Aleo’s Web3 Hackathon (the “Hackathon”) 

Official Rules

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. 

SUBMISSION OF ANY ENTRY CONSTITUTES AGREEMENT TO THESE OFFICIAL RULES AS A CONTRACT BETWEEN ENTRANT (AND EACH INDIVIDUAL MEMBER OF ENTRANT), THE HACKATHON SPONSOR, AND DEVPOST.

1. Dates and Timing

Registration Period Opens: November 15th at 9 a.m IST.

Submission Period: November 15th, 2023 at 9 a.m IST till November 18th, 2023, until 6 a.m IST.

Finalist Selection Period: November 18th, 2023, from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. IST, using the online submission platform.

Demo video: UPDATE: We've removed the in-person pitching aspect from the hackathon. There is NO in-person pitching component. When submitting your project, you are required to include a link to a pre-recorded demo video that's publicly shareable on a platform like Loom, YouTube, Vimeo, or similar. If there isn't a demo in your video and/or the video is not set to public and watchable, your project will be disqualified.

Winners Announced: November 18th, 2023, by noon IST, after the in-person pitching is complete.

2. Sponsor and Administrator

Aleo Systems 

300 E 2ND ST STE 

1510 RENO, NV,

USA, 89501

3. Eligibility

  1. Submit an original project that's deployed on Aleo
  2. Submit a video of up 3-minutes long explaining your project that includes a demo
  3. Share the link to your code/repository (Github or similar)
  4. Above legal age of majority in country of residence
  5. Specific countries/territories excluded (standard exception: Brazil, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Quebec, Russia and Syria)
  6. An Eligible Individual may join more than one Team or Organization and an Eligible Individual who is part of a Team or Organization may also enter the Hackathon on an individual basis. If a Team or Organization is entering the Hackathon, they must appoint and authorize one individual (the “Representative”) to represent, act, and enter a Submission, on their behalf. By entering a Submission on behalf of a Team or Organization you represent and warrant that you are the Representative authorized to act on behalf of your Team or Organization.

B. The Hackathon IS NOT open to: 

  1. Individuals who are residents of, or Organizations domiciled in, a country, state, province or territory where the laws of the United States or local law prohibits participating or receiving a prize in the Hackathon (including, but not limited to Brazil, Quebec, Russia, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and any other country designated by the United States Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control) - In accordance with US sanctions, Russia is no longer eligible to participate in this contest. 
  2. Individuals who are residents of, or Organizations domiciled in, a country, state, province or territory part of the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions as enumerated in https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-list-of-non-cooperative-jurisdictions/.
  3. Organizations involved with the design, production, paid promotion, execution, or distribution of the Hackathon, including the Sponsor and Administrator (“Promotion Entities”).
  4. Employees, representatives and agents** of such Promotion Entities, and all members of their immediate family or household.*
  5. Any other individual involved with the design, production, promotion, execution, or distribution of the Hackathon, and each member of their immediate family or household.*
  6. Any Judge or company or individual that employs a Judge.
  7. Any parent company, subsidiary, or other affiliate*** of any organization described above.
  8. Any other individual or organization whose participation in the Hackathon would create, in the sole discretion of the Sponsor and/or Administrator, a real or apparent conflict of interest.
  9. The members of an individual’s immediate family include the individual’s spouse, children and stepchildren, parents and stepparents, and siblings and stepsiblings. The members of an individual’s household include any other person that shares the same residence as the individual for at least three (3) months out of the year.
  10. Agents include individuals or organizations that in creating a Submission to the Hackathon, are acting on behalf of, and at the direction of, a Promotion Entity through a contractual or similar relationship.
  11. An affiliate is: (a) an organization that is under common control, sharing a common majority or controlling owner, or common management; or (b) an organization that has a substantial ownership in, or is substantially owned by the other organization.

4. How to enter: No purchases necessary to enter or win 

To enter the Hackathon, please visit the Hackathon website, which is located on devpost.com (the "Contest Site"), during the Contest Period, and follow the instructions for developing an application that uses Leo and is deployed on Aleo. Then, submit the project with the requirements before the deadline on November 18th at 6 a.m. IST using the online portal.

