ETHGlobal Bangkok 2024: Hackathon Playbook

We're excited to announce that Blockscout will be participating in the upcoming ETHGlobal Bangkok Hackathon! This event presents a great opportunity for developers to showcase their skills and potentially win a share of our $20,000 prize pool.

The prize pool is open to all qualified projects that incorporate Blockscout in their builds. This is your chance to leverage our open-source block explorer and create something truly innovative.

How to Qualify for the Prize

To be eligible for a share of the prize pool, your project should utilize Blockscout in one or more of the following ways:

• Explorer Integration: Point all explorer links in your application to Blockscout.
• API Utilization: Use Blockscout APIs to serve data to your application.
• Smart Contract Verification: Verify your smart contracts using the Blockscout interface.

What Can You Build?

If you're looking for inspiration, let's take a look at some great projects from our previous hackathons. These examples showcase the versatility of Blockscout and might spark some ideas for your own innovative project.

✅ VerifyScout: Your Personal Smart Contract Dashboard

VerifyScout created a curated dashboard for developing and managing smart contracts using Blockscout. This innovative tool allows users to view and verify contracts on Blockscout, streamlining the process of contract management. 

The team leveraged Blockscout's 'smart-contracts' API to display the latest verified transactions, showcasing how our explorer can be seamlessly integrated into user-friendly interfaces. VerifyScout's approach demonstrates the potential for creating specialized tools that enhance the developer experience when working with smart contracts.

While the initial version focused on displaying verified contracts, the team envisioned future expansions. These include a customizable dashboard where users could add, edit, and remove widgets, giving them tailored visibility into their contracts' performance and usage. This project highlights how Blockscout's API can be used to create powerful, user-centric tools for blockchain developers.

🌱 Net Zero: Combating Climate Change with Blockchain

Net Zero took on the challenge of measuring and offsetting carbon emissions using blockchain technology. This project aimed to address the difficulties companies face in measuring and offsetting their carbon footprint, as well as the funding and awareness challenges faced by climate projects.

The team incorporated Blockscout for contract verification and user receipts, adding a crucial layer of transparency to their environmentally-focused platform. By using Blockscout, Net Zero ensured that all carbon emission data and offset transactions could be independently verified, enhancing trust in their system.

Net Zero's use of Blockscout showcases how blockchain explorers can play a vital role in sustainability initiatives. The transparency provided by Blockscout aligns perfectly with the project's goal of creating a tamper-proof system for carbon footprint tracking and offsetting.

✨ CASA WALLET: Simplifying Cross-Chain Transactions

CASA WALLET introduced a unified wallet solution that makes cross-chain transactions a breeze. This project aimed to address the fragmentation in the DeFi ecosystem, where users often struggle to manage assets and gas fees across numerous chains.

The team used Blockscout to verify their smart contracts across multiple testnets, including Arbitrum Sepolia, Base Sepolia, and Scroll Sepolia. This multichain verification process demonstrates Blockscout's versatility in supporting development across various blockchain networks.

CASA WALLET's integration of Blockscout for contract verification adds a layer of transparency and trust to their platform. Users can easily verify the contracts they're interacting with, ensuring the security and legitimacy of their cross-chain transactions. This project serves as an excellent example of how Blockscout can support complex, multichain applications that aim to simplify user experiences in the blockchain space.

🐦 Social Blockscout: Adding Social Context

Social Blockscout took an innovative approach by integrating social context into blockchain transactions. The project added verified Twitter labels to onchain addresses, making it easier for users to recognize and verify wallet owners within the Blockscout explorer.

This integration helps users make sense of blockchain transactions quicker by providing familiar social media context. For instance, users can instantly recognize their own identity, distinguish it from other data in the explorer's interface, and gain confidence in using the right address.

By allowing interactions with ‘@usernames’ instead of raw addresses, Social Blockscout provides more context about wallets and even offers a way to message the owner. This project demonstrates how Blockscout can be extended to improve user experience and add valuable social layers to blockchain interactions, potentially increasing usability.

🌀 ETHFlow: Visualizing Ethereum Transactions

ETHFlow created an interactive tool for visualizing Ethereum transactions, leveraging Blockscout's API along with other tools like the 1inch API. This project aims to help users explore and analyze Ethereum transactions through visual representation and user-friendly interaction.

