--- tags: hackathons, tezos title: --- ## Hackathon: Unlocking Web3 for the Arts & Culture We invite you to build the code base for future use cases for the Arts & Culture on the Tezos blockchain. Bounties will be created in collaboration with eight cultural institutions who are ready to look beyond drops and collectables and help co-create open source Proof of Concepts on the Tezos blockchain with the aim to be tested and aimed to put into production in the near future. Come up with an engaging game, making use of the technical opportunities blockchain offers. Whereas it will be a simple NFT collecting game, a game where player can buy items sold on a decentralized marketplace or a use of token based economic systems, make sure it will be fun to play! Playfullness will be rewarded for example a more educative game on DeFi game about markets and trading, **Judging criteria**: Potential impact: Envisioned impact of your project Novelty: Innovativeness of the project Technical: Does the code work? Is it secure? Design and UX: How is the look and feel and how intuitive is the design? ** Track requirements**: Submissions must be open source (MIT license) Submission with a working prototype must be deployed live on the Florence testnet Submissions must list the addresses of their token contracts **Prices** First Prize (1 team) $15,000 in tez (XTZ) Second Prize (3 teams) $10,000 in tez (XTZ) Third Prize (6 teams) $5,000 in tez (XTZ) Winning team members will be added to priority list for future bounties and have the possibility to obtain a follow-up grant by the Tezos Foundation. Developer resources For those who are completely new to Tezos development, the dev portal is a good place to start https://developers.tezos.com/ Tacode, a p2p learning platform for Tezos teaches you how to build a Dapp on Tezos while earning tez https://tacode.dev OpenTezos is an open-source wiki on all topics Tezos https://opentezos.com/ A guide how to mint NFTs on Tezos and how to build a simple NFT platform https://medium.com/ecad-labs-inc/how-to-mint-nfts-on-tezos-using-taquito-and-pinata-15a407078495 A react provider for Dapps to easily setup connection to Beacon/Taquito wallets https://github.com/tz-contrib/components-library/tree/develop/packages/react-wallet-provider Awesomelist for Tezos https://github.com/tz-contrib/awesome-tezos Tezos Stack Exchange is a useful resource to where you can see answers to technical questions regarding Tezos https://tezos.stackexchange.com/ If you do not find answers to your technical questions on the Tezos Stack Exchange, join the Tezos Developers telegram channel and ask away https://t.me/TezosDevelopers