Earn Prizes and Boost Web3 Bridging by Hacking on Across at ETHSF

Tl;dr Core members of Across and our sister project UMA will be in the Bay Area as part of the ETHSanFrancisco conference and hackathon Nov. 4–6. This article includes details on the $10K in prizes available to hackers who create top projects with Across and UMA at the event, a few hack ideas, and resources to get started building with our projects.

The team at Across and UMA have ETHSF circled on our calendars

The ETHSanFrancisco conference and hackathon on Nov 4–6 is shaping up to be one of the biggest and most important hackathons of the year with more than US$300,000 to be awarded as prizes to hackers, including $10,000 in prizes for those who build the best use cases with Across and UMA’s optimistic oracle (OO) — a decentralized truth machine that can provide and verify any arbitrary data on-chain. The OO is the dispute resolution layer that empowers and secures Across.

The event is expected to attract more than a thousand hackers who will compete for prizes, connect with teams and network with the bright minds of the Web3 ecosystem.

Core members of Across and UMA will be available to support and guide hackers through the competition.

The prizes from Across/UMA will break down as follows:

First prize: $5,000

Second prize: $2,000

Pool prize: $3,000 (to be split up among various runners-up).

Embrace capital efficient, cross-chain bridging with Across

Across is an optimistic, decentralized cross-chain bridge that supports transfers between L2s and L1. Across transfers are secured by UMA’s OO.

By hacking on Across at ETHSF, you will help to strengthen the bridging ecosystem. If we want to see adoption of L2s act as a means to broader crypto adoption in general, we need solid infrastructure that people use without hesitation. Let’s build a bridging ecosystem together that is stronger, more scalable, easier and cheaper to use, and more secure.

Here are a few ideas we’d love to see get built at this hackathon

• A trustless relayer: This would allow non-technical people to enter the relayer arena with funds, instead of choosing to LP.
• Data worker 2.0: What optimizations or opportunities have we not yet discovered here?
• New asset launcher: Want to onboard a new token? Great, use this tool to deploy the things that are needed to do that.
• Relayer dashboard: Tell us what our relayer network capacity is. Compare it to where funds are moving right now.

There are other ways to get involved with Across

In addition to bridging with Across or joining the community, you can also participate in the first stage of the upcoming Across token launch via the Across Referral Program, which provides a chance to farm $ACX tokens immediately.

Users can refer people to use Across’ bridge and earn some ownership of the protocol you’re both using. It’s a “bridge to earn” approach to airdrops. Every $1 of bridge fees you refer could earn significantly more than $1 of ACX, the Across token.

Learn all the details of the Across Referral Program here.

You can also earn a piece of the airdrop before the token launch with our Bridge Traveler program, which invites a selection of users who have not yet used Across, but have bridged elsewhere, to earn a piece of the airdrop. Around 31,000 wallets that have bridged an asset Across supports, but haven’t used Across, have been selected. Check your eligibility here.

Another way to earn ACX is to become a liquidity provider. LPs can earn ACX before and after the token launch.

Key resources to prepare for ETHSF

In the meantime, reach out with any questions and tell us more about what you want to build at ETHSF via Twitter.

Or join us on Discord and keep an eye on the Across and UMA channels for more details throughout the hackathon. You can also get more familiar with Across and prep for your hack via the Across docs site.