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Financial Inclusion by Stellar
Build the future of finance and unlock opportunities for billions! In the Financial Inclusion track, we encourage projects that focus on last-mile payments, humanitarian and social impact solutions, remittances, fiat on/off-ramps, mobile money, local currencies, and UX design tailored for the Global South. Leverage Stellar to create innovative solutions that provide secure savings, affordable remittances, and financial tools that drive economic growth and resilience.
🥇 Prizes: $30K in XLM
Challenge statements:
- Build a dApp to Unlock Financial Inclusion Using Stellar (see details + resources)
- Integration of Stellar Network with Mobile Money Open APIs (see details + resources)
- Integration of Off-Chain Mobile Money Open API Data with Smart Contracts via Oracles (see details + resources)
🥇 1st Prize: $15k in XLM.
🥈 2nd Prize: $10k in XLM.
🥉 3rd Prize: $5k in XLM.
This track has been sponsored by Stellar Foundation
Decentralized AI by NEAR
Decentralized AI enhances data privacy by allowing individuals to maintain control over their data without relying on centralized entities. It improves security by eliminating single points of failure, making the system less vulnerable to attacks or breaches while promoting transparency and fairness, ensuring that AI decision-making processes are more accountable and less prone to bias.
Check out this document by NEAR.
Challenge Statement - Decentralized Federated Learning for Impact-Driven AI.
Design and develop a proof-of-concept for a decentralized federated learning platform that enables multiple participants to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing their raw data.
🥇 1st Prize: $10,000.
🥈 2nd Prize: $5,000.
🥉 3rd Prize: $2,500.
This track has been sponsored by Near Foundation
Decentralized Storage by Filecoin
- Applications of Filecoin & IPFS for decentralized data markets
- Censorship-resistant transparent archival systems
- Access to open knowledge, resilience and accessibility of public data
Challenge Statement by Funding the Commons & Numbers protocol
Build an application leveraging Numbers Protocol that enables refugees to store media in a censorship-resistant, publicly available archive. The archive interface should be easily consumable by users such as gallery curators & archivists, journalists, and national & international bodies such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
🥇 1st Prize: $2,500
Challenge Statements by Filecoin
Filecoin has a number of challenge statements you can choose from. Get Started with Filecoin
1. Incentivizing Public Goods Storage on Filecoin Design a system that encourages clients to upload public goods datasets to Filecoin and incentivizes Storage Providers (SPs) to store and make them easily retrievable. Incorporate a verification mechanism for the legitimacy of the data and ensure continued availability through rewards like microgrants or tokens.
2. Public Data Verification and Trust for Open Source Datasets Create a system that verifies the integrity, authenticity, and legitimacy of public datasets stored on Filecoin. This solution should enhance trust in the Filecoin network, especially for critical open-source datasets, offering new ideas for improving the Filecoin Plus model.
3. DataDAO for Public Goods Datasets Build a DataDAO on Filecoin to govern and maintain access to public goods datasets. Use decentralized governance and FEVM to automate processes and incentivize the long-term storage, verification, and retrieval of open-source data.
4. Open Market for Climate and Environmental Data Storage Create an open market model or Dapp using Filecoin and FEVM where climate and environmental datasets can be stored, accessed, and retrieved. Create economic incentives for data contributors and Storage Providers, ensuring easy retrieval for researchers and other stakeholders.
5. Building a Decentralized Data Commons Platform Create a decentralized platform for storing and sharing large public datasets, such as scientific research or climate data, on Filecoin. Leverage tools like Lassie, Boost, and Lighthouse to promote decentralized, cost-effective storage solutions, highlighting Filecoin’s unique selling points of cheap, decentralized storage and data availability, as an alternative to centralized platforms
🥇 1st Prize: $2,500.
🥈 2nd Prize: $1,000.
🥉 3rd Prize: $500.
This track has been sponsored by Filecoin
Environmental Impact by KlimaDAO
For this track we encourage projects which address the problems of Natural capital assets (i.e. biodiversity credits, carbon credits), dMRV, Climate finance, Environmental conservation & restoration mechanisms and Bioregional governance.
🥇 Prizes: $14,000
Challenge statement by KlimaDAO - Novel demand for tokenized Carbon
Propose the most novel use case or mechanism for creating new demand for carbon credits within DeFi, gaming, or NFTs, focusing on utility and incentivizing large-scale adoption.
🥇 1st Prize: $5k.