Using D3.js, ETHFlow creates dynamic, interactive graphs where each node represents a wallet address and edges between nodes represent transactions. This visualization helps users see how different wallets are connected and how funds move between them, making complex blockchain data more intuitive to understand.

The project's integration with Blockscout enhances its functionality by providing transaction verification and additional data. Users can verify transactions using Blockscout's API, interact with smart contracts directly through the Blockscout interface, and access additional transaction and address data via Blockscout's REST API and RPC endpoints. This showcases how Blockscout's comprehensive data and APIs can be used to create powerful analytical tools for blockchain users and researchers.

🎲 AceDen: P2P Betting on Crypto Prices

AceDen developed a peer-to-peer betting platform for cryptocurrency price movements. This innovative project allows users to wager on whether cryptocurrency prices will rise or fall, supporting popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.

The platform utilizes Blockscout as a blockchain explorer to provide users with transparent and trackable transaction history. This integration enhances trust and transparency within the platform, allowing users to easily verify their bets and outcomes.

AceDen's use of Blockscout demonstrates how blockchain explorers can be integral to building trust in decentralized betting platforms. By providing easy access to transaction details and bet outcomes, AceDen creates a more transparent and verifiable betting experience for its users.

🎁 Profile Onchain: Simplifying Crypto Donations

Profile Onchain developed a platform to simplify the process of setting up cryptocurrency donation profiles. The project aims to make receiving crypto donations accessible even to those with little to no prior experience in the world of crypto.

They integrated with Blockscout, using a custom block explorer to allow users to view their account details and transaction history. This integration ensures transparency in the donation process, allowing donors to easily verify their contributions and recipients to track incoming donations.

By leveraging Blockscout, Profile Onchain adds a layer of trust and transparency to their platform. Users can verify that their profiles are properly linked to their wallets and track incoming donations onchain, showcasing how Blockscout can be used to build more transparent and user-friendly crypto donation platforms.

🎮 Tamayoshi: Gasless Onchain Mobile Game

Tamayoshi brought us a Tamagotchi-like gasless onchain mobile game. This innovative project demonstrates how blockchain technology can be applied to create engaging, free-to-play mobile games.

Every transaction in the game is displayed on Blockscout, allowing players to track their in-game actions on the blockchain. This integration adds a layer of transparency to the game, allowing players to verify their actions and achievements.

Tamayoshi's use of Blockscout showcases how game developers can leverage blockchain explorers to add transparency and verifiability to their games. This can enhance player trust and provide a unique onchain gaming experience where in-game actions have real, verifiable blockchain representations.

🤲 Dcrowd: Decentralized Crowdfunding Platform

Dcrowd created a decentralized crowdfunding platform connecting creators with supporters through blockchain technology. This project aims to address the challenges of transparency, accessibility, and efficiency in crowdfunding, particularly for projects in underfunded regions.

They integrated Blockscout explorer URLs throughout the app experience, providing live and detailed views of per-campaign events arriving onchain. This integration allows users to track donations and verify the security of their funds, enhancing trust in the platform.

Dcrowd's use of Blockscout demonstrates how blockchain explorers can be crucial in building transparent and trustworthy decentralized finance platforms. By providing easy access to onchain data, Dcrowd ensures that all transactions and campaign activities are fully verifiable by users.

🛎️ OP Concierge Suite: Streamlining Concierge and Cab Companies

This project developed tools for concierge and cab companies to streamline operations on the Optimism blockchain. The suite includes features for invoice management, work order management, customer incident management, and vehicle auction management.

They integrated Blockscout as the blockchain explorer, providing a transparent and user-friendly interface for tracking transactions, smart contract interactions, and the overall health of the blockchain networks they used.

This integration was particularly useful for auditing and monitoring contract deployments, ensuring that all activities on the blockchain were transparent and could be easily reviewed by stakeholders.

OP Concierge Suite's use of Blockscout showcases how blockchain explorers can be leveraged to bring transparency and efficiency to traditional business operations. By providing easy access to transaction data and smart contract interactions, the project enhances trust and accountability in service-based businesses.

📊 SuperBoard: AI-Driven Analytics for Superchains

SuperBoard showcased the power of a custom-built Blockscout Python SDK, enabling developers to create comprehensive health dashboards and protocol-specific analytics for superchains like Optimism, Blast, and Base.

The project provides a wide range of metrics crucial for understanding and optimizing superchain performance, including transaction volumes, address activities, economic indicators, and more.

