ODHack 11.0 ๐
โ OnlyDust
Let's end the year in beauty with the last open-source week of 2024!
Mark your calendars for December 12th to continue contributing, collaborating and developing your skills.
This time round we will have a mix of rewarded and non-rewarded issues to give a chance to newcomers to build their profiles!
To participate and see the guidelines, register on our ODHack page over here.
Below, you will find projects that are participating this time round.
For this Christmas edition, we are happy to welcome 2 new ecosystems: Aptos and Fuel!
Let's start by presenting the newcomers!
Fuel
Fuel is an operating system purpose-built for Ethereum rollups, enabling parallel transaction execution and state-minimized applications. Its custom FuelVM incorporates improvements to the Ethereum Virtual Machine, such as support for multiple native assets and enhanced processing capacity. Fuel is powered by Sway, a domain-specific language inspired by Rust. Read more about it here.
They have two repos that will be participating in the ODHack. Contributors will be able to contribute to the Fuel official wallet project and/or to the collection of connectors for the Fuel SDK.
Aptos
Aptos is a scalable and secure blockchain ecosystem designed for fast, user-friendly decentralized applications. Powered by the Move language and innovative architecture, it enables high performance and low costs, driving diverse use cases and the future of decentralized innovation.
And for this ODHack we are welcoming two Aptos projects!
Art3mis Oracle
Art3mis Oracle is a Web3 AI-powered mystical art platform on Aptos, blending ancient divination practices with modern blockchain. Centered on tarot readings, it expands into a rich spiritual experience with horoscopes, omikuji, and Chinese fortune-telling, enhanced by captivating digital art.
Dubhe
Dubhe is a community-driven open-source Move Application Creation Engine and Provable Game Engine that provides a comprehensive toolkit for building verifiable Dapps and fully on-chain world/universe-type applications.
BSV
BSV is coming back for this edition with a brand new project!
With BSV Blockchain & AI Synergy, the goal is to experiment with creative and impactful solutions, showcasing how BSV blockchain and AI can work together to solve critical problems in areas like data integrity, security, micropayments and beyond.
Alephium
Alephium is back for the edition with 2 repos! As a reminder they are a disruptive L1 blockchain project challenging industry limitations.
Built for scalability, expressivity, security, and true decentralization, their ecosystem is a haven for developers and users seeking a better web3 experience.
Positioned as the leading smart contract-enabled PoW chain, Alephium focus on usability, community-driven growth, and a strong developer experience.
They have two repos that will be participating in the ODHack, one that is a SDK and the other one to create new dApp examples in their contract language, Ralph.
Stellar
On the Stellar side, we've got awesome returning projects motivated to continue onboarding new contributors as well as a new project being born!
Let's have a look at the new one:
StarShop
StarShop is an open-source project using the Stellar blockchain to create a transparent marketplace for small businesses. Customers receive unique NFTs with each purchase, turning transactions into collectible moments, while businesses earn milestone NFTs to celebrate their achievements. This approach strengthens trust and builds deeper connections between businesses and their customers.
And now let's give a shout-out to those that are coming back in this edition! Reminder, Trustless Work did a great post on their work and how they are transforming the potential of open-source. Check out the excerpt below written by Alberto Chavez which was too good to not have it re-posted in this blog post:
Building Trustless Work: Our Journey
At Trustless Work, we believe in the transformative potential of open source. As a platform providing Escrow-as-a-Service (EaaS), we aim to provide secure, transparent transactions across industries. Our vision is simple yet bold: to abstract the complexities of blockchain and empower platforms to integrate trustless escrow solutions into their payment flows.
This campaign marks a special milestone for us. Not only are we participating as a project, but other teams have already begun leveraging our API to build their own solutions. This validation demonstrates the power of collaboration and the impact that open source can have on accelerating innovation.
Spotlight on the Projects
Hereโs a closer look at some of the participating projects:
Revolutionary Farmers
Agriculture meets blockchain with this initiative aimed at empowering farmers and agricultural workers. By integrating the Trustless Work API, Revolutionary Farmers ensures that all parties in agricultural trade are protected and transactions are transparent. The project is building a mobile app that simplifies escrow lifecycles, enabling secure and reliable trade for farmers worldwide. Explore Revolutionary Farmers.
