The Canto Online Hackathon (COH) is a virtual summit that invites developers, creatives, and communicators to launch the next wave of apps, infrastructure, and original work on Canto.
Canto is a permissionless blockchain built with the Cosmos SDK that offers an EVM execution layer and core financial primitives, including a novel decentralized exchange, lending market, and unit of account (NOTE). In support of Canto’s Free Public Infrastructure – a framework that advocates for DeFi primitives to be provided as public utilities, among other tenets – the COH encourages projects centered on sustainability, authenticity, and creativity.
Builders will compete for prizes from a 300,000 CANTO rewards pool. The overall winner will be awarded 100,000 CANTO while category winners will receive 40,000 CANTO.
- Ecosystem Support Analytics, tooling, and sites for Canto awareness. Prize: 40,000 CANTO
- NFTs Collections that break new ground, and/or include experimental aspects. Prize: 40,000 CANTO
- DeFi & Infrastructure Apps that leverage Canto’s Infrastructure, including its Free Public Infrastructure of DeFi Primitives and Contract Secured Revenue. Prize: 40,000 CANTO
- New Things
The most divergent ideas: games, DAOs, all things weird.
Prize: 40,000 CANTO - Notable Builds Remarkable projects will be awarded as judges see fit. Prize: 40,000 CANTO
- Overall Winner Prize: 100,000 CANTO
25% – Originality, Creativity, & Innovation.
25% – Canto-ish-ness. How well projects do one of the following items: In step with Canto culture Leverages or supports Canto Free Public Infrastructure Leverages Contract Secured Revenue.
25% – Expertise Required A high level of skill or knowledge or competency was demonstrated by the team members
25% – User Experience Project presents as intuitive and understandable for its targeted user profile.
The COH is pleased to announce the following judges for Chapter 1, Season 2:
- Ace – Partner, Four Moons
- Agent Brent – Canto Dog
- Zak Cole – CTO, Slingshot Finance
- Devneck – Engineer, Canto Longnecks
- Brock Elmore – Lead Architect, Nascent
- Scott Lewis – Cofounder, DeFi Pulse, Slingshot Finance, Code4rena; Contributor, Canto
- Maria Shen – Partner, Electric Capital
- Sockdrawermoney – Chief, Code4rena
- Son – Canto Contributor
- Derek Walkush – Investor at Variant Fund
11/1 – Registration Ongoing at thecoh.build
11/2 – Begin Building
11/3 – Mentorship Session 1 (Recommended), Open Hours 7-8pm UTC, Add to Calendar
11/4 – Mentorship Session 2 (Recommended), Open Hours 4-5pm UTC, Add to Calendar
11/7 – Mentorship Session 3 (Recommended), Open Hours 10-11pm UTC, Add to Calendar
11/8 – Share Project Title, Summary, & Progress Update with COH organizers
11/18 – Projects Due. Must submit pre-recorded video and PR to this repo by 11:59pm UTC.
11/20 – Judging Ceremony at 6pm UTC
11/20 – Winners Announced (TBD)
Teams must submit a PR to this repo before 11:59pm UTC on 11/18. If builders wish to keep their project private, please contact hackathon organizers to ensure judges' github handles are added to your project.
Teams must provide a pre-recorded video (max 5 minutes). This video will be played during the live judging ceremony and can be a working demo and/or a presentation outlining the project (i.e. what was accomplished during the COH, what’s next). For examples of hackathon presentation videos please review the judging ceremony from the previous COH season.
Note: Any teams requiring assistance with translation and subtitling of their video can contact the hackathon organizers for accommodations. All languages are welcome.
- The COH Telegram – Builders are encouraged to discuss projects in https://t.me/thecoh_c1s2
- Attend a Mentorship Session (11/3-11/7) for brainstorming & direct feedback.
- Book a private meeting with Headwater to get help or direction – https://calendly.com/nassim-/30min
- Canto EVM Development Documentation – https://docs.canto.io/evm-development/overview