Wallet abstraction enables instant single click onboarding of a user. With nothing but a smartphone using the power of account abstraction with passkeys. generate passkeys credentials, create its smart acount, mint a NFT, all in a single click ! The wallet is invisible.

Arbitrum
Designed with you in mind, Arbitrum empowers you to explore and build on the leading Layer 2 in the largest Layer 1 ecosystem, Ethereum. Arbitrum continues to accelerate the Web3 landscape with a suite of scaling solutions that provide high-throughput, low-cost smart contracts, backed by industry-leading proving technology rooted in Ethereum.
- Prize money awarded
- $152,397
- Prizes
- 387
- Winning projects
- 364
- Hackathons
- 8
- Largest prize
- $4,000
- Active
- 2023–2025
What they reward
Tech their winners favour
Share of Arbitrum's winners using it, against all entries at the same hackathons.
Recurring prizes
Tracks offered at more than one hackathon.
- Stylus Project3 hackathons · about $6,333 · last 2024
- Most Original3 hackathons · about $2,167 · last 2024
- DeSoc2 hackathons · about $3,000 · last 2024
- Qualifying Arbitrum Submissions2 hackathons · about $3,000 · last 2024
- Best Library / Framework2 hackathons · about $5,000 · last 2023
- Best Stylus Project2 hackathons · about $5,000 · last 2023
- Best Technology2 hackathons · about $2,500 · last 2023
- Pool Prize2 hackathons · about $5,000 · last 2023
Hackathons
- Agentic Ethereum Jan 31 – Feb 14, 2025$10KGold6$10K
- Bangkok Nov 15–17, 2024$20KPresenter12$20K
- Brussels Jul 12–14, 2024$20KPresenter10$20K
- Scaling Ethereum 2024 Apr 5–26, 2024$20KPresenter74$14K
- London Mar 15–17, 2024$20KPresenter70$14K
- ETHIndia 2023 Dec 8–10, 2023$20KPresenter19$20K
- Istanbul Nov 17–19, 2023$20KPresenter115$20K
- New York Sep 22–24, 2023$20KPresenter58$34.4K
Winners
All 364 winning projects →We built Shortcuts, a better way to DeFi. What are Shortcuts? They are human-readable addresses that anyone can send ETH to directly from their wallets and do things like bridging, minting, earning, swapping & leveraging.
P2P swaps market based on onchain wire transfer confirmation
Web 3 plugin and generator for enabling blockchain links and actions anywhere on the web.
Making DAOs safer and more accessible by automating code generation with AI
Enabling non-collateralized and instant loans through SocialFi and game theory.
Sarma: simple primitive to achieve private execution on EVM, even cross-chain.
A novel approach to P2P funding for de-centralized science using ERC-6551.
Decentralized physical asset tracking using AirTags and blockchain storage and messaging
Piggy Wallet: Kids' crypto savings app. Featuring time-locked savings, USDC auto-swaps, goals, task bounties, AI coach, parental controls. Combats hyperinflation, boosts financial literacy.
Arbitrum Stylus allows you to import third party libraries in your favorite language into your smart contract. But that doesn't mean that they'll always work. Enter Dependency Verifier - A tool to tell you what libraries you can or can't use!
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