Introduction

A Vortex ravages through the Scroll ecosystem, sucking in the most talented contributors…

Whether you're a seasoned web3 contributor or a curious explorer, this hackathon is an open invitation to ambitious innovators who want to challenge the status quo. We encourage you to think about the challenges facing mass-adoption, and find solutions to help ease and accelerate the transition. Come jam with other contributors, learn, and build.

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Prize Pool Allocation

Scroll is bringing the builders over $50k in prizes and the partners are bringing $35k in bounties. Let’s dive into the General Hackathon Prizes:

1. Prize Pool of $11,000 (strict guidelines: deployed, verified, not just “hello world” contract)
2. 3 bounties worth $2,000 (per track*)
3. 3 bounties worth $1,000 (per track*)
4. 2 runner-up $500 (per track*)

• *If a track has too few quality submissions, the slot will be re-allocated to another track.

Check out the details below on how you can win a prize by deploying on Scroll.

🚀 Deploy on Scroll ($11,000 Pool Prize)

Description

This should just mean changing your RPC! Try out Scroll's next-generation zk-rollup by deploying your project's smart contracts on the Scroll testnet on Sepolia. With Scroll's zkEVM, users will benefit from lower costs, shorter block times, and higher throughput -- without you needing to modify your Solidity code.

Bounty Amount

$11,000 pool prize

Criteria

• Project contracts must be deployed on Scroll Sepolia and verified on the Scroll Etherscan.

🎯 Best per Track (3x $2000, 3x $1000, 2x $500)

Description

You're here to build the latest in greatest in web3 on Ethereum — we want to see it deployed on Scroll. Use Scroll's Sepolia Testnet for your deployment of a novel DeFi application — we're compatible with the EVM at the bytecode level, so all your Solidity, Vyper, or YUL should just work with the change of an RPC address.

Bounty Amount

🥇 3 times $2000 per team - honorable mentions
🥈 3 times $1000 per team
🥉 2 times $500 per team

Criteria

• Project contracts must be deployed on Scroll Sepolia and verified on the Scroll Etherscan.

Entry Requirement

• Project contracts must be deployed on Scroll Sepolia and verified on the Scroll Etherscan.
• Project must have a working flow
• Project should excite us, include some of the following:
  • Solve a tangible problem or build a relevant use case
  • Provide value to developers/community in terms of public good
  • “Super-nerdy”, not necessarily product-market fit, but a cool geeky project

Judging Criteria

• Originality: is this something the judges have never seen before?
• Great UI/UX: is your project easy to understand and navigate?
• Security: We understand this is a hackathon project, but consider adhering to basic security practices, ie don’t expose your private keys in the front end.
• Project must have a working flow
• Solve a tangible problem or build a relevant use case
• Provide value to developers/community in terms of public good
• "super-nerdy" not necessarily product-market fit, but a cool geeky project

Timeline

Workshops

Tracks

DeFi
DeFi is due for a makeover. In this track you’re building anything related to DeFi. As a suggestion, we challenge you to build a project that makes DeFi accessible to a mass audience, especially those who are new to web3 and non-technical. Some ideas include, but not limited to:

• Decentralized Options AMM with deep liquidity and innovative incentives
• Perps DEXs with superior UX thanks to account abstraction smart wallets (social login)
• Decentralized exchanges with enhanced features (Uniswap hooks, other ideas)
• Yield farming platforms with ZK-proofs for secure yield calculations
• Just something nerdy, build with cool tech and might not even be useful

Gaming
Games built on-chain are now possible with vanilla Solidity or Solidity-based game engines. Game development is no joke, and you don’t have to spend your time building a full-scale game. Your goal is to showcase the unique benefits that blockchain and ZK offer to the world of gaming in innovative and creative ways. Some ideas include:

• On-chain games with provably fair reward distribution and verifiable randomness/verifiable computation
• On-chain games with privacy-enriched gameplay (eg. private attributes on a character that will only be revealed after battle. eg games like Dark Forest)
• Games powered by ZK-proofs
• Or just a simple card game where you embarrass your friends

Here are some examples of games built at a hackathon:

1. https://github.com/razacodespython/ethseoul
2. https://github.com/razacodespython/ethgloballondon2024/tree/main/diginouns
3. https://ethglobal.com/showcase/shadow-warfare-gxvty

Privacy
ZK allows for a new level of privacy, and we encourage you to think of innovative use cases that emphasize the unique benefits that zero-knowledge unlocks. Some ideas include, but not limited to:

• Privacy-preserving identity and credential management systems
• Anonymous voting and governance platforms
• Private data sharing and computation protocols
• Privacy-enhancing communication and messaging applications
• Privacy-focused decentralized storage and cloud computing solutions

General
Surprise us. If you have a cool idea and you don’t think it fits in any of the above tracks. Build it anyhow. The sky's the limit!

Get inspired by our compilation of past Scroll hackathon winners & submissions.

Sponsor Partners

• Ankr
• Aztec
• Chainlink
• Covalent
• Cyfrin
• The Graph
• OpenZepplin
• Sindri

About Scroll

Scroll is a zero-knowledge rollup built to scale Ethereum. We're committed to Ethereum's ethos, and like to call ourselves the community-first zkEVM.If you’re experienced in building on Ethereum, your code, dependencies, and tooling work with Scroll out of the box. This is possible because our network is compatible with EVM bytecode and designed to feel just like developing on Ethereum.

Developer resources

• Developer Quickstart
• Smart Contract Verification
• Developer Documentation
• Scroll Alpha Testnet Portal
• Scroll Architecture