Sonic Launches $1M Mobius Hackathon and Invites Judges to Appraise Solana Applications
Sonic SVM, the first chain extension for Solana, has launched a hackathon to incentivize development of native decentralized applications and invited judges to assess the submissions. The Mobius Hackathon offers prizes to teams creating dapps on the gaming-optimized Sonic chain, whose mainnet goes live on February 27.
Sonic’s first dedicated hackathon features a prize pool worth $1M to reward builders of novel applications spanning a range of onchain verticals, from gaming to DeFi. The first-of-its-kind online hackathon commences on February 17 and will run until March 14, by which time the Sonic mainnet will be live.
Four hackathon tracks have been selected, with teams expected to develop applications that fall into one of the following categories:
Attention capital market: User acquisition, content tokenization across social media platforms such as Tiktok, Instagram, Whatsapp, Rednote.
DeFi: Asset launchpad, trading bot, yield generating, lending, MEV.
AI: Agent aggregators, tooling, initial agent offerings, and other infra.
Gaming: Mini games, social games, FOCG, high-ARPU games.
Sonic is seeking a panel of judges to evaluate submissions based on a range of criteria, including technical depth and practical application to determine real-world viability. They will also provide constructive feedback to ensure that all teams gain value from the experience and are able to optimize their applications.
By highlighting areas of excellence as well as areas for improvement, the judges will foster a positive learning environment in which all participants benefit from the hackathon. In addition to demonstrating a willingness to engage with builders and serve as mentors, judges are expected to be active on social media.
By sharing updates on social media, engaging with participants, and promoting standout projects, judges will raise awareness of the caliber of applications being developed on Sonic SVM. In the process, they will help to spotlight the industry’s most promising up-and-coming developer teams.
Upon completion of the month-long event, the panel of judges will appraise the submissions before announcing the winner on April 2. The $1M Mobius Hackathon will catalyze development of Sonic applications while highlighting the network’s ability to scale Solana by providing a dedicated layer for high performance decentralized applications.
About Sonic SVM
Sonic is the first SVM network extension to launch on Solana for games and applications. Built with Sonic HyperGrid, a framework for orchestrating optimistic Solana rollups, Sonic aims to power the web3 TikTok App Layer to onboard the next one billion users.
Learn more: https://www.sonic.game/
Hackathon registration form for builders: https://sonicsvm.typeform.com/mobiushackathon
Builder group (for finding teams or sharing info): https://t.me/+S_eelN_07xswYTdl
Developer doc: https://docs.sonic.game/developers/additional-resources
Contact us for more info: https://t.me/derMondder
