About the hackathon

Last spring, we announced a $1M grant program to help fund projects building on Erasure. We received proposals to build great apps. However, great apps rely on great tools. This is why the focus of this hackathon is building great tools to help developers build great applications. The best tools will win prizes and be considered for further funding through the grant program.

Categories

Hackathon submissions will be judged according to the following three categories:

1. Speedup in App Development: Much of the friction in building on top of smart contracts is the need for a web developer to learn about the intricacies of a new technology. Good packages such as an JS library or SDK can greatly accelerate app development by abstracting away the complexity.

2. Seamless Integrations: In the blockchain world, interoperability is king. Adoption often depends on playing well with existing tooling and ways developers do things.

3. New Frontiers: Erasure Protocol is about providing the primitives required for building new kinds of applications on the internet. This means we are always looking for bright ideas that push the frontier of the possible.

Prizes

Your hackathon submissions will be shown to a world class group of judges. These judges will select winners for $25k in prizes. The best teams will also have the opportunity to continue their work by getting additional funding through our grants program or by joining our team.

• First Place: $10k
• Second Place: $5k
• 10 Notable Mentions: $1k

Building Real-World Smart Contracts Using Off-Chain Resources

One of the major roadblocks prohibiting the rapid development of useful smart contracts is their inability to access off-chain resources. While tokenization has become a novel mechanism for representing the ownership of assets, smart contracts have far greater potential to revolutionize industries like finance (DeFi), insurance, supply chain, gaming and more if they extend their connectivity to data and systems off-chain.

Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network that gives smart contracts secure and reliable access to data providers, web APIs, enterprise systems, cloud providers, IoT devices, payment systems, other blockchains and much more. Whether its receiving off-chain data to trigger your smart contract or connecting to an external payment system to settle it, the range of possible applications Chainlink opens up is limitless.

We believe that enabling off-chain connectivity via secure oracles is the major catalyst that will spark the next wave of development centered around connected smart contracts. We’re excited to host our first virtual hackathon where participants can use our oracle protocol and access a range of data providers to create novel use cases and practical smart contract applications that drive business innovation and social progress.

What We’re Looking For

Participants are encouraged to follow the ideas they feel most passionate about. They should also keep in mind that there is an additional positive impact award for a project that best addresses a social / community issue. There will also be bounties up for grabs from data providers and sponsors.

1. Create a State Change Using a Chainlink Oracle
   • All submissions must demonstrate how a smart contract can use Chainlink oracles to fetch data off-chain and use this said data to trigger an on-chain state change.
   • For example, you can use market data to trigger a derivatives contract, retrieve IoT sensor data to determine an insurance payout, extract gaming results via a web API to reward winners of online competitions or more. Given the massive pool of valuable data that exists off-chain, there are boundless ways to leverage it in unique and pragmatic smart contract designs, so get creative!
2. Data Aggregation
   • Another area we’re particularly interested in is how projects aggregate off-chain data into a single input to trigger their on-chain contract.
   • Since Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network, developers are able to obtain multiple data feeds and then aggregate them together into a single data point by using a median, weighted average, removing outliers, etc.
   • We’re very curious to observe how developers take advantage of Chainlink’s decentralization to create reliable and trusted data through various aggregation strategies.
3. Original Code and Practical Business Models
   • We are looking for projects with original source code (written during the event only) and have practical business models that can be easily applied in the real world.
   • While experimental concepts are great to push the space forward, we’re interested in smart contracts that can be implemented today and meet actual adoption. We will take into consideration areas like game theory, industry fit, and potential consumer demand when judging a project’s viability in the real world

Prizes

Over $60K worth of bounties are available for the winners.

• Chainlink Bounties
  • 1st Place — $15,000
  • 2nd Place — $8,000
  • 3rd Place — $5,000
  • Positive Impact — $2,000
  • 6 Judge’s Choices — $1,000 each
  • All bounties paid in LINK tokens
• Sponsor Prizes by Amberdata
  • 1st Place — 1 Year Professional API Amberdata subscription (10k value) and 100 DAI
  • 2nd Place — 1 Year Professional API Amberdata subscription (10k worth) and 50 DAI
  • 3rd Place — 6-month Professional API Amberdata subscription (5K worth)
  • All participants that include Amberdata in their project will receive a 3-month free coupon to Amberdata’s professional API.
• Binance X Fellowship Opportunity
  • Successful Fellowship applications will receive a monthly stipend for 3 months
  • There are no restrictions on the number of Fellowships awarded. It can be zero, one or multiple depending on the quality of projects
  • Applications are judged by the Binance X team and are not guaranteed for this hackathon
  • To qualify during this hackathon, projects need to be open-source, see the Binance X fellowship link for more information: https://binancex.dev/fellowship.html

