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katana

$10,000

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katana

About

Katana is a sector specific L2 focused on DeFi. It solves problems with shallow and fragmented liquidity by prioritizing core apps and encouraging others to build on top of the existing money legos. Katana focuses on growing the pie for everyone and incentivizing builders with the flywheel - a mechanism of Chain Owned Liquidity designed to feed back into the system and create an ever growing positive feedback loop. Apps we want to see: aggregators, zappers from other chains and protocols, AA experiments, launchpads, visualizers of chain owned liquidity, furucombo style composable defi blocks, AI agents...

Prizes

⚒ Katana Forge ⸺ $2,000
deliver a dev-experience power tool: cli scaffold, specialk plugin/fork, faucet, indexer adapter, IDE extension, anything that lets hackers ship faster on katana

Qualification Requirements

proves a fresh repo can deploy a sample contract to katana in <10 min on reasonably fast internet, works on macOS, Linux, and Windows (WSL acceptable), detailed README with copy‑paste commands, no external SaaS dependence

🥷 Sharpest Yield ⸺ $2,000
showcase how katana’s native yield vaults and primitives can be composed into a novel strategy or product. auto‑compounding, delta‑neutral hedges, or creative tokenomics are all fair game

Qualification Requirements

MUST use existing deployed primitives on katana. must deploy on testnet, bonus points if deployed to mainnet.

🌀 Cross-chain shuriken ✬ ⸺ $2,000
prove that agglayer is the best way to move value between ecosystems. build any consumer flow (zap, bridge‑and‑lend, cross‑chain swap) that touches katana and any one other chain through the agglayer

Qualification Requirements

uses agglayer sdk or raw unified bridge calls for at least one cross‑chain message, end‑to‑end transaction demonstrated live during judging, front‑end or CLI that completes the full flow

👐 Open Dojo ⸺ $2,000
AI agents, games, NFT projects, ticketing and event management platforms, private messengers, ZK userland integrations, UX experiments, visualizers, decentralized AI, OTC markets, anything goes that doesn't fit into the other categories.

Qualification Requirements

as long as it works on katana, we're good - the more primitives you integrate with, the better. the more defi focused it is, the better. the more it stands apart from existing solutions, the better.

🥧 Grow the Pie ⸺ $2,000
we are reserving this amount as a grow-the-pie bonus. we will be observing how much you combine existing primitives and build on top of the current money legos. the more integrations you have, the higher the GTP boost that you'll win on top of you regular prize. even if you don't win the main prize in an existing category, you can submit into this one if you've made heavy use of combining money legos - you won't win the full pot, the reward will be up to us and purely subjective, but we'll make sure it's worth your effort

Qualification Requirements

do not submit to this track unless you specifically do not fit into the other categories and aren't doing heavy money-legoing of existing defi primitives on katana (ausd, morpho, sushi, yearn, universal, etc...)

Resources

Dev Tools
https://katana.tools
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Katana official docs
https://docs.katana.network/
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Workshop

🛠️ katana + agglayer workshop

agglayer is the connecting tissue of web3. as the ultimate destination for your assets, katana is here to use the a...

This workshop is happening in-person

03:30 PM EDT — Friday, Aug 15, 2025 in Floor 3 | Workshop Room 1