Superteam UK, a community of builders on Solana, will support all projects & builders during and after the hackathon.

Your challenge for the Encode AI Hackathon is to build an AI solution within one of our selected emerging tech industries, then after this in-person hackathon you’ll have the opportunity to continue development by integrating the Solana blockchain and submitting into the Renaissance Hackathon.

If you’re not already aware; Solana is a high-performance, open-source blockchain platform. Solana offers many innovations like no mem-pool, parallel transaction processing, compressed NFTs, etc. You can read more about Solana here.

Selected Industries:

1. DePin

2. Gaming

3. Consumer Apps

4. Defi & Payments

5. Infrastructure

6. DAOs & Communities

Focus on the AI part of the complete solution during the course of this hackathon, and then post-hackathon work with SuperteamUK to continue building into the Solana Renaissance Hackathon by Colosseum.

Winners of the Renaissance hackathon will also be accepted into Colosseum’s accelerator program, and have the opportunity to secure $250k in pre-seed funding for their project.

Judging criteria

- Impact: Does the proposed problem make sense or be helpful to anyone? How large is the effect on the Solana ecosystem?

- Solution: How clever is the solution? The rule of thumb is the less code a solution requires, the better it is.

- Completeness: How far is the code base from production?

- Applications: How does your AI solution apply to blockchain, and utilise the innovative features of Solana

Prizes

1. 🥇 USDC 2,000

2. 🥈 USDC 1,000

3. 🥉 USDC 500

4. 🎖️ USDC 500

5. 🎖️ USDC 500

All winners will be invited to become SuperteamUK members for access to exclusive perks, and receive a ticket to BlockStart in Scotland 1st-2nd August 2024, and Zebu Live in London 10-11th October 2024.

Resources

Solana TLDR: https://2501babe.github.io/posts/solana101.html

Technical Docs: https://github.com/helius-labs/solana-awesome?tab=readme-ov-file

Developer Tools: https://build.superteam.fun/developer-tools

Solana Courses:

• https://www.soldev.app/ 

• https://buildspace.so/p/solana-core

Bonus DePin Thread: https://x.com/SuperteamDAO/status/1757429238498541786?s=20