Documents and resources:

• Getting Started
  • To help participants get started, we created a blog post that details a wide-ranging list of potential Chainlink-enabled smart contracts use cases.
  • We’ve also included several links to articles that outline past hackathon competitions that discuss the winning projects.
    • 44 Ways to Enhance Your Smart Contract With Chainlink
    • ETH New York Hackathon Winning Projects
    • ETH Paris Hackathon Winning Projects
    • ETH Denver Hackathon Winning Projects
• Hackathon Resources

What We’re Looking For

Teams are welcome to focus on any area that excites them — from finance to gaming, social media to marketplaces. We’re most interested in applications with the potential to greatly expand the number of people that interact with crypto and blockchain-based applications. Below are three categories we’re looking to get submissions in.

1. Things that Radically Simplify the User Experiences

How might we radically simplify the end-user experience to make it easier and/or more familiar to use crypto-networks? Can we better design for existing user behaviors and interactions? Can we reduce the number of clicks, decrease wait times, find novel “single player modes,” or design other ways to make the user experience 10x better than today, without relying on fully custodial models?

Examples might include: send crypto to a friend’s social media or email address, Eth2-style; one-click (or even automatic) creation and verification of blockchain-based proofs of authenticity; use crypto to autofill a virtual card at checkout; exchange a single crypto asset to supply liquidity to any Uniswap market.

2. Things that Bring People into Crypto

How might we onboard more people into the crypto ecosystem? Can we design new products that are 10x better in terms of performance, cost, or experience that make it a “no-brainer” to adopt crypto-native networks and services? What creative growth hacks (in the product or how it’s marketed), games, and incentives will bring the next million users into crypto?

Examples might include: cross-border micropayments for Mechanical Turk-type work that can be done on mobile devices; lend digital game items or cards secured by crypto collateral; a remittance-focused mobile interface for LocalBitcoins or similar peer-to-peer exchange services.

3. Things that Bring Crypto to People

How might we bring crypto to more people by integrating into the experiences, channels, and places they already visit, like YouTube, Twitch, Reddit, etc.? Can we seamlessly design crypto into and/or alongside existing user experiences — in ways that add value or new functionality? Can we design bridges from existing centralized services to decentralized ones?

Examples might include: an extension for viewers to tip streamers; tools for streamers to gift cryptocollectibles to fans; collectible trophies for posts that reach the top of a Subreddit; automated payments to high-follower accounts that upvote/Like/Retweet a piece of content.

Prizes

Grand prize (1)

• $10,000
• Invitation to become an IDEO CoLab Resident and spend 2 months at IDEO CoLab in either San Francisco or Boston
• Invitation to attend and demo at IDEO Blueprint 2019, IDEO’s annual innovation conference in San Francisco in October 2019

Runner-up (1)

• $5,000
• Invitation to attend and demo at IDEO Blueprint 2019, IDEO’s annual innovation conference in San Francisco in October 2019

Protocol Winners (5)

• $2,000
• Specific to each protocol:
  • NEAR: Tickets to GDC 2020 or TBD web developer conference
  • Tezos: Tickets to our global Tezos conferences (next two are TQuorum in NY and Seoul)
  • Stellar: Tickets to Stellar Meridian
  • Oasis: Invitation to become an Oasis Labs Resident in San Francisco (includes platform credits and being featured in Oasis’ Genesis Block)
  • Ethereum: Tickets to Devcon 5

Timeline

• Thursday, July 25 — Hackathon announcement
• Monday, August 5 — Hackathon starts
• Monday, September 9 — Adoptathon starts
• Sunday, September 22 — Hackathon and Adoptathon ends
• Friday, October 4 — Winners announced

Getting Started

All of the protocols involved in this hackathon have their own unique strengths. To help potential builders learn about each protocol, we have collected some resources and scheduled a series of developer-focused online workshops to share why you would want to build on them and how to get started:

Tezos

• Website: https://tezos.com/
• Documentation: https://developers.tezos.com/
• Workshop: Tuesday, July 30th, 10:00am PT.
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTmCwXnbO5g

