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    Optimism

    Optimism started as a single L2 chain and evolved into the largest and fastest growing ecosystem with a mission to scale Ethereum's technology and values. The Superchain is a vision of a composable, unified network of blockchains that can support internet-level activity, powered by the MIT-licensed open source OP Stack. Get to know the OP Stack! It's a modular, scalable, and interoperable engine designed for all types of blockchain networks. The OP Stack is an Ethereum-aligned scaling solution, emphasizing parallel development, openness, and transparency. It’s the foundation of the Superchain and everything built within the ecosystem.

    Prize money awarded
    $108,500
    Prizes
    222
    Winning projects
    215
    Hackathons
    12
    Largest prize
    $8,000
    Active
    2021–2024

    What they reward

    Tech their winners favour

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

    • optimism64% of winners · 22% of entries
    • ethers13% of winners · 8% of entries
    • ens13% of winners · 8% of entries
    • ethereum35% of winners · 24% of entries
    • polygon37% of winners · 27% of entries
    • ipfs29% of winners · 23% of entries

    Recurring prizes

    Tracks offered at more than one hackathon.

    • Optimism4 hackathons · about $19,750 · last 2023

    Hackathons

    1. Superhack 2024 Aug 2–16, 2024$20KPresenter12$24.5K
    2. Frameworks Mar 22–24, 2024$5KPresenter4$5K
    3. Superhack Aug 4–18, 2023$24K–12$24K
    4. Autonomous Worlds May 18–26, 2023$10K–3$10K
    5. Lisbon May 12–14, 2023$20K–15$20K
    6. Scaling Ethereum 2023 Mar 10–31, 2023$25K–17$25K
    7. ETHSanFrancisco 2022 Nov 4–6, 2022––18–
    8. ETHBogotá Oct 7–9, 2022––18–
    9. ETHOnline 2022 Sep 2–28, 2022––10–
    10. ETHNewYork 2022 Jun 24–26, 2022––86–
    11. ETHAmsterdam Apr 22–24, 2022––18–
    12. UniCode Oct 29 – Nov 10, 2021––2–

    Here’s a wallet like you’ve never seen before—Google Drive for your assets. Organize and manage your assets with a directory structure, trade them, and even connect your directories to dApps.

    $27,549 · Conduit · Best Rollup on Conduit · +10 more

    Instant, tradeable, automated catastrophe bonds to help protect the world from natural disasters

    $11,037 · UMA · 🥇 UMA — Best Use · +7 more

    Reviewing deployed contracts? Tough! Even tougher in a multi-chain world. Based on our Operational Security experience at MakerDAO, we bring you On-Chain Review: a code viewer that visualizes deployed contracts across chains with trusted attestations from colleagues and auditors.

    $10,013 · Optimism · 🚀 Optimism — 🥇 Best Superchain Dev Tools & Infra · +4 more

    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

    RepoRewards is a cool blockchain-based platform designed to make rewarding open-source contributions on GitHub super easy and transparent.

    $9,549 · Optimism · Vote! · +4 more

    Developer tool for custom attestation schemas. Built on OP Stack for fast transactions, secured by Eigen DA, and leverages Worldcoin ID for user verification. Manage, monitor, and analyze attestations efficiently.

    $6,079 · Optimism · Just [improve] it · +3 more

    The Vanna Blockchain is a layer 2 rollup on Ethereum that supports direct, native, and verified AI and ML model inferences directly made from smart contracts.

    $5,000 · Optimism · 🖖 Optimism — Best OP Stack Fork

    Opclave is an OP Stack improvement with ERC-4337 compatible SC accounts that uses signatures abstracted with AppleEnclave which allows users to create and use non-custodial wallets with touch/face id without having seed phrases

    $5,000 · Optimism · 🥇 Optimism — Hack the Stack · +1 more

    A hardhat plugin that allows developers to deploy contracts to exact same addresses and verify them on multiple networks (superchain or any EVM compatible network) with few commands.

    $4,000 · Optimism · 🚀 Optimism — 🥈 Best Superchain Dev Tools & Infra · +2 more