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2024 Hackathon Rewind: EDU Chain Hackathon: Semester 1

2024 Hackathon Rewind: EDU Chain Hackathon: Semester 1

Hackathon Summary

The EDU Chain Hackathon: Semester 1 concluded with substantial participation and noteworthy outcomes. Hosted by Open Campus, the event featured 725 projects and attracted 4,672 developers, offering a $200,000 prize pool. Twenty winners were selected across two primary categories—DeFi and Infrastructure—and an additional 12 winners were chosen from four other categories.

Judging criteria focused on ecosystem impact, innovation, and scalability, with evaluations conducted by representatives from organizations like Animoca Brands and Open Campus. Winning participants were offered an opportunity to join the EDU Chain Developer Cohort within the Open Campus Accelerator Program, support for DAO proposals, and media exposure through platforms such as Forbes. They also gained access to a dedicated Discord channel with the judges, with potential funding sponsorships reaching $100,000 per project.

This hackathon was a pivotal event for the development of decentralized applications on the EDU Chain, an L3 Rollup within the Arbitrum Orbit Stack, aimed at enhancing blockchain-based educational solutions. Sponsorship from companies like ForbesWeb3 and ApeCoin highlighted the increasing integration of blockchain in the education sector, reinforcing the broader mission of democratizing education.

Hackathon Winners

DeFi Prize Winners

  • SailFish veDEX: This decentralized exchange on Open Campus shares trading fees with users, utilizing Vote-Escrow and (3,3) game theory. It improves yield opportunities and operates on the Sepolia network.
  • Blend-lending protocol for educhain: Facilitates educational loans backed by $EDU tokens, offering stable assets like USDT. The protocol features secure, transparent smart contracts governed by $EDU token holders.
  • Streambill: Enables real-time payments for freelancers using the Sablier protocol and Request Network, enhancing invoicing and payment clarity.
  • stakedu: A staking platform for $EDU tokens that offers rewards and dynamic allocation management, boosting engagement within the EDUchain ecosystem.
  • P2P Lending and Borrowing Protocol for Ordinals Powered by EduChain: Provides NFT-backed loans with interest up to 350%, supported by smart contracts that integrate Ordinals across networks.

Infrastructure dApps Prize Winners

  • create-edu-dapp: Offers a CLI tool for dApp development on EduChain, supporting Next.js, Hardhat, and Foundry to facilitate seamless testing and deployment.
  • poapedu: Centralizes learning certifications into on-chain NFTs, aiding in career planning through comprehensive skill mapping.
  • Grasp Academy: This blockchain-based LMS rewards user participation with NFTs and incorporates educational financing and personalized AI tools.
  • Blitz Protocol: A data indexing solution delivering real-time blockchain data access with a scalable backend tailored for the Open Campus network.
  • ThrustPad ILO: A decentralized fundraising platform that utilizes token-locking and staking mechanisms to support educational technology initiatives.

EduFi Prize Winners

  • Campus Arc BETA: Connects students globally for collaborative e-learning, focusing on project-based experiences with integrated Web2 and Web3 frameworks.
  • DcodeBlock: A gamified platform assisting developers in transitioning from Web2 to Web3 through missions and AI-enhanced learning.
  • Course3: A decentralized marketplace for courses that enables direct interaction between creators and students, using Web3 technologies for secure verification of courses.
  • CourseCast: Manages educational ad campaigns with tools for visitor analytics, utilizing Edu tokens and zero-knowledge proofs for verification.
  • Vault: Provides a financial platform for education with minimal fees and cross-chain compatibility, facilitating tuition and salary payments via blockchain.

Earn Prize Winners

  • OpenTaskAI: Connects AI freelancers with global opportunities through a secure blockchain-enabled marketplace using smart contracts.
  • [Ludium] Edu Bounty Management System: Streamlines educational bounty management with transparent, on-chain contracts for task verification and payments.
  • PRISM: Decentralised Content Ecosystem: Tokenizes digital content as NFTs, thereby enhancing monetization and provenance for creators and readers.
  • According.Work: Automates reward distribution for open-source contributions, guaranteeing transparency via GitHub integration and blockchain.
  • edBank: Builds a stablecoin system backed by EDU assets, facilitating minting and borrowing for financial flexibility.

Learn Prize Winners

  • Proof of Learn: An interactive Web3 learning platform offering blockchain-based quests with POAP rewards and a focus on practical concept deployment.
  • Sorted Wallet: Increases financial access for feature phone users with a crypto super app offering asset storage and conversion features.
  • DAO UNI 3.0: A DAO-governed decentralized university providing token-based access to courses and interactive virtual environments.
  • AI Tutor: Enhances educational experiences through personalized AI tutors and NFT certificates for verifiable achievements.

Miscellaneous Prize Winners

  • EDUCHAIN Community Faucet: Simplifies token testing across multiple platforms by unifying token faucets on Open Campus.
  • Lore Network: Transforms online content into a global educational hub by using blockchain-secured credentials and AI learning tools.
  • DDream: An open-source, AI-integrated gaming engine designed for modular development with a focus on community ownership.
  • LPU Name Service: Provides Web3 domain services to securely manage NFT-based academic credentials.
  • MusiCoinCity: Combines blockchain with themed soundscapes to facilitate donations for environmental causes, ensuring transparency via smart contracts.

Further details on these projects are available on the Dorahacks Hackathon page.

About the Organizer

Open Campus

Open Campus is a community-driven protocol focused on empowering educators, content creators, parents, and students by decentralizing decision-making in education. The initiative encourages a collaborative environment where educators can customize materials according to students’ needs. Open Campus also introduces new financial avenues for impactful educators globally through its initiative "Bringing Education On-Chain," which combines education with blockchain technology to emphasize innovation in learning methodologies. As an active participant in the education technology sector, Open Campus consistently seeks to enhance educational accessibility and effectiveness worldwide.