SuperBoard leverages the Blockscout SDK to simplify the development process, making it easier for Python developers to build, analyze, and deploy advanced analytics dashboards.

This project highlights how Blockscout's data can be leveraged to create powerful analytics tools for blockchain networks. By making blockchain data more accessible and understandable, SuperBoard empowers developers and analysts to gain deeper insights into blockchain performance and user behavior.

📂 EthDrive: Google Drive for Your Crypto Assets

EthDrive introduced a novel way to organize and manage crypto assets like Google Drive. This innovative project allows users to organize and manage their assets with a directory structure, trade them, and even connect their directories to dApps.

They used Blockscout as a multichain explorer for all chains involved in their project. This integration allows users to track their assets and transactions across multiple chains, providing a comprehensive view of their crypto holdings.

EthDrive's use of Blockscout demonstrates how blockchain explorers can be integral to creating user-friendly asset management platforms in the crypto space. By providing easy access to transaction data across multiple chains, EthDrive enhances transparency and usability in crypto asset management.

🤖 Web3GPT: Simplifying Smart Contract Development

Web3GPT is an innovative developer tool designed to streamline the process of writing and deploying smart contracts. This project is particularly beneficial for those new to the Web3 ecosystem, lowering the barrier to entry for blockchain development.

The platform offers a range of features that simplify the contract deployment process. Users can deploy contracts without the need for a wallet or IDE, with gas fees sponsored on testnets.

Web3GPT also provides automated contract verification and generates an IPFS repository for each deployment, ensuring transparency and easy access to contract code. Supporting five EVM testnets, the tool offers a hands-on, interactive Solidity learning experience.

Web3GPT's integration with Blockscout is particularly noteworthy. The platform leverages Blockscout's contract verification capabilities, allowing users to easily verify their deployed contracts on the blockchain explorer. This seamless integration enhances the overall development experience, providing users with a comprehensive toolkit for smart contract creation, deployment, and verification.

🖼️ Veew.ai: AI-Powered Onchain Media Interface

Veew.ai introduces an AI-powered interface for creating, collecting, and browsing onchain media, revolutionizing how users interact with blockchain-based content. This versatile platform supports a wide range of onchain media types, from Farcaster casts to Sound.xyz music NFTs and Opepen art collections.

The browsing capabilities of Veew.ai are extensive, allowing users to explore Farcaster user and channel casts, listen to trending music NFTs, view builder passports on Talent Protocol, and even access ENS data and crypto news.

On the creation side, users can mint various types of media on the Zora blockchain, including Excalidraw sketches, blog posts, memes, HTML websites, and AI-generated images.

Veew.ai's integration with Blockscout enhances its functionality by providing users with detailed transaction data and contract information for the onchain media they interact with. This integration allows users to verify the authenticity and ownership of media items, adding an extra layer of trust and transparency to the platform.

💝 FundM3: Decentralized Donations for Creators

FundM3 is a donation platform designed to support independent creators and projects on a global scale. By integrating Farcaster Frames, the platform allows creators to showcase their projects by casting frames on SocialFi, significantly boosting visibility and engagement.

One of FundM3's key features is its use of blockchain technology to ensure complete transparency in the donation process. Every transaction is recorded on the blockchain, providing an immutable record of fund distribution and usage. This transparency builds trust with donors and encourages ongoing support. The platform's "Anytime, Anywhere, Anyone" approach makes it accessible to everyone, regardless of location or background.

FundM3's integration with Blockscout plays a crucial role in its transparency and verification processes. By leveraging Blockscout's explorer capabilities, users can easily track and verify donation transactions, providing an additional layer of trust and accountability.

This integration allows donors to see exactly how their contributions are being used, while creators can showcase the legitimacy of their fundraising efforts. The seamless connection between FundM3 and Blockscout exemplifies how blockchain explorers can be utilized to enhance trust and transparency in decentralized funding platforms.

See you at the ETHGlobal Bangkok 2024 Hackathon 🇹🇭

All of these projects demonstrate the wide range of possibilities when integrating Blockscout into your applications - and we're excited to see the next batch of innovative builds at the ETHGlobal Bangkok Hackathon!

Whether you're building the next big DeFi application, a revolutionary NFT platform, or something entirely new, Blockscout is here to support your journey. This is your opportunity to gain recognition for your innovative ideas and potentially win a share of our $20,000 prize pool.

Good luck to all participants, and we'll see you in Bangkok!