that is flexible enough to handle ambiguity and real-world data with human-powered dispute resolution. UMA secures and empowers a diverse set of Web3 applications, including cross-chain bridges, insurance protocols, prediction markets and customizable DAO tooling products.
Prizes will be awarded to the best projects built on top of UMA's optimistic oracle, or the Across bridge.
Neon EVM is a solution for anyone looking to scale Ethereum dApps on Solana in a developer-friendly manner and tap into Solana's vibrant ecosystem. It is a fully Ethereum-compatible environment on Solana
We offer participants of ETHGlobal New York to deploy their Ethereum dApps on Neon EVM and make transactions.
The expected results: a working and verified smart contract (unit-tests results are crucial), UI (very desirable). Run the performance tests for the deployed dApp.
Best use of Neon EVM
🥇First place - $2 500
🥈Second place - $1 500
🥉Third place - $1 000
🌐 Special prize - $1 000 for those who make the most transactions on Neon EVM.
🏆Open track prize pool - $4 000. Pool prize to be evenly distributed among all hackathon projects that are willing to submit dApps on Neon EVM.
If you didn't have time to create your application at ETHGlobal Paris, then you can port over the existing Ethereum dApps to Neon-EVM* (there's no need to create any smart contracts). You can refer to dApps from the following list: https://dappradar.com/rankings/protocol/ethereum/ and ask the mentors from Neon EVM
Neon Docs: https://docs.neonfoundation.io/
Neon Faucet: https://neonfaucet.org/
NeonScan: https://neonscan.org/
Connect to Neon RPC: https://chainlist.org/chain/245022926
Example Hardhat Project: https://github.com/neonscan/hardhat-integrate
Cartesi is an app-specific rollup protocol with a virtual machine that runs Linux distributions, creating a richer and broader design space for DApp developers.
Cartesi Rollups offer a modular scaling solution, deployable as L2, L3, or sovereign rollups, while maintaining strong base layer security guarantees.
Launch MVP on Testnet/Mainnet!
🥇1st Prize $5,000
🥈2nd Prize $3,000
🥉3rd Pool Prize $1,000 (x2)
You can develop a proof of decentralized concept application using Cartesi Rollups. For inspiration, you might want to use one of these components:
Decentralized SQLite.
Decentralized Geoprocessing library.
Cartesi Rollups asset deposit and withdrawal.
Decentralized OpenCV (Image Processing library).
Be creative. We encourage you to build novel applications using this stack without any constraints.
The easiest way to get started is to start building off of the Rollups examples. We want you to explore what can be built using Cartesi and these basic components.
Judging Criteria
While judging will lean towards projects that are full MVPs, a clean and creative implementation design or a whitepaper are also acceptable. We will score projects based on the following criteria, and each will be scored from 1 to 5 for a maximum of 25 points:
Product-market fit and economic viability.
Originality and innovation.
Implementation quality.
Technical complexity.
Level of completion.
Docs → https://docs.cartesi.io
Tutorial on creating a DApp → https://docs.cartesi.io/cartesi-rollups/build-dapps/create-dapp/
GitHub → https://github.com/cartesi/rollups-examples
Hands-on tips and tricks → https://github.com/gbarros/awesome-cartesi
Videos → https://www.youtube.com/@Cartesiproject
Inspiring ideas
👤 Social - Identity - Reputation system
Get technical support and build with our community on Discord.
Dear Builders,
Mask Network brings privacy and benefits from Web3 to social media like Facebook & Twitter - with an open-sourced browser extension. Next.ID was initiated by the core team responsible for the development of Mask Network last year.
Next.ID is an open-source protocol designed for developers to create and manage identities. The Next.ID protocol acts as a secure conduit connecting various web2 and web3 identifiers, such as wallets, Twitter profiles, ENS names, Lens profiles, and more.
When a person's different identifiers are linked together, they form an identity graph, creating powerful, portable, and self-sovereign digital identities. We refer to these identities, digital representations of self, as Avatars at Next ID.
You can check out what Avatar is at here.
