HackAtom VI is the largest hackathon in Cosmos history, offering developers around the world the chance to compete for their share prizes equaling over $1,000,000 USD paid in ATOMs. With registrations beginning on October 27 and the official opening ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal, on November 11, get ready to take the decentralized web to the next level.
HackAtom VI lasts for an entire month online and is accompanied by in-person events in major world cities, including Lisbon and Berlin. This year’s competition is spread out over six exciting themes: Ethereum on Cosmos, Starport, Interoperability, DeFi, End-User apps, Gaming, and Earth Sustainability.
In addition to the month-long competition online, we are hosting in-person side events in two major European cities, Lisbon and Berlin. The Berlin event is a half-day pre-hackathon workshop on October 29. The Lisbon event is the official opening ceremony of HackAtom VI on November 11. We’ll have lots more details coming soon, so be sure to watch this space.
HackAtom VI will be hosting multiple workshops, open office hours with mentors, and opportunities for networking at Airmeet. [Link to be added soon]
HackAtom VI is made possible thanks to the backing of the following sponsors, who will each play an active role in building the challenges and supporting the developers:
Platinum — Starport
Gold — IXO Foundation, Pylons
Silver— Agoric, Akash, Archway, BitSong, Evmos, GrantFish & Juno, Injective, Kava, LikeCoin, NYM, Regen Network, Secret Network, Sentinel, Sifchain
Other sponsors: Forte, IRISnet, Persistence, Umee, VITWIT
$1,185,000 in prizes
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Starport. **
One of the core features of Starport is code scaffolding. Starport can scaffold a new blockchain from scratch, create new modules, add messages, queries, packets to modules, and much more. This functionality allows developers to prototype advanced modules with just a few commands. Currently, Starport depends on string placeholders being present in modules’ files. Placeholders work, but if another solution (likely, based on code analysis) is found, this could improve Starport's reliability even further.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Starport.**
Starport chain serve is the most convenient way to start a blockchain node for development purposes. Currently, this command sets up a single node testnet with automatic code reloading. Enhance this functionality of Starport, for example, to support multi-node local testnets.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Starport.**
Starport uses an advanced build process to compile the source code of a chain into a binary. It’s both sophisticated and easy to use, but there is always room for improvement. To win this challenge, enhance the build process so that it’s more flexible, yet can be used even by beginner developers.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Starport.**
All of Starport’s functionality right now is implemented in packages within the Starport code repository. From a maintenance perspective this is convenient, but a program like Starport can definitely benefit from a flexible plugin system that will allow developers to add functionality to Starport on-the-fly.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Bitsong.**
BitSong is a project dedicated to musicians and their fans that aims to overcome the bureaucratic and economic obstacles within this industry and reward artists and users for simply using the platform. Bitsong's HackAtom VI challenge proposes the migration of smart contracts on the popular OpenSea (https://opensea.io/) NFT marketplace to Cosmos SDK. Participants should use the new NFT module that BitSong developed for its own blockchain, which contains an extraordinary feature—the introduction of perpetual royalties (a new standard for splitting royalties). Specifications can be found https://github.com/bitsongofficial/chainmodules/tree/master/x/nft/spec.
In addition to BitSong's NFT module, there is an Auction where users can buy and sell their NFTs through a marketplace, providing participants with everything they need to bring Ethereum-based NFTs to Cosmos. Specifications can be found at https://github.com/bitsongofficial/chainmodules/tree/master/x/auction/spec.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Evmos.**
Evmos is an application-agnostic chain that will be interoperable with the Ethereum mainnet, EVM-compatible environments, and other BFT chains via IBC, making it easy for users and developers to interact seamlessly between chains. Evmos aims to be the EVM Hub of Cosmos, making it easy for smart contracts to deploy and communicate within the Cosmos ecosystem.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Akash.**
Censorship-resistant, permissionless, and self-sovereign, Akash Network is the world's first open source cloud. One of the biggest values that Akash can provide to other blockchains is the ability to run hard-to-deplatform durable blockchain nodes. Removing blockchains' dependence on centralized hosting providers is one of the biggest steps blockchains can take toward further decentralization. To this end, the Akash community and core developer team have put together the following GitHub repo: https://github.com/ovrclk/cosmos-omnibus.
