Chainlink Fall 2022 Hackathon
Smart contract developers are reinventing applications in finance, gaming, insurance, art, and many more industries, creating a system that executes contracts based on mathematical certainty. Chainlink decentralized oracle networks are at the center of this evolution, enabling developers to leverage high-quality data from APIs and other data sources along with powerful off-chain computation resources to build the next generation of smart contract applications.
Whether you need secure market data for a DeFi app, verifiable randomness for a blockchain-based game, or low-cost off-chain computation to automate various contract functions, Chainlink’s flexible oracle infrastructure provides developers with the extensive suite of decentralized services they need to build more feature-rich dApps.
This year’s Chainlink Fall 2022 Hackathon aims to empower developers of all skill levels to use Chainlink oracle networks to build decentralized applications that address a wide range of use cases and realize the full potential of hybrid smart contracts. Get hands-on experience with smart contracts, a fast onboarding to the Chainlink tech stack, workshops with top engineers, exposure to blockchain career opportunities, and a chance to win prizes from a total pool of $300K+
Past Chainlink hackathons have seen individuals and teams build hybrid smart contract applications that have redefined what dApps can do. For this event, we want to see even more creative applications that leverage the full power of Chainlink solutions.
Hackathon participants will have an entire month to explore, experiment, and build together, as well as the opportunity to meet top developers from Chainlink Labs, who will be available to check out their work, offer feedback, and give a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what it’s like to build at the cutting edge of the smart contract industry.
The official hackathon runs from October 19th to November 18th, 2022. See below for more details about the event, including the prizes on offer and potential building opportunities.
Some important reminders:
- Project submission dates: October 19 - November 18 @ 11:59pm ET
- Closing Ceremony: December 2nd, 2022
- The Hackathon workshop schedule is available here.
What is Chainlink?
Chainlink is the industry standard for building, accessing, and selling oracle services needed to power hybrid smart contracts on any blockchain. Chainlink oracle networks provide smart contracts with a way to reliably connect to any external API and leverage secure off-chain computations for enabling feature-rich applications.
Chainlink Data Feeds provide a large collection of streaming market data. Developers can currently integrate easy-to-deploy code to retrieve Data Feeds for crypto assets, commodities, FOREX, and more market data, opening up a huge number of potential applications.
If you’re looking to call a specific API or type of data, build a straightforward External Adapter to call the API to your Solidity smart contract. Creating a new External Adapter is a fantastic hackathon project for those new to Chainlink, and can add a unique identity to projects from veteran smart contract developers.
A popular solution for gaming, ticketing, and many other use cases, Chainlink VRF provides developers access to provably random numbers, enabling them to build any type of app that needs transparent and secure RNG (random number generation) on-chain.
Chainlink Automation enables conditional execution of your smart contracts functions through a hyper-reliable and decentralized automation platform that uses the same external network of node operators that secures billions in value.
Creativity is your only limiting factor—Chainlink empowers your smart contracts with any data source you can think of in a secure manner, allowing you to build end-to-end decentralized, secure, and reliable applications.
Register today and gear up with Chainlink hackathon resources
To help maximize the success of projects, hackathon participants will be provided with direct access to experienced mentors and technical support, extensive educational materials for learning about off-chain services, live workshops showcasing how to use Chainlink, and much more. We also encourage you to join the hackathon channel in the official Chainlink Discord to meet other hackers and to explore our collection of developer resources below:
If you want to kickstart your blockchain development journey and #BuildWithChainlink to realize the full potential of hybrid smart contracts, sign up below to secure your spot today for the Chainlink Fall 2022 Hackathon. This is our biggest hackathon yet and is poised to spur a major wave of innovation across DeFi, the NFT economy, and the larger smart contract ecosystem. As always, we can’t wait to see what you build.
PS: See the Sponsor Challenges tab for details on the prize breakdown - each sponsor has its own challenge statement & prize breakdown.
Requirements
Each project must use Chainlink in some form to make a state change on a blockchain, otherwise it will not be eligible for the Chainlink core prizes. This means that a front end simply reading from Chainlink data feeds doesn't count. Using one of Chainlink Data Feeds, Chainlink VRF, Chainlink Automation, or Chainlink API Calls inside your smart contracts is required.
For sponsor prizes, you do not have to use Chainlink - but to make your project as best as it can be using the materials here, it is recommended you do!
Projects must have been created during the duration of the hackathon, and not previously.
Prizes
$376,500 in prizes
Prizes paid in cryptocurrency
Chainlink Grand Prize - $25,000
$25,000 USD in LINK
Chainlink NFT & Gaming - $15,000
$15,000 USD in LINK
Chainlink DeFi Prize - $15,000
$15,000 USD in LINK
Chainlink DAO Prize - $10,000
$10,000 USD in LINK
Chainlink Social Impact Prize - $10,000
$10,000 USD in LINK
Chainlink Women in Tech Prize - $10,000
$10,000 USD in LINK
Chainlink Services - First Place - $7,000
$7,000 USD in LINK
Chainlink Services - Second Place - $4,000
$4,000 USD in LINK
Chainlink Services - Third Place - $2,000
$2,000 USD in LINK
Chainlink Top Quality Projects - $20,000
(40)
$500 USD in LINK for the next top 40 submissions
Filecoin - *General* StorageWizard - 10,000
*General* StorageWizard: The best use of NFT.storage or web3.storage to use IPFS for content addressing and Filecoin for persistent, decentralized storage. Use of other tooling may also qualify*. *For details about eligibility criteria please see this page: https://ecosystem-wg.notion.site/Filecoin-IPFS-Hackathon-Judging-Criteria-fb29da31431c4c8da1be6c30e1d0ef82
1st place = $10,000
2nd place = $7,500
3rd place = $5,000
Filecoin - *Bonus* Web3Fy - $5,000
*Bonus* Web3Fy: Best Hack Project We’ll Use Every Day that uses IPFS, Filecoin, Libp2p (e.g., chat app with p2p, social network or social media tools, web scrapers, personal management systems (calendars, maps etc.), coffee maker, thermostat, IoT, home automation)
1st Place = $5,000 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
2nd Place = $2,500 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
Filecoin - *Bonus* Social Good Warrior - $5,000
*Bonus* Social Good Warrior: Best Use of IPFS/Filecoin for social good (e.g., sustainability, tackling the energy & logistic crises, preventing misinformation). Teams may create an oracle for Filecoin Green data, use Arbol data or build tools to establish information provenance.