🥈 2nd Prize: $3k.
🥉 3rd Prize: $1k.
🥇 Toucan bounty:. $2k + $50 up to per tonne up to $20,000 of carbon retired. full eligibility and ideas
🥇 Astral bounty::
Build a product, tool or workflow using Astral’s open source code to support the financing, implementation, monitoring or verification of climate projects or environmental markets. See some ideas to inspire you here
🥇 1st Prize: $1,000.
Challenge statement by Cherty
Build a Cherty graph to manage part of the data and analysis used in a project managing ecological or other public goods. Show that you have integrated (1) the poplar-esm package, and/or (2) the Cherty API into your project. As examples, you might use Cherty and Poplar to record data, track how it is analyzed, or to document how credits are issued. Record a brief video showing the analysis graph in the Cherty App and explaining how it is used in your project. Cherty docs poplar-js
🥇 1st Prize: $2,000.
This track has been sponsored by Klima DAO
Toucan has sponsored a bounty on this track
Astral has sponsored a bounty on this track
Public Goods Funding Infrastructure
For this track we encourage projects which address the problems of: Distribution & allocation, Identity & sybil resistance, Impact evaluation, certification, credentials, attestations
Challenge statement by Funding the Commons
Create infrastructure allowing prospective funders of open source public goods to be connected to future project success. This may take the form of financial return, reputation and credit. Possible ideas: Hypercerts, Hyperstaker, Reputation systems.
🥇 1st Prize: $2,500.
NFT based governance of an Allo pool
Create an Allo protocol strategy such that when a donor puts money into a pool, a Hypercert which can be used to govern allocation of the pool is minted and sent to the donor? Create a UI to enable usage of this application
🥇 1st Prize: $2,500.
Challenge statement by Talent protocol
Best use of the Talent protocol's Builder Score:
🥇1st Place: 500M $BUILD ($1,000).
🥈2nd Place: 300M $BUILD ($600).
🥉3rd Place: 200M $BUILD ($400).
Challenge statements by Decoland
The hackathon can explore the following challenge areas where Web3 solutions can drive innovation in impact evaluation:
1: Community-Led Impact Setting and Measurement Tool.
A platform where impacted communities can propose, vote, and discuss metrics for project success. Community input would be adopted by donors, aligning impact evaluation with actual community needs, and linking it to both web3 grants and traditional funding sources. learn more
2: Impact Verification Platform for Social and Economic Measures
A blockchain-based platform for real-time, independent verification of impact data. This platform enables multi-stakeholder verification, with smart contracts automating fund releases based on verified outcomes, ensuring trust and transparency in social and economic interventions. learn more
3: Blockchain-Based Certification and Attribution for Impact
A blockchain-powered certification system that uses NFTs to represent and verify the attribution of impact to specific interventions. This ensures transparent, multi-stakeholder-validated attribution, enhancing accountability and traceability for project outcomes. learn more
4: Impact Data Marketplace
A decentralized marketplace for sharing and monetizing impact data. The platform incentivizes collaboration by enabling stakeholders to securely pool, trade, and use impact data for financing and project development, while allowing affected communities to own and monetize their data. learn more
5. Building a Multidimensional Data Framework for Impact Evaluation and Community-Led Impact Investment
Decoland works to democratize funding for social impact. We leverage emerging technologies to realign funding incentives with community needs, facilitate new democratic pools of funding, and bridge the gap between innovation and social change. learn more
🥇1st Place: $2,000.
Challenge statements by DaoStar
Find relevant links here.
DAOIP-5 Use Case Applications
The DAOIP-5 metadata standard, developed by DAOstar, facilitates interoperability across blockchain-based grants management systems by providing a unified schema. This improves the grant experience for both applicants and programs, ensuring greater efficiency, transparency, and accessibility. Developers are challenged to build applications leveraging DAOIP-5, with use cases ranging from unified grant applications to reputation systems and impact verification. The standard is poised for wide adoption, with tools like the Open Source Observer's API simplifying data integration for grants programs. learn more
DAOIP-5 Data Lake Exploration
The DAOIP-5 API from Open Source Observer now provides access to a data lake of historical grant data from Stellar, Gitcoin, Optimism, Arbitrum, DAO Drops, and Octant. This offers a unique opportunity to analyze and compare grants across ecosystems. Developers are challenged to build applications that leverage this data for insights, visualizations, or tools that improve grants management. Potential use cases include cross-program comparisons, measuring grant effectiveness, visualizing program impacts, uncovering historical trends, and optimizing grants through data-driven insights. learn more
🥇 1st Prize: $2,000.
