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Treasury proposal: AmsterDOT Hack
This proposal aims to partially cover the rewards for the 8-week online amsterDOT hackathon.
The hackathon was organized by 8 teams which put up 20 bounties for advancing contributions to the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. Furthermore, an Open Category was included to accommodate “anything Dotsama”. The hackathon had a combined rewards mechanism. The first component is rewards provided by the teams which own the bounties (up to $190k). The second component is a $150k prize pool by the Polkadot Treasury (i.e. the subject of this proposal) which was distributed by a jury comprising 7 teams from the ecosystem.
13 out of 14 eligible submissions were given a share of the Polkadot prize pool following the jury vote. The solutions range from full-fledged UIs, dashboards, (command line) tools, a p2e game, to the winner of the hackathon - Morph, an XCM tool for intuitively handling cross-chain transfers.
Please find the full proposal here
Comments (2)
Good job from the AmsterDOT team to incentivize new talents and projects to the benefit of DotSama ecosystem!
Through the incentive of the hackathon I taught myself node.js, subsquid, and became a super active contributor on one of the parachains. It's a bit odd that the prizes were announced without the funding in place. Of course, I support the proposal.