Ethereum

• Website: https://www.ethereum.org/
• Documentation: https://www.ethereum.org/developers/
• Workshop: Wednesday, July 31st, 10:00am PT.
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlIcqsuSh10

Oasis

• Website: https://www.oasislabs.com/
• Documentation: https://help.oasislabs.com/
• Workshop: Thursday, August 1st, 10:00am PT.
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXcQnR3C-94

NEAR

• Website: https://nearprotocol.com/
• Documentation: https://docs.nearprotocol.com/
• Workshop: Monday, August 5th, 5:00pm PT.
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLKglAlztYM

Stellar

• Website: https://www.stellar.org/
• Documentation: https://www.stellar.org/developers/
• Workshop: Tuesday, August 6th, 9:00am PT.
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80FKQeghK_4

All sessions will be both live-streamed and recorded and posted online.

CAN'T BE EVIL

Join Blockstack in moving the internet forward! We're looking for developers & entrepreneurs that want to help end data breaches, predatory ad models, and the commoditization & abuse of individuals' digital identities. Enter Part 2 of the 'Can't Be Evil' contest by submitting an app that is private by default, leaves the user in full control of their data, and protects their fundamental digital rights. In other words, submit a Blockstack app and take your first steps into a growing ecosystem that is flipping the status quo on its head.

EARLY ENTRY

If you submit by August 8th at 11:45pm EST, we'll give you a $500 cash bonus. You will still be able to continue working on your app until the final August 28th deadline as well!

The $500 bonus will paid after final submission in the contest and after you're app has completed 3 months in the App Mining program.

→ Submit

CATEGORIES

You can win in up to two categories with a single entry.

Most Creative Use of Lightning: Brought to you by the Casa Founder and CEO, Jeremy Welch will be looking for the most creative use of Lightning in your dapps.

Best App Coded by Female Developer: Judged by Katherine Wu, crypto law thought leader and most recently Director of BD for Messari. She will choose the best app coded by a female or non-binary developer.

Most Delightful: Judged by Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt, this award will go to the application that provides the most delightful ‘a-ha’ moments to users.

RESOURCES (GET STARTED!)

We've collected the best getting started resources right here. If you need anything else, please join us on Slack with the button to the right or contact community@blockstack.com, we'd love to help you!

FAQ

Visit the FAQ

RULES

View full rules

EthCapeTown is part of EthGlobal

Leading minds within the blockchain space will join over 200 international hackers, developers and curious minds to collaborate on building a decentralized future using Ethereum. The occasion will be inclusive and educational, inspiring communities through the creative design of blockchain applications.

There has never been a better time to be a part of this community

Say hello at hello@ethglobal.co

We’re very excited to announce The Ethereal Hackathon, a joint production between Gitcoin and Microsoft’s blockchain group, in advance of the Ethereal Summit.

The Ethereal Hackathon will be a virtual hackathon, running from April 15 — April 30th. Sign up here!

The difference between this hackathon and many others? On top of open ended prizes, there will be bounties which are associated with live, working products. You will be able to work with open source maintainers building the future of blockchain including Microsoft, ConsenSys Labs, MythX, and many others.

If you’re a hacker, entrepreneur, or interested community member who wants to build something (anything!) on Ethereum over a two week period, wait no more. Sign up here.

We’re anticipating 1,000+ hackers, and are excited to create spaces for youa ll to interact soon. If you’re interested in joining as a sponsor + posting prizes, reach out here.

The Ethereal Hackathon Details

The Ethereal Hackathon will run from April 15th — April 30th, in advance of the Ethereal Summit on May 10–11. The winners of the hackathon will be invited to join us in New York to present their winning work live in front of 600+ guests interested in building the future of the internet.

Hackathon participants will also be competing for $10,000+ in prize bounties, posted by a variety of companies, protocols, and organizations.

Microsoft, our organizing sponsor, will be posting prizes across their suite of blockchain projects. MythX — providing security analysis tools for the Ethereum ecosystem — will be posting $10,000 in bounties across their newly released products. There will be some prizes from Gitcoin as well! 🌳

We look forward to sharing more about these prizes and bounties as we get closer to the event.

Sign Up Now

Whether you’ve heard of Gitcoin or not, signing up for the hackathon is a 3 minute process. Fill out this form, create a Gitcoin profile by clicking ‘Login with Github’ in the top right, and you’ll be off to the races. We’ll keep you updated via e-mail and we anticipate $25,000 in prizes, bounties and more will await you and your teammates on April 15th.

