Massive Only Possible On Solana (OPOS) Hackathon has been running between 1st August to 21st August 2023. What makes this Hackathon special is the sheer amount of tracks and sponsors available to reward Buildooors grinding to ship product.
Join the LamportDAO Discord! They have over 3000+ members in there with a bunch of them building in the hackathon!
With such a huge range or track prizes you can go after, there is a great opportunity for Buildooors to receive some recognition and potentially grants/prizes for the hackathon efforts.
OPOS Hackathon Prizes!
Over the next few weeks we will try to get a hackathon entrant to give us their spiel and put a Project shout-out within the list here! We do this every Solana Hackathon 🤝
You can check out the AirTable to get great detail on the prize pools and who the judges are!
Massive List of OPOS Sponsors
1. Compression Track – $20.5k Prizes
Utilize the new State Compression primitive on Solana to build OPOS experiences. Consumer facing applications preferred (but not required). Prizes by Solana Foundation, Coinflow, Helius, Holaplex & Phantom
2. Integrate with Jupiter Track – $10k Prizes
Integrate with Jupiter’s API in an existing product or create a compelling new use case using Jupiter. Prizes by Jupiter & Multicoin Cap
3. Liquid Staking Track – 75 bSOL Prizes
Through the OPOS Hackathon, we hope to encourage builders to integrate BlazeStake’s liquid staked SOL (bSOL) into payments systems, NFT mints, staking UIs, rewards protocols, DeFi platforms, and more. Prizes by SolBlaze.
4. Phoenix Track – $8k Prizes
Show the power of fully composable on-chain order books. Prizes by Ellipsis Labs.
5. Raydium CLMM Track – $8k Prizes
As part of the OPOS Hackathon, Raydium is sponsoring $8,000 in RAY prizes for integrations utilizing Raydium’s Concentrated Liquidity Market Maker. Compose on top of Raydium’s CLMM to build a product or tool set for liquidity providers that is Only Possible On Solana. Prizes by Raydium.
6. Dynamic Vaults Track – $8k Prizes
Integrate Meteora’s Dynamic Vaults into an existing application or create an exciting new use case that leverages Meteora’s Dynamic Vaults at its core. Prizes by Meteora.
7. DePIN Track – $6k Prizes
Showcase the DePIN community on Solana. DePIN = Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks. Prizes by Helium Foundation, Escape Velocity, Chapter One & Multicoin Cap.
8. Build-Your-Own Perps DEX Track – $50k HXRO Prizes
Foster and incentivize creativity/originaility for how different consumer-focused trading applications can be built on top of the Hxro Networks’ Derivatives Protocol, Dexterity, where developers can focus solely on the UX of their product without having to worry about building their own On-chain Trading Infrastructure thanks to the Dexterity SDKs & the Flowmatic API. Prizes by Hxro Network & Flowmatic.
9. Build & Contribute with SonarWatch – $3k USDC Prizes
Innovate with DeFi data by using our open-sourced DeFi Portfolio API. Build on top of our API to create the next financial dashboard and applications for end-users. Contribute to our list of supported protocols to increase the DeFi coverage. Prizes by SonarWatch.
10. Product Demo Track – $5k Prizes
Create a PoC product that helps best showcase what Solana is capable of. Prizes by Solana Foundation.
11. Best Solidity Product on Solana Track – $5k Prizes
Using Solang, build a product with Solidity on Solana. Prizes by Solana Foundation.
12. Ironforge Track – $5k USDC
Build applications using Ironforge. Prizes by Ironforge.
13. New NFT Use-Case Track – $3.5k Prizes
Build new applications pushing the boundaries of NFTs. Prizes by Crossmint.
14. Build with Shyft Track – $3.2k USDC Prizes
Create Web3 experiences only possible on Solana. Prizes by Shyft.
15. Reinventing Prediction Markets Track – $3k USDT Prizes
To improve and enhance the prediction market & sports betting experience on the Monaco Protocol. Prizes by Monaco Protocol & Multicoin Cap.
16. Build a Kamino Analytics Page Track – $3k USDH Prizes
Build an analytics page for Kamino – the leading liquidity yield aggregator – that gives people insights into the protocol and their own portfolio. Prizes by Kamino Finance & Multicoin Cap.
17. Mobile Apps on Solana Track – $3k USDC Prizes
Ship more Solana mobile apps to onboard new users, show novel use cases and inspire more devs. Prizes by Superteam.
