The FoB Challenges: Short Read

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Future of Blockchain Competition
4 min readNov 26, 2018
A student coding during our Oxford launch on Thursday 22nd November 2018.

A. Build your idea [“Creators”] 🔧

B. Answer a pre-set challenge. [“Challengers”] 💪

1. Gnosis Challenge

Either:

  • Build a prediction market use case on top of the Gnosis platform
  • Implement a front-end for Gnosis Safe contracts on a platform of your choice (e.g. Android, iOS, react-js, ReactNative, Mac, Windows)
  • Implement a command-line client in a language of your choice in order to interact with Safe
  • Decide an end-end participation solution which will allow any user to submit one transaction only to a smart contract that than interact’s with Gnosis’ DutchX protocol

Further information is available on this link on the FoB website

2. Kyber Challenge

Using Kyber’s protocol, develop any type of application that incorporates on-chain token swaps such as

  • Collateral liquidation on-chain
  • Single step payment for non-fungible tokens
  • On-chain fund re-balancing

Further information on this link

3. Liquidity Network Challenge

Either:

  • Design an e-commerce platform integration with Liquidity Network
  • Design a physical commerce use case for Liquidity Network such as paying for student events, pizza, buying physical things
  • Build a streaming service with Liquidity Network

Read more here!

4. MakerDao Challenge

Either:

  • Build a Dai based marketplace which is highly usable, mobile friendly and broadly applicable to developed and emerging markets.
  • Build a Dai based Dapp that utilises the Dai Credit system.
  • Design a Governance Model solution for MakerDao such as a way to product voting mechanisms on the blockchain from falling victim to bribery, malicious voting or misleading propaganda campaigns.
  • Build anything you like that someway involves MakerDao

Read more here

5. NuCypher Challenge

Either:

  • Build a GUI interface for the NuCypher network
  • Build a GUI interface for the NuCypher network that’s portable and easy to distribute
  • Store seed note metadata for networking bootstrapping in a decentralised way
  • Build a metamask-like browser extension for encrypting, decryptin, granting and revoking application permissions through NuCypher
  • Build an application that utilises NuCypher in an innovative way

Read more here

6. Santiment Challenge

We invite you to use the power of our data to unravel the blockchain complexities and help shine a light on unique behavioral patterns of crypto market participants.

  • Challenge #1: Categorize market participants & network addresses
  • Challenge #2: Build tools for exposing fraud or improving transparency of crypto markets
  • Challenge #3: Produce unique market insights and network analysis using our data
  • Challenge #4: Create a brand new crypto metric

Further information is available on this link on the FoB website

7. ThunderCore Challenge

Either:

  • Build a game that utilises ThunderCore’s blockchain
  • Build any dApp on ThunderCore’s blockchain
  • Write a research paper involving blockchain and/or ThunderCore

Read more here

8. Zilliqa Challenge

Build any of the following on Zilliqa’s platform

  • A p2p payment or lending platform on web or mobile
  • A marketplace for selling real items
  • A prediction market without gambling
  • A Quora or Reddit where rewards can be traded for cryptocurrencies or real money

or

  • Make a compiler from Scilla to WASM

Read more via this link

Apply via this link

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