You can find more information on our official site: https://Next.ID
Our GitHub page: https://github.com/NextDotID
We are here to help you overcome any challenges:
Join our Community Telegram Group for quick assistance: https://t.me/NextDotIDofficial
For any questions, feel free to send an email to developer@next.id
On this occasion, we have prepared a bounty of 10,000 USD for you to explore and build upon. We look forward to seeing your innovative contributions!
Prize Pool
1st prize (max 1): $3k USD
2nd prize (max 1): $1k USD
Description
Fully on-chain games like Dark Forest and Loot have all interactions, behaviors, and states processed via the blockchain, serving as the game's server. These games also use smart contracts for all player actions and even allow for decentralized narratives and governance through DAOs.
Burner wallets in on-chain games like Dark Forest enhance user experience by automating transactions. However, they lack secure, intuitive key management, making them temporary solutions for storing in-game assets. This complexity limits participation to technically savvy users and hinders cross-game interoperability and reputation building in the autonomous world.
In general, we propose to design a Game Account system similar to how Steam ID functions for all games within the Web2 world's platform.
A possible approach to how we design the Game Account System:
We invite Dev with us to co-build this comprehensive identity solution for on-chain gaming, lowering entry barriers for end-users. The toolkit may include:
The solution consists of two parts: off-chain and on-chain.
Documentation and Design Diagrams
Code and Development Tools
Demonstrations and Testing
Additional Items
https://mirror.xyz/vanishk.eth/kXdSumWuR9JHZHKQz9uvjQeaxME6TsOH9cPklXsBJn4
https://mud.dev/
https://www.dojoengine.org/en/
Prize Pool
1st prize (max 1): $3k USD
2nd prize (max 1): $2k USD
3rd prize (max 1): $1k USD
Description
Utilize the RelationService API (https://docs.next.id/relation-service/rs-graphql) to develop a use case that addresses market needs.
Strive to be as innovative as possible.
Recommended Use Cases (but not limited to):
Cross-Platform Profile Search and Recommendations
Get an understanding of what this involves and why it's useful by visiting W**eb3.bio** first.
For instance, consider linking a Twitter account with Mastodon using a DID.
Sybil Attack Resistance by Wallet History Verification
For instance, in a significant airdrop event, bot accounts controlled by a small group of people need to be filtered out, ensuring that each user claiming the airdrop is a legitimate individual user.
DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) Tooling
For instance, a DAO member's credentials can be made portable across different blockchain ecosystems.
For instance, when a new member joins, their existing social credentials can be immediately displayed, and different access levels can be provided based on their existing profile data.
Growth and Personalization
For instance, utilize a universal profile(Similar to this one: https://web3.bio/vitalik.eth) to identify potential user personas. Track social identities using wallet addresses and use this information to create look-alike audiences.
For instance, use a universal profile(Similar to this one: https://web3.bio/vitalik.eth) to solve the cold-start problem for apps. Allow users to invite their connections on Web2 by examining the wallet addresses they interact with.
Proof of Work: Submit either an open-source project published on GitHub for the judges to review, or if its business value necessitates confidentiality, share a private project repo address with us.
Relevance: Your use case should be pertinent and demonstrate a practical application of the RelationService feature within the DID protocol.
Protocol Compliance: Your use case must fully adhere to the DID protocol's specifications and accurately implement the RelationService feature.
Security: Your use case must prioritize data privacy and security. It should not introduce any security vulnerabilities.
Innovation: Creative or innovative applications of the RelationService feature are highly valued, even though not strictly required.
License Compliance: All submissions must be in accordance with the licensing terms of the open-source project.
The mentor will decide which prize to grant based on the quality and quantity of your work
Getting Started: https://docs.next.id/
Universal Profile SDK API: https://api.web3.bio/
The Blockchain Operating System (BOS) is Near's latest tech stack to decentralize the frontends of Web3 dapps from any chain. With BOS, you get the best of both worlds: decentralization & Web2-like UX/UI.