This repo contains the deployment scripts and references to working images to deploy nodes on a number of different Cosmos chains in a matter of seconds. Akash's HackAtom VI challenge asks participants to develop the container images, SDL files, and readme.dm documentation needed to run chain nodes from Cosmos chains that are not currently in the repository. Deliverables will be in the form of a PR to the https://github.com/ovrclk/cosmos-omnibus repo.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Sentinel.**
Sentinel is a network of independent dVPN applications, not just a single consumer-facing dVPN. Sentinel's IBC challenge is a tough one to tackle but could help to solve an important problem in the wider Cosmos ecosystem. Participants must build a fast, reliable, and unbiased randomness generator which could ideally be used for validator selection.
A randomness generator will be very useful for many other applications, from consumer-level apps to DeFi protocols, and Sentinel believes that the Cosmos Hub would benefit heavily if it could provide on-demand randomness through IBC.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**CGo to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Sifchain**
Sifchain is the world's first omni-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) for digital assets, unlocking liquidity in various chains to free people from egregious fees and inefficient trades. Sifchain's challenge for the hackathon is to implement IBC token name and service discovery for Cosmos-based tokens.
When a new token is launched, developers may register their token with a token-listing-discovery endpoint. A DEX like Sifchain would consume the listing, where each token listing provides sufficient knowledge to implement the IBC interface and list the token automatically. Write a full stack backend which lists tokens using Golang and Swagger.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Pylons.**
OBuilt on Cosmos, Pylons is a fast and interoperable system for brands and creators to build engaging products and with meaningful NFT experiences. For this challenge, Pylons wants you to build new, innovative ways to highlight the possibilities of blockchain interoperability using the IBC protocol—such as viable implementation, use cases, and data formats—using the Cosmos SDK.
Be the developer that unlocks the potential of interoperability for IRL applications—on Cosmos with the Pylons SDK. Reinvent centralized ticketing systems using NFTs.
1st Place - $35,000 USD in ATOMs
Runner Up - $15,000 USD in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Agoric.**
Overview: IBC Use Cases
Agoric is an open-source development company launching an interoperable Proof-of-Stake chain and economy. Agoric's hackathon challenge is to build a set of Agoric smart contracts on Agoric that provide flexible liquidity mining options to Cosmos projects based on an Osmosis LP token.The contracts must at a minimum be able to do the following:
-Accept an Osmosis LP token
-Allow an arbitrary number of reward tiers based on lockup time (e.g.,100 tokens per block for no lockup, 200 tokens per block for 1 month lockup, etc.)
-Allow governance token rewards to be deposited ahead of time and locked subject to distribution rules (i.e., project owners can credibly commit to reward amounts and distribution logic)
-Optional: include a nifty front end!
1st Place - $35,000 USD in ATOMs
Runner Up - $15,000 USD in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Nym.**
Nym is a privacy platform. The Nym Mixnet provides network-layer privacy for users and applications by hiding the metadata (IP addresses, device types, timings, etc.) of the data packets that are sent through it. Creating a file storage application over the Nym Mixnet will allow users to store files in the cloud in a secure and private manner. The title of Nym's challenge is ‘The Eternity Service 2.0’.
The challenge is to create a Nym service provider (application) which offers cloud file storage, and a GUI where users interact with the service provider, all via the Nym mixnet.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challengesfor full description of this challenge sponsored by Injective.**
Injective Protocol is pioneering a new decentralized economy to create a freer and more inclusive financial system. Injective has created a solution that allows crypto exchanges to become a decentralized public utility, giving users and their community much-needed value-capture in the exchange landscape.
Injective's HackAtom VI challenge is to build a new simple single-page application trading interface for trading spot and perpetual markets. The purpose of this is to provide mass market users (not pro traders) an accessible, user-friendly interface for trading (Like Matcha on Ethereum, for example). This will allow novice traders to access Injective easily.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by LikeCoin.**
LikeCoin aims to enpower content ownership, authenticity, and provenance. Creators can register content metadata to guarantee its integrity by acquiring in International Standard Content Number (ISCN). ISCN is a tool to authenticate and track content, just like a digitial footprint. ISCN is an NFT-like content registry record running on the LikeCoin chain that allows content creators to register their content metadata on the chain through ISCN transactions.
Currently, there are three ways for creators to register their content metadata to the LikeCoin chain: 1) register via app.like.co, 2) ISCN batch uploader, 3) LikeCoin Wordpress plugin. Unlike traditional NFTs, ISCN owners might have to view, manage or edit ISCN records in batch, since talented creators can produce creative works quickly, and have a huge collection of series of ISCN.
In this challenge, LikeCoin is seeking developers who can develop a wallet interface to allow users to manage their ISCN records. Useful features will include visualization of the ISCN records and organizing them into directories or groups, interface for viewing and editing ISCN records, and sending and trading of ISCN records (change of owner).
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Archway.**
Archway is a smart contract platform that rewards developers, ushering in next gen dApps. Archway's HackAtom VI challenge is to create a base NFT marketplace on Archway’s testnet. This entails the marketplace smart contracts as well as front-end that will allow users to buy, sell, and trade CW721 tokens in exchange for CW20 tokens.
Key features to include:
-A generic NFT marketplace smart contract
-Listing CW721 tokens for sale for any CW20 token
-Buying CW721 tokens with CW20 tokens
-Trading any CW721 token with any other CW721
-Any additional marketplace capabilities you’re keen to experiment with—auctions, fractionalization, royalties, etc.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Kava**
Kava is a software protocol that uses multiple cryptocurrencies to allow its users to borrow and lend assets without the need for a traditional financial intermediary. Kava's HackAtom VI challenge asks you to build a fully autonomous options protocol as a Cosmos SDK module. You can assume that you have access to a price oracle.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Tendermint**
Tendermint builds and maintains critical state-of-the-art infrastructure for decentralized applications, such as Tendermint Core, Cosmos SDK, Starport, and Emeris. Tendermint is a core contributor to the Cosmos Network and organizer of HackAtom VI.
CHALLENGE
-Build a general tool for Loan or Insurance modules
-Collateral-less loan (Flash Loan)
-Non-custodial asset borrowing (earn interest on deposit)
-Examples for inspiration are Cosmos SDK Loan or Insurance Module
-Use Gravity DEX and the Cosmos SDK to build a new Loan or Insurance Module
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Pylons.**
Blockchain has the potential to completely restructure the gaming industry. Blockchain gaming uses true item ownership from the same technology that lies at the core of cryptocurrencies. Be the game developer that unlocks the potential of gaming with Cosmos. Build the future of gaming with the Cosmos SDK. Builders will explore ideas using the Cosmos tech like creating a game with meaningful gameplay behavior mediated through state changes, a decentralized virtual world or others.
Build a game with meaningful gameplay behavior mediated through state changes using the Cosmos SDK blockchain framework, or build a decentralized virtual world with Cosmos network -- utilizing the Cosmos SDK + Pylons SDK.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Secret Network.**
Secret Network is an open-source protocol that performs computations on encrypted data, brining privacy to smart contracts and public blockchains. Secret's challenge is to build a game on Secret Network using CosmWasm, Secret NFTs, and on-chain randomness.
Blockchain NFT gaming is taking off, even though main components of gaming are non-existent with traditional blockchains, namely private data and randomness. To create Games of Incomplete Information, private data must be utilized, and to create fair games, randomness must be utilized. Randomness can also be utilized to generate unpredictable mazes, puzzles and maps, to roll dice, to shuffle cards and cubes, to create gaming AIs, and to add "chaos" in order to enhance in-game experiences.
