E'lon
A special edition on the road to Devcon 8 Mumbai. Ten days to build on Arkiv, the Web3 database.
Build on [Arkiv](https://arkiv.network), the Web3 database, around one theme: **CROPS**, the Ethereum Foundation's mandate that Ethereum stay **c**ensorship resistant, **o**pen source, **p**rivate and **s**ecure.
Ten days, fully online, open to builders everywhere. The challenge opens live at Network School Astana during the Network State Conference on **9 October** and closes on **18 October**. Five winners get a Devcon 8 ticket on top of their prize.
Build anything useful and usable for the ecosystem: a dApp, a library, an SDK, a devtool, a CLI, an indexer, a dataset, an agent, a browser extension or more. Four CROPS tracks are open to everyone, and the Best Indian Use Case track rewards a real-world application that people in India can use.
## Prizes
- **Best Indian Use Case:** Devcon 8 ticket + **$2,000 USDC**. A real-world application built on Arkiv that people in India can use. It does not need to follow a CROPS pillar. Your team needs at least one member of Indian nationality.
- **Censorship Resistance (Global):** Devcon 8 ticket + **$750 USDC**
- **Open Source (Global):** Devcon 8 ticket + **$750 USDC**
- **Privacy (Global):** Devcon 8 ticket + **$750 USDC**
- **Security (Global):** Devcon 8 ticket + **$750 USDC**
### Prize conditions
- **One prize per team.** You can enter more than one track, but your team wins at most one prize. If you win Best Indian Use Case, you cannot also win a Global prize. If you win one Global prize, you cannot win another.
- **Attending Devcon is not required to win.**
- **One Devcon ticket per winning team.** Travel, visa and accommodation are the winner's cost.
- Winners accept their prize within 48 hours and complete KYC. Prizes are paid within 14 days after KYC.
## Dates
All times are London time (BST, UTC+1).
- **7 October:** registration opens
- **9 October, 12:00:** opening, live at Network School Astana
- **18 October, 23:59 (22:59 UTC):** submissions close
- **19 to 22 October:** judging. Keep your deployment up.
- **23 October:** winners announced
- **25 October:** deadline for winners to accept their prize
- **3 to 6 November:** Devcon 8, Mumbai
## How it is judged
Pick **one or more tracks** when you submit: the four CROPS pillars and Best Indian Use Case. All projects are scored on four criteria, 25 points each. The first one depends on the track and is scored for each track you enter:
- **Why this pillar?** (CROPS tracks) Who is harmed today if this data is censored, shut down, leaked or forged