Gnosis Chain will be awarding the following prizes for use of Gnosis Chain:

Most innovative dApps on Gnosis Chain:

• 🥇 $6,000
• 🥈 $5,000
• 🥉 $2,000

Plus, special prizes for innovative dApps on Gnosis Chain:

• 🤖 Best AI project on Gnosis Chain — $3,000
• 🌉 Best project on Hashi — $2,000
• 🔐 Best project on Safe — $2,000

We appreciate an impressive vision, an effective use case, and give additional points for a viable business model.

$20,000 USD are up for grabs at the hackathon for devs who build on top of World ID, distributed as follows:

• 🥇 Best Overall — $5,000
• 🧞 Most Creative Use Case — $2,500
• 🧑‍⚖️ Best Governance App — $2,500
• 🤖 Best AI Use Case — $2,500
• 🔑 Best Sign in with Worldcoin App — $2,500

In addition to the top prizes:

• 🏆 2x Honorable Mentions — $1,000 each
• 🏊‍♂️ Pool Prize — $3,000 distributed between all qualifying submissions

With Airsack 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 prizes: 🥇 Excellent use of Airstack APIs — 3x $2,000 🎉 Build on Airstack— $4,000 Pool Prize Looking for some inspirations? Check out our Ideas List

Browse ideas and suggestions on what you can build here: PROJECT IDEAS

🥇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.

• 🏆 Best use of ERC 6551 —$3,000
• 🤖 Best NPC use case (NFT + TBA + LLMs) —$2,000
• 🏗 Best infrastructure/tooling (indexer, walletconnect, etc.) —$2,000
• 🎥 Best onchain media use cases (music, art, photos, etc.) —$2,000
• 🎨 Best interactive design/visualization of TBAs —$1,000

• 🥇 $5,000 in $UMA
• 🥈 $2,000 in $UMA
• 🏊 Pool Prize — $3,000 distributed between all qualifying submissions

🏆 Grand Prizes: 2 teams x $2,000 (paid in FIL)

🏃 Runners up: 2 teams x $1,000 (paid in FIL)

🏊 Prize Pool: 8 teams x $500 each (paid in FIL)

Challenge:

🪄DWeb It: Best solutions 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 Virtual Machine, Filecoin, IPFS (any implementation, Helia encouraged), LibP2P, Bacalhau, IPC, Web3.storage, NFT.storage, Filecoin Data Tools, Saturn.

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.

🔗 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.

🚀 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.

💻 Compute over Data and/or AI: Best solutions on FVM to facilitate decentralized compute and/or AI jobs. Build new solutions or decentralized versions of services like Amazon Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Kubernetes OR solutions for DeSci, DAI, etc. – using tools like Bacalhau, Lurk (ZK proofs), Lilypad and more!

Find inspiration here

Best Frontend Component Built with BOS:

• 🥇 $3,000
• 🥈 2x $2,000
• 🥉 3x $1,000

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 Waterloo 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):

• You must submit a link to your dapp or project with a live, working BOS Component
• The component should prompt the user to connect their Ethereum Wallet of choice
• The component should display on-chain data (e.g. account balance / tokens), and allow the user to make a transaction through it
• The component should NOT be a simple fork of an existing BOS component with minimal changes

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:

• Comprehensiveness of functionality
• Production-grade user experience
• Code readability and reusability
• BONUS: provide feedback on your experience of developing with BOS
• BONUS: help evangelize BOS (e.g., contribute to docs, talk about it in presentations and/or social media)
• BONUS: demonstrate BOS’ composability by embedding different (new or existing) components together in your interface to improve overall UX
• BONUS: demonstrate BOS’ capacity to improve the user onboarding experience by integrating FastAuth

ZM builders, we’re challenging you to hack with Polygon solutions to solve real-world problems. All prizes may be split by multiple teams!

🤝 $3,000 Best Public Good with Account Abstraction or Gasless transactions on Polygon

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:

• Safe{Core} Account Abstraction SDKs support Polygon PoS Mainnet and Polygon PoS Mumbai Testnet.
• Biconomy’s Gasless Transactions SDKs support Polygon PoS Mumbai Testnet with Mainnet and zkEVM networks coming soon.

In your project’s README, explain the UX optimization strategies you chose and link to relevant sections of code with your account abstraction implementation.

