OnchainED 1.0 - Powered by SolHack3rs
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⚡Hosted by QEFAI (Quality Education For All Initiative & FrontierPass)
OnchainED 1.0 is a hybrid hackathon bringing together developers, designers, and students to explore how blockchain can transform education.
While blockchain is often associated with finance, its core properties such as decentralisation, transparency, and immutability open powerful possibilities for education. This hackathon challenges participants to build solutions that rethink how knowledge, credentials, and learning platforms can exist on decentralised infrastructure.
Over four days, selected teams will design and prototype blockchain-based education tools. Projects may include decentralised learning platforms, verifiable academic credentials, open knowledge repositories, and incentive-driven learning systems.
Participants will collaborate in teams, build functional prototypes, and present their ideas during the final Demo Day.
Event Details
Location:
Online. Final Demo Day will be at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Lagos, Nigeria
Dates:
Optional Pre-Hackathon Virtual Bootcamp: April 20th -April 24th
April 27 to April 30
Format:
Hybrid.
Days 1–3
Virtual development phase
Day 4
In-person Demo Day and judging event
Expected Participants
40 to 50 developers, designers, and students
Teams
Approximately 10 teams
What You Will Experience
・Hands-on experience building blockchain applications
・Mentorship and technical guidance
・Collaboration with students from different disciplines
・A chance to present your work to judges and ecosystem partners
・Networking with builders interested in blockchain and education
Winning teams will receive a total of 480 USD in cash prizes and additional opportunities such as priority internship consideration at global companies with FrontierPass and access to the SolHack3rs Nigeria cohort.
Participant Requirements
Before applying to the QEFAI × FrontierPass Hackathon, please ensure that you meet the following requirements.
Eligibility
・Participants must be at least 18 years old at the time of registration.
・All teams that complete the official registration before the deadline will be considered.
・Participants must follow the hackathon rules and code of conduct. Failure to do so may result in disqualification and restriction from future events.
Team Composition
・Teams must consist of 2 to 4 members.
・Each team must include at least one programmer who is comfortable with a programming language such as:
Python
JavaScript
Java
C or C++
・Experience with Rust is encouraged, especially for teams building directly on the Solana ecosystem.
・Team members may come from different universities, institutions, or academic disciplines.
・Each participant may belong to only one team during the hackathon.
Technical Requirements
・Participants must bring their own laptops and development tools.
・Teams are responsible for installing and configuring their development environments.
・All submitted projects must be built on or compatible with the Solana blockchain.
Participation Expectations
・Teams are expected to actively participate throughout the entire duration of the hackathon.
・All projects must be developed during the hackathon period.
・Each team must be prepared to present and pitch their solution during the final Demo Day.
・To encourage commitment and recognise effort, consolation prizes would be allocated to groups who successfully submit their codebases by the deadline.
Conduct and Ethics
All work must be original and created by the participating team. Plagiarism or violation of intellectual property rights may result in disqualification.
Participants are expected to maintain a respectful and collaborative attitude toward other teams, mentors, and organisers.
The organisers reserve the right to update or clarify these requirements prior to the event.