The total prize pool for the Moralis Avalanche Hackathon is currently at $500,000. Avalanche and Moralis are rewarding $175,000 in bounties just to the top three overall project submissions in the hackathon. The winners will be decided by a panel of judges from Ava Labs, Moralis, and other project and VC partners. Teams that are competing for bounties sponsored by other partners in this hackathon, will be eligible to participate for the top three prizes as well.
Below are some examples of projects that might be interesting. Feel free to use these as inspiration for yours or chart your own course!
In addition to the top three prizes, our hackathon partners are also encouraging projects with their own prize pools:
To qualify for this prize pool, bounty contestants will build on top of existing ALPHA products such as Alpha Homora V2, AlphaX, or Alpha Tokenomics.
Example Products:
Hedging Leverage Yield Farming Positions, Cross-Chain Data Transfer from Ethereum to Avalanche, Expand Utility of Strike Tokens on AlphaX.
The winner for this bounty will be judged according to six criteria:
Alpha Finance Lab’s three judges will decide how well your project answers each criterion. A team can get a maximum of 10 points per criterion, and a maximum of 60 points.
Join Alpha Hackathon Telegram to ask the Alpha Devs questions: https://t.me/+Zl9_2QVAQb9hN2Jl.
This Trader Joe prize pool encourages a portfolio tracker that tracks users’ positions in pools, farms and money markets.
The requirements are:
Trader Joe is looking for a UX with speed and ease-of-use.
Participants may use their creativity and try new color themes etc.
For more questions
Join Trader Joe’s Discord chat: https://discord.gg/3yqPe7QQHg
Useful graphql references:
This Trader Joe prize pool encourages a solution that calculates TVL, APR and APY on a backend, that can be accessed by the frontend via an API.
The requirements are:
Trader Joe is prioritizing speed and readability of docs and code.
For more questions
Join Trader Joe’s Discord chat: https://discord.gg/3yqPe7QQHg
Useful graphql reference:
This Yield Yak total prize pool of $40,000 will award 2 winners (2x $20,000). It seeks to promote the “Best Use or Innovation of Yield Yak’s Interest-Bearing Assets”.
Yield Yak offers Avalanche developers the widest range of interest-bearing assets. Developers can display their skills by building on Yield Yak Farms and Yak Receipt Tokens. Add yield to DEX deposits, build index products, make loans repay themselves, or build completely new earning strategies!
For queries, join Yak Devs Telegram channel: https://t.me/yakdevs
This Yield Yak prize pool of $20,000 aims to encourage the “Best Front-End Integration for Yield Yak”.
Specifically, participants should build a front-end that they’d love to use for Yield Yak Swap or Yield Yak Farms. Yield Yak Swap and Farms are among the most popular and trusted DeFi applications on Avalanche. Developers can put their front-end development skills to the test by building alternative front-ends that will stand the test of time and give the community a more diverse set of user interfaces.
For queries, join Yak Devs Telegram channel: https://t.me/yakdevs
This Yield Yak prize pool of $20,000 incentivizes you to develop the “Best Overall Custom Router for Yield Yak Swap (DEX Aggregator)“.
As such, participants can contribute to the fully open-source DEX aggregator by building a custom router for Yield Yak Swap to improve trade execution or open new possibilities.. Yield Yak Swap uniquely offers all logic on-chain. Use the complete range of adapters to execute swaps through all DEXs on Avalanche. Develop a custom router to improve trade execution. For example, by allow multi-path trades.
For example, by building a custom router designed for smart contracts like Yield Yak Farms, which transact many thousands of trades per day and require extreme gas efficiency.
For queries, join Yak Devs Telegram channel: https://t.me/yakdevs
IPFS & Filecoin will award $5,000 to each of the top three projects (3x $5,000) that best use IPFS or NFT.storage for content-addressed data.
Additionally, IPFS & Filecoin have a special $15,000 prize pool that will be split between all other qualifying submissions. All prizes will be paid in FIL.
All the important info to start hacking can be found in IPFS & Filecoin’s Getting Started document and 99 Ideas for Hackathon page.