🚀 $3,000 Best, most innovative hacks deployed on Polygon zkEVM

gm anon, or should we say ZM. We’ve officially entered the zkVerse with the launch of Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta. We’re challenging you to create a startup worthy hack that's got a killer UX and is deployed to Polygon zkEVM. Deploying to Polygon zkEVM is as easy as changing your RPC url. 🚀

We've got infinite zkEVM build ideas ~ here are some other technologies and eips you could build on zkEVM

• 🤔 EIP 6551 on Polygon zkEVM, which gives every NFT a smart contract account, so NFTs could hold NFTs that could hold NFTs
• 🤔 Something data driven with a Subgraph from The Graph on Polygon zkEVM
• 🤔 Decentralized video hacks with Livepeer on Polygon zkEVM
• 🤔 Encrypt data before putting it on Polygon zkEVM for max privacy with Lit Protocol
• 🤔 Paymasters aka pay users' gas with Safe SDKs on Polygon zkEVM
• 🤔 Photo sharing with images pinned on IPFS in Polygon zkEVM NFTs

Bonus points if it's a cross-chain or x-chain hack connecting Polygon zkEVM with Ethereum or Polygon PoS. Check out the universal bridge repo, a unified interface for sending messages from Ethereum to other chains and rollups to get started.

Cross-Chain ideas from the Polygon zkEVM team:

• Implement an OpenZeppelin Governor that allows token holders to vote on Polygon zkEVM with proposals that are still on Ethereum or Polygon PoS Create a snapshot strategy that accounts for token balance on Ethereum, Polygon PoS, & Polygon zkEVM
• Build a zkEVM NFT project with mint logic that depends on owning an asset on Ethereum or Polygon PoS

🆔 $2,000 Best use of Polygon ID's Verifiable Credentials

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 resources:

• Polygon ID Dev Docs and tutorials

• How to run an Issuer to issue VCs: Video by Tony

• Fullstack VC-gated dapp template with everything you need for your KYCAgeCredential gated dapp by Steph

Ideas from the Polygon ID team:

• Anonymous voting - On-chain voting exposes the choices made by different public addresses. Create a hack that proves DAO membership with a VC while making sure members don’t double vote.
• Social proof of influence or activity - Create a proof of influence issuer that issues VCs based on numbers of followers or number of posts across social platforms
• Bot protection - Create a decentralized verification system providing individual VCs of liveliness & uniqueness that could be combined to prevent sybil attacks.

🏊‍♂️ $2,000 Build #onPolygon in Public Pool Prize with valid Twitter post

Deploy your smart contract on Polygon (Polygon PoS Mainnet, Polygon PoS Mumbai Testnet, Polygon zkEVM Mainnet, or the Polygon zkEVM Testnet) and provide a link to the smart contract and your tweet. All teams that satisfy these requirements will split the pool prize.

Pool prize eligibility ✅

• In your project’s README link to your deployed smart contract(s) on Polygonscan
• Link to your tweet: Use this link to Tweet out the link to your Github repo and deployed smart contract.

• 🤝 Best use of Sismo Connect for Sybil-resistance - $3,000
• 🔗 Best onchain Sismo Connect App - $2,000
• ⛓ Best offchain Sismo Connect App - $2,000
• 🤯 Best technical wow factor - $2,000
• 🔐 Best privacy vibe - $1,000

Best Integration: Best use of ApeCoin in a dApp or application. This includes things like payments and gaming.

• 🥇 $3,000
• 🥈 $2,000

Best Contribution: Relates to tooling and experiences around using NFTs in games, phygital, or metaverse experiences. Should use ERC-6551, ERC-4337, or another new ERC standard in its architecture.

• 🥇 $3,000
• 🥈 $2,000

We are offering amazing prizes to reward your hard work and innovative solutions:

Overall Top Projects:

• 🏆🥇 1st Prize: $3500
• 🥈 2nd Prize: $2000
• 🥉 3rd Prize: $1500

Category Specific Prizes:

1. 🤖 Tip Bot for Social Media: Best project: $500
2. 🧾 Activity Tracking Bot for Wallet Movements: Best project: $500
3. 🎫 Zero-Knowledge Money Coupons in the form of NFTs: Best project: $800
4. 🚀 Crowdfunding/Fundraising Platform: Best project: $700
5. 🎟️ Token Gated Attendance Activities: Best project: $500

⚠️ Remember, you can win in both the overall and category-specific prizes!

🏆 Best Custom Voting Vault: Develop a VotingVault contract that brings something new to the Council protocol. How you redefine voting power is up to you. The best custom vault will earn a $3000 prize.

💎 Best UI Integration or New Feature: Take our existing UI and enhance it by integrating another protocol/service, or by adding a new feature or improvement. The most effective integration or feature will earn a $3000 prize.

