web3con hackathon

February 28-March 6, 2022

Bring your friends and make new ones during this event to help build the future of the internet and for the chance to win prizes! Get your projects in front of web3 leaders.

Registration might be closed, but our DeveloperDAO job board is now open!

$65k Prize Pool

D_D Prize Bracket

$25,000 in Prizes

Grand prize: $15,000 Brought to you by Decentology & Polygon

Runner up: $10,000

Brought to you by Filecoin, Livepeer & Radicle

General Hackathon Submission Requirements

Your team must have 2-5 members
Your team members must provide Discord handles and Ethereum addresses (or ENS names) for the purpose of verifying you as registrants and providing means of distributing prizes
Your project must use blockchain technology and have been created during the hackathon event (February 28, 2022 12:00 AM EST to March 6, 2022 11:59 PM EST)
You must submit your project before March 7th using a Google form that will be made available to you shortly after the hackathon begins. Note that as part of your submission:
- You must provide a link to a video of a team member demoing your project for at most 3 minutes
- You must provide a link to the public repository for your project
- You must provide a link to your live project
- You must designate one member of your team as the lead to act as the main point of contact should we need to reach out

Judging Criteria

Difficulty

How technically complex is the problem that your project is tackling, and the solution that you have presented?

Implementation:

How complete and functional is your project? Is your project deployed? While your project does not need to be perfectly polished, the solution should at least be functional.

Applicability:

Is the project that your team is working on one that impacts people’s lives? Is this something that someone would have a use for in the real world?

Creativity:

Does the project address a new or unsolved problem? Does the project create a unique solution to a problem with an existing solution? Does your project solve a current problem we face in web2?

The only hard requirement for your hackathon project is that you use blockchain technology but other then that, let your imagination go wild!

Decentology Bounty

Challenge

Involving the Hyperverse, participants will create a dapp accompanied by a video walk-through.

$10,000 in Prizes

$10,000 in total prizes broken down as follows:

JavaScript Developers

10 prizes of $500

Ethereum or Flow Smart Contract Developers

5 prizes of $1,000

Bounty Submission Requirements

JavaScript Developers Prizes

3-min video demonstrating the app
GitHub repo link with application

Ethereum or Flow Smart Contract Developers Prizes

GitHub repo link with smart module and sample app
3-min video demonstrating the app

Resources

Documentation

Polygon Bounty

$10,000 in Prizes

10 prizes of $1,000 to the Top 10 best Dapps built on Polygon

Resources

Getting Started

Documentation

Filecoin Bounty

Challenge

The best use of IPFS and/or Filecoin for content addressing and decentralized storage (projects that use them indirectly via NFT.storage, web3.storage, Fleek, Textile, or other tooling also qualify)

$5,000 in Prizes

1st prize - $1,250 2nd prize - $1,000 3rd prize - $750 Pool - $2,000 for 10 other qualifying teams

Bounty Submission Requirements

At a minimum submissions for prizes should include the following items:

The name and summary of the project
How the project uses to IPFS and/or Filecoin and/or decentralized storage services that build on top of either with example links to where in code those technologies are used.
Names/pseudonyms of team members and contact info (e.g., GitHub handle, email address, or other)
Provide comprehensive README, incl. a clear description of the work and mention of how our tech is used in the Technologies Used section of README.
2-3 minute video that presents the idea, including a brief demo that demonstrates the use of IPFS and/or Filecoin or anything that builds on top of them.
If applicable, select the appropriate track when submitting the project.
Include a link to the working demo or provide a testing guide

NOTE

Submitting the same project across multiple hackathons will lead to disqualification
Only projects or features (preferably in separate branch) built specifically for the respective hackathon will be considered for prizes
Broken links may disqualify the project from the judging process.
Using an IPFS HTTP gateway doesn’t count as building on top of IPFS. **Exclusively** basing your submission on that does not make you eligible for prizes.

Judging Criteria

Approach: Our judges grade submissions across five equally-weighted categories: 1) Design, 2) Novelty/Originality, 3) Technical Accomplishment, 4) Potential Impact, 5) Creativity/Fun. Submissions will be rated with decimal numbers between 1 (worst) - 5 (best) per category (max score: 25) by each judge. The final score is the average of all voting judges. If a project scores low, we reserve the right not to award prizes, even if it was the only project submitted to a given track.

Categories:

Design: Is it easy to use? Does the visual design delight you? If targeting developers, is the experience smooth and intuitive?
Novelty/Originality: Does it have unique and novel features or combine features of other products or services in a unique and novel way?
Technical Accomplishment: Is the code elegant, clean, and technically interesting? Is the project complete? Does the project interact with IPFS/Filecoin under-the-hood (i.e., more than simply retrieve a CID from a gateway)?
Potential Impact: Does it fill a gap in the universe, and have the potential to be used frequently by a large, growing and diverse audience or market?
Creativity/Fun/Wow-Factor: Is it creative and put a smile on people’s faces?