Encode Polkadot Club - Tranche 2 proposal
encodeclub
4 years ago
As part of our university engagement programme (see here), we would like to request our second phase of funding (£30k in DOT). For the second tranche, we are asking for roughly £30,000 to cover the cost of the hackathon. With this second tranche funding, we aim to achieve the milestone of delivering the hackathon in full, having 500 individuals sign up and 100 teams finishing the hackathon.
Please find the full proposal here.
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We would like to report on the success of our second tranche (funding our hackathon) as part of the Encode x Polkadot programme (see here).
As a reminder, this second tranche was to pay for an 8-week online hackathon (see approved proposal here) on the back of the successful education series and curriculum which saw over 2,000 participants attending.
Background information
This hackathon was a pan-Polkadot ecosystem event to get people building projects over 8-weeks. It ran online, with numerous workshops hosted on zoom and day-day coordination via Discord. Teams were supported with regular 1-1 calls with the Encode team.
There were both Polkadot specific challenges (build a blockchain, build a dapp) and parachain/partner specific challenges. We were joined by Moonbeam, Phala, Astar, Acala, Subquery, Moonbeam and Interlay who all offered challenges(in addition to prizes). All challenges can be found here. Most parachain challenges were based around building dapps on their respective chains.
Here are some examples of workshops hosted:
Ideation workshop
Substrate workshop
Subquery workshop
There were over 150 teams that submitted (initial target 100 teams) with over 1,000 people taking part. The large majority were new to the Polkadot ecosystem. Over 30 countries were represented.
The hackathon was judged by the Encode team and a selected panel - Sota from Astar, Jack from Hypersphere, Hang from Phala and Bryan from Acala.
This hackathon was budgeted at £30k, the large majority of which was spent on staffing costs to run the event.
Summary
All information about the event, prizewinners and presentations can be found here.
Next Tranche 3 -> paying hackers
We now request tranche 3, which is funding to pay prize-winners, £20,000 (circa $27,000) in DOT was earmarked. Prizes were awarded accordingly:
$3520: Easy challenges
$6000: Overall prizes ($3k to the winner, $2k to 2nd place, $1k to 3rd place)
$9000: Build a blockchain challenge ($4k to the winner, $3k to 2nd place, $2k to 3rd place)
$7000: Best dapp ($3k to 1st, $2k to 2nd, $1k to 3rd, $500 to two runners up)
Total: $25520
The prizes were awarded through a combination of judging by Encode Club and a selected panel - Sota from Astar, Jack from Hypersphere, Hang from Phala and Bryan from Acala.
A summary of the hackathon can be found here and an overview of the programme in the original deck here.