Sep 14, 2020 - Oct 13, 2020
This hackathon event had ended at Oct. 13, 2020, 6:59 a.m., please check the ongoing hackathons.
Sponsors
Cartesi allows decentralized applications to run within a Linux environment. Complex processing can be executed off-chain, free from blockchain's computational limits and corresponding fees. Cartesi is the only infrastructure that allows developers to use Linux and mainstream software stacks to build powerful DApps. Find more info on the Cartesi website, or check out the video below:
Join the Cartesi Discord to connect with the community and get in touch with the team.
September 22 at 12pm EST - Cartesi introduction and Q&A - Augusto Teixeira, Chief Scientific Officer - WATCH HERE
September 29 at 12pm EST - Cartesi Hands-on Developer Tutorial - Milton Jonathan, Senior Software Engineer - WATCH HERE
Three Selected Teams - Up to 20K USD to Each Team
Additional Awards 20K+ USD
Submit your application by October 12, 2020 before midnight ET. During the application process, specify the funding amount you request (up to 20K USD) and the key milestones you will achieve to unlock the payments
DeFi
Interested in DeFi? Applications built on Cartesi will be able to perform complex and intensive computation involving large amounts of data. These features give DeFi immense power, releasing it from the current scalability constraints of blockchain, in a fully decentralized way. Additionally, Cartesi allows for blockchain introspection. Parties can enter into contracts that depend on the entire state of the blockchain where the contracts are themselves defined.
Gaming
Gamer at heart? Cartesi will unleash vast new possibilities for blockchain games. You will be able to use traditional tools and libraries that can be compiled for Linux for your decentralized game logic. Additionally, game state processing will be free from the computational limits and high fees of blockchains without the need to sacrifice decentralization. Check out Creepts, our first tower defense game.
Social Impact
Come up with an idea that will improve a social cause, such as safeguarding data privacy, improving the lives of others, facilitating transactions in communities, monitoring violence and other similar causes.
We are open to all ideas
Build a Cartesi DApp in any field you choose. Put your creativity at work.
Edward Thomson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-thomson-080ba519
Oscar Ramos - https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarramosm/
Stas Oskin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stasoskin/
Serguei Popov - https://www.linkedin.com/in/serguei-popov-631bb762/
Boris Povod - https://www.linkedin.com/in/boris-povod-361a1b79/
Augusto Teixeira - https://www.linkedin.com/in/augusto-teixeira-39a3a8169/
Diego Nehab - http://w3.impa.br/~diego/
Arjun Krishan Kalsy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunkrishankalsy/
Erick de Moura - https://www.linkedin.com/in/erickdemoura/
Colin Steil - https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinsteil/
Augusto Teixeira - https://www.linkedin.com/in/augusto-teixeira-39a3a8169/
Diego Nehab - https://www.linkedin.com/in/diegonehab/
Danilo Tuler - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danilotuler/
Milton Jonathan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/milton-jonathan/
Serguei Popov - https://www.linkedin.com/in/serguei-popov-631bb762/
Yes you can participate as an individual or as a team with as many members as you wish.
During the call-for-applications phase, you can submit as many ideas as you wish. If you are selected to join the program, you can submit and work on only one DApp, and you will be judged based on that.
Yes, of course you do.
Fill in this form by October 12, 2020 00:00 ET to sign up for Phase I of the Incubation Program (in partnership with Gitcoin)
Yes.
All communication will be in English and all submissions must be in English to be considered eligible
You can leave the program whenever you want. Payouts will be unlocked according to certain development milestones agreed with Cartesi. This means that Cartesi will be having regular meetings with you to evaluate progress.
Quadratic Funding is a mechanism that enables communities to dictate how a pool of funds is distributed among open-source projects for public benefit. Find out more here. Cartesi will offer a $20k matching pool to be distributed to the top three Cartesi projects. But the community gets to decide how those funds are distributed among the projects by "voting with their money" (ie. donating). However the match is not a 1 to 1 ratio, each project's matching amount is decided by both the number of unique donors and the amount donated. A $1 donation can go a long way!
Check out "Quadratic Payments: A Primer"and "Quadratic Funding in a Nutshell" to get a better understanding. As a very simplified example, to demonstrate the "quadratic" nature, two individuals donating $5 each will earn the same match as one individual donating $25. Essentially, the idea of this mechanism is to give more power in allocating funds to the masses, as opposed to the wealthiest. The number of individual donors is weighted more heavily than the size of donation.
Each of the three selected teams will receive up to 20K USD each.
You will have a chance to book an online meeting with available mentors on a first-come-first-serve basis. Simply check who is available and book as many meetings as you want.
Website: https://cartesi.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cartesiproject
Telegram Community: https://t.me/cartesiproject
Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Pt2NrnS
GitHub: https://github.com/cartesi
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When your team is formed please have one of your teammates navigate to each prize page you plan to compete for and click the “Start Work” button.
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When your project is completed, submit your work by clicking the “Submit Work” button on the prize page/
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