The Blockchain Society Presents shyftHACK Developers Hackathon & Conference

    #shyhftHACK is the first Hackathon hosted by Shyft.Network!

    This event’s theme? Games.

    Join us! Create something fun. Meet great people. Win great prizes.

    CHALLENGE & PRIZES

    Your challenge: Build a cool gamer score infrastructure incorporating Shyft's creditability score and attestation layer.

    We’re looking for solutions that are creative. Bonus points for ones that allow interoperability between games!

    Your prize:

    1st place - $1500 in ETH, 500 SHYFT Tokens, & 2 year access to Blockgeeks

    2nd place - $500 in ETH and 500 SHYFT Tokens

    Surprise! We’d be also giving away 1000 SHYFT tokens during the event!

    All teams who particpate will get 50% Blockgeeks memberships!

    WHO CAN HACK?

    SKILL REQUIREMENTS

    • Intermediate to advanced
    • Understand how to set up a developer environment
    • Language: Solidity
    • Ability to run a test version


    Want to get involved in another way? We’d love to chat with potential mentors, and judges! Just email karla@shyft.network to get connected.

    If you are a developer group or organization and wish to get involved! Just email sales@theentrepreneurshipsociety.com to get connected.

    WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU?

    Your submission should include a set of smart contracts that utilize the ERC721 (non-fungible token) interface for any in-game items that would be associated to the gamerscore (badges for example), a set of smart contracts that work with the Shyft attestation layer to provide a gamerscore/attribution connector, the front end and UX, and user stories.

    We all start coding at the same time, and there shouldn’t be a pre-existing smart contracts.

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    For Submissions: Please prepare a github repo that hasn't been created before. ie. no pre-existing smart contracts & the like.

    More details for submission will be provided at the event.

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    TENTATIVE SCHEDULE *This is a day event*

    12:30 pm - 12:30: Orientation PWP and team formation

    12:30 pm - 1:00: Lunch

    1:00 pm - 2:00: Workshop on Shyft Blockchain and how to build a gaming dApp

    2:00 pm - 6:00: Coding kick off & Hacking

    6:00 pm - 6:15: Refreshment Break

    7:30 pm: Code Freeze & Submission Deadline

    7:30 pm - 8:15: Demos

    8:15 pm: Winners are announced & Prizes!

    JUDGES AND MENTORS

    Chris Forrester - CTO @ Shyft

    Niloo Ravaei - Technical Instructor @ Blockgeeks

    Chinmay Patel - CEO @ BlockX Labs


    Gold Sponsor:


    Bronze Sponsor:

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    Community Partners:

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    We are partnered with BUNZ, to buy tickets with BTZ please transfer the final total in Universe x 100 to the address (QR Code) below.

    E.g. If final total is $63.78, then (63.78 x 100 = 6378) transfer 6378 BTZ.

    Then please email sales@theentrepreneurshipsociety.com with your name, the time you transferred the BTZ, and for what event. Thank you.

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    Location

    Rotman
    TorontoCanada

    Dates

    From 11th September 2018 - 12:30 PM
    to 11th September 2018 - 09:30 PM