SafeSwap
SafeSwap is a decentralized marketplace for buying and selling products, SafeSwap integrates the Trustless Work API to create escrow-backed payments. SafeSwap simplifies the user experience, making blockchain-backed security accessible to all.
SafeTrust
SafeTrust is focusing on providing a platform for secure deposits for house rentals. They have a beautifully designed UI that aims to make the process user-friendly and secure. SafeTrust leverages blockchain and Trustless Work to safeguard deposits and payments, providing transparency and security for every operation. This ensures that users, especially those dealing with cryptocurrency, can trust the system.
Why Open Source Matters for Stellar
Open source is more than a development philosophyโitโs a force multiplier. It accelerates innovation, fosters collaboration, and builds shared success ecosystems. For Stellar, this means enabling developers to build impactful solutions that serve real-world needs while lowering barriers to entry.
The projects in this campaign demonstrate the breadth of possibilities open source brings to the Stellar ecosystem. By leveraging blockchainโs trustless and decentralized capabilities, these teams are creating tools and platforms that are both scalable and transformative."
Other amazing Stellar projects that are equally participating are the following:
Create-soroban-dapp: helps developers to kickstart their Soroban journey with all the needed configuration for a web3 project.
Soroban is an incredibly useful network for on-ramps and off-ramps, offering very low costs and rapid transaction speeds. With Soroban, you can create a wide range of DeFi protocols or tokens effortlessly.
Soroswap.Finance: One of the pioneers within the Stellar blockchain ecosystem, Soroswap stands as a testament to the potential of decentralization and automation in the world of cryptocurrency exchanges. Help them develop this amazing open source DEX on Soroban!
Paystell: The project seeks to promote the adoption of alternative payment methods powered by the Stellar ecosystem in both physical and digital stores, providing a seamless, fast, reliable, and cost-effective payment experience.
Starknet
On the Starknet side, we've got great projects that are motivated to onboard new contributors!
CofiBlocks: An innovative, blockchain-powered collaborative platform designed to transform the coffee industry by connecting coffee enthusiasts directly with producers. Built on Starknet and utilizing Next.js with TypeScript, CofiBlocks is the first platform of its kind, offering both direct marketplace interactions and community-driven decision-making.
This repository contains the full-stack codebase powering the CofiBlocks platform, including the Web3 marketplace, collaborative business model features, and NFT art collection.
More info over here!
Stark-Cairo-Nodes: This project aims to provide a comprehensive collection of example programs and smart contracts written in Cairo, tailored for educational initiatives like Starknet bootcamps and workshops. The repository includes built-in methods to easily run scripts and smart contracts, helping both newcomers and experienced developers quickly deploy and interact with contracts on the Starknet ecosystem.
Speedrun & Scaffold Stark is back! They are an open-source toolkit for building dApps on Starknet. Basically, a forkable Starknet dev stack!
If you want more info, have a look here.
StarkLudo is also back for a second round! It is a classic board game enjoyed by people of all ages. Itโs a game of chance and strategy, where players race their game pieces around the board to be the first to reach the finish spot.
The Marquis is a mobile gaming platform specializing in classic strategy games!
Key features:
Mobile-first design STRK Token integration for online games. Their goal: Create a fun, interactive gaming environment for board game enthusiasts worldwide.
Flex Marketplace: Participated in a previous ODHack, they are back with this one! A Dynamic NFT Marketplace on Starknet, built by community for community, they are looking back-end & smart contract contributors.
A Dynamic NFT Marketplace on Starknet, built by community for community, they are looking frontend & smart contract contributors. They just open-sourced their front-end repo!
AFK-Aligned Farm Kennel is back again! The project is an all-in-one consumer app, with the Social graph of Ethereum & Bitcoin, using Nostr as a SocialFi graph with Starknet to bring the Aligned Fam together.
Token Giver: A decentralized application designed to revolutionize charity and fundraising. With Token Giver, users can create and manage campaigns by minting unique campaign NFTs, which have Token Bound Accounts (TBA) deployed on them automatically. This enables seamless and secure donations using STRK tokens.
Spotnet: This project allows users to leverage their positions on assets (e.g., ETH) by looping through lending protocols (ZkLend) and automated market makers (AMMs). They will be opening issues related to new features, refactoring tasks
and small improvements.