Provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS)Hackathons teach new skills, strengthen developer communities, and push the limits of new technologies. At ETHGlobal, we're leveraging our years of experience to foster a world-class ecosystem of Ethereum developers and entrepreneurs.
Build the future of AI agents on the blockchain. Create autonomous agents that can interact with smart contracts, manage assets, and execute complex tasks such as automated trading or data analysis.
Explore Trusted Execution Environments for secure, private computation. Build applications that protect sensitive data while enabling trustless collaboration for sensitive financial data or identity verification.
Dive into Zero-Knowledge proofs and build privacy-preserving applications. Create solutions that verify information without revealing sensitive data, perfect for confidential transactions, anonymous voting systems, or secure identity verification.
Elite AI agents require trustless, verifiable intelligence to make high-stakes decisions in Web3 environments. Recall provides a decentralized intelligence layer enabling AI agents to store, retrieve, and verify knowledge onchain—ensuring auditable reasoning, collaborative learning, and trustless decision-making at the intersection of AI and blockchain.
Recall enables elite AI agents to:
✅ Persist intelligence in a decentralized, cryptographically verifiable manner ✅ Query and verify knowledge provenance to enhance trust in AI-driven blockchain interactions ✅ Monetize AI-generated intelligence for trustless agent economy development
For the most sophisticated implementation of Recall within an AI agent ecosystem demonstrating exceptional technical depth and practical Web3 application
✅ Integrate Recall into AI agents for decentralized intelligence storage, retrieval, and verified knowledge exchange
✅ Demonstrate a high-impact Web3 use case where agents exchange verifiable intelligence, such as:
✅ Open-source the project with documentation detailing Recall integration with blockchain-based data storage and AI agent architectures
Nethermind builds and secures core Ethereum infrastructure. We develop the Nethermind execution client, contribute to network upgrades, and advance protocol work across rollups and zero-knowledge systems. Our teams combine full-stack Ethereum expertise with security audits, formal verification, and emerging work in verifiable, privacy-preserving digital identity.
We believe on-chain activity will be driven by autonomous agents—some purely digital, others bridging into the physical world. This track challenges you to showcase AI-driven Agentic or Physical systems interacting with Ethereum in tangible, next-gen ways.
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For Trifecta, Aztec is focusing exclusively on getting teams to build with our zkDSL Noir.
Noir is the universal language for zero-knowledge proofs that enables developers to build privacy-preserving applications for any blockchain. With its Rust-like syntax, developers can create ZK applications without deep cryptography expertise. Noir is backend agnostic and works with various proving systems, allowing applications to deploy on any chain with a verifier.
Noir's powerful libraries like noir-jwt and zkEmail.nr enable rapid development of real-world apps. Build private platforms like a company-verified Glassdoor using JWT verification or a trusted restaurant review system using zkEmail to verify reservations, and deploy them anywhere, on any chain.
After this event and winning your prize, continue building your project at our upcoming NoirHack program featuring a demo day and over $100K in prizes from Aztec and ecosystem sponsors like Starknet!
This prize will be awarded to the projects that demonstrate the most impressive implementation using Noir. We're looking for innovative applications that showcase Noir's capabilities as a universal language for zero-knowledge proofs. Projects will be judged on technical implementation, creativity, and practical use case. Bonus points for utilizing Noir libraries like noir-jwt or zkEmail.nr, or demonstrating cross-chain functionality. Winners are encouraged to continue developing their projects at our upcoming NoirHack program featuring over $100K in prizes.
Brevis is an efficient, verifiable off-chain computation engine powered by zero-knowledge proofs. It enables Web3 applications to offload data-intensive and costly computations from on-chain environments to a significantly lower-cost off-chain engine. With Brevis, applications can scale seamlessly while maintaining the security of L1 trust assumptions.
We're giving prizes worth $2500 for the best use of Brevis SDKs. Please note that Brevis has two products available for you to build with: Pico ZKVM and ZK Data Coprocessor.
Pico ZKVM is a general-purpose ZKVM with RISCV instruction set support.
Brevis ZK Data Coprocessor allows you to access and compute on historical on-chain data such as transactions, events and states.
We encourage you to use either one or both of them to build ZK dApps!
