Find team members, learn, complete challenges and win great prizes.
Celestia is a modular data availability (DA) network that securely scales with the number of users, making it easy for anyone to launch their own blockchain.
Rollups and L2s use Celestia as a network for publishing and making transaction data available for anyone to download. For them, Celestia provides high-throughput DA that can be verified easily with a light node.
PARTNERS
Idea partners
COMMUNITY partners
PRIZEPOOL
250,000 USD
SEE PRIZE DETAILS BELOW
IDEAS TO BUILD
Build Unstoppable apps
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Build a web app where creators are able release generative art that uses existing Forma NFTs as 'inputs'
It would allow for creators to make it such that if a minter owns a certain NFT collection, or a certain type of NFT within that collection, it will have some influence over the art that they mint. If I already own a Mammoth NFT with a particular trait, for example, perhaps it improves my likelihood of minting a 'rare' piece.
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Create a Video NFT DEX platform that enables creators to tokenize, mint, and trade video and image NFTs, incorporating gamified incentives through a custom gas token that serves as loyalty points
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Build a DEX integrated with AI-powered trading agents that analyze market data, detect arbitrage opportunities, and execute trades automatically. Users can assign their agents specific strategies, configure risk levels, and allocate funds. The agents dynamically adapt to real-time market conditions, optimizing trading performance.
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Sleep2Earn tackles the growing issue of sleep deprivation in modern society. Poor sleep negatively impacts productivity, mental health, and overall well-being. The app incentivizes better sleep by rewarding users with tokens for meeting predefined sleep goals, verified securely using zkTLS. Users gain rewards without compromising sensitive health data, ensuring privacy.
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LazyDev incentivizes open-source contributions by rewarding developers for submitting Pull Requests (PRs) and fixing bugs. Using zkTLS, it validates the authenticity of contributions without revealing unnecessary personal or project-sensitive details. The platform gamifies development, promoting collaboration and quality.
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Build a fully onchain CLOB DEX, spot or perps. A key challenge here is building an efficient matching engine so the transaction fees don’t increase with a large book.
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Onchain money legos that utility a fully onchain orderbook. For example, an onchain decentralised perps cash-and-carry strategy, like Ethena.
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Build a Venmo-style app where users can send and receive payments in USDC, leveraging Privy wallets to manage stablecoins seamlessly. The app could also use Bridge’s API to allow users to easily convert fiat USD into USDC, enabling on-chain transactions without complex wallet setup or external exchanges.
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Build a decentralized prediction market where users can place bets based on information pulled from social platforms like Farcaster, LinkedIn, GitHub, or Discord. For example, users could bet on which LinkedIn post will get the most reactions, or which GitHub project will gain more stars in a week.
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A lightweight, social prediction market platform that lets small friend groups bet on personal goals or outcomes. For example, guess who will lose the most weight by the end of the month, or which BD friend will land the most logo x logo announcements (😉 just kidding). It encourages friendly competition, accountability, and helps small communities use token-based predictions as social motivation.
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This platform enables researchers, companies, or independent developers (“campaign creators”) to launch data collection campaigns for AI training. Whether the target data is health metrics, shopping receipts, or browsing behaviors, creators can specify what type of data they need and define quality criteria.
Users who choose to participate share their data and get rewarded with tokens. The platform incorporates mechanisms to ensure data authenticity, privacy, and proper verification to maintain data quality and trust between creators and contributors.
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DeFi is a pillar of crypto, and many innovations can be realized on an appchain, such as native yield, MEV capture, or specific transaction prioritization logic. Examples given.
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The focus is on creative ideas that can attract users without deep DeFi knowledge. Examples given.
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A messenger app that lets users send text-based messages. Inspired by our earlier experiment with Modular Chat (repo), this version introduces a public forum where users can set up usernames and engage in a discussion.
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Flame is the home for Celestia Native DeFi, it is an EVM powered by the Astria Sequencing Layer, with Celestia Underneath. As an EVM rollup that uses TIA as its native asset, there is a world of DeFi protocols that can be built on Flame that leverage Astria’s unique tech stack.
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Using Rollkit x Artela EVM++, create an application that harnesses the power of web proofs to use off-chain data in interesting ways on-chain.
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Develop a Telegram mini app or bot that accepts user-defined goals or prompts and spins up an AI agent to achieve them.
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Build a Yield Surge Protocol (YSP). This is a protocol designed to rapidly bootstrap liquidity on Eclipse by drastically lowering the barrier to entry and incentivizing early adopters.
Build onchain worlds
happychain
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In the deck-building genre, you start with a minimal starter deck of a few cards, from which you draw cards. During the course of the game, you have the opportunity to add more cards to your deck, which you will able to draw during the game.
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A fun fully onchain 2D tower defense game, in the style of Elemental TD, Bloons TD, Kingdom Rush, Isle of Arrows, and a bunch of Warcraft 3 / Starcraft 2 custom maps.
