EOS Hackathon Hong Kong

The EOS Global Hackathon series is a first-of-its-kind event in the world of blockchain, with the continued goal of supporting a decentralized global community from the ground up.

Get involved and you will be joining hackers, product developers, marketers, and business leaders in creating a new wave of blockchain dApps that secure life, liberty, and property.

From June through the end of 2018, Block.one will be hosting a series of initiatives designed to find and give a platform to the most visionary architects of decentralization out there.

Four in-person events will be followed by a Grand Finale Pitch Competition that puts the best applications under the spotlight.  

EOSIO: The Most Powerful Infrastructure for Decentralized Applications

(All prizes are in USD)

Those placing 1st - 3rd in the Hong Kong event will receive $2,000 USD per winning team member for travel and lodging to the Grand Finale in TBA.

• 1st Place:  $100,000 (Cash + Travel)
• 2nd Place: $25,000 (Cash + Travel)
• 3rd Place: $10,000 (Cash + Travel)
• Superlative: Three (3) $3,000 cash prizes delivered to superlative winners

Announcement At The Hackathon

The Dawn 3.0 EOSIO Update Has Arrived.

The first feature-complete pre-release of EOSIO was released on April 6th 2018.  Learn more about the features below. 

Scalable:

• Support thousand of Commercial Scale DApps
• Inter-blockchain Communication
• Separates Authentication from Execution

Flexible:

• Freeze and Fix Broken Application
• Generalized Role-based Permissions
• Web Assembly

Usable: 

• Web Toolkit for Interface Development
• Self Describing Interfaces
• Declarative Permission Scheme

*Schedule is subject to change

*All times in HKT

Wednesday, June 6

• 6:30 - 8:00 pm |EOSIO Global Hackathon Virtual Session via Zoom
• Webinar Link: https://zoom.us/j/839623974
• Meeting Number: 839 623 974

Saturday, June 9 

• 9:00 - 10:00 am | Doors Open & Breakfast Served
• 10:00 - 11:00 am | Opening Ceremony/Presentations from Partners
• 11:00 am | Coding Begins
• 12:00 - 1:00 pm | Lunch Served
• 12:00 - 1:00 pm | Breakout Session One - Entrepreneurial
• 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Breakout Session Two - Technical Breakout Session (C++)
• 2:00 - 3:00 pm | Breakout Session Three - Technical Breakout Session (Web/UX)
• 3:00 - 4:00 pm | TBD Breakout Session Four
• 6:00 - 7:00 pm | Dinner Served
• 8:00 - 9:00 pm | Pitch Workshop
• 12:00 am | Midnight Snack / Hack through the Night*

*The venue will be open and staffed overnight if you’d like to hack through the night.

Sunday, June 10

• 7:30 - 9:30 am | Breakfast Served
• 9:00 - 10:00 am | Pitch Practice
• 12:00 - 1:00 pm | Lunch Served
• 1:00 pm | Submission Deadline
• 2:00 - 4:00 pm | Round 1 Judging
• 4:00 pm | Doors open for individuals with a spectator ticket 
• 4:00 - 4:30 pm | Judge Deliberation
• 4:30 pm | Closing Ceremony & Top 10 teams announced
• 4:45 - 5:45 pm | Round 2 Judging
• 5:45 - 6:15 | Judge Deliberation
• 6:15 - 6:30 pm | Winner’s Announced
• 6:30 - 7:30 pm | Networking Drinks & Dinner

Each submission will be scored in each round based on the following criteria, with a minimum score of 0 and maximum score of 20 points, and the final score being the average of the judges’ scores:

• Utilization of Blockchain Technology (5 points): How well suited is the concept for blockchain? Is there a clear need for a token and distributed ledger technology?
• Creativity (5 points): How creative was the team in developing an innovative solution for the challenge? Is the idea defensible or unique?
• Impact (5 points): Did the team create an application that can have a real and valuable impact? Is the idea feasible / if pursued could it actually work in the real world?
• Scalability (5 points): What is the growth potential of this application?  What impact can it have on the world as a whole?

• Teams of up to 5 participants are allowed. All team members must have completed the participation agreement to compete.

• You may not begin your project until the competition officially begins. Please don’t come in and build on top of previous projects if you want to win.  

• Teams have full ownership of everything they build and are free to do with it as they wish whether they win or not.

• Winning teams will be subject to a code-review at some point following the event or immediately before the competition ends.

Must be 18+ to participate