OP-StackBuild Whatever - $50,000
🏆 A total of $50,000 in prizes will be awarded.
💡 Rewarding applications on Celestia and its rollups across DeFi, NFTs, Gaming, and General Applications. We value creativity and innovation. Extra points for projects that push the boundaries of what's possible on Celestia.
- 🥇 2x Grand Prize $5,000
- 🥈 4x Runner ups $2,500
- 🏊 Up to 10x Pool Prize: $1,400 each
Prizes
💸 Best DeFi Application on Celestia — 🥇 2x $2,000
Think outside the box. Bonus for projects that introduce novel decentralized financial instruments or liquidity solutions.
🎮 Best Gaming /Autonomous World project with Celestia underneath — 🥇 2x $2,000
Leverage Celestia’s boundless expressivity with bespoke execution environments that utilise customised on-chain game logic and/or VMs.
🖼️ Best NFT project on Celestia — 🥇 2x $2,000
Imagine your rollup as a canvas, whether it be through unique distribution and minting processes, dynamic NFTs that utilise novel tooling, or applications that leverage Celestia’s high throughput and abundant blockspace.
🛠️ Best General Application — 🥇 2x $2,000
This is a broad category for any application that doesn’t necessarily fit into the above categories but makes excellent use of Celestia’s capabilities.
Developer Resources & Prize Details
Core - $20,000
🏆 A total of $20,000 in prizes will be awarded
💡 This track emphasizes enhancements to the Celestia blockchain core functionalities. Projects can include Bridging solutions, Rollups (both Optimistic and ZK Rollup integrations), Developer Tooling enhancements, Protocol upgrades, or Infrastructure improvements. We are seeking innovations that strengthen the network's foundation, improve performance, or offer new capabilities to developers and users alike. You can look at some ideas to get started here.
- 🥇 2x Grand Prize $4,000: For outstanding contributions that offer significant improvements or innovations to the Celestia core network functionalities. This includes but is not limited to contributions to celestia-core, celestia-app, and celestia-node.
- 🥈 3x Runner ups $2,000: For projects that demonstrate potential in enhancing Celestia's core infrastructure, including developer tools, protocols, or any foundational technology.
- 🏊 Up to 5x Pool Prize of $800 each: For promising projects that contribute to the Celestia ecosystem's core infrastructure and tools.
Prizes
💼 Best Bridging Solution on Celestia — 🥇 1x $1,000
Solutions that facilitate seamless interoperability between Celestia and other blockchains or layer 2 solutions.
🔄 Best Rollup Integration — 🥇 1x $1,000
Projects that effectively utilize or innovate on rollup technology to enhance transaction throughput or scalability on Celestia.
🛠 Best Developer Tooling — 🥇 1x $1,000
Tools that significantly improve the developer experience on Celestia, ranging from IDE integrations, testing frameworks, to deployment and monitoring tools.
🌉 Best Protocol/Infrastructure Innovation — 🥇 1x $1,000
Innovations that push the boundaries of the Celestia protocol or underlying infrastructure, offering new capabilities or performance enhancements.
Developer Resources & Prize Details
UX - $22,500
🏆 A total of $22,500 in prizes will be awarded
💡 This track is dedicated to projects that significantly reduce the friction for onboarding new users onto the blockchain and improve the on-chain user experience (UX). Innovations may include, but are not limited to, integrating Web2 authentication methods, streamlining the onboarding process, enhancing identity management, and developing Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) that offer a seamless experience between web and mobile.
- 🥇 2x Grand Prize $4,000: For groundbreaking solutions and applications that offer a substantial improvement in the ease of use and accessibility of blockchain technology for the average user.
- 🥈 3x Runner ups $2,000: For impressive projects that make notable advancements in reducing the complexity of interacting with blockchain applications.
- 🏊 Up to 4x Pool Prize: $1,000 each: For promising initiatives that contribute to bettering the user experience within the Celestia ecosystem or blockchain applications at large.
Prizes
🔐 Best Web2 Authentication Integration — 🥇 1x $1,000
Innovative use of Web2 authentication methods to simplify blockchain interactions and user identity verification.
🚀 Best Onboarding Experience — 🥇 1x $1,000
Projects that streamline the onboarding process for new users, making it intuitive and effortless to start using or building blockchain applications.
🆔 Best Identity Solutions — 🥇 1x $1,000
Solutions that address identity verification and management on the blockchain, enhancing security while preserving user privacy.
📱 Best PWA for Blockchain Applications — 🥇 1x $1,500
Progressive Web Apps that offer a seamless and responsive experience, bridging the gap between desktop and mobile usage of blockchain applications.
Developer Resources & Prize Details
Community - $7,500
🏆 A total of $7,500 in prizes will be awarded
💡 This track encourages the development of projects that foster community support in the Infinite Space Bazaar, enhance storytelling, create new designs and illustrations for the Houses, and support decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). We're looking for creative solutions that engage the community, tell compelling stories about Celestia, modular blockchains, or the Infinite Space Bazaar, and facilitate community governance or participation.
- 🥇 1x Grand Prize $2,500: For an exceptional project that stands out in terms of creativity and impact on the community.
- 🥈 1x Runner $1,000: For projects that make significant contributions to community engagement, storytelling, or DAO functionalities, demonstrating potential for positive impact.
Prizes
📖 Best Storytelling Project — 🥇 1x $600, 🥈 1x Runner up $400
Projects that effectively use narrative techniques to explain complex modular concepts or add storytelling to the Infinite Space Bazaar and its houses, share the vision of Celestia, or highlight community achievements.
👥 Best Community Support Initiative — 🥇 1x $600, 🥈 1x Runner up $400
Initiatives that significantly increase community engagement, bring new members into the Celestia ecosystem, create a meetup, or enhance community cohesion and support.
🎨 Best Design and Illustration Contribution — 🥇 1x $600, 🥈 1x Runner up $400
Submissions that stand out in visual communication, whether through illustrations for the Houses, infographics, digital art, UI/UX designs for community tools, or branding materials that help bring the Celestia and Infinite Space Bazaar brand to life. Memes about Celestia Light Node or modularity are also part of this scope.
🏛 Best DAO Project — 🥇 1x $600, 🥈 1x Runner up $400
Projects that contribute innovative solutions or improvements to DAO structures, governance models, or community participation mechanisms within the Celestia ecosystem. Ideas can include making a DAO for your House.