4. Why Frontend
matters?
→ 10x better UX needed to onboard the masses
→ Unpopular Opinion: Good design & frontend
work takes more time than contract work
→ Hackathonistas: Good UI showcasing your
project convinces judges ✨ 💸
13. What the …
useInkathon?
⚡ Saves 100+ lines of code
🔬 Imports contracts only once
🪄 Shorthands for gas estimation, queries,
tx’s, deploys, balance fetches, etc.
💎 Constants for chains & wallets
📈 Battle-tested in production by AZERO.ID
& dozens of hackathon projects
Alternative: useInk
15. What’s next?
→ Tons of improvements are planned 🏗
→ Scaffolding CLI ⚡
→ More docs & education 🎓
Try it on inkathon.xyz
16. Hackathon Bounty 🤑 💸
1,000 $
Best project using
ink!athon or AZERO.ID
We’re looking for the best project that is either using ink!athon to scaffold
their hackathon dApp, or integrating AZERO.ID in the most innovative way.
17. Give me links!
● Live Demo: https://inkathon.xyz/
● Docs: https://github.com/scio-labs/inkathon
● Official ink! Docs: https://use.ink/frontend/overview
● Polkadot.{js} Docs: https://polkadot.js.org/docs/
● Polkadot Wiki: https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/build-open-source
● Aleph Zero Docs: https://docs.alephzero.org/aleph-zero/build/
● Workshop Recording: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SoNLZfsd0mQ
18. Need some help?
🗣
Ask on the Encode Discord
🫂
Join ink!athon Telegram
✍
File an issue on GitHub
We try to be as responsive as possible
during the hackathon weeks!