The BELIEVATHON is a startup competition intended for serious entrepreneurs looking to grow their business idea into a reality, with the opportunity to join XION's incubation program and tap into additional ecosystem support. It will support the next generation of user-friendly Web3 projects launching products utilizing XION’s abstraction stack.

Timeline

Please subscribe to the Google Calendar which will include major events!

November 21st: Believathon Registrations Open
November 25th: Believathon Kickoff Ceremony @ 10am EST (building, workshops, and office hours begin)
November 28th: Speed Match: Find a Teammate
January 17th: Believathon Ends (last day to submit)
January 18th - 28th: Judging period (updated!)
January 30th: Winner Demo Day 9:30am EST* (updated!) *Demo Day subject to change based on winner availabilities

Office Hours & Workshops

In addition to the ongoing developer support in the Discord, we will be hosting weekly office hour slots for projects to receive 1-on-1 help. If no scheduled time slots are convenient, please reach out to hackathon@burnt.com.

Please don't hesitate to join the Discord Developer Chats chat for any immediate needs!

Upcoming Developer & Business Workshops

Developer Workshops

Tuesday, November 26th: 9am EST
Tuesday, December 3rd: 9am EST
And more to be scheduled!

Business Workshops

Wednesday November 27th: Gamification, presented by Ric P. (Outlier Ventures)
Monday December 2nd: Introduction to zkTLS & Integration with Reclaim Protocol
Week of December 9th: Fundraising & Pitching And more to be announced!

Rewards & Opportunities

Millions in pre-seed funding & growth opportunities for select Believathon winners

Prizes: The prize pool is $40,000 USDC, with individual projects eligible to receive up to $10,000.
- Best Overall Project Award: $8,000
- Track 1st Place: $5,000 (x4 tracks)
- Track 2nd Place: $2,500 (x4 tracks)
- Bonus: Best Mobile / TG Mini-App Responsiveness: $2,000
Incubation: Top projects will have the opportunity to be fast-tracked for the ecosystem's upcoming ACCELERAXION program.
Investment Opportunities: You have the opportunity to gain exposure to the thriving XION ecosystem, its partners, and top-tier VCs in the industry.
Growth Opportunities: Participants will also be highly encouraged to apply to the XION ecosystem support program with their submitted project, and winners will be shortlisted. Participants will also have the chance to transition their project to mainnet, enabling them to become a core and early contributor to the fast-growing XION ecosystem.

Judges & Partners

The judging panel is an all-star crew that includes core members, top-tier VCs, and ecosystem partners:

Burnt CEO (Burnt Banksy)
Burnt CTO (Burnt Ash)
Multicoin (Spencer A.)
Figment (James P.)
Arrington Capital (Keli C.)
Hashkey (Mia M.)
zkEmail (Aayush G.)
Outlier Ventures (Ric P.)
Morningstar (Danilo C.)

Tracks & Ideas

The examples are just a few ideas to get you started. Feel free to explore and build ideas not listed below!

You may -- and are encouraged! -- to build across multiple tracks (e.g. leveraging zk tools to build a creative consumer app), and you may submit across multiple tracks.

Best Overall XION Project Award

The project that demonstrates the most potential across all verticals, utilizes XION’s abstractions, and scores the highest among the evaluation criteria.

Track 1 - Pyramid of Faith: Ponzi Schemes

There are different ways to solve the cold start problem, one of them is to hide behind a ponzi. This track is for all projects that recognize that faith & belief might just be precursors to progress.

Track 2 - Confession: ZK & Privacy Sponsored by zkEmail

This track is for all projects that are building products on XION that utilize zero-knowledge (ZK) technology to improve user experiences, privacy, and produce novel Web3 use-cases.

Track 3 - Esoterism: Consumer, Social, Payments, & Creative

This track is an all encompassing use-case track for projects that utilize XION’s abstractions to create the best consumer-facing user experience for their application.

Track 4 - Communion: Abstracted Interoperability

This track is for projects building applications that tap into XION's cross-chain abstraction infrastructure. These projects will be built on XION and have the ability to interact with connected ecosystems, in addition to enabling users from other ecosystems to easily interact with the application built on XION.

Bonus - Best Mobile or TG Mini-App

This award is for the project that demonstrates the best mobile user experience for their project, either as a native app, a PWA, or a Telegram Mini-App.

Why build on XION?

XION is the first walletless L1 purpose-built for consumer applications. Its chain abstraction infrastructure enables seamless user experiences for everyday users. It includes protocol-level account abstraction, gasless transactions, signature abstraction, cross-device usage, fiat denominations, and more. By abstracting away all crypto complexities, XION allows the development of next-generation projects bringing Web3 to mainstream audiences worldwide. You have the opportunity to build the first truly consumer-friendly applications on XION today.

XION is also backed by over $36M from top tier investors such as Circle, Animoca, Multicoin, Spartan, Hashkey, and many more.

The XION ecosystem is thriving with over 200+ integrations, deployments, and partners. Its testnet has also achieved over 4million wallets and 10s of millions of transactions, enabling you to tap into an existing user-base right away.

Read more about XION's infrastructure at xion.burnt.com/whitepaper

Goals

There are multiple goals for XION’s Believathon:

Enabling serious entrepreneurs looking to grow their business idea into a reality, and compete with other elite builders for the opportunity to join XION's upcoming ACCELERAXION program and tap into additional ecosystem support
Demonstrating XION’s potential to truly reach mainstream audiences through its unique Chain Abstraction infrastructure
Continuing to grow and engage XION’s fast-growing developer community by making the developer experience as seamless as possible, attracting developers both from within and outside the industry

Submission Requirements & Evaluation

The XION BELIEVATION is open to all projects deploying on the XION L1 blockchain!