Best Frontend Component Built with BOS
🥇 First place: $3K (max 1) 🥈 Second place: $2K (max 2) 🥉 Third Place: $1K (max 3)
BOS (Blockchain Operating System) is the easiest way to build and deploy your frontend on-chain by creating a JSX Component. All of the frontend source code on BOS is stored on-chain on Near, making your frontend fully decentralized and open-source. While the frontend is on Near, it can interact with smart contracts on any EVM chain in the backend. Components are also composable, meaning you can reuse and remix different components together and embed them into your dapp.
You are encouraged to incorporate this challenge into your submission for ETHGlobal NYC by creating a frontend component for your final project with BOS and deploying it on near.org. You can also build a custom BOS frontend for any existing EVM dapp as your final submission (see examples of BOS components for 1inch, Lido, or Uniswap, for inspiration).
Selection Criteria
Base Criteria (all submissions):
An outstanding submission is: A live working frontend component deployed to the Near mainnet that interacts with a popular protocol on the Ethereum mainnet, L2s, or other chain supported by Blocknative infra. Everything in production. A user connecting to the component with a wallet should be able to make a transaction on mainnet in addition to viewing data from a smart contract. The frontend should support the majority of the features in the protocol.
TLDR:
The best way is to search for components on near.org, view the source code & start forking away! All BOS components are entirely on-chain and open-source.
💡 BOS Docs
🍴Fork this Lido Component (ETH Mainnet) to get started
🍴Fork this Multichain Swap component (zkSync, ETH Mainnet, NEAR) to get started
Unlimit is at the forefront of revolutionizing the payment landscape, offering a truly borderless payment solution that caters to both local and international markets. With a vision of eradicating borders and intermediaries, Unlimit is making business expansion into regions like LATAM, APAC, Africa, Europe, and the UK seamless. Boasting the world's largest in-house developed payment infrastructure, Unlimit provides a plethora of services:
Unlimit's universal API, direct integrations, and high approval ratios ensure that businesses can minimize costs, maximize revenue, and enter both local and international markets with unparalleled ease.
The decentralized world is evolving, and with it, the user experience. We're challenging you to redefine how users interact with DeFi, NFTs, and Web3 Gaming. Here's your chance to shape the future and win big!
Develop an app that seamlessly integrates:
Imagine the power of AA wallets with their smart contract execution functionalities. Now, pair that with Unlimit's capability to onramp into any cryptocurrency from any fiat currency. An example could be a dapp where users utilize Unlimit's onramps to acquire a specific token, and upon receipt in their AA wallet, a predefined logic they created and manage initiates an NFT purchase. But that's just one example. The real magic lies in bridging the DeFi/Web3 Gaming/NFT world with the traditional banking/fiat realm through your innovative, “non-custodial dapp”. The possibilities are endless.
Apart from the attractive prizes, this is your chance to showcase your skills, network with industry leaders, and potentially collaborate on future projects. Let's redefine the decentralized user experience together!
If interested, please email d.dadkhoo@unlimit.com or Telegram @Dub023 in order to get access to our ETH NY Hackathon group on Telegram where we will support creators with any questions, testnet accounts, API keys, etc for this hackathon.
Aave Grants DAO is a community-led grants program, focused on growing a thriving ecosystem of contributors within the Aave Protocol’s community. Through funding ideas, projects and events that benefit the broader Aave ecosystem.
The Aave Protocol is one of the most widely used decentralized liquidity protocols that allows users to supply and borrow digital assets. With demand for a stablecoin in the Aave ecosystem, the Aave Companies introduced GHO. GHO is a decentralized, over-collateralized, asset-backed stablecoin that is native to the Aave Protocol and pegged to the U.S. dollar.
Best Aave Protocol Integrations
Description: Creative ways to bring new groups of users or new forms of interaction to the Aave Protocol such as user or developer tooling, visualizations, account abstractions, or DeFi interoperability. 1st: $3000 2nd: $2000
Best uses of GHO
Description: Build projects that benefit the adoption of the GHO stablecoin such as payment applications, SocialFi, yield aggregation tools, or fintech / e-commerce integrations. 1st: $3000 2nd: $2000
The Graph is an indexing protocol for querying networks like Ethereum, Polygon and IPFS. Anyone can build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, making data easily accessible.
