Introduction
0x, Family, Polygon Labs, and AWS are excited to invite you to participate in our “Decreasing Frictions in DeFi” Hackathon, an online hackathon where builders can showcase their innovations to solve real-world financial frictions.
“Decreasing Frictions in DeFi” brings together a group of sponsors whose tools work synergistically to help DeFi builders and teams of all sizes to bring their ideas to reality. We are looking for novel financial applications that use ERC20 token swaps to solve real-world financial frictions.
How to Join
Step 1: Read through the Requirements
Step 2: Join 0x Discord and coordinate in #defi-2023-hackathon channel
Step 3: Fill out the signup form
Step 4: All team members should register on DoraHacks
Step 5. Attend the workshops, and build your projects
Step 6: Submit your entry. 👉 Make sure all submissions meet the Submission Requirements and Judging Criteria or else it will be ineligible! 👈
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The hackathon is offering a total of $30,000 worth of awards ($10,000 USD +$20,000 AWS credits).
In addition to prizes, 0x is providing an opportunity for top 3 winners to showcase their project on our marketing channels. This is an exclusive opportunity to gain exposure and propel your project to the next level.
Prize Pool
In short, there is a MACI Quadratic Funding prize pool totaling $10,000 plus three winning projects will receive $20,000 AWS credits, $30,000 worth of prizes.
0x + Family + Polygon: $10,000 USD Quadratic Funding Pool
AWS 1st place: $10,000 in AWS credits
AWS 2nd place: $5,000 in AWS credits
AWS 3rd place: $5,000 in AWS credits
Schedule
*For more information regarding workshops, please see the Workshops Schedule tab
Requirements
Eligibility Requirements
- Participants must be legally eligible to participate under the laws of their country of residence. KYC may be required when claiming prizes.
- Participants must be legally eligible to receive prizes and crypto transactions (in case they win) and are responsible for paying any taxes on the prize winnings.
- Entrants undertake to submit projects that do not violate relevant laws and regulations, infringe any intellectual property or other rights of any third parties, or will otherwise be disqualified
- All Submission materials must be in English or, if not in English, the Entrant must provide an English translation of the demonstration video, text description, and testing instructions as well as all other materials submitted.
Submission Requirements
Participants are allowed to submit more than one submission. However, each submission must be unique and substantially different from the others.
All projects must be submitted to Dorahacks July 2, 2023, 11:59 PM GMT-7 (PT)
Only one member of a team submits the project. The submitter must provide the names of all registered team members.
Project submissions and demonstration videos must be in English.
All submissions must include:
All submissions MUST include a link to the GitHub project that contains the project documentation or codebase (Please note that your submissions will be public).
All submissions MUST link to a demonstration video that explains the benefits of your project, how to use it, and shows how to use the project
Provide comprehensive README which includes a clear description of the project and mentions how 0x Swap API (using the Polygon Mainnet or Mumbai endpoints) and ConnectKit are used. See Judging Criteria for details
Judging Criteria
Sponsors and their judges reserve the right to give a partial prize or no prize if they do not feel any submission has met the challenge. The judges’ decisions are at their own discretion and final, binding and incontestable.
All submissions must fulfill the following requirements to be considered valid:
Obtain a 0x API key (test key is okay) through the 0x Dashboard, and implement the Swap API quote endpoint on Polygon Mainnet or Mumbai
- Note: Projects only using the /sources, /price, or /orderbook
Implement Swap API endpoints on Polygon Mainnet (https://polygon.api.0x.org/) or Mumbai (https://mumbai.api.0x.org/)
Integrate ConnectKit to connect wallets to your dApp
Submissions will be judged on the following criteria:
Technical Implementation
The code well-written, technically sound, and clean, and the project is technically complete
The use cases for the Swap API and ConnectKit make sense. The app is deployed on either Polygon Mainnet or Mumbai
Creativity
- The idea solves an existing problem in a unique way
Design
- Project has a delightful UI/UX and is easy to use
Adoption & Market
The project has potential to gain real-world traction
The project fills a market gap and has the potential to be adopted by a sizable and diverse audience
Overall Presentation
- The project is clearly presented, including the demo video and documentation
Judges
William Doom - 0x, Senior Account Manager
Jessica Lin - 0x, Developer Advocate
Brad Feinstein - AWS, Global Business Development
Lochie Axon - Family, Design Engineer
Steph Orpilla - Polygon, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
Tony Olendo - Polygon, Lead Developer Relations Engineer
List of Partners
0x
0x is developers’ one-stop shop to build financial products on crypto rails. 0x empowers hundreds of developers with essential web3 tools to enable faster trading, better prices and superior UX. Our suite of APIs has processed over 52 million transactions and $125B in volume from more than 6 million users trading on apps like Coinbase Wallet, Robinhood Wallet, Metamask, Zerion, Zapper, and more.
Founded in 2017 by Will Warren and Amir Bandeali, the 0x team is also the creator of the decentralized exchange Matcha. The team has made significant technical contributions, including the NFT token standard (ERC721) and has raised $109M up to Series B from leading investors as Pantera Capital, Greylock, Coinbase and Jump.
Polygon
Polygon is the leading platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all major scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 18000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, ~100M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured.
Website | Twitter | Reddit | Telegram | Discord
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
From Airbnb to Zocdoc, the world's top startups build on AWS. But they didn't do it alone. So whether you're looking for help solving a technical challenge, hiring the right engineers, or finalizing a fundraising round, we have all the resources you need to get started. There’s a reason more startups build on AWS than any other provider: we're here to help you succeed, from inception to IPO.
Family
Friendly crypto software. Builder of ConnectKit a powerful React component library for connecting a wallet to your dApp. It supports the most popular connectors and chains, and provides a beautiful, seamless experience. Building Family Wallet, our goal is to create the wallet you'll enjoy using every day. That’s why we pour so much time and effort into making every last detail feel delightful.