18. Automated Treasury Management Track – 3k USDC Prizes
The goal of this track is to encourage the development of innovative projects focused on automating routine treasury management tasks for teams. We’re particularly interested in projects that integrate Squads and Clockwork to facilitate financial tasks like automatic payroll/transfers, stream payouts, with spending limit implementation. Prizes by Squads & Multicoin Cap.
19. Audius Music Track – $3k USDC Prizes
Integrate the Audius API or log in with audius within your social app. Prizes by Audius & Multicoin.
20. TipLink Wallet Track – $3k USDC Prizes
Send digital assets on any platform w/ a link, or IRL (QR/NFC), utilize cNFTs for onboarding at scale, Create delightful consumer experiences, payments, gaming, loyalty, social, create a flow to send links to anyone over any platform (website, discord, email, twitter, etc) or IRL (NFC/QR codes). The amazing thing is, the link is the wallet! Prizes by TipLink & Multicoin Cap.
21. ZK Privacy Innovations Track – $2.5k USDC Prizes
Elusiv is bringing a suite of zero-knowledge encryption features to Web3 that together overcomes a major industry pain point: ensuring privacy remains a human right without sacrificing security and decentralization. The Elusiv SDK is now fully open-source and ready for use on Solana mainnet. The SDK enables programmable privacy, allowing builders and developers to integrate zero-knowledge technology into new and existing applications like wallets, DeFi protocols, payment solutions and more. This includes private transactions, swaps,NFTsn and more. The first version of the Elusiv SDK will enable developers to integrate private sending functions. This is ideal for wallets and payment solutions. Senders of a transaction would benefit from complete privacy, effectively encrypting the origin of the payment. The mission for this bounty is to build an MVP with the Elusiv SDK for a new or existing application. Prizes by Elusiv.io.
22. ZK Privacy / Light Protocol Track – $2k USDC Prizes
Fast, generic privacy for games, DeFi, NFTs, social, payments,… directly on the public L1 base layer is OPOS. Prizes by Light Protocol.
23. Payments Track – $2k USDC Prizes
Build something cool that uses Sphere for payments. Prizes by Sphere.
24. Compressed NFTs for Gaming Track – $2k USDC Prizes
Build the tech to showcase the power of compressed NFTs for Solana games, and open it up for any Solana gaming project to utilise. Think Solana NFT RPG characters which store their in-game achievements on-chain via compressed NFTs, or Metaverses that players can evolve from on-chain compressed NFT governance. Let your creativity go wild! Prizes by BOO DAO.
25. Real Estate Assets on Solana Track – $2k Prizes
Build and deploy an arbitrage bot that can programmatically restore balance to skewed markets on the Parcl trading platform. This would potentially reduce funding costs and improve UX for real estate traders on Parcl. Prizes by Parcl & Homebase.
26. Make NFTs Fun Again Track – $1.5k USDC Prizes
Utilize Night Market’s open-source marketplace contracts & SDK to integrate NFT commerce in a limitless number of ways! The Night Market SDK offers NFT secondary marketplace functionality out of the box for social, DeFi, and other platforms. Prizes by Night Market by Motley DAO.
27. DEX Tooling Track – $250 USDC Prizes
Explore different tooling and consumer-focused applications built on top of Sujiko (Solana’s 1st NFT perps DEX). Prizes by Sujiko.
28. Building with Bonk Track – $69B BONK Prizes
Focus on use cases for the Bonk token, utilizing it in new parts of the ecosystem. Prizes by Bonk.
29. A Fresh Bowl Of Guacamole Track – $250M GUAC Prizes
Use your imagination! Create open source & novel integrations, DeFi use cases, or games that focus on allowing tokenized communities like GUAC to expand. Bonus points for also integrating NFT collection capabilities alongside SPL functionality. Prizes by Guacamole.
30. xNFT Track – 2 MAD LADS NFT Prizes
Publish an innovative application that users will love, whether on or off-chain, as an xNFT. xNFTs offer the most flexible and accessible distribution layer in crypto. Distributed in tandem with Backpack, xNFTs offer a direct path to customer acquisition. Prizes by Backpack x Mad Lads.
31. LiveQuery Analytics Track – $2.5k USD Prizes
Flipside Crypto recently launched LiveQuery, a way to integrate APIs from other data sources with the Flipside database to create powerful dashboards and analytics. With its integration with Helius, you can actually make calls to Helius APIs directly in SQL and join them against other existing datasets opening up the analytical possibilites for Solana data analysts. Create a new dashboard on Flipside leveraging the Helius API that highlights a component in the ecosystem that is only possible on Solana. Prizes by Flipside Crypto & Helius.