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ABOUT THE HACKATHON

• Introduction
• Challenge Tracks
• Prizes, Awards & Bounties
• Hackathon Schedule & Events
• Mentoring
• FAQs & Code of Conduct

GETTING STARTED

• Hacker’s Checklist
• Resources

HACKERS DIRECTORIES

• Team Registration & Formation Guide
• Team Information Update Guide
• Hacker’s Profile Guide
• Free Agents Directory
• Teams Directory

SUBMISSIONS & JUDGING

• Submission Requirements
• Submissions Guide
• Judging Criteria
• Judges

LEADERBOARD

• Leaderboard Eligibility
• Leaderboard Prize
• Earning Leaderboard Points
• The Leaderboard

HELP, CHANNELS & PROJECTS

• Need Help?
• Hackathon Channels
• Sponsors
• Projects Gallery

$\LARGE \textbf {\textsf {SUBMISSIONS \& JUDGING}}$

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**Each team will appoint 1 person as the “**Team Leader” to submit the below artefacts onto virtual.hackathon.io before 11:59 pm (UTC) on 18 September 2022, Sunday.

*If you are hacking solo, you are the Team Leader.

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Team leader to create the team's GitHub Repo and share the access with the rest of the team to collaborate on.

• The team will save all submission items onto this Github Repo where the judges may access the items during judging period.

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A detailed description of the team's project containing the following:

• Name and summary of the project
• Team name and name of team member(s)
• An overview of what problem is being addressed; the industry/community and the issue identified for submission
• The thought process behind the project and how the team thinks this solves the identified problem

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This is a recorded video for the team to pitch their idea to the judges. Videos exceeding 3 minutes (or are sped up in anyway) may face disqualification.

The pitch video should mention:

• Name of the project
• Overview of the design, novelty/originality, technical complexity and mass usability

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Teams to indicate a list of tech stack (solutions, technology infrastructure, technology services, etc) used by the team to build their project; all projects must be built on Avalanche.

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This is the URL to the live working environment of the solution the team has developed.

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QuickNode Bounty - USD$1,000 in stablecoins

On top of the submission artefacts, teams will also need to submit their:

1. QuickNode Avalanche RPC, &
2. Name of their QuickNode RPC as part of their project submission.

The Graph: Best Use of Existing Subgraph(s) Bounty - USD$1,500 in stablecoins

On top of the submission artefacts, teams have to ensure that their project has integrated existing The Graph/subgraph(s) in their submission

The Graph: Best New Subgraph Bounty - USD$1,500 in stablecoins

On top of the submission artefacts, teams have to ensure that their project has:

1. Used a custom subgraph built by the team to index blockchain data,
2. Provided a link to the subgraph source code, &
3. Provided a linked to a video explanation + live demo (included in the mandatory submission artefacts 3 and 5 stated above)

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