Scaling Ethereum 2024

Use or contribution to one of Arbitrum’s public SDKs (e.g. Arbitrum SDK, Arbitrum Orbit SDK, etc.) Creation of a new developer tool or infrastructure project that supports or interfac4es with the Arbitrum tech stack.

Qualifications

- Deployed on Arb One, Arb Nova (or an Orbit Chain), Arbitrum Sepolia, or Stylus Testnet. - Host your submission in an open source GitHub repository Examples of use cases: - Customization of an Orbit chain. - Unique use of dApp-level contracts on a new or existing Orbit chain. - Use of the Arbitrum SDK or Arbitrum Orbit SDK. - Contribution to the Arbitrum SDK or Arbitrum Orbit SDK. - Novel development of an SDK for use on Arbitrum One, Nova, or an Orbit chain. - Host your submission in an open source GitHub repository

Stylus lets you write smart contracts in programming languages that compile down to WASM, such as Rust, C, C++, and many others. Stylus contracts are over an order of magnitude faster with significantly lower gas fees. Deploy an application on Stylus testnet that takes advantage of Stylus’ improved speed, cost, and performance.

Qualifications

- Deploy your contracts on Arbitrum Stylus Testnet. - The repository is open-source. Examples of use cases: - Applications that are not possible within the EVM. - Existing applications that are more performant because of Stylus. - Tooling that improves the Stylus developer experience.

Decentralized Social platforms that offer users sufficiently decentralized infrastructure in order to own their accounts, content, and connections have recently become permissionless. Leverage the social graphs from these protocols (e.g. Farcaster, Lens) to build a consumer application that is improved by the integration of this infrastructure.

Qualifications

- Deployed on Arb One, Arb Nova (or an Orbit Chain), Arbitrum Sepolia, or Stylus Testnet. - Host your submission in an open source GitHub repository Examples of use cases: - related app on the Orbit chain - A voting or polling platform - An e-commerce application - Mechanism for collective action or fundraising - Assigning value to and meaningfully utilizing social capital

Split with up to 69 teams (capped at $43 per team) Qualifying submissions, on Arbitrum will be eligible to receive a portion of the prize. Ensure that your entry meets the specified criteria to earn a share of this pool prize!

Qualifications

Qualification Requirements - Deployed on any of our Arbitrum chains (Arb One, Arb Nova, Arbitrum Sepolia, or Stylus Testnet.). - Host your submission in an open source GitHub repository

Seeking the most innovative project on Arbitrum! Got a unique idea? Share it with us. Whether it's a novel approach to finance or a completely fresh concept, we're excited to witness your creativity in action.

Qualifications

Open to any unique ideas that are implemented on any of our Arbitrum chains (Arb One, Arb Nova, Arbitrum Sepolia, or Stylus Testnet.

Projects will be assessed on their innovation, technical quality, user experience, and market impact. Key focus areas include originality, effective use of Sign Protocol, technical scalability, user interface design, and real-world applicability. Winners will demonstrate a balanced blend of technology mastery, user-centric design, and potential for significant market contribution.

Qualifications

Open to all hackers who are eager to explore the boundaries of Sign Protocol and have the skills to bring their visionary ideas to life.

Projects will be assessed on their usability, design aesthetics, user engagement, and overall user experience quality. The evaluation will focus on how intuitively and efficiently users can navigate and interact with the application, the effectiveness of the design in facilitating user goals, and the innovation in creating a seamless and enjoyable user journey within the Sign Protocol ecosystem.

Qualifications

Open to all hackers who are eager to explore the boundaries of Sign Protocol and have the skills to bring their visionary ideas to life.

Unlock the full potential of Sign Protocol by developing groundbreaking applications that stand out for their innovation and creativity. Projects will be evaluated based on their creativity, technical innovation, potential impact, and the ability to solve real-world problems or open new possibilities.

Qualifications

Open to all hackers who are eager to explore the boundaries of Sign Protocol and have the skills to bring their visionary ideas to life. We encourage participants to think outside the box and create solutions that are not just viable but truly extraordinary.

