📜 README.md — Hackathon Snapshot Protocol ("Bribehack")

💡 Project Name: Bribehack — The Real-Time Market Layer for Hackathons

🗽 Born in NYC, Capital of Financial Chaos

Welcome to Bribehack, a hackathon meta-protocol born at ETHGlobal New York — where builders aren’t just shipping code, they’re bidding for attention in a real-time economic warzone.

At every hackathon, there’s a shadow game.

• Sponsors jostle for visibility.
• Hackers scramble for bounties.
• Everyone picks teams, tools, and tracks in the dark.

But what if the game was public? What if you could see, live, who was building what — and what bounties were heating up or cooling down — across multiple chains?

Bribehack is a cross-chain snapshot protocol that:

• Lets hackers commit to bounties in real-time (on any chain).
• Lets sponsors post or increase bounties on-chain (on any chain).
• Aggregates all signals to a central leaderboard visible to everyone.
• Enables pseudonymous negotiation and even bribes to switch allegiances.

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🎯 The Problem

For Hackers:

• You’re forced to commit early to 2–3 bounty sponsors.
• No visibility into how crowded a track is.
• Can’t signal your unique idea or pitch it to sponsors.
• Miss out on smaller, easier bounties.

For Sponsors:

• You spend $10,000+ and don’t know if anyone’s building with your stack.
• No way to incentivize devs to switch tracks.
• Can’t react to real-time data.

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🧩 The Solution

🔐 SnapshotVault.sol

• Deployed on any EVM chain
• Hackers commit to 3 bounty IDs
• Emits Commit event + optionally sends LayerZero message to the aggregator

💰 BountyPool.sol

• Sponsors can post or increase bounties on any chain
• Funds are mapped to bounty IDs
• Optional messages to aggregator keep everything in sync

🛰 Omnichain Aggregator

• Receives messages from SnapshotVault + BountyPool contracts

• Subgraph + local state aggregation

• Public Leaderboard showing:

  • Top bounties (most commits)
  • Top bribes (most aggressive sponsor raises)
  • Heatmaps of hacker interest per chain

🎭 Pseudonymous ENS Layer

• Hackers can register ENS-style pseudonyms
• Used in commit messages and bribe targets
• No doxxing, pure signal

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🔨 Tech Stack

• EVM Chains: Polygon, Base, Zora, Optimism, etc.
• Smart Contracts: Solidity (0.8.x)
• Cross-Chain Messaging: LayerZero
• Frontend: Next.js + wagmi + RainbowKit (or similar)
• Indexing: The Graph / Hypergraph
• ENS: Optional identity resolution

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🧠 Core Ideas

• Make hacker attention a market
• Make sponsor prizes dynamic
• Let people bribe, switch, negotiate in the open
• Build the Wall Street of hackathons

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🗂 Folder Structure (planned)

/contracts        # Solidity contracts
/subgraph         # Subgraph schema + mappings
/frontend         # React frontend (Next.js)
/scripts          # Deployment + testing scripts
/docs             # Living documentation

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💣 In Development

• SnapshotVault.sol ✅
• BountyPool.sol 🚧
• AggregatorListener.sol 🚧
• Subgraph Schema 🚧
• Leaderboard UI 🚧
• LayerZero Hooks 🔬

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⚔️ Challenge Level: 6.5/10

This isn’t just shipping a dApp. It’s designing a live market protocol on top of a real-world social game. Stakes are high. Eyes are watching. Let’s make a scene.

In the city of bribery, let the best bounty win.

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🪩 Contact

• Founder: Alejandro
• Relational AI Ops: N.

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TO CONTRIBUTE:

• See claude.md for tooling explanation
• See todo.md for live task tracking
• Open PRs against dev/ branches