To spur greater developer adoption for Web 3.0, NKN was proud to be a core sponsor of Gitcoin GR 11 hackathon from September 8th to 29th this year.
Our judges were extremely impressed by the quality and diversity of submissions by over 30 ambitious developers/teams. The contestants explored a wide range of possibilities within NKN’s unique decentralized P2P communication network, and created collaborative whiteboards, code share, real time location tracking for ride sharing, energy scheduling, creative NFTs, new SDKs, easy to read documentation, and many more.
Now without further ado, let’s unveil the Winners of this season!
| Bounty | Prize | Winner | Notes |
| Whiteboard over NKN | 7,500 | Riddle by jithinks97 | 1,000 USDT for EnKayne by zedonboy |
| Code share over NKN | 7,500 | Codeshare by leetdev | Conditional pending open issue, partial payment. |
| Improve documentation for NKN SDKs | 3,750 | Java SDK by cryptofervid | |
| Open innovative app on NKN (top prize) | 7,500 | Vacant | Convert to long term bounty |
| Open innovative app on NKN (2nd prize) | 3,750 | nRide by arrivets | |
| Open innovative app on NKN (3rd prize) | 1,875 | nkn-esi by pccourt | |
| NKN special NFT collection | 3,750 | artipedia oldmantom-nkn | Joint winner sharing prize. In addition, 250 USDT for the-hack-god |
| NKN satellite miner | 20,000 | Vacant | No qualified submission. Convert to long term bounty. |
| Rust SDK for NKN | 15,000 | Vacant | No qualified submission. Convert to long term bounty. |
| Metaverse over NKN | 7,500 | Vacant | No qualified submission. Convert to long term bounty. |
| Video conference over NKN | 7,500 | Vacant | Existing submission needs major work. Convert to long term bounty |
In the next few weeks, we will showcase some of the top winners and help the developers to make their application reach a wider audience. The hackathon is just the beginning, and we look forward to further supporting the developer community and strengthening the NKN ecosystem!
Note for the winners: The bounty payout will happen in the next few days. If an award is “conditional pending open issues”, please check your github issues and implement/fix at your earliest convenience.
Note for all hackathon participants: thank you again for your effort. We will work with gitcoin to convert several hackathon bounties that are marked “Vacant” into long term bounties, and we encourage you to continue to work on them until you claim your reward!
About NKN
NKN is the new networking infrastructure built for Web 3.0 and the decentralized Internet. Already built the world’s largest blockchain network with over 100,000 full consensus nodes globally, NKN aspires to be the indispensable peer to peer networking protocol for all consumer and enterprise applications. NKN encourages Internet users to share their bandwidth and network connections through economic incentives, so everyone can have faster, cheaper, and more secure Internet connections.
For more information about NKN and our team, please visit: https://nkn.org
About Gitcoin
Gitcoin is on a mission to build an internet that is open source, collaborative, and economically empowering.
Gitcoin is creating community and infrastructure for Web 3 — a diverse range of tools, technologies, and networks that enable people to work for the open internet.
By funding projects, building community, and making learning resources accessible, Gitcoin is teaming up to create the digital public infrastructure of tomorrow.