Projects will be judged on their technical robustness, complexity, efficiency, and innovative use of technology. Evaluation will concentrate on the architecture's sophistication, code quality, security measures, and the effective integration of Sign Protocol features. The emphasis will be on demonstrating advanced problem-solving skills, scalability potential, and the ability to deliver a technically sound solution that pushes the boundaries of blockchain technology.

Qualifications

Open to all hackers who are eager to explore the boundaries of Sign Protocol and have the skills to bring their visionary ideas to life.

Internet grade applications need internet grade bare metal infra and enormous storage networks. Filecoin provides simple to use storage helpers, EVM compatible Filecoin Virtual Machines and also connects with powerful providers via the storage market protocol itself. Build your internet grade app on Filecoin directly or in combination with IPC.

Qualifications

Qualifying technologies - Storage helpers: Lighthouse.storage & web3.storage - Retrieval: Saturn.tech & Filecoin Station - Filecoin Virtual Machine - Data onboarding: Singularity - Filecoin nodes: Lotus, Venus & Forest - Storage provider tooling: Boost & Lassie

Interplanetary Consensus (IPC) is a new hyper-customizable scalability framework for both horizontal and vertical scaling, currently rooted to Filecoin and designed to be multi-chain! Prizes will be awarded to 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.

Qualifications

Qualifying technologies: Interplanetary Consensus Prize pool split among 5 qualifying projects Bonus points for advanced configuration of a subnet for custom syscalls and built-in actors to run specialized tasks e.g. machine learning

Please, see bounty above for more details and documentation for this prize.

Qualifications

Prize pool split among 5 qualifying projects Qualifying technologies - Storage helpers: Lighthouse.storage & web3.storage - Retrieval: Saturn.tech & Filecoin Station - Filecoin Virtual Machine - Data onboarding: Singularity - Filecoin nodes: Lotus, Venus & Forest - Storage provider tooling: Boost & Lassie

Build dApps which can be used by web3 users. You can build your own usecase, mentioning the problem and how your hack is the solution. You can leverage Account Abstraction, social logins, for web3 onboarding aspects. You could also use communication protocols and support interoperability for the product. This product could be focused on Defi, UX, Staking, SocialFi, Wallet, Off ramp and on Ramp etc. Few ideas that you could consider : * Explore ERC 4337 AA and ERC 1155 token standard, your NFT token is the smart account. * Use passkeys to sign transactions - using FaceID, touchID * Create a wallet which can get integrated to your social accounts. * Use Liquidity protocols like https://aave.com/ and create a defi focused tool. * Build platform for token gated community * Explore different EIPs and ERCs relevant to your product

Qualifications

- Working Vercel or deployed link of the product - Should be deployed on mainnet or testnet - Should have a working UI - Should contain problem statement in README

Gnosis Pay introduces the first decentralized payment network, bridging traditional finance and decentralized finance (DeFi) by integrating with conventional payment systems like Visa. For this hackathon we would like to see developers build applications that integrate with Gnosis Pay Accounts. You do NOT need a Gnosis Pay card to work on this prize. Gnosis Pay accounts are just Safe Accounts that have the following two modules attached: the Delay & Role Modules(see in documentation below). You can build either new modules or integrations with existing modules to create solutions for Gnosis Pay. Here are some project ideas that we're looking for: - E-commerce payment gateway - Subscription Management platform - fix a spendable amount from gnosis pay safe account, get points for timely payment and convert in spendable token EURe - Hook integration with Uniswap or Pancakeswap on a Gnosis Pay Safe Account Below are the links to the Gnosis Pay documentation & Telegram chats w/ the Gnosis Pay engineering team and DevRel

Qualifications

- Should utilize the delay module or roles module - Should be deployed on Gnosis Chain

Create a full fledged dApp that utilizes Hashi, an EVM Hash Oracle Aggregator, designed to facilitate a principled approach to cross-chain bridge security. Hashi aims to create “additive security” to cross-chain messages by aggregating block headers from different sources. A block header will be considered valid only when a number of block sources (oracles) above a certain threshold report the same result. Hashi is the first step towards a principled approached to bridges and will play a key role in the Gnosis Chain interoperability roadmap. Utilize the message dispatching feature using Yaru and Yaho and create a cross chain application. Read more about Hashi in the documentation linked below.

