OpenBuild Dev Digest #48 | Solana/Starknet Hackathons Incoming, Spotlight on DA and DeAI
Apr 26 - May 2
Welcome back to OpenBuild Dev Digest #48!
This edition is packed with exciting hackathon events you won't want to miss, including the global Solana Breakpoint, the Solar mini Hacker House tailored for Chinese-speaking developers, and the Starknet ecosystem-focused Build Station. Beyond these excellent BUIDL opportunities, we'll also dive into the latest industry insights, covering DA landscape analysis, a DeAI primer, the latest Ethereum developments, plus lucrative grant and bounty opportunities await your challenge!
Solana Breakout Hackathon
📅 April 14 – May 16📍Online 💸 95,000 USD Apply
The Solana Breakout Hackathon 2025 is a global online hackathon competition aimed at stimulating innovation within the Solana ecosystem, providing a platform for developers and entrepreneurs to showcase their skills and creativity. The competition features seven tracks: DePIN, Stablecoins, DeFi, AI, Gaming, Infrastructure, and Consumer Apps. The event runs from April 14 to May 16, 2025. Participants can register and participate via the Colosseum online platform. After registering, fill in "OpenBuild" in the "How did you hear about Colosseum?" field on your My Profile page to get referral eligibility and exclusive benefits.
Solar mini Hacker House x OpenBuild · Shenzhen
📅 May 5 – May 13📍Offline Apply
Officially launched by the Solana Foundation and the Solana Chinese community Solar, in collaboration with Chinese ecosystem partners like HackQuest, ZJUBA, OpenBuild, DengLian Community, 706Creators, Tintinland, and core ecosystem teams Sonic SVM, CUDIS, io.net, this is the offline Solar mini Hacker House in Shenzhen. Participants from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are eligible for 1v1 guidance from Solar mentors, a special prize pool of $20,000 USD for the Chinese-speaking region, and subsequent promotional support from the Solar community.
Starknet Build Station
📅 May 12 – May 17 📍Offline Apply
Build Station is a collaborative space and a five-day online acceleration node dedicated to being an 'energy reserve station' for developers in the Starknet ecosystem. Here, developers can recharge their knowledge, receive technical guidance, form teams, and build prototypes. Unlike traditional structured bootcamps, Build Station embraces openness and experimentation, providing a nurturing ground for projects before they officially enter hackathons or start-ups.
Aleo Privacy Virtual Hackathon
📅 May 1 – May 17 📍Online 💸 100,000 USD Apply
Join the Aleo Privacy Hackathon to build next-generation privacy-preserving applications using zero-knowledge technology and the Aleo stack, competing for a share of 100,000 $ALEO in prizes. Developers are encouraged to explore focus areas such as private stablecoin use cases for finance, verifiable private states for identity and access control, and innovative zk-powered DeFi solutions. To be eligible, projects must be newly developed, written in Leo, deployed on Aleo mainnet, and submitted with both a demonstration video and an open-source GitHub repository.
✍️ Romance of the Three DAs: Celestia, Avail, and EigenDA 👉Read(EN)
Celestia, Avail, and EigenDA share many aspects in the business domain, they emerged during a similar period, and their current target markets are pretty much similar. Moreover, shortly after the emergence of the DA sector, Ethereum's Dencun upgrade introduced blobspace, which somewhat diminished the strong thesis of DA projects.
✍️ The ultimate starting point for going down the DeAI rabbithole 👉Read(EN)
This post is intended for anyone who wants to get up to speed on Decentralized AI (DeAI) and is looking for the perfect starting point.
✍️ Relay Inclusion Lists 👉Read(EN)
This document introduces relay inclusion lists (rILs), a way to immediately improve Ethereum’s censorship resistance without introducing protocol changes, new trust assumptions, or significant technical complexity. The design is intended as a new default feature for non-censoring relays, with an opt-out option provided to accommodate validator preference.
💸 PancakeSwap Infinity Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $1,000,000 👉 Apply
PancakeSwap is a leading multi-chain DEX. It offers several products such as farming, derivatives, etc. PancakeSwap Infinity is the newest version of the DEX, designed to make swapping & liquidity provisioning faster, cheaper, and more flexible. It uses a modular design that allows for more customization using hooks and supports different types of AMM pools.
💸 level Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $200,000 👉 Apply
Level is a stablecoin protocol that issues lvlUSD, a stablecoin that is fully backed by USDC and USDT generating yield from blue-chip lending protocols like Aave and soon Morpho.
💸 Ostium Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $100,000 👉 Apply
The Ostium Protocol is an open-sourced, decentralised exchange on Ethereum Layer 2 Arbitrum, enabling transparent and non-custodial perpetuals exposure to Real World Assets. Rewards are distributed according to the impact of the vulnerability based on the Immunefi Vulnerability Severity Classification System V2.2.
💸 Haven1 Bug Bounty
Maximum Bounty $100,000 👉 Apply
Haven1 is a REKT-Resistant EVM L1 blockchain meticulously designed to prevent onchain hacks, scams and rug pulls through network-level safety guardrails that connects verified users to verified builders so they can interact with complete peace-of-mind. Rewards are distributed according to the impact of the vulnerability based on the Immunefi Vulnerability Severity Classification System V2.2.
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