BCH DevCon Hackathon (SF Blockchain Week)

Introduction  BCH DEVCON is a series of global hackathons taking place around the world and hosted by Permissionless Ventures and co-hosted by SV INSIGHT. Permissionless Venture is a venture capital firm that backs blockchain technology and bold entrepreneurs enabling a permissionless and decentralized world. We have built a global network of engineers, entrepreneurs, investors, industry experts executives, and other influencers in the blockchain ecosystem. We are committed to connecting these diversified minds in order to empower the permissionless world. During the San Francisco Blockchain Week (SFBW), BCH DEVCON is making its debut to the public and the BCH community from October 10th to October 11th, 2018. BCH community is one of the most active communities in the Blockchain industry, not only famous for its endless “debates” with other communities (even among themselves) but a very active platform for developers. Some KOLs/hackers/geeks/believers are undertaking Satoshi’s vision- making a secure and capable money system without intermediaries. BCH is now striving to get more developers onboard, educate more people about its vision and technology, and eventually have more people using BCH as a global money and beyond.  We will find 120 best Hackers to start this amazing 24 hours adventure journey. Take a look, and enjoy!  Official website: https://bchdevcon.com/ FAQs ➤What is the schedule?   October 10th, 2018 8:30 am – 9:00 am BCH DevCon Registration 9:00 am – 9:10 am Opening Remarks 9:10 am – 9:30 am A general mindset of BCH's future by Shammah Chancellor-Bitcoin ABC  9:30 am – 9:50 am "Tokambrian Explosion" The importance of tokens to BCH by Gabriel Cardona-Bitbox 9:50 am – 10:20 am, Money Button by Ryan X. Charles-moneybutton.com/Yours.org 10:20 am – 10:40 am Connecting a new universe to BCH by Jiazhi Jiang-Wormhole 10:40 am - 11:00 am Wallets in the BCH Ecosystem by Josh Ellithorpe-Coinbase 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Team Building (Technical Support Provided) 12:00 pm - 11:59 pm Hacking Time October 11th, 2018 00:01 am - 10:30 am Overnight Hack 10:30 am Demo Submission Deadline 10:30 am - 11:30 am Demo Fair, Voting, and Photo Time 11:30 pm -  1:00 pm Break 1:00  pm -  1:30 pm Panel 1:30  pm -  2:00 pm Panel 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Top 5 Hackathon Demo Show & Judge Q&A 3:00  pm - 3:30  pm Top 3 Hackathon Award Ceremony  3:30  pm - 4:00  pm BCH DevCon Closing Remarks ➤Topics 1. Build a micropayments project with feasible innovations in fast payment integrating BCH’s features: borderless, 0 confirmation and low transaction fees. 2. Build a betting game based on newly released op codes, e.g.: https://github.com/fyookball/ChainBet. This topic can be without considering the funding problem, atomic operations, smart contracts, and eventually sent tokens according to the results. 3. Build an application regarding permanent data storing, open protocols and open-source data. (Using Op_Return) e.g.: https://memo.cash/ 4. Build a cross-chain project, implementation based on gateway designs. Building an internet of value and ecosystem. E.g.: https://www.rsk.co/ 5. Build an analysis tool for big data. A tool that can detect, inspect and visualize the transaction, tradings, blocks, nodes and the entire network of BCH Blockchain. E.g.: https://blocks.wizb.it/ 6. Build a WHC Block explorer. Call Wormhole REST endpoints (https://wormholecash-production.herokuapp.com/) to build a web GUI which lists the tokens, token details, balances of token holders and transactions for token/holder. 7. Build a utility token generator w/ SLP. Create a web GUI which lets a user create a new SLP token. Name, ticker, URL, number of decimals, fixed/managed supply and initial distribution. 8. Launch an ICO on WHC. Create a custom security token and launch a crowdsale. Custom name, ticker, total number of tokens and how many tokens you'll sale for each 1 WHC. 9. Conceptualize a stable-coin for BCH ecosystem. Stable-coins, like DAI and $GUSD, are very popular in the ETH token ecosystem. Brainstorm on what a BCH stable-coin would look like. What smart contracts are needed in WHC for this to happen? ➤Who can be our Hackers? iOS/Android/Web development engineeriOS/Android/Web front endiOS/Android/Web back endiOS/Android/Web full stack engineerData Analyst / AI MasterBlockchain related engineers -decentralized wallet developmentBlockchain related engineers - smart contract developmentUnderstanding Hacker Economy and Blockchain Business Model HackerHacker familiar with mainstream blockchain source code (BCH/BTC/ETH, etc.) ➤What can hackers get in this hackathon? 