• Hackathon dates: October 28th through November 14
• Type: Online and global
• More details: Announcement Blog Post
• Project submission form: Submit here

Solana is the fastest, low-fee, censorship-resistant blockchain designed to enable developers to permissionlessly build and scale applications to billions of users globally. Wormhole is the first bidirectional bridge that connects Ethereum with Solana. Wormhole allows new and existing crypto projects, businesses, and communities to move tokenized assets seamlessly across blockchains to benefit from Solana’s high speed (50,000 transactions per second) and low cost (less than $0.00001 per transaction).

As long as you have an internet connection, you're invited to join our first global hackathon! Combining Wormhole with Solana’s core features gives hackers an open design space to create entirely new applications that could bring in the next wave of crypto users. While we encourage participants to build with Wormhole, hackers can build any application or tool they believe will have an impact on the ecosystem. The only requirement is that teams must incorporate Solana into their project in some way. Take a look at our list of ideas for inspiration.

• Solana Documentation
• Hello World
• Discord Support Chat: Technical support and help from Certus One and Solana engineers
• Find a teammate directory
• Solana Program Library Documentation
• Wormhole Documentation
• Examples
• Overview
• Project ideas

• Find a teammate: We encourage hackers looking to join or form a team to search through the directory of participants. You can reach out on our dedicated Discord channel.
• Build a high-speed DEX on Solana using Serum infrastructure
• Run your own DEX
• List tokens on the Serum DEX

Don’t choose between scale, security, and decentralization. Solana has solved the trilemma for you. Check out our tech stack below to learn how we did it:

• Proof of History (PoH) - A clock before consensus
• Tower BFT - A PoH-optimized version of PBFT
• Turbine - A block propagation protocol
• Gulf Stream - Mempool-less transaction forwarding protocol
• Sealevel - World’s first parallel smart contracts run-time
• Pipeline - Transaction processing unit for validation
• Cloudbreak - Horizontally scaled accounts database
• Archivers - Distributed ledger storage

Participants may submit a maximum of 1 project by the hackathon deadline. Once all submissions are collected, Solana will distribute a list to the judges for the evaluation process. Teams and individuals are evaluated on the following criteria:

1. Functionality
2. Potential impact
3. Novelty
4. Design
5. Extensibility

After judges complete individual evaluations, the hackathon organizers will discuss with the judges to choose the winners based on the project's weighted scores. To culminate the hackathon, there will be a live-streamed event where the invited winners will present their project submissions.

Prizes

• #hackathon-announcements: Logistics from the Solana team
• #qa-general: Technical support and help from Certus One and Solana team members
• #team-formation: Find a team or seek team members
• #ask-organizers: Questions about the hackathon or prize delivery
• #hacker-introductions: Introduce yourself!

The Solana Wormhole hackathon welcomes any one from around the world to participate and is intended to create an inclusive environment for building, collaboration, creativity, and impact. We value the participation of each member of the community and want everyone involved to be respected. Accordingly, hackathon administrators, judges, and participants are expected to adhere to the Code of Conduct outlined below for the duration of the hackathon. Event organizers will enforce this code and have the right to disqualify any individual or team that breaks the code.

• Be Respectful: Be kind to all who participate in the event. Do not insult or put down other attendees.

• Behave Professionally. Remember that harassment, racism, sexism, or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate for this event. Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, and/or religion. Sexual images in public forums, deliberate intimidation, online stalking, following, sustained disruption of virtual presentations, or any other inappropriate action is strictly prohibited

• Be Thoughtful: In the spirit of open source and inclusiveness, there may be minors participating in the hackathon. Keep this in mind when communicating or speaking in public forums.

• Be Open: We welcome attendees from all backgrounds. This event is about increasing awareness for Solana and the greater crypto space. Please be welcoming to all who register for the event and help us create a friendly environment for all.

• Believe in Yourself: Crypto opens the door for anyone to permissionlessly build applications that will change how we all interact with finance, gaming, and the Internet as a whole. Dream big and use this powerful technology to create a better world.

The Wormhole Hackathon is a competition where projects will be evaluated by judges on their technological merits without consideration of legal viability. Participants in the Hackathon will create software solely for purposes of evaluation by judges as part of a competition and not for commercial deployment or release as part of the Hackathon.

Solana does not encourage, induce or sanction the use of any software application in violation of applicable laws and regulations by offering prizes to participants in the Hackathon. All participants must comply with applicable laws and regulations when releasing any software that they develop as part of the Hackathon.

The Hackathon ideas and developer resources that Solana provides are for educational and inspiration purposes only. Solana does not encourage, induce or sanction the deployment of any such applications in violation of applicable laws or regulations.