Canto Online Hackathon | Chapter 1, Season 1 | October 1 - 23

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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

25% – Originality, Creativity, & Innovation.

25% – 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.

25% – Expertise Required A high level of skill or knowledge or competency was demonstrated by the team members

25% – User Experience Project presents as intuitive and understandable for its targeted user profile.

Judges

The following will be judges for Season 1, Chapter 1:

NateAlex – Founder, Secret Project; Prev: NFT42, Chainfaces.co
Clinton Bembrey, JR – CEO, Slingshot Finance
Zak Cole – CTO, Slingshot Finance
Joseph Delong – CTO Astaria.XYZ; Prev: Sushi, Ethereum Core Dev, ConsenSys
Austin Griffith – Builder, Ethereum Foundation
Dean Eigenmann – Dialectic, Project Blanc; Prev: ensdomains, status.im, ZKLabs
Oluchi Enebeli – Engineer, Liquality.io
Foobar – Founder, Forteswap
Alex Komarov – Director of Mobile, MEW
Scott Lewis – Cofounder, DeFi Pulse, Slingshot Finance, Code4rena; Contributor, Canto
Maria Paula – Cofounder, jpg.space, and the Department of Decentralization
Will Price – Mechanism Designer
Mayowa Tudonu – Engineer, ShardLabs
Preston Van Loon – Ethereum Core Developer
Derek Walkush – Investor, Variant.fund

Important Dates

09/30 – Registration Closes at thecoh.build at 11:59pm UTC. 10/1 – Begin Building (See Builder Resources) 10/3 – Mentor Session 1 (Optional), Open Hours 7-10 UTC, Add to Calendar 10/4 – Mentor Session 2 (Optional), Open Hours 7-10 UTC, Add to Calendar 10/11 – Share Progress Update & Schedule for Judging in COH Telegram Chat 10/21 – Projects Due. Must submit to this repo by 11:59pm UTC. 10/22 – Judging Sessions will be scheduled 3-5pm, 5-7pm, 7,9pm (UTC) 10/23 – Judging Sessions will be scheduled 3-5pm, 5-7pm, 7,9pm (UTC) 10/23 – Awards Ceremony at 10pm (UTC)

Builder Resources