5. Submission Modifications

  1. Draft Submissions: Prior to the end of the Submission Period, you may save draft versions of your submission on Devpost to your portfolio before submitting the submission materials to the Hackathon for evaluation. Once the Submission Period has ended, you may not make any changes or alterations to your submission, but you may continue to update the project in your Devpost portfolio.
  2. Modifications After the Submission Period. The Sponsor and Devpost may permit you to modify part of your submission after the Submission Period for the purpose of adding, removing or replacing material that potentially infringes a third party mark or right, discloses personally identifiable information, or is otherwise inappropriate. The modified submission must remain substantively the same as the original submission with the only modification being what the Sponsor and Devpost permits. 

6. Judges & Criteria

Eligible submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges selected by the Sponsor (the “Judges”). Judges may be employees of the sponsor or third parties, may or may not be listed individually on the Hackathon Website, and may change before or during the Judging Period. Judging may take place in one or more rounds with one or more panels of Judges, at the discretion of the sponsor. 

  • Stage One: The first stage will determine via pass/fail whether the ideas meet a baseline level of viability and eligibility. The project must reasonably fit the theme and apply the required APIs/SDKs featured in the Hackathon. The initial screening will be done by the judges and bounty team members.
  • Stage Two: The top submissions that pass Stage One will be evaluated in Stage Two based on the following equally weighted criteria (the “Judging Criteria”):
  • Entries will be judged on the following equally weighted criteria, and according to the sole and absolute discretion of the judges.
  • The scores from the Judges will determine the potential winners of the applicable prizes. The Entrant(s) that are eligible for a Prize, and whose Submissions earn the highest overall scores based on the applicable Judging Criteria, will become potential winners of that Prize.
  • If a project scores 1 on any of the criteria, we reserve the right not to award prizes, even if it was the only project submitted to a given track.
  • Tie Breaking. For each Prize listed below, if two or more submissions are tied, the tied submission with the highest score in the first applicable criterion listed above will be considered the higher scoring submission. In the event any ties remain, this process will be repeated, as needed, by comparing the tied Submissions’ scores on the next applicable criterion. If two or more submissions are tied on all applicable criteria, the panel of Judges will vote on the tied submissions.

7. Intellectual Property Rights.

  • All submissions remain the intellectual property of the individuals or organizations that developed them. By submitting an entry, entrants agree that the sponsor will have a fully paid, non-exclusive license to use such entry for judging the entry. Entrants agree that the sponsor and Devpost shall have the right to promote the submission and use the name, likeness, voice and image of all individuals contributing to a submission, in any materials promoting or publicizing the Hackathon and its results, during the Hackathon Period and for three years thereafter.  Some Submission components may be displayed to the public. Other Submission materials may be viewed by the sponsor, Devpost, and judges for screening and evaluation. By submitting an entry or accepting any prize, entrants represent and warrant that (a) submitted content is not copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless entrant is the owner of such rights or has permission from their rightful owner to post the content; and (b) the content submitted does not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware or other disabling devices or harmful or malicious code.

8. Prizes.

​Fully deployed projects on Aleo will be judged and rewarded:

  • ​​1st place: $15,000
  • 2nd place: $10,000
  • ​​3rd place: $5,000
  • ​Bounties: $24,000 ($3000 x 8), see below: 

​Archblock Bounty: ​Bounty Name: Best stablecoin implementation in Leo

​Avail Bounty: ​Bounty Name: Shamir’s Secret Sharing Algorithm in Leo

​Demox Bounty: Bounty Name: Best zkID: NFTs powered by web2 data

​V23 Bounty: ​Bounty Name: Best 4vs4 game on an existing 3vs3 game

​Khrya Bounty: ​Bounty Name: Best zkLeaderboard

​Veridise Bounty: Bounty Name: Leo Bug Hunting with Vanguard

​Humine Labs Bounty: Bounty Name: Best use of the Aleo Swift SDK and On-Device Processing on iOS

​Puzzle Bounty: Bounty Name: Best Casino Game