Sustainable Blockchain Hackathon

June 23 - July 18, 2022

Blockchains are great for making transparent, verifiable claims and this means that there is a world of Web3 environmental tools to explore and create. Filecoin Green aims to turn sustainability into a Web3 superpower, and we need your help! If you are a builder interested in laying the foundation for tomorrow’s verifiably sustainable web, come join us for the Sustainable Blockchain Hackathon. All are welcome - whether you are deep into #Refi or just want to learn how to make the environmental impacts of your projects more transparent.

Do you believe in making the next generation of the internet as “green” as possible? Come and build sustainable, environmentally friendly tools at the Sustainable Blockchain Hackathon.

Schedule

• Week One: 
• Thursday, June 23, 4 pm UTC: “Opening Ceremony”: Watch Video
• Presenters: Filecoin Green Team 
• Week Two: 
• Monday June 27 4pm UTC: “Introduction to IPFS & Filecoin”: Watch Video
• Presenter: Jenks Guo, Developer Advocate, Filecoin
• Wednesday, June 29, 4 pm UTC: “What is Filecoin Green”
• Presenter: Alan Ransil, Project Lead, Filecoin Green
• Friday July 1 4pm UTC: “Green Decentralized Compute With Fluence And Aqua”
• Presenter: Bernhard Borges, Scientist and Engineer at Fluence Labs
• Week Three: 
• Thursday July 7 3pm UTC: “Architecture Office Hours and the future of Filecoin Green”
• Presenters: Juan Benet, Founder, Protocol Labs
• Week Four: 
• Wednesday July 13 2pm UTC “Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Protocol: if you want to model your impacts"
• Presenters: Marc Johnson, Alan Ransil
• Thursday July 14 10am UTC: AMA”
• Presenters: Marc Johnson, Momcilo Dzunic, Jenks Guo, Orin Ayodele
• Week Five: 
• Monday, July 18, 8 am UTC: Hackathon Ends 
• Monday, July 18-Saturday July 23: Final Judging
• Judges:
• Jenks Guo
• Marc Johnson
• Alex Paris, UN Climate Change Representative
• Andrej Rakic, Developer Advocate at Chainlink Labs
• Bernhard Borges, Scientist and Engineer at Fluence Labs
• Alejandra Borda, Web3 lead at Fifty Years
• Saturday, July 23: SBS Summit & Hackathon Closing Ceremony (Final Judging & presentations)

How it works

1. Check out the prizes and bounties when the hackathon goes live!
2. Join the Filecoin Green SBS Paris Discord
3. Participate in workshops & AMAs.
4. Submit your project via Gitcoin by clicking "Start Work" then "Submit Work"
5. Read the Filecoin Green Documentation
6. Fluence Onboarding Documentation

Prizes

• $24,000 USD prize from Filecoin Green. 1500 USD for each Filecoin Green Bonus Statement.
• 5 x 1,000 USD paid in LINK for the best usage of Chainlink protocol in your project.
• 5,000 USDC for the best use of Fluence in your project.
• 10,000 USD worth of HBAR + a fast track grant application to the winner of our challenge
• All winners will be notified via email, within two weeks of the close of the hackathon. Instructions will be attached to the email.
• Base Statement: Best use of IPFS/and or Filecoin for your environmental project
• Bonus Statement: Write a ‘green reputation score’ that determines which SPs are most sustainable based on the current grid emissions factor, and let your users know how much CO2e will be saved by choosing a lower carbon grid.
• Bonus Statement: Develop UX/UI for NFT platforms that showcases the estimated emissions profile of storing the data of an NFT (pre-mint) via NFT.Storage
• Bonus Statement: Given a block height range, write a script that generates a proof of the energy consumption of a Filecoin storage provider over the corresponding time period. Provide an upper bound, lower bound, and estimate.
• Bonus Statement: Revamp NDCPortal to auto upload new NDCs to Filecoin/IPFS, and conduct analysis of NDC to track progress. Include updated (rather than only initial) NDCs
• Chainlink Bonus Statement: Best use of Chainlink in a sustainability project
• Fluence Bonus Statement: Best use of Fluence in a sustainability project
• Hedera Bonus Statement: Best implementation on Hedera for environmental/sustainability assets (Emissions, Offsets, or REC infrastructure, tooling, dapps, or implementations)
• View the Submission Guidelines & Judging Criteria.

Timeline

• The Sustainable Blockchain Hackathon will commence on June 23, 2022, at 8 am UTC
• All projects must be submitted by July 18, 2022, at 8 am UTC

About IPFS & Filecoin

IPFS is a peer-to-peer network and protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open. IPFS upgrades the web to work peer to peer, addressing data by what it is instead of where it’s located on the network, or who is hosting it.

Filecoin, the world’s largest decentralized network offering more than 16+ Exbibytes of storage. It allows users to store, request, and transfer data via a verifiable marketplace. Filecoin is completely open-source, enabling people from all over the world to participate.

Website | Twitter | Discord | Office Hours

IPFS & Filecoin Developer Resources:

• Getting started with Filecoin and IPFS
• Join group or 1:1 office hours
• Inspiration (current projects leveraging IPFS/Filecoin)
• NFT Starter Pack (hands on code walkthrough of an NFT contract leveraging NFT.Storage in react and deployed to Fleek)
• Other Resources
• Protoschool: https://proto.school/
• NFTSchool: https://nftschool.dev/
• DevTools:
• Web3Storage (free 'all the things' storage on IPFS & Filecoin)
• NFTStorage (free NFT storage on IPFS & Filecoin)
• Filecoin Documentation
• Filecoin & IPFS Judging Criteria for Hackathons