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    Optimism

    Prizes on Devfolio and ETHGlobal

    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
    $136,000
    Prizes
    236
    Winning projects
    229
    Hackathons
    15
    Largest prize
    $8,000
    Active
    2021–2025

    What they reward

    Tech their winners favour

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

    • optimism66% of winners · 21% of entries
    • ens12% of winners · 8% of entries
    • polygon35% of winners · 24% of entries
    • ethers12% of winners · 8% of entries
    • ethereum34% of winners · 24% of entries
    • ipfs28% of winners · 21% of entries

    Recurring prizes

    Tracks offered at more than one hackathon.

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

    Hackathons

    1. ETHDenver 2025 Feb 23 – Mar 1, 2025$40K–7$17.5K
    2. Superhack 2024 Aug 2–16, 2024$20KPresenter12$24.5K
    3. ETHPrague 2024 May 31 – Jun 2, 2024$5K–2$5K
    4. Frameworks Mar 22–24, 2024$5KPresenter4$5K
    5. Superhack Aug 4–18, 2023$24K–12$24K
    6. ETHPrague 2023 Jun 9–11, 2023$5K–5$5K
    7. Autonomous Worlds May 18–26, 2023$10K–3$10K
    8. Lisbon May 12–14, 2023$20K–15$20K
    9. Scaling Ethereum 2023 Mar 10–31, 2023$25K–17$25K
    10. ETHSanFrancisco 2022 Nov 4–6, 2022––18–
    11. ETHBogotá Oct 7–9, 2022––18–
    12. ETHOnline 2022 Sep 2–28, 2022––10–
    13. ETHNewYork 2022 Jun 24–26, 2022––86–
    14. ETHAmsterdam Apr 22–24, 2022––18–
    15. 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

    Empowering Local Communities: Share, Invest, Thrive. Peer Up: Decentralized resource sharing, P2P tools & equipment lending, yield farming, activism, and governance.

    $10,833 · zkSync ∎ · Bounties · +4 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

    VeraSwap is a cross-chain DEX that abstracts swapping and bridging for any token to simplify token adoption and alleviate fragmented liquidity

    $10,000 · Divvi · NextGen DeFi UX: Build a Mobile DeFi Consumer App · +2 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

    We built a novel interchain bridging solution powered by Eigenlayer to address liquidity fragmentation, that allows successful cross chain token transfer in less than 12 seconds.

    $9,500 · EigenLayer · Best use of EigenLayer AVS · +2 more

    The first Superpowered AI agent for the Superchain and the last DeFAi app you'll ever use.

    $8,500 · Uniswap · DeFi Innovation on Unichain · +2 more

    Banks hate us, borrowers and solvers love us. Now borrowers can access funds from solver networks

    $7,000 · Optimism · Prototype a Superchain Superpower · +4 more

    Contracts for Difference (CFD) Decentralized Exchange using a novel “Flash Collateral Trillions” borrowing of non-existent funds for efficient liquidations

    $6,509 · Mantle · 🥇 Mantle — Best Use · +5 more