You must submit your idea as a BUIDL on Dorahacks via the IBC Ideathon page. In order to be eligible, your BUIDL submission must include the following 3 elements.

1. Project Description
You can submit this description in the project description box in Dorahacks or as a Google Slides presentation. Write-ups must be a minimum of 250 words.

Write a summary of your idea that includes the following points:

What problem does your idea solve?
Who is the intended audience for your idea (B2B, B2C, an industry vertical, etc.)? How does it improve their user experience?
Describe your idea in detail, including how it uses IBC.

2. Include your exported JSON link from the IBC Idea Builder in your Dorahacks submission under the “social links” category.

3. Ensure all required sections of the Dorahacks BUIDL are completed. These sections are marked with an asterisk (*) on Dorahacks’ BUIDL form.
Curious how to submit a winning entry? Read our blog post for a detailed explanation.

✅ Submission Eligibility

It is not required to submit a Github repository or code base with your idea.

Ideathon submissions can be for any ecosystem, not just Cosmos/the interchain. You are welcome to develop an innovative IBC-based idea for any ecosystem.

Idea submissions are accepted from both individuals and teams. Teams can be a maximum of two people. You can enter ideas into more than one track, but you can only win 1 prize per each track you enter.

All submissions must use the IBC Protocol’s cross-chain capabilities.

📝 Judging Criteria

A panel of judges will judge IBC Ideathon submissions based on a review of the idea description and the IBC Idea Builder export. It’s important that participants spend time on a thorough and well-thought-out submission.

IBC Ideathon submissions will be judged on the below criteria:

Originality - Has this idea been done before as a cross-chain use case? Is it unique?
User Experience - Who is the target audience? Does the idea improve the day-to-day user experience of the target audience? This question applies to all ideas, including those targeting B2C, B2B, infrastructure, etc.
Technicality - How difficult is the problem you’re solving? How thoroughly have you evaluated the impacts of your solution? How well does the idea use IBC’s features & applications?
Wow Factor - Buffer points for anything not captured in the above pieces of criteria!

📮 How to Submit your Entry as a BUIDL

Getting Started [3-5 MIN]

1. Submit your BUIDL via DoraHacks.io. To begin, you’ll need a DoraHacks account. Click the Login button in the top-right corner to sign up.

You can create an account with GitHub, a crypto wallet, or your email address. We recommend using GitHub to reach a wider audience with your project

*Note: You may be asked to verify your email. The code can take a few minutes to arrive, but don’t worry—it will be valid for 10 minutes after you click “send code.”

2. Make sure to add your GitHub link to your project before the submission deadline. You can submit first and make edits until the hackathon submission deadline.

Click “Submit BUIDL” to open the Hackathon submission form.

→ Already have a BUIDL on DoraHacks?

Click “Use Existing BUIDL” and select your project. Choose the track you'd like to join, answer the organizer’s questions, and then click “Submit for review.”

→ Submitting a new BUIDL?

Click “Create new BUIDL” and fill out the form with your project details.

Be sure to include URLs (with http/https://) for your demo, demo link, and social media.

Once you’ve completed the new BUIDL setup, select the relevant track, and click “Submit for review.”

After submission, you’ll see a notification confirming your project has been submitted.

The Hackathon also offers Bounties for participants to choose from. Please go to the Bounty Tab to apply. (Optional)

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Project Approval

After submission, your project needs to be approved by the Hackathon Organizer before it becomes publicly visible in the Hackathon BUIDLs gallery.

Getting Support

If you have any questions for the hackathon organizers, feel free to contact them via their dedicated Telegram, Discord, or Slack communication channel. You can also click the "Message" button next to the organizer's logo to DM them on DoraHacks.

Need to Update Your BUIDL?

To make changes to your project, click [Avatar] -> [Profile] to access your Account Center. Then, click the "Edit" button on the top right of your BUIDL to update your BUIDL information.

📐Terms of Use Agreement

This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") constitutes a legally binding agreement made between you ("user" or "you") and Interchain Foundation incorporated in Zug, Switzerland and its affiliated companies (collectively, "ICF" or "we" or "us" or "our"), concerning your entry and participation in Ideahacker’s Guide to IBC, an Interchain Ideathon ("Ideathon"). By entering this Ideathon, participants agree to the rules set out herein in their entirety. Receipt of any prize offered in this Ideathon is subject to the participant's full compliance with the submission requirements and the eligibility requirements set out herein.

Submission Requirements / Guidelines
The language of this Ideathon is English. All submissions must be made in English.

Ideas submitted in this Ideathon may not be related to initial coin offerings, digital asset trading, currency price discussions, games related to gambling, or contain elements related to gambling.

Participants must own or otherwise have all the rights to the content of their submission and the submission must not contain material that violates or infringes another party's rights, including without limitation, privacy and intellectual property rights.

By entering this Ideathon, participants agree that the judges' decisions regarding the winners are final and binding.

Participants may not engage in conduct or submit content to the Ideathon that is illegal, defamatory, offensive, or otherwise harmful to others. This includes, but is not limited to, conduct or content that is harassing, inappropriate, expressing racial or other bigotry, and/or abusive. ICF reserves the right to remove such entries from the Ideathon and/or ban the participant(s) from this event and from participating in any future events hosted by the Interchain Foundation or its affiliates.

