Melee 2 Slate - Build with Shutter at ETHGlobal Mumbai

Shutter Champions Melee 2
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1. Applicant Information

Applicant Name

  • CuriaLab

Applicant Role

  • Delegate

Conflict disclosure

  • CuriaLab will not receive any funding from this slate. Prize winners are selected by hackathon judging, and event staff are members of the Shutter core team or selected. CuriaLab and affiliated persons are ineligible for all payments.

2. Slate Description

Slate Title

  • Build with Shutter at ETHGlobal Mumbai

Slate Summary

  • Sponsor a “Build with Shutter” prize track at ETHGlobal Mumbai so developers ship real Shutter integrations during Ethereum’s biggest week of the year.

Slate Description

  • Melee 2 asks one question: what’s the best way to advance Shutter with $10,000? Our answer is builders. Content creates awareness, but a hackathon creates working code, and shipped integrations are the strongest signal a protocol can produce. What’s missing is a room full of motivated developers with a reason to pick it up. This slate buys that room.
  • ETHGlobal Mumbai runs November 6-8, immediately after Devcon 8 (November 3-6, JIO World Center) with Pragma Mumbai in between. Thousands of Ethereum developers will already be in the city that week, and a prize track is how Shutter turns that concentration of builders into repos.
  • Prize track ($8,000) → “Build with Shutter”: prizes for the best projects using the Shutter API or Shutter primitives. 1st $4,000, 2nd $2,500, 3rd $1,500. The API’s own use cases map directly to weekend-sized projects: sealed-bid auctions, private voting, fair on-chain games with hidden moves, parimutuel betting, front-running protection. Judging weights working code, novelty, and likelihood of continued development. All submissions land on ETHGlobal’s public showcase, so the DAO gets a permanent, verifiable record of what its money produced. Prizes are only paid for projects actually submitted and judged, anything unawarded rolls to the next Melee.
  • Event staff ($2,000) → a prize track without support is a logo on a wall. Two members of the Shutter core team (brainbot gmbh) work the event: deliver the Shutter workshop at kickoff, staff the sponsor table and channel to unblock teams all weekend, judge the track, and post a public recap covering every Shutter submission, quality notes, and integration leads. No one knows the Shutter API better, and builders get answers from the people who wrote it. $1,000 per person, paid after the recap is delivered.

Success metrics

  • 8+ submissions using Shutter in the track
  • 3+ working prototypes judged prize-worthy
  • Public recap on this forum linking every submission

3. Funding Recipients & Amounts

Recipient $ Amount Paid in SHU or USDC Milestone (if applicable)
“Build with Shutter” prize track at ETHGlobal Mumbai (1st $4,000 / 2nd $2,500 / 3rd $1,500) $8,000 USDC (as ETHGlobal requires; SHU if accepted) Projects submitted and judged at the event; unawarded prizes roll to next Melee
Event staff, Shutter core team / brainbot gmbh (2 × $1,000, workshop + team support + judging) $2,000 SHU Event worked in full and public recap posted with all submissions
Total $10,000 - -

4. Gratuity

Gratuity Recipient Name

Curialabs

Gratuity Recipient Address

0x17296956b4E07Ff8931E4ff4eA06709FaB70b879

Melee 2 - Results & Recap
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Hi @Curia -

I see that your proposed funding slate includes line items for 1) prizes, and 2) event staff. However, IIRC a project must sponsor ETHGlobal in order to provide a prize track. How much are sponsorship packages at ETHGlobal Mumbai? And (if not free) then who will pay the cost of sponsorship?

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Hi @Loring-Exocortex

Fair catch, the slate as posted doesn’t address the sponsorship cost, so let me do that here.

You’re right that a prize track requires an ETHGlobal partnership. Pricing isn’t public; we’ve reached out to the ETHGlobal partnerships team for a Mumbai quote and will post it in this thread as soon as we have it.

On who pays: the sponsorship cost would come out of this slate’s $10,000, not on top of it. Two scenarios, in order of preference:

  1. Standalone package fits within budget → we reduce the prize pool so that package fee + prizes + staff = $10,000, and update the funding table before the vote.
  2. Package exceeds budget → Shutter has used a cheaper route before: at ETHGlobal San Francisco 2024, the Shutter bounty ran under the Gnosis Chain partner track rather than as a standalone sponsorship. We’d coordinate with brainbot/Gnosis on the same arrangement for Mumbai.

In both cases the total stays at or under $10,000, and any unspent amount rolls to the next Melee. We’ll post a canonical updated version of the slate once the quote is in.