Future of Blockchain University Hackathon
 

A 4-week online hackathon dedicated to supporting innovative projects across all chains led by students

This hackathon has now finished. Read all about the event and prize winners here!

 

 What to expect

 

🤓 Workshops

🏆 Bounties

👥 1-1 Mentorship

🤓 Workshops 🏆 Bounties 👥 1-1 Mentorship

 

Are you a student hacker?
Come for mentorship, education and the potential of receiving funding from industry leaders!

Join our virtual 4-week hackathon aimed at university students! Individuals and teams (up to 6) can work on projects across all chains, with the single condition that at least one member is a university student or is related to an educational club/community!

 
 

 Sponsors

 
 
 
 

Bounties

 

Arbitrum

Account Abstraction

Prize: $750

Need some inspiration? Check out these awesome project ideas!

  • Crosschain wallet that can receive erc20s or other funds on different chains without making crosschain messages.

 

Open Challenge

Prize: $750

Need some inspiration? Check out these awesome project ideas!

  • Migrating contract state between chains (move the whole dapp from one EVM chain to Arbitrum)

  • Replay Binary gitdiff tool

  • A live stat site for how much disk space an Arbitrum node takes up

  • Build a dashboard that tracks arbitrum governance proposal lifecycles

  • Execution market for arbitrum governance proposal lifecycle

  • Interactive proposal creator (selects the L2 contract you want to target, and then creates the L2 to L1 flow etc transaction for you)

  • General message router for L1 -> L2 -> L3 messaging (as well as L3 to L3 messaging, etc)

Orbit Chains (L3s on Arbitrum)

Prize: $750

Need some inspiration? Check out these awesome project ideas!

  • Spin up Orbit chain (L3) with a fixed lifetime that allows for things such as play a game for 4 weeks then exits user's state at the deadline (i.e., you get an NFT drop at the end of the time)

  • Orbit chain for onchain identities (composing with arbitrum one and nova)

  • Turn existing blockchain into orbit chain (pick some random existing chain and port its state into an Orbit chain)

 

Nova Challenge (social/gaming)

Prize: $750

Need some inspiration? Check out these awesome project ideas!

  • Generative art NFT on arbitrum nova (very cheap on-chain compute)

  • Game on Arbitrum leveraging MUD https://github.com/latticexyz/mud

  • Twitter clone (social graph for arbitrum)

Become an Arbitrum Ambassador!

Join Arbitrum’s University Fleet to lead virtual and in-person meetups, create your own content, grow your personal network, and more!

 

Avalanche

Launching a Use-case Specific Subnet

Prize: $750

Launch a use-case specific subnet on Avalanche, e.g. an oracle subnet, a subnet built with a custom virtual machine using the HyperSDK, etc.

C-Chain Application

Prize: $750

Launch a full stack application on the C-Chain in one of the different target areas (decentralized social, decentralized ID, dev tooling, etc.).

 

ENS

Best Project Using ENS as Usernames

Prize: $1000

Most Interesting Use of ENS

Prize: $1000

Additional Pool: 15 best ENS integrations get $200 each (must include ENS name and avatar resolution).

 

SpruceID

Let Users Bring Their Own Identity and Data to Your App

Prize: $1,500 (Most innovative app use case)

Prize: $1,000 (Best technical implementation of the libraries)

Prize: $500 (Implementation with the best user experience)

Logging in without a Username

Prize: $3000 prize pool (split among 12 best submissions)

Allow users to log in without a username/password by authenticating with their Ethereum accounts.

 

Union

Build something cool on Union

Prize: $3,500 (prize pool)

This could be a UI for a specific credit category (eg personal, business, geography, etc.), an interesting use of the Underwriter SDK, an app/tool for helping vouchers find vouchees and vice versa.

Or choose your own adventure - if you want to build something not here, build away

 

No or Low Code Challenge

Prize: $1,000 (prize pool)

Awarded for the best video / tutorial / tweet / article / meme about Union that explains credit to newcomers to web3.

 

Sort

Tell a Story with Sort's Blockchain Data

Prize: 0.5 ETH

Sort makes it easy to access Ethereum and Polygon data with SQL. Use data from a sponsored contract on Sort, or request a new contract address to be sponsored. Be creative and tell a story based on any data from a contract address, use graphs, visualizations, and anything you would like. A story could involve a single transaction, multiple transactions, or anything else you can gather from Sort's blockchain data. Presentation is important. We'll award the top prize to the best story that uses data from Sort.

