NFTBERLIN & Encode Club Hackathon: Summary and Prizewinners 🏆
The NFTBERLIN & Encode Club Hackathon took place over the weekend of Friday 27th May to Saturday 28th May 2022. The hackathon followed the highly successful NFTBERLIN Unconference which lifted up the interest and creativity of the hackers. There were 180 applications for the NFTBERLIN & Encode Club Hackathon but due to the venue limitations we were only able to accept less than half of the total number of applications.
Both events took place at the historic Alte Münze in Berlin. Around 50 hackers crossed the finish line and submitted their projects.
Overview of the weekend
The weekend kicked off at 8am on Friday morning with hackers submitting at 10am on Saturday.
Throughout the weekend hackers worked hard, innovated and pushed their limits to produce fantastic projects. Various projects have shown innovative use-case of NFTs, gaming, tooling, memes and more!
Even though sudden tough weather conditions challenged us, many hackers joined the hackathon with a determination to build fantastic projects and win great prizes!
After the Opening Ceremony led by Encode Club’s Head of Research, Eomji Park, the hackers were able to participate in the Team-building session with the goal of finding teammates and creating hackathon teams.
When the teams were eventually formed, all participants had the opportunity to attend three amazing workshops hosted by Arweave, Urbit and Livepeer. The first one was about building on Permaweb by Jesse (Arweave), the second one answered some questions regarding the Urbit ID Hackathon by Thomas & Pyry (Urbit) and the third one was related to minting video NFTs with Livepeer by Yahya (Livepeer).
At 12:00pm hacking mode was activated and the building projects phase began!
In the evening, teams were able to get on stage and do a rehearsal project pitch as well as search and recruit even more team members! After teaming up once more, most of the hackers stayed until the venue closed at midnight.
The submission deadline was on Saturday at 10am. Around 50 hackers put a tremendous effort, worked hard, innovated and pushed the limits of sleep deprivation to produce fantastic projects.
After the private pitch session in which selected teams had the opportunity to talk, get feedback and introduce their projects to the judges, the finalists were able to pitch on stage. The Finale event was streamed on Livepeer and will be uploaded to our YouTube channel later on.
Our sponsors
The whole event was supported by fantastic sponsors and mentors, without whose assistance and support the event would not have happened.
Prizewinners
Arweave Challenge
Building a permaweb dApp using Arweave Protocol — $5,000
Citizen Sci — $1,000
Citizen Sci is giving Citizen Scientists (civilians that gather field data for scientific research) ownership of their data and incentivise to contribute by letting them mint NFTs based on their contributions.
Digital me — $1,000
Digital me stores all digital information about a user on Arweave.
MedMed — $1,000
Once the appointment has taken place, and the video recording and doctors’ notes are uploaded, users can post a review which will be validated through a token curated registry. This enables users to sort through reviews and feedback from members of their own community, thereby increasing the chance that they will receive the best care for their needs.
Runner-ups — Every team that has built a project on Arweave was entitled to $300 worth of AR tokens
NFTNordic Challenge
Best NFT-related dApp using NEAR and Arweave — $5,000 — B-square
B-Square for Builders is a learn2earn platform to help web2 builders onboard web3.
Livepeer Challenge
Best uses of Livepeer in a social, gaming, or creator application — $6,000
1st Prize — $2,5k — B-Square
B-Square for Builders is a learn2earn platform to help web2 builders onboard web3.
2nd Prize — $2k — MetaStream
MetaStream is a project streaming from the physical into the Metaverse and from the Metaverse to the physical.
3rd Prize — $1,5k — Videoracle
Videoracle aims to be a verification protocol that let users earns rewards for helping to improve product, services and their community.
Urbit Challenge
Urbit Identity Art Challenge — $10,000 — martian-art-gallery
martian-art-gallery is a unique audio-visual representation of an Urbit address. There are 2³² different possible combinations therefore it is possible to map the output back to the planet name. The martian-art-gallery team followed the sigil prefix-suffix notation that the Urbit system uses as a seed to have a solution that is scalable and could be adapted to function using longer seeds. The solution was developed using a Java-based software called Processing. The code natively runs on a Java machine but could also run in a browser environment. Therefore it could directly replace the current representation.
Ledger Challenge
Twitter meme challenge, Team photo challenge — 30 Nano S Plus
Thanks to Ledger for making this hackathon truly fun by creating such engaging challenges. All creative participants received the Nano S Plus Hardware Wallet for the Twitter meme and Team photo challenges. Three additional Hardware Wallets were given to the ‘last man standing’ — the last one to leave the hackathon, the ‘early bird’ — the one who came first to the hackathon and the ‘super recruiter’ — the team which went on stage and recruited even more team members.
Below you can find some of the winners of the Twitter meme and Team photo challenges.
NEAR Challenge
Building the best dApp on Near Protocol— $4,500 — Citizen Sci
Citizen Sci is giving Citizen Scientists (civilians that gather field data for scientific research) ownership of their data and incentivise to contribute by letting them mint NFTs based on their contributions.
NFTBERLIN Challenge
The NFTBERLIN team prepared an unexpected and exciting surprise for the most experimental project — the NFT based on Philip Topolovacs “I’ve never been to Berghain”. The team which won this fantastic prize was MetaStream.
MetaStream is a project streaming from the physical into the Metaverse and from the Metaverse to the physical.
Questions
Email anthony [@] encode.club
About NFTBERLIN
NFTBERLIN is the people’s platform, described as ‘the public good of the metaverse, accelerating the democratisation of culture through creativity and technology’.
NFTBERLIN is a non-profit annual unconference on NFTs. Inspired by the community of passionate NFT artists and technologists, they provide an open, chain-agnostic platform for learning, exchanging ideas and sharing experiences.
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 organise 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.
