2nd Hacker House: Arbitrum edition
Hacker House:
This is the 2nd Hacker House edition organized by the Blockchain Innovation Hub (iberoam/blockchain-innovation-hub) and this time centered on the Arbitrum blockchain technology: https://arbitrum.io/
Venue:
Online
Funding:
This Hacker House edition is being funded by the Arbitrum Grants Program as part of the project entitled "Adopting Arbitrum in the Blockchain Innovation Hub".
Technologies:
Further than Arbitrum blockchain technology, the Abakhus Protocol will be also used to accelerate dApp prototyping.
Target audience:
(i) Web3 developers
(ii) Web2 developers not willing to learn Solidity or Rust, and interested to use our Abakhus API and library (Abakhus) to accelerate dApp prototyping and deploy smart-contracts in Arbitrum as well as cross-chain dApss. By using Abakhus, Web2 developers won't need to code in Solidity or Rust to prototype a Web3 dApp.
(iii) University students and professors interested in new use cases for blockchain
(iv) Startups interested to adopt blockchain technology
(v) Developers interested in cross-chain applications, especially if privacy-preserving features are needed
Program:
Week 1: Introduction to Arbitrum and Development Setup and Smart-Contract basics. Topics: Overview of Arbitrum Layer 2 solutions: Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova. Arbitrum technologies: Rollups, AnyTrust, Orbit, Stylus and BoLD.
Week 2-3: Interacting with Smart Contracts (Arbitrum DevRel invited) & Privacy-preserving Blockchain APIs and libraries. Topics: Using Web3.js/Ethers.js to interact with smart-contracts Using Abakhus protocol API and libraries to provide privacy-preserving metadata to Arbitrum
Week 4: dApp Prototyping using Arbitrum and Abakhus (part I). Topics: Deploying smart-contracts in Arbitrum and Abakhus. Cross-chain applications.
Week 5: dApp Prototyping using Arbitrum and Abakhus (part II). Topics: Adding privacy-preserving features to Arbitrum dApps
Week 6: Pitch presentations and best 3 projects selection Topics: Each group will have 5 min to pitch its project/prototype. Best 3 projects will be selected based on (i) novelty (something new, not available yet in the Arbitrum ecosystem), (ii) potential to bring a high number of users to the Arbitrum ecosystem, (iii) something that solves or mitigates a real-world problem.
Projects/ideas to be prioritized:
New use cases for blockchain beyond Games and Tokenized Digital Art. Special interest in cross-chain dApps, Real World Assets tokenization, DeFi, DeSci, DREX interoperability and dApps that need privacy-preserving features.
All projects/ideas to deploy contracts in the Arbitrum One mainnet.
Bounties:
A total of $3.000 is available as bounties:
1st place: $1.500
2nd place: $1.000
3rd place: $500
Dates and time:
Tuesday September 10th : 6pm - 7pm (GMT-3)
Tuesday September 17th : 6pm - 7pm (GMT-3)
Tuesday September 24th : 6pm - 7pm (GMT-3)
Tuesday October 1st : 6pm - 7pm (GMT-3)
Tuesday October 8th : 6pm - 7pm (GMT-3)
Tuesday October 15th : 6pm - 7pm (GMT-3)
Additional mentoring hours:
Additional mentoring hours will be available weekly for all participating groups. All mentors will make a calendar available showing their availability, then groups can pick a time.
Registration deadline
September 5th
Participants
Developers and non-developers (marketing, business development, technology experts, etc) are expected to register individually.
Groups
Groups are highly encouraged to be composed by developers and non-developers participants. A minimum of 3 participants will be encouraged to be self-organized to compose each group.
IberoAm Telegram group:
https://t.me/+1OQV2dYwNAxjYTc5
Blockchain Innovation Hub Whatsapp group:
Mentors:
Alberto Dávila (IberoAm, Blockchain Innovation Hub, Lumeeira)
Antonio Rocha (Fluminense Federal University - UFF)
Claudio Miceli de Farias (Rio de Janeiro Federal University - UFRJ)
Rodrigo Jardim (IberoAm, Blockchain Innovation Hub, Lumeeira)