ETHAccra Hackathon 2025

⚡ETHAccra Hackathon 2025⚡

The ETHAccra Hackathon brings together the Ethereum community of developers to compete and build innovative projects using the Ethereum blockchain and connecting the blockchain technology to real use cases. 

Everyone is able to apply to be a hacker but the organisation will manually select and curate the candidates. Entries for all hackers will be free of charge.

⚡Audience⚡

Bringing together developers and builders from diverse backgrounds, the hackathon will encourage the creation of new applications that can help address local problems in West Africa and advance the Ethereum community in West Africa.

⚡Scope⚡️      

The scope of this hackathon is to build and present projects that can have impact in real use cases. 

The hackathon will be “Open Track”, there are no “predefined” themes, but every project should be related to the Ethereum ecosystem.

⚡ SUBMITTED PROJECTS REQUIREMENTS ⚡

Submitted projects must include

1. 📌 Project / Team Name

   • The official name of your project or team. Keep it short, memorable, and unique.

2. 📌 Short Description (Max 280 Characters)

   • A concise, tweet-sized pitch that captures what your project does, who it’s for, and its unique hook.

   • Example: “An AI-powered tool that predicts crop diseases from phone images, giving farmers instant treatment advice.”

3. 📌 How It’s Made (Technical Breakdown)

   • Describe how you built it: tools, frameworks, APIs, smart contracts, and any innovative integrations.

   • Mention system architecture, data flows, and any notably creative or “hacky” solutions.

   • Be explicit about team member contributions if multiple people worked on it.

4. 📌 Public Code & Design Links (Mandatory)

   • GitHub repo or other public repository with source code and commit history.

   • If applicable, link to Figma, design docs, or architecture diagrams.

   • Requirement: The repository must build/run as described in your README.

5. 📌 Demo Video / Presentation

   • Video (max 4 mins): Show what your project does in action (screen recording + narration preferred).

   • Slides (max 10): Summarise problem, solution, tech stack, and team contributions.

   • Tip: A polished demo can significantly boost judging scores.

6. 📌 Deployment & Contract Details (Optional but Strongly Recommended)

   • URLs of deployed application (testnet or mainnet).

   • Smart contract address(es) with a brief explanation of their role.

   • Include usage instructions if the app requires setup.

7. 📌 Problem, Impact & Future Roadmap (Recommended)

   • Briefly explain the problem you’re solving, who benefits, and any real-world impact achieved so far.

   • Share your vision for future improvements or scaling.

🏆  ETHAccra 2025 Hackathon — Tracks & Bounties  🏆  

🏆  Open Track 🏆  

🌐 Ethereum for Everyone: Scaling Infrastructure Meets Real-World UX

Description: This track is about bridging the gap between scalable Ethereum infrastructure and intuitive user experiences. Builders are challenged to create apps, wallets, or tools that make Ethereum faster, cheaper, and accessible for everyday users. Whether it’s optimising rollups and L2S, leveraging account abstraction, or designing onboarding flows for first-time crypto users, the goal is to take Ethereum from the lab to real-world adoption at scale.

🎯 Focus: Faster, cheaper Ethereum for everyday use — rollups, mobile onboarding, gig worker payments.

🏆 Prize:

🥇 1st: $500

🥈 2nd: $500

📝 Qualification Requirements Scaling Infrastructure Meets Real-World UX

1. Clear Relevance
   • It should be obvious how your project aligns with the challenge track (Scaling & UX).
   • The integration of tools, infra, or design choices must be meaningful and not just added as an afterthought.
2. Functional Demo
   • Your demo must be live and functional — no static mockups or hard-coded placeholders.
   • Judges should be able to interact with or clearly see your solution working.
3. Submission Package (all required)
   • i. A video recording (max 3 minutes) explaining and demoing your project.
   • ii. A link to a live demo (or deployed contract, if applicable).
   • iii. A link to your code on GitHub.
4. Open Source Code
   • All code must be open source and hosted on GitHub.
   • Repos should include a README with setup instructions.

💸 On-Chain Finance: Real-World Assets, Stablecoins & Yield Infrastructure

Description: This track is about building the next generation of on-chain financial tools. From tokenised real-world assets (RWAs) to stablecoin rails and yield primitives, hackers are challenged to design products that make finance open, transparent, and accessible. The goal: connect DeFi with real economies while addressing the unique needs of African users.