Best New Subgraph or Substream: Build and deploy a custom subgraph that indexes data from a smart contract to query blockchain data to your dapp, or build a custom substream.
Best use of Subgraph or Substream: Query a new or existing subgraph on the Graph Explorer or hosted service using the public query URL from the subgraph dashboard, or utilize a new or existing substream to process and consume web3 data.
Pool Prize: Build and deploy or use a subgraph that indexes data from a smart contract to query blockchain data to your dapp, or build or use an existing substream.
📃Documentation
🎞️ Tutorials
Building Subgraphs for the decentralized Graph Network
Querying a Subgraph from a Web Application
🎒Resources
Unlock Protocol is a system to create memberships and sell access NFTs in minutes.
Common use cases include:
Unlock Protocol is an open-source, community governed protocol with apps, libraries and dev tools.
🏆 Most inventive use of Unlock Protocol
Axelar is the full-stack interoperability layer for Web3.
The network enables blockchain as a new application development platform, by integrating ecosystems of innovation into a seamless “Internet of blockchains.”
Axelar is programmable and decentralized, secured by a proof-of-stake token, AXL.
Application users access digital assets on any blockchain, with one click. Developers work with a simple API and access an open market of tooling to automate complex tasks.
You can think of it as Stripe for Web3.
More about Axelar: http://axelar.network
Challenge Name: Prize for using Axelar GMP for sending Interchain Messages / Tokens
Description: Use Axelar in your project to build a DApp that takes advantage of the ability to interact with contracts across multiple chains using Axelar’s General Message Passing.
Acceptance Criteria:
Use GMP’s callContract or callContractWithToken to provide valuable interchain functionality as part of your DApp
Projects will be judged on Viability, Creativity, and how essential being Interchain is to your DApp
Please include the following in the readme.md / bounty.md of your application: You must share an AxelarScan link with a completed Interchain transaction You must share the source code of your DApp You must share at least 2 positive or negative experiences you had with learning and using Axelar
Prizes: 1st Place: $3,000 2nd Place: $1,500 3rd Place: $500
Alliance is the leading Web3 accelerator & founder community. Through our 12 week program, we provide:
Daily 1:1 Mentorship Direct support from veteran crypto founders. A decade of industry experience and context from over 100 Web3 startups mentored.
Weekly Lectures Off-the-record lectures by founders of leading protocols, including Anatoly Yakovenko (Solana) & Amir Bandeali (0x).
$250k Funding Unparalleled founder-friendly funding. $250k investment at flexible terms. (Yes, we’re in it for the tech.)
Founder Network Access to and support from the world’s leading network of Web3 founders.
We’ll help you navigate the idiosyncrasies of Web3 and avoid costly mistakes.
Most Likely to be a Startup — $5,000
Looking to start a company? Build an MVP from the Alliance ideas list (https://alliance.xyz/ideas) for your chance to win a grand prize of $5,000. Not just that, Alliance wants to take your project to the next level with a guaranteed first-round interview to ALL12, Alliance's accelerator cohort starting in Feb 2024. This program has less than a 1% acceptance rate and you get the skip the line!
Some of the past startups that have joined our accelerator include: 0x, Zerion, Ribbon, Pendle, Synthetix, and Tensor.
At alliance.xyz/ideas, you'll find some crypto/Web3 startup ideas and themes we at Alliance are excited about. They are updated regularly to reflect our latest thinking.
This document serves two purposes:
https://alliance.xyz/ideas
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is a non-profit organization that supports the Ethereum ecosystem. We are part of a larger community of organizations and individuals that fund protocol development, grow the ecosystem, and advocate for Ethereum.
The Privacy & Scaling Explorations (PSE) team explores new use cases for zero-knowledge proofs and other cryptographic primitives through research and proof-of-concepts.
🏆 Best Use of TLSNotary
This prize will be distributed among projects that utilize TLSNotary.
Distribution will be based on merit, with contributions judged on their innovation, social impact, privacy, and originality.
