The global Layer2 Hackathon organized by IOSG Ventures and Chainlink in Shanghai came to a perfect end on August 1. We would love to thank you all for your support and interest in this hackathon and your passion for contributing to layer2 scaling progress.
Check out the recordings of the demo and photos of the event.
In the future, IOSG Kickstarter will keep supporting developers and early-stage project teams to contribute to the blockchain ecosystem worldwide and discover more innovations in the layer2 space.
💡HIGHLIGHT
👉 Open Day — Redefine your potential and receive our warmest welcome!
We’re pleased to have Jocy Lin, Founding Partner of IOSG Ventures, and Philip, China Lead of Chainlink Labs, to start with an insightful open talk and give their sincere greetings to all developers. While they encourage all the blockchain enthusiasts to stick to their missions and hold the faith and optimism in what they’re contributing, IOSG Ventures and Chainlink will always accompany and support devs and early-stage projects to achieve greater success in all aspects.
We also invited some high-profiles, i.e., Arto Bendiken, CTO of Aurora; Daniel, Core engineer of NEAR; Nina Rong, Asia Lead of Arbitrum; Liu Jie, Founder of MCDEX, Michael, Core developers of Celer, in layer2 space to give the thematic workshops to answer questions from devs and help them in product development.
👉 Hacking All Day and Night
We feel the passions and energy from all of you! The hackathon spirits and the devotion to bring values to the layer2 space has overcome everything. Our teams are all the best!
👉 Demo Day — Pitch your ideas and innovations to amaze the world!
Thanks to all our honorable hackathon judges, i.e., Dovey Wan(Primitive Ventures), Jennifer(D1 Ventures), John Wu(Litentry), Liu Jie(MCDEX), Michael(Celer), Mingda Lei(DODO), Neo(SNZ), Paco(Perpectual Protocol), Peter Garamvolgyi(CONFLUX), Rin(Fengbushi Capital), Steve Guo(Loopring), Soros(Realsatoshi), Wang Bing(Chainlink), Weiyu Zhu(NGC Ventures), Yao Xiang(Yuanyulinong), Yaoqi Jia(Parity), Ye Zhang(Scroll), Jocy Lin(IOSG Ventures),etc., who gave sincere suggestions to all our dev teams from their past experiences and solid background from academia and business; and of course, back to the tech improvement of product itself.
Big Congrats to the Winners! 🎉 🎉
🏅️Top winner: $16,000
TEAM：Objk/一口气全念队 #Synthetix #Chainlink
- Product Description: Middleware that handles on-chain data in a trust-less pipeline, applying top-notch data science methods to on-chain data and making profit possible.
- Github: https://github.com/blackbear10000/SynthRankOracle https://github.com/andyden9/rasinbalance
🥈Second-tier winners: $10,000 each
TEAM1：ACY #Ploygon #Chainlink
- Product Description: The AMM Dex with Flash Arbitrage, deployed on Polygon. AcySwap use the Chainlink price to protect the assets of users.
- Github: https://github.com/ACY-Labs
TEAM2: Treasury research #Chainlink #MCDEX
- Product Description: A decentralized quant trading platform built upon highly secured and trustless data flow architecture.
- Github：https://github.com/Treasury-research/TR-theGraph-Chainlink-EA
🥉Third-tier winners: $6,000 each
TEAM1: DeDrops #Chainlink #Polygon #TheGraph
- Product Description: DeDrops platform can mint NFT and launch airdrops. NFT can snapshot address’s on-chain history. DeDrops use this method to screen target airdrop addresses.
- Github link: https://github.com/DeDrops/DeDrops-contract
TEAM2: Zecrey #Chainlink #Aurora #Polygon
- Product Description: Cross-chain privacy protocol based in zk-rollup
- Github link: https://github.com/tyGavinZJU/L2-Hachthon-7.30
TEAM3: dTipBot #Chainlink #Aurora #Polygon #Arbitrum
- Product Description: A red envelope telegram bot.