Click here to register as a hacker, and see Gitcoin’s website for more details.

Hi NuCypherinos,

Welcome to the NuCypher + CoinList Build hackathon! Checkout out the welcome post and hackathon guidelines here.

Technologies

Proxy Re-encryption

• NuCypher Network - the proxy re-encryption network itself
• pyUmbral - Python reference implementation of Umbral, our threshold proxy re-encryption scheme
• Presentation Slides explaining proxy re-encryption and NuCypher
• Whitepaper - A proxy re-encryption network to empower privacy in decentralized systems
• Umbral Specification - if you want to look at the math behind Umbral

Fully Homomorphic Encryption

• NuFHE - a GPU-accelerated fully homomorphic encryption library
• Sputnik - an assembly language and interpreter built using NuFHE to execute the first-ever fully homomorphic smart contract

Community Links

• Website
• Discord - our main development channel; feel free to jump in with technical questions for our team

Buidling

Documentation

Check out our development guide to start buidling with NuCypher.

Connecting to a Fleet

Running a Local Network

Simulate the NuCypher network locally by running a local development fleet.

Connecting to the DevNet

Alternatively, instead of running a local nucypher development fleet of Ursulas, you can connect your node to our dedicated hackathon devnet.

See the network status here: http://13.59.39.174:12500/

(nucypher) $ nucypher ursula init --federated-only
...
(nucypher) $ nucypher ursula run --network devnet --teacher-uri 18.222.119.242:9151

For more detailed information see our official documentation

Sample Demos

Sample demo applications are available:

• Finnegan's Wake
• Heartbeat Demo

HAPPY HACKING!

EDCON 2019 (Community Ethereum Development Conference) is a non-profit global conference which will happen in Sydney, Australia on 8-14 April 2019. The purpose of the conference is to improve communication among various Ethereum communities and to promote Ethereum ecosystem development on a global scale. EDCON is organized as a conference series, once a year in different countries. The previous EDCONs were held successfully in ESCP Europe, Paris 2017, and Ryerson University, Toronto 2018 (both were organized by LinkTime, one of the Chinese Ethereum community representatives). The Ethereum Foundation and various Ethereum communities have been strongly supportive to this high-quality community conference.

(1) EDCON Hackathon: a two-day event with non-stop creative storming for participants.

(2) EDCON Conference: a three-day conference including main conference, subconference, workshops, etc. Core Ethereum development teams will be invited to talk about the latest updates on Ethereum research and technology, and other pioneers in the field will share their thoughts on the current trends, projects and applications, as well as community building and development status.

(3) EDCON "Having Fun" day: a one-day outdoor activity. While this will no doubt be a great opportunity for network building between the community members, we would also like to provide the atmosphere in a more informal setting for everyone to relax after a week of hacking and sessions.

We sincerely welcome and invite friends from Ethereum communities worldwide to participate in this event. We welcome anyone to register to speak, and the topics collected will be reviewed by our consultant team to make sure that we are creating a top-quality event and can be as inclusive and fair as possible.

ETHParis brings together over 500 curious minds, industry experts and companies pushing the way forward in crypto space to collaborate together on decentralized applications using Ethereum. With an exponential increase in adoption, developer interest, and other teams building on top of Ethereum, there has never been a better time to be a part of the community, building Web3.

LOCATION:

A 2-month online challenge inviting developers, data scientists, marketers, designers, startups and idea generators to team up from December 10, 2018, to February 16, 2019, to develop new smart solutions for The Future of Mobility or Energy.

Each challenge has a prize pool worth 7,500.

The winning team from each industry challenge will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to present their prototype at the grand opening of Deloitte’s new Innovative Center, The Garage, in Amsterdam!

Our Values and Ethos are best depicted by a magical, fantastical creature that lives in herds atop the 14ers of Colorado. This wonderful beast is called the #Bufficorn.

#Bufficorns, moreso than their cousin Unicorns, are very community oriented. They collaborate in almost everything they do. They call to one another with an odd sound, “BUIDL!”

Be a Bufficorn and #Buidl with us!

SERIAL HACKATHON IS:

1. an opportunity to receive potential investments for the development of your own project.
2. an opportunity to get a job in one of the world's leading IT companies.
3. the same meeting point for a huge number of investors, sponsors, experts, leaders and co-thinkers!
4. a paid tour to Asia for the best teams and hackathons' participants.
5. a ticket to the international club of Blockchain developers

CHALLENGES

Do you have the answer? Check out the challenges and formulate your solutions.

