Ontology Promotes Web3 and Privacy Innovation Through DoraHacks and a $100K Hackathon Prize Pool
Promoting the benefits of Ontology’s seamless, interoperable tech stack to Web3 developers, Ontology and DoraHacks will host a virtual hackathon as part of its ‘Grants’ programme running from 1st-31st May. The aim is to support Web3 innovation on Ontology, particularly in privacy and decentralized identity, and provide long term support to those driving change. A $100K USD developer prize pool will also be available.
Projects that are committed to long term development and are excited to explore the potential of contributing to Web3 with the new Ontology EVM are welcome. We are particularly interested in Web3 projects that have a focus or incorporate the benefits of Decentralized Identity (DID) and are interested in utilizing the specialist tools offered by Ontology.
Project submission entry: https://dorahacks.io/grant/ontology/detail
How to join the hackathon: https://dorahacks.io/blog/guides/ontology-builders-guide/
Timeline
April 1st - Hackathon kicks off! Project submission entry is open.
April 1st - May 31st - Project submission.
April 10th - May 31st - Community voting.
June 1st - 5th Anti-sybil attack grace period.
June 6th - Results announced.
Requirements
Projects that are committed to long term development and are excited to explore the potential of contributing to Web3 with the new Ontology EVM are welcome. We are particularly interested in Web3 projects that have a focus or incorporate the benefits of Decentralized Identity (DID) and are interested in utilizing the specialist tools offered by Ontology.
How to Apply?
Submit your project as a BUIDL
The BUIDL upload officially starts today and participants can upload their projects through: https://dorahacks.io/grant/ontology/detail
We highly recommend you to read the guidance before project submission: https://dorahacks.io/blog/guides/ontology-builders-guide/
$100,000 Prize Pool, which can be split into two prize pools
- $50,000 to DoraHacks x Ontology GrantDAO that will be used as the quadratic funding prize pool to be distributed to new hackathons and grant projects based on community voting.
- $50,000 in Judge Prize Pool, the special rewards for projects adopting Ontology, in the goal of growing the number of teams building on Ontology, of which will be distributed based on judge voting.
Judges including
Kendall Mao, Chief Scientist at Ontology
Gloria Wu, Global Ecosystem Partnerships at Ontology
Raindy Lu, Head of Marketing and Communications at Ontology
Cedric Ding, Head of Operations at Ontology
Humpty Calderon, Head of Community at Ontology
Erick Pinos, Americas Ecosystem Lead
Harbingers from Harbinger DAO
About Ontology
Community discord: https://discord.gg/fJGhVZquzn
Ontology is a project designed to bring trust, privacy, and security to Web3 through decentralized identity and data solutions. It is building the infrastructure to provide trusted access to Web3, allowing individuals and enterprises to rest assured that through regulatory compliant digital identity solutions, users and their privacy come first.
The Ontology blockchain is a high speed, low cost public blockchain bringing decentralized identity and data solutions to Web3. Increasing privacy, transparency, and trust, the high speed, low cost, layer 2 blockchain is designed to give users and enterprises the flexibility to build blockchain-based solutions that suit their needs, while also ensuring regulatory compliance. Through Ontology’s Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), Ontology ensures frictionless compatibility with Ethereum, the first step in the creation of the Ontology Multi-Virtual Machine and further interoperability for the chain.
About DoraHacks
DoraHacks is a global hackathon organizer and one of the world's most active multi-chain Web3 developer communities. As a leader in the global hacker movement, Dora provides crypto-native toolkits to help developers around the world raise funding for their ideas and BUIDLs. 30+ major blockchain ecosystems have already adopted Dora's infrastructure (dorahacks.io / dorafactory.org) for quadratic funding, community contribution, hackathon, bounty distribution, and governance of their developer communities. By far, 2200 projects in the DoraHacks community have received over $20 million in grants and contributions from supporters worldwide. Learn More About DoraHacks: Please visit our Website | Telegram｜Twitter｜Youtube
Developer resources
Documentation Center: https://docs.ont.io
EVM and token decimals: https://docs.ont.io/guides-and-tutorials/evm-and-token-decimals-upgrade
Ontology Bridge: bridge.ont.io (Guide)
Network details: https://medium.com/ontologynetwork/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ontology-evm-contract-development-part-1-network-details-2095f6e141e5
Development Environment Tools and How to Use MetaMask to Manage Keys: https://medium.com/ontologynetwork/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ontology-evm-contract-development-d3dc7183661
EVM Contract Development Process Demo: https://medium.com/ontologynetwork/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ontology-evm-contract-development-7d9a7f0f700e
Web3 API and Ontology Bridge: https://medium.com/ontologynetwork/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ontology-evm-contract-development-e569e5ce88d9