$51,000

Near

NEAR protocol is a sharded, proof-of-stake,simple, secure, and scalable layer-one blockchain.

🥇 1st: 1000 USD

🥈 2nd: 500 USD

💰 Learn-to-earn: 50 USD each / 6500 USD total

Jump Crypto

🛠 Build on Wormhole:

🥇 Crosschain Decentralized ID: 2000 USD

🥇 Crosschain Decentralized NFTs: 2000 USD

🛠 Build on Pyth:

🥇 Create a Decentralized Price Pusher: 2000 USD

🥇 CoinMarketCap-style Price Tracker: 2000 USD

Solana

Powerful for developers. Fast for everyone. Bring blockchain to the people.

🥇 1st: 4000 USD

🥈 2nd: 2000 USD

🥉 3rd: 1000 USD

DeFi Prizes

Build the future of finance at LionHack 2023. Create new financial primitives, or build towards economic freedom, it's entirely up to you.

🥇 1st: 2000 USD

🥈 2nd: 1000 USD

Select Prizes

🥇 1st: Hacker-Choice 1.5k
🥇 1st: Judge-Choice 1.5k
🥇 1st: Best Columbia Project 1.5k
🥈 2nd: Most Improved Columbia Hacker 500
🥇 1st: Best NYU project 750

Arbitrum

Arbitrum's suite of scaling solutions provides faster speeds at a significantly lower cost, with the same level of security as Ethereum.

🥇 1st: 1500 USD

🥈 2nd: 1000 USD

🥉 3rd: 500 USD

Axelar

Axelar delivers secure cross-chain communication for Web3.

🥇 1st: 1500 USD

🥈 2nd: 1000 USD

🥉 3rd: 500 USD

Ava Labs

Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality.

🥇 1st: 1500 USD

🥈 2nd: 1000 USD

🥉 3rd: 500 USD

Aztec

Aztec is developing a next-generation encrypted blockchain secured by Ethereum.

🥇 1st: 750 USD

🥈 2nd: 400 USD

🥉 3rd: 100 USD

Hyperlane

Hyperlane is pioneering permissionless and modular interoperability between blockchains.

🥇 1st: 750 USD

🥈 2nd: 400 USD

🥉 3rd: 100 USD

Agoric

A Proof-of-Stake chain utilizing Hardened JavaScript smart contracts to rapidly build and deploy DeFi.

🥇 1st: 750 USD

🥈 2nd: 400 USD

🥉 3rd: 100 USD

Endaoment

The first tax-exempt community foundation providing philanthropic financial services on-chain.

🥇 1st: 1000 USD

🥈 2nd: 500 USD

Martian

Use Martian to store, send, receive tokens and manage & mint NFTs in a secure and friendly way. Currently supports Aptos & Sui.

🥇 1st: 750 USD

🥈 2nd: 500 USD

Quantstamp

We are giving away two prizes for the most audit-ready, well-documented, and well-tested Solidity projects:

🥇 1st: 1000 USD

🥈 2nd: 250 USD

ZKaptcha

Best Integrations of ZKaptcha

🥇 1st: 750 USD

🥈 2nd: 400 USD

🥉 3rd: 100 USD

Fools Gold

The crème de la crème of LionHack prizes.

🥉 Most likely to rug: 250 USD

🥉 Most likely to be exploited: 250 USD

🥉 Most likely to 1M users: 250 USD