The MOBI Grand Challenge (MGC), sponsored by MOBI, the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative, and TIoTA, the Trusted IoT Alliance, is loosely modeled on the DARPA grand challenge for autonomous driving which captured the public imagination and launched the autonomous driving revolution. The MGC will run in bi-annual stages over three years.

The first stage of the MGC will run from October 12th, 2018 to January 10th, 2019 beginning with a launch in New Mexico and culminating in finalist presentations and a public demonstration of selected technologies at an event hosted by the BMW Group, MOBI community member, in Munich Germany on February 15th, 2019.

The goal of the first stage is to demonstrate the pieces of the BC/DLT Mobility puzzle that can be addressed today. Entries in this first stage could include, but are not limited to: exchanging data and payments with other vehicles and infrastructure; operating in a tokenized environment by registering assets and payments on a public or permissioned ledger; negotiating rights of way, access, and use of infrastructure in a cooperative and distributed ecosystem; adjusting behavior to maximize efficiency from providing services, buying fuel, managing pollution, congestion and carbon footprint, etc.

Future stages of the challenge will draw on the demonstrations of this first stage to set goals, narrow the selection criteria, and address gaps.

The ultimate goal of the challenge is to create the first viable, decentralized, ad-hoc network of blockchain/dlt connected vehicles and infrastructure that can reliably share data, coordinate behavior, and thereby improve urban mobility. 

ELIGIBILTY

1. Companies, Universities, NGOs, Startups, or any Independent Developers.
2. Anybody who wishes to create a solution that solves issues in urban mobility.
3. Any Member or Non-Members of MOBI.

REQUIREMENTS

1. A code repository for functioning blockchain software.
2. A demo video of your working app, with an explanation of how it works.
3. Submit the code & video through a DevPost submission.

HOW TO ENTER

1. Register for the hackathon on Devpost.
2. Create a team or find teammates. Join our dedicated Slack channel to help with team formation and receive updates.
3. Build functioning blockchain software using the developer tools and platforms of your choice. Ideally, choose a category or problem you want to solve.
4. Create a demo video of you working app, with an explanation of how it works
5. Submit your application on Devpost

The online hackathon will run from January 10th through February 7th, 2019

PURPOSE:
We’re looking forward to sponsoring this hackathon with CoinList to see participants address the UI/UX issues associated with creating products that utilize decentralized protocols like 0x. If you need some inspiration, check out this list of 22 project ideas. We would also love to see participants continue developing their projects after the hackathon has concluded, as we are always looking to fund promising teams through ourEcosystem Acceleration Program.

CATEGORIES

Participants will need to submit projects into one of three categories:

1. Compliance: Integrate technologies and processes to ensure products are regulatorily compliant
2. Decentralized Finance: Build decentralized financial markets by focusing on user experience improvements
3. NFTs: Create entirely new gaming experiences and digital art marketplaces by using the ERC-721 standard

REQUIREMENT

The only other submission requirement will be for teams to incorporate 0x into their project. In the Decentralized Finance category specifically, we encourage teams to use 0x plus one other crypto protocol from the DeFi stack.

PRIZES:

Each participant that submits a project will receive $100 in ZRX tokens. A panel of judges will pick 3 finalists from each category who will be awarded $2,500 in ZRX. The 1st prize and 2nd prize winners will win $10,000 and $5,000 in ZRX respectively. There will also be a Community Choice prize for the project that receives the most upvotes through the CoinList Build platform. The Community Choice winner will receive $7,500 in ZRX.

LET'S DECENTRALIZED THE WEB TOGETHER

To celebrate the launch of our beta on the Ethereum main network, and in preparation for DevCon4, we invite you to Prague to help build a better, more equitable internet where we can live completely on crypto.

We're deadly serious about putting the power of these networks into people’s hands without compromising on the core principles that inform Ethereum.

We think we can achieve this by playing with our peers in a way that allows everyone to #buidl together products that will allow for more frictionless communication and transaction without any central control.

#CryptoLife is our latest contribution to a better web by gathering all the best minds in Ethereum right before our annual conference and creating the space they require to build paradigm-changing stuff together.

SCHEDULE

BUILD THE DECENTRALIZED FUTURE

This hackathon is an opportunity to work alongside the developers, industry experts, advisers, and companies who are making the infrastructure and applications that will power the new decentralized web.