🛠 Best Use of SDK/CLI: Our SDK and CLI are versatile, and we want to see how well you can use them. The most practical and innovative feature or tool that uses SDK/CLI will earn a $1500 prize.

Best New Subgraph(s): Build and deploy a custom subgraph that indexes data from a smart contract to query blockchain data to your dapp.

• 🥇 Grand Prize: $1400
• 🥈 1st Runner-up: $1000
• 🥉 2nd Runner-up: $600

Best use of Existing Subgraph(s): Query an existing subgraph on the Graph Explorer or hosted service using the public query URL from the subgraph dashboard.

• 🥇 Grand Prize: $1200
• 🥈 1st Runner-up: $800
• 🥉 2nd Runner-up: $500

Pool Prize: Build and deploy or use an existing subgraph that indexes data from a smart contract to query blockchain data to your dapp.

• 🏅 Pool Prize: $2000

🥇 - $1,500 Excellent use of XMTP SDKs 🥈 - $1,000 Excellent use of XMTP SDKs 🥉 - $500 Excellent use of XMTP SDKs

💪- $1,000 In-Chat Bounty Management Using XMTP and TalentLayer (see: https://www.notion.so/In-Chat-Bounty-Management-Using-XMTP-and-TalentLayer-392213f0a98f4a179b816aa1f50be51a)

🏗️ - $1,000 Best use of XMTP + Airstack APIs Using Airstack, Build a discovery engine for onboarding users into messaging via an example app on XMTP.

Best use of Lit Actions and Programmable Key Pairs - $4,000 USDC

• Improving the user experience in web3 is essential for the long-term success and adoption of decentralized technology. By making it easier and more intuitive for users to engage with the ecosystem, we can help create a more open, transparent, and user-centric internet for everyone.
• Use Lit to create a seamless onboarding process or abstract away signing through programmatic signing. Lit provides the underlying infrastructure for developers to set up programmable signing based on on-chain and off-chain information.
• Criteria for the prize: Must utilize Lit Actions and Programmable Key Pairs. UI/UX is top priority! Output should include a demo and documentation of how it utilizes Lit.

$1,000 Wildcard: Best use of Lit Overall

🥇 1st - $2,500

🥈 2nd - $1,500

🥉 3rd - $1,000

Smart Contract Security Tooling

We will be awarding the following prizes based on the following categories:

🛠 $2,500 for the Best Use Case 🎨 $2,500 for the Most Creative Solution

Overview:

This bounty is for highly motivated and technically skilled individuals who are willing to take the challenge to innovate and create tooling that can be beneficial for smart contract audits. The goal of this bounty is to create functioning prototypes of tools that can be used during the audit process, that foster security in smart contract development, or that can be used to build more tools.

Your project can be an extension to an existing tool, a new application, an AI-enhanced system, or it can have any other format as long as it aligns with the requirements and objectives of this assignment. If your tool is strong and innovative, there are opportunities for further incubation, and even the chance to join our team.

In addition to the source code, each tool needs to be submitted with a high-level description of its intention, a writeup of how it accomplishes the goal, instructions for executing the tool, and a demonstration of its capabilities. This can include sample smart contracts where it performs well and poorly, or some benchmarks (possibly against the contracts on-chain).

Some Examples and Ideas:

• Develop a Slither extension: Create an extension that enhances the current Slither capabilities. This could include new analyses, or be an improvement to the current ones.

• Use AI in smart contract audit or development: Sensibly apply AI to aid smart contract development or an audit. Do not have it do all the work (we know that this is problematic), but use it for something where it can perform well. This can include generating tests, inferring requirements, visualizing smart contract structure, comparing code to documentation, writing documentation, or assessing the quality of documentation and tests.

• Produce ABIs for smart contracts based on bytecode: Construct a tool that, given a byte code, can retrieve an Application Binary Interface (ABI).

• Attribution of newly deployed smart contracts: Develop a tool capable of attributing newly deployed smart contracts to projects. Code similarity detection: Create a tool capable of detecting code similarities.

• Hack detector: Develop a tool that can detect potential hacks, either at the level of a transaction (in the mempool or after execution), or at the protocol level (recognizing that a protocol was hacked by some transaction).

• Security tool for another chain or language: Build a tool that enhances the security of another blockchain or language. You can port some existing tooling, or develop new tools.

Evaluation Criteria:

• Innovation and Uniqueness: We are looking for original ideas that can add value to the blockchain community.
• Functionality: The tool should be functional, with clear evidence of its effectiveness.
• Scalability and Usability: Consideration will be given to projects that demonstrate scalability and usability in practice.
• Accuracy: Sometimes less is more. Tools that do just one thing really well can be better than tools that are very versatile, but fail often.
• Impact: The tool should be able to improve smart contract audits or have a positive impact on the blockchain ecosystem.