Qualifications

- Smart Contracts should be deployed on Gnosis Chain or Chiado testnet

Create an integration with a web3 protocol that you think will be helpful to web3 users and the builders of gnosis chain. You can look at what integrations are already supported and how you can expand by contributing a proof-of-concept, for example, build smart contract helpers. You can even build a UI components for different usecases. Gnosis chain has super low transaction fees in stable token xDAI. Make use of this opportunity to develop something for the community of Gnosis Chain builders. For example, Delegated Voting Mechanism: Implement a delegated voting mechanism for Uniswap governance proposals on Gnosis Chain, allowing users to delegate their voting power to trusted entities or community representatives.

Qualifications

- Smart contracts should be deployed on gnosis chain or chiado testnet - There should be an open source github repository along with readme and how the component/tool can be used

Fileverse is an onchain collaboration alternative to Notion and Google Workspace. With Fileverse's fresh HeartBit SDK you can enable novel onchain user interactions directly on your app and generate granular user analytics trackable on Dune. HeartBits are provable, time-based onchain "Likes" that people generate by simply engaging with your app, website, onchain media, Frame or OpenAction! The SDK also allows you to easily deploy Frames and Open Actions with gasless transactions. Some project ideas to consider building: -Integrate HeartBits to your app or website. -Create an analytics-viewing Frame/OpenAction for HeartBit (e.g., when interacting with Frame number of HeartBits their address has generated displayed and how they rank compared to other addresses that own HeartBits) -Create and post an innovative HeartBit-enabled Frame on Farcaster or Open Action on Lens. -Build an app/Frame/OpenAction that allows people to mint and share HeartBits with their followers on Farcaster/Lens accounts. -Build a Frame/OpenAction mini-game leveraging HeartBits (e.g., click-based game)

Qualifications

-Include problem statement in README along with working demo link. -Use HeartBit SDK’s Gnosis relayer (to cover any fees) -(if applicable) Have a functioning app or published Farcaster Frame or Lens OpenAction that uses HeartBit. - smart contracts deployed on gnosis chain or chiado testnet

The Foundry template makes it easy to get started with both the on-chain and off-chain parts of a coprocessor application. This provides a starting point for building powerful new applications on Ethereum that offload computationally intensive (i.e. gas expensive), or would be difficult to implement Solidity.

Qualifications

Submissions should offload computation from on-chain to off-chain using the RISC Zero Foundry Template. Special consideration will be given to projects that utilize our View Call Proofs Library, a powerful primitive that enables developers to access Ethereum state from within the zkVM.

We are awarding $3,000.00 to the top projects that build an application using the RISC Zero zkVM. There are no specific use cases we are looking for, so be as creative as you’d like!

Qualifications

This is our most open-ended prize -- the only requirement is that your submission use the RISC Zero zkVM.

RISC Zero unlocks the ability to bring identity from anywhere on-chain. Bonsai Pay and zkKYC demonstrate the power of integrating Google and ID.me identities on-chain, by verifying JWTs within the zkVM. We believe this is just the beginning, and want to see teams take this further, by building on top of these demos or by integrating new sources of identity. We are awarding $2,000.00 to the top projects that build an application advancing on-chain identity with RISC Zero. Teams may use the Bonsai Pay, zkKYC, or jwt-validator examples as their starting points. Teams may also integrate new forms of identity, such as DKIM signatures, verified bank statements, digital passport documents, passkeys, key transparency trees, or any other source that will advance the state of on-chain identity. The award will be split between the best submissions. We look forward to seeing the creative ways in which developers integrate on-chain identity into their applications. Let's push the boundaries of what's possible with identity, leveraging the powerful new zkVM ecosystem!