🎯 Focus: DeFi protocols and regenerative finance for climate, agriculture, and local economies.

🏆 Prize:

🥇 1st: $500

🥈 2nd: $500

📝 Qualification Requirements: Real-World Assets, Stablecoins & Yield Infrastructure

1. Clear Relevance
   • It should be obvious how your project aligns with the challenge track (Real-World Assets, Stablecoins & Yield Infrastructure).
   • The integration of tools, infra, or design choices must be meaningful and not just added as an afterthought.
2. Functional Demo
   • Your demo must be live and functional — no static mockups or hard-coded placeholders.
   • Judges should be able to interact with or clearly see your solution working.
3. Submission Package (all required)
   • i. A video recording (max 3 minutes) explaining and demoing your project.
   • ii. A link to a live demo (or deployed contract, if applicable).
   • iii. A link to your code on GitHub.
4. Open Source Code
   • All code must be open source and hosted on GitHub.
   • Repos should include a README with setup instructions.

🎨 Culture, Creativity & Community

Description: Ethereum is more than finance — it’s a canvas for culture, creativity, and community-building. This track challenges hackers to design NFTs, DAOs, and creative platforms that capture the richness of African art, music, and traditions while enabling communities to thrive. The goal is to empower creators, preserve culture, and unlock new models of collective ownership.

🎯 Focus: NFTs, DAOs, gaming, music, and digital identity rooted in African culture.

🏆 Prize:

🥇 1st: $500

🥈 2nd: $500

📝 Qualification Requirements: Culture, Creativity & Community

1. Clear Relevance
   • It should be obvious how your project aligns with the challenge track (Culture, Creativity & Community).
   • The integration of tools, infra, or design choices must be meaningful and not just added as an afterthought.
2. Functional Demo
   • Your demo must be live and functional — no static mockups or hard-coded placeholders.
   • Judges should be able to interact with or clearly see your solution working.
3. Submission Package (all required)
   • i. A video recording (max 3 minutes) explaining and demoing your project.
   • ii. A link to a live demo (or deployed contract, if applicable).
   • iii. A link to your code on GitHub.
4. Open Source Code
   • All code must be open source and hosted on GitHub.
   • Repos should include a README with setup instructions.

🏆Bounties 🏆

🏆 ENS Everywhere – $4,800 Prize Pool

• 🥇 1st: $2,000

• 🥈 2nd: $1,000

• 🎁 Builder Pool: $1,800 (shared among other eligible projects)

🎯 Challenge Description

Africa is pioneering new models for digital identity, payments, and community coordination. Show how ENS can power the next generation of decentralized applications for both local and global communities.

Looking for creative ENS integrations that go beyond simple name resolution, including:

• Identity & Reputation: portable digital identity, verifiable credentials in text records, community attestations, community subnames

• Cross-border Coordination: named multi-sig wallets, DAO tooling with human-readable addresses, agent-to-agent communication

• Financial Innovation: payment routing via ENS names, rotating addresses for privacy

• AI & Automation: named autonomous agents, onchain agent registries, human-verifiable agent interactions

📝 Qualification Requirements

1. It should be obvious how ENS improves your product and is not just implemented as an afterthought. 
2. Your demo must be functional and not just include hard-coded values. 
3. Upon submission, your project showcase must have

 i.   a video recording, 

ii.  a link to a live demo and 

iii. a link to the code that uses ENS. 

All code must be open source on Github.

🛠 Helpful Links & Resources

• ENS Documentation: https://docs.ens.domains

• Text Records Guide: https://docs.ens.domains/web/records/

• Subnames Toolkit: https://durin.dev/

• ENS Developers Telegram (most active): https://t.me/+MyoX8mWN02U1YzMx

• ENS Discord: https://chat.ens.domains/

• Visit the ENS booth for brainstorming & technical support.

🏆 Ethereum Follow Protocol  Challenge – $1,000 Prize Pool

• 🏆 EFP Challenge – $1,000 Prize Pool

  • 🥇 1st: $200

  • 🥈 2nd: $200

  • 🥉 3rd: $200 

  • 🏅 4th: $200 

  • 🏅 5th: $200 

  
  

  🎯 Challenge Description

  The Ethereum Follow Protocol (EFP) is an onchain social graph protocol for Ethereum accounts, and complements ENS — the top 5 projects that incorporate EFP in any way will each receive $200.