• Best 5 projects using QuickNode RPC gets $400 each selected project = $2,000 total
• Best use of Token API gets $1,500
• Best use of NFT API gets $1,500 Total prize bounty = $5,000

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Just deploy on Linea

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We have $2500 total for up to 2 winners (i.e. $1250 each)

DO THIS!!!! —--> deploy https://rpc.goerli.linea.build ←—------

Linea is an EVM equivalent zk-rollup that offers faster finality and low gas fees to help you scale your dapps, and we want to see you build the dapp that will quickly grow our user base! Learn more at https://linea.build/.

Winners will be featured on our ecosystem portal and celebrated within the Linea community!

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:

• Deployment: on Linea
• Link to the deployed contract address on blockscout
• Linea network configured in your code

Derp:

• Repos must contain a text file named “waterloo.txt” with the phrase “Keep calm and love Waterloo”
• This attention to detail helps us reward genuine effort and identify quality projects.
• Code needs to be viewable on GitHub
• Each submission should have a short video that describes scope and functionality of the dapp

Criteria

• Utility
• Technical sophistication
• Fundability
• Bonus points for number of ConsenSys products used (Truffle, Infura, and MetaMask SDK)

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Mobile Fun with the MetaMask SDK

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We have $2500 total for up to 2 winners (i.e. $1250 each)

Description

DO THIS!!!! —--> npm install @metamask/sdk ←—------

IT’S JUST THIS —-> https://docs.metamask.io/wallet/how-to/use-sdk/javascript/react/ ←—---

The MetaMask SDK makes it easy to add mobile wallet connections. You can leverage it to:

• Connect a Unity game to MetaMask mobile
• Create an Electron (Desktop) or JavaScript dapp

PLEASE NOTE: Using the SDK is not just connecting to MetaMask. 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.

We’re looking for a dapp with the best product market fit, design, investability, and execution that leverages the MetaMask mobile connection experience.

Requirements

• GitHub repo
• A short demo video of your dapp
• Demonstrated usage of the MetaMask SDK in your code
• README should detail what the project is and what it aims to accomplish
• Valid submissions must include one of the various MetaMask SDKs at minimum, enabling users to connect to MetaMask Extension and/or MetaMask Mobile (Unity, JavaScript, React Native/iOS)

Judging Criteria

• Best product market fit, scalability, investability, design and execution

$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.

🚀 Most Creative Integration with unshETH - $3000

Develop inventive applications uniquely integrate with unshETH, bringing out its full potential and versatility. Leverage unshETH within novel DeFi constructs or existing DeFi platforms in a way that creates new and useful user experiences.

🤖 unshETH Liquidator Bot - $1000

Develop a bot that automates the process of converting unshETH back into ETH by redeeming into the underlying LSDs and finding the best place to sell them for maximum returns.

💱 vdAMM Arbitrage Bot - $1000

Create a bot that exploits arbitrage opportunities between the vdAMM and other exchanges such as Curve, Balancer, etc., thereby generating profits from market inefficiencies.

Requirements:

To be eligible for any of the prizes, your project must integrate with the unshETH platform and contribute to the ecosystem in a meaningful and innovative way. We will only accept projects that meet this requirement.

• 🏆 $2,000 - Most Innovative Attestation Project

• Rewarding the project that demonstrates groundbreaking creativity in attestation applications, showcasing the versatility and potential of EAS to create positive change in the ecosystem.

• 🥈 $1,000 - Runner Up, Most Innovative Attestation Project

• This prize goes to a project that exhibits exceptional innovation in leveraging attestations to address digital trust complexities, standing out as a notable runner-up in pushing EAS boundaries.

• 🤝 $1,000 - Best Social Impact Attestation Project

• Celebrating a project that uses attestations to drive meaningful societal change, exemplifying how trust can be built for social good via EAS.

• 🤫 $1,000 - Best Privacy-Preserving Attestation Project

• Recognizing a project that skillfully uses attestations to uphold user privacy. This award emphasizes the importance of balancing trustworthy attestations with the protection of personal information within the EAS ecosystem.

Teams who actually register schemas or make attestations on existing ones will be given more consideration in the decision to award prizes.

🚀 Best use of Bonsai 🚀

Resources

Bonsai access whitelist request available here: https://forms.gle/Ships93xqY4c8zA37

Meet with developers in person at our event Friday 13:30-17:30 EDT: https://lu.ma/07eyhz6m

Objectives

What dApps would you build if you could offload expensive or repetitive computations off chain? What if you could immediately trust the computations’ results without needing to wait for consensus? Use your imagination!

