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George Pagonis, BD Associate @DoraHacks |\n| April 18th | 8am PST | [Supercloud Unveiled: A Live Demo of the Akash Network](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjyqc3DTZME) | Scott Carruthers, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Overclock Labs |\n| April 25th | 9am PST | [Beyond Limits: Akash Network's AI/GPU Frontier Explored](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fEr4aWZH1o) | Anil Murty, VP of Product and Engineering, Overclock Labs |\n| May 2nd | 9am PST | [Secret Track Overview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4jK4LWY2wU) | Sean Conrad, Developer Relations Engineer, Secret Network Foundation |\n| May 8th | 9am PST | [Building a provider on Akash Network](https://youtube.com/live/URsJItP9AC4) | Shimpa, Validator and provider, Akash Network |\n| May 9th | 8am PST | [Jackal Akash-a-thon track overview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56A8GfiZUnQ) | Emory, Lead economist & core infrastructure at Jackal Labs |\n\n# Akashathon² Kickoff!\n\nTime: April 8th 10am PST\n\n![youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDAvBnf6ZYM)\n\n# Supercloud Unveiled: A Live Demo of the Akash Network\n\nTime: April 18th 8am PST\n\n![youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjyqc3DTZME)\n\n# Beyond Limits: Akash Network's AI/GPU Frontier Explored\n\nTime: April 25th 9am PST\n\n![youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fEr4aWZH1o)\n\n# Secret Track Overview\n\nTime: May 2nd 9am PST\n\n![youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4jK4LWY2wU)\n\n# Building a provider on Akash Network\n\nTime: May 8th 9am PST\n\n![youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URsJItP9AC4)\n\n# Jackal Akash-a-thon track overview\n\nTime: May 9th 8am PST\n\n![youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56A8GfiZUnQ)"},{"id":632,"name":"Timeline","slug":"timeline","description":"| Date | Event |\n| --- | --- |\n| April 8th | • Hackathon kick off
• Kickoff event
• Submission period begins |\n| April 8th - May 17th | Submission Period |\n| April 18th - May 9th | Workshops |\n| May 17th | Final Date of submissions |\n| May 18th - 21st | Review period |\n| May 22nd | Finalists Demo Livestream |\n| May 23rd | Winners announced |"},{"id":633,"name":"Tracks","slug":"tracks","description":"# **AI Track:** Leveraging AI on Akash Network GPUs\n\n**Track Description:**\n\nThis track challenges participants to explore the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies within the Akash Network, specifically focusing on GPU usage. As AI applications become increasingly complex and resource-intensive, the need for scalable, open source and cost-effective infrastructure is paramount. Akash Network offers a unique solution by enabling developers to deploy and scale their AI workloads on a decentralized network of GPUs.\n\n**Track Objectives/Requirements:**\n\n- **Exploration of AI Integration:** Participants are encouraged to explore various ways AI technologies can be integrated with Akash Network's GPU infrastructure. This could include but is not limited to, machine learning model training, inference deployment, natural language processing tasks, computer vision applications, etc.\n- **Optimization for Decentralized Environment:** Develop strategies for optimizing AI workloads to leverage the decentralized nature of Akash Network. This involves considerations such as load balancing, fault tolerance, latency reduction, and efficient resource utilization across distributed GPU nodes.\n- **Cost-Effectiveness:** Design solutions that prioritize cost-effectiveness without compromising performance. Participants should explore methods for minimizing resource wastage, optimizing resource allocation, and leveraging Akash Network's competitive pricing model for GPU usage.\n- **Scalability and Flexibility:** Create solutions that can seamlessly scale with the growing demands of AI workloads. Participants should consider how their applications can dynamically adapt to fluctuations in resource availability and demand within the Akash Network ecosystem.\n- **Open Source Licensing and Documentation:** Open-source software under a permissive license (e.g., MIT, Apache) to foster collaboration, transparency, and community-driven development. Participants should provide comprehensive documentation, tutorials, and developer resources to facilitate adoption and contribution by the Akash community.\n\n**Potential Project Ideas:**\n\n- **Distributed Training Framework:** Develop a framework for distributed training of deep learning models across multiple nodes on a single GPU provider within the Akash Network. Optimize communication overhead, synchronization mechanisms, and model parallelism to achieve faster convergence and scalability.