Decentralization is underway. In the coming years, emerging blockchain technologies (like Ethereum) will aid in distributing power from the center to the edges of our communities. This movement could bring about the most significant technological and social advancements since the advent of the internet. You can be a part of this change at ETHDenver.
ETHDenver is welcoming those who want to support and build the decentralized future. The Hackathon is an opportunity to work alongside the developers, thought leaders, advisers, and companies who are making the infrastructure and applications that will power the future.
Eligibility
- Teams must have no more than 4 hackers, who are all physically in attendance
- Hackers must be over the age of 18
- No geographic restrictions on hackers
Requirements
- Your hack must be related to Ethereum
- You cannot work on your project before the event begins
- You cannot steal another team's source code
- All code required to run your project must be submitted
Prizes
$59,750 in prizes
0x Project
(2)
0x will award two prizes. One prize to the team with the most innovative of the of 0x protocol (Most Innovative Product), and one prize to the team with the most compelling prototype using the 0x protocol (Best Product Execution). The prize for both winning teams will be $2,500 in ZRX tokens.
Aragon (Governance)
(3)
A total of up to 3 ETH will be awarded by Aragon. The aragonOS framework enables fully upgradeable DApps and puts a strong emphasis on governance and re-usability. Aragon is awarding three prizes for building with it: Best Aragon App or Integration (two prizes) and Best Proposal (one prize).
More specific details here! https://docs.google.com/document/d/11An4QyQFzzJhFU6ZUkyCfooETvvt8qLLoaQMVoZ5Tug/edit#
Bounties Network
(3)
Bounties.network is offering 1 ETH to the team that builds your own bounty network. For more information, see this post: https://medium.com/bounties-network/start-your-very-own-bounty-network-at-ethdenver-9dd89de374b
Cellarius (Storytelling Prize)
(2)
Cellarius is offering 4 prizes at for a total of $5000. They are:
TECHNOLOGY:
1) Configure NodeBB (https://nodebb.org/) to use Metamask (https://metamask.io/) for user registration and posting
STORY:
2) Submit a ~2,500 word story set during the “Digital Golden Age,” focused on the global shift to a “Maker Economy”
3) Submit a ~2,500 word story set during the “Reformation,” focused on humanity’s survival in a world without power
DESIGN
4) Art for any of the Factions described in the Universe Guide (x2)
CryptoKitties
(2)
CryptoKitties is offering two prizes: [1st Place: 1ETH + 1 gen0 CryptoKitty. 2nd Place: 0.5ETH + 1 gen1 CryptoKitty] Projects will be judged on: Use of ERC 721, Originality, User Interface, Simplicity in Design, Technical Complexity, WOW factor. We're especially excited by teams who have creative ideas in the blockchain space and who think outside the box in terms of art on the blockchain, with focus on extensibility, personalization or interactivity.
DAOStack (Governance)
(3)
DAOStack is offering 3 prizes for a total of $5000 in ETH. Please find a full description of DAOstack's ETHDenver bounties at https://medium.com/daostack/announcing-the-daostack-bounties-for-ethdenver-335d78ec8cbb
Denver Government (ElectionTech)
(2)
Two prizes, $750 each! Helping absentee voting and reducing processing overhead. See more details here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s7YpW7Du4nFjAzaSAK_yrGE6GTOHDVAeZQYHkKlgk8Q/edit
Dharma Protocol
(2)
Dharma is offering one prize worth 3 ETH to the best application built on top of Dharma protocol at the event. Projects will be evaluated based on their creativity and impact on the decentralized financial ecosystem.
See here for details: https://medium.com/@brendanforster/dharma-offering-3000-usd-prize-at-ethdenver-23e87aa7d85b
ERC dEX
ERC dEX will award 888 ZRX to the person/team that best utilizes the Aqueduct SDK (https://aqueduct.ercdex.com) to build an automated trading bot, a trading UI, or any other creative application.
Submissions will be judged on:
- Creativity
- Marketability
- Completeness of solution
- Quality and elegance of technical solution
Gitcoin
Gitcoin is offering 5 ETH across a variety of bounties! The long form descriptions for our bounties are available at https://github.com/gitcoinco/ethdenver/issues
Ideas by Nature (UX Prize)
IBN will award one $1500 prize for the team to produce the most intuitive, effective and enjoyable User Experience.
Judging specifics: We will grade each project on a scale of 1 - 5 for each of the categories in the 5 specific sections. The team with the highest combined score will be awarded the prize. Find full criteria here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DyWUyMIe26zq13turjCBg4c4dTkYva9g/view?usp=sharing"
MakerDAO
(2)
A total of up to 5 MKR will be awarded to the team that best utilizes Dai in their application. We are looking for innovative use cases and solid MVP’s. See more details here: https://medium.com/@MakerDAO/makerdao-is-sponsoring-ethdenver-f6b596285301
NuCypher
2.5ETH for each prize, 4 prizes total. Prizes given for: 1) Most innovative use of the NuCypher KMS protocol (2x); 2) Most compelling/prototype implementation of an app using the NuCypher KMS protocol (2x). More info on Github https://github.com/nucypher/ETHDenver-2018 and live chat: https://discord.gg/7rmXa3S
POA Network
(3)
POA will award three prizes ($3000, $2000 and $1000 in POA tokens) to the teams with the most innovative use cases, solid MVPs and that best utilize the POA Network.
Power to the People (Sponsored by Steven McKie/Amentum)
Offering $1,000 to the project most likely to give power back to a marginalized group.
Status
(3)
Status will award 1.5 ETH across 4 prizes. The first two bounties will be based in our go-ethereum fork and be discussed at the event; the second two will be aimed at developers wanting to create DApps for mobile or an interesting use-case for the ethereum blockchain. You can find out more about our bounty tracks at our booth at ETHDenver, and they will be posted as issues through our GitHub https://github.com/status-im/ETHDenver and https://github.com/status-im/status-go with the ETHDenver label attached.
Storj
(3)
API PRIZE: $1500 USD in STORJ tokens (across 3 teams).
Hackers that use of API + a tutorial can get $50 USD in STORJ tokens + swag.
other hackers that use of API only: $10 USD in STORJ tokens
API Sample Challenge Descriptions:
***CREATIVITY IS IMPORTANT *****
BELOW ARE JUST SAMPLE IDEAS
Make a imgur clone using libstorj-node for string everything people upload
Dropbox frontend using libstorj-node
Make data sharing app
Make an app so cool that Alex1 is impressed
https://github.com/Storj/sips/blob/master/sip-0008.md
Toshi
Toshi is offering one 1.5 ETH prize for the Best Mobile Compatible DApp. Requirements:
- Web3-based DApp that works on Toshi
- Does not have to be mobile first, but the user experience on mobile should be excellent
- Points awarded for highest impact, most innovative, use of blockchain
Zeppelin
(3)
1.5 ETH, divided in three ways among:
- Best use of OpenZeppelin smart contract framework
- Best contribution to the OpenZeppelin repo
- Best prototype of ideas described in the zeppelin_os whitepaper (https://zeppelinos.org/)
Overall Winner
(7)
ETHDenver does not have an overall 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place team. Instead, we will have 7 judging groups. Each group will select a 1st place and 2nd place team. The top 7 teams will be celebrated on stage!
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
Submissions are only permitted from teams which have been accepted to ETHDenver.
Judges