- Github link:https://github.com/hypotyposis/dTipBot
TEAM4: FluidDAO #Chainlink #Polygon
- Product Description: A DAO with controllable fund flow powered by SuperFluid, using funding flow NFT to provide wrapped DAO Token as the governance token in a DAO’s activity period.
- Github link:https://github.com/Stevewu1234/FluidDAO
🎉 Favorite Project by Community: $3,000
TEAM: Metaficate #Chainlink #TheGraph #Polygon
- Product Description: The first on-chain certificate NFT system built for the metaverse.
- Github: https://github.com/Metaficate/metaficate.github.io
🎉 Award for the Most Promising Project: $3,000
TEAM: Onepiece #Chainlink #Polygon
- Product Description: A NFT game achieve wealth fairness in a decentralized blockchain world
- Github link: https://github.com/hzjisedward/Game-contract
🎉 Ecological Bounties
During the awarding session, MCDEX and Aurora have awarded their favorite teams. More bounty winners are coming soon, stay tuned！
🔥 TEAM: Treasury Research, awarded by MCDEX ($6,000)
🔥 TEAM: IFTip Bot and 🔥 TEAM: dTipBot, awarded by Aurora ($2,500 total)
Besides, there are still some attractive bounties to send out. We will focus on the update of them and inform teams as soon as they’ve made decisions. More information here.
🎉 Sponsors Acknowledgement
The huge success of this L2 hackathon is inseparable from the endless enthusiasm of the developer teams, and the judges and mentors, and also the support from the media, communities and the partners. In addition, we would like to express our special thanks to the sponsors of this event, their support is the key to the success of the event!
🔥 Matter Labs: The Ethereum ZK Rollup scaling team, committed to building a scalable blockchain with zero-knowledge rollup
🔥 Aztec: Scalable Privacy on Ethereum, Layer 2 for the internet of money. Implementing crypto transactions on Ethereum using zero-knowledge proofs. Lower the gas cost of transactions on Ether while maintaining an anonymous and private scaling solution.
🔥 Aurora: Ethernet scaling solution built on NEAR, Bridge + EVM solution for Ethereum helps Ethereum users, dApps to easily migrate to NEAR blockchain.
🔥 The Graph: Web3 core developer tool and middleware that acts as an index query layer for the decentralized network, structuring and categorizing blockchain data so users can easily and efficiently retrieve it.
🔥 Arbitrum: Next-generation layer 2 for Ethereum dApps. Use your favorite tools and scale your dApp at the lowest cost.
🔥 DODO: On-chain decentralized exchange/liquidity provider for everyone, powered by the Proactive Market Making (PMM) algorithm.
🔥 Synthetix: A new financial primitive enabling the creation of synthetic assets, offering unique derivatives and exposure to real-world assets on the blockchain.
🔥 MCDEX: Fully permissionless protocol for decentralized perpetual swaps powered by Arbitrum and a leading decentralized trading platform for trading digital currency derivatives
🔥 Celer Network: Fast, secure and low-cost applications with advanced layer-2 scaling platform, Push Blockchain to Mainstream Adoption
🔥 Perpetual Protocol: Decentralized Perpetual Contracts for Every Asset.
🔥 Conflux: High-performance PoW public chain, used as an Ethereum Layer2 solution by many DeFi projects through asset cross-chain protocols.
🌟 Final Thoughts
Every project needs time to be polished and tested over the market cycles. We have seen many ambitious developers and innovative ideas when talking to the participants during the event. We hope we can do our best to support them to fulfill their dreams, bring their ideas to life. The hackathon is over, but our efforts will never stop. As a developer-friendly venture capital, we will keep doing what we can to create more opportunities for developers. Their vision is our mission and we will always stay true to that.
🌟 Upcoming Event
Following the success of 7 previous summits held in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, etc., we are going to host “IOSG 8th Old Friends Reunion — Scaling Summit 2021” in Shanghai on September 13 within the 2021 Shanghai Blockchain International Week. We are willing to bring together developers, founders, investors and blockchain enthusiasts to come together to discuss, brainstorm and plan for the next stage of the development of our industry. We hope to meet you all in Shanghai again!