In such games, players have a token budget that allows them to purchase and put down towers along a predefined path. The game proceeds in rounds where waves of monster try to make it through the path and damage the player's castle. The goal is to use the towers to shoot the increasingly strong waves of monsters that come up. Killing monsters gives out the token that allows buying more tower.
Your game has to be fully-onchain (all the game logic lives in smart contracts).
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A fully onchain virtual pet game that brings the nostalgic 90s Tamagotchi experience to Web3, where each pet is a unique digital entity living entirely on the blockchain.
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A decentralized version of the popular game Clash of Clans, where AI agents autonomously manage player villages and defenses. Players can deploy AI-powered strategies to raid and defend in a competitive environment. AI agents can also work together and form autonomous alliances.
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Create a simple turn-based territory capture game on an 8x8 grid. Two players take turns claiming adjacent squares to grow their territory.
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Build a checkers game with two rulesets that demonstrates the power of state verification and forking.
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Create an arcade-style gaming experience featuring popular games like Snake, Tetris, or Minesweeper.
Upgrade the internet
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Twitter is entirely centralized and Farcaster doesn't fully inherit blockchain security. Using Chopin Framework, you can build a social network that inherits the full security of Celestia.
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Imagine ImgFlip onchain. Users can create and customize meme templates, fork each others' memes, mint them as NFTs and more. The possibilities are endless.
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Create a Prism service that adds Twitter, or any other website source, as accounts on Prism. These accounts can then be used as a source for any application built on top of Prism.
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HTTPS is not as secure as you think. Securing users’ web browsing from MITM attacks is now possible thanks to Prism, if you build a browser extension to enable it.
Hackathon Schedule
| Mon, Jan 20th - Thurs, Jan 30th | Tutorials |
| 31st Jan | Launch Event |
| 1st Feb | Hacking Begins |
| Until 28th Feb | Build, build, build! |
| Fri, Feb 28th23:59 in your time zone | Submission Deadline |
| Whole Week | Project Evaluations |
| Early MarchTBA | Pitch Practices for finalists |
| Tue, Mar 18th17:30 GMT | Finale and Prizegiving |
MENTORS, JUDGES & SPEAKERS
Nashqueue, Celestia Labs
Norswap, happychain
Nhu Viet Nguyen, Celestia Labs
Anirudh Makhana, Gelato
Zulkhair Daim, Argus
Ryan ford, prism
LZRS, chopin
Matija škrnjug, QUbelabs
sawit, initia
Scott Sunarto, Argus
ren yu kong, eclipse
veronica buron, eclipse
josh stein, Celestia Labs
Jonas, prism
Sam Battenally, rise
Stan, initia
Ryan Martin, Argus
Javier Donoso, Gelato
jessie, initia
Zon, initia
Anmol, eclipse
Matt smart, rise
Sebastian Pusch, prism
harvey, initia
wasin, initia
nate cha, eclipse
hans, initia
terry chung, eclipse
UPCOMING HACKATHON EVENTS
tutorials
FAQs
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Anyone can take part in this hackathon, as long as you agree to Encode Club’s Terms and Conditions and Celestia.org Terms of Service. Prizes subject to the terms below.
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Yes, you need to have a team, and your team must have between 3 and 5 members. This is a strict rule.
If you are joining as a solo hacker, you will be emailed to form a team in the week before the launch of the Mammothon. When you register, you will provide this information.
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Yes! You can join Encode Club’s Discord server for remote support on everything hackathon-related.
If you need more information about the hackathon, you can always check out the Hacker Pack, which contains all the necessary information about the hackathon.
The Celestia team will also support offline meetups with local partners.
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You’ll receive regular email updates. For announcements, and everything else on the organisational side, also keep an eye on Encode’s and Celestia’s X accounts.
Also make sure you’re in our Discord server and assign yourself the Celestia Mammothon role.
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No, we don’t have open bounties for this hackathon; we require each team to pick one of the published project ideas and dedicate themselves to building it according to the preset criteria.
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Each project idea comes from one of our idea partners (see above).
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Yes, each project idea will have its dedicated workshop, designed to introduce you to the idea and give you the first push.
The workshops will be given by the idea partner who suggested the idea.
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The hackathon has a standard learn-build-submit structure;
1. workshops and idea period - 20th Jan-1st Feb
2. building period - 1st Feb-28th Feb
3. post-submission period - 1st Mar-18th MarThe project idea tutorials, hosted by partners, will start on the 20th of January, and will last until the 1st of February. All tutorials will be live and online, with recordings available afterwards.
The building period will last until the 28th of February, which is the official submission deadline for the hackathon.
After the submissions, judges will evaluate the projects and finalists will be picked. Finalists will be invited to pitch practices before the official live Finale and Prizegiving event (virtual).
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We will review all the projects, and the best projects will be invited for live pitching at our virtual ‘finale and prizegiving’ event in March. At this event we will determine and announce the winners.
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Don’t worry!
Your team code should be in an email titled “You have successfully registered for the Celestia Mammothon”, which you received upon registering. Try finding it. It might have ended up in your spam folder.
If you still can’t find it, feel free to reach out to us and we’ll send it to you manually.