Additional Pool: $1000 in Sort credits will be awarded to teams.

 

Partner Universities

NEU Blockchain

Dartmouth Blockchain

London Blockchain Labs

Cambridge Blockchain

Oxford Blockchain

Princeton Blockchain Club

ITU Blockchain

Kryptosphere Blockchain

H.E.R DAO

College DAO

KCL Blockchain

McGill Blockchain

SUTD DSC

NUS Fintech

Bath Computer Science Society

Blockchain at UCI

Blockchain Lab at NYU

Illini Blockchain

Blockchain at San Diego

Bristol Maths (Matrix)

TUM Blockchain Club

Blockchain at Georgia Tech

University of Washington Blockchain

Blockchain @ UCSB

Data Science & Technology Club at the University of St.Gallen

CompSoc Edinburgh

HEC Montreal Blockchain

Edinburgh LambdaSoc

APU Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Club

MMUST DSC

Kalvi

Cooperative University Kenya DSC

Federal University of Technology Minna DSC (DSC FUTMinna)

Ahmadu Bello University DSC

Vanderbilt Blockchain

Multimedia University of Kenya DSC

Kenyatta University DSC

Bayero DSC

Junior Economic Club of San Francisco

Federal Polytechnic Bida DSC

HiLCoE School of Computer Science and Technology College DSC

University of Uyo DSC

Web3Chennai

Spartan Blockchain

KU Blockchain Institute (KUBI)

Blockchain Unilorin

Junior Economic Club of Chicago

Botswana Accountancy College GDSC

Yet Another Coding Club IIT Palakkad (YACC)

Capetown DSC

Bilkent Blockchain Society

ACM at VIT

CompSoc Leeds

Boston University Blockchain

GDSC FUO

NEU Blockchain Dartmouth Blockchain London Blockchain Labs Cambridge Blockchain Oxford Blockchain Princeton Blockchain Club ITU Blockchain Kryptosphere Blockchain H.E.R DAO College DAO KCL Blockchain McGill Blockchain SUTD DSC NUS Fintech Bath Computer Science Society Blockchain at UCI Blockchain Lab at NYU Illini Blockchain Blockchain at San Diego Bristol Maths (Matrix) TUM Blockchain Club Blockchain at Georgia Tech University of Washington Blockchain Blockchain @ UCSB Data Science & Technology Club at the University of St.Gallen CompSoc Edinburgh HEC Montreal Blockchain Edinburgh LambdaSoc APU Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Club MMUST DSC Kalvi Cooperative University Kenya DSC Federal University of Technology Minna DSC (DSC FUTMinna) Ahmadu Bello University DSC Vanderbilt Blockchain Multimedia University of Kenya DSC Kenyatta University DSC Bayero DSC Junior Economic Club of San Francisco Federal Polytechnic Bida DSC HiLCoE School of Computer Science and Technology College DSC University of Uyo DSC Web3Chennai Spartan Blockchain KU Blockchain Institute (KUBI) Blockchain Unilorin Junior Economic Club of Chicago Botswana Accountancy College GDSC Yet Another Coding Club IIT Palakkad (YACC) Capetown DSC Bilkent Blockchain Society ACM at VIT CompSoc Leeds Boston University Blockchain GDSC FUO

 
 

 What happens
during the hackathon?

 
 

Register ▶ Form a team ▶ Attend workshops ▶ Build your project ▶ Get 1-1 mentorship ▶ Submit!

 

Key Hackathon Dates

 
 
 

Session Recordings

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 Post-hackathon

By taking part in our hackathon you will also be joining our wonderful community!

 
 
 

Get help starting your company!

 

Advance your web3 career!

 

FAQ

  • Individuals and teams of up to six can work on projects across all chains, with the single condition that at least one member is either a university student or is related to an educational club or community.

  • No, you can hack solo. If you’d like to form a team, we will help you connect with other hackers.

  • Yes! The Encode team will offer support during this hackathon.

  • For updates, announcements, and everything else on the organisational side, please keep an eye on Encode’s Discord.

  • Yes, you can, but only if your project hasn’t raised significant funding already and significant feature changes have been made.

  • Yes, you/your team is the sole owner of your project.

  • Yes! We actively encourage this.