Metaverse Hackathon
This hackathon has now finished. Read all about the event and prize winners here!
An online hackathon focused on building NFT and gaming projects
Build in the Metaverse to answer challenges and compete for fantastic prizes!
Read more here.
Start Date: Wednesday, 2nd November 2022
Submission Deadline: Sunday, 4th December 2022
Finale and Prizegiving: Monday, 19th December 2022
Find out more in our official announcement.
How it works
The hackathon is 5 weeks long
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Attend workshops and learn to build NFT and gaming projects
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Answer challenges and compete for fantastic prizes
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Win prizes
Challenges and Prizes
Overall Prizes
Build a Metaverse project, on any chain!
1st: $1.5k
2nd: $1k
3rd: $500
OpenSea Hackathon Challenges
Improving NFT liquidity using OpenSea API
OS API provides an easy way to access and provide liquidity to NFT collections - even more so with the launch of our new collection and trait offer endpoints. This challenge is meant to push you on creative uses of the OS API & Seaport to improve NFT liquidity.
Ideas include tooling for bots/collections/market makers, creator tools, drop mechanics, analytics, etc. The following criteria will be taken into consideration:
Innovativeness – How novel of a product were you able to build?
Viability – How easy is it to scale and grow?
User Experience – Is it easy to use and set up?
Prize for best project: $2500
“Build an Ocean” - OpenSea Community Tooling
OpenSea has multiple developer products/protocols including our API, Seaport, and our new drops protocol SeaDrop, all available in the spirit of what we call “building an ocean”.
This challenge is to join us in making these tools even more accessible and powerful to a broader crypto developer audience. Ideas include documentation/educational pieces on how to use, example hero projects, extending functionality in novel ways, additional tooling to use protocols, etc.
The following criteria will be taken into consideration:
Onboarding & Education – How much could this help in onboarding more developers into crypto / NFTs?
Delightfulness – How seamless of a user / education journey were you able to make?
Innovativeness – How novel of a product were you able to build?
Prize for best project: $2500
Optimism Challenge: Build NFT / Gaming Projects with Optimism
The following criteria will be taken into consideration:
Onboarding experience: Is your project designing a simple yet safe interaction and onboarding experience to Optimism?
User experience: Is your MVP managing security and UX? Is it easy and fun to use?
Ecosystem integration: Are you integrating with existing dapps on Optimism to provide more value?
Innovative and new: What new possibilities of Optimism, or decentralization at large, does your project unlock?
Memeology: Do you have the best memes?
Long-term viability: Is your project well designed and incorporating utility or incentives to stimulate user growth? Can it scale?
Bonus point: Does your project have a public goods funding mission? Or incorporate a product feature to make it easy for users to contribute to public goods funding?
Two tiers of prizes:
First Place (3 winners): 3k OP token prize per winning team totaling 9k
Runner-ups (3 winners): 2k OP token prize per winning team totaling 6k
NiftyKit Challenges
Token-Gated Experiences
Create a token-gated experience leveraging NiftyKit collections. You can quickly implement purchase flow leveraging our DropKit SDK.
Dynamic NFTs
Create dynamically changing NFTs by leveraging NiftyKit Reveal API.
No-code Tooling for NFTs
Build No-code Tooling for NFTs to make the creator’s job easier.
Prizes:
Grand Prize (1 winner out of all challenges):
$1,000 USDC
1 x Advanced DropKit Pass (per team)
Runner-ups (1 winner from each challenge):
1 x Advanced DropKit Pass (per team)
What happens
during the hackathon?
Register ▶ Form a team ▶ Attend workshops ▶
Build your project ▶ Get 1-1 mentorship ▶ Submit
Key dates
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Launch on 2nd November 2022
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Submission deadline on 4th December 2022
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Finale and Prizegiving: 19th December 2022
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Events
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FAQ
Who can take part? Anyone can take part in this hackathon!
Do I need a team? No, you can hack solo. If you’d like to form a team, we will help you connect with other hackers.
Is there technical support? Yes! Our sponsors and the Encode team will offer support during this hackathon.
Where does the organisation happen? For updates, announcements and everything else on the organisational side, please keep an eye on Encode’s Discord.
Can I enter an existing project? Yes, you can, but only if your project hasn’t raised significant funding already.
Do I own what I build? Yes, you/your team is the sole owner of your project.
Can I do more than one challenge? Yes! We actively encourage this.
Gold Sponsors
The world’s first and largest digital marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). OpenSea allows users to buy, sell, and discover exclusive digital items.
Optimism is a fast, stable, and scalable L2 blockchain built by Ethereum developers, for Ethereum developers. Built as a minimal extension to existing Ethereum software, Optimism’s EVM-equivalent architecture scales your Ethereum apps without surprises. If it works on Ethereum, it works on Optimism at a fraction of the cost.
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