Digital Identity Hackathon by Onyx by J.P. Morgan is a four-week online hackathon starting on September 12th hosted by Encode Club. Checkout more details below!
About Encode Club
Encode Club is a Web3 education community learning and building together through fantastic programmes with the leading protocols in the space. They organize programmes like education series, bootcamps, hackathons, and accelerators both online and in person. They then help the community get jobs and funding for projects and startups.
Encode club was founded in 2019 by a group of entrepreneurs and technologists who believe that decentralized technologies have the potential to change the world. They believe that by providing education and support to developers, we can help to build a more decentralized and equitable future.
About Onyx by J P Morgan
Onyx by J.P. Morgan is a global leader in banking-led blockchain, building next generation financial ecosystems that enable the seamless exchange of value, digital assets and information. Onyx’s deep understanding of financial services, emerging technology, and client businesses enables them to create reliable, effective infrastructures and products alongside clients to reimagine traditional business models.
Onyx believes digital identity will empower individuals and organizations to own, control and share their identity data on their terms. They are at the cutting edge of advancing new technologies to enhance digital identity ownership and verification processes. These efforts will enable new use cases that aim to empower greater self-expression and verification in Web2 and Web3.
About the Hackathon
The hackathon starts on September 12th with an online launch event. You’ll meet the Encode and Onyx teams, as well as the hackathon partners, who will tell you all about the available bounties and upcoming technical workshops. The launch event will be followed by a series of workshops hosted by Encode Club, Onyx by J.P. Morgan, and the hackathon partners, aiming to help you build and ship a hackathon project in just four weeks. You’ll have three weeks to build and submit a project. The best submissions will be invited to pitch live in the hackathon finale event and compete for the top prizes. The different categories of the hackathon are:
- Finance & Identity Intersection
Explore the utilization of digital identities and verifiable credentials for enhancing trust, security, and inclusion for financial services products and services such as payments, investing, banking and lending. - Social Identity Integration
Develop social applications utilizing digital identities for improving user engagement, privacy, and ownership. - Privacy
Enable privacy-preserving use of verifiable credentials on the blockchain or enable a privacy-preserving way of sharing verifiable credentials off-chain for various application domains. - Identity Innovation Spectrum
Foster innovative solutions in any sector where digital identity can bring significant benefits, with a particular focus on tooling, governance, onboarding, improving existing user experience or other broad applications. - SDK Specific Challenges
OIDC Support, More DID Methods, JSON-LD, Revocation, SD-JWT
Date
Tuesday, 12th September: Early registration
Tuesday, 12th September: Hackathon begins with an online Launch event
Sunday, 8th October: Submission deadline
Mid October: Finale and Prize giving Event
FAQs
Who can take part?
Anyone can take part in this hackathon
Do I need a team?
No, you can hack solo. If you’d like to form a team you can find others in the competition portal.
Is there technical support?
Yes! The Encode team will offer support during this hackathon.
Do I own what I build?
Yes, you/your team is the sole owner of your project.
Can I enter an existing project?
Yes, you can, but only if your project hasn’t raised significant funding already and significant feature changes have been made.
How to Apply?
Interested candidates can apply directly via this link.