Qualifications

We encourage you to use the JWT verification pattern that's used in Bonsai Pay and zkKYC, but we'll also consider other design patterns that help manage the problem of on-chain identity.

Avail DA is a robust DA base layer for developers to spin up fast, cheap, and secure rollups. Build your project that utilizes AvailDA’s expandable blobspace meaningfully or build a project that helps developer/user experience and improves the Avail ecosystem. - Use RISC Zero zkVM or co-processors and submit data to Avail DA. - Use Arbitrum Orbit with Avail DA's Orbit adapters to build your rollup. - Build a micro-rollup with Stackr SDK - Build an NFT marketing rollup built on Avail DA - Liquid Staking for Avail and many more ideas can be found in the cheatsheet below!

Qualifications

Only Eligible projects will qualify for the prizes: - Projects integrating Avail for data availability or using the Avail network in a meaningful way (with utility) are eligible. - Projects using Avail's light client P2P network are also eligible. - Projects building upon or improving any of Avail's existing tools and technologies are eligible. - Projects that expand Avail's ecosystem are eligible. - Needs to be a new project. Any pre-existing project MUST mention what has been done beforehand and explicitly state what was accomplished during the hackathon.

Avail allows anyone to spin up scalable and cheap rollups easily. We’ve created an Avail-powered OP Stack chain (EVM-compatible) for you to build and deploy your decentralized applications (dApps) with ease!Deploy your dApp/contracts on this optimium to be eligible for prizes. Most original, creative, and technically sound projects will have a chance at winning this bounty.

Qualifications

- Must deploy and verify contracts on Blockscout Explorer. - Must document the contract addresses on GitHub README. - Projects will be judged based on their originality, creativity, and technical feasibility.

This track focuses on helping create every day onchain interactions. Apps that everyone opens each day such as social/socialfi, entertainment, or loyalty systems. Ideas to build: * Loyalty points system to replace existing systems in retail. Incentivise users/customers to return to the platform by allowing them to earn points while using a specific protocol or project. * NFT Ticketing platform for online events. Build a dApp that allows for event platforms like Luma to build events and tickets on chain and use onchain verification methods to gate these events. Focus on making the experience as seamless as possible for both event organizers and event goers. Bring this to the real world by integrating geolocation and more. * Intellectual Property - allow creators to register or trademark their work on chain and share their creations via on chain licensing agreements. This can take the form of multiple types of media such as music, video, or art. * SocialFi - Take inspiration from existing socialfi dApps like Friend tech. How can you build your own version and improve upon the concept? Go beyond text and integrate use cases like video or voice communications based on key ownership. * Or come up with your own ideas not mentioned here and wow us, we’re looking for dApps that give us a reason to open them everyday and start interacting onchain.

Qualifications

- All submissions must include a deployed contract on Morph Testnet - A video demo and public Github repo must be available for review - Your video must include a successful onchain transaction on morph testnet - Link to your contract on the Morph Explorer (https://explorer-testnet.morphl2.io/)

Infrastructure, novel NFT use cases, RWA, AI and more! How can you push the limits of what can be built onchain? Ideas to build: - Token bound accounts(ERC 6551) bring new use cases for NFT’s on chain. Build with this standard in any way you like but consider: Token Bound Accounts controlled by AI agents. Apply it to gaming, initiating trades/swaps, or analyzing onchain data. - Create a proof of concept for RWA using the DN404 or ERC404 NFTs which combine the functionalities of ERC-20 and ERC-721 tokens and facilitate fractional ownership of NFTs which can be linked to Real World Assets. - Infrastructure and Developer tools - help other builders accelerate their development processes. Create tools to make deployment easier, or infrastructure for relayers and meta transactions, or improve existing tools that can be used on Morph. - Help non coders build their own ideas - no code tools are a great way to help builders who can’t code create new ideas. Think of ways to build no code tools for deploying onchain. - Come up with your own ideas not mentioned here and wow us, if you feel like your idea might not be fully possible, break down the parts that are needed to make it work and look into building those parts yourself. You’ll be helping both yourself and other builders in the ecosystem!

