Welcome to OpenBuild Dev Digest #26!
This issue spotlights exciting opportunities for developers, including the Mantle APAC Hackathon, offering a $30,000 prize pool and access to a $200M Ecosystem Fund, alongside the BNB Hack Q4 2024 and Zypher Buildathon. Dive into groundbreaking insights on Ethereum’s ZK-focused future, secure hardware advancements, and a16z’s latest State of Crypto report. Don’t miss the latest grants and bounties with rewards up to $100,000 to fuel your next big idea!
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Mantle APAC Hackathon
📅 November 15 -December 22 📍Online 💸 45,000 USD
Deadline to Apply 2024/12/15 22:59
Mantle APAC Hackathon, co-hosted by Mantle Foundation, HackQuest, and OpenBuild, launches this November! Designed for developers and blockchain enthusiasts across the Asia-Pacific region, this online hackathon will run for over a month, featuring five major tracks like DeFi, Infra, Gaming, AI, and Meme, abundant resources, and attractive prizes tailored to developers.With a prize pool of up to $30,000, each project can apply for up to 20,000 MNT in funding. Outstanding projects will also have the opportunity to receive support from the Mantle Foundation’s $200 million EcoFund.
BNB Hack 2024 Q4: The Ultimate Battle of Hacker Heroes
📅 November 15, 2024 – January 16, 2025 📍Online 💸 458,000 USD
Deadline to Apply 2024/12/25 08:00
The final quarter of the BNB Hack Series, where innovation meets opportunity in the “Ultimate Battle of Hacker Heroes.” This Q4 event, with a prize pool of over $458,000 is open to all innovative minds in the Web3 space, offering flexibility for developers to create with total freedom. There is also a $38,000 bonus prize pool where you can participate in the sponsored challenges, increasing your opportunity to show off your talent!
{gZKm} Provable Games Buildathon
📅 June 11 – December 4 📍Online 💸 20,000 USD
Deadline to Apply 2024/11/27 23:59
The Zypher Network Hackathon focuses on supporting outstanding gaming projects and attracting as many builders and gamers as possible. Participants have the opportunity to learn about and experiment with Zypher’s Secret Engine, AW Engine, Z4 Engine, Zytron Kit, and the zkVM provided by Risc Zero to launch various innovative fully on-chain games. Additionally, B², as the co-host, is separately sponsoring a track. This track does not restrict game types or technologies and focuses on selecting the most popular blockchain game.The prize pool for this Hackathon is $200,000.
✍️ Consensus Where it Counts: Rethinking Base Layers for the ZK Era 👉Read(EN)
Over the last week, we’ve seen multiple proposals for the roadmap of Ethereum’s Consensus Layer. Most notably, Justin Drake laid out his vision for the ZK era of Ethereum in his talk at Devcon 2024. Dubbed the beam chain or the beam fork, it batches a number of big ticket upgrades for Ethereum, including lowering slot times, faster finality and the ‘snarkification’ of Ethereum’s consensus. The proposal has been met with mixed reactions around its ambition and the timeline for these changes. However, we should also acknowledge how important caution should be for Ethereum given the size of its economy. Despite this acknowledgement, it is useful to consider what a maximally ambitious future of the base layer for a rollup-centric ecosystem can be. In this spirit of “what can be, unburdened by what has been”, this article covers one such future that utilizes advancements in ZK and consensus research. We’ll begin by examining base layers from first principles, after which we’ll explore core concepts in consensus research. Lastly, we’ll dive into how this research can be applied to a new generation of base layer designs especially in a ZK regime.
✍️ The 5 Levels of Secure Hardware 👉Read(EN)
Paradigm released an article on the 5 levels of secure hardware, diving into the progression of secure computing from basic applications to more advanced use cases. The article outlines how we are currently at Level 3, where secure hardware supports near-native performance and the ability to test the limits of programmable cryptography with applications like private machine learning inference. However, the true potential lies in advancing to Level 5, where a global network of secure hardware could handle sensitive data, such as voting and medical records, at scale. While the path forward requires overcoming trade-offs between security, performance, and developer experience, the fundamental design principles are clear: secure hardware is critical for unlocking privacy-preserving computation. This could enable powerful applications, such as the training of large language models on sensitive data, without compromising privacy. As the ecosystem matures, secure hardware will play a central role in creating truly intelligent and safe experiences across industries.
✍️ a16z Crypto Report 2024: New data on swing states, stablecoins, AI, builder energy👉Read(EN)
a16z Crypto Report 2024 covers crypto’s rise as a hot policy topic, the many recent tech improvements to blockchain networks, and the latest trends among crypto’s builders and users. The report also digs into the emergence of key applications such as stablecoins — one of crypto’s “killer apps”, explores the intersection of crypto and other key tech trends like AI, social networks, and games, shares new data on swing states’ levels of crypto interest ahead of the U.S. election, and more. The 2024 State of Crypto report also reveals all-time highs in crypto activity. And it analyzes how blockchain infrastructure has matured — especially after recent scaling upgrades drastically decreased onchain transaction costs alongside the rise of Ethereum L2s and other high-throughput blockchains.
💸 Ante Finance Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $25,000 👉 Apply
This bug bounty program is focused on their smart contracts and is focused on preventing:
- Theft or freezing of user funds aside from normal functioning of AntePool contract.
- Incorrect calculation of rewards for stakers/challengers beyond error bounds described in technical doc.
- Incorrect calculation of decay payments beyond error bounds described in technical doc.
- False positive triggering of test failure on AntePool even if underlying test did not fail or revert.
💸 Moonbeam Network Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $100,000 👉 Apply
This bug bounty program is focused on their Moonriver and Moonbeam parachains (deployed to Kusama and Polkadot respectively) and dApps and is focused on preventing:
- An attack triggering the network not being able to confirm new transactions (Total network shutdown)
- An attack causing an unintended permanent chain split requiring hard fork (Network partition requiring hard fork)
- An attack causing direct loss of funds
- An attack causing permanent freezing of funds (fix requires hardfork)
- An attack causing the minting/creation of network utility tokens (MOVR/GLMR) outside of the normal, on-chain inflation mechanism
- Ability to execute system commands
💸 StackingDAO Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $100,000 👉 Apply
StackingDAO adheres to the Primacy of Impact for the following impacts:
- Smart Contracts, Critical severity
- Smart Contracts, High severity
- Web/App, Critical severity
💸 Starknet Staking Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $40,000 👉 Apply
Staking on Starknet involves locking STRK tokens in the staking protocol, in order to contribute to network security and performance. Users can either stake directly or delegate their tokens to others, with staking rewards based on their level of participation and contribution.
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