Traditional blockchains like Ethereum don’t have data privacy or on-chain randomness, therefore gaming creators resort to centralized solutions. This makes for less fair and transparent games, and also leads to non-ideal UX at times (getting randomness from off-chain sources takes time).
On Secret Network, all contract’s data is private by default. Only the contract can read its own state, and only the transaction sender can read the transaction inputs and outputs. By utilizing private state, contracts can store a private entropy pool and from it derive private random numbers instantly and at will.
The participants to this challenge will need to build a game on Secret Network using CosmWasm, Secret NFTs and on-chain randomness
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by Regen Network.**
Regen Network is a platform for a thriving planet, that aligns economics with ecology to drive regenerative land management. Regen Network is soon approaching its first mainnet upgrade, which will include the launch of the first module for representing carbon credits (“ecocredits” on Regen Network) as on-chain assets on a Cosmos SDK-based blockchain.
Regen Network's challenge for HackAtom VI under the EARTH category is to bridge ecocredits into the interchain ecosystem—by implementing an IBC application that allows users to move these new types of ecological assets across different blockchains.
Ecocredits are more feature rich than other familiar standards such as ERC-20 tokens, and allow for additional ecologically pertinent metadata, as well as the ability for a holder to “retire” these credits—thus claiming the credit as an “offset” in carbon accounting terms. As such, your submission should take into account these nuances and provide for cross-chain access to metadata, as well as cross-chain capabilities for retiring credits.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge co-sponsored by Grant.fish and Juno.**
Juno is an interoperable smart contract network that is highly scalable, robust, secure, and easy to deploy. Grant.fish is a validator operated by stake.fish that has launched with the Cosmos Hub 3 upgrade. Both believe that the ultimate purpose of the Internet of Blockchains is to empower people everywhere with digital technologies that enable communities to prosper. When communities prosper, they can regenerate the planet and respond more effectively to the climate crisis.
For this important challenge, Juno and grant.fish are teaming up to ask you to change the state of the planet by building modules, accessible apps, and integrations for local currencies, self-sovereign identity, non-fungible impact tokens, verification oracles, decentralized impact exchanges, and earth intelligence data.
Create something that can leverage the power of the Juno platform and Cosmos IBC functionality that can support carbon emission reduction initiatives. Identifying ways to tie in existing Juno functionality with regenerative-focused networks like Regen Network could be a great opportunity as well.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Click here for full description of this challenge sponsored by IXO Foundation.**
Humanity is on the brink of a fundamental state-transition into planetary chaos. Erratic weather patterns and natural disasters resulting from flooding, droughts and wild-fires are becoming more frequent each year, as climate-change accelerates. Mass human migrations away from disaster zones are already beginning and we see conflicts and famine. Re-emerging tropical diseases and lethal new infectious agents, such as COVID-19, threaten human and animal life. Natural resources are being depleted at an alarming rate, way beyond the planetary boundaries for sustainability, and imperial wars to control and own these resources have already begun!
What can we do to avoid mass extinctions of life-forms on Earth and to reverse the threat of losing centuries of human progress?
We must develop responses to the Earth Crisis using anti-fragile digital technologies and data about the state of the world that is verifiable and increases our intelligence. The ultimate sense-and-response system must become globally distributed and enable intelligent, rapid, effective local coordination, with incentives for people to take action, and to get sufficient resources to flow where these are most needed.
The ixo-Cosmos Internet of Impact Hub and connected sovereign Impact Zone networks can provide the blockchain infrastructure needed to respond to the Earth Crisis. ixo describes the Internet of Impact as a global digital immune system for humanity.
Your challenge is to build and demonstrate applications using the Internet of Impact, or software components that add capabilities to The Impact Stack, for preventing and responding to specific types of real-world Earth Crisis events.
You will collaborate with Problem-owners who have place-based or domain-specific knowledge and expertise about use cases that may range from making earth state observations for early-warning systems, to financing earth state-changes, to enable local citizen action, and to create global change.
