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Win extra $100K in prizes from Solana Summer Camp at DoraHacks!

Win extra $100K in prizes from Solana Summer Camp at DoraHacks!

Summer is cool with Solana and DoraHacks - our fourth Solana hackathon has kicked off!

From July 11 to August 16, Solana Summer Camp Hackathon is a global virtual fest to encourage and support BUIDLers on SOL, with up to $5 Million in prizes and funding. Meanwhile, DoraHacks community has been offered an extra and exclusive prize pool of $100,000, which means, only those who apply via the below link can gain the additional rewards and visibility!

*Need help? Contact our user support specialist at Telegram @dorahacksofficial

How it works?

Project submission: July 11 - early-August, teams only need to submit project information at https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/31/detail No extra works/coding needed!

Judge’s review and Screening:

Early-August - August 16: Finalists (submitted from DoraHacks) will be selected, be invited to do project demo and be sharing 50% of the DoraHacks-exclusive prize pool!

August 16 - late-August: Judging and select the final prize winners

Winners announced: late-August, final prize winners will get huge prize money and PR support from Solana and DoraHacks 📰

Tracks

Build SOL projects across 6 prize tracks.

  • Mobile: It's time to build crypto on the go. Make your mobile-first web3 project using the Solana Mobile Stack.
  • Payments: Connect users to crypto. Build projects that help everyone pay for things in crypto.
  • DeFi: Leave traditional finance behind. Design DEXs, lending platforms, and new decentralized applications to free consumers.
  • Web3: Decentralize the internet. Build the next generation of web products on crypto, from social media to TK.
  • Gaming: Create the future of gaming. Shape blockchain-based games, NFTs, and more to allow players to directly interact with p2p markets.
  • DAOs: Organize without bureaucracy. Create a decentralized autonomous organization to accomplish nearly anything without bloated leadership

Prize allocation: $5 Million plus $100K (only at DoraHacks)!

1. DoraHacks-exclusive prize pool: $100,000

Solana and DoraHacks will do a round of screening to select some projects as finalists. Finalists are eligible to share the $100K DoraHacks-exclusive prize pool additional to the $5 Million in global prizes offered by Solana.

The $100K in prizes will be divided into 2 parts:

1. Finalist prize: $50,000 will be equally shared by all the finalists.

Every finalist can receive: $50,000/Number of finalists from DoraHacks.io

2. Community quadratic voting prize pool: $50,000, distributed based on the popularity of the finalist projects, which means, more voters will bring you bigger matching prize!

3. Meanwhile, all the cost of voting will be sent to the project directly as community funding 💸

So the total prize you can potentially include:

$50,000/Number of finalists on DoraHacks.io

Plus Quadratic funding matching prize ($50,000 in total)

Plus Community contribution from supporters (not limited)

Plus Solana Summer Camp global prizes (up to $5 Million)

Reading What’s Quadratic Funding and how we improved it: https://dorahacks.io/blog/guides/what-is-quadratic-voting-funding-how-did-we-improve-it/

2. Up to $5 Million global prizes from Solana and sponsors

  • Grant Champion: $65K in USDC + the opportunity to present at Solana Breakpoint in Lisbon, Portugal
  • University Award: $30K
  • Community Choice Award: $10K
  • Climate Award: $10K

Dora extra prize pool: Exclusive $100K in prizes additional to the $5M prize pool!

Application Guidelines

Learn how to finish project submission in 5 min: https://dorahacks.io/blog/guides/solana-summer-camp/

Still Need help? Contact our user support specialist at Telegram @dorahacksofficial

About DoraHacks

DoraHacks is a global hackathon organizer and one of the world’s most active developer communities. It is an open-source developer platform and open source curation market. It provides unique on-chain tools to incentivize open-source developments around the world. The platform offers a variety of features including hacker profile, BUIDL, quadratic funding grants, bonding curve, bounties, hackathons to more than 100,000 users around the world.

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