Phala x Polkadot Encode Club Hackathon
On this page, you will find everything you need to participant in the Phala challenges in the Polkadot Hack event.
This hackathon is part of Encode Club's long-term Polkadot program, funded by the Polkadot on-chain treasury, and supported by ecosystem projects including Phala Network.
Phala Network is a Polakdot ecosystem project focusing on trustless cloud computing, based on secure enclave technology. Unlike conventional smart contracts, Phala smart contracts can:
- be privacy-preserving: you can store secret data like private keys, API keys, or privacy data in a contract
- interact with HTTP services: you can build an oracles or telegram bots as a smart contract
- run computation extensive code: you can build games and analytics jobs in smart contracts without block latency.
To learn more about what you can build on Phala, please read the challenge ideas, refer to our documentation.
To find out more about the general hackathon, read the official announcement by Polkadot Encode Club.
📅 Dates
- Launch Event: Thursday 9th September at 5:30pm GMT+1
- Challenges go live: October 2th
- Register by: You are welcome to join our hackathon any time before the end (qualified submissions will be accepted even without registration)
- Duration: 4 weeks
- End: Sunday 31st October 2021
- Prize distribution period: up to two weeks after Finale and Prizegiving on November 11th
✍️ Registration
You can register for the hackathon here!
🏁 Phala Challenges
Beginners
Follow the “Hello World” tutorials to complete two challenges. You can get $25 prize for each finished challenge. The first 50 successful submissions are eligible for the prize.
| Challenge 1 | Challenge 2 |
|---|---|
| $25 | $25 |
Challenge 1: In the beginner challenges, we have prepared the tutorials to start a local Phala Network testnet, and run two simple demo DApps.
Challenge 2: Hack on one of the DApps. You can add a tiny new feature and showcase it on the demo frontend.
For the challenge details and how to submit, please refer to:
Advanced
Build a fully functional DApp on Phala Confidential Cloud.
We don't limit the scope or type of the DApp. When the hackathon is finished, the Phala team will judge the submission and pick up the winners of prizes:
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | plus |
|---|---|---|---|
| $3000 | $2000 | $1000 | $500 for each qualified submission |
A qualified DApp should be useful to solve some real-world problems or bring fun to people. It should also address the unique features of Phala (privacy-preserving, computation-intensive, or with HTTP requests)
For the challenge details and how to submit, please refer to:
In addition, documentation and tutorial contributions are elegible for our Code Bounty Program.
The contribution can be:
- Fixes or improvements on our wiki repo
- Published video tutorials on Youtube and Twitter (please submit an issue in the Code Bounty Program repo)
- Documentation or bug fixes in our main repo or JS SDK
💬 Chat and Support
Meet friends and the Phala team at our Official Discord Server!
If you have any questions about the hackathon, Phala development, or you want to report a bug, we have a #hackathon group dedicated to that.
You can also meet more friends in the Polkadot Encode Club Hackathon Discord Server
🧰 Other resources
- Phala Developer Guide
- Demo Contract: Guess Number
- Demo Contract: BTC Price Oracle Bot
- Codebase