Hackers League London Bootcamp
We are thrilled to bring the first-ever TON Bootcamp to London, marking a significant milestone in the mission to expand the TON ecosystem in the UK. London’s vibrant tech community (who are all using Telegram!!) have already demonstrated an appetite for TON through four successful events curated by Martin, Jack, and Danny. These events have shown a growing hunger in London for more access and participation in the TONxTelegram ecosystem, and we are ready to blow the bloody doors off.
To do this, we are bringing heavyweights in from the TON ecosystem and capitalising on an incredible opportunity to partner with Flight3, one of Europe’s leading Web3 marketing agencies, who have been instrumental in shaping the Web3 landscape in the UK. Working together to officially announce a workshop-takeover during Zebu Live, the flagship event in the London calendar, welcoming over 3,000 attendees and top minds globally in the space.
🔨The Hackers League Bootcamp: Two day event for builders with intensive workshops where TON devs engage directly with speakers and mentors through interactive sessions, lectures, and personal mentoring hours to help with project submissions to the hackathon. Participants not only gain hands-on experience but also have the opportunity to network with key players and investors from the TON ecosystem. The three bootcamp winners receive a $5,000 prize each and a fast track to the Hackers League Hackathon finals, where the total prize pool is $2,000,000 plus potential investments for top projects from TON Ventures in the size of $500,000!
Format:
- Two days of lectures, public talks, and technical workshops for developers
- Welcome Pack (merch distribution for attendees)
- Full lunches, plus drinks and snacks available to attendees
- Pitch session for judges (Day 2)
- Access to Zebu Live event, keynotes, fireside panels, activations and entertainment area that includes table tennis
- Wrap-up party on the day the winners are announced
- After the bootcamp: Finalists and wildcards receive a one-week co-working pass to continue working on their project
📅Hackers League Timeline
Oct 5 Hackathon opening ceremony
Oct 10-Nov 17 ⚡️Bootcamps⚡️
Dec 16 Live Finalists Judging
Dec 20 Winners announcement
Tracks:
DeFi
Gaming & Onboarding
Social & Utility
Infra
Speakers & Mentors:
Sophia - TON Accelerator: Head of Acceleration
Martin Masser - STON.fi: CBDO
Slavik Baranov - STON.fi: CEO
Jack Booth - TON Society: Co-Founder
Sharon Henley - The Open Platform: Head of Marketing
Kirill Malev - The Open Platform: Jr Partner
& more to be announced!
Local Sponsors:
MoonPay
The Open Platform
Paper Ventures
We encourage builders to submit an initial application via this Luma page, successful submissions will secure attendance and receive close support to submit projects to the global $2m hackathon.
Keep scrolling for in-depth information:
Hackathon Schedule
Hackathon registration begins: 12/09/2024
Hackathon building phase: Start 12/09/2024, Finish (Code freeze) 23/11/24
Bootcamps: 11/10/2024 — 17/11/2024
Semi-finalists Selection (Demo Review – Add jury’s Githubs, open source smart contracts by this date to avoid being disqualified): 23/11/2024–5/12/2024
Finalists Selection (Code Review): 5/12/2024 — 15/12/2024
Live Judging Sessions: 16/12/2024 — 17/12/2024
Winners judging: 18 — 19/12/2024
Winners Announcement: 20/12/2024
Hackathon Tracks
Total cash prizes for 5 tracks — $485,000
DeFi
$185,000 total for the track
$35,000 + $10,000 Tg ads credits
$25,000 + $10,000 Tg ads credits
$20,000 + $10,000 Tg ads credits
$15,000 + $10,000 Tg ads credits
$15,000 + $10,000 Tg ads credits
$15,000 + $10,000 Tg ads credits
$10,000 + $10,000 Tg ads credits
$10,000 + $10,000 Tg ads credits
$10,000 + $10,000 Tg ads credits
$10,000 + $5,000 Tg ads credits
$5,000
$5,000
$5,000
$5,000
SocialFi&Utility
$75,000 total for the track
$35,000 + 10,000 Tg ads credits
$25,000 + 10,000 Tg ads credits
$15,000 + 10,000 Tg ads credits
GameFi & Onboarding
$75,000 total for the track
$35,000 + 10,000 Tg ads credits
$25,000 + 10,000 Tg ads credits
$15,000 + 10,000 Tg ads credits
On-chain Data Analytics
$75,000 total for the track
$35,000 + $10,000 Telegram ads credits
$25,000 + $10,000 Telegram ads credits
$15,000 + $5,000 Telegram ads credits
Interoperability
$75,000 total for the track
$35,000 + 10,000 Tg ads credits
$25,000 + 10,000 Tg ads credits
$15,000 + 10,000 Tg ads credits
TON Ventures Investments
Potential investments for top projects from TON Ventures in the size of $500,000. During the summer hackathon, TON Ventures already allocated $500,000 in the hackathon projects.
