Start of the Main Part of the Hackathon on 29.10.2021 at 4pm CEST

You can join on your own and find a team through the mix&match features. We will help you to find a great team! Simply contact Jerome in the Discord Channel.
The #SBHACK21 will take place simultaneously at the Ambassador House in Zurich, at SUPSI University in Lugano, at the University of Geneva and online.
The renowned blockchain protocols Streamr, Velas, Algorand, Casper and NEAR will come together with corporates and developers so transfer decentralized technologies to tangible applications and business models.
Up to 500 hackers are expected to take on the given real-world challenges in teams.
Up to 5 promising ideas will move on to the next stage and invited to design sprints with corporate partners

Hackathon Challenges (provided by):

Find all challenges with video and descriptions here

Capital Markets:

Whitelisting Platform OR Backend payment gateway for crypto (Seba Bank)
Lending platform with white-listing (Seba Bank)

Finance:

Stable Coin by Banks (Julius Bär)
Wealth management Crypto Wallet (Julius Bär)

NFTs

NFT & Generative Art (SEBA & Lumas)
Cross-chain NFT Marketplace (SEBA & Lumas)
NFTs in Music (Casper)
NFT reader App (Richemont)

Manufacturing / Supply Chain / Sustainability:

Tracking CO2 footprint throughout the entire product life cycle (Siemens)
Building permit process (Nomoko)
Quality certificates for components in multi-stage manufacturing processes (Bosshard)
Payment system for existing automated, IOT-based re-stocking supply-on-demand processes (Bosshard)
CO2 certificates platform based on sensor data (Fair Recycling, ZHAW)

Self-sovereign identities:

Self-sovereign identities (SwissPost)

Government:

Gamification feature for blockchain-based city app (City Lugano)
Local Economy Reward (City of Lugano)
Decentralized value chain for agriculture/food (Canton Ticino)

Gaming:

Gaming platform for game investors, gaming competitions, NFTs (Dexgame.io)

Media:

Fake News Detection - Outsourcing content verification (NZZ)

Energy:

DLT 4 Liberalizing Consumers (Swiss Federal Office of Energy)

Requirements

Provide a URL to your code repository for judging and testing or a link to your functioning demo.
Include a video (about 3 minutes) that demonstrates your submission. Videos must be uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook Video and made public.
Must include a link to their project working
- If you can not include a link to your working project, you must be able to prove your work, provide end-to-end proof with a screen recording of localhost or some other solution
Must include a description of which challenge you solved with which protocol technology

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$700,000 in prizes

1st Prize: Best solution built on Algorand

USD 8,000 in tokens
1 Alienworlds NFT Package
1/2 Day Sales Training (value $2,000 USD)
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)

2nd Prize: Best solution built on Algorand

USD 6,000 in tokens
1 Alienworlds NFT Package
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)

3rd Prize: Best solution built on Algorand

USD 4,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)

4th Prize: Best solution built on Algorand

USD 2,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)

1st Prize: Best solution built on NEAR

USD 4,000 in cash
1/2 Day Sales Training (value $2,000 USD)
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
1 Alienworlds NFT Package

2nd Prize: Best solutions built on NEAR

USD 3,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
1 Alienworlds NFT Package

1st Prize: Best solution built on Streamr

USD 4,000 in tokens
1 Alienworlds NFT Package
1/2 Day Sales Training (value $2,000 USD)
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)

2nd Prize: Best solutions built on Casper

USD 3,000 in tokens
1 Alienworlds NFT Package
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)

3rd Prize: Best solutions built on Casper

USD 2,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)

4th Prize: Best solutions built on Casper

USD 1,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)

1st Prize: Best solution built on Velas

USD 4,000 in tokens
1/2 Day Sales Training (value $2,000 USD)
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
1 Alienworlds NFT Package

2nd Prize: Best solutions built on Velas

USD 3,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
1 Alienworlds NFT Package

3rd Prize: Best solutions built on Velas

USD 2,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)

4th Prize: Best solutions built on Velas

USD 1,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)

Local Winner - Zurich (2)

USD 500 in cash per winner

Local Winner - Lugano

USD 1,000 in cash

Local Winner - Geneva

USD 1,000 in cash

Individual Challenge Winner

Prizes per Challenge:

1st place Bosshard Challenge: USD 1,000

Additional corporate challenge awards: coming soon

Invitation to the Swiss Blockchain Innobooster Accelerator Program (5)

Up to 5 teams:

In a multi-day design sprint we help you to further develop your idea and to build a team around your project.