Some of the past hackathon winning examples: https://x.com/brevis_zk/status/1849427773968015713 https://x.com/brevis_zk/status/1839384437987119217
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Aleo is a Layer 1 blockchain that enables fully private applications using zero-knowledge cryptography. Built for developers, Aleo allows users to execute smart contracts off-chain and verify them on-chain, ensuring privacy and scalability without compromising decentralization. By leveraging zero-knowledge proofs, Aleo empowers builders to create secure and private decentralized applications (zkDApps) for various use cases, including identity, finance, and gaming.
Build a privacy-preserving decentralized application (zkDApp) on Aleo that leverages zero-knowledge proofs to enable secure, private transactions and computations. Your project should showcase how privacy-first applications can unlock new possibilities in Web3, such as confidential financial transactions, private identity solutions, or secure gaming mechanics.
🤩 Bonus points for solutions that creatively use Aleo’s unique architecture to enable real-world applications that would be impossible on transparent blockchains.
✅ Deploy your zkDApp on the Aleo Testnet ✅ Implement an original use case where privacy preservation adds clear value ✅ Include in your hackathon submission a brief explanation of why using Aleo’s zero-knowledge technology is essential for your dApp
Succinct's mission is to prove the world's software via SP1, the fastest production-ready ZK virtual machine for developers and a decentralized prover network.
We're giving prizes worth $5000 for the best use of SP1 at ETHGlobal! To learn more about what builders have created with SP1, read our tales from the hacker house: https://blog.succinct.xyz/tales-from-the-hacker-house-building-an-attested-image-editor/.
✅ Integrate SP1, Succinct's zero knowledge virtual machine in your application ✅ Implement a use case where ZK and verifiability creates a unique user experience ✅ Include in your ETHGlobal writeup how ZK was used in your application
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Nillion SecretLLM is a set of OpenAI-compatible APIs that run AI models within a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). You can use SecretLLM to build new private AI applications or migrate existing ones to run in a secure SecretLLM environment where your data remains private.
Build a privacy-preserving AI application using Nillion SecretLLM - OpenAI-compatible APIs that run AI models in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), keeping sensitive data private throughout the entire process. Your application should demonstrate how privacy-first AI can enable new use cases or enhance existing ones where data protection is critical.
🤩 Bonus points for solutions that also integrate Nillion SecretVault - our decentralized storage system for private data, which can be used to store things like sensitive user chat history.
✅ Integrate Nillion SecretLLM into your project via at least one chat completion endpoint API call ✅ Implement a use case where privacy preservation adds clear value ✅ Include in your ETHGlobal Showcase write-up why using Nillion SecretLLM to preserve privacy is essential for your mini app or AI agent
Autonome is a platform designed for the building, deployment, and distribution of autonomous AI agents. This enables developers to utilize production-ready frameworks such as Eliza and Agentkit, or to upload their own custom frameworks for building agents tailored to their specific needs. Once an agent is built, it can be deployed and hosted on Autonome, utilizing the TEE plug-in to ensure verifiability and security throughout its lifecycle.
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Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP) is the unified access point for all builders to leverage Coinbase's trusted crypto infrastructure. We provide the essential APIs and SDKs across payments, trading, wallets, stablecoins, and powerful onchain tools, making it simpler than ever to bring the world onchain with enterprise-grade reliability and scale. Build the future with the infrastructure powering millions of crypto users.
This prize is awarded to the best, most innovative app created using AgentKit.
We get it, everyone's tired of agents. We want you to change this and push the boundaries of what was previously thought possible and catalyze the next wave of interest.
Truth Terminal was created using 12-month old technology that was combined in a novel way -- what can you do today by giving your agent a crypto wallet? Some topics for consideration include full autonomy, agentic commerce, using the wallet as a payment rail to perform other tasks, and production-ready infrastructure
Include a brief video showcasing your project and sharing how agentkit was integrated
Integrate agentkit in a meaningful way - don't just have an agent and say "oh it also has a wallet so it can trade" -- do something that takes advantage of agentkit.
Provide us feedback at the following link: https://app.deform.cc/form/edf00fc5-2027-470c-bfc6-3cd01de36523
0G is the largest AI Layer 1 ecosystem, powered by the fastest DeAIOS, and is bringing AI fully on-chain. It offers a scalable, secure, and developer-friendly platform for building and deploying decentralized AI applications. 0G’s modular and layered architecture, incorporating sharding mechanisms, ensures infinite horizontal scalability, making it ideal for handling the demands of AI workloads.
