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Arbitrum Open House India: IRL Hack Bengaluru

Code in Bengaluru. Launch on Arbitrum. Pitch at Demo Day. $70k up for grabs.

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Arbitrum Open House India: IRL Hack Bengaluru
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Host by

Arbitrum Foundation

Hackathon Mode

OFFLINE

Ecosystem

A

Venue

Tamarind Tree

Conduct

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Tech Stack

Solidity
Rust

Participants

STZ
78+

Links

Community

70,000 USD

Available in Prizes

Open House India: Champions70,000 USDC

Description

Robinhood serves 28 million users. They chose Arbitrum.

BlackRock manages $12.5 trillion. They chose Arbitrum.

Ubisoft builds for 134 million players. They chose Arbitrum.

In four days, you could build what comes next.


Open House India IRL connects the world’s largest pool of builders with the infrastructure that the world’s largest companies stake their reputations on.

Four days in Bengaluru for teams who turn ideas into products.

Four days working with teams that have delivered billions in value.

Four days building in an ecosystem designed for growth.

Four days that could change everything.

Build the way you think.

Write in Rust, C++ or Python with Stylus. Use Solidity if that’s home. Deploy on Arbitrum One for shared liquidity or chart the path to a custom Orbit chain if your design calls for dedicated blockspace.

DeFi. Gaming. Social. Developer tools. Something no one has seen yet.

What you build, that’s up to you. And you won’t be building alone.


Work side-by-side with Arbitrum engineers and founders who have gone from zero to one, with support from the Ethereum Foundation, OpenZeppelin, Couchbase and Appwrite.

Expect focused morning checkpoints, intensive build sessions, technical workshops and mentorship that will sharpen the narrative and the code.

Prizes recognise outcomes.

First place takes $40,000. Second takes $20,000. Third takes $10,000.

But winning is just a milestone, not the finish line.

Because the competition is just the beginning.


Demo day connects winning teams with VCs who back this space. Outstanding projects will be fast-tracked into Arbitrum's growth programmes. Exceptional work opens doors to ecosystem partnerships that extend far beyond the event.

The foundation is ready. The ecosystem is waiting.

Now it’s time to build.

Build in Bengaluru. Build Everywhere.

Arbitrum Everywhere.

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Open House India: Champions

70,000 USDC

Open House India: Champions

First Place40,000 USDC
Second Place20,000 USDC
Third Place10,000 USDC

Open House India: Champions

Judging Criteria

Your project must be deployed on an Arbitrum chain to qualify. For example: Arbitrum Sepolia, Arbitrum One, Orbit chains.

Projects are assessed on the following criteria:

  • Smart contract quality - code following best practices, structured logically and efficiently, with minimal security vulnerabilities

  • Product-Market Fit - projects with clear potential to attract and retain users

  • Innovation and Creativity - original approaches that push boundaries

  • Real Problem Solving - applications that address genuine market needs

Disclaimer:
HackQuest, as a hackathon platform provider, is not involved in the final judging and reward distribution for any hackathon unless specifically stated otherwise. If no or few submissions meet the host's quality standards, the prize may be subject to change.

Schedule

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Registration
Sep 18,2025 11:30 - Sep 21,2025 04:30
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Submission
Sep 20,2025 14:07 - Sep 21,2025 05:25
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Reward Announcement
Sep 21,2025 10:30

Resource

Developer Documentation

Hey Open House India builders! We have compiled a list of useful information for you below. Please take a thorough look as most of the information you will be looking for will be covered here.

  1. Developer Docs - Get started with Arbitrum

  2. A gentle introduction to Arbitrum

  3. Quickstart: Build a decentralized app (Solidity)

  4. Quickstart: write a smart contract in Rust using Stylus

  5. A gentle introduction: Stylus

  6. How to run a local Nitro dev node

  7. Quickstart: Arbitrum bridge

  8. Third party docs: RPCs, Indexers, Oracles, etc.

  9. Arbitrum FAQ

Faucets

Ethereum Sepolia - claim testnet ETH, then bridge it to Arbitrum Sepolia using the bridge.
https://sepoliafaucet.com/
https://arbitrum.faucet.dev/
https://www.infura.io/faucet/sepolia
https://sepolia-faucet.pk910.de/

Arbitrum Sepolia - just claim testnet ETH and you're ready to go:
https://arbitrum.faucet.dev/
https://faucet.quicknode.com/arbitrum/sepolia
https://www.l2faucet.com/arbitrum

Arbitrum Sepolia USDC Faucet:
https://faucet.circle.com/

RPC Endpoints

  • https://arb1.arbitrum.io/rpc

  • https://rpc.ankr.com/arbitrum

  • https://arbitrum.llamarpc.com

Useful Tools for Builders

  • Arbitrum Docs: https://docs.arbitrum.io/

  • Arbitrum SDK: https://github.com/OffchainLabs/arbitrum-sdk

  • Stylus Docs: https://docs.arbitrum.io/stylus

  • Stylus By Example: https://stylus-by-example.org

  • Stylus CLI: https://github.com/OffchainLabs/cargo-stylus

  • Stylus Rust SDK: https://github.com/OffchainLabs/stylus-sdk-rs

  • OpenZeppelin Rust Contracts: https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/rust-contracts-stylus

  • OpenZeppelin Solidity Contracts: https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts

Sponsors & Partners

O

OpenZeppelin

E

Ethereum Foundation: Founder Success

C

Couchbase

A

Appwrite