Prizes

The possibilities are broad — we’ll be around Friday night and on our Discord, so come chat with us if you want to brainstorm. There are several paths to winning RISC Zero hackathon projects: push some technical limits, get a clean demo for an interesting use case, or build a well-documented educational piece.

Here are the awards:

• One $2000 first prize
• Two $1000 second prizes

📊 Feedback bounty 📊

Resources

To make a submission for this bounty, fill out the feedback form (available on 6/24) at: https://bit.ly/3qXrrk2

Objectives

If you’ve had a chance to work thoroughly with a project for the first bounty, you’re eligible to submit for the second! We’re committed to learning from your experiences at these events, so as a thank you for the feedback you provide, we’ve added a bounty to reward the participants who provide us with the most thorough feedback. If you submit, here’s what you’re committing to:

• A form filled out after you’ve engaged meaningfully with a project at the hackathon
• A maximum of one hour talking to us on Telegram or Discord

Prizes

Heres what we’re giving away:

• Two $500 prizes

💻 How to participate in our hackathon bounties 💻

Bonsai development steps

To work with their technology at the hackathon, you’ll:

• Download a starter template that includes a fully self-contained development environment hosted on your local machine with the help of Foundry.
• Build an app contract in standard Solidity (with full access to Forge tests, also in Solidity).
• Write an off-chain provable computation in plain Rust with no custom circuits or complicated DSLs.

If you want to stop here, we’ll consider any working project that takes an interesting or educational approach to supplementing dApps with ZK-proven off-chain computations. We’re proud of our seamless transition from local proofs to Bonsai proving service so we’ll consider a standalone sufficient.

Bonsai deployment steps

If you’d like to play with the Bonsai proving service, we’ve designed the starting developer template to easily convert to a locally hosted contract that makes real calls to Bonsai through our ETH relay. If you’re eager to try out a new proving service, here’s what to do:

• Fill out the Bonsai whitelist access form for an API key and API URL: https://forms.gle/Ships93xqY4c8zA37
• Change 3 local environment variables and run your contract locally.

That’s it! Again, we’ll be around to support you as you form teams, develop projects, and prepare to submit, so please reach out if you have any questions or are curious about new projects.

Judges from Highlight, and the Ethereum art community will select the best code-based generative art project representing the ETHGlobal brand and mission.

🏆 We’re offering the following prizes for the most creative and inventive use of Highlight:

• 🥇 Gold: $3,000

• 🥈 Silver: $1,500

• 🥉 Bronze: $500

Details

Our generative toolkit is currently in beta—as an ETHGlobal Waterloo attendee, you’ll have first access! Fill out this form to get started.

Eligible projects can be deployed on Ethereum mainnet, L2s (Polygon, Base, Arbitrum), or testnets. The winning project will have gas costs covered to deploy on Ethereum mainnet.

To submit your entry, tweet us @highlight_xyz on Twitter or email us the mint page at [email protected].

Collections must be deployed on Highlight and be a “Generative” collection type. You can submit more than 1 collection for consideration.

Find additional competition details and how to get started here.

Find more resources on getting started with code-based generative art here.

We invite developers, designers, product folks, and everyone else to team up for an entire weekend of building, creating, experimenting, innovating, and keeping Nouns weird. Hackers are encouraged to submit any project they believe will benefit the Nouns and web3 ecosystem. Make sure always to keep the Nounish vibe!

🏆 $3,000 - Best Public Good

🎨 $2,000 - Best Nouns Artwork Use

Requirements

• Build a permissionless public good.
• Build something that may be used for free by many people.
• Build something that creates positive externalities.
• Make sure to include Nouns ⌐◨-◨ artwork.

Ideas to build around

• Public infrastructure
• DAO tools
• Art tools
• Web3 education
• Security tools
• Nouns discovery tools

Examples

• Prop House. An experimental approach for communities to deploy capital. Created and funded by Nouns, now used by communities such as OnChainMonkey, Meebits, Humankind, Own The Doge, and more.
• Agora. A delegation marketplace that lets anyone pitch themselves as a delegate by creating a rich media delegate profile. Created and funded by Nouns, now used by ENS, Optimism, and Lil Nouns.
• Private voting research. Three funded teams developing their ideas for Nouns private governance.

🏆 Most inventive use of Unlock Protocol

• 🥇 1st Prize: $3,000
• 🥈 2nd Prize: $1,500
• 🥉 3rd Prize: $500