\n- **Edge AI Inference Platform:** Build an edge AI inference platform using Akash Network's GPU infrastructure to deploy and scale AI models for real-time inference tasks. Explore techniques for minimizing inference latency, maximizing throughput, and ensuring robustness in decentralized environments.\n- **Decentralized AI Marketplace:** Create a decentralized marketplace where AI developers can deploy their pre-trained models on Akash Network's GPU infrastructure for monetization. Implement features for model discovery, deployment automation, and usage-based pricing.\n- **Federated Learning Platform:** Design a federated learning platform leveraging Akash Network's GPU resources to train machine learning models across a network of edge devices. Ensure privacy-preserving collaboration, efficient model aggregation, and incentive mechanisms for participant nodes.\n- **Integration of LLMs with Akash Network:** Participants are tasked with exploring the seamless integration of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as GPT-3, GPT-4, or similar architectures, with Akash Network's GPU infrastructure. This involves deploying pre-trained models, fine-tuning on domain-specific data, and building applications that leverage the power of LLMs for natural language understanding and generation.\n- **Automated SDL Generation:** Leveraging Akash Network's GPU capabilities, participants will develop automated tools and frameworks to streamline the generation of SDL documents, enhancing productivity and accuracy in system design and development processes.\n- **Optimizing Akash Networks Ray Cluster Integration**: Explore and enhance the integration between Akash Networks and Ray, pushing the boundaries of decentralized computing.\n- **Integration of Flyte with Akash Network:** Participants are tasked with exploring the seamless integration of Flyte, an open-source orchestrator that facilitates building production-grade data and ML pipelines with Akash Network’s GPU infrastructure.\n- **Integration of Metaflow with Akash Network:** Participants are tasked with exploring the seamless integration of Metaflow, a human-friendly library that helps scientists and engineers build and manage real-life data science projects with Akash Network’s GPU infrastructure.\n- **Foundation AI Model Training on Akash Network:** Participants will have the chance to innovate and develop novel solutions that harness the power of Akash Network for AI model training, paving the way for a more democratized and accessible AI ecosystem.\n\n**Judging Criteria:**\n\n- **Innovation and Creativity:** How novel and creative is the approach in integrating AI with Akash Network's GPU infrastructure?\n- **Technical Complexity:** The technical sophistication of the solution, including optimization techniques, scalability strategies, and efficiency improvements.\n- **Practical Applicability**: The potential real-world impact and usability of the solution in addressing AI challenges within decentralized environments.\n- **Presentation and Demonstration:** Clarity, coherence, and effectiveness of the project presentation and demonstration during the hackathon.\n\n**Prizes:** (All placed projects 1-5 will get reimbursed in AKT for all consumed compute resources during the hackathon)\n\n- First Place: $20,000 + 50 GPU hours on Akash + reimbursement\n- Second Place: $10,000 + 25 GPU hours on Akash + reimbursement\n- Third Place: $4,000 + 10 GPU hours on Akash + reimbursement\n- Fourth Place: full reimbursement of GPUs used for hackathon\n- Fifth Place: full reimbursement of GPUs used for hackathon\n\n**NOTE:**\nIf you're unable to afford the upfront cost of building for this track, head over to the Akashathon Discord channel and let us know. We may be able to help cover the upfront costs of your build. Will be decided, case by case.\n\n**Additional Resources:**\n\n- [Akash Network Documentation](https://akash.network/docs/)\n- [GPU-Accelerated Computing with CUDA](https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/)\n- Deep Learning Frameworks Documentation\n - [TensorFlow](https://developer.nvidia.com/deep-learning-frameworks)\n - [PyTorch](https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/frameworks/pytorch-release-notes/overview.html)\n- [Hugging Face Transformers Library (for LLMs)](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/index)\n- [OpenAI GPT Models Documentation](https://platform.openai.com/docs/models)\n- [TensorFlow Natural Language Processing (NLP) Toolkit](https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/text)\n- [GPU-Accelerated Graph Analytics Libraries](https://developer.nvidia.com/gpu-accelerated-libraries#:~:text=NVIDIA%20CUDA%2DX%E2%84%A2%2C%20built,AI%20and%20high%2Dperformance%20computing)\n- [Ray Cluster on Akash](https://akash.network/blog/distributed-machine-learning-on-akash-network-with-ray/)\n- [Flyte Documentation](https://github.com/flyteorg/flyte)\n- [Metaflow Documentation](https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow)\n-[Foundation AI Model Training on Akash\n](https://akash.network/blog/foundation-ai-model-training-on-akash/)\n\n---\n\n# **Tools Track:** Open Source Dashboard Development for Akash Network\n\n**Track Description:**\n\nThis track challenges participants to create an open-source dashboard that provides comprehensive information on the cost of deployments, current resources available, and benchmarking data of the Akash Network. A user-friendly dashboard is essential for developers, validators, and stakeholders to monitor, analyze, and optimize their deployments and resource utilization on the Akash Network. By fostering collaboration and transparency, this dashboard will contribute to the growth and sustainability of the Akash ecosystem.\n\n**Track Objectives/Requirements:**\n\n- **Cost Analysis and Visualization:** Develop features for analyzing and visualizing the cost of deployments on the Akash Network. Participants should integrate functionalities to track deployment costs, resource utilization, pricing trends, and payment history, enabling users to monitor expenses and optimize resource allocation effectively.\n- **Resource Availability Monitoring:** Implement modules for monitoring the availability and utilization of resources (e.g., CPU, RAM, storage) on the Akash Network. Participants should design interactive dashboards displaying real-time and historical data on resource usage, node performance, network health, and availability zones to aid decision-making processes.\n- **Benchmarking and Performance Metrics:** Integrate benchmarking tools and performance metrics to provide insights into the performance of deployments on the Akash Network. Participants should include features for conducting performance tests, comparing different deployment configurations, and visualizing benchmarking data to help users optimize their applications for efficiency and scalability.\n- **Open Source Collaboration and Contribution:** Foster open-source collaboration by developing the dashboard as an open-source project with documentation, contribution guidelines, and community engagement channels. Encourage participants to contribute code, report issues, and propose enhancements to the dashboard, ensuring its continuous improvement and relevance to the Akash community.\n\n**Potential Project Ideas:**\n\n- **Cost Dashboard with Billing Insights:** Develop a cost dashboard that provides detailed billing insights, including deployment costs breakdown, resource usage analytics, cost projections, and budgeting tools. Integrate with Akash Network APIs to fetch billing data and visualize it in user-friendly charts and graphs.\n- **Resource Monitoring and Alerts System:** Build a resource monitoring dashboard with real-time monitoring capabilities and alerts for resource availability, performance bottlenecks, and node failures on the Akash Network. Implement notification systems to alert users of critical events and automate remediation actions.\n- **Benchmarking Toolkit and Visualization Tools:** Create a benchmarking toolkit integrated into the dashboard for conducting performance tests, stress tests, and comparative analyses of deployment configurations on the Akash Network. Develop interactive visualizations to present benchmarking results and performance metrics for informed decision-making.\n- **Community-driven Dashboard Enhancements:** Engage the Akash community in contributing to the dashboard by implementing features requested by users, addressing community feedback, and organizing collaborative development sprints. Establish a governance model for managing contributions, ensuring the sustainability and inclusivity of the open-source project.\n\n**Judging Criteria:**\n\n- **Innovation and Technical Complexity:** The novelty and technical sophistication of the dashboard features and functionalities developed for Akash Network users.\n- **User Experience and Accessibility:** The usability, accessibility, and intuitiveness of the dashboard interface for developers, validators, and stakeholders.\n- **Data Visualization and Insights:** The effectiveness of data visualization techniques in conveying meaningful insights and facilitating decision-making processes.\n- **Open Source Community Engagement:** The level of engagement, collaboration, and contribution from the Akash community in the development and enhancement of the open-source dashboard project.