All prizes for HackaTRON Season 7 will be awarded in TRX for international participants and USDT for U.S.-based winners.
Participating Tracks: Web3, DeFi, Artistry, Integration, and Builder. Choose the most relevant track for your project if it spans multiple areas.
Prize Structure:
- 1st Prize: 25k in TRX/USDT
- 2nd Prize: 15k in TRX/USDT
- 3rd Prize: 10k in TRX/USDT
- 4th Prize: 8k in TRX/USDT
- 5th Prize: 6k in TRX/USDT
Forum Track Prizes (for TRON DAO Forum participants):
- 1st Place: 7k in TRX/USDT
- 2nd Place: 6k in TRX/USDT
- 3rd Place: 5k in TRX/USDT
- 4th Place: 4k in TRX/USDT
- 5th Place: 3k in TRX/USDT
There are 4 additional bonus prizes to be won this season of the TRON Grand Hackathon! You can even win one of the community contributor prizes without coding in the hackathon.
Bonus Prizes:
- Project Engagement Prize: $10,000 (awarded after 2024-12-03T20:00:00Z; $5K per project for up to 2 projects showing good community engagement but haven’t received any prizes).
- Determination Prize: $10,000 (awarded after 2024-12-03T20:00:00Z; $5K per project for up to 2 projects not yet awarded, with projects fully operational on mainnet by 2024-12-03T20:00:00Z, and receiving positive community feedback).
- Ecosystem Inclusivity Prize: $10,000 (awarded after 2024-12-03T20:00:00Z; $5K per project for up to 2 projects demonstrating active TRON community involvement across various events and platforms, emphasizing hackathons, TBT, meetups, and online/offline events).
- Community Contributor Prize: $5,000 - Determined by the TRON DAO team for individuals showing valuable contributions during the hackathon, not needing to be project participants. Up to 10 individuals may share this prize, with a minimum of $500 per person.
Remember, participating in the TRON DAO Forum enhances your opportunity to engage with the community and gain visibility for your project.
Judges Will Be Announced At a Later Date
Judging Criteria
Originality
How novel and innovative is the idea? Does it set out to do something unique or at least improve existing models?
Technicality
What is the technology like? Is it user-friendly and does it have comprehensive and efficient features? Is it designed to scale?
Business Model
What is the value proposition and how does it set out to differentiate itself? How will it capture the market and/or generate revenue?
Usability
What is the user experience like? Is it clean and intuitive such that users not familiar with blockchain can easily interact with the program?
Practicality
Is this something the community would actually use and want? Will the idea have an impact on the crypto community?
Contribution to the Crypto Ecosystem
How does your idea increase crypto adoption, value for its users, and innovation in the field of blockchain? Does it welcome new users and help existing users?
Phases of Judging
Eligible submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges selected by the sponsor (the “Judges”). Judges may be employees of the sponsor or third parties, may or may not be listed individually on the Hackathon Website, and may change before or during the Judging Period. Judging may take place in one or more rounds with one or more panels of Judges, at the discretion of the sponsor.
Stage One: The first stage will determine via pass/fail whether the ideas meet a baseline level of viability, in that the project reasonably fits the theme and reasonably applies the required APIs/SDKs featured in the Hackathon.
Stage Two: All submissions that pass Stage One will be evaluated in Stage Two based on the above equally weighted criteria (the “Judging Criteria”).
Entries will be judged on the above equally weighted criteria, and according to the sole and absolute discretion of the judges.
The scores from the Judges will determine the potential winners of the applicable prizes. The entrants that are eligible for a prize, and whose submissions earn the highest overall scores based on the applicable judging criteria, will become potential winners of that prize.