This is an enormous, urgent opportunity space of the highest priority, in which to apply your skills, connect and interoperate with existing systems, integrate the latest AI technologies, and build better alternative decentralized financing and data verification mechanisms.
1st Place - Equivalent of $35,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Runner Up - Equivalent of $15,000 USD paid in ATOMs
**Go to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com/details/challenges for full description of this challenge sponsored by IXO Foundation.**
For this challenge “Earth Tokens” are defined as classes of tokens that are created and used for the purpose of sustainable socio-economic development, climate action, and ecological regeneration.
Tokenization is transforming how people are incentivised, how decentralised economies and communities are secured and governed, how capital gets formed and allocated, how products and services are financed, and how digital or physical assets are used for financial or non-financial applications.
Across this wide range of applications there are many different classes of tokens.
Each token class has a unique set of token properties and token behaviours.
The Interchain Identifier (IID) Specification describes how to configure various classes of tokens, using token templates and standards that are designed to be interoperable across all blockchain networks, and addressable from the web.
Winner- Equivalent $25,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Overview: Combine and Build at Least Two Challenges into One Project
The Grand Prix Prize will be awarded to the team who successfully builds an individual project by combining at least two different challenges. The team, going the extra mile, will have the ability to submit their project for the Grand Prix Prize award, in addition to submitting it to the challenge of their choice.
The most creative and impressive project, that complies with the Judging criteria, will be selected by the Board of Judges to receive the additional Grand Prize reward of $25k.
Winner- Equivalent $10,000 USD paid in ATOMs
Overview:
Community plays an important role in our Cosmos ecosystem. That is why we want to give everyone a chance to review the submitted projects and vote for their favorite Cosmos one. Every member that has an account on Devpost will have the ability to cast one vote for one project. The project with the most votes collected from the time the voting starts until it ends, will win this prize category.
Every submission is automatically eligible for this prize.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All submissions MUST include a link to a demonstration video (less than 5 minutes). The video must demonstrate how to use the project, explain the benefits of the project, and show the project in use. Judges use the video demonstration as part of the judging process. Projects without a video are disqualified.
The participant is responsible for submitting high quality sound and images in the video they submit. If the video the quality is not met, the video is not assessed by judges.
Alessio Treglia
Tendermint
Angelo di Michele
Bitsong Reca
Andrea Di Michele
June + Grantfish
Assaf Morami
Secret Network
Billy Rennekamo
Interchain Foundation
Bojan Angjelkoski
Injective
Dave Hrycyszyn
NYM
Denis Fadeev
Tendermint
Cory Levinson
Regen Networks
Eric Zietlow
Akash
Ethan Buchman
Interchain Foundation / Informal Sytems
Federico Kunze Küllmer
Evmos
Kenny Rowe
Agoric
Kevin Davis
Kava
McKall Alexander
Sifchain
Michael Sofaer
Pylons
Peng Zhong
Tendermint
Sam Hart
Interchain Foundation
Shaun Conway
IXO Foundation
Srinivas Baride
Sentinel
Tobias Schwarz
Tendermint
William Chong
Likecoin
Zaki Manian
Iqulsion
Tendermint and its sponsors are offering the equivalent of one million eighty-five thousand US dollars ($1,085,000USD) paid in ATOM as prizes for this HackAtom. Prizes will be distributed among 23 different challenges to the first and second place winners of each challenge, a Grand Prix Prize and a Community Choice award. Prizes will be denominated in US dollars but will be paid in Cosmos ATOM, the native token of the Cosmos Hub blockchain. All prizes are subject to the following conditions:
On December 16, 2021 (the day winners are announced), Tendermint will use the Close Rate (the spot rate as of Dec 16, 2021 at 23:59:59pm) on CoinMarketCap to determine the equivalent number of Atoms representing the value of the prize in US Dollars (“ATOM Equivalent”).
