Encode Summer Hackathon Sponsored by the Solana Foundation—Prizewinners and Summary
The Encode Summer Hackathon, sponsored by the Solana Foundation, has come to a close with a fantastic finale event featuring the best projects pitching for top prizes!
This hackathon was a great opportunity for hackers to learn about Solana and win a prize in the process!
Our long-lasting partnership included the Solana Educate series, three Solana Bootcamp cohorts (one in April 2022, one in October 2022 and one in May 2023), and an early 2023 Hackathon. These initiatives have already helped countless individuals dive into the world of Solana, and we are proud to take the next step in our ongoing collaboration with the Solana Foundation.
Currently, applications are open for the Encode Autumn Bootcamp sponsored by the Solana Foundation!
A huge thank you to the title sponsor, the Solana Foundation, without whom this hackathon wouldn’t have been possible. Also, a shoutout to our hackathon partners Elusiv, Helius, Phantom, Pyth, Wormhole and Shyft, who offered bounties, hosted workshops and supported hackers throughout their journey.
How it Worked
Our hackathon participants had four weeks to build their projects and submit them for judging. During this time, they also had the opportunity to participate in several events related to the hackathon:
- Launch Event
- Getting Started on Solana
- Intro to Solana Pay
- Build Private DApps with Elusiv
- How to Integrate with Pyth Data
- Minting Compressed NFTs and Indexing On-Chain Data
- Compression on Solana
- Signing Offline Transactions with Durable Nonces
- Cross-chain Payments Using Wormhole
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Winners
Solana Foundation: Most Innovative Application + Best Consumer Application
dPublisher ($3500)
Platform designed for discovering, trading, collecting, and reading digital comics. Within the scope of the Encode hackathon, the focus was primarily on dPublisher, a creator-oriented interface for self-publishing digital comics, monitoring user analytics, and engaging the audience. Development included:
- The dPublisher web interface and backend functionalities
- Partial development of the dReader web interface
- A durable nonces POC/MVP implementation
- Publication of dReader on Google Play
HushPay ($3500)
HushPay is a privacy-centric donation platform, created using the Elusiv SDK. It permits users to donate anonymously to a variety of causes without disclosing personal information. Features include private donations, advanced encryption, diverse donation causes, and a user-friendly interface.
Solana Foundation: Best AI <> Solana Integration
Solanoid ($3000)
Solanoid is an AI-powered Solana repository search tool. It enables users to request repository recommendations from AI, receiving 10 results complete with links to the repositories and concise descriptions. It also allows users to inquire about the specific details of a repository, receiving in-depth answers about how certain sections function or where specific routes are found.
All data is stored in a database and retrieved upon query, with AI transforming answers into responses and code blocks when needed.
Pyth
The Pyth team is going to work closely and keep supporting the potential bounty winners!
Elusiv Bounty
HushPay ($1000)
HushPay is a privacy-centric donation platform, created using the Elusiv SDK. It permits users to donate anonymously to a variety of causes without disclosing personal information. Features include private donations, advanced encryption, diverse donation causes, and a user-friendly interface.
Helius Bounty
Gatelinks ($500)
Gatelinks is a decentralized solution in the thriving creator economy, combatting the undue cuts taken by traditional intermediaries. Designed as a crypto-native alternative, Gatelinks ensures creators get a fairer share for their digital content, championing transparency and rightful earnings in a modern ecosystem.
NFT Sketcher ($500)
NFT Sketcher is a tool that converts uploaded images into cartoonized versions, delivering them in cNFT format to users’ wallets. Users have the option to send these images to friends if they wish. The application is designed to be user-friendly, encouraging users of all levels to engage with the web3 and Solana ecosystem.
Phantom Bounty
Nonce Wallet Adapter ($5000)
The Nonce Wallet Adapter is an enhancement to the Solana Wallet Adapter. It introduces an optional nonce feature applicable to both wallet providers, enabling the creation of nonce accounts that can be effortlessly integrated on the client side with a simple toggle, without requiring additional signatures. This functionality allows clients to use durable nonces to enhance user experience during transaction execution.
Wormhole: Cross-Chain Borrow-Lend on Solana
Ultra ($2500)
Ultra presents a groundbreaking approach to lending on Solana. Dedicated to simplifying multi-chain markets and collateralized lending, Ultra harnesses the power and innovation of Solana’s impressive technical architecture and its vibrant developer community. Their goal is to weave this brilliance across multiple crypto horizons, ensuring users enjoy a singular, harmonized experience.
Shyft Bounty
MusicMart (Launch Plan for 3 months)
MusicMart pioneers the concept of music as a collectable non-fungible asset. Leveraging the transformative power of web3 in the music industry, MusicMart offers emerging artists a platform to mint and market their musical creations as Video NFTs. Through this innovative on-chain marketplace, creators can unlock continuous revenue from their compositions and digital artistry.
Runners-up:
derug.us (Hack Plan for 3 months)
DreamBacker (Hack Plan for 3 months)
Transport DAO (Hack Plan for 3 months)
Other Finalists
Nomis
Nomis is an identity protocol and wallet-scoring tool that accelerates the growth of developers’ products, services, and communities. It allows personalized web3 experiences, similar to cookie infrastructure for web3. Developers can launch web3-native loyalty programs, target campaigns, and distribute score-based rewards — thereby boosting market ROI.
Stockpile
Stockpile is an all-in-one community crowdfunding platform for the open web. It employs both general crowdfunding (similar to Kickstarter) and quadratic funding, providing users with various options for funding projects beyond traditional means.
Tipcord
Tipcord is a unique and secure Solana wallet for Discord, offering users an accessible and safe way to handle their Solana-based digital assets. Its standout feature is the tipping system, which enables users to tip each other with Solana tokens effortlessly, whether to show appreciation for excellent content or to support favourite creators.
About the Upcoming Bootcamp
The Bootcamp is designed to be inclusive, accessible, and welcoming to participants from all backgrounds and experience levels. Whether you are an experienced developer or a curious newcomer, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.
This autumn, we invite developers, students, and Solana enthusiasts to join us in our latest initiative, launching on 28th August.
About Solana
Solana is a blockchain built for mass adoption. It’s a high-performance network that is utilized for a range of use cases, including finance, NFTs, payments, and gaming. Solana operates as a single global state machine and is open, interoperable and decentralized.
About the Solana Foundation
The Solana Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in dedicated to the decentralization, adoption and security of the Solana ecosystem. For more information, please visit: https://solana.org/
About Encode Club
Encode Club is a web3 education community learning and building together through fantastic programmes with the leading protocols in the space. Together we organize programmes like education series, bootcamps, hackathons, accelerators both online and in person. We then help our community get jobs and funding for projects and startups.
Questions
If you have any questions, please email: hack@encode.club or reach out on Discord.
