Boar’s Hackathon Starter Pack for the Mezo Hackathon: Building Bitcoin’s Future
Encode Club and the Supernormal Foundation have announced the next edition of the Mezo Hackathon — and we at Boar are here to make sure every builder has the best possible start.
🎁 Special gifts for hackathon builders! 🎁
The Mezo Hackathon: Building Bitcoin’s Future, organized by Encode Club, is a four-week virtual hackathon inviting developers to push Bitcoin into everyday finance. Builders compete for a $30,000 worth of veMEZO tokens by creating apps and services on top of Mezo — the Bitcoin-first, EVM-compatible blockchain.
Whether you are building a DeFi protocol, a payment tool, a yield-generating product, or anything in between — Boar provides the infrastructure to build on top of it. RPC endpoints for Mezo, Ethereum, and Bitcoin, plus AI-ready tooling on top, so you can focus on shipping.
A Starter Pack from Boar
We work every day to make blockchain infrastructure accessible to developers — with RPCs for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Mezo, plus tooling for AI-assisted development. For this hackathon, we are putting three things on the table specifically for participating builders.
1. Blockchain MCP — Query Mezo, Ethereum, and Bitcoin with Your AI Agent
One of the hardest parts of blockchain development is debugging: tracing a failed transaction, decoding a revert reason, tracking balances across chains. Our Blockchain MCP is a free, remote Model Context Protocol server that gives your AI coding assistant (Claude, Cursor, and others) direct read access to blockchain data — no local node, no API key, no setup.
What it supports:
Bitcoin — mainnet and testnet (UTXOs, transactions, blocks, address data)
Ethereum — mainnet (balances, tokens, smart contract calls, ENS resolution)
Mezo — mainnet (EVM-compatible queries, bridge data, MUSD tracking)
What it can do:
Look up balances, transactions, and block data across all three chains
Decode smart contract ABI and trace transaction failures with human-readable revert reasons
Batch-read on-chain state via Multicall3
Resolve ENS names and fetch associated metadata
Query ERC-20 token holdings with full metadata
It is completely stateless and requires zero authentication. Just drop the config into Claude, Cursor or your AI agent of choice and start querying.
Claude Code — run in your terminal:
claude mcp add boar-blockchain-mcp-basic --transport http --scope project https://mcp.boar.network/basic
claude mcp add boar-blockchain-mcp-advanced --transport http --scope project https://mcp.boar.network/advanced
Full setup instructions and a Prompt Cookbook with six ready-to-use agent workflows are available in the GitHub repository.
2. Higher RPC Limits for Mezo and Ethereum
Boar offers production-grade RPC endpoints for Mezo and Ethereum, free to use within standard rate limits. For hackathon teams building under time pressure, those limits can sometimes get in the way.
If you are participating in the Mezo Hackathon and need higher throughput, you can request elevated limits at no cost — double the free plan limits.
RPC endpoints available:
Mezo Mainnet
Ethereum Mainnet
You can generate your API key and find endpoint URLs at dashboard.boar.network.
3. Free Bitcoin RPC — Mainnet and Testnet3
Bitcoin RPC access is a paid tier on the Boar platform. For the Mezo Hackathon, we are opening it up for free to all registered participants — both Bitcoin Mainnet and Testnet3.
If your project involves bridging assets to Mezo, building a Bitcoin-native payment flow, or anything that touches the Bitcoin base layer, you will need reliable RPC access. We are making sure that is not a blocker for you.
To unlock both higher RPC limits and free Bitcoin access in one step, fill out our hackathon request form. After submitting, the Bitcoin Mainnet and Testnet3 endpoint URLs will appear directly on the confirmation screen — no waiting, no back-and-forth. Sign in or create your Boar account first to get your API key, then submit the form.
Why Boar
We are a blockchain infrastructure provider focused on three networks that matter most to the Mezo ecosystem: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Mezo itself. Our platform offers:
RPC endpoints for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Mezo
High availability infrastructure with global coverage
Developer-first tooling, including the Blockchain MCP for AI-assisted workflows
Our goal is simple: developers should spend time building products, not fighting infrastructure. Everything we are giving away for this hackathon reflects that.
How to Get Started
Here is the short version of what to do right now:
Register for the hackathon at encodeclub.com/programmes/mezo-hackathon-building-bitcoins-future
Create your Boar account at dashboard.boar.network and generate your API key
Add the Blockchain MCP to your AI tool of choice using the instructions at github.com/boar-network/blockchain-mcp
Submit the hackathon form to unlock elevated RPC limits and free Bitcoin RPC access
Good luck, and build something great.
Have questions about Boar’s infrastructure or the hackathon offer? Reach out to us.
