OpenBuild Dev Digest #41 | AI + Blockchain Hackathons, Decentralized Infrastructure & Security Bounties
Mar 8 - Mar 14
Welcome to OpenBuild Dev Digest #41!
This week brings a whirlwind of opportunities for builders, from AI-driven hackathons and Ethereum’s open-source contribution modeling to cutting-edge tools like Cryo-MCP for LLM-powered blockchain queries. Dive into updates on decentralized AI trust with Hyperbolic, zkVM security challenges, and high-stakes bug bounties offering rewards up to $2.5M.
Endgame hackathon - AI cutting edge projects
📅 March 10 – April 25 📍Online 💸 120,000 USD Apply
The Endgame Hackathon is a 6 weeks online and 48h physical hackathon. Participation is possible from anywhere across the globe. Attendance to the final 48h in person hack is optional. Projects will be reviewed and judged by the sponsoring entities directly. We aim to create life-changing opportunities for participants and act as a catalyst for developing Bittensor’s technical, product and market possibilities.
Quantifying Contributions of Open Source Projects to the Ethereum Universe
📅 February 10 – May 10 📍Online 💸 50,000 USD Apply
Create a machine learning or metrics-based model that produces 15,000 weights indicating the contribution of open-source repositories to the Ethereum universe. The models that best align with juror rankings for a subset of these dependencies will get to allocate $170,000 to approximately 5,000 open-source repositories—and win prizes worth $50,000 from Vitalik Buterin! This contest is open for three months, from February 10th to May 10th.
Eolas x Algo: Agent Skills Hackathon
📅 March 3 – March 17 📍Online 💸 20,000 USD Apply
The Eolas x Algo: Agent Skills Hackathon is a global online event designed to transform the CreatorBid ecosystem. Unlike traditional hackathons, this event is driven by real agent demand—top CreatorBid agents are actively commissioning the tools they need, and developers have the chance to build them. Two Ways to Win:
1. Bounty Track: Complete bounties by creating valuable skills that agents want to use. Win bounty rewards and a share of a $10,000 prize pool.
2. Best Skills Track: Compete for the title of "Best Overall Skill" (beyond bounties). Top 3 projects, judged by CreatorBid, split another $10,000 prize pool.
✍️ Introducing Cryo-MCP 👉Read(EN)
An MCP server enables LLMs to query blockchain data using the best tool available, agents can use this to perform complex queries of on-chain data and use this to form their responses, and gain much richer access to historical data very easily.
✍️ Hyperbolic: The Ultimate Deep Dive 👉Read(EN)
Trust is the foundation of artificial intelligence. Without it, even the most powerful AI models are just black boxes generating unreliable outputs. At Hyperbolic, we are champions of decentralized AI infrastructure. This truth becomes even more critical when we adopt decentralization for AI—a move that promises greater accessibility and lower costs, but introduces new challenges in ensuring reliable results.
✍️ The path to secure and efficient zkVMs: How to track progress 👉Read(EN)
zkVMs (zero knowledge virtual machines) promise to “democratize SNARKs” by allowing anyone, even those with no specialized SNARK expertise, to prove that they have correctly run any program on a given input (or witness). Their core strength lies in the developer experience, but currently they present enormous challenges in both security and performance. For zkVMs to fulfill their promise, designers will have to overcome these challenges.
💸 Metastreet Yield Pass Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $50,000 👉 Apply
MetaStreet Yield Pass is a yield tokenization pool for node NFTs. Rewards are distributed according to the impact of the vulnerability based on the Immunefi Vulnerability Severity Classification System V2.2.
💸 Symbiotic Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $50,000 👉 Apply
Symbiotic is a shared security protocol designed to create a marketplace for economic security. Rewards are distributed according to the impact of the vulnerability based on the Immunefi Vulnerability Severity Classification System V2.2.
💸 The Graph Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $2,500,000 👉 Apply
The Graph is an indexing protocol for querying decentralized data from multiple blockchains and storage solutions such as IPFS. Rewards are distributed according to the impact of the vulnerability based on the Immunefi Vulnerability Severity Classification System V2.2.
Selected open courses from technical skills to practical tasks, accessible to everyone with no cost!
🌟 ZKP FRI And STARK Open Course
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