  
  

  Your integration could involve :

  1. completing an ENS profile
  2. providing more context who an account is
  3. verifying an account isn't a bot
  
  

  💡 Quick Start: 

  The easiest way to integrate EFP is with Ethereum Identity Kit, which offers ready-to-use tools for connecting and working with EFP in your project.

🏆 Buidl Guidl  Bounty – $1,000 Prize Pool

🥇 1st: $500

🥈 2nd: $300

🥉 3rd: $200

🎯 Challenge Description

Buidl Guidl empowers Ethereum developers to build decentralized applications (dApps) and smart contracts through mentorship, resources, and community collaboration. For this hackathon, we’re rewarding the most creative and impactful projects built with Scaffold-ETH 2.

Your project can be any dApp or protocol that showcases Ethereum’s potential — from DeFi tools and NFT marketplaces to governance, identity, or social coordination. The goal is to buidl, not just HODL 🚀.

💡 Quick Start

The easiest way to get building is with Scaffold-ETH 2, the modern dApp framework with Next.js, RainbowKit, Wagmi, TypeScript, and support for Hardhat/Foundry. You can also use the Speedrun Ethereum challenges as inspiration or starting points.

📚 Resources

• 🔗 Scaffold-ETH 2 GitHub – Starter kit for Ethereum dApps

• 🔗 Speedrun Ethereum – Guided challenges for rapid learning

• 🔗 RainbowKit – Beautiful wallet connection UI

• 🔗 Wagmi – React hooks for Ethereum

• 🔗 Hardhat & Foundry – Smart contract development & testing

• 🔗 Buidl Guidl – Community for Ethereum builders

🏆 Base   Bounty

🏆 Base  Bounty – $3,000 Prize Pool

🥇 1st: $1,500

🥈 2nd: $1,000

🥉 3rd: $500

🎯 Challenge Description

Base is for everyone who wants to build a better internet. We’re calling on builders across Africa to solve real challenges in your community by building onchain with Base.

From instant payments, access to financial services, and rewarding creativity — going onchain is already improving lives worldwide. But that’s just the beginning.

At ETHAccra 2025, we’re challenging you to:

• See a problem in your community? Solve it on Base.

• Have an idea? Build it on Base.

Every app you create brings us closer to a world where everyone can thrive onchain. Whether it’s DeFi, gaming, NFTs, social apps, or identity solutions — your creativity on Base can spark real change.

📝 Qualification Requirements

To be eligible, projects must:

1. Submit one project per team.

2. Include a functioning onchain app at a publicly accessible URL.

3. Provide an open-source GitHub repository with all source code.

4. Include a demo video (minimum length: 1 minute).

5. Submit proof of at least 1 transaction on Base mainnet or Base Sepolia testnet.

6. (Strongly recommended) Integrate Base Account and Base Pay to make it easy for anyone to get onchain.

🛠 Helpful Links & Resources

• Base Build

• Base Docs

• CDP

• Onchainkit

• Minikit

• Base Account

• Base Pay

🏆 FileCoin Bounty - USD 500

Filecoin: Hack The Sovereign Data Layer – $500

Prize Distribution:

• 🥇 1st Place: $500

🎯 Challenge Description

Filecoin is going fully on-chain. Now’s your chance to hack the sovereign data layer and unlock programmable storage!

Builders are invited to:

• Programmable Storage: Design innovative custom storage and retrieval service logic with FVM smart contracts.

• Store Data: Leverage the Filecoin Onchain Cloud stack to upload files using SynapseSDK.

• Retrieve Data: Access stored data through smart contracts and/or filCDN.

• Payment Rails: Enable crypto-native payments for programmable storage and retrieval services using FilecoinPay.

• More ideas: Build dApps that showcase the power of sovereign data and onchain storage.

• Impactful use cases could include Data DAOs, archives, or verifiable AI training datasets.

Qualification Requirements

• All projects must demonstrate on-chain interaction with Filecoin’s Calibration Testnet.

• Integration with Filecoin Onchain

• Cloud infrastructure using SynapseSDK (bonus points, not a hard requirement).

• SynapseSDK enables developers to upload, store, and retrieve data on Filecoin through a network of storage providers.

🛠 Helpful Links & Resources

Documentation

• Filecoin Docs: Filecoin

• Filecoin Onchain Cloud Resources

Starter Kits

• Filecoin Onchain Cloud Upload dApp

• FEVM Hardhat Kit

• FEVM Foundry Kit