@izcc.near [Posted on DevHub](/devgovgigs.near/widget/Post?id=2168) ## Solution: Report | Open Web House at Mexico City powered by Hackbox Hello NEAR family. In September, the @openwebacademy.near team made a proposal to run Open Web House powered by Hakcbox, the fourth in-person NEAR hackathon in Mexico, with the goal of adding new builders to the NEAR Protocol and developing new dApp solutions for the ecosystem and in this opportunity to actively promote the use of the Blockchain Operating System. https://near.social/devhub.near/widget/app?page=post&id=1143 #### TL;DR ⚡ You can read the Twitter thread that summarizes the event: https://twitter.com/openwebacademy_/status/1715791072599674952 #### A SUCCESS OPEN WEB HOUSE POWERED BY HACKBOX 🚀 After the last hacker house we hosted, we flew to the center of the country to host a NEAR Protocol open house in Mexico City. At the end of this edition we have great learning, great projects and a great enthusiasm to continue building web 3.0, but above all a great adoption and acceptance of the NEAR ecosystem. Today I present the formal report of the event held on October 20, 2023 Before starting with the summary and paragraphs of the event, it is necessary to thank all the local communities in Mexico that participated, the organizers of ETH Mexico 2023 who gave us information for our participants, the Meta Pool development team for joining with a track to the hackathon and of course to the Hackbox team, especially @nneoma.near and @yarotska.near for being a great strategic partner to carry out the Open Web House Hackathon powered by Hakcbox, who from day 1 have provided us with all the support, monitoring, tools, as well as feedback necessary for the building NEAR space to continue improving and expanding.  #### The event 🎪 From October 13 to 19, we started the Hackathon virtually with an opening session where all the guidelines on how to participate and the details of how the event would develop were given. Watch the virtual sessions here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkwvyg8hchruAJ5lInlVmiPWY8fNjAzR4&si=Nr3Z2ysFBfzQredh  On October 20, the hackathon closed with an IRL event in Mexico City at We Work Warsaw, a day before ETH Mexico 2023. On this final day, talks were held to promote development in NEAR and the use of BOS, as well as the final pitches of the projects. * Venue of the event: We Work Varsovia, Ciudad de México See maps * Virtual dates: October 13 to 19 * IRL date: October 20 * Event schedule: https://ow.academy/house * Participant guide and code of conduct of the event: See guide and code of conduct * Event challenges: https://taikai.network/hackbox/hackathons/open-web-house-cdmx/categories #### Event numbers 🔢 * 122 registered people * 43 hackers * 64 IRL attendees * 50 NEAR wallets created * 8 teams hacking * 6 expert near mentors * 3 project judges * 12 speakers at the hackathon * 8 BOS widgets created * +12 hours of content * 14 crypto communities Attendees from different cities in Mexico and LATAM * Tepic, Nayarit, México * Guadalajara, Jalisco, México * Monterrey, Nuevo León, México * Puebla, México * Ciudad de México, México * Yucatán, México * Medellín, Colombia * Bogotá, Colombia * Lima, Perú #### Hackathon management, participants and projects 👷♂️⏱️ After 7 days of hard work building projects with NEAR and BOS technology virtually, on October 20 we took the participants to the Open Web House powered by Hackbox, the participants attended the closing IRL event, a crypto talks and networking event that It was held one day before EHT México in Mexico City, and gave the finalist teams of the hackathon the opportunity to present their created projects in front of the attendees to an open public. In the same way, the participating hackers received free tickets to attend ETH Mexico the next day. Four projects were winners and received prizes of 3,500 USDT thanks to Near Dev Hub and Meta Pool, sponsor of a track. The administrative and technical management of the hackathon was carried out in Taikai. The platform is facilitated by Hackbox that helps software engineers (developers) participate in hackathon-style software competitions. Here participants make their creations and tools visible to the community and the world. In this way, anyone interested in monitoring the Open Web House hackathon created can enter the link https://taikai.network/hackbox/hackathons/open-web-house-cdmx/projects/ and see the details of all the projects created, as well as