ABCDE ZK Hackathon is the first ZK Hackathon organized by ABCDE Venture Capital, from August 12th to September 15th, 2023.
The Hackathon is a 4-week global online hackathon centered around building zero-knowledge applications. Our mission is to provide the best resources to early ZK adopters and find the world’s next game-changing ZK startups.
The purpose of this hackathon is to equip developers with all the necessary skills to become proficient ZK developers. Upon completing the ZK curriculum, developers will form teams and proceed with project development. Exceptional teams or projects will be able to win competition prizes, and ABCDE Capital will offer comprehensive ecosystem support, including marketing and fundraising.
Total Awards: 70,000 USD
Awards and Prizes
1st award
$30,000
x1
2nd award
$10,000
x2
3rd award
$5,000
x3
Core Sponsors
Adjudicators
BMAN
BeWater Cofounder
ABCDE Capital
Jason Morton
CEO of Zkonduit
Associate Professor at Penn State
Shumo Chu
Core contributor at Manta Network
Gnana Lakshm
DevRel at Starknet
Yi Sun
Founder of Axiom
Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago
Leo Fan
Assistant Professor at Rutgers University
Co-Founder of Cysic
Jiaheng Zhang
Assistant Professorat NUS
Co-founder and chief scientistof Polyhedra Network
0xsebastiena
DeFi Lead of zkSync
Cecilia
ZK Engineer @ Taiko
Core ZK dev & PM at Taiko's zkEVM team, contributor to the Halo2 community
Mourad Mesrour
VP of Engineer and Leader of Defi Tech @ GSR Markets
Diego Ferrer
Solutions Engineer at Celestia
Mary Liu
Business Development Manager at Celestia
Jing Yi
Analyst at ODA Capital
Min Xue
Partner at Foresight X
Soon
More to be announced
Event Details
We want to allow participants maximum freedom in building something they want and can be proud of. So there will be no specific hackathon bounties, but only contest categories that cover most types of applications.
We aim to encourage developers to unleash their genius creativity to the fullest during this hackathon. While we won't impose specific themes, we hope the creative ideas revolve around ZK. To facilitate categories, we have divided related project ideas into three tracks:
1.ZK Infra and Tooling
In this track, we encourage you to freely create ZK Infra and Tooling to make ZK Technology more user-friendly and adaptable to various scenarios. Topics include but are limited to, novel zk middleware design, ZK compilers, ZK-DSL, etc.
2.ZK Application
In this track, we encourage you to utilize existing ZK technologies/frameworks to implement innovative creations, such as privacy-preserving based on ZK, on-chain games based on ZK,etc.
- Other ZK-related Topics
Apart from the above two tracks, we encourage you to fully unleash your imagination and utilize ZK technology to create more fascinating and enjoyable projects. If your project is a Dapp based on zkVM or zkEVM, we hope you can deploy it on Starknet, zkSync, Taiko.
Judging Criteria
Regarding the evaluation criteria, we will consider several granular indicators, with the three most significant aspects: innovation, completeness, and relevance.
1.Innovation
ABCDE ZK Hackathon provides an excellent platform to showcase your brilliance and imaginative ideas. Novel and intriguing creations always capture attention quickly.
2.Completeness
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." Innovative ideas are best realized through practical implementation. We encourage you to complete as much as possible within the given time.
3.Relevance
While creativity knows no bounds, for this event, we hope your creations predominantly revolve around ZK technology.
Event Partners
Host
Co-Host
Platinum Sponsor
Gold Sponsor
Silver Sponsor
Bronze Sponsor
Media Partners
Community Partner
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