Always wanted to learn blockchain? Join us for this beginner-friendly Blockchain hackathon.

Hack the Chain is a 24 hour hackathon focused on blockchain technologies. Whether it's your first or tenth time using blockchain, we'd love to have you join us for the weekend. We'll have workshops and mentors to help you learn, and mini-events to help you take a break. Looking forward to seeing what you build!

In an effort to better support the hacker community during these uncertain times, we are working to provide hackers with opportunities to Learn, Build, and Share from the comfort of their homes all summer long. We’ll be ensuring there’s a digital hackathon for the hacker community every weekend for the entire summer.

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Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

First Overall

MLH Swag + Snap Spectacles

Second Overall

MLH Swag + YubiKey Security Key

Third Overall

MLH Swag + Casio Calculator Watch

Best Use of Hedera Hashgraph Consensus

Hedera Hashgraph will reward the team which has the best use case leveraging the new Hedera Consensus Service, which can provide transparent, fair, decentralized ordering to any type of application. Each member of the winning team will receive a Nintendo Switch Lite.

Best Hardware Hack presented by Digi-Key

Build a hardware hack with what you have at home or use emulators to simulate hardware for your hack. The best project will receive Raspberry Pi Starter Kits for each team member.

Best use of Google Cloud

Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Each winning team member will receive a Google Nest Mini.

Best Domain Name from Domain.com

Register a domain using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. Each winning team member will receive a Domain.com branded backpack.

Best UiPath Automation Hack

Build or add automation to your hack using UiPath! Each winning team member will receive a Limited Edition UiPath Branded Backpack.

Best use of MongoDB Atlas

Create a hack using MongoDB Atlas to host a database in the cloud! Automate the provisioning and deployment process with ease, while focusing all your efforts on your hack. Projects built using MongoDB Atlas will be eligible to win an AirCharge Plus per team member.

Facebook Spark AR Sticker Challenge

Create an Instagram filter using Facebook's Spark AR. Winner of the category will have their filter published through the MLH Instagram Channel & Featured on Facebook's Spark AR Community Page.Winning stickers will get published through the MLH Instagram Channel & Featured on Facebook's Spark AR Community Page. Demo videos must also be submitted on Instagram. Tag @mlhacks, @sparkarcreators, and use #SparkARStickerChallenge

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Eligibility

This event open to hackers, all over the world, who are students at the time of the hackathon or who have graduated within the last 12 months. Students can include high school students, university undergraduate or postgraduate students, and people who are in vocational training such as apprenticeships.

As per our Code of Conduct, there is no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, social class, economic status, veteran status, disability, or age.

Judges

Major League Hacking

Major League Hacking

Jesslyn Tannady

Jesslyn Tannady

Sanjana Chowdhury

Sanjana Chowdhury
Bitcamp

Will Russell

Will Russell
Hack Quarantine & Major League Hacking

Andrew Akers

Andrew Akers
Applied Logic

Cosmin Panaite

Cosmin Panaite

Nick Persico

Nick Persico
Close.com

Gene Chorba

Gene Chorba
Riot Games

Nicholas Walsh

Nicholas Walsh
Amazon Web Services

Jamie Liao

Jamie Liao

Nicholas Elder

Nicholas Elder
Hack Western

Jack Cook

Jack Cook

Ria Chang

Ria Chang

Judging Criteria

  • Originality
    Has this project been done before at hackathons in the past? How creative is their project in solving the problem at hand?
  • Technology
    How technically impressive was the hack? Was the technical problem the team tackled difficult? Did it use a particularly clever technique or did it use many different components? Did the technology involved make you go "Wow"?
  • Design
    Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface?
  • Completion
    Does the hack work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted?
  • Learning
    Did the team stretch themselves? Did they try to learn something new? What kind of projects have they worked on before?
  • Adherence to Theme
    Does the hack adhere to the event's theme? Does it implement that theme fully or just partially?