\n\n**Prizes:**\n\n- First Place: $10,000 + 6 months hosting on Akash\n- Second Place: $5,000 + 6 months hosting on Akash\n- Third Place: $3,000 + 6 months hosting on Akash\n\n**Additional Resources:**\n\n- [Akash Network Documentation](https://akash.network/docs/)\n- [Open Source Licensing and Contribution Guidelines](https://opensource.guide/starting-a-project/)\n\n---\n\n# **Deployment Track:** Open Source Fiat Payment System for Akash Network\n\n**Track Description:**\n\nThis track challenges participants to develop an open-source fiat payment system that seamlessly integrates with the Akash Network ecosystem. While decentralized finance (DeFi) has gained significant traction, enabling fiat payments remains a critical bridge between traditional financial systems and blockchain-based networks. By building an open-source fiat payment system for Akash Network, participants will contribute to enhancing accessibility, usability, and adoption of the Akash Network.\n\n**Track Objectives/Requirements:**\n\n- **Fiat Payment Gateway Integration:** Develop a fiat payment gateway that allows users to purchase and manage Akash Network services using traditional fiat currencies (e.g., USD, EUR, GBP). Participants should integrate popular payment methods (e.g., credit/debit cards, bank transfers, PayPal) into the payment system to facilitate seamless transactions.\n- **User Authentication and Authorization:** Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms to verify user identities and prevent unauthorized access to the payment system. Participants should adhere to industry best practices for user authentication, data encryption, and compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering).\n- **Transaction Processing and Settlement:** Build robust transaction processing and settlement workflows to handle fiat payments for Akash Network services efficiently. Participants should design automated processes for payment verification, invoice generation, fund transfers, and reconciliation to streamline payment operations.\n- **Open Source Licensing and Documentation:** Release the fiat payment system as open-source software under a permissive license (e.g., MIT, Apache) to foster collaboration, transparency, and community-driven development. Participants should provide comprehensive documentation, tutorials, and developer resources to facilitate adoption and contribution by the Akash community.\n\n**Potential Project Ideas:**\n\n- **Fiat Payment Gateway Integration:** Develop a payment gateway plugin or API that integrates with popular fiat payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal) and Akash Network's billing system. Ensure seamless user experience with features such as one-click payments, recurring billing, and invoice management.\n- **Secure User Authentication:** Implement OAuth, OpenID Connect, or other industry-standard authentication protocols to enable secure user authentication and single sign-on (SSO) capabilities for the fiat payment system. Ensure compliance with data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) and best practices for user privacy.\n- **Automated Invoicing and Billing:** Design an automated invoicing and billing system that generates invoices, sends payment reminders, and processes payments for Akash Network services. Develop integrations with accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, Xero) for seamless financial management.\n- **Community-driven Feature Development:** Engage the Akash community in contributing to the development and enhancement of the open-source fiat payment system. Organize feature requests, bug bashes, and code sprints to address user feedback and improve the functionality and usability of the payment system.\n\n**Judging Criteria:**\n\n- **Innovation and Technical Complexity:** The novelty and technical sophistication of the fiat payment system features and functionalities developed for Akash Network users.\n- **Security and Compliance:** The robustness of security measures and compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR) in the payment system architecture and implementation.\n- **User Experience and Accessibility:** The usability, accessibility, and intuitiveness of the payment system interface for users, including developers, validators, and stakeholders.\n- **Open Source Community Engagement:** The level of engagement, collaboration, and contribution from the Akash community in the development and enhancement of the open-source fiat payment system project.