Scaling Web3
Hackathon

Four weeks to innovate, collaborate and tackle Web3 scalability. Join workshops, engage with experts and shape the future of blockchain.

This hackathon has now finished. Read all about the event and prize winners here!

Launched on 25th March 2024

Read the official announcement here.

Let's scale the future of web3

Prizes:
1st: $2,500
2nd: $1,500
3rd: $1,000

This bounty speaks for itself, submit any application built on Etherlink and you are in for a chance to win the big prize! Projects focused on exploring and utilising the topics of Account Abstraction and MEV will be rated higher.

Judging Criteria:
As a tip, polishing the whole package will go a long way! We are looking for the whole combination: a nice slide deck for the idea (doesn’t have to be long, but a quick explanation and something that visually describes your idea and architecture), working code from a GitHub repo with a nice README etc.
Prizes:
1st: $2,500
2nd: $1,500
3rd: $1,000

Etherlink offers a lot of advantages in terms of UX: decentralisation, very low fees and low latency. This is rare in the blockchain space and this is only possible because of the engineering focus at Etherlink and Tezos. You now have the chance to build an application that requires the strictest decentralisation guarantee, whilst having great UX - a combination that has not been possible until Etherlink. Seize the chance!

Judging Criteria:
We are looking for something a bit more exciting than basic DEXes and NFT Marketplaces, any narrative you can think of other than the already satiated: DePIN, Restaking, AI etc. Convince us and you’re in for a chance to win! Working app & code is needed.

Prizes:
🥇 1st: $1500
🏅 4x Honorary Mentions: $2000 (Prize pool)
Description:
Compete to create the best overall dApp. Develop the most innovative, impactful, and technically robust dapp that not only leverages Shardeum’s unique Shardeum's scalability and low transaction fees but also has great user experience.
Prize:
🥇 1st: $750
Description:
Create a DeFi application that exemplifies the best of Shardeum’s capabilities. The Dapp should offer innovative financial services, such as lending, borrowing, yield farming, or trading, with a focus on security, user experience, and financial inclusion.
Prize:
🥇 1st: $750
Description:
Develop a NFT application that creatively let’s user mint, trade, or utilize NFTs in ways that push the boundaries of what's possible. This could involve innovative uses in art, gaming, digital identity, etc.

Prize Pool:
🏅 $1000 (multiple winners)

Bounty Information:
Create a decentralized application (dApp) with a positive impact on the world using Rollup, supported by the PaaS Presto platform. Incorporate our advanced oracle to enhance the dApp, providing smooth currency conversion capabilities and real-time retrieval of exchange rates for a diverse range of currencies.

Judging Criteria:
1. Rollup via Presto:
- Use Presto to set up a Rollup for your dApp.
2. dApp Development:
- Design and implement a decentralized application with a clear use case.
- Ensure that the dApp is user-friendly and addresses a real-world problem or provides value to the users.
- Incorporate relevant features that showcase the advantages of using a Rollup.
3. Oracle Integration:
- Integrate our oracle into your dApp to leverage real-time data for currency conversion.
4. User Interface (UI) and Experience (UX):
- Create an intuitive and visually appealing user interface.

Prizes:
1st: $2,500
2nd: $1,500
3rd: $1,000
We're looking for the most meaningful usage of a custom IPC subnet, where you deploy your custom subnet(s) and utilize general message passing to perform tasks e.g. transactions, data aggregation etc.
Ideas – build subnets:
- For games (board games, turn-based games, or similar)
- For computation (Compute over Data, programming pipelines, etc),
- With interesting FVM runtimes: this could be existing blockchain VMs or components like zkEVM, fhEVM, CairoVM, MoveVM, AgoricVM or similar. Or this could be broader virtualization technologies like: Cloudflare Workers, Docker, or even FirecrackerVM.
Judging criteria:
Bonus points for advanced configuration of a subnet for custom syscalls and built-in actors to run specialized tasks e.g. machine learning. Additional details listed here.

Prize Pool:
🏅 3000 USDC, multiple winners
Description:
Demonstrate your skills and come up with the best and most creative use case of Orderly Network. Build a dApp using any of the SDKs or use APIs directly.
Judging Criteria (specifics hackers should have in mind):
- Innovation/Creativity - 30%
- WOW factor - 25%
- Usability/practicality - 15%
- Execution - 15%
- Informative demo - 15%

Thu, Mar 14th5 pm GMT	Pre-hackathon workshop: Introduction to Shardeum	Sign up here!
Mon, Mar 25th5:30 pm GMT	Launch Event + Set Up Your 1st Interplanetary Consensus Subnet: A Hypercustomizable Scalability Framework
Tue, Mar 26th5:30 pm GMT	Shardeum Dapp Boilerplate: Quickest way to build prototypes!
Wed, Mar 27th4:00 pm GMT	Creating dApps Using Orderly SDK
Thu, Mar 28th5:30 pm GMT	Mastering Smart Contract Deployment and Migration: A Workshop on Transitioning from EVM-Based L1 to L2 Using Presto
Whole Week	Build, build, build!

Wed, Apr 3rd5:30 pm BST	Intro to Etherlink, a truly decentralised EVM L2	Sign up here!
Whole Week	Build, build, build!

Whole Week

Build, build, build!

Whole Week	Final push!	Sign up here!
Sun, Apr 21st23:59 in your time zone	Submission deadline!
End-AprTime TBA!	Pitch practices for finalists!
Tue, May 7th5:30 pm BST	Finale and Prizegiving