
+ SmartCon tickets, covered travels, and the opportunity to present your project on stage.
Chainlink Grand Prize
For the best overall project that showcases how Chainlink and sponsor technologies enable a better way to power onchain finance or AI
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Best DeFi projects
Best tokenization/RWA projects
Best projects built for problem statements put forward by partners
Onchain Finance
For projects bringing new ideas to DeFi, stablecoins and onchain finance—whether by extending existing protocols or building entirely new ones. In addition, projects that focus on the tokenization of RWAs, bringing them onchain to enable a better way to do finance.
DeFi Example Ideas:
- New derivatives or perps protocol that use Data Streams, Automation, & CCIP
- Cross-chain lending and borrowing protocol
- Multi-chain DEX
- AI-powered onchain yield optimizer
- Liquid staking protocol
Tokenization Example Ideas:
- Generating tokenized carbon credits based on an offchain system of record, minting them across chains
- Tokenizing real estate based on offchain APIs
- Tokenizing game assets enabling them to be traded & leveraged in DeFi protocols
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Best DeFi projects
Cross-Chain Solutions
For the best cross-chain projects. This track purely focuses on implementations that make sense in a multi-chain world and use CCIP and/or CCT standard to enable seamless interoperability
Use cases:
- Cross-chain DeFi app with liquidity across multiple chains
- Cross-chain game where players on chain A can play players on chain B
- Cross chain liquid staking protocol
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(Distribution TBC)
AI & ElizaOS powered AI Agents
More info coming soon!
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In credits
Avalanche
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In AWS credits
AWS
More info coming soon!
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