Qualifications

- All submissions must include a deployed contract on Morph Testnet - A video demo and public Github repo must be available for review - Your video must include a successful onchain transaction - Link to your contract on the Morph Explorer (https://explorer-testnet.morphl2.io/)

Three runner up teams will split a pool prize of $1000. See other tracks for ideas on what to build on Morph.

Qualifications

- All submissions must include a deployed contract on Morph Testnet - A video demo and public Github repo must be available for review - Your video must include a successful onchain transaction - Link to your contract on the Morph Explorer (https://explorer-testnet.morphl2.io/)

Create a dApp with a use case that leverages at least one of the aforementioned Neon EVM features: * Utilising micro transactions (the more txs the better). * Utilising cheap transaction cost. * Adapting an existing DeFi primitive to become a Neon-native dApp with some unique features.

Utilise our native transfer SDK (NeonEVM <-> Solana) by deploying an erc20forspl token and making a script/tool to transfer the tokens from Neon EVM to Solana and viceversa

Qualifications

All projects that use Neon Transfer SDK are eligible for this track

This prize celebrates the use of Nillion blind computation functionality. Use Nillion’s Nada programming language to develop blind computation programs that can solve real world problems between multiple parties. Here are some ideas and inspiration: - Secure voting for DAOs - Blind auctions - Secure orderbooks - Multi-player games (e.g. secure battleship)

Qualifications

- Write at least one PyNada program with SecretIntegers. - In your project README explain your team’s novel use of blind computation and explain your PyNada program logic. - After you submit your project, post your project’s EthGlobal showcase link in our Nillion dev community [Show and Tell Github Discussions forum](https://github.com/orgs/nillion-oss/discussions/categories/show-and-tell).

We are really excited to see the community build Nillion tech into their projects at Scaling Ethereum. Integrate Nillion’s secure store, retrieve and/or compute functionality into your app optimizing for great UX.

Qualifications

- Use the Python or JavaScript Nillion Client for storage, retrieval, and/or blind computation in your app with SecretBlobs and/or SecretIntegers. - In your project README explain your team’s use of Nillion. - After you submit your project, post your project’s EthGlobal showcase link in our Nillion dev community [Show and Tell Github Discussions forum](https://github.com/orgs/nillion-oss/discussions/categories/show-and-tell).

Prizes will be awarded to the best projects that leverage Powerloom. Winners will be selected based on: - Use Case importance and reputation (in defi) - Implementation quality and Complexity - Usefulness and innovation BONUS: Build a Front-end for the data you're generating using Powerloom.

Qualifications

- Must leverage Powerloom Snapshotter Node or Snapshotter API in some way - Showcase exceptional creativity, impact, and technical implementation. - Must be a new project built during the hackathon - Must be open-source and available on GitHub - Must have a clear and concise documentation - Must have a clear and concise README.md file

The Curvegrid Prize awards teams for using Curvegrid technology to accelerate their development. Since MultiBaas helps you build quicker on networks like Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Gnosis Chain, you can use it to speed up your pursuit of other prizes too! 🤫 Some ideas to consider: an NFT character game, a DeFi dashboard, the next SocialFi platform, or an ERC-4337 smart contract suite and toolkit. But don't just listen to us, we're excited to see your ideas!

Qualifications

The Curvegrid Prize will be awarded to the best projects that use MultiBaas. Judging is based on your idea, technical execution, and use of MultiBaas.

Witness empowers developers to create onchain-verifiable and composable proofs for data of any type or scale, across multiple blockchains, with a simple API and no upfront or dynamic onchain transactions fees. This protocol unlocks novel use cases at scale such as sovereign lazy minting/preminting, open edition NFTs, points, and more. Start using Witness in under 3 minutes using our Quickstart: https://docs.witness.co/quickstart#tldr

Qualifications

To be eligible for this prize, you must integrate the Witness API or Protocol into your hackathon submission. We will also consider contributions to any open source repos available on our Github: https://github.com/WitnessCo. If you're interested in ideas you can build with Witness, feel free to reach out to our team for some suggestions!