To celebrate the launch of our new bot platform and spark creativity within our developer community, OpenChat is pleased to announce:
The OpenChat Botathon is a community-driven hackathon hosted by and within OpenChat. For the entire month of March, we will be all-in on bots, providing hands-on resources and livestreams, mentorship sessions, office hours, QA testing, idea iteration, community building, and $CHAT prizes for developers who create the best bots.
Developers of all experience levels are encouraged to join and unleash their creativity to build bots of all kinds. The best bots in each category will be recognized with $CHAT prizes, with major rewards for our three grand prize winners, selected by our panel of esteemed community judges.
PRIZES • $50,000 CHAT total prize pool
All Prizes listed in USD equivalent in $CHAT and will be distributed in $CHAT neurons locked for 30-90 days.
Grand Prize:
Best of Show - $10,000
5 Category Winners:
Fun & Entertainment - $4,000
Social & Community - $4,000
Dex & Trading - $4,000
Utility & Productivity - $4,000
AI Agents - $4,000
Special Prizes:
OC Dev’s Favorite Award - $5,000
Honorable Mentions - $1,000
CALENDAR
Feb 12th, 2025: Registration Opens
March 1st: Botathon Opens
March 31st: Final Submissions Due
April 1st - 10th: Judging & Voting
April 17th: Award Ceremony & Winners Announced
How to Participate:
The OpenChat Botathon is hosted entirely inside OpenChat. Join the Botathon community to meet your fellow bot hackers, register your team and get to work. Registration is open now, and the hackathon officially kicks off on March 1st.
Join the Botathon Community in OpenChat to register and get started.
Bots are a key feature of modern chat apps, and OpenChat is building a world-class bot platform. Our bot SDK allows for the integration of an unlimited number of Web2 and Web3 apps into the OpenChat ecosystem, creating real utility for our users.
Chatbots enable specialized and specific features, allowing OpenChat communities to pull in outside data, trigger actions, and receive notifications in OpenChat as tasks are completed. For every community, there is a potential bot that can provide a specialized solution—all without leaving OpenChat.
Want to get started early:
SDKs for building Bots for OpenChat with examples
Technical Video Introduction to OpenChat bots by @julian_jelfs:
Video Introduction to Botathon by @icpjesse