Submission Requirements You should view you project submissions as both a pitch to potential investors as well as an application to XION's upcoming ACCELERAXION program. You should therefore allocate enough time to ensure your presentation is high quality. It is important that you spend time finishing your code as well as your marketing & presentation materials.

Project Description
- Product name
- A max 50 word summary of the project
- Name of team member(s) and roles, including backgrounds/previous experience, and location
- An overview of what problem is being addressed and how the team resolves the identified problem through this creation (except for the Pyramid of Faith track...)
- Product logo
- Project Twitter account
Github or GitLab repo link(s)
- While open-source repos are encouraged, you may keep your repo private. If you decide to close-source your code, you are required to share it with hackathon@burnt.com so organizers and judges can review.
A live product link, with testing instructions
A presentation link
- Presentations can be submitted as a slide deck and/or a video presentation. Please keep the videos under 3 minutes.
User-facing projects must integrate XION's Meta Accounts, and are highly encouraged to integrate the Treasury Contracts in order to provide a gasless user experience.

Disclosure:

All submission materials must be in English, including the demonstration video, text description, and testing instructions, as well as any other materials submitted.
Projects submitted to other hackathons or challenges need to be disclosed in the submission or README of the project. Our judges will evaluate project submissions based on how the team implements their features and the uniqueness of the application.

How will submissions be judged and with what criteria?

Eligible submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges. Judging may take place in one or more rounds with one or more panels of Judges. Entries will be judged on their use of XION's infrastructure, on the criteria of originality and creativity, technicality and design, business model and feasibility, usability, use case, and contribution to the XION ecosystem.

Team & Business Plan
- Who is the team, and do they have the background to execute on the idea? Why are they interested in creating a solution to the problem they are solving?
- Is there a viable business to be built around this project?
Effective use of XION’s infrastructure: Does this project effectively utilize XION's abstractions to offer a seamless user experience?
Quality & Complexity: Does the product work as intended, and what is the quality of the code?
Project Sustainability & Potential Impact
- Can this project continue to grow and evolve in the XION ecosystem?
- How impactful is this project to the XION ecosystem?
User Experience & Design
- Is the user experience seamless and is the design conducive to reaching mainstream audiences?
Novel Solution
- How creative is the project and does it utilize XION's abstractions to its advantage?

Getting Started

You can participate by registering through DoraHacks today, and start building! You can also attend the upcoming weekly workshops and office hours to learn more about the platform and get help with your project. Below are additional resources to help get you started.

Developer Resources

Zero-Knowledge Tooling & Infrastructure

zkEmail Documentation

zkEmail libraries can be used for verifying that particular emails were sent from particular senders, letting you verify things like account ownership of social apps, flight purchases, digital subscriptions, etc.. Example use-cases have included zkP2P and Proof of Twitter

zkTLS Reclaim Documentation

Reclaim SDKs make it simple to bring user activity, reputation, and identity from external websites into your own application. It includes data providers from some of the most popular websites. If the website you want to import data from isn't on the list, you can build your own data provider using their developer tool.

Decentralized Signing & Encryption Infrastructure

Lit Developer Guides Repo & Lit SDK API Reference

Lit Protocol Encryption & Access Control Docs

Lit's encryption protocol can be used to store data securely and privately on the open web. With Lit, you can encrypt your data client side and define flexible rules for permitting access. This includes checking for NFT or token ownership, verifying custom smart contract logic, off-chain events, and more. Use Lit encryption as a primitive for building user-owned social apps, verifiable credential platforms, data marketplaces, IP management, and more.

Lit Protocol Decentralized Compute Docs

Lit Actions are immutable JavaScript programs that enable the creation of powerful, blockchain-agnostic applications with built-in cryptographic capabilities like signing and encryption. Lit Actions can be used to fetch data from on or off-chain sources, program signing or encryption based on conditional logic ("If, Then"), perform secure user authentication, and more. Use Lit Actions to build cross-chain DeFi, decentralized data oracles, autonomous AI agents, and more.

Abstract: Abstraction Infrastructure

Chain Abstraction Documentation & Advanced Testing & Deployment Tool for CosmWasm & Abstract TypeScript SDK

Utilize the Abstract infrastructure to build powerful chain-abstracted applications that can communicate & interact with connected ecosystems.

Telegram Mini-App/Bot Framework

TypeScript & Rust

Build Telegram bots and mini-apps utilizing your framework of choice, which can incorporate XION's Meta Accounts.

Noble: USDC & CCTP

IBC Channel Details & Noble documentation & CCTP Documentation

Integrate USDC natively into your application, and connect it to CCTP to tap into USDC across all Circle-connected ecosystems.

SubQuery: Indexing

Indexing documentation

Utilize SubQuery to build custom indexers for your application.

Pyth Protocol: Oracle Price Feeds

Pyth documentation

Utilize Pyth to incorporate price feeds directly into your on-chain smart contracts.

Cross-Chain IBC Connections

IBC Channel Details

Connect to other ecosystems through existing IBC channels, or spin up new connections.

Band Protocol: Oracle Price Feeds

Band documentation

Utilize Band to incorporate price feeds & on-chain randomness directly into your applications.