Web3 Summit hackathon is back with $96,784 USD in prizes with Polkadot, Web3 Foundation, Hyperbridge, ink! Alliance, Kusama and Superteam DE.
A 72-hour, round-the-clock hackathon at the historic Funkhaus venue, welcoming all skill levels and builders from every vertical.
New developer and marketing prizes — in synergy.
Ship it, don’t shelf it.
Build your prototype in 3 days and get mentor support to help you reach your next milestone post-hackathon.
A 3-day chain-agnostic Web3 hackathon during the Web3 Summit where ecosystems unite and ideas converge to build Web3 together.
- Full IRL mentoring by experienced DevRel
- "The Blockspäti" experience, with breakfast, lunch vouchers & dinner
- 24-hour access to the hackerspace over three days (you can camp here!)
- Free Web3 Summit ticket and conference access
- Fair competition: beginners compete with beginners, pros with pros
- Help finding your team and brainstorming support
- Nintendo 64 gaming area
- Customise your own merch station
AGENDA
Polkadot Main Track: $20,000 total for projects submitting milestone 1 and detailed plan for milestone 2 (4 winners × $5,000 each) (*)
- Marketing bounty: $10,000 in prizes for the best pitch & go-to market potential
- Partner bounties: Stack additional prizes on top by integrating partner technologies. Confirmed partners: ink! with $10k in bounties, Hyperbridge with $5k in bounties, UX Bounty with $7.5k in bounties, and Solana with $2.5k in bounties
- Maximum Synergy: Win both main tracks + multiple bounties by bridging ecosystems
(*) main track submissions must at least be building on Polkadot in their milestone 2 plans.
Kusama Main Track: 10500 DOT (~$40,745)
50% unlocked after milestone 1 and 50% locked for 1 year
- 🔐 Zero-Knowledge and Advanced Cryptography (
- Interesting uses of ZK technology, projects using ZKPs, projects implementing cryptographic primitives, projects using cryptographic primitives in interesting ways
- Example projects: Making a game using zero-knowledge technology, restructuring a program to be more privacy-oriented,
- 👤 Proof-of-personhood
- Using or developing proof of personhood mechanism or other decentralized identity experiments
- Example projects: Generating a proof-of-personhood system based on something unique about a person, implementing proof-of-personhood into voting, a DAO or real-world activity
- 🎨 Art and Social Experiments
- The broadest term of art - images, music, or something which makes people think. Social experiments - anything which allows people to interact in an interesting way using blockchain technology.
- Example projects: a “real-life” blockchain like Kappa Sigma Mu, generative art based on recent block hashes or user activity, games which involve provable real-life activity
For each of the three categories:
🥇 2000 DOT (1,000 DOT upfront and 1,000 locked DOT upon completion of milestone 2)
🥈 1000 DOT (500 DOT upfront and 500 locked DOT upon completion of milestone 2)
🥉 500 DOT (250 DOT upfront and 250 locked DOT upon completion of milestone 2)
For all Main Track submissions
- Form diverse teams and build your prototype during the hackathon (Milestone 1)
- Submit your development and delivery plan for Milestone 2
- Win = get $2,500 of your prize immediately
- Access weekly mentor support & office hours organized by WebZero within the 30 days post-hackathon
- Complete Milestone 2 and get the remaining $2,500
For any Partner bounties or Marketing bounty submissions you will need to meet their submission requirements. Each will have their own prizes that you are free to accumulate by building projects that integrate all of them.
Choose from our curated idea pool (TBA on day 1) or bring your own ideas. Here are a few to take inspiration from:
- Interoperability & Bridges: Connect ecosystems, enable collaboration
- Unified Developer Tools: SDKs that work everywhere, testing across chains
- Community Infrastructure: DAOs, governance, coordination tools
- Cross-chain DeFi: Liquidity that flows between ecosystems
- Shared Identity & Privacy: Solutions that transcend single chains
- Multi-ecosystem Apps: Products that unite communities
🎯 ENSURING FAIR PLAY
- 🟢 Beginner: Compete with other beginners, judged on progress & go to market strategy (guaranteed win for beginners if you meet the requirements)
- 🔴 Advanced: Show your technical chops, solve complex problems, judged on progress & technical feasibility.
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