This Avalaunch bounty of $30,000 aims to encourage developers to find ways to engage holders while their vested tokens are locked on the Avalaunch platform post-IDO.
Avalaunch have considered a few examples.
The above are just examples, and could certainly be improved upon.
Avalaunch are also open to any thinking that provides additional utility, incentives or liquidity to tokens vested on the Avalaunch platform, which are claimed through the Avalaunch UI.
With this prize pool of $30,000, Snowball seeks to reward the best implementation of opt-in notification systems for dApps.
This implementation is to create a working prototype of a notification system that users can opt-in with a public address and signature. They would also be able to tie it together with their Discord, Twitter, email, or phone number for when notifications pushed from the organization (Snowball/Axial) occur or certain states/events on-chain occur.
Some pieces of existing work that may be beneficial include: collab.land, Ethereum Push Notification Service (https://epns.io/), Esprezzo (https://github.com/orgs/esprezzo/repositories) and the Open DeFi Notification Protocol (https://github.com/open-defi-notification-protocol).
This Colony prize pool of $20,000 will encourage developers to build the first index on Avalanche. An index is a great tool to get exposure to different assets/coins, and that is why Colony would like to create an index with the top 10 market cap projects inside the Avalanche ecosystem.
In this index, Colony will deploy capital (close to $2M) but would like to open its functionalities to other market participants. Therefore, Colony aims at creating a pool where anyone can commit USDT to be exposed to these projects.
Talented developers will be able to build an optimal process to allow users to access the growth of the Avalanche ecosystem through Colony’s Index. Depending on the time allocated to building the index, there is 3 different levels referring to how far one can push the Index concept and related functionalities.
Level 1 - Index Exposition:
Level 2 – LP Token Generation:
Level 3 - Use Optimization (Automated Staking) :
Index Rules:
If any question regarding the index or Colony, the Moralis Discord is a place where people can freely share ideas and discuss solutions.
This Chainlink prize pool of $20,000 incentivizes hackathon participants to build using Chainlink technology.
Specifically, it will award the ten best projects that utilize Chainlink’s technology with $2,000 each in LINK.
Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network provides reliable, tamper-proof inputs and outputs for complex smart contracts on any blockchain.
BENQI’s $40,000 prize pool is meant to encourage the “Best BENQI dApp/tool”. It will be judged based on how well it answers the following questions.
Will there be any additional smart contract risk and/or economic risk for BENQI if implemented? Does the implementation increase TVL? Will it make existing TVL more sticky? Will the dApp make user onboarding more easy and seamless? Will users be less likely to be liquidated? Who are the target users?
Participants will be eligible if they create tools and/or products built on top of BENQI’s lending & borrowing protocol. For example, products that increase the adoption and usage of qiTokens, or help mitigate liquidations for users etc. This bountry is open-ended by design, participants can be as creative as possible.
For queries, join BENQI’s Discord Dev channel: https://discord.gg/R4RdP96wBh
This $20,000 Pangolin prize pool is meant to encourage the best implementation of a Gitcoin grants platform.
Specifically, it will award porting GitCoin DGrants to Avalanche (https://github.com/dcgtc/dgrants) or a custom implementation of a grants platform.
This $20,000 Covalent prize pool will go toward encouraging the best use of the Covalent API. Specifically, Covalent is offering $2,000 USD (equivalent) to the top 10 projects making use of the Covalent API for their Moralis Avalanche Hackathon #BUIDLs.
The Covalent API is ideal for building projects related to:
Moralis Web3 API is a very fast and powerful blockchain API allowing you to query data from any chain.
Authenticate with both Avalanche and Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Many Others.
Syncing historical smart contract events and getting notification when new events happen in real-time!
CEO & Founder at Moralis
Chief Operating Officer at Avalanche
Ava Labs DeFi Director
Founder at Stake DAO & Core Team at Curve Finance
CEO & Founder at AAVE
Co-Founder of BENQI
CEO at Pangolin
Co-Founder at Trader Joe