Tendermint will pay the ATOM Equivalent to the team lead of each winning team. The team lead shall be designated by the members of a team. The team lead shall be responsible for distributing the ATOM to the other team members. Terndermint expressly disclaims any liability on distributing the ATOM amongst team members or if an erroneous wallet address is provided by the team lead.
Prize winners will be contacted by January 8, 2022 with instructions on how to complete the necessary paperwork to collect their prize. The Tendermint will not be responsible for any price fluctuations, either up or down, after the number of ATOM is determined regardless of when the prize is actually distributed to the winners.
All members of each winning team are required to provide Tendermint with “Know Your Customer” information prior to payment of any prize to ensure certain eligibility requirements are met. Know Your Customer information includes but is not limited to: W9 or W8-BEN, valid passport, or national ID. If the winner is an entity, we will need a certificate of incorporation or equivalent depending on the type of entity.
Tendermint reserves the right to not award prizes in the event following conditions are met:
Tendermint is not responsible for any dispute between Participants or various team members. Participant is solely responsible for paying any applicable taxes arising from winning a prize.
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Participants must be legally eligible to participate in the hackathon in their respective locales.
As a Participant you must be legally eligible to participate under the laws of your country of residence. Residents of the following locations are not eligible to participate:
| Belarus | Burundi | Central African Republic | Cuba | Congo |
| Hong Kong | Iran | Iraq | Lebanon | Libya |
| Mali | Nicaragua | North Korea | Somalia | Sudan |
| Darfur | Syria | Ukraine | Venezuela | Yemen |
| Zimbabwe | State of New York in USA |
Employees of All in Bits (Tendermint), Interchain Foundation, Interchain Berlin, Informal, Iqlusion, other sponsors of this HackAtom and relativees of the judges can submit a project only for the Community Choice award and are not eligible for any prizes. To ensure fairness, these employees can submit projects only as individuals or as a team with their fellow employees. Sponsor employees cannot join outside teams.
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All projects must be submitted to https://cosmos-hackatom-vi.devpost.com by Wed December 8, 2021 at 18:00 UTC.
The submitted project must have completed code. Idea-only submissions with partial coding may be disqualified.
Teams can submit an unique project to one challenge. Teams may not submit the same project to multiple challenges. Teams can submit different unique projects to different challenges, but each unique project can be submitted to only one individual challenge.
Teams that have projects that address more than one challenge are able to submit their project also to the Grand Prix Prize award and will be eligible for this prize
All submissions are automatically entered for the Community Choice Award.
Project submissions and demonstration videos must be in English.
All submissions MUST include a link to the GitHub project that contains the project codebase.
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Note: Each of the 6 following criteria will be given a score from 1-5. Judges reserve the right to give partial prize or no prize if they do not feel any submission has met the challenge. The judges’ decisions are at their own discretion and final, binding and incontestable.
We have two groups of judges: Challenge Judges and Board of Judges.
The Challenge Judges are the first to review all submissions for their challenge and select 5 nominees to the Board of Judges.
The Board of Judges, together with Challenge Judges will review the selection and vote for the two winners for each challenge.
Together the judges will announce the winners on December 16.
CRITERIA 1: EXECUTION
CRITERIA 2: CODE QUALITY
CRITERIA 3: INNOVATION
CRITERIA 4: TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION AND USABILITY
CRITERIA 5: PROJECT VIDEO
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This hackathon is a community event for learning, collaboration, and engagement in the developer community. We value the participation of each member of the developer community and want everyone involved to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience.
Our hackathon is dedicated to providing a safe and comfortable environment that provides a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of the following:
gender identity and expression
age
sexual orientation
disability
physical appearance
body size
race
ethnicity
nationality
religion
political views
previous hackathon attendance or lack of
computing experience or lack of
chosen programming language or tech stack
Harassment of hackathon participants is not tolerated in any form. Sexual and racist language and imagery is not appropriate in any aspect of the hackathon, including:
hacks
talks, presentations, or demos
workshops
social media
any other online media
Hackathon participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the hackathon at the discretion of the hackathon organizers.