🏅 $5,000
Website: https://tlsnotary.org/
Mona's mission is to empower people worldwide to create, collect, and share the highest quality immersive experiences on the blockchain, growing the Open Metaverse.
(1) Best website or web app that uses Mona spaces and avatars in an interesting way1,500 x 2 e.g. Website with a button each time you click, you enter a different mona space e.g. Website that lets you easily create and share a scheduled event inside of a mona space (2) Best interactive components built using visual scripting inside of the Mona 500 x 4
Lit Protocol lets you create and manage distributed cryptographic key-pairs for condition-based encryption and programmatic signing. A decentralized key management network, Lit can be used in place of centralized key custodians and other key management solutions.
Best use of Programmatic Signing – $3500
Best use of programmatic signing (using Programmable Key Pairs and Lit Actions). Some ideas: onboarding with Lit (social onboarding), verified credential system using PKPs and Lit Actions, or account abstraction utilizing Lit as a signer or as a paymaster.
Wild Card – $1500
Have a creative use case for Lit? Onboarding and educating people about the protocol? No idea is too small as long as it has impact on developers and creates clear use cases with Lit.
Developer docs: https://developer.litprotocol.com/
Programmable key pairs: https://developer.litprotocol.com/v2/pkp/intro
Lit Actions: https://developer.litprotocol.com/v2/LitActions/intro
Hackathon resources post: https://spark.litprotocol.com/hackathon-resources-spring-23/
Compound Grants is a program run by the Questbook team, issuing grants to builders in the Compound protocol's community. Learn more about the program and apply at https://questbook.app. Compound is an algorithmic, autonomous interest rate protocol built for developers, to unlock a universe of open financial applications. The protocol provides interest rate markets for supplying and borrowing supported crypto assets.
$5,000 USD to the single best integration of Compound III. The project must interact (smart contract or JSON RPC) with any instance of the v3 protocol or governance system, or be a supportive project specifically created for the Compound community's use.
Fuel is a modular execution layer that brings parallel transaction execution and hybrid proving to Ethereum and modular blockchains. Powerful and sleek, the technology empowers developers with the highest flexible throughput and maximum security required to scale. Developers choose the FuelVM for its superior developer experience and the ability to scale Ethereum beyond the EVM. Learn Sway to build applications on Fuel.Explore Fuel: Twitter Discord Forum
Play around and explore Fuel to easily win these prizes!
Main Prize Challenge
Tasks:
Mini Challenge 1: Get Started with Sway Playground - $50 Prize
Tasks:
Tasks:
📒 Docs - https://docs.fuel.network/
🏃 Quickstart - https://docs.fuel.network/guides/quickstart/
🎡 Sway Playground - https://sway-playground.org/
❓ Questions Forum - https://forum.fuel.network/
Sunscreen is building the next generation of privacy technology using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and zero knowledge proofs. Our unique approach to private computation allows us to address a broader range of applications than possible with zero knowledge proofs alone. In the coming years, we plan to deploy our solution across web3 to solve front-running, enable hidden trading strategies, and support private voting.
Bounty 1: Build an innovative app using Sunscreen’s FHE compiler
(1st place: $1250 🥇, 2nd place: $750 🥈)
Bounty 2: Build an innovative app on Sunscreen’s private testnet, Parasol
(1st place: $1250 🥇, 2nd place: $750 🥈)
All qualifying submissions demonstrating novel use of FHE using Sunscreen’s tooling will share the remaining prize pool.
Criteria:
Nice to haves:
Hackathon guide: https://hackathon.sunscreen.tech
FHE compiler documentation: https://docs.sunscreen.tech
Playground (for testing FHE): https://playground.sunscreen.tech
Discord: https://discord.gg/sunscreen
QuickNode is the premier Web3 developer platform, helping today's most cutting-edge apps run with speed, reliability, and scale. Powering top projects & businesses, and empowering developers with instant access to 15+ chains across a global node network.