the participants of each team and the profiles they have. #### The challenges 🏗️ In each Open Web House held by the owa community we strive to offer a high-level impact, and on this occasion the objectives of the hackathon were aimed at allowing more people to build solutions using the Blockchain Operating System and NEAR technology, which is why which we wrote build challenges that would allow for more decentralized widgets and interfaces on the network. ##### NEAR IS BOS **Introduction:** Blockchain Operating System is one of the easiest ways to build and deploy a decentralized frontend that is useful for any chain: NEAR, Ethereum Virtual Machines, Solana, Polkadot, etc. On top of that, all the information lives inside the NEAR Protocol blockchain, making your frontend totally decentralized. * Deploy smart contracts as fungible tokens, NFTs, DeFi or something else. * Transfer tokens between accounts, either $NEAR or a fungible token. * Transfer tokens using the Ethereum rainbow bridge <> NEAR <> Aurora * Set up validator nodes for your Proof of Stake system * Introduce new users easily to the world of Web 3. **Expected solution:** In this challenge you will have to build your own widget for a smart contract running on the NEAR Protocol. The contract can be created by you using the contract of a third party. ##### ETH IS BOS **Introduction:** The Ethereum Virtual Machine is the application layer that was originally released on top of Ethereum, and is now present in multiple chains: Aurora Network, BNB Chain, Moonbeam, Arbitrum, among others. EVM’s have the advantage of having a large number of users and existing infrastructure for their use, including: Web3.js, Meta Mask, Wallet Connect and other tools that make it versatile for use. Specifically speaking, Aurora Network is the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) mounted on top of the NEAR Protocol infrastructure. With Aurora you can: * Transfer your tokens between Ethereum <> NEAR <> AURORA * Deploy smart contracts made in Solidity with the same experience as in Ethereum. * Use wallets known as Meta Mask. * Pay low transaction costs. * Using the aurora.plus platform you get 50 free transactions per month **Expected solution:** A decentralized application that runs on the Aurora network and with high added value to its users. To see all the challenges proposed for the open web house powered by hackbox visit the following link and see in detail the tracks in which the participants could hack. https://taikai.network/hackbox/hackathons/open-web-house-cdmx/categories The hackathon has included more challenges such as Liquid staking with Metapool, to create more DeFi solutions in NEAR and ETH or the "Community first" challenge where we encourage hackers to build communities around the solution they are creating, thus boosting visibility in social networks of the event and the builders. #### The winners 🏆🏆 Learn about the winning projects here: https://taikai.network/hackbox/hackathons/open-web-house-cdmx/projects/ Know the evaluation criteria with which the teams were evaluated https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P0DVLLfR6xUlPvaP2f7Rw5watGzXktt-9Zn456WL09Y/edit?usp=sharing  Hackathon Winners Prize Claim Posts: * Solution: "./instantLiquidFunding" https://near.social/devhub.near/widget/app?page=post&id=2132 * Solution: ApprendeDrop https://near.social/devhub.near/widget/app?page=post&id=2004 * Solution: Meta-Tandas https://near.social/devhub.near/widget/app?page=post&id=1958 * Solution: SAZONMX https://near.social/devhub.near/widget/app?page=post&id=1957 #### Participants metrics 👩💻👨💻 Open Web House Powered by Hackbox _ Hackathon híbrido - Guests - 2023-11-16-00-04-44 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16-i8J6lgvmByZfozvGq0QF-YyJKl5HN_UP6xiWIbGfY/edit?usp=sharing #### Gallery 🖼️🖼️    #### Transparency 📚✔️ View and track the monetary transactions carried out for the development of the event, such as food expenses, rental of premises, payment of instructors and distribution of transaction payments from the Open Web Academy DAO dashboard.* https://near.org/astraplusplus.ndctools.near/widget/home?tab=proposals&daoId=open-web-academy.sputnik-dao.near&page=dao Find out the expenses incurred for the event here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rQ1TF_oHjmdxH8b6fx8cuVr9iuP0bMeOz5NxbgYFXzg/edit#gid=0 *Disclaimer: Total expenses could not necessarily be reflected in real time in DAO. #Hacks, #Hackbox #PoweredByHackbox 💚