Web3 AI Hackathon
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Join our 4-week online hackathon, attend exclusive technical workshops, and compete for bounties!

Read the hackathon summary with all the winners here.

Create the next big Web3 AI dApp!

Are you ready to lead the next wave of digital innovation? This is your opportunity to develop dApps that leverages the power of web3 & AI.

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Bounties and Prizes

$47,000 Prize Pool

Prizes:
- 1st place: $3000
- 2nd place: $1500
- 3rd place: $500
Additional info:
Build and deploy on-chain AI agent(s) on Galadriel Devnet. AI agent is an LLM that runs in a loop & uses tools until it completes a given task. Good examples would be:
- Devin - fully autonomous AI software engineer
- GPT Researcher - autonomous agent that does comprehensive research on any given topic
- Agent Sims - multiple autonomous AI agents as characters in game
To build AI agents on-chain, Galadriel enables you to get LLM inference into Solidity where the LLMs can also be easily configured to run in a loop and to use tools (e.g. web_search).

List of project ideas that they're keen on seeing during the hackathon:
- AI-money manager/On-chain Hedge Fund
- AI prediction agent
- Agent Swarm / Team of Agents (Agent Sims)
- On-chain fraud detection & Insurance
- AI Clone & Digital Twin
- Autonomous Gaming NPCs
- Agent governed DAO
- etc.
Judging Criteria:
Must use the following patterns:
- LLM calls in a loop
- use of tools
Extra points for:
- use of RAG
- multiple agents interacting (like Agent Sims)

Prizes:
- 1st place: $2500
- 2nd place: $1000
- 3rd place: 3x $500
Additional info:
Your challenge is to build a blockchain solution within one of our selected emerging tech industries.
Following this hackathon you’ll have the opportunity to continue development on Solana with support from our UK team for submitting into future Colosseum Online Hackathons and the current live Bonkathon which has $350k in prizes up for grabs.
Judging Criteria:
- Impact: Does the proposed problem make sense or be helpful to anyone? How large is the effect on the Solana ecosystem?
- Solution: How clever is the solution? The rule of thumb is the less code a solution requires, the better it is
- Completeness: How far is the code base from production?
- Applications: How does your AI solution apply to blockchain, and utilise the innovative features of Solana

Additional documentation and resources can be found here.

Prizes:
- 2 x🥇 1st place winner: Two US$5,000 DFINITY Developer Grant (US$10,000 in total in ICP)
- 1 x 🥈 2nd place winner: One US$5,000 DFINITY Developer Grant
The grant prizes will be disbursed progressively as you achieve the milestones outlined in your grant proposal, and successively for the multiple grant prizes, per the DFINITY developer grant terms and conditions
Additional info:
Use Cases for Blockchain and AI:
This video by Kyle Langham, Director of Data and Analytics at DFINITY, outlines the use cases for using blockchain on AI:
Several use cases for building AI using blockchain include:
- Fair compensation for data providers
◦ Pay-to-use AI.
◦ Real-time royalty payments using crypto ensure data providers are directly compensated for their contribution to training AI models.
- Attestations of AI-generated content
◦ A decentralized database of AI-generated content. This would enable anyone to find AI-generated content and confirm content originality.
◦ AI-generated auditor. AI-generated audits of anything from code to finance can be stored and referenced on-chain.
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) can manage and develop an AI product to ensure collaboration and transparency.
Judging Criteria:
Your product should be built on the Internet Computer. We judge this bounty based on:
- The overall business case of the dapp, i.e. how sound is the business model, how innovative is the product etc.
- How well it makes use of ICP technology.
- The overall quality of the code.
- The design of the user interface and the user experience
- Bonus points for providing feedback on the developer experience.
Further acceptance criteria:
- Readme that explains the project and provides information on how to deploy and use.
- Open source code (MIT or Apache-2.0 license)
- Canister ID(s) of deployment on ICP.
Additional documentation and resources can be found here.

Prizes:
- Prize Pool: $2500
Additional info:
In this hackathon, your challenge is to build projects that connect the fields of AI & Web3, on Citrea Devnet. Citrea is an EVM-compatible ZK-Rollup on Bitcoin, so participants have a huge field of various topics to link with AI (Bitcoin, EVM, ZK, Rollups, NFTs, Smart Contracts, dApps). We do not limit the range of such ideas, and original solutions may be closer to winning the top prize.
Some ideas for inspiration:
- AI-assisted AML
- Identity solutions with zkML
- AI-Powered Stablecoin
- NFT Marketplace with Generative AI
Additional documentation and resources can be found here.

