Cartesi is launching Cartesi Experiments Week!
The Cartesi Foundation is hosting a week-long online hackathon for grantees and the wider community to focus on Cartesi and bring some tangible DApp ideas, use cases, improvements, and tooling to the table.
Dates, durations, and other events
Start date: October 16, 2023
The Cartesi Experimentation Week will begin with a Cartesi Foundation community call and culminate in a developer advocacy technical workshop on October 16, 2023 at 13:00 UTC in the Cartesi Discord community.
End date: October 22, 2023
All submissions must be received by 4pm UTC on October 22, 2023 to be considered valid. NOTE: The ETHGlobal online submission deadline is also October 22 at 4pm UTC.
Even if an idea or project does not succeed, we encourage submissions explaining any insights gained.
Community Demo: October 23, 2023
All submissions will complete a short community presentation (2-4 minutes in length) which will take place on October 23, 2023 at 13:00 UTC in the Cartesi Discord community.
What can you build?
Novel DApp ideas and use cases (highly encouraged!)
Innovative tools
Anything Cartesi related!
This is an experimental week that provides everyone with the opportunity to invest their creative energy, either individually or as a team, to focus on generating novel DApp ideas, building impactful use cases, designing innovative tools, or simply implementing any Cartesi-related concept they have been thinking about.
Additionally, in a recent survey with funders, we collected a lot of opinions and insights on what makes Cartesi popular. Here is a list of the most mentioned topics to guide your innovation exploration:
Application areas: DeFi, prediction market, artificial intelligence, sharing economy, reproducible construction, games, social networks, metaverse, law, etc. (13 times mentioned)
Better tooling: especially around deployment convenience, but also lambdas, dehashing appliances, and convenience frameworks (9 mentions)
Arbitration: Identified as a key aspect (6 mentions)
Cartesi Machine Visibility (3 mentions)
Integration: with other protocols/projects (data availability) (2 mentions)
Number of DApps on the mainnet (2 mentions)
Venture capital backing and community growth (2 mentions)
Prizes to win:
🥇 First place prize: 3,000 USD in CTSI
🥈 Second place prize: 2,000 USD CTSI
🥉 Third place prize: $1,000 CTSI
The Cartesi Foundation reserves the right to award other prizes as circumstances warrant.
*For winners, identity verification (KYC) is required.
Important reminder: The registration deadline for the ETHGlobal Online Hackathon is October 5, 2023, at 11:59 PM EST. If you want to win the expanded prize pool (over $250,000 available!) and showcase your skills on a larger platform,
Now is the time to register. Don't miss out!
Rules and Guidelines
Participants must submit their email, name, project name, a short description, and a presentation they will be using for the community. If applicable, you may also include your project's GitHub repository.
You are free to be creative, but your submission must be related to Cartesi technology.
For those also submitting to the ETHGlobal Online Hackathon, please check out their rules and guidelines. (https://ethglobal.com/events/ethonline2023/info/details)
IMPORTANT NOTE: This hackathon emphasizes collaboration, not competition. We sincerely hope and expect everyone to work together, help and support each other. Remember, the goal is not necessarily to solve the hardest problems, but to solve the most impactful problems. Often, the most significant changes come from simple solutions. Let's work smart and really make an impact!
Submission and Presentation
Please submit your hackathon project before 12:00 UTC on October 22, 2023. The submission link is as follows:
https://forms.gle/RrxVoqf6RhAiptBUA
A short 2-4 minute presentation will be given on a community call in the Cartesi Discord community at 13:00 UTC on October 23, 2023. You can choose the format you prefer, but it must include basic slides, and a demo showing your project is highly appreciated!
ETHGlobal Online project submissions are done through the hacker dashboard (https://ethglobal.com/events/ethonline2023/home) and require submission of a demonstration video.
Judging Criteria
Judging criteria will be similar to ETHGlobal's criteria for consistency:
Technicality: How big of an impact or importance is the problem the project is trying to solve? How does the solution solve it?
Originality: How original is the project?
Practicality: How practical is the project?
Usability (UI/UX/DX): Is the project easy to use? Can it be improved to remove friction for users?
WOW Factor and Community Impact: How big of an impact does the project have on Cartesi and the broader blockchain ecosystem?
Submissions will be judged for prizes by the following judges:
Felipe Argento - Cartesi Foundation
Erick de Moura - Cartesi Foundation
Colin Steil - Cartesi Foundation
Brandon Isaacson - Cartesian Foundation
Payal Patel - Developer Advocacy Grantee Unit
Conclusion
We are so excited to bring Cartesi to the forefront and can’t wait to see the ideas, use cases, and improvements that are showcased during this week of experimentation! If participants have any questions, need any guidance, or any support, please head over to the#ideas& use-cases channel in the Cartesi Discord community. (https://discord.com/channels/600597137524391947/1001138341296738354)
About Cartesi
Cartesi is an application-specific rollup protocol with a virtual machine running a Linux distribution, creating a richer and broader design space for DApp developers.
Cartesi Rollups provide a modular scaling solution that can be deployed as L2, L3, or sovereign Rollups while maintaining strong base layer security guarantees.
Disclaimer
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