- Hackathon dates: February 15 through March 1, 2021
- Type: Online and global
- Register now: Official Website
- More details: Announcement Blog Post
Solana is a fast, low-fee, and censorship-resistant blockchain designed to enable builders to quickly deploy and scale applications to billions of users globally. The Solana Foundation has teamed up with Serum, the largest DeFi project in the ecosystem, to host a hackathon focused on allowing developers to experiment and leverage our technology to create a plethora of DeFi (Decentralized Finance) applications.
As long as you have an Internet connection, you're invited to join the global hackathon! Combining Serum's infrastructure and tooling with Solana’s core features gives hackers an open design space to expand the overall DeFi ecosystem. While participants are encouraged to build novel DeFi apps, hackers can build infrastructure or any tool they believe will have an impact on the ecosystem. The only requirement is that teams must incorporate Solana into their project in some way. Take a look at our list of ideas for inspiration.
- Solana Documentation
- Intro to Programming on Solana
- Serum Developer Resources
- Framework for building on Serum
- Solana Cluster Overview
- Solana Program Library Documentation
- Hello World Example
- Discord Support Chat: Live technical support and help
- Find a teammate directory
- Automated Market Maker + Swap Reference Implementation
- Borrow/Lend Reference Implementation
- Margin Reference Implementation
- Wormhole Documentation: Ethereum<>Solana bi-directional bridge
- Chainlink<>Solana Oracle Implementation
- Full Stack dApp Development Environment by Decentology
- Run your own Serum DEX
- List tokens on the Serum DEX
- Solana Development Tutorial
Participants may submit a maximum of 1 project by the hackathon deadline. Once all submissions are collected, Solana will distribute a list to the judges for the evaluation process. Teams and individuals are evaluated on the following criteria:
- Functionality
- Potential impact
- Novelty
- Design
- Composability
After judges complete individual evaluations, the hackathon organizers will discuss with the judges to choose the winners based on the project's weighted scores. Winners of the event will be announced shortly after the end of the hackathon.
Once winners have been selected, the top 9 teams will have the opportunity to compete for an additional $200k in seed funding. This gives serious builders a chance at jumping full-time into the Solana ecosystem and receive extensive resources from the Solana Foundation, Project Serum, and leading venture capital firms.
Prizes
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| Grand Prize Winner | $200k in seed funding |
| First Place Winners | 2 winners up to $50k each + Solana Swag |
| Second Place Winners | 3 teams of $20k each + Solana Swag |
| Third Place Winners | 4 teams of $10k each + Solana Swag |
| Community Choice Prize | $5k + Solana Swag |
| SushiSwap Prize | $50k |
| Torus Prize | $2k |
| All participants that submit a project | $100 |
- #announcements: Announcements from the Solana Foundation and Serum team
- #questions: Technical support and help from Solana and Serum Engineers
- #join-a-team: Introduce yourself, find a team, or seek additional team members
The Solana x Serum DeFi Hackathon welcomes any one from around the world to participate and is intended to create an inclusive environment for building, collaboration, creativity, and impact. We value the participation of each member of the community and want everyone involved to be respected. Accordingly, hackathon administrators, judges, and participants are expected to adhere to the Code of Conduct outlined below for the duration of the hackathon. Event organizers will enforce this code and have the right to disqualify any individual or team that breaks the code.
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Be Respectful: Be kind to all who participate in the event. Do not insult or put down other attendees.
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Behave Professionally. Remember that harassment, racism, sexism, or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate for this event. Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, and/or religion. Sexual images in public forums, deliberate intimidation, online stalking, following, sustained disruption of virtual presentations, or any other inappropriate action is strictly prohibited
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Be Thoughtful: In the spirit of open source and inclusiveness, there may be minors participating in the hackathon. Keep this in mind when communicating or speaking in public forums.
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Be Open: We welcome attendees from all backgrounds. This event is about increasing awareness for Solana and the greater crypto space. Please be welcoming to all who register for the event and help us create a friendly environment for all.
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Believe in Yourself: Crypto opens the door for anyone to permissionlessly build applications that will change how we all interact with finance, gaming, and the Internet as a whole. Dream big and use this powerful technology to create a better world.
The Solana Foundation x Serum DeFi Hackathon is a competition where projects will be evaluated by judges on their technological merits without consideration of legal viability. Participants in the Hackathon will create software solely for purposes of evaluation by judges as part of a competition and not for commercial deployment or release as part of the Hackathon.All participants must comply with applicable laws and regulations when releasing any software that they develop as part of the Hackathon.
The Hackathon ideas and developer resources that Solana Foundation (“SF”) provides are for educational and inspirational purposes only. SF does not encourage, induce or sanction the deployment of any such applications in violation of applicable laws or regulations. SF does not encourage, induce or sanction the deployment, integration or use of any such applications (including the code comprising the Solana blockchain protocol) in violation of applicable laws or regulations and hereby prohibits any such deployment, integration or use. This includes use of any such applications by the reader (a) in violation of export control or sanctions laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction, (b) if the reader is located in or ordinarily resident in a country or territory subject to comprehensive sanctions administered by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), (c) if the reader is or is working on behalf of a Specially Designated National (SDN) or a person subject to similar blocking or denied party prohibitions, or (d) in violation of the Commodities and Exchange Act.
The reader should be aware that U.S. export control and sanctions laws prohibit U.S. persons (and other persons that are subject to such laws) from transacting with persons in certain countries and territories or that are on the SDN list. As a project based primarily on open-source software, it is possible that such sanctioned persons may nevertheless bypass prohibitions, obtain the code comprising the Solana blockchain protocol (or other project code or applications) and deploy, integrate, or otherwise use it. Accordingly, there is a risk to individuals that other persons using the Solana blockchain protocol may be sanctioned persons and that transactions with such persons would be a violation of U.S. export controls and sanctions law. This risk applies to individuals, organizations, and other ecosystem participants that deploy, integrate, or use the Solana blockchain protocol code directly (e.g., as a node operator), and individuals that transact on the Solana blockchain through light clients, third party interfaces, and/or wallet software.