ETHShanghai 2023

Virtual
226 participants

64,100+ USD

July 1, 2023July 5, 2023

A thrilling 14-day BUIDL Week (June 25th to July 07th)! 5 Tracks: Ethereum Infrastructure, Layer 2 solutions, Applications, developer tools, and the integration of Blockchain and AI. The prize pool is over $80,000+.

Challenges

Pick challenges to attempt to build projects around.

Best Innovative Ideas with ChainIDE

Ranked 1000 BNB
Blockchain
Infrastructure
Developer Tool
AI
Ethereum
Polygon
BNB Chain

Best new subgraph(s)

Ranked 1200 USDC
Infrastructure

Best use of Existing Subgraph(s):

Ranked 800 USDC
Infrastructure

Best Use Of Kwil

Ranked 1500 USDC
DeFi
Web3 Social
Infrastructure
Storage
Gaming
IoT
Analytics
Decentralized Identity
Developer Tool

Bring Web3 data to AI

Ranked 1000 USDC
Web3 Social
Infrastructure
AI
Blockchain

Build a dapp using a decentralized database

Ranked 1000 USDC
Web3 Social
Infrastructure
Storage

Build a data loader / oracle network with Kwil

Pool 0 USDC
Infrastructure
Storage
Developer Tool
Blockchain

Build a fully decentralized application with DB3

Pool 0 USDT
Gaming
DAO
Web3 Social
Decentralized Identity
Infrastructure
Storage
AI
DeFi

Build Apps using Offchain Structured Data with US3R Network S3.xyz

Ranked 500 MATIC
Web3 Social
Decentralized Identity
Storage

Build dApps with K.Transformer

Ranked 1000 USDC
Web3 Social
Venture Capital
Analytics
Decentralized Identity
Blockchain
Ethereum

Build Web3 with Chainlink

Ranked 1000 USDC
DeFi
NFTs
Web3 Social
Gaming
IoT
Developer Tool
AI
Security
Ethereum
Blockchain
ReFi
Infrastructure

Creating a Product Using Chainbase's Dataset Product Feature

Ranked 3000 USDC
Infrastructure
Web3 Social
Analytics
AI
Blockchain
Scalability

ETHShanghai Main Track - AI & Blockchain

Ranked 8600 USDT
Ethereum

ETHShanghai Main Track - Applications

Ranked 8600 USDT
DeFi
NFTs
Web3 Social
Exchange
AMM
Borrowing
Lending
Storage
Infrastructure
Gaming

ETHShanghai Main Track - Developer tool

Ranked 8600 USDT
Developer Tool

ETHShanghai Main Track - Infra & Public Goods

Ranked 8600 USDT
Infrastructure

ETHShanghai Main Track - Layer 2 & On-Chain Gaming

Ranked 8600 USDT
Layer 2

Integrate Batched Transactions into a dApp

Ranked 1000 USDC
Infrastructure
Ethereum
Blockchain

Integrate Gasless Transactions into a dApp

Ranked 1000 USDC
Ethereum
Blockchain
Infrastructure

Just deploy on Linea using Infura

Pool 0 USDC
DeFi
ReFi
NFTs
Web3 Social
Infrastructure
Lending
Borrowing
AMM
Exchange
Gaming
DAO
Gambling
Art
Layer 2
Stablecoins
Decentralized Identity
Scalability
Security
Developer Tool
ZK Tech
Blockchain
Ethereum
Layer 2s / sidechains

KVService: implement a “revert” function for Zero-Trust user action chain

Ranked 600 USDC
Infrastructure
Storage

ProofService: add support for more platforms

Pool 500 USDC
Web3 Social

Seamless User Experience Challenge

Ranked 1000 USDC
Web3 Social
NFTs
Gaming
Art
Gambling
Decentralized Identity
In-person Events
Infrastructure
DeFi
DAO
Developer Tool
AI
Celo
Avalanche
Polygon
Solana
Tron
NEAR
Fantom
Harmony
Cronos
HECO
BNB Chain
zkSync
Mantle
Horizen

Hackathon schedule

You can add the whole hackathon schedule to your calendar. The calander is in UTC.

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Event Date, April 2025
Workshops
Submissions
Judging
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