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Arbitrum Open House NYC: Online Buildathon

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Arbitrum Open House NYC: Online Buildathon
Registration
25 days left

Host by

Arbitrum Foundation

Hackathon Mode

ONLINE

Ecosystem

A

Participants

JAR
125+

Links

30,000 USD

Available in Prizes

Overall prize30,000 USD

Description

Arbitrum Open House NYC — Buildathon

NYC is where startups, capital, and real-world adoption meet.

Arbitrum has infrastructure trusted by institutions and used by millions.

It’s time to connect the two.

The Open House NYC Buildathon brings three weeks of intensive building using the same tech stack that BlackRock and Robinhood bet their reputations on.

Three weeks to build something that matters.

DeFi. Gaming. Social Applications. DePin. Something entirely new?

That’s up to you.

Build with Stylus in familiar languages, or with Solidity. Deploy on Arbitrum One or a custom Orbit chain.

Bring an existing project or start from scratch.

No compromises. No limits. Just build.

And there’s plenty to play for.

The top teams will walk away with their share of a $30,000 prize pool, and an opportunity for $30k in grants in our follow-on mentorship program.

But that’s not all.

The top three teams will each win a place at the IRL Founder House in NYC in March. Four days of intense working with Arbitrum’s technical team and successful ecosystem founders.

Real mentorship, real connections, real paths from idea to funding.

We've built the infrastructure. You bring the vision.

Let's see what happens next.

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Resource

Developer Documentation

Hey Open House NYC 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

Useful Tools for Builders