Leverage 0G’s high-performance decentralized storage network to build innovative applications that require efficient, secure, and scalable data management. 0G Storage offers both blob storage and key-value capabilities, making it ideal for a wide range of use cases—from simple file storage to complex data-intensive applications. Utilize the starter-kits provided to quickly access and utilize our Storage.
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😉 Bonus Points For:
Develop innovative applications that harness the power of decentralized AI through the 0G Compute Network. This track challenges builders to create solutions that integrate large language models (LLMs) and other AI inferences with TEEML verification.
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Privy is the easiest way for crypto 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. It's one library to onboard all users, regardless of where they are on their web3 journey.
This prize is awarded to the project with the best implementation of AI agents managing Privy wallets.
Autonomy & Intelligence – How effectively does the AI agent make smart, independent decisions? Usefulness & Real-World Application – Does this solve a real problem for users? Security & Risk Management – How well does the agent handle security and prevent unintended actions? Seamless UX & Integration – Is the wallet experience intuitive and frictionless? Creativity & Uniqueness – Is this a novel approach to AI-managed wallets?
This prize is awarded to the consumer app with the highest potential for viral success, showcasing the most compelling implementation of agentic functionality.
Agentic Functionality – How well does the AI agent act on behalf of the user? User Impact – Does this significantly improve consumer experience? Interactivity & Personalization – Does the agent adapt and respond intelligently to user needs? Seamless Crypto Integration – Does it integrate smoothly with wallets, dApps, or smart contracts? Fun & Creativity – Is the approach novel and has virality potentials?
𝚝𝟷 is the first interop rollup designed to fix fragmentation and composability challenges in scaling Ethereum. By leveraging AVS-secured Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), 𝚝𝟷 introduces real-time proofs (RTP) that prove the integrity of 𝚝𝟷 execution to Ethereum in less than 12 seconds. RTP enables instant settlement on Ethereum and therefore composability across different rollups. 𝚝𝟷’s mission is to unify Ethereum and the rollup ecosystem to provide a superior UX.
Build an application on 𝚝𝟷 that leverages real-time proving to update Ethereum state. Your submission should demonstrate how 𝚝𝟷's low cost and fast execution and ability to instantly settle on the L1, enhances user experience.
✅ Deploy your application on 𝚝𝟷 devnet. ✅ Showcase how real-time proving improves the user experience, such as reducing delays, improving capital efficiency, or enabling novel transaction mechanisms. ✅ Include in your hackathon submission a brief explanation of why 𝚝𝟷 technology is essential for your dApp and how it improves upon existing approaches.
ZK Email lets you prove you took actions in the real world (and verify those emails receipts directly on chain), and lets you trigger transactions via email.
Define a new proof with the registry (registry.zk.email) and integrate it in a creative way in your app. Projects that reuse existing registry patterns are also eligible. Use the SDK: https://docs.zk.email/zk-email-sdk/ afterwards to integrate it into your own app -- we recommend starting from one of the example repo templates.
Struggling with ideas? Check github.com/zkemail for some project ideas!
Use our account recovery module in a wallet in your app, or extend the module in some way. Note it comes with 7579 module and 7702 eoa account abstraction support for easy wallet integration!
Use any solidity library or registry proof to build your app. Can use our Safe 2FA module, account recovery module, email-tx-builder, email oauth, or jwt module to prove Gmail logins.
Marlin is a distributed compute network which uses Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to ensure the correctness of computed results. The hardware-based isolation guarantees provided by TEEs allow both short bursts of serverless jobs as well as persistent backend services to be executed with server-grade efficiency, while maintaining the confidentiality of user data. As a privacy-preserving coprocessor for L1s and L2s alike, Marlin drives innovation in DeFi, AI and DeSci.
Build an application or AI agent that leverages Marlin's TEE network.
Note: 👋 Reach out on the Discord channel #partner-marlin for any technical support. 💸 To deploy infra on Marlin, hackers need mainnet funds. Fill in the credits form (link below) to avail the funds. 🤔 Message on the channel if you haven't received funds for deployment within 3 hours of filling the form.