Polkadot Hackathon By Encode 2025

Context

Bifrost is a Liquid Staking app-chain tailored for all blockchains, utilizing decentralized cross-chain interoperability to empower users to earn staking rewards and DeFi yields with flexibility, liquidity, and high security across multiple chains.

Challenge details

Create a unique and optimal UX for interacting with Bifrost Liquid Staking Tokens available on many chains

To achieve this, you can:

Create a new frontend experience for mint/redeem/track with Bifrost Liquid Staking Tokens
Create a new mobile app for mint/redeem/track with Bifrost Liquid Staking Tokens
Create an AI agent that can help users mint/redeem/track with Bifrost Liquid Staking Tokens
Create an intent system that can help users mint/redeem/track with Bifrost Liquid Staking Tokens
... and more

Judging criteria

Originality: How unique and innovative is the UX approach?
User Experience: How easy is the UX to use?
Technical Implementation: How well is the UX implemented?
Community integration: How well integrated is the UX with the Bifrost community?

Engage with the community

Join the Bifrost Community on X: https://x.com/i/communities/1866708831591600383
Post about your idea and get instant feedback. Admins will help sharing to other groups.

Requirements

Fully open source is a requirement so please include all the relevant repos in your submission.
You can submit multiple times for the same project for additional grants but each submission should have a key improvement to core features.
Your project should be deployed on a compatible testnet or mainnet. Check the list here.

Submission guidelines

Go to the Issue section for this GItHub repo: https://github.com/bifrost-io/mono/issues
Use the proposal template to create a proposal describing your idea.
Upon receiving the approved tag for your issue, you can start working on the submission.
Once you are done with your submission, submit the open source GitHub repo links and deployed links for your submission in the previously created Issue.
Grant will be evaluated by the Grant Committee
- Initial evaluation & feedback will be communicated with applicants as soon as possible from the date of submission.
- Re-submission and adjustments could be required.
- We will assign a grant amount based on the quality of the submission.
The grant Committee will vote to approve payment of the proposal.
- The committee can decide to accept the application in whole / partially or reject it.
The Grant Committee will communicate their decision (approval or rejection) to the applicant. Your issue will be marked cleared after payout has been approved and paid after payout has been transferred.
Accepted grant applications will be published on the Bifrost forum.
For receiving the grant, you need to provide your Bifrost wallet address. Follow these steps:
- Create a repository in your GitHub account named bifrost-io.
- Create a file inside the repository named funding.json.
- Add the following JSON to the file:
```
{
  "bifrost": "your_bifrost_wallet_address" 
}
```
- Wait for payout

Resources

Docs for human: https://docs.bifrost.io
Mono repo: https://github.com/bifrost-io/mono
Builder program: https://github.com/bifrost-io/mono/tree/main/builder-program
AI friendly docs: https://github.com/bifrost-io/mono/blob/main/docs
Testnet kit: https://github.com/buildstationorg/bifrost-testnetkit

Prizes

$300 - $1000+ depending on the submission quality

Post hackathon resources

For Bifrost track participants, we will be giving more grants, technical support and a marketing intern to help you launch your project; plus we have a revenue share program for you to create a sustainable revenue stream from day one.

Polkadot Hackathon By Encode 2025

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