The Open League Incentives
The Open League Incentives for top projects selected to join in the size of $500,000.
Bootcamps Prize Pool
Join one of the 3-day offline events in 19 cities around the world and compete for $5,000 on the spot. Total prize pool is $85,000.
Additional prizes to be announced.
What exactly should you build?
Read more details about the tracks and prompts for the projects below:
Social&Utiliies
This category is mostly about B2C or B2B2C applications inside Telegram with a clear vision of how to use the social potential of the messenger, onboard web2 audience, achieve virality and retain the user. It includes SocialFi, Utility apps, Community & Brand management tools, E-commerce and other similar subcategories.
Teams applying to this category are encouraged to experiment with:
Leveraging the current Telegram functionality (channels; boosts for channels; giveaways; gated chats and gated content; stories; reactions) and strengthening it through introducing web3 elements.
Combining the functionality of Telegram and other social platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, Youtube, etc.
Offering new opportunities for communications inside the messenger with the use of blockchain.
Sharing and referral mechanics.
Onboard and engaging entire communities rather than individuals through group mechanics (competitions, squads, challenges, etc).
References and inspirations from The Open League Summer Hackathon finalists:
DeFi
Collateralized Debt Position (CDP) Synthetic Assets. This track focuses on building or enhancing CDP protocols, where users can lock collateral to mint stablecoins or other assets. Projects in this track should explore innovative mechanisms for overpartial collateralization, soft liquidation, and stability, ensuring the secure and decentralized nature of minted assets. Participants can create tools, services, or entire CDP platforms that improve capital efficiency, user experience, and TON utilization.
References and Inspiration:
Yield Farming. This track invites participants to design or optimize yield farming protocols, allowing users to maximize crypto asset returns. Projects can focus on creating innovative farming strategies, boosting liquidity pools, or developing tools that automate and optimize yield generation. Emphasis should be placed on sustainability, security, and user accessibility while leveraging advanced DeFi mechanisms such as auto-compounding and multi-asset farming. Solutions should provide users with higher returns, transparency, and risk management.
References and Inspiration:
Algorithmic Stablecoins. In this track, participants are tasked with designing or improving algorithmic stablecoins—digital currencies that maintain price stability through algorithms and smart contracts rather than traditional collateral. Projects can explore new stabilization mechanisms, peg maintenance strategies, and governance models to ensure resilience against volatility. The goal is to create or enhance algorithmic stablecoins that are scalable, decentralized, and efficient while price volatility and withdrawing liquidity.
References and Inspiration:
Concentrated Liquidity Market Maker. This track challenges participants to build or enhance concentrated liquidity solutions, where liquidity providers can allocate their capital more efficiently within specific price ranges. Projects can focus on developing advanced market-making algorithms, optimizing liquidity pools, or creating tools that allow users to maximize returns while minimizing capital exposure. Please consider that Uni V3 Implementation wouldn’t work on TON because it is impossible to implement CLMM architecture with Ticks.
References and Inspiration:
New DeFi Primitives on TON. This track invites participants to design innovative DeFi primitives that fully exploit the TON blockchain's unique capabilities. Projects may explore new financial instruments, decentralized protocols, or smart contract solutions that enhance the TON ecosystem's functionality, scalability, and sharding. The focus is on building foundational components that can serve as crucial building blocks for the next generation of DeFi on TON.
Cross-Shard Coincidence of Wants (CSCoW) Protocol. Design and implement a CoW swap-like protocol that efficiently matches and executes trades across TON's sharded architecture, leveraging asynchronous messaging to aggregate liquidity, reduce slippage, and optimize capital efficiency.
Asynchronous Periodic Auctions (APA) Protocol. Adapt CBOE's periodic auctions for TON's asynchronous environment to improve liquidity and price discovery.
References and inspiration:
Interoperability
Enhance TON blockchain through interoperability solutions.
Develop bridges, cross-chain swaps, and liquidity protocols to connect TON with other networks. Improve TON's TVL and transaction volumes while expanding its use cases. Your contributions can significantly advance TON's multi-chain capabilities.
References & Inspiration:
Cross-Chain Swaps: LayerZero OFT Apps (StarGate, Radiant Capital), THORChain
Cross-Chain Liquidity: Everclear (prev Connext), Multichain
Oracles: Pyth, RedStone
Requirements & eligibility
Submitting pre-made code is not allowed. All the apps must be built during the hackathon timeframe from scratch, and can not be started earlier than the first public announcements.
In order to be eligible for the prizes, projects must fulfill the following requirements by the submission deadline (23/11/2024):
DeFi: launched on mainnet;
Gaming & Onboarding, Social & Utility: fully launched on TON with on-chain mechanics;
Infra: full launch.
See you in the trenches.