ETHDam 2024

HACKATHON FAQ

Delighted to welcome you as a hacker for our 2nd edition of ETHDam, taking place this April 12-14 2024, in Amsterdam at Pakhuis de Zwijger. We’ve put together this guide to help you navigate through the logistics, the events and quirks of this conference and hackathon. 

👉 ETHDam 2024 Hacker Handbook

LOGISTICS

Platform 

Two platforms to answer all your questions, and ensure a smooth hackathon for all. 

• Taikai - where all hackers must register and submit their projects 

• Discord - to chat with the team and ping mentors

Tickets 

• Hackers do not need to purchase a ticket 

• Hacker need to apply via Taikai and will be approved in waves, every 2 weeks 

• Once approved, hackers will be able to redeem their free hacker ticket on Moongate 

• Regular attendees need to purchase tickets via Moongate 

Location address 

Pakhuis de Zwijger: Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam 

Sleeping at the venue

Yes, hackers can spend the night at the venue on Friday and Saturday night, don’t expect anything fancy. We will transform the 2nd stage (5th floor) on both nights, into a chill space for you to rest between intense coding sessions. No showers available. Pack a toothbrush, deodorant and a sleeping bag.

On the ground floor, you can find lockers to safekeep your belongings, a 2EUR coin is required (it is returned to you once you are done using it).

P2p housing 

You might prefer to have your own crib, and want to couch surf with the locals? Then head to our P2p housing sheet and fill out your details. 

Food 

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided for the hackers. 

Amsterdam City Guide 

We’ve put together this little Amsterdam City Guide to help you make the most of your stay in this city! 

TravelSwap

We’ve  partnered with TravelSwap to offer a 5% discount when booking your trip to Amsterdam using crypto 

EVENTS

Pre ETHDam Launch (RSVP) 

Hosted online on the 15th of March, for hackers to get to know each other and our hackathon partners. 

ETHDam Bootcamp 

Hosted online for hackers to dig into certain tech stack from hackathon partners 

• Oasis Network Workshop (RSVP) - 5th of April 

• Trail of Bits - TBD 

Hacker Speed Dating

A team building activation which will be hosted in person, on April 12th, right before the launch of the hackathon, to help the hackers to get to know each other and our partners, mentors and judges. 

After Party 

See you at Capital C on Sunday 14th of April 

THE CONFERENCE 

Recordings, photos and video 

• All talks and panels will be recorded and live streamed. We will also have a dedicated photographer. 

• If you don’t want to be photographed, mark yourself with our “no photography” sticker. 

THE HACKATHON

Rules 

• The hackathon begins at 12:00 on Friday 12th of April and ends at 12:00 sharp on Sunday. All projects must be submitted on Taikai.

• ETHDam is taking place IRL - all team members must be hacking in person 

• You can not copy, use or submit another's team’s source code 

• All code must be written during ETHDam, do not submit code previously written 

• The judges decision are final in the determination of the prizes 

• Bounties are in the hands of our partners

• All hackers must hold a valid ticket for ETHDam, to be claimed on Moongate 

• You must comply with all instructions provided by ETHDam organisers and volunteers, and respect our Code of Conduct 

Requirements

• Project / Team name.

• Short description about the project.

• 1 Discord username for the team’s person of contact.

• Repository with project’s code/ link to open source code 

• Video demo (90 seconds) and/or Presentation (5 slides max).

• The contract address(es) or website URLs of your deployed application, either on a testnet of your choice or mainnet of a platform of choice (NOT mandatory)

Hacker Speed Dating 💜

Make friends for life, build something incredible in 48 hours 

Fill in the Hacker Speed Dating sheet and also join the IRL experience on April 12th to meet all the other hackers.

Quadratic Funding (MACI)

• PSE (Privacy Scaling Exploration) 15K

Bounties

Each bounty is individually judged, and handled by our hackathon partners 

• Battleship: Oasis Network (10K bounty)

• JetSki: Secret Network (5K bounty)

• Canoe: Waku (2K bounty)

• Canoe: Trail of Bits (2K bounty)

• Canoe: dRPC (2K bounty)

The OtterTrack

The OtterTrack is a special track during the hackathon dedicated to existing projects. 

• Project must sign up via Taikai and fill in a separate form.

• Projects must add at least one feature during the 48 hour hackathon

• Present and pitch on stage a polished product on Sunday 14th of April

• Only 1 member needs to be present in person

• There are no bounties for this track, they are competing for glory and looking for future investments.

Mentors and Judging 

All mentors are present in person and online, via Discord  to support the teams throughout the hackathon

The judging will take place on Sunday 14th in the afternoon 

The judges will rate all projects from 1 to 5 on these 5 criterias

1. Technical - "How technical was this to build?"

2. Use Case - "Is this solving a problem?"

3. Value proposition - "How unique and innovative is this project?"

4. Market/business - "Is this interesting for investors? Are the the business model and token economics are appealing?"

5. Wow factor - "This project is completely out of the box, blew your mind"

ETHDam Hackathon Team

Federico @feder_eth 

James @theref_eth

Sterling @SterSchuyler