Participants may be disqualified if they are found to be acting in violation of these rules or in a disruptive or unsportsmanlike manner or if they are found tampering with the operation of the Ideathon. The ICF reserves the rights to seek damages and other remedies from any such participant to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Prizes Total Prize Pool: $30,000 USD equivalent in ATOM token at the ATOM/USD closing price from the day before the payment date according to www.coinmarketcap.com. Prize Pool per Track: $6,000 USD equivalent in ATOM token.

$3,000 USD in ATOM - first prize winner
$1,500 USD in ATOM - second prize winner
3x third prize winners at $500 USD each.

Each participant or each team of participants is required to set up a wallet address, as directed by ICF, in order to receive the cash component of the prize. If the participants fail to provide the ICF with a wallet address within 30 days of the announcement of the winners, the prize will be forfeited.

In addition to the cash prize, the first-place winners from each track will be awarded a trip to Istanbul to the IBC Idea Incubator to work on their idea, contingent upon their acceptance of separate participation terms. The ICF will sponsor the participants’ travel expenses, accommodation, and participation in the Incubator. Participation in the trip is voluntary; however, winners are not entitled to request a monetary equivalent for the trip. Winners will be responsible for securing their own travel visas and making any similar arrangements. The prizes are non-transferable and no substitution is permitted, except with the express permission of ICF. If the prize, or any portion thereof, cannot be awarded for any reason, ICF reserves the right to substitute the prize with another prize of equal or greater value.

Prize Eligibility
The submission of multiple ideas for a single track is permitted, but only one of the submitted ideas is eligible to win for that track. A participant can have a winning idea in more than one track. The same ideas cannot be submitted for multiple tracks.

Participation is only permitted for natural persons, not legal entities.

Participants must be the age of majority in their country of residence or at least 18 years of age, whichever is older at the start of the Ideathon. If you do not meet these requirements but wish to participate, please reach out to legal@interchain.io and we will make a decision on a case-by-case basis in our sole discretion.

The event is open to both individual participants and teams. Teams can have a maximum of two members. The prizes indicated are a total amount per team, not per team member. Teams must name a team leader in charge of uploading the submission. All prizes will be provided to the team leader. For teams of two members, both team members are able to participate in the IBC Incubator trip.

Persons who receive grants from the ICF for their work on a project, members of organizations who receive ICF funding, and employees of the ICF and its affiliates, as well as the immediate family of such persons, are not eligible to participate.

The disbursement of prizes to participants is contingent upon adherence to relevant sanction regimes. The list of sanctioned countries includes but is not limited to: Afghanistan, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, Syria, the Crimea/Sevastopol, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions of Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen. Any temporary or permanent residents of any country in which the Ideathon participation is prohibited by law or would impose undue hardship on either the participant and/or the ICF based on applicable national or multinational jurisdiction export control or sanctions restrictions as well as participants subject to U.S. or other applicable sanctions, including those imposed by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control and participants employed by an entity which is subject to U.S. blocking sanctions, entity list restrictions, or other applicable asset freeze or prohibited party sanctions are not eligible to participate.

The disbursement of prizes is contingent upon adherence to our due diligence requirements. We reserve the right to conduct "know-your-customer" checks at our own discretion and will request pertinent information from the participants and teams as needed. Payment will be executed once these checks have been completed.

Intellectual Property Rights
All submissions remain the intellectual property of the individuals or organizations that developed them. By submitting an entry, participants agree that ICF will have a fully paid, non-exclusive license to use such entry for judging the entry.

Participants agree that ICF shall have the right to promote the submission and use the name, likeness, voice and image of all individuals contributing to a submission, in any materials promoting or publicizing the Ideathon and its results, for the duration of the Ideathon and for three years thereafter.

Some submission components may be displayed to the public. Other submission materials may be viewed by the sponsor and judges for screening and evaluation. By submitting an entry or accepting any prize, participants represent and warrant that

(a) submitted content is not copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third-party intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless the entrant is the owner of such rights or has permission from their rightful owner to post the content; and
(b) the content submitted does not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware or other disabling devices or harmful or malicious code.

Data Privacy
All information submitted by a participant in the context of this Ideathon will be treated in accordance with the ICF's Privacy Policy available for review online at: https://interchain.io/privacy.

Others
The accurate reporting of prizes to the appropriate tax authorities is the sole responsibility of the prize recipients.

Participants in this Ideathon hereby represent and warrant that their participation in the Ideathon will not violate any laws, regulations, policies or rules in their country of residence or any third-party rights or obligations, including but not limited to employer policies or procedures or contractual obligations or restrictions of employers or third parties.

Participants acknowledge that the Ideathon, or any part of it, may be cancelled, suspended and/or modified at the sole discretion of ICF at any time.

To the extent permitted under applicable law, the ICF and relates parties are not liable for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by ICF, the participants, printing, typographical or other errors, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Ideathon; (2) technical failures of any kind, including without limitation, malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any aspect of the Ideathon; (4) late, lost, undeliverable, damaged or stolen mail, email, or other communications; (5) any other claims of damages arising from participation in this event or acceptance or use of prizes; and (6) any claims by a participant that their submission or content is similar to or competitive with technologies or products independently developed by the ICF or received by the ICF from third-parties, including from other participants.

Dorahacks is not affiliated with and does not endorse the Ideathon. Dorahacks is exempt from any liability in connection with the Ideathon.

All disputes arising out of or in connection with the participation in this Ideathon shall be governed by, interpreted under, and construed and enforceable in accordance with, the laws of Switzerland, to the exclusion of the principles of conflicts of laws. Any dispute between the ICF and the participants arising out of or in connection with this Ideathon shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the city of Zug, Canton of Zug, Switzerland.