\n\n**Prizes:**\n\n- First Place: $15,000\n- Second Place: $10,000\n- Third Place: $5,000\n\n**Additional Resources:**\n\n- [Akash Network Documentation](https://akash.network/docs/)\n- Payment Gateway APIs Documentation\n - [Stripe](https://docs.stripe.com/api)\n - [Paypal](https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/payments/v1/)\n- [Open Source Licensing and Contribution Guidelines](https://opensource.guide/starting-a-project/)\n- [Keplr Wallet Docs](https://docs.keplr.app/)"},{"id":634,"name":"Sponsored Tracks","slug":"sponsored-tracks","description":"# Source Protocol Track \nUse [Cloudmos](https://cloudmos.io/) to Deploy an Application on the Source Blockchain\n\n## About Source:\n\nSOURCE is a public, permission-less blockchain network for global payments and all things web3. Enterprises, developers and individuals can utilize SOURCE's infrastructure to create user-friendly apps, smart contracts, and tools for web3, real world asset tokenization, NFTs, and more. SOURCE is actively working with enterprise businesses to create blockchain solutions that harness the power of IBC and the Cosmos Ecosystem.\n\nSOURCE is a standalone, layer 1, proof-of-stake blockchain, based in the Cosmos Hub IBC ecosystem (the Interchain). SOURCE has been built with the Cosmos SDK, the Tendermint BFT consensus mechanism, and the CosmWasm Smart Contract Engine.\n\nRead more at [SourceProtocol.io](http://www.sourceprotocol.io/)\n\n## Description:\n\nBuild an IBC ready CosmWasm Application to be Deployed and Hosted on the Source Blockchain using a Source Node on Akash’s Cloudmos.\n\nVisit [docs.sourceprorocol.io](http://docs.sourceprorocol.io/) for technical documentation.\n\nExamples include but not limited to: CosmWasm based Defi applications, nft applications, IPFS applications, gaming applications, developer/tooling applications, data applications (non explorer). Interchain IBC apps from other IBC based projects accepted.\n\nBounty Rewards (100,000 Total SOURCE):\n\nFirst Place: 50,000 SOURCE\n\nSecond Place: 30,000 SOURCE\n\nThird Place: 20,000 SOURCE\n\n## Rules:\n\n- Links to your project Github and/or website (must be open source)\n- Links to contracts that have been deployed to the chain\n- A demo and/or video of your app fully functional (video preferred)\n- Duplicates will not be accepted\n- One application per team\n\nJoin the official Source Discord for support and to communicate with the Source Team. https://discord.gg/zj8xxUCeZQh\n\n# Secret Network IBC track\n\nThis track emphasizes using IBC Hooks between Akash Network and Secret Network for cross-chain functionality. To be considered for a prize, your dApp must implement IBC hooks between Akash and Secret Network, and utilize Secret for some type of confidential computation. For example, getting a secure random number from Secret VRF, performing a private swap on Shade Protocol, or privately tallying votes for a DAO on Akash. See [here](https://docs.scrt.network/secret-network-documentation/development/ibc/cross-chain-randomness-with-secretvrf/secret-vrf-for-ibc-with-ibc-hooks) for a Secret Network developer tutorial on IBC hooks and cross-chain randomness.\n\n## **🏆 BOUNTY PRIZE AMOUNT**\n\n- **Total prizes of $1000 USD paid in $SCRT**\n\n## **ABOUT SECRET NETWORK**\n\nSecret Network offers scalable permissionless smart contracts with a private by default design— bringing novel use cases to blockchain not feasible on public systems. Secret Network is built with the Cosmos SDK bringing interoperable privacy to the entire Cosmos ecosystem. Secret Contracts are an implementation of the Rust-based smart contract compiling toolkit CosmWasm, adding confidential computation possibilities.\n\n## **RESOURCES**\n\n- [Secret Network Getting Started Documentation (upload and instantiate on testnet)](https://docs.scrt.network/secret-network-documentation/development/getting-started/setting-up-your-environment)\n- [Secret Network IBC Hooks docs](https://docs.scrt.network/secret-network-documentation/development/ibc/ibc-hooks)\n- [SecretVRF tutorial using IBC Hooks](https://docs.scrt.network/secret-network-documentation/development/ibc/cross-chain-randomness-with-secretvrf/secret-vrf-for-ibc-with-ibc-hooks)\n- [Previous Akash-a-thon Secret grant winner (using IBC hooks)](https://github.com/kromsten/IBC-Field)\n- [Secret Network Developer Discord Channel](https://discord.gg/KuqxZ9G9)\n\n## **Submissions must contain/have:**\n\n**Documentation:** Provide clear and concise documentation of your projects. This should include setup instructions, usage guidelines, and any additional information that helps judges and other developers understand the project.\n\n**Demo or Video:** Create a demo or video showcasing your project's functionality. Videos are particularly helpful in conveying the project's value and can be easily shared and understood by judges and the public.\n\n**Open Source:**\n\nMake their projects open source. This fosters collaboration, allows others to learn from your code, and contributes to the broader developer community.