1st  Prize: 10 BCH + Investments from Permissionless Ventures2nd Prize: 5 BCH3rd  Prize: 1 BCH Each successful registrant will get one free ticket of The San Francisco Blockchain Week Epicenter ➤How much should I pay? This Hackathon is completely free for participants. We will provide snacks, coffee, and peripheral gifts so that you have the best Hack experience. ➤How many are the recruitment numbers? Only 120 Hacker admittances ➤What rules do I need to follow? The form of a team: 3-6 people. (team or on-site team) The score of your team will be evaluated by a committee made up of the most talented developers in the community. They will judge based on the understanding of Blockchain technology, practicability, scalability, creativity, and BCH score. (Total: 100 points) Understanding of Blockchain technology (20 Points) How are you gonna design the project? Is it a solid design that utilizes the Blockchain technology? Practicability (20 Points) Is your project related to payment solution or token issuance? How well is your implementation? Scalability (20 Points) What can the project achieve in the real-world market? What’s the expectation of the performance? Creativity (20 Points) Is this a unique project? How creative it is regarding the design and the reactions from the marketplace? BCH score (20 Points) Try to use Op_Return and Op_Datasigverify in your project. Try to make what is possible on BCH into a real project.                      ➤Judges Shammah Chancellor - Bitcoin-ABC Ryan X Charles - moneybutton.com/yours.org Josh Ellithorpe - Coinbase Gabriel Cardona- Bitbox Jiazhi Jiang - Wormhole David Johnston - Factom/Yeoman's Capital James Cramer - SLP/DeskViz ➤Rules 1. At the end of the Hackathon, project and presentation material should be submitted before the deadline in the agenda, after which no additional revision will be allowed. 2. A reasonable workload is one of the standards for evaluating the projects. Participants may study and research relevant knowledge and information before the Hackathon. However, bringing finished or semi-finished projects to the Hackathon is strictly prohibited. Furthermore, all assignments relating to a project should only be allocated to registered members of its registered team. 3. A security detail will be implemented at the venue. Participants should sign in with valid ID  4. During the Hackathon, the venue will operate for 24 hours. We will provide a sleeping bag to rest on site.  ➤ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS: The following terms apply to participation in this hackathon (“Hackathon”). Entrants may create original solutions, prototypes, datasets, scripts, or other content, materials, discoveries or inventions (a “Submission”). The Hackathon is organized by BCH DEVCON (the “Hackathon Organizer”). Entrants retain ownership of all intellectual and industrial property rights (including moral rights) in and to Submissions. As a condition of submission, Entrant grants the Hackathon Organizer, its subsidiaries, agents and partner companies, a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, distribute, publicly perform, create derivative works from, and publicly display the Submission. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Participants own the rights to their projects they create at the Hackathon. Your team may create a Prototype using data and/or API’s provided by the Sponsoring platforms (“Sponsors”) and/or its Partner. This could mean that you or a teammate created the Technology solely on your own, acquired Sponsorship of the Technology from a third party, or may rely on binding written statements by the third party that owns or has the right to license the Technology indicating that you (or members of the public generally) are authorized to use that Technology in the manner you intend to use it. Your team will be disqualified if the Sponsor has any reason to believe that your team has violated the terms of this paragraph. You should consult with appropriate advisors or legal counsel if you have any doubt as to whether you are meeting the requirements of this paragraph. “Technology” means, without limitation, content (including pictorial, audio, and audio-visual content), code, specifications, technical information, algorithms, images, design, art, music, graphics, SFX, data, and any other information or materials protected by any intellectual property right. Your team may not bring to the Hackathon any pre-developed or licensed Technology that you plan to use in connection with your Prototype. LICENSING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS The Hackathon Organizer and Sponsors does not claim any intellectual property ownership rights in Participant’s submission, except for the license to review the submission as part of Hackathon judging and awarding of prizes. YOUR SUBMISSION Your Submission must: a. Adhere to the terms of service per this agreement and the rules stated at the beginning of the hackathon b. Not breach the terms and conditions of any embedded software or services used by your Application, c. Not contain any malicious code or backdoors, d. Not contain, depict or refer to any crude, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, disparaging, discriminatory, offensive, illegal or otherwise unsuitable language, activity or other content (all as determined by the Sponsor in its sole discretion) e. Not contain, depict or refer to any content which disparages or refers negatively to the Sponsor, the Hackathon, or any other person or entity (all as determined by the Sponsor in its sole discretion); and f. Not contain any content that violates any law or any third party’s rights (including privacy, personality and intellectual property rights). DISQUALIFICATIONS Your team’s Submission may be disqualified if the Sponsor has reason to believe, in the Sponsor’s sole discretion, that your Submission (a) contains any element that is malicious, corrupt, damaged, incomplete, inappropriate, or