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The Interchain Foundation (“COSMOS”) is pleased to present the Cosmos HackAtom ("Hackatom"), a HackAtom administered by All In Bits, Inc. dba Tendermint ("Tendermint"). Your participation in HackAtom is governed by this HackAtom Participation Agreement (Agreement”) which is a legal binding agreement between you (“Participant”) and Tendermint (if you are working with a team, “Participant” shall mean the entire team depending on context”). In addition, you also agree to the Esign consent, Privacy Policy and the HackAtom Rules and Eligibility Requirements (each an “Ancillary Document''). In the event of any conflict between this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents, the terms of this Agreement shall control and govern.
By clicking the “I accept” button, you agree to comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents. If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you may not participate in the HackAtom.
ELIGIBILITY
In addition to agreeing to the terms of this Agreement, Participant must be legally eligible to participate under the laws of your country of residence. You are NOT eligible to participate if you reside in one of the following locations:
| Belarus | Burundi | Central African Replic | Cuba | Congo |
| Hong Kong | Iran | Iraq | Lanon | Libya |
| Mali | Nicaragua | North Korea | Somalia | Sudan |
| Darfur | Syria | Ukraine | Venezuela | Yemen |
| Zimbabwe | New York, USA |
Tendermint has the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any Participant for breach of the Agreement.
Tendermint has the right to cancel or suspend the HackAtom with or without notice and for any or no reason. Tendermint is not responsible for any damage or inconvenience caused by a cancellation or suspension of the HackAtom.
The Participant shall provide their submission in source code form and strive towards a working demonstration (“Submission”). By providing a Submission, the Participant represents and warrants that the Submission is an original work of authorship and does not violate any applicable law or any third party intellectual property rights.
Subject to the licenses described below, any applicable intellectual property rights to a Submission will remain solely with the Participant(s).
You grant to Tendermint, a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual license to display publicly and use the Submission, in perpetuity. This license includes, but is not limited to, posting or linking to the Submission on websites and applications, including the HackAtom Website, and display and promotion of the Submission in any other media, worldwide, without the need of your prior consent.
The following Submission components may be displayed to the public: name, description, images, video URL, website, URL, team members, the Submission category and platform, and submitter type, to which you consent by registering to the HackAtom. Other Submission materials may be viewed by the Judges for screening and evaluation.
Participant represents and warrants that Tendermint Inc. and/or HackAtom sponsors are free to use the Participant’s Submission in the manner described above, as provided or as modified, without obtaining permission or license from any third party and without any compensation to the Participant.
Participant agrees that any ideas created during the HackAtom will have no exclusive ownership. Each Participant is free to separately commercialise and exploit each idea and create products from the ideas. Notwithstanding, any intellectual property created during the HackAtom will remain solely owned by the Participant.
Your Submission must:
1. Be an original work of authorship;
2. Not contain any rights or interests of any other person or entity; and
3. Not violate the intellectual property rights or other rights including but not limited to copyright, trademark, patent, contract, and/or privacy rights, of any other person or entity.
Participant may use third party hardware or software to create the Submission provided the Participant complies with all third party licensing requirements and the Submission components are solely the Participant’s work product and the result of the Participant’s ideas and creativity, and the Participant owns all rights to them.
Participant may submit a Submission that includes the use of Open Source Software as defined below, provided the Participant complies with the requirements of this section. By entering the HackAtom you represent, warrant, and agree that your Submission meets these requirements.
"Open Source Software" means any software code that is distributed as "open source software" or "freeware" or is otherwise distributed publicly or made generally available in source code form under terms that permit modification and redistribution of such software on the condition that if such software code is redistributed that it be (i) disclosed or distributed in source code form; (ii) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; or (iii) distributed at no charge, including but not limited to, software licensed or distributed under any of the collection of Open Source Initiative ("OSI") approved licenses.