\n\n# Jackal x Akash Bounty\n\n## About Jackal:\n\nThe Jackal Protocol provides a decentralized infrastructure for secure and scalable data storage, enabling individuals, developers, and enterprises to protect their data privacy and improve their cybersecurity posture. It offers a platform for building decentralized applications, managing access control and ownership, transferring encrypted data, and maintaining self-custodial control over data, all without relying on centralized storage providers or intermediaries.\n\n### Resources:\n\n- **Website:** https://www.jackalprotocol.com/\n- **Documentation:** https://docs.jackalprotocol.com/\n\n## Bounty:\n\n- **First place:** $1000 of JKL & 1 year 10TB storage\n- **Second place:** $500 of JKL & 1 year 5TB storage\n- **Third place:** $200 of JKL & 1 year 1TB storage\n\n## Description:\n\nBuild an application that stores data on the Jackal Protocol (testnet or mainnet) from inside an Akash Container.\n\n## Submission Requirements:\n\n### Documentation:\n\nEnsure your project comes with comprehensive documentation, usage guidelines, and any supplementary details that can assist judges and fellow developers in using and grading the project.\n\n### Demo:\n\nMust include a demo or video showcasing your project.\n\n### Open Source:\n\nSubmitted projects must be open source. This is both for security guarantees but also promotes collaboration and discovery for future projects.\n\n## Example Projects/Requests for Projects\n\n- Decentralized web2 Jackal bridge\n- Game storing state data to Jackal\n- Etc.\n\n# Filebase IPFS Innovation Track\n\n## **About Filebase:**\n\nFilebase is a cutting-edge IPFS pinning platform that leverages decentralized technologies such as IPFS to provide scalable and secure file storage solutions. With Filebase, users can pin, store, and retrieve their data with ease while benefiting from the decentralized nature of IPFS, ensuring better security and redundancy.\n\nVisit [Filebase.com](https://filebase.com/) for more information.\n\n## **Description:**\n\nDevelop innovative solutions or applications that utilize Filebase for IPFS pinning, integrating Akash Network's decentralized cloud services to enhance your project's deployment capabilities. Potential projects could include decentralized blogs, video protocols, or AI tools that leverage IPFS for long-term memory storage, all while utilizing Akash to manage and scale compute resources efficiently. This integration should highlight the synergies between decentralized storage and compute platforms, showcasing the enhanced capabilities when both services are utilized.To fully utilize higher-level functionalities such as uploading HTML files or accessing our pinning API programmatically, participants will need a paid account. We have provided a promo code \"akashathon\" for first-time users, valid until May 17th, 2024, to access our Starter Plan.\n\n## **Bounty Rewards:**\n\n- First Place: $240 credit towards Filebase Starter Plan.\n- Second Place: $120 credit towards Filebase Starter Plan.\n- Third Place: $60 credit towards Filebase Starter Plan.\n\n**Note:** Credits correspond to up to 800 GB of IPFS storage and bandwidth consumption per month. If the allocated credit is exhausted before the duration ends the plan will not continue without additional payment.\n\n## **Submission Requirements:**\n\n- **Documentation:** Your project must include comprehensive documentation that details setup instructions, usage guidelines, and ideally, the system architecture. Additionally, documentation should include how Filebase & Akash were used to deploy and manage your application.\n- **Demo or Video:** Provide a brief demo or video that showcases your project’s functionality. This visual presentation should demonstrate how effectively Filebase’s IPFS service and Akash’s cloud services are integrated and utilized.\n- **Code:** Projects must be open source, as judges will need to review your implementation of Filebase and Akash into the project."},{"id":635,"name":"Submission Guide","slug":"submission","description":"# Getting Started [3-5 MIN]\n\n**1.** **You should submit your BUIDL via [DoraHacks.io](https://dorahacks.io/). Before that, make sure that you already have an account.**\n\nUse the **Sign in/up button** at the upper right corner of the page to access the sign-up options.\n\n

\n\n**Github, crypto wallet** and **email** are supported for creating an account. For BUIDLers, we recommend you to connect the account to your **github** to make more people know what you are building at any time.\n\n*You may be asked to receive a verification code via email. The email may take some time to arrive. No worries! The code will not expire in 10 minutes when you click “send code”.\n\n**2. Before the submission of deadline, please make sure you have added your Github link to the project. You can submit the project first, edit it later before the deadline.**\n\nClick “ Register As Hacker”-“Submit BUIDL”.\n\n