OUR PARTNERS

1. Etherum

2. ETHGlobal

CONTACT US

For any questions or inquiries, please reach us at sponsor@ethglobal.co 
Also, follow us at @ethsanfrancisco on Twitter!

Pikciochain is proud to announce the creation of Hubble, our developer community. Our goal is to build a community of developers who will create new use cases and support development of the Pikciochain platform.

During September we will be hosting the Pikciochain Hubble Hackathon for our development community (6th to the 25th September 2018).

The Hackathon is an open challenge where any creative or inventive idea is welcome. You can develop libraries, dApps, utilities (e.g a block explorer) or anything you think might be of benefit to Pikciochain. We want you to have fun with Testnet as well as adding value to our chain.

The team will review all the entries, the developers with the most innovative and substantial entries will be granted access to the core Hubble channel and receive a prize in PKC.

Join us from 15th – 16th September 2018 and be part of a vibrant DApp DEV Blockchain Workshops & Hackathon where developers, designers and professionals will get an opportunity to build products based on blockchain protocols.

We are looking forward to turning data into knowledge, buzz into reality, technological advances in the blockchain industry into economic and social wealth!

5 Key things you need to know:

What to expect in terms of ETHBerlin structure and organization?

The event will be held at Factory Berlin, which has not one, but TWO venues.

One is in the central district of Berlin, Mitte. The other brand new Factory venue is bang in the middle of the city’s startup scene, Gorlitzer Park.

Factory is one of the city’s biggest innovation hubs and these guys have been involved with the blockchain community here for a long time, so it’s only fitting the hackathon is held here.

On Day 1 we will have a launch event/mini-conf to kick everything off at Factory’s Mitte location, followed by a cocktail reception, cos we got to get those inspirational juices flowing.

We will also have a HACKER ONLY session at Factory’s other venue in Berlin’s infamous Gorlitzer Park, aimed to bring the hackers up to speed, set testnets and prepare their skillsets.

Day 2 will be the Hackathon + workshops (Görlitzer)

Day 3 will see the end of the hackathon, followed by presentations to the judges and then the announcement of the winners.

AND in true Berlin style, we will end with a blowout so everyone can let rip after an intense couple of days glued to their laptops.

How can I get a ticket to the talks/hackathon?

ETHBerlin is committed to inclusion, diversity, education, and above all, to the Ethereum Community improvement. We will not sell any tickets for this event. Some tickets will be available for free for things such as Day 1: conferences, or the Day 2 workshops. We will release separate applications in due time. Volunteers, Speakers, Sponsors, and Hackers will have access to all events (although they will need to sign up for some due to capacity restrictions)

The State of Wyoming enacted five trail-blazing blockchain bills during its 2018 legislative session that garnered international attention. The WyoHackathon 2018 provides an opportunity for the global blockchain community and the State of Wyoming to converge, thank each other, collaborate, and keep Breakin' Through.

Wyoming has a rich history of Breakin' Through! Wyoming has a long record of being first: The first woman to vote in the US, the first female governor, the first national park, and the first LLC law. And it blazed a trail in blockchain, becoming the first elected body to recognize utility tokens as a new form of property that is neither securities nor money under Wyoming law. Wyoming offers blockchain businesses its most favorable tax, business entity, and privacy protections.

Join 300-400 developers from all over the world in this hackathon. With the help of our sponsors, we will be able to offer an engaging workspace, workshops, and prizes as well as food, drinks, and giveaways.

What is the Qtum Hackathon?

Where creativity and amazing ideas come to life.

Join developers from around the world for Qtum Devcon: A global, virtual hackathon!

At Qtum Devcon, top minds from around the world are invited to create the next wave of decentralized and open source applications. Together, we can change the face of digital content, entertainment, identification, and more through the blockchain economy.

Engage with Qtum and blockchain experts, experience new features as they’re released, and enter the hackathon at any point before the final deadline for a chance to win Qtum tokens equaliting $500,000 USD! Including travel to Devcon 2018 in San Francisco and virtual incubation to help your Dapp grow!

PRIZES

Success at Qtum Devcon 2018 is recognized and rewarded! More than $500,000 in prizes are up for grabs including: Cash, travel, and milestone prizes.

CHALLENGE

Hackers at the Qtum Devcon Hackathon will be challenged to use Qtum’s payment, smart contract, to create an impactful DAPP that’s needed in today’s decentralized world, and/or infrastructure development tools for QTUM blockchain. The sky’s the limit!

