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February 2023 - Season 5 of the monthly Canto Online Hackathon

Canto Online Hackathon | Chapter 1, Season 5 | Feb 1 - 19

Apply to Hack

The Canto Online Hackathon (COH) is a virtual summit that invites developers, creatives, and communicators to launch the next wave of apps, infrastructure, and original work on Canto.

About Canto

Canto is a permissionless blockchain built with the Cosmos SDK that offers an EVM execution layer and core financial primitives, including a novel decentralized exchange, lending market, and unit of account (NOTE). In support of Canto’s Free Public Infrastructure – a framework that advocates for DeFi primitives to be provided as public utilities, among other tenets – the COH encourages projects centered on sustainability, authenticity, and creativity.

Bounties & Building Categories

Builders will compete for prizes from a 300,000 CANTO rewards pool. The overall winner will be awarded 100,000 CANTO while category winners will receive 40,000 CANTO.

  • Ecosystem Support Analytics, tooling, and sites for Canto awareness. Prize: 40,000 CANTO
  • NFTs Collections that break new ground, and/or include experimental aspects. Prize: 40,000 CANTO
  • DeFi & Infrastructure Apps that leverage Canto’s Infrastructure, including its Free Public Infrastructure of DeFi Primitives and Contract Secured Revenue. Prize: 40,000 CANTO
  • New Things The most divergent ideas: games, DAOs, all things weird.
    Prize: 40,000 CANTO
  • Notable Builds Remarkable projects will be awarded as judges see fit. Prize: 40,000 CANTO
  • Overall Winner Prize: 100,000 CANTO

Judging Criteria

20% – Originality, Creativity, & Innovation.

20% – Canto-ish-ness. How well projects do one of the following items:

  • In step with Canto culture
  • Leverages or supports Canto Free Public Infrastructure
  • Leverages Contract Secured Revenue.

20% – Expertise Required A high level of skill or knowledge or competency was demonstrated by the team members

20% – User Experience Project presents as intuitive and understandable for its targeted user profile.

20% – Sustainability A thoughtful plan for launch, maintenance, and/or further development.

Judges

The COH is pleased to announce the following judges for Chapter 1, Season 5:

Important Dates

2/1 – Registration Ongoing at thecoh.build
2/1 – Begin Building, Communicate in the COH chat.
2/3 – The Elevator, 630pm-730pm UTC, Save Your Spot
The Elevator is a project pitch session: your chance to pitch your idea(s) to fellow builders and Canto mentors. Get direct feedback, learn about potential projects, and grow your team.
2/8 – Midpoint Check. Share Project Title, Summary, & Progress Update with COH organizers.
2/17 – Projects Due. Must submit pre-recorded video and PR to this repo by 11:59pm UTC.
2/19 – [Judging Ceremony ] at 6pm UTC. Event link TBA
2/20-22 – Winners Announced (TBD)

Project Requirements

Teams must submit a PR to this repo before 11:59pm UTC on 2/17. If builders wish to keep their project private, please contact hackathon organizers to ensure judges' github handles are added to your project.

Teams must provide a pre-recorded video (max 5 minutes). This video will be played during the live judging ceremony and can be a working demo and/or a presentation outlining the project (i.e. what was accomplished during the COH, what’s next). For examples of hackathon presentation videos please review the judging ceremony from a previous COH season. For guidelines on recording your video, see see here.

Note: Any teams requiring assistance with translation and subtitling of their video can contact the hackathon organizers for accommodations. All languages are welcome.

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