offensive; (b) violates the terms of use of any social media service, website, mobile application or any other platform used in connection with your Submission; (c) infringes any third party intellectual property rights; (d) violates any applicable law or (e) violates or does not comply with any section of this Participation Agreement. You and/or your entire team may be disqualified for any of the following actions, with or without warning, in the Sponsor’s sole discretion: (i) verbal abuse of another participant or Hackathon staff, (ii) inappropriate touching or harming of another participant or Hackathon staff, (iii) breach of the Hackathon Participant Agreement or any other agreement entered into in connection with the Hackathon, (iv) violation of or non-compliance with any section of this Participation Agreement, or (v) violating the spirit of the Hackathon. If the Sponsor has reason to believe that you or your team has compromised the integrity or the legitimate operation of this Hackathon, or has attempted to compromise the integrity or the legitimate operation of this Hackathon, including, without limitation, by cheating, hacking, creating a malicious bot or other automated program, or by committing fraud in any way, your team will be disqualified and asked to leave the premises. If during the Hackathon, any Hackathon staff has reason to believe that your health is in danger, you may be required to discontinue your participation in the Hackathon and asked to seek immediate medical assistance. Your teammates, if any, may continue participating in the Hackathon if they so choose. All disqualification decisions are final and not subject to appeal. CODE OF CONDUCT The Hackathon Organizer is dedicated to providing an empowering experience for everyone who participates in or supports our community. Because we value the safety and security of our members and strive to have an inclusive community, we do not tolerate harassment of members or event participants in any form. This Code of Conduct was created to clearly define what we mean by a harassment-free experience, so that our community and those who support it are clear about our intent and have access to procedures for addressing issues, should they arise. THE HACKATHON ORGANIZER STATEMENT OF INTENT: The Hackathon Organizer values the safety and security of all of our members and, because of that, we will not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination. Our goal is to provide a safe and secure environment for our members, and to this end we have taken the following actions: • Provided a statement of intent and code of conduct for events • Explicitly outlined and defined forms of harassment and discrimination • Clearly outlined the consequences for those who engage in harassing or discriminatory behavior • Provided a system for reporting any harassing or discriminatory behavior • Committed to a periodic review of the code of conduct LICENSING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS The Hackathon Organizer and Sponsors does not claim any intellectual property ownership rights in Participant’s submission, except for the license to review the submission as part of Hackathon judging and awarding of prizes. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY Except where prohibited by law, in no event will BCH DEVCON be liable to any Participant for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental or punitive damages, including lost profits, even if BCH DEVCON has been advised of the possibility of such damages. If, notwithstanding the other provisions of the Agreement, BCH DEVCON is found to be liable to any Participant for any damage or loss which arises out of or is in any way connected with any Participant’s participation of the Hackathon, BCH DEVCON’s liability shall in no event exceed the US$100.00. INDEMNITY  The Participant agrees to indemnify and hold BCH DEVCON, its officers, directors, shareholders, predecessors, successors in interest, employees, agents, subsidiaries and affiliates, harmless from any demands, loss, liability, claims or expenses (including attorneys’ fees), made against BCH DEVCON by any third party due to or arising out of or in connection with the Participant’s participation of the Hackathon. GOVERNING LAW AND SEVERABILITY All disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or in connection with the Hackathon, prizes or the Agreement. Shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the state courts of the State of California for the County of San Francisco or the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and each of the participants submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of such courts for the purpose of any such action. This Agreement shall be governed by and after in accordance with the laws of the State of California without regard to any conflict of laws rules and principles. If for any reason any provision of this Agreement is adjudicated to be unenforceable, that provision of the agreement will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to effect the intent of the parties, and the remainder of this Agreement will continue in full force and effect. ➤Any Questions Please email us at official@bchdevcon.com, and we would love to answer all kinds of questions you may have.