Build the decentralized future at the World's Largest Ethereum Hackathon. Join 300 other ambitious developers for the opportunity to work alongside the inventors of Ethereum at a 36-hour hackathon.

October 13 – 15, 2017 in Waterloo, Canada

The leading minds in the cryptocurrency space are joining over 300 hackers from around the world to collaborate together on decentralized applications using Ethereum. With an exponential increase in adoption, developer interest, and other teams building on top of Ethereum, there has never been a better time to be a part of the community building Web 3.0.

This is an event for hackers and developers that want to be a part of the decentralized future. We'll bring together industry experts, companies pushing the way forwards in this space, and handle all the event details; all you need to do is come prepared to learn fast and ready to build something great.

Eligibility

  • Teams must have no more than 4 hackers, who are all physically in attendance
  • No age or educational restrictions on hackers
  • No geographic restrictions on hackers

Requirements

  • Your hack must be related to Ethereum
  • You cannot work on your project before the event begins
  • You cannot steal another team's source code
  • All code required to run your project must be submitted

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$53,010 in prizes

0x Project (2)

0x Project will award two prizes, one prize to the team with the most innovative of the of 0x protocol, and one prize to the team with the most compelling prototype using the 0x protocol. The prize for both winning teams will be ZRX tokens. Find more information about 0x Project here: https://blog.0xproject.com/announcing-0x-api-prize-at-ethwaterloo-hackathon-1f06e9ecabdd

Consensys

ConsenSys will award 3 ETH to the team that best utilizes the StandardBounties contract framework. Find more information about the StandardBounties here: https://github.com/ConsenSys/StandardBounties

Storj (3)

Storj will award $750 in Storj tokens and Bose noise canceling headphones to the team that best utilizes the Storj object storage. Find more information about Storj here: https://storj.io/developers.html

Toshi (2)

Toshi will award $1000 in ETH to the team that builds the best bot that utilizes Ethereum transactions on Toshi. The ideal bot will serve a use case that will be valuable to the average user (e.g. remittance, micro-jobs, lending). Find more information about Toshi here: https://developers.toshi.org

MakerDAO (3)

MakerDAO will award from a prize pool of 50 MKR prizes to the teams that have the most innovative use cases, solid MVPs, and compelling product visions.

Overall Winner (8)

ETHWaterloo does not have a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place team. The Overall Winners are the top 8 teams as selected by the judges.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

How to enter

Submissions are only permitted from teams which have been previously Accepted.

Judges

Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin
Founder, Ethereum

Jeff Coleman

Jeff Coleman
Founder, Ledger Labs

Joey Krug

Joey Krug
Founder, Augur

Liam Horne

Liam Horne
L4

Linda Xie

Linda Xie
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Scalar Capital

Martin KoeppelMann

Martin KoeppelMann
Founder, Gnosis

Raine Revere

Raine Revere
Lead Prism Architect, ShapeShift.io

Joseph Lubin

Joseph Lubin
Founder, Consensys

Josh Stark

Josh Stark
Head of Operations, Ledger Labs

Julie Maupin

Julie Maupin
Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation

Jesse Pollak

Jesse Pollak
Engineering Manager, Coinbase

Brian Bondy

Brian Bondy
CTO & Co-Founder, Brave

Ethan Buchman

Ethan Buchman
Co-Founder, Tendermint & Cosmos

Dmitry Buterin

Dmitry Buterin
Co-Founder, BlockGeeks

Panashe Mahachi

Panashe Mahachi
Co-Founder, Scanate

William Mougayar

William Mougayar
Author, The Business Blockchain

Stephan Tual

Stephan Tual
COO, slock.it

Ryan Zurrer

Ryan Zurrer
Principal and Venture Partner, Polychain Capital

Shawn Wilkinson

Shawn Wilkinson
Founder, Storj

Manuel Araoz

Manuel Araoz
CTO, Zeppelin Solutions

Russell Verbeeten

Russell Verbeeten
Product, Consensys

Hudson Jameson

Hudson Jameson
Co-Founder, Oaken Innovations

Jason Teutsch

Jason Teutsch
Co-Founder, Truebit

Judging Criteria

  • Judging Criteria
    Technical Complexity Originality User Interface / Simplicity in Design WOW factor

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