Overview
The AEZ Boost Hackathon aims to align all stakeholders by incentivizing individuals and organizations to explore and develop their ideas on Cosmos Hub by offering individuals and organizations non-dilutive funding to develop and further the Atom ecosystem.
Timeline
Opening Ceremony: Aug 10th, 8am PST
82 Days of Hacking: Aug. 10th, 2023 - Oct. 31st, 2023
Demo Day: Nov. 2nd, 2023 - Nov. 4th 2023
Closing Ceremony: Nov. 8th, 2023
Tracks & Ideas
1. Infrastructure and Toolings:
- Dashboards/Analytics
- Security toolings around Replicated Security and Mesh Security
- Developer Toolings like API and SDKs
- AI Auditing
- Appchain SDKs/CLIs
- zk-cosmwasm
- Outpost dapp that leverage liquidity + state from the hub
- On-chain communication
- On-chain Identity and Profile
- Educational organizations and content about Cosmos
- AA implementation in Cosmos
- LSD Summer: new LSD solutions, or composable applications around established LSD chains/app like Stride and Quicksilver
- Real-world Assets to IBC
- Assess validators to help more evenly distribute stake across validators
2. ICS track
- New ICS consumer chains that service an existing gap in the market
- Best port of existing dapp to ICS chain
- IBC Multiverse (connecting IBC to other ecosystems)
3. Governance
- Interchain allocator/Atom Accelerator
- Interchain sequencer
- Voting
- MACI (Minimal anti-collusion infrastructure) for voting
- zkMACI
Prize Distribution
Total Pot: $100,000 ($33K per track)
1st place per track: $20,000
2nd place per track: $10,000
3rd place per track: $3,000
Requirement
1. Github, close source if fine but need to submit private code to judge for review
2. A short demo video of the product, the actual product demo will be preferred (5mins Max)
3. Submitted before DDL
Criteria
Innovation and Originality
Something that be needed actually by Cosmos Hub
User experience
Potential of future Growth
Completeness of the product
About DoraHacks
DoraHacks is a global hacker movement and the world's most active multi-chain Web3 developer incentive platform. More than 3,000 projects from the DoraHacks community have received over $30 million in grants and hackathon prizes. DoraHacks.io has around 250,000 active users worldwide. The platform offers hackathons, bounties, quadratic funding, privacy voting, and other community governance/funding toolkits. In addition, over 100 major Web3 ecosystems are currently using Dora infrastructures to fund their open-source communities.
About ATOM Accelerator DAO
ATOM Accelerator DAO is a community-oriented fund to support excellence in public goods, open source projects, and ecosystem initiatives that can bring success, security, & innovation to ATOM. It was brought into existence by the ATOM community in February of this year after the passing of proposal 95, ATOM Accelerator DAO has so far issued $1,713,491 in grants and counting. Grants range from revising ATOMs tokenomics, to building daps in the AEZ, to providing infrastructure and tooling.