Calling all buidlers, degens, and crypto curious for the Network Effects Hackathon!

Hosted in person by AleoNfx, Celo, and Spanning Labs, this hackathon will serve as a perfect workspace for teams focused on building past a specific chain and in a comfy space with some stellar support, resources, and (did we mention) food & drink?

Over $30,000 in awards are available for hacks focused on multichain and zk proof applications.

Schedule, all times in PST

Friday, 11/4 (in-person)

4:30 PM - Space is open for teams and individuals

5:30 PM - Opening remarks, introductions, prize category announcements

6:00 PM - Team formation

Dinner to be served.

11:00 PM - Office closes

 

Saturday, 11/5 (in-person)

8:30 AM - Office opens

9:00 AM - Breakfast

9:30 AM - Spanning Labs Workshop and Multichain Office Hourse

11:00 - Why Build Multichain?

11:30 - Zero-to-One Leo Talk

Lunch & Dinner to be served.

11:00 PM - Office closes

 

Sunday, 11/6 (Virtual)

11:00 AM - Submissions are due

2:00 PM - Winners announced

Requirements

What to Build

Category descriptions can be found in the opening remarks presentation.

What to Submit

Please submit a video presentation showing off as much as possible below:

  • The problem you are solving
  • What you built
  • A description of how it works (i.e., architecture diagrams)
  • A demo of it working

If there is shareable code from your project, please also share a public GitHub repository as well.

An template presentation that can be used as a loose guide is available here.

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Prizes

$30,000 in prizes
Best Custom Multichain App
1 winner

Best Multichain NFT App
1 winner

Best Multichain Token App
1 winner

Greg Maxwell’s Zero Knowledge Contingent Payments
1 winner

Private Election
1 winner

Zero Knowledge Shuffle
1 winner

Most Sustainable Business Model
1 winner

This will be delivered as 1 month of free office space for your team out of the NFX's San Francisco offices.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Prateek Shah

Prateek Shah
CTO - Spanning Labs

Morgan Beller

Morgan Beller
Partner - NFX

Michael Beller

Michael Beller
CFO - Aleo

Priyanka Mathialagan

Priyanka Mathialagan
President - Standford Blockchain Club

Judging Criteria

  • Uniquely Enabled by Multichain - Spanning prizes only
    How uniquely enabled is the use case by multichain architectures? Could this be built on a single blockchain/network?
  • Sustainability of Business Model - all prizes
    Does this solve a real problem with a viable market and use case? (i.e., not just a technical problem)
  • Uniqueness - all prizes
    How unique is the technical approach taken to solve the problem tackled?
  • Design - all prizes
    Both aesthetics and UX. Is it clear how to use the project and what problem it solves without having it explained to you?
  • Greg Maxwell’s Zero Knowledge Contingent Payments - Aleo prizes only
    Whether the Goal has been achieved, and extra consideration will be given the more above the minimum requirements an applicant is able to achieve.
  • Private Election - Aleo prizes only
    Whether the Goal has been achieved, and extra consideration will be given the more above the minimum requirements an applicant is able to achieve.
  • Zero Knowledge Shuffle - Aleo prizes only
    Whether the Goal has been achieved, and extra consideration will be given the more above the minimum requirements an applicant is able to achieve.

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