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Canto Online Hackathon | Chapter 1, Season 7 | April 20 - May 7

Apply to Hack

The Canto Online Hackathon (COH) is a virtual summit that invites developers, creatives, and communicators to launch the next wave of apps, infrastructure, and original work on Canto.

About Canto

Canto is a permissionless blockchain built with the Cosmos SDK that offers an EVM execution layer and core financial primitives, including a novel decentralized exchange, lending market, and unit of account (NOTE). In support of Canto’s Free Public Infrastructure – a framework that advocates for DeFi primitives to be provided as public utilities, among other tenets – the COH encourages projects centered on sustainability, authenticity, and creativity.

Bounties & Building Categories

Builders will compete for prizes from a 300,000 CANTO rewards pool. The overall winner will be awarded 100,000 CANTO while category winners will receive 40,000 CANTO.

• Ecosystem Support Analytics, tooling, and sites for Canto awareness. Prize: 40,000 CANTO
• NFTs Collections that break new ground, and/or include experimental aspects. Prize: 40,000 CANTO
• DeFi & Infrastructure Apps that leverage Canto’s Infrastructure, including its Free Public Infrastructure of DeFi Primitives and Contract Secured Revenue. Prize: 40,000 CANTO
• New Things The most divergent ideas: games, DAOs, all things weird.
  Prize: 40,000 CANTO
• Notable Builds Remarkable projects will be awarded as judges see fit. Prize: 40,000 CANTO
• Overall Winner Prize: 100,000 CANTO

Judging Criteria

20% – Originality, Creativity, & Innovation.

20% – Canto-ish-ness. How well projects do one of the following items:

• In step with Canto culture
• Leverages or supports Canto Free Public Infrastructure
• Leverages Contract Secured Revenue.

20% – Expertise Required A high level of skill or knowledge or competency was demonstrated by the team members

20% – User Experience Project presents as intuitive and understandable for its targeted user profile.

20% – Sustainability A thoughtful plan for launch, maintenance, and/or further development.

Judges

The COH is pleased to announce the following judges for Chapter 1, Season 7:

• Birb – Chief Strategy Officer, Number Group
• Ceazor – Ser Snack Sandwich, Velocimeter
• Zak Cole – CTO, Slingshot Finance
• Dr. Laurence E. Day – CognitoHazard, West Ham Capital
• Dounbug – Full Stack Engineer, Web+
• Zaki Manian – Cofounder, Sommelier Finance
• Maxine Ryan – Founder, Pulsr.ai
• Smokey the Bera – Cofounder, Berachain
• Tux – Founder, Entropy

Important Dates

4/20 – Registration Ongoing at thecoh.build
4/20 – Begin Building, Communicate in the COH chat.
4/25 – The Elevator, 1:30pm ET/530pm UTC, Add to Calendar
The Elevator is a project pitch session: your chance to pitch your idea(s) to fellow builders and Canto mentors. Get direct feedback, learn about potential projects, and grow your team.
4/28 – Midpoint Check. Share Project Title, Summary, & Progress Update w COH organizers.
5/7 – Projects Due. Must submit pre-recorded video and PR to this repo by 11:59pm UTC.
5/13 (TBD) – Judging Ceremony
5/16 (TBD) – Winners Announced

Project Requirements

Teams must submit a PR to this repo before 11:59pm UTC on 5/7. Building in public is encouraged; however, if builders wish to keep their project private, please contact hackathon organizers to ensure judges' github handles are added to your project.

Teams must provide a pre-recorded video (max 3 minutes). This video will be played during the live judging ceremony and can be a working demo and/or a presentation outlining the project (i.e. what was accomplished during the COH, what’s next). For examples of hackathon presentation videos please review the judging ceremony from a previous COH season. For guidelines on recording your video, see see here.

Note: Any teams requiring assistance with translation and subtitling of their video can contact the hackathon organizers for accommodations. All languages are welcome.

Builder Resources

• The COH Telegram – Builders are encouraged to discuss projects in The COH Builders Telegram Channel
• Add COH Organizers to contacts for questions, private mentorship & teammate matching - Robin (@robinwhitney), Pujimak (@pujimak_in), Jillian (@jilliancasalini), Thomas (@tsterbush), GucciPrayers (@gucciprayers), Nassim (@snasps).
• Project Ideas - See this spreadsheet for some project ideas.
• Attend the Elevator Project Pitch Session (4/25) to pitch your idea, get direct feedback from mentors, and to meet other builders.
• Canto Hackathon Resources (Oracles, Nodes, etc) – https://github.com/the-COH/resources
• Canto EVM Development Documentation – https://docs.canto.io/evm-development/overview
• Canto Testnet Faucet (Discord) – https://discord.com/channels/993968517906960445/1029450708371656715
• Canto Testnet Faucet (Website) https://www.cantofaucet.com/
• Canto Icons & Logos – Canto is a headless brand, meaning there is no official brand identity. You're encouraged to change and ideate on any Canto visuals, or utilize some common visuals here: https://github.com/Canto-Network/canto-branding-assets