Encode Summer Hackathon Sponsored by the Solana Foundation 2023 Launch Slides
- 2. Hi, I’m Neven! Encode Summer Hackathon Sponsored by the Solana Foundation Programme Manager @7theNeven
- 3. About Encode Club ● Web3 education community. ● We help developers learn, build and forge a career in web3.
- 4. What we do with our community of over 20,000 trained web2 and web3 developers Educate Accelerator Bootcamp Hackathon Recruitment
- 5. Eomji Park Head of Research & Programmes, Encode Club @eomjipark
- 6. Encode Summer Hackathon Sponsored by the Solana Foundation A 4-week online hackathon focused on building dApps on Solana!
- 7. Chase Barker Head of Developer Ecosystem, Solana Foundation @therealchaseeb
- 8. What happens during the hackathon? Register ▶ Form a team ▶ Attend workshops ▶ Build your project ▶ 1-1 mentorship ▶ Submit
- 12. Most Innovative Application: $3000 An innovative or unexpected application that doesn’t fit in the other categories, but is a clear winner nonetheless. Best Consumer Application: $4000 An application that is a consumer-first product that anyone, even people outside of crypto, can use. Best AI <> Solana Integration: $3000 An application that integrates AI with Solana in some way.
- 13. Elusiv Bounty Elusiv want you to build an MVP with the Elusiv SDK for a new or existing application. Prize: $1000
- 14. Helius Bounty Build a project with Helius which involves compression on Solana. Prize: $1000
- 15. Phantom Bounty Create a dApp which makes use of durable nonces. Prize: $1000
- 16. Pyth Bounty Build a project which integrates Pyth Solana Price Feeds. Pyth encourage you to come up with long-term and sustainable visions that aim to build the next generation of DeFi! Prize: $3000
- 17. Shyft Bounty Create an algorithm to generate a Degen score and name-tags for a wallet based on its activity. You can take into account a wallet’s NFT holdings, tokens or transaction activity to create a unique name-tag and a Degen score for them. Prizes: 1st: $250 USDC; 2nd: $175 USDC; 3rd: $75 USDC Shyft Launch plan for all participants!
- 18. Wormhole: Cross-Chain Borrow-Lend on Solana Build on the existing example provided by Wormhole! Start with a Solana implementation for spoke (and possibly hub) that interoperates with the existing EVM contracts. Beyond that, you’re free to improve the example in any way! Wormhole: xPay - Cross-Chain Payments Take the reference example, adapt it to work on Cosmos chains and then iterate on it! You can, for example, improve swaps, develop alternative methods of performing payments, build a new UI/UX, etc. Prize for each bounty: $5000
- 19. What’s next? Form a team ▶ Attend workshops ▶ Build your project ▶ 1-1 mentorship ▶ Submit
- 20. ● Launch - Right now! ● Submission deadline on Sunday, 23rd July ● Finale and Prizegiving - 3rd August Key Dates
- 21. Workshops ● Getting Started on Solana - Tue, 27th June at 5.30 pm BST ● Intro to Solana Pay - Wed, 28th June at 5.30 pm BST ● Building Private dApps with Elusiv - Thu, 29th June at 4 pm BST ● How to Integrate with Pyth Data - Mon, 3rd July at 4 pm BST
- 22. More workshops: ● Minting Compressed NFTs and Indexing On-Chain Data - Tue, 4th July at 4 pm BST ● Cross-chain Payments Using Wormhole - Thu, 6th July at 4 pm BST ● Compression on Solana - Mon, 10th July at 4 pm BST ● Signing Offline Transactions with Durable Nonces - Tue, 11th July at 4pm BST
- 23. ▶ Join the Discord server ▶ Find teammates (Discord) ▶ Participate in the workshops ▶ Build your project Next Steps
- 24. FAQs Who can take part? Anyone! Will there be technical support? Yes! Where can I get up-to-date info? Discord Can I enter an existing project? Yes! (as long as you show that you have introduced significant feature improvements) Where can I find info & resources for this hackathon? Check out the Hacker Pack Do I need a team? No, we can help match you to one, or you can build solo!