Allyson Dias
Director, Thiel Fellowship

Ashley Tyson
Partnerships and Strategic Initiatives, Web3 Foundation

Ben O'Neill
Principal, Satis Group

Ben Siegel
Impact Policy Manager, Blockchain for Social Impact

David Gold
Managing Director, Access Ventures

Dmitry Buterin
Founder, Blockgeeks

Elena Sinelnikova
Founder, Cryptochicks

Evan van Ness
Curator, This Week in Ethereum

Hannah Parsons
Chief Executive, Exponential Impact

Hudson Jameson
Co-Founder, Oaken

Mohamad Elkasstawi
Founder and CEO, zkCapital

Jesse Walden
Crypto, a16z

Joseph Lubin
Founder, ConsenSys

Joshua Nussbaum
Partner, Compound VC

Kieren James-Lubin
Founder & CEO, BlockApps

Kyle Samani
Managing Partner, Multicoin Capital

Leigh Cuen
Journalist, International Business Times

Liam Horne
Co-founder, L4 and ETHGlobal

Linda Xie
Co-Founder, Scalar Capital

Manuel Araoz
CTO, Zeppelin Solutions

Mike Goldin
Lead Engineer, Adchain

Niraj Pant
Research, Polychain Capital

Panashe Mahachi
Co-founder, L4

Piper Merriam
Builder of Things, Ethereum Foundation

Preethi Kasireddy
Founder, Schelling

Raine Revere
Prism Architect, Shapeshift. Co-Founder, Maiden

Robbie Bent
COO, TrueBit

Rouven Heck
Founder, uPort

Saul Hudson
Advisor, ixo Foundation

Steven McKie
Founding Partner, Amentum

Tekin Salimi
Project Manager, Polychain2030 Programme

William Mougayar
Author, The Business Blockchain

Zooko
Founder and CEO, Zcash
Judging Criteria
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Technicality
What type of technical challenges did the group deal with? (Coding or non-coding challenges.) -
Creativity
How unique and innovative is the demo? Has it been seen at previous hackathons? -
Usefulness
How useful is this demo, based on the problem they are trying to solve? -
Design
How good is the visual design and interaction experience? -
Makes the World a Better Place
Will this demo equalize the playing field rather than perpetuate existing inequities? Does it lead us towards a better society and a blockchain culture that reflects the diversity of the world?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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