Prizes:
- 🥇 1st place: $3000
Additional info:
Enhance the user experience on Starknet with a tool that transforms complex transaction simulation data into clear, concise, and user-friendly information. Your task is to develop an AI-driven solution that interprets the raw output of transaction simulations, presenting it in an understandable format that helps users understand exactly what they are signing before sending transactions onchain.
Additional documentation and resources can be found here.
Prizes:
🥇 1st place: 2x $3000
Additional info:
We’re seeking innovative uses of AI to enhance onchain games, making them more interactive, engaging, and intelligent. Whether it’s through dynamic NPCs or strategic AI players, the goal is to create gaming experiences that are not just fun, but also incredibly smart and responsive.
Judging criteria:
Suggested Ideas:
Dynamic NPCs for Onchain Games
Imagine NPCs that remember you and change their dialogue based on past interactions or game events. Your task is to develop NPCs that can dynamically generate conversations and react in real-time to player actions, making each gameplay uniquely engaging. This isn’t just about scripts; it’s about creating characters that are alive within the game’s world.2.
Intelligent AI Players
Challenge yourself to create AI players that can strategize and adapt like a real human opponent. These AI should not only compete against players but also provide a constantly evolving challenge as they learn from each game. It’s an opportunity to build AI that can think, plan, and execute strategies dynamically, making every game unpredictable and thrilling.
Additional documentation and resources can be found here.

Prizes:
- 🥇 1st place: $2000
- 🥈 2nd place: $750
- 🥉 3rd place: $250
Additional info:
To be eligible for this bounty, a participant must create at least 10 Onchain AI agents using Spectral Syntax. Participants are encouraged to use their own ideas, or refer to our templates and suggested ideas for creating agents.
Judging Criteria:
The agents created by the participant will be judged on the basis of functionality, technical complexity, creativity and user experience.
Additional documentation and resources can be found here.

Prizes:
- 🥇 1st place: $750
Additional info:
Make AI tools that are able to allow private but verifiable sharing & training on datasets. Allow secure trading or querying of data on open marketplaces or platforms. For example, decentralized versions of Hugging Face or Kaggle.
Prizes:
🥇 1st place: $750
Additional info:
Develop demos & POCs of tools that can make the process of making ML/AI models that are more transparent, safe and trusted by developers and end users using IPFS & Filecoin tooling.
Prizes:
- 🥇 1st place: $2000
- 🥈 2nd place: $1000
- 🥉 3rd place: 3x $500
Additional info:
Use Filecoin storage on-ramp, Filecoin Virtual Machine and Filecoin retrieval tools in machine learning and Artificial Intelligence training settings. Combine powerful AI productivity tools with verifiable and distributed storage to make the industry more decentralized and trusted.
Judging criteria:
• Filecoin Documentation
• Intro to Filecoin
• Filecoin Virtual Machine
• FVM Cheat Sheet
• Storing Data on Filecoin
Additional documentation and resources can be found here.

Prizes:
- 🥇 1st place: $1000
- 🥈 2nd place: $500
Additional info:
Using CoopHive, run any containerized AI workload off-chain by leveraging CoopHive’s tech stack.
Judging Criteria:
Projects centred around scientific discovery or benefiting the public good will be rated higher.
Additional documentation and resources can be found here.

Hackathon Schedule

Thu, May 30th5:30 pm BST	Launch Event	Sign up here!
Thur, May 30th6 pm BST	Beginner’s Workshop: Getting Started with AI on Starknet Jelilat Anofiu (Nethermind)
Mon, June 3rd9 am BST	Filecoin & AI Trust Jenks Guo (Filecoin Foundation)
Tue, June 4th5.30 pm BST	The Tokenization of Latent Computing Power Levi Rybalov (CoopHive)
Wed, June 5th5:30 pm BST	Inference On-chain by Decide AI + Using a Vector DB on ICP Jeshli and Wyatt (ICP)
Thu, June 6th5:30 pm BST	Solana SVM Quick Walkthrough & Suggested Topic Explanation Hieu (Superteam UK)
Thu, June 6th6 pm BST	Build On-Chain AI Agents Karl Kallas (Galadriel)
Whole Week	Build, build, build!

Mon, June 10th4 pm BST	Onchain Agents with Spectral Syntax Zane Peckye (Spectral)	Sign up here!
Tue, June 11th4 pm BST	Deploying & Interacting With Smart Contracts on Citrea Omer Talip Akalin (Citrea)
Whole Week	Workshops!
Whole Week	Build, build, build!

Whole Week

Build, build, build!

Whole Week	Final push!	Sign up here!
Sun, Jun 30th23:59 in your time zone	Submission deadline!
End-AprTime TBA!	Pitch practices for finalists!
Thurs, July 18th5:30 pm BST	Finale and Prizegiving