If Participant submits an idea or Submission that Tendermint believes others may be interested in, we'd like to be able to promote you, your team and your idea or submission more widely. We will obtain your prior written permission prior to such promotion.
The intent of the HackAtom is to encourage people to suggest their ideas and innovations to Tendermint and our technology partners. Participation in this HackAtom does not create an obligation on Tendermint to negotiate or enter into any business relationship or to sign any commercial agreement with you.
The HackAtom winners will be chosen from the teams of Participants by a panel of judges based on an analysis of your Submission. Submissions will be judged on the criteria set forth in the Judges Criteria section above. The judges’ decisions are at their own discretion and final, binding and incontestable.
Tendermint reserves the right not to award prizes in the event of a sufficient number of Submissions meeting the minimum judging criteria are not submitted into Hackatom. Tendermint is not responsible for any dispute between Participants. Participant is solely responsible for paying any applicable taxes arising from winning a prize. Withholding taxes may apply based on your jurisdiction. Other terms and conditions in the Prizes, Rules and Eligibility Requirements shall apply.
Participant understands that the HackAtom may be photographed, videotaped, recorded, etc. and hereby grants the Interchain Foundation and Tendermintthe right to use or refrain from using Participant’s name and/or likeness in any and all footage about Participant’s participation in the HackAtom and Participant’s HackAtom submission in any manner or media that the Interchain Foundation and Tendermint sees fit without Participant’s review or approval and without compensation. If you do not wish to be photographed, videotaped or recorded, please notify Tendermint Inc. at the HackAtom and we use reasonable efforts to refrain from using the Participant's name and/or likeness in any and all footage about the Participant's participation in the HackAtom.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL INTERCHAIN FOUNDATION OR TENDERMINT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES IN CONNECTION WITH, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING IN ANY WAY TO THE HackAtom AND/OR THIS AGREEMENT.
Participant shall indemnify and hold the Interchain Foundation and Tendermint and its officers, directors, employees, successors and assigns harmless against any claims, losses, damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ and other professionals’ fees) incurred by Tendermint in connection with, arising out of or relating in any way to the HackAtom and/or this Agreement.
All disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or in connection with the HackAtom, prizes or the Agreement shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the state courts of the State of Delaware and each of the Participants submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of such courts for the purpose of any such action. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware without regard to any conflict of laws principles. If for any reason any provision of this Agreement is adjudicated to be unenforceable, that provision of the Agreement will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to effect the intent of the parties, and the remainder of this Agreement will continue in full force and effect.
This policy describes how All in Bits, Inc. delivers communications to you electronically. We may amend this policy at any time by providing a revised version on our website. The revised version will be effective at the time we post it. We will provide you with prior notice of any material changes via our website.
Electronic Delivery of Communications
You agree and consent to receive electronically all communications, agreements, documents, notices and disclosures (collectively, "Communications") that we provide in connection with your All in Bits, Inc. Account(s) and your use of All in Bits, Inc. Services. Communications include:
Terms of use and policies you agree to (e.g., the All in Bits, Inc. User Agreement and Privacy Policy), including updates to these agreements or policies;
Account details, history, transaction receipts, confirmations, and any other Account or transaction information;
Legal, regulatory, and tax disclosures or statements we may be required to make available to you; and
Responses to claims or customer support inquiries filed in connection with your Account.
We will provide these Communications to you by posting them on the All in Bits, Inc. website, emailing them to you at the primary email address listed in your All in Bits, Inc. profile, communicating to you via instant chat, and/or through other electronic communication such as text message or mobile push notification.
Hardware and Software Requirements
In order to access and retain electronic Communications, you will need the following computer hardware and software:
A device with an Internet connection;
A current web browser that includes 128-bit encryption (e.g. Internet Explorer version 9.0 and above, Firefox version 3.6 and above, Chrome version 31.0 and above, or Safari 7.0 and above) with cookies enabled;
A valid email address (your primary email address on file with All in Bits, Inc.); and
Sufficient storage space to save past Communications or an installed printer to print them.
