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

UMA
Also appeared as UMA & Across
UMA is an Optimistic Oracle for Web3 that can verify any statement proposed on the blockchain. Using economic incentives, the OO tells smart contracts “things about the world” so contracts and markets asking for that data can be settled.
- Prize money awarded
- $76,500
- Prizes
- 107
- Winning projects
- 105
- Hackathons
- 14
- Largest prize
- $6,000
- Active
- 2021–2023
What they reward
Tech their winners favour
Share of UMA's winners using it, against all entries at the same hackathons.
Recurring prizes
Tracks offered at more than one hackathon.
- UMA5 hackathons · about $10,000 · last 2023
- UMA & Across2 hackathons · about $10,000 · last 2023
Hackathons
- Istanbul Nov 17–19, 2023$10KPillar5–
- ETHOnline 2023 Oct 6–27, 2023$10KPillar24$10K
- New York Sep 22–24, 2023$10KPillar12$10K
- Paris Jul 21–23, 2023$10KPillar9$10K
- Waterloo Jun 23–25, 2023$10K–8$10K
- Lisbon May 12–14, 2023$10K–2$7K
- Tokyo Apr 14–16, 2023$10K–8$13K
- Scaling Ethereum 2023 Mar 10–31, 2023$10K–12$16.5K
- ETHSanFrancisco 2022 Nov 4–6, 2022––12–
- ETHBogotá Oct 7–9, 2022––3–
- ETHOnline 2022 Sep 2–28, 2022––3–
- ETHNewYork 2022 Jun 24–26, 2022––3–
- ETHAmsterdam Apr 22–24, 2022––3–
- ETHOnline 2021 Sep 17 – Oct 14, 2021––1–
Winners
All 105 winning projects →Instant, tradeable, automated catastrophe bonds to help protect the world from natural disasters
Chaser leverages Graph protocol subgraphs and the UMA optimistic oracle to facilitate advanced investment strategies with historical DeFi data
If your flight is cancelled, we pay you immediately. Papantla: Insurance without intermediaries...On-chain insurance claim settlement for flights, using oracles for API communication and storing information in smart contract and Polybase database.
Solving the address mapping problem in a backwards-compatible way.
A novel approach to P2P funding for de-centralized science using ERC-6551.
Send money on Ethereum Mainnet with transfers costing from zero to 4 cents
Onboarding the next billion users onto blockchain across mobile, Discord, Slack, and Telegram!
Enable encryption and decryption of data based on a custom combination of cross chain and natural language statements.
Dark Optimistic Oracle akin to UMA, but with secret voting for extra protection against corruption
Attestation of AI query and answer is important. Use cases range from financial accountability, medical record keeping and many other. Uses on-chain optimistic oracles to attest the authenticity of results. It works even when non-deterministic AI models are used.
Building Zero Knowledge based Metamask for personal browsing history





















