Hack Austin Project Submission Guide

What is Hack Austin?

Hack Austin is a Web3 Blockchain Hackathon held by DoraHacks in Austin, Texas on May 15–16th. It's open for project submission starting from 12pm May 15th, and closes at 12pm May 16th.

The program encourages and supports early-stage developer projects that build next-generation web3 and blockchain products. All participants can submit their projects on DoraHacks’ blockchain developer platform https://hackerlink.io/en/Grant?type=Hack%20Austin to win a slice of the $21000 grand prize pool!

If you have any questions, you can ask them in the Telegram group chat

How is the Prize Pool Distributed?

The $21000 prize pool will be divided into 2 portions:

$16000 will be allocated proportionally based on the number of votes each team gets from the judge panel and other hacker teams;

the other $5000 will be allocated based on the popularity of each project (as determined by the online community votes);

In addition, each team can get direct donation from the community. When community members vote on the project, they’re making direct donations to the project and become the project’s sponsors.

Schedule

Submission Period: May 15th 12pm— May 16th, 12pm, 2021

Submitted projects will be displayed on each round’s detail page, and a real-time community donation ranking will be displayed on the leaderboard.

Voting Period： May 15th 12pm — May 16th 3pm, 2021

How to apply?

1. Open https://hackerlink.io/en/, and click on the right corner to log in. If you’re new to Hackerlink, login with your GitHub or email. If you choose email, a verification code will be sent to your email to create your account.

• When registering a new account, please fill in your information with your mostly used contacts (such as Whatsapp, and Telegram)

2. Click “Grant” on the top-bar, and then click “Hack Austin” on the page. Or you can try clicking https://hackerlink.io/en/Grant?type=Hack%20Austin.

3. Click on “Apply Grant”. Make sure you’re on Hack Austin’s page, instead of other grant programs.

4. Choose “Hack Austin Grant Round 1”, connect your wallet (MetaMask or WalletConnect) to HackerLink. Make sure to change to the BSC network.

If your MetaMask doesn’t have BSC network yet, select “Custom RPC” in the MetaMask page, and enter in the BSC mainnet details as follows:

• Network Name: BSC Mainnet
• New RPC URL: https://bsc-dataseed1.binance.org/ or https://bsc-dataseed2.binance.org/
• ChainID: 56, or 0x38 if 56 doesn’t work
• Symbol: BNB
• Block Explorer URL: https://bscscan.com/

If you’re still stuck at this step, scroll down to the Q&A section of this article for a step-by-step guide with screenshots.

It requires a small amount of USDC for the gas fee to get on the chain. If you don’t have enough USDC for that, contact DoraHacks staff and we will help you.

5. Fill in the project name, team info, GitHub link, Twitter etc. Please complete the information as much as possible. Verify your Twitter links and GitHub Repo so that DoraHacks can help promote your projects, and community contributors can make sure they are donating to the real and correct project.

6. Confirm submission to complete the application. You will be able to see your submitted project on the Grant page, which means you have completed your application.

6. If your projects have updates, you can edit it by clicking on your profile photo and selecting “My Uploaded Projects” in “Personal Center”.

Notice! After submission, please add @siyu_mia on Telegram to get more support in promoting your project on social media.

How to Gain More Votes?

a. Upload the project early

The earlier the projects are submitted, the more people can see and vote for them.

And don’t worry if you’d like to update your project after submission, updates are allowed and every updated project will be listed on the top of the wall. All projects should be finalized before 12pm, May 16th.

b. Share in your communities

Share your projects to your communities to gain more support, votes or technical advice.

Tips:

• Fill in your Twitter links and GitHub repos, so community contributors can confirm the identity of you and your project.
• Complete detailed project information, so that staff can verify the project.
• Please share your project on social media platforms like Twitter, FB and WeChat friend circle, to let more people know about them and win more community votes (donations).
• Please submit a real and valid project that is developed by you or your team. Do not submit other’s projects or plagiarize. All plagiarized projects will be disqualified in all grant applications and the community will be notified.

My MetaMask wallet doesn’t have BSC network, what do I do?

1. Open MetaMask → Settings → Networks, choose “Custom RPC”.

2. Fill in the configuration as below:

• Network Name: BSC Mainnet
• New RPC URL: https://bsc-dataseed1.binance.org/ or https://bsc-dataseed2.binance.org/
• ChainID: 56, or 0x38 if 56 doesn’t work
• Symbol: BNB
• Block Explorer URL: https://bscscan.com/

I’ve submitted my project. What’s next?

1. Open your submitted project in “personal centre”, and click on “project detail”.

2. Verify your Twitter link by publishing a verification message, and verify your GitHub account with a single click. (If you are one of the contributors of your submitted repo’s master branch, you will be verified.)

Please verify the twitter link and GitHub repo so that community members can verify your identity and your project.

How do community contributors vote?

Your first vote towards a project costs 1USDC in this round. According to quadratic funding algorithm, your Nth vote towards the same project costs 1*N USDCs.

How can I check the prize allocation and project ranking?

Click on “Grant details” of Hack Austin(or here) to check the current prize allocation leaderboard. Please note that the board will keep updating until this grant round is closed.

Need Help? Contact Us

HackerLink: https://hackerlink.io/en

You can also send messages on our Telegram participant group.

About DoraHacks

DoraHacks is a decentralized global developer community, hackathon organizer, and venture builder. DoraHacks’ blockchain developer platform HackerLink.io provides tools to incentivize and foster open-source blockchain development, such as grants, bounties, BUIDLs, and hackathons.

For more information on DoraHacks, please visit our website.

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