General Prize

• Prize Name: Best Real-World Crypto Hack

• Prize: 1x Ledger Nano X per teammate (4x total)

• Description: Build something using technologies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and/or ZetaChain that provides real utility for real people.

• Context: Blockchain is the technology of the future, as evidenced by the California DMV recently adopting the blockchain to digitize car titles. Because of its immutable and transparent nature, it is positioned to be the future of traceable data/transactions and more.

  Use cases of the blockchain span countless areas, including but not limited to: security, identity, governance, payments, retail, media, healthcare, supply chain, accreditation, financial tooling, accessible financial systems, gaming, and many more. Some examples here.

• Guiding prompt(s):

  • Can you think of a use case and develop an application that utilizes blockchain technology in a creative or useful way?
  • Onboarding into crypto is notoriously convoluted and difficult. Can you think of a way to lower barriers-to-entry to crypto and web3 tools or help educate new users?

• We are looking for: We’re looking for an out-of-the-box, innovative crypto solution that addresses a big, real-world problem. This can be in any industry so long as it leverages decentralized technologies (crypto/web3)! While we value execution (real and usable!), we also heavily value thoughtfulness in the design and implications of an application. We aren’t expecting production-ready anything; proofs of concepts are great!

• How it works: You can use any crypto/web3 technology! You can also build a web or mobile app that helps people onboard into crypto or learn about crypto.

API Prize

• Prize Name: Best ZetaChain Application

• Prize: $2500 USDC

• Description: Build a useful application that uses ZetaChain!

• Context: Existing crypto is largely fragmented and siloed. Applications, data, and assets exist on separate blockchains and moving between them is complicated, risky, and inconvenient for users. This multichain world calls for interoperability, a.k.a. the ability of blockchains to communicate with each other. This has been a long-standing pain point in blockchain technology. ZetaChain solves this problem for both developers and end users by providing devs a single place to build apps and allowing users to access the entire web3 ecosystem in one place.

  You can deploy any Solidity/EVM-compatible contract on ZetaChain to create new decentralized applications. Use cases range from social networks, universal identity, and DAOs, to decentralized finance, creative tools, and more.

  If you’re interested in leveraging it, using ZetaChain’s omnichain toolkit (Omnichain Smart Contracts and/or cross-chain messaging), you’ll be able to abstract networks/chains for end users, who will no longer have to worry about keeping track of multiple keys/wallets or learn how to bridge assets from one chain to another. You can also build efficient applications that transfer or orchestrate value between chains.

• Guiding prompt(s):

  • How could existing crypto applications or use cases be adopted to span all blockchains? (e.g., NFTs exist only on single blockchains. This limits and complicates the creation, ownership, and movement of NFTs. Omnichain NFTs can solve that problem for users)
  • What are some novel applications that could benefit from existing across all chains? (e.g., games that transcend chains, payment systems that support all assets and chains, omnichain DAOs/governance, social networks, omnichain portfolio management, credential systems, attribution/authentication, media, creative tools).

• We are looking for: Any application that is built with/on ZetaChain. This can be simply any Solidity smart contract application deployed on ZetaChain. Bonus points if you use ZetaChain’s cross-chain messaging or omnichain smart contracts features. We are looking for creative, impactful crypto use cases (real utility and value for users), with bonus points for out-of-the-box thinking. We’d love to see use cases that have multichain and/or accessibility in mind. While we value execution (real and usable!), we also heavily value thoughtfulness in the design and implications of an application. We aren’t expecting production-ready anything; proofs of concepts are great!

• How it works: You can develop and deploy any Solidity/EVM contracts on ZetaChain. If you want to, you can also use ZetaChain’s ZRC-20 mechanism to orchestrate assets from various chains and/or deploy smart contracts on other blockchains that use Cross-Chain Messaging. We are open to a wide variety of applications, both financial and not. Please reference the following for more information on how to build on ZetaChain, and feel free to reach out to Madison, Brandon, and Tad (in Slack) for help with further questions.

  Deploy your first smart contract on ZetaChain