As NEAR approached its mainnet launch, we had a dream...that hackers seeking to build the open web could cross between Ethereum and the NEARverse using a Rainbow Bridge. Hack the Rainbow was NEAR’s first MOOH (Massive Open Online Hackathon) focused on building bridges between NEAR and the Ethereum ecosystems.
The Rainbow Bridge allows developers to utilize Ethereum assets and smart contracts on NEAR—a fast, scalable, and low-cost environment. The Bridge has the power to accelerate community growth by giving Ethereum Developers and Dapp users the ability to port their ETH assets to NEAR and back as needed to take advantage of transaction fees and scalability on NEAR. Over the course of the past month, more than 400 participants and 80 projects from 18 countries around the world were submitted! The NEAR community came out in full force to show the flexibility and speed of the protocol. From DeFi to NFT, DAOs to bots, and even SciFi stories and some dank memes - we’re blown away by the creativity and diversity of submissions.Judges and mentors
We’d like to take a moment to extend a special thanks to the stellar panel of judges and mentors from the industry that lent their time and experience to help participants from around the world. Thank you to all our mentors: James Hancock (Ethereum Foundation), Lane Rettig (Space Mesh), Antoine Toulme (Splunk), Pedro Gomes (WalletConnect), Zhen Yu Yong (Torus), Mariano Conti, Alex Stokes, Petr Korolev (Matter Labs), Maggie Love (W3BCLOUD), Emile Kratikoff (Cisco), Trace Wax (Fractal), dApp Lion (dAppNode) and Niran Babalola (Panvala). These mentors participated in panel discussions, facilitated workshops and answered questions from our participants. This hackathon wouldn’t have been possible without their continued support. This wouldn’t be complete without a HUGE Thank You to the NEAR Core Devs who went out of their way to help all our hackers. Big ups to Sherif Abushadi, Chad Ostrowski, Mike Purvis, Willem Wyndham, Vlad Frolov, Josh Ford, Evgeny Kuzyakov, and Peter DePaulo.Partners
For our debut hackathon, we wanted to make sure to collaborate with teams that were really passionate about building and supporting developer communities. Hack The Rainbow wouldn’t have been the same without their involvement. Whether it was through mentorship and being a sounding board for the participants or even jumping on to our Discord to answer questions, these partners have made a lasting impact on the NEAR community. Finally, we asked them to put on their judging hats to review and offer feedback, and, most importantly, give prizes to the winning teams! Huge thanks to all our partners that made this event possible.And now, here are the winners of Hack the Rainbow 2020!
Overall Winner: 10,000 NEAR tokens + 1,000 DAI
yNEAR yNEAR leverages the Rainbow Bridge to create staking based derivatives on NEAR. Users can earn yNEAR tokens by staking NEAR tokens to certain validators and the amount of yNEAR is adjusted to accumulate validator rewards. By transferring yNEAR to Ethereum on the Rainbow Bridge, token holders can explore diverse opportunities from DeFi projects. A small commission of validator rewards will be collected into the treasury, in which all yNEAR token holders can participate in the governance and project initiatives.
Team Members: Yoonsung, Jeon Jeongho
Runners Up
NEARswap - 6000 NEAR + 600 DAI NEARswap is an AMM protocol. Currently, it implements the Uniswap model. The team created a shared pool structure and researched other models for better AMM experience. With NEARswap and Rainbow bridge you can securely and efficiently exchange NEAR and Ethereum assets. The team used Skynet for their UI and also qualified for a participation prize from our partner Sia! Team Members: Robert Zaremba, Lucio Tato, Amit Yadav, Jameson Hodge
NEARBook 6000 NEAR + 600 DAI
NEARBook is an on-chain order book implemented using Rust. The matching engine is implemented as a smart contract on the NEAR blockchain. It uses the Rainbow Bridge to use Ethereum assets on NearBook. The team also used Skynet for their UI and qualified for a participation prize from our partner Sia!
Team Members: Prince, Ayush
Advanced Fungible token standard 6000 NEAR + 600 DAI
Advanced Fungible is a modern, secure and user-friendly token standard for NEAR protocol. It aims to fix some of the issues past token implementations, especially ERC-20 and NEP-21, have. It includes features like single-click trades, more useful metadata like icons and Rust compiler based security features.
Team members: Mikko Ohtamaa, Rachel Black
Intoo TV 6000 NEAR + 600 DAI
Intoo TV is a p2p live-streaming platform to design, share and monetize real-life experiences.
Team Members: Alex, Naz and Ebtesam
Influences 6000 NEAR + 600 DAI
Influences is a decentralized social network that allows fans to subscribe to their favourite influencers for a monthly fee. Influencers in turn share images and videos. By leveraging smart contracts and distributed storage, they put influencers in direct control of their earnings. The team behind Influences also won the runner up prize from our Hackathon partners Sia/Skynet!
Team member: Guillermo Gallardo
Vital Point DAO 6000 NEAR + 600 DAI
The DAO is NEAR! Vital Point-DAO is a Moloch v2 port to NEAR that can whitelist/integrate with any NEP-21 token. A module of the VitalPoint AI is decentralized community platform which makes it easy to manage community resources and proposals.
Team members: Aaron Luhning
