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Hackathons

Looking to hack on Linea and win some bounties? Here's the page where you can find all the information you need to know to get started!

All winners have the opportunity to bring their project to fruition through a variety of Consensys programs:

  • Linea Ecosystem Investment Alliance
  • MetaMask Grants DAO
  • Consensys Scale program
  • Linea Builders Club

And be featured on X, Linea Farcaster, and livestreams!

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Get started through the Linea Builder Launchpad to find the one-stop shop for claiming builder NFTs, applying for the Linea Builders Club, getting access to developer workshops, and other Linea developer activations.

Apply for the Linea Builders Club to get exclusive access to tech talks, events, the Linea team, and more!

Join the Consensys Developer Chat for IRL hackathons and get connected with the MetaMask, Phosphor, and Verax teams!

The Linea Dev Cook-Off​

Create, Iterate, and Innovate! 🐸

Every month, Linea will host a mini, online buildathon to celebrate and reward continuous hacking! We will have a $10,000 prize pool to distribute to qualified projects.

You can create a new project, iterate on an ongoing one, or revive and refresh that old side project you've been wanting to get back to.

That means you don't need to start from scratch! The only requirement is that you're building with Linea, made progress on your project in the current month, and you've posted about your project on social (and included a frog somewhere)!

This is a great opportunity to win some small prizes alongside your regular building, improve on past hackathon projects, and get exposure to the Linea team and community!

Literally, win cool prizes for just shipping.

Just ship my dudes

Things to note​

  • You can submit on behalf of a formal organization (profit-seeking company or DAO), but priority will be given to independent hackers
  • You can make multiple submissions
  • You can use old code!
  • Bonus points for adding a frog somewhere in your submission 😉 🐸
  • Bonus points will be awarded to projects that incorporate the partner tooling

Examples of acceptable work​

  • Flappy bird, but with frogs 🐸 and on-chain
  • A step-by-step, published tutorial on how to build a (maybe frog-themed 🐸) dapp on Linea
  • A translated guide on how to build on Linea
  • A published video explainer on how to build with Linea or Linea concepts
  • Improving the UI of a hackathon project you built before
  • A Dune dashboard demonstrating something cool about Linea activity
  • An onthis.xyz shortcut to improve onchain UX

Judging criteria​

  • Functionality and technicality - How complete and complex is the project?
  • Really great UX - How easy is it for a new user to navigate or how easy it is to follow the tutorial?
  • Originality - How original and innovative is the project? Is it pushing the boundaries of on-chain use cases?
  • Goshdarnit this is cool - A catch-all vibe check for projects that are simply fun to interact with

What counts as a qualifying submission​

If you're submitting a dapp or Farcaster frame...

  • Open source, public Github repo
  • Non-trivial progress made on your project during that month (as measured by your Github commit history)
  • Verified smart contract deployed on Linea Sepolia or Linea Mainnet
  • Working product demo link
  • Short video explainer and demo (less than 5 minutes) of your project and, if it's not a new project, what changes you made that month
  • Posted and tagged on Twitter (@lineabuild) or Farcaster (@linea)

If you're submitting a tutorial...

  • Open source, public Github repo
  • Published tutorial link
  • Non-trivial progress made on your project during that month (as measured by your Github commit history)
  • Bonus points for publishing an accompanying video explainer
  • Posted and tagged on Twitter (@lineabuild) or Farcaster (@linea)

If you're submitting a Dune analytics dashboard...

  • Dune dashboard link
  • Non-trivial progress made on your project during that month
  • Posted and tagged on Twitter (@lineabuild) or Farcaster (@linea)

Ultimately, a "high-quality" submission is quite subjective, but you can imagine invalid submissions as something like unusable demos, projects that are simply slightly modified clones of other projects, and otherwise scrapped together hacks that took little to no effort to put together.

How to submit​

Register and submit here

October-November 2024 (10,000 USDT in prizes!) 🐸​

This month, you can win a share of an 5,000 USDT prize pool for general track submissions, or a share of another 5,000 USDT pool for integrating Verax/Hemera. See the Hackquest page.

Due 23:59(GMT+8), November 30, 2024

General track: 5,000 USDT prize pool​

We'll be distributing 8,000 USDT amongst the top qualified projects. This can take the form of two outstanding projects receiving 2,500 USDT each, 10 projects receiving 500 USDT each, or, in the case that no submissions meet our quality bar, no prize being distributed for that month.

Verax/Hemera track: 5,000 USDT prize pool​

There are five themes we suggest for hackers trying to integrate with Verax/Hemera. Prize money will be distributed among qualifying projects that successfully integrate with Verax/Hemera, based on these themes:

  • Theme 1: Linea Ecosystem Data Analytics App/Dashboard
  • Theme 2: SocialFi
  • Theme 3: DeFi
  • Theme 4: GameFi
  • Theme 5: DiD (Decentralized Identity)

For more detailed information about building for his track, please refer to the "Verax/Hemera Themes” section on Hackquest.

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A full list of additional resources is available on Hackquest.

Blockchain for Good Award (BGA): up to 500 USDT​

The BGA award of 300-500 USDT is available on top of the main 5,000 USDT prize pool for this track, awarded for projects that meet one or more of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and available for 1-2 projects

Entry is optional. To enter, however, you do not need to submit or prepare any additional materials.

Other hackathons​

Look forward to finding us IRL at: