Welcome to the Lightning++ 2025 Hackathon!

This is the hackathon site for the lightning++ hackathon in Berlin, Germany.

The main hackathon competition will be open ended (overall 1st, 2nd, 3rd). Anything involving bitcoin's Lightning Network is fair game.

There are optional challenges that hackers may create projects around. Submitting for a challenge is optional, and ALL projects will be considered for the main competition.

Requirements

Project Submission

All teams must submit their projects on Devpost (this site). Do this early so you don't forget.

Judges will primarily use the presentations to select winners. They may reference your Devpost sumbissions as well.

This event will judged using a science fair expo format. Judges will walk around and adjudicate projects in parallel.

Finalists will present on stage.


Judging Criteria

To judge hackathon projects, we follow the global standard for performance-based judging: the Olympics Women’s Gymnastics Rubric. Judges will be evaluating each hackathon team’s performance based on the following criteria:
- Routine Difficulty: Project idea, Potential impact of project, ambition
- Routine Execution: Project achievement, What you actually built, Does it work
 - General Effect: Swag Factor, Presentation, Applicability to theme

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

1 non-cash prize
TBA
1 winner

some sats or smth

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

TBA

TBA

Judging Criteria

  • Routine Difficulty
    Quality of your Project Idea. Potential impact of your idea. Ambition/scope of the project (given the 2 hour deadline).
  • Routine Execution
    Project achievement. What you actually built. Does it work? Were you able to solve the problem you set out to solve?
  • General Effect
    Swag Factor, Presentation, Applicability to theme (mempool)

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