JUDGING CRITERIA

We are pleased to invite you to attend another epic hackathon, this time in beautiful Seoul, South Korea, from September 7–9, co-hosted by our friends at Mossland. If you are an experienced Unity and/or Javascript game developer and would like to apply, please email a link to your Github to social@moss.landwith the subject “Seoul Hackathon” — Deadline to apply is August 26, 2018.

Very recently, Mossland — the creators of a blockchain-based augmented reality (AR) game where users buy and sell virtual real estate — announced that they’re building several of their mini-services on top of the Loom SDK.

So, if you decide to attend this hackathon, remember that you are in GREAT hands 😉

Prerequisites for attendance:

• Experience with game development (Unity, Cocos, JavaScript, etc.) — is a MUST.
• Interest in building apps on Ethereum (technical knowledge not required — the Loom Network team will be at the event to help you through building your first DApp)
• Laptop (macOS/Linux/Windows 10)
• Energy, enthusiasm, and creativity 😎

Not to brag, but every game developer who has played around with the Loom SDK in past hackathons has raved about its ease-of-use.

So, you’ll be WELL ARMED to code up some incredible projects like this 😉

At the start of the hackathon, you will be given a copy of the Loom SDK.

…and after you are fully set up, you can begin using our game SDKs for Unity, Cocos, Phaser.js, Truffle / Web3, or JavaScript to build a DAppChain game.

The Loom SDK also comes with built-in example DApps you can simply download and run with minimal setup time.

For example…

A Unity-based side-scrolling adventure game, a social network, and browser-based games using Phaser and WebSockets are some of those example DApps that can be run out of the box.

Think of those as the “Hello World” equivalent of what’s possible with our SDK.

At the end of the event, you’ll be judged by a panel from both Loom Networkand Mossland.

Other than serious bragging rights — the finalists will win exciting prizes as well as an opportunity to be hired by Loom Network (full-time or part-time) OR Mossland to build groundbreaking scaling technology for Ethereum.

Not only that, you’ll also get Moss Coins (MOC) and meals at this hackathon.

We have partnered up with our friends at Blockchangers (which is a blockchain consultancy and development shop in Oslo) to run another iteration of our world famous hackathon using Loom’s SDK.

The DEADLINE for the applications is August 5th. You can still apply past the deadline — but spots cannot be guaranteed.

Since we are interested in continuously shipping product and staying close to developers who are using our SDK — running grassroots-level hackathons like these are beneficial to everyone.

How to Apply (+Event Details)

If you are interested in attending the hackathon, please follow the directions on this official facebook event.

In this event, you will be given an open-source game that’s already integrated with the Loom SDK (called The Adventures of Etherboy in Blockchain World) along with the SDK itself.

At the end of the event, you’ll be judged by a panel from both Loom Network and our friends at Blockchangers — and the finalists will win exciting prizes as well as an opportunity to be hired by Loom Network or Blockchangers (full-time or part-time).

Prerequisites for attendance

• Experience with Unity development (this is a MUST)
• Interest in building apps on Ethereum (technical knowledge not required — the Loom Network team will be at the event to help you through building your first DApp)
• Laptop (macOS/Linux/Windows 10)
• Energy, Enthusiasm, and Creativity

About Loom network

Loom Network is a platform for building highly scalable DPoS sidechains to Ethereum, with a focus on large-scale games and social apps.

Want more info? Start here.

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HACKATHON CATEGORIES

A winner be selected in each of the following categories:

• 💰 Finance — e.g. remittances, payments, wallets, etc.
• 🎮 Games
• ❓ Other — everything else (i.e. decentralized version of Reddit where users can be tipped with MOBI, etc — go where your imagination takes you!)

PRIZE DISTRIBUTION

Each category winner will receive 200,000 MOBI!

There will also be a Community Prize of 200,000 MOBI awarded to the entry that receives the most votes through a beta test of the Universal Governance Protocol Voting Method as outlined in our recent roadmap update (details soon).

Note: A category winning project cannot also win the Community Prize. A previous Mobius hackathon or build challenge winning project cannot win the Global Hackathon. Finally, all submissions must be net new DApps to the DApp store — they cannot already be on the DApp store and they cannot be replicates or alternate versions of DApps already on the DApp store.

JUDGING + VOTING

Judges will award category prizes based on merit and we will announce the 🏆 winners by October 1st.

