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Hackathon control board Berlin, payments edition

money in movement

Build something real. Find collaborators, choose a challenge, ship your project, and put it in front of the bitcoin++ community.

§ Prizes

Prize pool.

Ranked rewards for the top projects. Challenges can stack on top.
+ Additional awards
[ Award ]

Honorable Mentions

These projects deserved recognition for being outstanding.

Prizes
Tickets 🎫 1.6M satoshis
+ Challenges · stackable

Ain’t nobody got time for that

Does your project involve an onchain bitcoin transaction that needs to confirm promptly? If so, your project is a contender for this prize, which will be awarded for the project which most creatively integrates mempool’s transaction accelerator via the public API as an option for getting a stuck transaction confirmed.

Prizes
Mempool Enterprise Silver Subscription + 500k sats in accelerator credit 21M satoshis

DM x.com/orangesurfbtc or signal orangesurf.01 to receive prize

Build on Flame

Build a project on Flame, a new electronic cash network protocol based on Bitcoin. Flame offers modern features such as confidentiality, powerful programming environment, low latency and higher throughput based on a decentralized proof-of-burn consensus. The network continuously burns bitcoins as a means to timestamp blocks of transactions. As an incentive, network issues new units of flames.

Prizes
3.5M sats pool 3.5M satoshis

Best use of Bark

Build something that moves bitcoin with Bark, Second‘s implementation of the Ark protocol, which is live on mainnet.

We want to see wallets, payment flows, merchant tools, payouts, P2P, or infrastructure where Bark does the real work of moving money. Use whatever fits your project: the bark CLI, the bark daemon’s REST API, the Rust library, or the FFI bindings.

Prizes
1500000 sats pool 1.5M satoshis

The Second team is at btc++ all week to help with Bark setup, signet funds and questions.

Most useful Electrum plugin

The Electrum Wallet is extensible through external plugins. Build the most useful plugin for day-to-day use cases to help real users improve their Bitcoin experience. The plugin can be for a desktop, Android or daemon (headless) instance. See https://plugins.electrum.org.

Prizes
1000000 sats per winner 1M satoshis

You receive 1_000_000 sat to a BOLT11 or BOLT12 Lightning invoice.

See the Future

Build a Bitcoin price forecast people can trust, using Glimpse prediction market data. Use the Glimpse API or the glimpse-markets Python package to make a visualization, app, bot, or alert that turns market probabilities into a forecast anyone can read.

API docs: https://docs.glimpse.markets/index Python package: https://pypi.org/project/glimpse-markets/ LLMs: https://docs.glimpse.markets/llms.txt

Prizes
1000000 sats per winner 1M satoshis

Paid in Bitcoin to the address or Lightning destination the winning team provides after the announcement.

Trustless Bets

Build a non-custodial betting or gaming application on Bitcoin. Poker, roulette, blackjack, sports betting, or any conditional payment game is welcome. It must use peer-to-peer, self-custodial infrastructure such as Arkade, Bark, or another Bitcoin L2, and it must run in production with real sats. Testnet and signet entries are ineligible.

Prizes
750000 sats per winner 750k satoshis

Paid in Bitcoin via Lightning to the winning team.

§ The judges

8 judges.

Scoring is handled by the assigned hackathon judges.