Protocol Labs is an open-source R&D lab. They build protocols, tools, and services to radically improve the internet. Their products serve thousands of organizations and millions of people.

• IPFS: IPFS powers the Distributed Web. It's a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity's knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open.
• Filecoin: the world’s largest decentralized network offering more than 18+ EiB of storage. It allows users to store, request, and transfer data via a verifiable marketplace. The FVM (Filecoin virtual Machine) brings the EVM-compatible runtime environment to support smart contracts on the Filecoin network.

Protocol Labs is glad to offer a dedicated bounty for building innovative solutions on Filecoin and/or IPFS by utilizing the decentralized storage and/or on-chain programmability of FVM, its mentorship, and support as a 2023 Devfolio Hackathon Season Partner.

🚀 Prize

• $250 for best use of IPFS and/or Filecoin, and FVM.

🧰 Challenge Statements

The best use of IPFS and/or Filecoin.

The best use of Filecoin for decentralized, persistent storage and/or IPFS for content addressing. Projects that use either technology indirectly via NFT.storage, web3.storage, Estuary, Lighthouse, or similar tools may also qualify.

The best innovation built on FVM (Filecoin Virtual Machine).

The best usage of smart contracts via FVM to leverage the uniqueness of Filecoin storage deals or the on-chain programmability to build dApps like DeFi, NFT, gaming, DAO, etc.

✅ Submission Guidelines

• A submission with a working demo that demonstrates the use of IPFS and/or Filecoin in some form or the other can be defined as valid.
• Submit the GitHub link of your publicly visible source code of the hack on Devfolio. Broken links will disqualify the project from the judging process.
• There must be a clear description of the working of the hack in the README file. If the hack is live and can be tested, add the relevant links to that in the README file too.
• Create a short video demo on Devfolio itself while making the submission. Make sure that the person watching the video is fully able to understand what the bot does and what its functionalities are.
• Make sure you've mentioned IPFS and/or Filecoin in the Technologies Used section and selected the appropriate track while submitting the project.

📝 Judging

The judging will be done by the Protocol Labs team based on submissions on Devfolio, post the hackathon. Awarding the prize will be at the Protocol Labs team's discretion and subject to the hacks meeting a minimum bar of quality. Prizes will be announced and disbursed within a couple of days after the hackathon.