Top 5 projects using QuickNode RPC gets $400 each selected project ($2,000 total prize pool)
🏆 Best use of Token API gets $1,500
🏆 Best use of NFT API gets $1,500
Total prize bounty = $5,000
📖 Docs - https://www.quicknode.com/docs
📚 Guides - https://www.quicknode.com/guides
📹 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/QuickNode/
🚰 Faucet - https://faucet.quicknode.com/
Nouns is a community-owned brand that makes a positive impact by funding ideas and fostering collaboration. From collectors and technologists to non-profits and brands, Nouns is for everyone.
Nounish. In the Nouniverse, there's a popular adjective to describe things with a Nouns vibe. This includes doing good, creating positive externalities, embracing absurdity and difference, teaching people about Nouns and crypto, and having fun. In other words, anything that helps to spread Nouns and crypto adoption.
Website | Docs | GitHub | Figma | Assets | Twitter | Groups | This Is Nouns
🏆 Best Public Goods
🎨 Best use of Nouns Artwork
Requirements
To qualify for the Nouns Prize, make sure to take into consideration the following points:
Build a permissionless public good ↗︎.
Keep it nounish – e.g., fun, exciting, curious, public good, outside of the box, etc.
Include Nouns artwork always – check Resources →
Need inspiration?
Check out the previous winning projects ↗︎
You can use the Nouns artwork and any other dev resources freely for any project for any purpose. It's CC0 ↗︎ (public domain, a.k.a. no copyright!).
Nouns Dev Resources
GitHub - https://github.com/nounsDAO ↗︎
Nouns Protocol - https://nouns.center/dev/nouns-protocol ↗︎
Nouns API option 1 - https://noun-api.com/ ↗︎
Nouns API option 2 - https://cloudnouns.com/ ↗︎
Nouns API option 3 - https://noun.pics/ ↗︎
Nouns Subgraph - https://thegraph.com/hosted-service/subgraph/nounsdao/nouns-subgraph ↗︎
Onchain Nouns Generator – https://nouns.center/dev/generate-on-chain-noun ↗︎
Nerman Bot – https://nerman.wtf/ ↗︎
More resources - https://nouns.center/dev ↗︎
Nouns Assets
Nouns Fonts – https://noundation.xyz/styles/typography ↗︎
Nouns Color Palette – https://noundation.xyz/styles/colors ↗︎
Nouns Icons – https://noundation.xyz/styles/icons ↗︎
Unicode Noggles – https://noundation.xyz/resources/noggles ↗︎
Nouns Assets (svg, png) – https://nouns.center/assets ↗︎
Nouns 3D – https://3dnouns.com/ ↗︎
Figma file – https://www.figma.com/community/file/1114615324301474327/Nouns.wtf---All-traits ↗︎
More assets - https://nouns.center/assets ↗︎
Nouns Art Tools
Nouns Playground - https://nouns.wtf/playground ↗︎
Nouns Editor - https://studio.noundry.wtf/ ↗︎
Nounify Images - https://nounify.wtf/ ↗︎
More details and examples
Privy is the easiest way for web3 developers to onboard all users, regardless of whether they already have wallets.
We offer embedded wallets so you can seamlessly provision self-custodial wallets for users who sign in with email or social login, as well as powerful connectors for web3 natives who prefer to sign in with their existing wallets.
One library to onboard all users, regardless of where they are on their web3 journey.
Privy is awarding three prizes for developers who build apps using the Privy SDK during this hackathon.
🥇 Best app UX ($2,500) This prize will be awarded to the team that creates the smoothest UX for a web3 native app leveraging Privy infrastructure.
🎮 Consumer breakout award ($1,500) This prize will be awarded to the app that shows the most promise as a viral breakout consumer application.
🧑🔬 Integration wizard ($1,000) This prize will be awarded to the team that creates the most promising integration between Privy and a third-party tool or service yielding a novel experience.
https://docs.privy.io/
Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain and developer platform that leverages zero-knowledge technology to enable builders to create private and programmable web applications. It is designed from the ground up and comprised of a decentralized operating system (snarkOS), a zero-knowledge virtual machine (snarkVM), and a zero-knowledge DSL and complier (Leo).
