About the challenge
Join the community of developers, gather together in a team and show us how good you are!
We are looking for smart individuals and teams, from all over the world, who excel at functional programming. You are invited to learn more about æternity and to explore our unique Smart Contract language Sophia!
To grow the developer community ecosystem we want you to build meaningful decentralized applications that drive user adoption.
You identified an important missing piece in our ecosystem? Build it and have the chance to win a prize of up to $15,000!
Timeline
| Date | Event | Details |
| 01.08.2022 | Start of the Hæckathon | Sign up, join the community, find a team, generate an idea & start hæcking! |
| 16./17.09.2022 | Hæckathon Finale |
Originally planned 17./18.09. in a hybrid format on-site at CryptoCastle & with remote participants. We decided to do it 100% remote now. Friday, 16.09.2022
Saturday, 17.09.2022
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| 18.09.2022 | Submission Deadline |
Complete the submission form BEFORE 11:59 PM. |
| 19.09.2022 - 25.09.2022 |
Judging Period & Community Voting |
The judges will review all submissions and determine the winners. The community will vote on their favorite projects and decide which team wins the Community Choice Award. |
| 26.09.2022 | Winner announcement |
We'll officially announce the winners of the Hæckathon. Good luck! |
Presentations, Demos, Q&A
Following presentations have been organized. You can also access the whole playlist on YouTube:
| Date | Time (CEST) | Title | Presenter | Links |
| Tue, 23.08.2022 | 06:00 PM | Welcome & Introduction |
Marco Walz |
Video, Slides |
| Wed, 24.08.2022 | 06:00 PM | Code, test and deploy Smart Contracts using AEProject |
Philipp |
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| Wed, 24.08.2022 | 06:45 PM | Full power of Sophia with REPL |
Radosław Rowicki |
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| Wed, 24.08.2022 | 07:30 PM | Create Fungible Tokens in 3 easy steps using AEX-9 |
Philipp |
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| Fr, 26.08.2022 | 06:00 PM | Superhero DEX: How to add liquidity for your preferred token |
Keno Dreßel |
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| Fr, 26.08.2022 | 06:45 PM | How to make an NFT on æternity blockchain using AEX-141 |
Marco Walz |
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| Fr, 26.08.2022 | 07:30 PM | Create your dApp with our Web3 Starter-Kit |
Badi Ifaoui |
Contact & Support Channels
- Forum: https://forum.aeternity.com
- Discord: https://discord.gg/55f8F2jZq4
- Telegram:
- https://t.me/aeternity (Official)
- https://t.me/aeternityuniverse (Æternity Universe Two)
About æternity
Engineered to scale and last, æternity is an easily accessible blockchain platform for the global public. With numerous innovative functionalities and performance far ahead of earlier blockchains, æternity allows its users and community to seamlessly venture into the new era of society, economy, and digital interactions.
At its core, æternity is a blockchain protocol and a smart contract platform that goes beyond what traditional blockchains do. It is designed to be fault-tolerant and perfect for cases with billions of transactions in DeFi and more.
Read more at https://aeternity.com!
Requirements
What to Build
There are no limitations!
Any decentralized application that you think can drive ecosystem growth and user adoption can be submitted!
In case you really need some hints, here is a list of topics:
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Crowdfunding
- Trading
- Lending / Borrowing
- Staking
- Insurance
- Prediction Markets
- Cross-Chain Atomic Swaps
- Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
- Minting Solution / Launchpad
- Marketplaces
- Borrowing
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
- Gaming
- Social networks
More specific and æternity feature related uses cases
- AENS Marketplace for trading names
- Meta transactions via "PayingForTx"
- Provide an easy to use service that can handle signed transactions from users and pay their tx fee
- Oracles
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Price oracles (data feeds)
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Random Number Generator (RNG)
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Crowd based oracles for decision making
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(Reliable) data oracles by calling a generic API (e.g. Wheather, Flight delay)
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- State-Channels
- Pay-per-use
- Video on-demand (á la Netflix)
- Scientific Papers, pay only for parts you read
- Decentralized General Payment Provider (á la Visa/Mastercard)
- Open a channel with payment provider to pay the service provider (e.g. coffee shop, online service, train ticket, ...)
- Patreon/Twitch/OnlyFans clone
- Content producer delivers content and users pay if they like
- Content itself could also be transmitted via State Channel
- Pay-per-use
- Generalized Accounts
- (Social) recovery options
- Spending limits
- Multi-sig solutions
- Usage of an alternative signature algorithm
What to Submit
- Project name and a list of all team members
- A description of what your project does and why you decided to build it
- Demo video or presentation slides.
- Your video should be around 3 minutes long and include a demo of your working project. (Videos must be made publicly visible)
- Access to your GitHub code repository
- Complete submission form
- Provide all of the required fields on your Devpost submission form, BEFORE the final deadline on September 18, 2022, at 11:59 PM CET
Prizes
$30,000 in prizes
Prizes paid in cryptocurrency
1st place
• $15,000 worth of Æ coins
• Feature in an official blog post announcing the winning submissions
2nd place
• $8,000 worth of Æ coins
• Feature in an official blog post announcing the winning submissions
3rd place
• $5,000 worth of Æ coins
• Feature in an official blog post announcing the winning submissions
Community Choice Award
• $2,500 worth of Æ coins
• Feature in an official blog post announcing the winning submissions
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Benjamin Huskic
CTO / aeternity
Omar Saadoun
CMO / aeternity
Marco Walz
Lead Developer Relations / aeternity
Yanislav Malahov
Founder / aeternity
Judging Criteria
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Potential impact
How will this project impact the growth of the æternity ecosystem? -
Functionality and code quality
How well does the project work and how well is it written? -
Documentation
How well is the project documented? -
Go-to-market strategy
Provide us a path to bring your idea to the market. Let us and the community know about a potential go-to-market strategy!
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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