Layer2Hackathon

Dream big, let's scale!

Introduction

Scaling is a Blue Ocean waiting for the developers to explore and find the New World. Scaling blockchains and specifically Ethereum has been a challenge. Every scaling approach has its own trade-offs regarding the security, decentralization, throughput, and flexibility choices.In support of developers to explore more possibilities of Layer2 solutions and open up new paths, IOSG Ventures and Chainlink are organizing a global Layer2 hackathon, find more into here: http://hackathon.iosg.vc

Prizes

Top winner: $16,000 1 slot

Second tier: $10,000 2 slots

Third tier: $6,000 4 slots

Favorite Project by Community: $3,000 1 slot

Award for the Most Promising Project: $3,000 1 slot

Challenges Categories

Layer2 Infrastructure (layer2 chains/ underlying technology/ etc..)

Tools (multi-chain asset management/ middleware/ etc..)

Applications (products that use or serve layer2..)

Bridge (cross-chain ...)

other challenges that related to Layer2

Examples

1, Privacy Oriented Apps on Layer2

2, Data analytics tool or data services on Layer2

3, Any developer friendly middleware tools or frameworks on Layer2

4, Innovative NFT infrastructure or protocols on Layer2

5, Innovative DeFi protocols on Layer2

6, Improvements over cross Layer2 liquidity

7, MEV on Layer2

8, Layer2 friendly wallet

Judging Criteria

Judges will comments according to the below perspectives: Relavence to the event theme ; Completion ; Economic value ; Innovation ; Technical difficulty ; Usability ; Demo performance, etc. Judges will receive specific judging criteria and scoring suggestions before the demo day.