DoraHacks Hackathon Proposal with Evmos

Summary

The DoraHacks Team, one of world's most active multi-chain Web3 developer incentive platform, proposes a hackathon partnership with the Evmos community to help attract developers and promote growth within the Evmos ecosystem.

The Hackathon prize pool will be approximately $125k (281,000 EVMOS @ $.44) of non-dilutive funding through a community controlled multisig to be given out as EVMOS tokens to Hackathon winners that show the most promise and meet the needs of the team.

Abstract

DoraHacks is a global hacker movement and the world's most active multi-chain Web3 developer incentive platform. More than 3,000 projects from the DoraHacks community have received over $30 million in grants and hackathon prizes. DoraHacks.io has around 250,000 active users worldwide. The platform offers hackathons, bounties, quadratic funding, privacy voting, and other community governance/funding toolkits. In addition, over 80 major Web3 ecosystems are currently using Dora infrastructures to fund their open-source communities

The Evmos Hackathon Partnership aims to align all stakeholders by incentivizing individuals and organizations to explore and develop their ideas on Evmos by offering individuals and organizations non-dilutive funding to develop and further the Evmos ecosystem.

Proposal

Goal:

1. Branding

• To leverage DoraHacks’ developer community and DoraHacks.io platform’s traffic to promote Evmos’ dev toolkits and APIs, and onboard more developers to adopt Evmos’s tech stacks and build on Evmos

• To leverage DoraHacks’ expertise in organizing hackathons, virtual or in-person hackathons, workshops, and project demo sessions to help the Evmos team operate developer events globally.

• To involve Evmos in the hackathons, quadratic funding community grants and other events DoraHacks co-host with different open Web3 ecosystems, for instance, BNB Chain, Solana, Filecoin, Avalanche, Moonriver, Polygon, Harmony and more.

2. Education

• To host workshops for developers to help them better understand how to build in the Evmos Ecosystem.

3. Innovation

•To incentivize global developers to build on Evmos by providing prizes, grants, and investments to the teams emerging from the events DoraHacks and Evmos organize together.

Scope of Partnership:

Hackathons

DoraHacks will host virtual and in-person hackathons globally each year. DoraHacks can help the Evmos Foundation with the following

• Facilitate Evmos global and regional hackathons, dedicated fully to the ecosystem growth of Evmos

• Participate in DoraHacks hackathons, co-hosted with other leading blockchain companies and open ecosystems, as a co-host/sponsor/partner, depending on the exclusivity and scope of the hackathons.

In the hackathons, DoraHacks will be covering the main operational efforts, including:

• Basic Logistics of the hackathons - agenda, workshops, judge invitations, promotion material design, etc.

• Hacker and team recruitment: DoraHacks will work with global partners to recruit participants for the hackathon.

Evmos will be expected to provide the following resources:

• Prize Pool - the incentive for global devs to participate. From our experience, $125K worth of prize pool can incentivize 50-100 teams to join and build in the Evmos ecosystem.

• Idealists and tracks - Which sectors do you want participating developers and teams to be the focus of the hackathon?

• Invitation of Mentors and part of the Judging panel - core team members are expected to participate in the hackathons to support participating teams and devs.

• Workshops - to better guide devs and projects on project development.

• Workshops can be divided into two categories: technical workshops and business workshops. Speakers can give presentations depending on their expertise. Mentors are also expected to deliver workshops to hackathon participants.

• Marketing Resources - the foundation’s official resources are crucial in the success of the promotion of the Hackathon.Press releases in leading media channels, Twitter promotion and interaction, important promotion efforts like CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko banners, etc.

Timeline

Q1/2 2023 - TBC

Kick-off Preparation

Evmos team to confirm the details of the hackathon (Kick-off/closing dates, prizes, tracks, idea lists, partners, goals, scale, budget)

• Set up meetings with DoraHacks to confirm the details

Q1 2023

• Evmos and DoraHacks team finalize on tracks and idea lists • Evmos and DoraHacks team reach out to partners and judges • Evmos and DoraHacks teamwork on the landing page and promotion materials. • DoraHacks deploys the Evmos Hackathon page. • All tracks/idealists confirmed • All mentors/judges confirmed •All workshop confirmed • Landing page done • DoraHacks & Evmos jointly promote on all channels to recruit global developers to apply for the hackathon. • All media partners confirmed

Official Hackathon promotion + developer community promotion + project submission

Late Q1/Q2 2023 (TBC)

• Evmos Hackathon Opening Ceremony(Virtual, hosted by DoraHacks) • Evmos Hackathon workshops from core team and partners (Virtual) • Campaign on all social media platforms and media Submissions • Project Submission •Project demo session of selected excellent projects Judging • Judges decide on the winners of the hackathon • Evmos Global Hackathon Closing ceremony(Hosted by DoraHacks)

Post Hackathon • Promotion and incubation of star projects coming out from the hackathon. • Preparation for Evmos Hackathon 2.

Amount Requested

The prize pool will be approximately $125k (281,000 EVMOS @ $.44) of non-dilutive funding to be given out as EVMOS tokens directly to Hackathon winners. These funds will be controlled by a 3/4 Multisig ( evmos1rgrmc3j8mt346t67ymnw7eysmjsu0l74j6vqnv ) until time of distribution managed by the following members:

• Luisqa | Zenith Station • Tendermint Timmy | Spark IBC • Leo | BlockHunters • Del Rey | Stakin

For more supporting details and discussion, please reference the Commonwealth Post.

Voting

• By voting YES, indicates approval of the proposal in its current form.

• By voting NO, indicates disapproval of the proposal in its current form.

• By voting ABSTAIN, you formally decline to vote either for or against the proposal.

• By voting NOWITHVETO, indicates stronger opposition to the proposal than simply voting No. If the number of NoWithVeto votes is greater than a third of total votes excluding Abstain votes, the proposal is rejected and the deposits are burned.