ZK Compression is a new primitive built on Solana that enables you to build applications at scale.

Developers and users can opt to compress their on-chain state, reducing state costs by orders of magnitude while preserving the security, performance, and composability of the Solana L1.

Track Description

This ZK Compression track, brought to you by Light Protocol, Helius and the Solana Foundation, challenges participants to build innovative projects on the Solana that using zero-knowledge compression to achieve new levels of scalability, privacy, and security.

Projects must use compressed tokens or compressed accounts in some capacity to be eligible, in addition to the following requirements.

Eligibility Requirements:

• The Solana Foundation Rules apply for qualification.

• Use compressed tokens or compressed accounts in some capacity.

• Each participant can have a maximum of 1 project submission count towards scoring in this side track.

• Please note that the $100 participation bounty is awarded at our sole discretion, particularly as a measure to prevent Sybil attacks.

Judging

The Radar Hackathon's submission rules apply. Once all submissions are collected, we will distribute a list to the side-track judges for evaluation.

Teams and individuals are evaluated on the following criteria:

• Functionality

• Potential impact

• Novelty

• Design

• Extensibility

After the judges complete individual evaluations, they will discuss and choose the winners based on the project's weighted scores.

Rewards

• First Place: $20,000 USDC + Swag

• Second Place: $10,000 USDC + Swag

• Third Place: $5,000 USDC+ Swag

• Fourth Place: $5,000 USDC+ Swag

• All participants who submit a project that fulfills the eligibility criteria: $100

Additionally, all winners will receive personal help with VC intros and Go-to-Market strategy from Mert!

Resources

• ZK Compression documentation

• Example token-escrow program

• Discord chat for the hackathon

• Project ideas
  

Project Ideas

We encourage you to build things that you're excited about building.

For inspiration, we have compiled a list of interesting ideas here.

Where can I ask technical questions?

1. Check out the Light and Helius Developer Discord servers!

2. We also host office hours for teams or individuals participating in the hackathon.