Gnosis Chain

Also appeared as Gnosis, Gnosis Chain & Gateway, GnosisChain

Prizes on Devfolio and ETHGlobal

Gnosis Chain is one of the first Ethereum sidechains and has stayed true to its values. By allowing contributors around the globe to easily run a node, Gnosis Chain is secured by over 140k validators. Its diverse validator set and the community governance ensure Gnosis Chain remains credibly neutral at a much lower price point than mainnet.

gnosis.io ↗@gnosischain ↗

Prize money awarded: $168,850
Prizes: 118
Winning projects: 114
Hackathons: 20
Largest prize: $8,000
Active: 2022–2024

What they reward

Tech their winners favour

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

hardhat19% of winners · 9% of entries
arbitrum12% of winners · 6% of entries
account-abstraction14% of winners · 7% of entries
solidity38% of winners · 22% of entries
ethers11% of winners · 7% of entries
typescript12% of winners · 8% of entries
the-graph11% of winners · 9% of entries

Recurring prizes

Tracks offered at more than one hackathon.

Gnosis Chain8 hackathons · about $16,125 · last 2023

Hackathons

HackathonPoolTierWinning projectsPaid
San Francisco Oct 18–20, 2024$10KPresenter0–
Singapore Sep 20–22, 2024$10KPresenter1$2K
Scaling Ethereum 2024 Apr 5–26, 2024$11KPresenter10$11K
London Mar 15–17, 2024$10KPresenter5$9.3K
Istanbul Nov 17–19, 2023$20KPresenter26$7K
New York Sep 22–24, 2023$20KPresenter17$8K
Paris Jul 21–23, 2023$20KPresenter5$18K
ETHBarcelona Jul 7–9, 2023$5.6K–3$5.6K
Waterloo Jun 23–25, 2023$20K–6$20K
ETHPrague 2023 Jun 9–11, 2023$12K–3$12K
ETHSeoul 2023 Jun 2–4, 2023$20K–4$18K
Lisbon May 12–14, 2023$20K–6$20K
Tokyo Apr 14–16, 2023$20K–5$20K
Scaling Ethereum 2023 Mar 10–31, 2023$20K–4$18K
ETHIndia 2022 Dec 2–4, 2022$5K–0–
ETHIndia 2022 Dec 2–4, 2022––5–
ETHSanFrancisco 2022 Nov 4–6, 2022––3–
ETHBogotá Oct 7–9, 2022––6–
ETHMexico Aug 19–21, 2022––2–
ETHNewYork 2022 Jun 24–26, 2022––3–

Winners

All 114 winning projects →

Bounce

Non-custodial real world NFC card peer to peer payments based on PoS terminals.

$15,997 · Aave Grants DAO · 🥇 Aave — Best Use of GHO · +8 more

ZKredentials

ZKredentials: Decentralized, trustless resume verification for anon devs. Powered by zk-SNARKs, Ethereum & IPFS. Showcase skills, maintain privacy, & prove expertise in a secure ecosystem. Join our mission to revolutionize talent discovery & validation!

$13,760 · Gnosis Chain · 🥇 Gnosis Chain — Best Use · +6 more

zBay

zBay revolutionizes online marketplaces by decentralizing eBay, empowering merchants and buyers. It enables seamless data and reputation import from eBay, secure escrow, XMTP chat, and transparent dispute resolution using the Uma optimistic oracle

$13,300 · Gnosis Chain · 🥇 Gnosis Chain — Best Use · +7 more

Cove

Simple, reliable, open-source contract verification built for an L2 centric Ethereum ecosystem

$10,500 · Gnosis Chain · 🥇 Gnosis Chain — Most Innovative · +2 more

SuperPlay

Your gateway to web3 gaming. Hassle-free onboarding with email registration and gas-less transactions with Safe and Superfluid. Try out new games today!

$10,037 · Gnosis Chain · 🥈 Gnosis Chain — Best Use · +5 more

Brian

Brian simplifies complex concepts and builds transactions in plain English. Empowering users with accessible Web3 knowledge.

$10,000 · Aave Grants DAO · Best GHO Hack · +4 more

Natural Chain - AI Toolkit for the Blockchain

NaturalChain is an AI Toolkit that empowers users to interact with the EVM ecosystem using natural language, facilitating tasks such as the creation and deployment of Smart Contracts, querying subgraphs from The Graph, or using the JSON-RPC API.

$9,711 · Gnosis Chain · 🥇 Gnosis Chain — Best Use · +7 more