We connect you with corporate partners and mentors from academia who can help you take your idea to the next level.

After the Innobooster Accelerator teams may get invited to the incubation program of our partner CV VC, which comes with the opportunity to receive up to CHF 125,000 in funding from CV VC in exchange for 10% equity.

Fast Track to the Innobooster Incubator Program powered by CV Labs (3)

The winner will be part of the fast-track to join the Innobooster Incubator. The fast-track does not guarantee acceptance into the program

The program comes with the opportunity to receive up to CHF 125,000 in funding from CV VC in exchange for 10% equity.

Startups learn from the most successful and visionary entrepreneurs, experts and mentors in the blockchain space & beyond.

You will learn, iterate, fail, pivot, pitch, and debate in a constructive environment of international, early-stage startups, all hungry to change the world for the better. 

Pitching - Perfect your pitch deck and learn how to convince investors to join you in changing the world. 

Strategy - Graduate with a foolproof business plan and white paper in hand. 

Product - Rapidly turn your solution into a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) or your MVP into Pilot Project/ Revenues by the end of the program. 

SBHACK21 Overall Winners (1st Prize) (2)

Combining first and second place prizes, the two first-placed teams will split:

USD 125'000 in AWS credits
USD 5'000 in tokens (Algorand, Streamr, Velas, Casper, NEAR)
1/2 Day Sales Training (value $2,000 USD)
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $15,000 USD) for all team members
1 Alienworlds NFT Package for all team members

SBHACK21 Overall Winners (2nd)

USD 25'000 in AWS credits
1/2 Day Sales Training (value $2,000 USD)
5x 1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $15,000 USD)
1 Alienworlds NFT Package

SBHACK21 Overall Winners (3rd)

USD 25'000 in AWS credits
2x 1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $6,000 USD)
1 Alienworlds NFT Package

Gaming Challenge by Dexgame (Special Price)

1st Prize:
CHF 2000 in cash
1 Alienworlds NFT Package

2nd Prize:
CHF 1000 in cash
1 Alienworlds NFT Package

Ledgers

Ledger Enterprise Solutions will sponsor CHF 10.000 in cash and/or ledgers to the winning teams.

Judges

Marlene Ronstedt
Head of Crypto Relations at Streamr

Henri Pihkala
CEO & Co-founder at Streamr

Matthew Fontana
Head of Ecosystem at Streamr

Shirly Valge
COO of Velas

Roman Cherednyk
CTO of Velas

Andrey Stehno
CPO of Velas

Piotr Dziubecki
Technical Program Manager & VP of Ecosystem / Casper Network

Iulia Popescu
Developer Advocate / Casper Networks

Ralf Kubli
Board Member / Casper Network

Dani Osorio
Developer Relations / NEAR Protocol

Noreen Hafez
Leading Global Product & Partner Marketing / Algorand

Jason Weathersby
Senior Director, Developer Relations / Algorand

Russ Fustino
Technical Evangelist / Algorand

Ryan Fox
Developer Advocate / Algorand

Benjamin Guidarelli
Developer Advocate / Algorand

Judging Criteria

Quality of the Idea
Includes creativity, originality, and code quality
Potential Value
Includes the extent to which the solution can be scaled and reach significant adoption
Implementation
Includes how well the idea was executed by the developers and the extent to which technology features of the used blockchain protocols were leveraged

Questions? Email the hackathon manager