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    Filecoin

    Also appeared as Filecoin Foundation, Filecoin Orbit India Hackathon - IIIT Sri City, Filecoin/IPFS, IPFS/Filecoin

    Prizes on Devfolio and ETHGlobal

    Filecoin is a peer-to-peer network that enables reliable, decentralized file storage through built-in economic incentives and cryptographic proofs. Clients, or users, pay any number of storage providers, or data centers, to store the client's data, storage providers then provide cryptographic proofs daily as evidence to the clients that the data is still at the data center. Storage providers lock a certain amount of Filecoin as collateral, should they repeatedly fail to provide a proof, their collateral gets burned, serving as a strong deterrent from the data center losing the data.

    Prize money awarded
    $117,388
    Prizes
    144
    Winning projects
    140
    Hackathons
    16
    Largest prize
    $5,000
    Active
    2021–2025

    What they reward

    Tech their winners favour

    Share of Filecoin's winners using it, against all entries at the same hackathons.

    • filecoin43% of winners · 12% of entries
    • ipfs59% of winners · 20% of entries
    • chainlink21% of winners · 9% of entries
    • the-graph17% of winners · 9% of entries
    • polygon38% of winners · 22% of entries
    • hardhat25% of winners · 19% of entries
    • react47% of winners · 39% of entries

    Recurring prizes

    Tracks offered at more than one hackathon.

    • Prize Pool4 hackathons · about $5,750 · last 2022
    • Filecoin3 hackathons · about $247 · last 2023
    • Filecoin Track2 hackathons · about $12,500 · last 2025
    • First Place2 hackathons · about $2,250 · last 2022
    • Second Place2 hackathons · about $1,750 · last 2022
    • Third Place2 hackathons · about $2,250 · last 2022

    Hackathons

    1. Buenos Aires Nov 21–23, 2025$20KPresenter6$20K
    2. New Delhi Sep 26–28, 2025$10KGold5$10K
    3. ETHDenver 2024 Feb 23 – Mar 2, 2024$27.5K–1$5K
    4. ETHIndia 2023 Dec 8–10, 2023$20K–15$20K
    5. ETHSeoul 2023 Jun 2–4, 2023$5K–4$2.9K
    6. Filecoin Orbit India Hackathon - IIIT Sri City Apr 6 – Jun 3, 2023$500Organizer3$500
    7. Web3 init Mar 3 – Apr 3, 2023$250–0–
    8. Ur-Hackathon 2.0 Feb 17 – Mar 5, 2023$240–0–
    9. ETHforAll Feb 4–19, 2023$8K–13$8K
    10. LNMHacks 5.0 Jan 27–29, 2023$250–0–
    11. Unfold 2022 Aug 26–28, 2022$7.5K–13$6.5K
    12. ETHSeoul Aug 5–13, 2022$10.5K–6$10.5K
    13. ETHernals Feb 25 – Apr 3, 2022$10K–23$9.7K
    14. BUIDL IT Nov 19 – Dec 15, 2021$15K–25$10K
    15. ETHOdyssey Jul 2 – Aug 9, 2021$10K–16$10K
    16. ETHDenver & ColoradoJam 2021 Feb 5–12, 2021$4.3K–10$4.3K

    NFT Marketplace in an interactive 3D experience

    $13,000 · Polygon · 🥇 1st Place · +1 more

    A truly decentralized mobile-based NFT Marketplace with minimal UI, seamless transactions, and a web application for effortless generation of randomized NFTs.

    $11,000 · Polygon · 🛒 First Mobile NFT Marketplace - Vijay Shekhar Sharma · +3 more

    Enhancing Trust with Transparent On-Chain Audits

    $9,500 · Filecoin Foundation · Most impactful dApp-tooling built with the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) on Filecoin · +2 more

    Vercel for the decentralized web. Deploy to Filecoin + ENS. No single point of failure.

    $8,500 · Filecoin · Best storage innovation with Filecoin Onchain Cloud · +1 more

    DCM is a Decentralized marketplace to store & monetize datasets. Agents pay via x402.

    $7,000 · Filecoin · Best storage innovation with Filecoin Onchain Cloud · +1 more

    Decentralized end-to-end encrypted email using ENS identities and Filecoin storage.

    $6,500 · Filecoin · Best dApps powered by Filecoin Onchain Cloud · +1 more

    It is a platform that allows aspiring buidlers to submit a project proposal to a matching round in return for a potential grant from the community.

    $6,500 · Starkware · Winner · +1 more

    Decentralized peer review for experiments with type-specific reputation rewards

    $6,500 · Filecoin · Best storage innovation with Filecoin Onchain Cloud · +1 more

    Yield Farming for charity built on AAVE. Giving + AAVE = GAAVE

    $6,000 · ETHSeoul · Public Goods Track: Winner · +2 more

    A platform to shake up the music industry! Musomatic is a dApp to take the power from centralized organizations (like Spotify) and put it back into the hands of musicians.

    $5,000 · Polygon · NFT/Gaming Track: First Place · +1 more