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    Protocol Labs

    Also appeared as Filecoin, Filecoin & IPFS, IPFS & Filecoin, IPFS / Filecoin

    The World Needs More Builders. Protocol Labs invests in the people rewriting how the world works. Protocol Labs is an innovation network driving breakthroughs in computing, to push humanity forward. PL connects more than 600 tech startups, funds, accelerators, foundations, open source projects, service providers, and other organizations. Their work spans the entire R&D pipeline, across fields like web3, AI, AR, VR, BCI, hardware, and more.

    Prize money awarded
    $325,760
    Prizes
    517
    Winning projects
    503
    Hackathons
    29
    Largest prize
    $10,000
    Active
    2022–2025

    What they reward

    Tech their winners favour

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

    • ipfs64% of winners · 20% of entries
    • filecoin33% of winners · 11% of entries
    • polygon31% of winners · 19% of entries
    • the-graph11% of winners · 7% of entries

    Recurring prizes

    Tracks offered at more than one hackathon.

    • Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM)3 hackathons · about $10,000 · last 2023
    • Privacy Tools2 hackathons · about $2,500 · last 2024
    • Most meaningful use of Interplanetary Consensus for scalability2 hackathons · about 7,500 FIL · last 2024
    • Filecoin, IPFS & more2 hackathons · about $20,000 · last 2023

    Hackathons

    1. Buenos Aires Nov 21–23, 2025$20KPresenter4$20K
    2. Prague May 30 – Jun 1, 2025$5KRuby3$5K
    3. Bangkok Nov 15–17, 2024$20KPresenter12$20K
    4. Brussels Jul 12–14, 2024$20KPresenter6$20K
    5. HackFS 2024 May 17 – Jun 7, 2024$40KTitle21$38K
    6. Scaling Ethereum 2024 Apr 5–26, 2024$15KPresenter11–
    7. London Mar 15–17, 2024$20KPresenter12–
    8. ETHIndia 2023 Dec 8–10, 2023$20KPresenter15$20K
    9. Istanbul Nov 17–19, 2023$20KPresenter13–
    10. ETHOnline 2023 Oct 6–27, 2023$10KPillar5$9.5K
    11. New York Sep 22–24, 2023$20KPresenter12$18.8K
    12. Paris Jul 21–23, 2023$20KPresenter11$20K
    13. Waterloo Jun 23–25, 2023$10K–12$10K
    14. HackFS 2023 Jun 2–21, 2023$22K–12$19.5K
    15. Lisbon May 12–14, 2023$10K–10$4K
    16. Tokyo Apr 14–16, 2023$10K–5$10K
    17. Scaling Ethereum 2023 Mar 10–31, 2023$10K–5$10K
    18. FVM Space Warp Jan 20 – Feb 10, 2023$30K–33$101K
    19. ETHIndia 2022 Dec 2–4, 2022––20–
    20. Hack FEVM Nov 18–20, 2022––19–
    21. ETHSanFrancisco 2022 Nov 4–6, 2022––12–
    22. ETHBogotá Oct 7–9, 2022––22–
    23. ETHMexico Aug 19–21, 2022––17–
    24. HackFS 2022 Jul 8–29, 2022––55–
    25. ETHNewYork 2022 Jun 24–26, 2022––14–
    26. ETHAmsterdam Apr 22–24, 2022––14–
    27. DAOHacks Apr 8–10, 2022––34–
    28. BuildQuest Mar 4–16, 2022––19–
    29. NFTHack 2022 Jan 14–16, 2022––75–

    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.

    $15,943 · UNLIMIT · 🥇 Unlimit — Best App · +10 more

    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

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

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

    Proof of learning AI training platform that uses Filecoin for dataset storage, Phala TEE for proof verification and Flare Network for data collection and price feeds.

    $10,577 · Flare Network · Best Usecase of Flare's enshrined Data Protocols · +3 more

    Cat In A Box is a DeSci and Social Fi platform empowering anyone to participate in community science and decentralized experiments. It incentivizes users to share private health data securely and engage in citizen science projects tailored to their interests.

    $10,077 · Protocol Labs · Filecoin Foundation: Storage & Retrieval · +4 more

    DealFlow: Unlocking Decentralized File Storage on Filecoin with Seamless Autonomy, Verifiable Security, and Robust, Scalable Solutions for Users and Storage Providers. Experience the Future of File Storage with IPC, Stablecoin Payments, and Easy Retrieval—All on-chain

    $10,023 · Filecoin · Best use of Filecoin or the FVM · +1 more

    An FEVM TheGraph-like Events indexer. Index Smart Contracts Events on demand, so they can be used within dApps. Start, Pause and Stop indexing smart contracts; Fault tolerance to service crashes; Automatically generate an Handler code for events, given an ABI; Much more;

    $10,000 · Filecoin · Filecoin 🛸 FVM Spaceships

    zkAlpha connects quant traders and liquidity providers w/o revealing the strategy trustlessly through the use of ZKML.

    $9,733 · Filecoin · Filecoin, IPFS & more · +6 more