A Community Prize will also be rewarded through a community MOBI vote. All token holders with more than 5,000 MOBI will be able to vote once for the winner of the Community Prize. The vote will be conducted using our Universal Governance Protocol voting method (details soon).

We will also be rewarding users that give great feedback to project participants on the Mobius Reddit and Github.

QUESTIONS

Email us at developers@mobius.network. Or ping us on Slack. We’re often lurking. 😺

The Social Coding “Blockternship”

A distributed social hackathon….so what’s that mean 🤔

Well, when you have an open source project it’s in your best interest to allow people from all over the world to contribute, afterall that’s the meaning of open source, right?

So our idea was to host a hackathon, where anyone could contribute, collaborate and create projects directly into one organization and we would fund bounties and provide review code in real time.

Our goal with this invitingly open source initiative is to inspire and educate incoming developers!

The Run Down

Aragon, Swarm City and Chain Shot and Giveth are forming an alliance to kick start aspiring developers through a 2 month distributed hackathon, our intention is to open up our communities by providing resources, education and bounties to anyone who wants to start building on the Ethereum Blockchain.

Does My Project Apply?

We are pretty open minded when it comes to submissions, but there are a few requirements you’ll need to be considered.

Must Haves

• Be open source.
• Be built on the Ethereum Blockchain.
• Must not have external funding for development.
• Deploy a working MVP to the GitHub Organization

If you don’t know what to make or don’t have an idea where to start, head over to http://socialcoding.tk/ to check out projects that are currently under developement or have come to fruition through the Social Coding Circle.

Here to Help

Whether you are new to blockchain development or a seasoned vet we want to provide support and learning during the process, so we have designated contact points inside each project for you to reach out to with your questions.

How to get started:

• Submit an issue in the Projects Repo
• Then head over to ChainShot for all the tools you’ll need to build you’re own DApp.

Best place to get started, asking questions, looking for team members, ect:

• Riot Social Coding channel.
• Join Blockternship team on Keybase.
• Connect directly with the members of the project you want to work on through the information below.

Resources

• Everything happens in the Giveth Social Coding Circle come join us there.

Reach Giveth:

Riot Matrix

Resources

• https://blog.aragon.one/releasing-the-aragon-developer-portal-237a8dbc8a48
• https://hack.aragon.one
• https://wiki.aragon.one

Reach Aragon:

https://aragon.chat/

Recources

• https://www.swarm.city
• https://thisis.swarm.city/
• swarm city philosophy

Reach Swarm City

Riot

The Swag Bag

• A collective bag of 20 ETH granted to the winning teams/projects.
• A full page write up about the winning project posted in the community blog.
• An invitation to the next Giveth Summit in an exotic but yet undetermined location.

Key Dates

July 15th
Open for submissions, arrange teams, review project proposals, define products/roles/etc.

August 7th
Submissions Closed, Buidl phase starts, contributors split into working groups, start building and forking over repositories into the blockternship repo.

• Aug 21st (First code review, bounty assignment, feedback, open team call)

• Sept 4th (Second code review, bounty funding, feedback, open team call)

• Sept 18th (Third code review bounty funding, feedback, open team call)

• Oct 2nd (Fourth code review bounty funding, feedback, open team call)

October 9th

End buidl phase. Project entries must be complete and submitted for review. Teams judged and evaluated by panel of individuals from sponsorship organizations.

October - November

Winners announced and awarded prize ETH.

Waves launched non-Turing complete smart contracts in May (you can check the IDE and the white paper ). This version of smart contracts is a set of universal and handy tools designed for implementing any business tasks an entrepreneur might potentially need.

This is why we have decided to run an online hackathon with 2000 WAVES prize fund, in which developers can propose applications that will run on Waves’ smart contracts. We will consider the following use cases:

• Multisig
• Escrow
• Atomic swap
• Oracles
• Betting

In order to participate, developers should contact Inal Kardanov (ikardanov@wavesplatform.com, @kardanoviron Telegram, or Inal Kardanov#2156 on Discord) to discuss their idea. After discussion, work on the application can begin.

The hackathon will last from 2 July till 22 July. The results of the hackathon will be announced on 29 July.

The prize fund is 2000 WAVES that will be divided proportionally between the winners.

By participating in the hackathon, you agree to its Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy

There are two tutorials about smart contracts, which can help you to start:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWaZjpiQtHA&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRmnERIBKzY&feature=youtu.be