Solana is a fast, low-fee, censorship-resistant blockchain designed to enable builders to quickly deploy and scale applications to billions of users globally. The Solana community is excited to jumpstart its 4th virtual hackathon focused on allowing developers to experiment and leverage the Solana blockchain to create a plethora of projects spanning DeFi (Decentralized Finance), blockchain gaming, Web3, Digital Art/Collectibles, and everything in-between.

As long as you have an internet connection, you're invited to join the hackathon. Just make sure your project integrates with the Solana protocol. Let's ignite the next wave of projects joining the Solana ecosystem!

What to Submit:

Project name and a list of team members (if applicable)
A description of what your project does and why you decided to build it
Demo video or presentation slides. Your video should be around 3 minutes long and include a demo of your working project. (Videos must be made publicly visible).
Access to your working application or Github code repository. Access must be provided to the working application or code for judging and testing by providing a link to a website, functioning demo, or a Github repository.
Complete submission form. Include all of the required fields on your Devpost submission form, BEFORE the final deadline on October 15, 2021 at 11:45pm PST.

Twitch Stream Schedule

Subscribe at twitch.tv/solanatv

DATE	WHO	TOPIC
9/3 - 10AM EST	Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital	Hackathon Project Ideas
9/7 - 12PM EST	Figment	Figment Learn Solana Pathway Workshop - 101
9/8 - 2:30PM EST	Anchor	How to Anchor Workshop
9/9 - 1PM EST	Mango	Integrate w/ Mango Workshop
9/10 - 2PM EST	Metaplex	NFT / Metaplex Workshop
9/13 - 10AM EST	SolNet	C# SDK Workshop
9/13 - 1PM EST	PsyOptions	PsyOptions Integration Workshop
9/14 - 7AM EST	Zeta	Past Hackathon Experience Workshop
9/15 - 12PM EST	QuickNode	RPC Infrastructure Workshop
9/14 - 1:30PM EST	Amy Wu of Lightspeed, Jiho of Axie Infinity, moderated by Brady Dale of The Defiant	The Future of Blockchain Gaming
9/16 - 1PM EST	Jeremy Allaire / Anatoly	Fireside Chat - USDC good, USD bad
9/16 - 3PM EST	Francesco Agosti of Phantom	An intro to Phantom & the future of Crypto Wallets
9/17 - 6PM EST	Chainlink	Chainlink Oracle Workshop
9/20 - 5pm EST	Joe McCann of Microsoft	Understanding the Implications of Solana
9/21 - 2pm EST	Bartosz Lipinski and Vitaly Evlakhov	Oracle Showdown
9/27 - 2PM EST	Meltem Demirors of Coinshares and Raj Gokal of Solana Labs	The good, bad, and ugly of crypto
9/30 - 1pm EST	Sam Williams of Arweave and Anatoly Yakovenko of Solana Labs	Arweaving with Solana

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$5,120,000 in prizes

Grand Prize Winner

• $75,000 USD
• Tickets to attend and a presentation of your project at the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon.

Community Choice Award

• $10,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Company Prize Winners (12)

Serum, Raydium, Stardust, Pyth Network, Wormhole, Mango Markets, Chainlink, PsyOptions, DegenApeAcademy, HXRO, Cope and Solend are each sponsoring their own $30,000 prize for the projects that best integrate with their respective technologies.

First Place DeFi Track

• $60,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Second Place DeFi Track

• $45,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Third Place DeFi Track

• $30,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Fourth Place DeFi Track

• $25,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Fifth Place DeFi Track

• $20,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

First Place Gaming Track

• $45,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Second Place Gaming Track

• $30,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Third Place Gaming Track

• $20,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Fourth Place Gaming Track

• $15,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Fifth Place Gaming Track

• $10,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

First Place Web3 Track

• $45,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Second Place Web3 Track

• $30,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Third Place Web3 Track

• $20,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Fourth Place Web3 Track

• $15,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Fifth Place Web3 Track

• $10,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

First Place Digital Art/Collectibles Track

• $45,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Second Place Digital Art/Collectibles Track

• $30,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Third Place Digital Art/Collectibles Track

• $20,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Fourth Place Digital Art/Collectibles Track

• $15,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Fifth Place Digital Art/Collectibles Track

• $10,000 USD
• Tickets to the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon

Seed Funding

$4.135M in direct or indirect funding by Solana Capital LLC, its partners, affiliates, associates, and other core contributors to and investors involved with the Hackathon, to be granted within six (6) months from the last date of the Hackathon.

Judges

Sam Bankman-Fried
CEO of FTX

Jeremy Allaire
Founder & CEO of Circle

Meltem Demirors
CSO at Coinshares

Joe McCann
Strategist at Microsoft

Kanav Kariya
Director of Strategic Initiatives at Jump Trading

AlphaRay
Founder of Raydium Protocol

Amy Wu
Partner at Lightspeed Ventures

Kyle Samani
Managing Partner & Cofounder of Multicoin Capital

Maximilian Schneider
Co-founder of Mango Markets

Justin Saslaw
Partner at Social Capital

Adam Jeffries
CEO of Metaplex Studios

Georgios Konstantopoulos
Research Partner at Paradigm

Jeff "Jiho" Zirlin
Co-Founder of Axie Infinity

Chris Kalani
CPO & Co-founder of Phantom

David Ratney
Founder of Bonfida

Chris McCann
Co-founder of Race Capital

0x Maki
Core Contributor to SushiSwap

Arthur Cheong
Founder of DeFiance Capital

Thanh Le
Founder of Coin98

Brandon Bryant
Partner at Harlem Capital Partners

Sam Williams
Co-founder & CEO of Arweave

Dan Matuszewski
Co-founder of CMS Holdings

Bobby Ong
Co-founder of Coingecko

Daniel Gunsberg
Founder of Hxro Network

Mauro Delazeri
Director of Engineering at QuickNode

Imran Khan
Lead at DeFi Alliance

Nick Chong
Investor at ParaFi Capital

Frank Mong
COO of Helium

Matthew Graham
Founder & CEO of Sino Global Capital

Canaan Linder
Founder of Stardust

Dylan Macalinao
Co-founder of Saber Protocol

Linda Chew
Head of Operations at Forte

Tristan Yver
Senior Advisor at Serum

David Nage
Principal at Arca Investments

Brady Dale
Reporter at The Defiant

Rooter
Founder of Solend

Dona Mara
CEO of HAPI

Sophia Zhao
Principal at Alumni Ventures

Steve Ngok
Partner at Dorahacks

Paul Veradittakit
Partner at Pantera Capital

Fares Ghandour
Partner at Wamda Capital

Clay Robbins
Principal at Slow Ventures

Harry Papacharissiou
Developer Advocate at Chainlink

Sean Lippel
Partner at Fintech Collective

John Park
Partner at a41 Ventures

Simon Figures
Standard Chartered Ventures Lead

Suresh Pagadala
VP at Standard Chartered

Cassidy Williams
Director of Developer Experience at Netlify

Erikan Obotetukudo
Founder & Managing Partner at Audacity

Saurabh Sharma
General Partner at Jump Capital

Paul Veradittakit
Partner at Pantera Capital

Judging Criteria

Potential Impact
How will this project impact the growth of the Solana ecosystem?
Functionality
How well does the project work?
Novelty
How unique is the project idea and execution?
Design
Is the user experience and design of the project well thought out?
Go-to-market Strategy
Is the project beginning to market and garner interest from the community?