1st place = $5,000 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
2nd place = $2,500 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
Filecoin - *Bonus* On the Tools - $5,000
*Bonus* On the Tools: Best tooling to ease storage or retrieval of Filecoin data for use in CL Oracles. For example for use with scientific data or for AI/ ML or IOT integrations or for oraclizing Filecoin chain events.
1st place = $5,000 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
2nd place = $2,500 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
Filecoin - *Bonus* Gaming, Metaverse, Daos & NFTs (Oh My!) - $5,000
*Bonus* Gaming, Metaverse, Daos & NFTs (Oh My!): Best use of IPFS or Filecoin for NFTs, DAO Tooling, Gaming or the Metaverse (e.g., archiving, provenance connections, aggregation, tooling)
1st place = $5,000 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
2nd place = $2,500 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
Filecoin - *Bonus* Computer Over Data - $5,000
*Computer over Data* : Best use of project Bacalhau to process data on IPFS. Please see bit.ly/bacalhau-hackathon to get started. Bonus points for processing larger datasets. Preferred topics (but not limited to): decentralized science (DeSci) research, oracle integration (e.g. Chainlink, API3), application of latest AI/ML techniques (e.g. latent diffusion). http://bit.ly/bacalhau-hackathon
1st Place = $5,000 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
2nd Place = $2,500 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
Filecoin *Bonus* DeFi Magician
*Bonus* DeFi Magician: Best use of IPFS/FIL for DeFi, such as decentralised AMM, lending protocols, wallets, insurance, stablecoins (great to combine with Chainlink Oracles or Price Feeds)
$2,500 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
Filecoin - Runners up - $11,000
(11)
*Runners up*: Split between the next 20 runners up
Up to $12,500 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
($1k max/team, 20 teams max)
Community Wild Card Honorable Mentions
(3)
Filecoin Swag kit for each team member up to 10 teams.
Team must have not won any other prizes.
Truflation - $5,000
To qualify for the Truflation award, build any solution using Truflation data: inflation, category price indexes, housing data, NFT indexes, consumer sentiment and commodities data, FIFA soccer data (coming soon), and the Defi Llama data we’ve put on the chain. You can use multiple chains that our data is compatible with: Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, and BnB Chain.
To build other solutions: white hack our data, create infrastructure solutions to index, store, retrieve, validate, and compute data, please consult our team on Truflation Telegram and Discord.
Upon request, we can put additional data on the chain for the builders to use during the hackathon and qualify for the award, if possible. Contact us.
1st place = $5,000 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
2nd place = $3,000 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
3rd place = $2,000 USD in Cryptocurrency of Sponsor's choice
Solana Foundation - $10,000
The best project built on Solana.
QuickNode - $5,000
The best project built on QuickNode.
Polygon - 1st Place - $10,000
Polygon - 1st Place - $10,000
Polygon - 2nd Place - $7,000
Polygon - 2nd place - $7,000
Polygon - 3rd Place - $5,000
Polygon - 3rd Place - $5,000
Best Project built on Polygon ID : $5000
Best Project built on Polygon ID : $5000
Polygon - Best UX App: $5,000
Polygon - Best UX App: $5000
Polygon - Pooled Prize - $18,000
(18)
Filecoin - *Bonus* Web3Fy - $2,500
Filecoin - *Bonus* Social Good Warrior - $2,500
Filecoin - *Bonus* On the Tools - $2,500
Filecoin - *Bonus* Gaming, Metaverse, Daos & NFTs (Oh My!) - $2,500
Filecoin - *Bonus* Computer Over Data - $2,500
Filecoin - *General* StorageWizard - 7,500
Filecoin - *General* StorageWizard - 5,000
Truflation - $3,000
Truflation - $2,000
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Alison (Ally) Haire
FILECOIN & IPFS
Dawn Kelly
Filecoin Foundation
Discordian Baumann
Protocol Labs
Chris Anderson
Protocol Labs
Iryna Tsimashenka
Protocol Labs
Radek Sienkiewicz
QuickNode
Manny Coding
Polygon
Rahat Chowdhury
Polygon
Stefan Rust
Truflation
Patrick Collins
Chainlink Labs
Harry Papacharissiou
Chainlink Labs
Solange Gueiros
Chainlink Labs
Richard Gottleber
Chainlink Labs
Zubin Pratap
Chainlink Labs
Andrej Rakic
Chainlink Labs
Frank Kong
Chainlink Labs
Judging Criteria
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User Experience / User Interface
How useable is your project? Does it look nice? Does it accomplish what it's set out to do in an easy to use and approachable way? -
Originality / Uniqueness
Has this project been done before? Is it unique? -
Technicality
How difficult is the problem you're solving? How many moving parts? Did you build it in an efficient manner? Did you give it too many moving parts? How clean is the code? -
Practicality
Is this something people will want to use? Does this have business value? Is this something that could grow and have a mass following? -
Wow factor
Buffer points for anything not captured in the above pieces of criteria!
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