\n\n> **→ If you already have a BUIDL on DoraHacks**\n\nChoose your BUIDL project from **\"Apply with Existing BUIDL\"** and identify the track you want to join.\n\n> **→ If you want to submit a new BUIDL project**\n\nClick **“Create a new BUIDL”** and fill in the form as required. You'll be directed to \"Apply for Akashathon²\" page after the new BUIDL setup.\n\nFill in the form to offer the information about your project. Note that for demo, demo link and social media, please offer **URLs (with http/https://)**.\n\n

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\n\n# Project Verification\n\nAfter verification by the hackathon organizer through the manager portal, your project will be displayed in the [BUIDLs gallery](https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/375/buidl).\n\n# Want to make some changes to your BUIDL?\n\nClick [Avatar] -> [Profile] to enter the Account Center, and click the \"Edit\" button on the top right of the BUIDL to update the BUIDL information.\n\n

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"},{"id":638,"name":"Judges","slug":"judges","description":"![Judge.jpg](https://cdn.dorahacks.io/static/files/18eef4dd335da9805df185c43f99df10.jpg)"},{"id":733,"name":"Results","slug":"results","description":"# Announcing the winners of Akashathon²\n\nWe are excited to announce the winners of Akashathon², a hackathon dedicated to exploring the limitless possibilities of AI applications powered by Akash's GPU marketplace. This event showcased the incredible potential of AI and highlighted how Akash’s decentralized GPU infrastructure can drive innovation and performance in AI development.\nLet's celebrate the achievements of the winning teams and their groundbreaking projects!\n\n\n# AI/GPU Track\n\n### 🥇 First Prize\n\n[BUIDL](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/12677)\n\nBUIDL link: https://dorahacks.io/buidl/12677\n\nAkash Playground is a community-driven marketplace, where users can upload, run, and monetize their AI models without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. This platform abstracts away the complexities of payment and infrastructure management, allowing more users to access and utilize AI models for various use cases.\n\n### 🥈 Second Prize\n\n[BUIDL](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/12615)\n\nBUIDL link: https://dorahacks.io/buidl/12615\n\nOur project embodies the main idea of developing a framework for distributed training and model parallelism (MP). DeTrain includes tools and lightweight libraries using PyTorch to simplify distributed training pipelines\n\n### 🥉 Third Prize\n\n[BUIDL](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/12754)\n\nBUIDL link: https://dorahacks.io/buidl/12754\n\nHexs introduces a decentralized way to train and trade AI models to re-create the incentivization of developers contributing to the space. We attempt to do this by this MVP where we intend to tokenize the infra deployments on Akash and provide a mechanism for chain-driven training of these AI models.\n\n### 🏅Fourth Prize\n\n[BUIDL](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/12739)\n\nBUIDL link: https://dorahacks.io/buidl/12739\n\nDeploy LLM Inference APIs within Seconds on Akash Network\n\n### 🏅Fifth Prize\n\n[BUIDL](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/12636)\n\nBUIDL link: https://dorahacks.io/buidl/12636\n\n[AI4DeSci](https://ai4desci.com/) is an ecosystem that is dedicated to continuously building sustainable infrastructure to support AI-empowered open & collaborative decentralized science. The ecosystem mission aims to build infrastructure that accelerate DeSci, to develop use cases of scientific impact, and promote DeSci through actions. The ecosystem aims to reinforce and facilitate both the Ideation and Actions that happen throughout DeSci project lifetime. This will manifest through the Collaborative Cloud and Science Crowdsourcing main platforms that are built together with community.\n\n# Tools Track: Open Source Dashboard Development for Akash Network\n\n### 🥇 First Prize\n\n[BUIDL](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/12728)\n\nBUIDL link: https://dorahacks.io/buidl/12728\n\nCloud Cost is the platform for showing the billing information for your deployment. It takes the data using Akash API for calculating the billing history. Currently, I developed a dashboard where you can see the deployment cost information by selecting individual deployments and all to gather by different time frames. 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Participants must be over 18 years of age and winners must submit to KYC for prizes.