48-Hour Overnight Builder Sprint • Nov 27–28

Web3Fest Africa Hackathon: $10,000+ Bounty Pool

Turn African economic friction into real-world decentralized software. Connect with senior protocol mentors, sprint overnight in the Teckcocoon Dev Arena, and pitch live to venture capitalists at Demo Day.

Total Prize Bounty$10,000+

Sprint Duration48 Hours

Dev Arena AccessOvernight Pass

Demo Day Finalists12 Pitch Slots

Problem Statements

Official Bounty Tracks & Cash Pools

Teams may submit to one primary track

Track 01 • Financial Inclusion$3,500 POOL

African Commerce & Stablecoin Micro-Payments

Design consumer and merchant experiences that enable instant, ultra-low-cost retail payments, cross-border settlement, and merchant escrow across Nigeria and neighboring African markets.

Prize Distribution

1st: $2,000 • 2nd: $1,000 • 3rd: $500

Key Tech: L2 Rollups, Stablecoins, Paymasters, POS integrations

Track 02 • Developer Tooling & UX$2,500 POOL

Account Abstraction & Gasless Consumer Apps

Eliminate seed phrases and gas fees for first-time crypto adopters. Build applications leveraging ERC-4337, session keys, biometric Passkeys, and social account recovery.

Prize Distribution

1st: $1,500 • 2nd: $1,000

Key Tech: Smart Accounts, Passkeys, Paymaster Sponsorship, Session Keys

Track 03 • Identity & Trust$2,500 POOL

Verifiable Identity & Onchain Event Passports

Inspired by EventCrib protocols: build Sybil-resistant ticketing, verifiable physical venue credentials, and proof-of-humanity attendance verification for live events.

Prize Distribution

1st: $1,500 • 2nd: $1,000

Key Tech: ZK Proofs, EAS Attestations, Dynamic QR Verification

Track 04 • Open Ecosystem$1,500 POOL

Open Innovation & Public Goods

Creative open-source primitives, university onboarding SDKs, decentralized storage hubs, or novel experiments that advance the Pan-African developer commons.

Prize Distribution

1st: $1,000 • 2nd: $500

Key Tech: Open Source, Micro-grants, IPFS, Developer SDKs

Builder Matchmaking Board

Find Your Hackathon Teammates

Arriving in Uyo solo or need a frontend/smart contract specialist? Connect before Friday's sprint.

Filter Track:

African Commerce & Payments2 hours ago

Chidi Nwachukwu

Smart Contract Engineer (Solidity / EVM)

"Building an offline-first QR merchant settlement POS that batches transactions onto Layer-2 rollups with sponsored gas fees."

Seeking Teammates:

Frontend (Next.js / Tailwind)Product Designer

Telegram:@chidi_web3

Account Abstraction & Gasless Apps4 hours ago

Kofi Mensah

Full-Stack Dev & Rust Enthusiast

"Passkey-authenticated micro-savings dApp designed for African market women with zero seed phrase friction."

Seeking Teammates:

Solidity DevUI/UX Designer

Telegram:@kofimensah

Verifiable Identity & Ticketing5 hours ago

Amina Bello

Product Designer & UI Prototyper

"Decentralized event attendance badges that unlock exclusive local restaurant discounts across Uyo during conference week."

Seeking Teammates:

Full-Stack Dev (React / Node)Smart Contract Dev

X:@amina_ux

Open Innovation & Public Goods1 day ago

Emeka Obi

Mobile Developer (React Native / Flutter)

"Lightweight mobile USSD-to-onchain payment gateway for unbanked users in peri-urban communities."

Seeking Teammates:

Backend / Smart Contracts

GitHub:github.com/emeka-builds

Evaluation Criteria

Official Hackathon Judging Rubric

30%Real-World Market Fit

Does this solve a genuine economic or user problem in Nigeria and across the African continent?

30%Technical Execution

Clean contract architecture, test coverage, protocol integration, and working code deployed on testnet/mainnet.

20%UI & User Simplicity

Can a non-crypto native user understand and use the interface in under 30 seconds without jargon?

20%Demo Day Pitch

Clarity of the 3-minute live prototype presentation before the judging panel and VC syndicate.