🥇 Astral bounty:. Build a public goods funding tool that uses Astral’s Location Proof Protocol. See some ideas to inspire you here
🥇 1st Prize: $1,000.
This track has been sponsored by Funding the Commons
Astral has sponsored a bounty on this track
Talent Protocol has sponsored a bounty on this track
Identity and Privacy by Holonym
Resilient digital identity is crucial because it ensures individuals can securely prove their identity across digital platforms while maintaining control over their personal data. It strengthens protection against identity theft and fraud by decentralizing identity verification, reducing reliance on vulnerable centralized systems. Moreover, it empowers users with greater privacy and autonomy, allowing them to manage access to their identity and credentials as needed.
Technologies like zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) and ZKML enhances security and privacy further, enabling users to prove identity without revealing sensitive details. Private payments, decentralized identity systems, and anonymous communication networks bolster these protections, allowing secure transactions and interactions. Privacy-focused RegTech solutions ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks without compromising user anonymity or autonomy.
Challenge Statements by Holonym
Challenge 1: Universal Personhood Issuer ($5,000)
How we can prove personhood of an undocumented refugee? Utilize Zeronym and the Silk SDKs to create a "Refugee Identity Issuer" that allows undocumented individuals in refugee camps to prove that they are a unique human with specific status (such as a verified refugee at a camp). Bonus points for extending this beyond refugee status.
🥇 1st Prize: $5,000.
Challenge 2: Simple Remittances & P2P Payments ($3,500x2)
Sending payments with crypto should be easier than opening a bank account. Utilize the Silk wallet in a dApp to 1) onboard users with socials or email, 2) onramp with no KYC, 3) receive/send payments via text/email. Bonus points for novel applications utilizing other DeFi primitives, activations over web2 platforms, tested in the wild with real world impact.
🥇 1st Prize: $3,500.
🥈 2nd Prize: $3,500.
Challenge 3: Unstoppable Civic Infrastructure ($3,000)
How do we build resilient systems for voting, crowdfunding, direct aid, and coordination by people around the world? Utilize any of Holonym's technology to build unstoppable civic infrastructure that can empower people to persist in collective governance even when IRL institutions malfunction.
🥇 1st Prize: $3,000.
This track has been sponsored by Holonym
Fullstack Decentralization by Layer
Challenge: Build something cool with Web Assembly
For this track, we encourage projects that address the challenges of:
• Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) Infrastructure.
• Innovative On-Chain Governance Models.
• Secure and Fair Voting Mechanisms.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Participation Tools.
• Governance Frameworks for Decentralized Communities.
• Conflict Resolution and Arbitration in Decentralized Systems.
• Governance Scalability Solutions.
• Balancing Decentralization and Regulatory Compliance.
• Incentive Structures for Governance Participation.
🥇 1st Prize: $1,000
🥈 2nd Prize: $500
🥉 3rd Prize: $250
Challenge statement
Develop an innovative on-chain governance model for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) that enhances stakeholder engagement and participation. Your solution should include secure and fair voting mechanisms, scalable to large communities, and incorporate conflict resolution and arbitration processes. Balance the principles of decentralization with regulatory compliance, and design incentive structures that encourage active governance participation.
This track has been sponsored by Layer
Trust and Authenticity by Numbers Protocol
Challenge statement
Integration Requirement: All projects must integrate with Numbers Capture, utilizing blockchain-based verification and provenance tracking tools. Creativity & Execution: Solutions should combine technical integration with innovative use cases in digital asset management. Projects incorporating existing Capture products, such as the Capture Dashboard, Showcase page, and Capture Cam, are encouraged. Community Engagement: Participants are encouraged to connect with the Numbers community for support.
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🏆 Best Prototype of Digital Asset Archive Prize: $1,500 USD in NUM Description: Awarded for a prototype that effectively uses Numbers Capture to create a user-friendly digital asset archive.
🏆 Most Innovative Provenance Solution Prize: $1,500 USD in NUM Description: Recognizes creative applications of Numbers Capture’s features for tracking digital assets and ensuring transparency.
🏆 Community Choice Award Prize: $1,000 USD in NUM Description: Voted by the Numbers community on Twitter, awarded to the project with the highest engagement and impact.
This track has been sponsored by Numbers protocol