Solana Builders League
Registration Deadline: Fri, 02 Dec 2022, 23:59 (SGT)
Metacamp’s Solana Workspace is hosting a two-weeks hackathon together with students from Singapore’s top-tier universities e.g. NUS, NTU, SIT, SMU, SUTD, and SUSS.
This is an in-person event and it will run daily from Sat, 3 Dec - Sat, 17 Dec.
During the event, you can expect the following:
Bootcamps (Sat, 3 - Tue, 6 Dec): Learn about blockchain, Solana ecosystem, architecture and programming languages in four days (from 10:00 - 17:30) taught by Solana experts and members.
Mentoring & Workshops (Mon, 5 Dec - Fri, 16 Dec): Network and get in-person feedback from expert mentors during the two-weeks hackathon.
Demo Day (Sat, 17 Dec): Pitch your team and MVP to potential investors, win awards and boost your professional career.
Only 100 free slots available at Metacamp's hacker house. See metacamp.so/workspace
We highly encourage to register with team member(s) and specific idea(s).
If you sign up alone and/or no idea, we can help in matchmaking.
Hackathon Details
“The elephant in the room is that we need more users in the space. I suspect that in the current environment we are acquiring roughly zero per day, and most likely negative. We need killer apps that bring value to normal users.” - Chase Barker, Solana Foundation
To onboard the next 1 billion non-crypto native users into the Solana ecosystem.
Cash Prizes
1st winner: S$1,000
2nd winner: S$500
3rd winner: S$250
Verticals
Gaming (e.g. StepN’s fitness app)
Payments (e.g. Monstre’s NFC onboarding)
Retail (e.g. NFT Membership Door Access, …)
Media (e.g. Web3 Youtube/Substack)
Other
Evaluation Criteria
Problem Statement: How relevant is the problem? Who would desire this problem to be solved?
Solution: What impact does the MVP/product create? How well is it scalable and composable?
Team: How ready is the team to continue?
Pitch: How convincing was the pitch?