\n\n# Submission Guidelines/Requirements\n\nAll projects submitted for consideration must meet the following criteria:\n\n- Utilization of Akash Network: All projects must demonstrate the integration or exploration of the Akash Network\n\n- Innovative AI applications or network enhancement tools: Projects should focus on either developing AI applications that leverage the power of decentralized GPU computing or creating tools that enhance the accessibility and usability of the Akash network for both providers and deployers.\n\n- Open sourcing development: Teams are required to open-source their project code on a platform such as GitHub. This includes all code, documentation, and any additional resources necessary for understanding and replicating the project.\n\n- Submission format: Submissions must include a detailed project description outlining the problem statement, solution approach, technical implementation, and potential impact. Additionally, teams should provide a demo video or demo/prototype showcasing the functionality of their project.\n\n- Compliance with ethical standards: Projects must adhere to ethical standards, respecting user privacy and data protection laws, and avoiding any harmful or malicious intent.\n\n**By meeting these requirements and guidelines, you will ensure that your projects are eligible for consideration and contribute to the collaborative spirit of the hackathon.**\n\n# Judging Criteria & Selection Process\n\n**Initial Review:**\n- Upon the submission deadline, the organizing committee will conduct an initial review of all project submissions to ensure they meet the specified entry requirements and guidelines.\n- Submissions failing to meet the criteria will be disqualified from further evaluation.\n\n**Technical Evaluation:**\n- Qualified submissions will undergo a thorough technical evaluation by a panel of expert judges with expertise in AI, decentralized computing, and software development.\n- Judges will assess the technical complexity, innovation, and feasibility of each project, considering factors such as the integration with Akash Networks GPU marketplace, AI application quality, and effectiveness of network enhancement tools.\n\n**Impact Assessment:**\n- Projects advancing through the technical evaluation will be assessed based on their potential impact and scalability. Judges will consider the project's ability to address real-world challenges, its potential for adoption and scalability, and the value it brings to the Akash community and decentralized computing ecosystem.\n\n**Presentation and Q&A Session:**\n- Finalists will be invited to present their projects to the judging panel during a live virtual event. Teams will have the opportunity to showcase their work, discuss their technical approach, and answer questions from the judges. \n- Presentations will be evaluated based on clarity, coherence, and the team's ability to effectively communicate their project's key features, functionalities, and impact.\n\n**Selection of Winners:**\n- After thorough deliberation and consideration of all evaluation criteria, the judging panel will select the winning teams based on their overall performance across technical excellence, innovation, impact, and presentation.\n- Winners will be announced the day after the finalist demos, and prizes will be awarded to the top-performing teams.\n\n# **Reviewing Hackathon Submissions:**\n- Initial Review: Organizing committee conducts initial review of submissions for eligibility and adherence to entry requirements.\n- Technical Evaluation: Expert judges evaluate technical aspects of qualified submissions, assessing integration with Akash Networks GPU marketplace, AI application quality, and effectiveness of network enhancement tools.\n- Impact Assessment: Judges assess the potential impact and scalability of shortlisted projects, considering their relevance to real-world challenges and contribution to the decentralized computing ecosystem.\n- Presentation and Q&A Session: Finalists are invited to present their projects during a live virtual event, followed by a Q&A session with the judging panel.\n- Selection of Winners: Judges deliberate and select winning teams based on overall performance across technical excellence, innovation, impact, and presentation.\n- Announcement: Winners are announced the day after the closing ceremony of the hackathon, and prizes are awarded to the top-performing teams.\n\n# Support\n\nIf you have any questions throughout the duration of the hackathon, join the Akash Discord and checkout the Akashathon² hackers channel [Hackathon Support](https://discord.com/channels/747885925232672829/1223384958765371534)\n\n# About Akash\n\nThe World's Premier Decentralized Compute Marketplace Akash is an open network that lets users buy and sell computing resources securely and efficiently. 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