Aleo will be awarding three prizes for the top applications built using Leo:
🥇 1st Place: $3,000
🥈 2nd Place: $1,500
🥉 3rd Place: $500
Build your application based on one of the following categories:
🎮 Gaming
🪪 Identity & Authentication
💰 ZeFi (zero-knowledge DeFi)
🤖 zkML (zero-knowledge machine learning)
🗳️ Voting & Governance
All application ideas are valid. We are primarily looking for feature-complete dApps that have a user interface. We understand this is a hackathon, so even a simple application is ok.
Please note that Aleo is still in Testnet. This means some functionality is still under development. It is essential to consider this when building your application.
Below you can find a list of the features/functionality that is currently in progress:
Submission Requirements:
a) Your program must be deployed to Aleo's on-chain program registry
b) Your GitHub repo must be public and contain a .leo and/or .aleo file
c) Your repo must contain a folder with the following information:
d) You must provide a demo video
e) Your submission should have some minimum UI/UX
f) Please provide information on any challenges or roadblocks you faced
Judging Criteria:
a) Novelty - How unique is the application? Does it not exist on Aleo currently?
b) User Experience - How easy is the application to understand and use?
c) Engineering - How well engineered is the dApp given Aleo's current state?
d) Functionality - What can you do with the application?
Flashbots is a research and development organization formed to mitigate the negative externalities posed by Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) to stateful blockchains. Our primary focus is to enable a permissionless, transparent, and sustainable ecosystem for MEV, via a three-pronged approach:
We have brought transparency through open MEV activity analytics and dashboard and public and open research, with the community, for the ecosystem. We have democratized access to MEV revenue with MEV-Boost that gives all validators access to MEV revenue on equal footing, with the support of a vibrant ecosystem of builders and searchers.
We have started distributing MEV revenue using the MEV-share protocol. This protocol returns 90% of captured MEV to users, wallets, and dapps, who can enjoy its benefits simply by sending transactions with programmable privacy to Flashbots Protect. MEV-share also poses a new challenge for searchers, as they must now learn how to compete for and execute against users' private transactions.
Where to find us: Website | Github | Forum | Discord | YouTube
To seize this prize, construct a project that showcases SUAVE, MEV, or programmable privacy concepts, including but not limited to DeFi, Gaming, or any auction market in real life use cases.
Develop a game which leaks MEV that searchers can compete on to stress test order flow solutions like mev-share or new chains testing their MEV-proofness (see Base leaky mempool). Ideal projects might feature a weakly random encrypted password that challenges searchers to brute force for MEV rewards. Ideally this could easily be deployed on any chain.
Produce an MEV-aware Uniswap frontend fork, informing users about potential MEV from their trade and directing them towards MEV-share and showing an estimated refund amount.
Craft a system where oracle updates can be auctioned via MEV-share or similar services, promoting transparency and dynamic updates.
All projects in the Ecosystem Track should integrate core MEV principles and tools.
Construct a info site, with lookup function for anyone to query their past Uniswap DEX Trades' MEV related metrics, e.g.:
Design a simulation bot, to query across major DEX/DEX-aggregators' execution quality based on same trade request, so to help the community understand if really:
and/or, combine with empirical analysis on historical data:
Is the public mempool really drying up, with orderflow moving to private mempool (i.e. each builder's)? With the copy of public mempool dataset, build a website to showcase how the private orderflow landscape look like: by checking the onchain transactions included in each builder's block, and cross checking the public mempool history, we shall be able to identify how much of the flow are public vs private, per each builder. How did that evolve over time? How MEV valuable are they? Add metrics and visualizations to inform the mempool evolution after the adoption of MEV-boost, order flow auctions.
Projects in the Data Analysis Track should focus on illuminating the dark corners of the MEV supply chain. Additionally there are already tools which attempt to do some of these so a compelling project will do something that hasn't been done yet.
For Ecosystem Track: Coming soon!
For Data Track:
https://0x.org/post/measuring-the-impact-of-hidden-dex-costs
https://github.com/flashbots/mempool-dumpster
Feel free to reach out to dmarz#8851, sui414 or taarushv in the #hackathon channel in our Discord if you have any questions regarding our challenges!