Filecoin Conference Lagos

Let’s do it, and we did it.

Web3, IPFS: The Future Of The Internet was the theme for 2022 Filecoin Conference,cordinated by the Orbit Community Program Lagos.

It was massive !!!

For the team, it was learning on the job couple with support from the Orbit Community Program Team Lead, Yuliia Deriuhina, Ashwanth Samuel and the Ecosystem Lead, Filecoin -IPFS Project, Colin Evran.

The generous support of the Filecoin Foundation made this maiden Filecoin Conference a reality.

Attendance

We planned for a 1000+, we got a total of 512 in-person attendees, 509+ on youtube and untracked viewers via zoom.

Breakdown:

In-person: Day 1= 87 , Day 2= 169, Day 3 =256

Youtube: Day 1=289 views, Day 2= 123views, Day 3=97 views

Zoom: untracked viewers

Signups:
ethng.io/filecoin=237

Newsletter by Sultan =366

Orbit Meetup = 135

ETH Nigeria Meetup =14

A strategy that help us to Lead Conversations on Decentralization, decentralized Storage, Blockchain Technology was collaboration, we reached out to few Blockchain community within for partnership for the first -ever Web3 networking conference in Nigeria.

Blocverse, a partner for Filecoin Conference shared this article

We had speakers virtually and in person, Stefaan took us in a deep dive on How to become a Filecoin Storage Provider, speaker Chris shared more on opportunities for Africa, some of the list of this year amazing speakers can be found right here

We got our media Brandpress covered with Tech Economy, Techpoint, Technext, Block Build Africa and many more.
We were able to launch our poap for attendees and winners of the hackathon for them to claim. Created slack, Telegram for growing the Orbit Lagos community.

Orbit Lagos Hackathon guide:
Day1. Introduction to the Filecoin and IPFS tech stack. Tech requirements for the solution.
Day2: Participants Pitch their solution
Day3: Progress report on solution being built and final product evaluation and Announcement

Hackathon submissions

==== Submission 1 ====

Project Name: DOTWOG

Project Members:

1. Oluwasomidotun
2. David
3. Gift
4. Wuraola
5. Oluwatobiloba
6. Topichulan

Project Description / Summary: A Decentralized Data Migration Platform

Project Leader: Oluwatobiloba

Total points: 83

Position: 1st

==== Submission 2 ====

STAKING CONTRACT WITH NFT WHITELISTING

1. ABIMBOLA ADEBAYO
2. PAMILERIN AYOBAMI
3. ADEGBITE KELVIN
4. OBIAGWU NNAMDI
5. OLAJUMOKE BOLADALE-LAWAL
6. ABDULRASHEED ADEDIRAN

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Ours is a project that allows owners of a particular NFT to stake a particular token and get 10% of their stake monthly.

Stakers can only withdraw their profit after 3 days since they staked.

Total points: 70

==== Submission 3 ====

PROJECT NAME:

Battle NFTS

PROJECT MEMBERS.

IBRAHIM SHITTU

ATANDA NAFIU

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

We created a battle NFT character using verifiable Random Number Generator (ANG). The NFT change based on real world data using decentralized oracle. We also added the randomized NFTs to open Sea Marketplace.

Since we have Battle NFTS. created, we added a tokenURI, & view with IPFS and also use Piñata which allows us to view our IPFS files when our node is down.

Total points = 42

==== Submission 4 ====

Project name —Decentradrive

Pidoxy — Project owner

Total points = 62

==== Submission 5 ====

Team Name: SYNERGY

Project Name: Decentra Doc

Team:

1. Olusola Samuel
2. Toyosi Salami
3. Maxwell Codehouze

Total points= 82

Position: 2nd

==== Submission 6 ====

Team Name: Decentralised

Team Product: NFTMinter

Members:

1. Dauda Oladipo
2. Joseph NWADIKE
3. Femi Olah

This project allows you to mint an NFT to your wallet from a custom smart contract.

Total points = 54

==== Submission 7 ====

MEDCAN DAO

A DAO platform to manage Health Research on marijuana

Team:

1. Abimboka Adebayo
2. David Uzochukwu

Total points = 79

Position: 3rd

==== Submission 8 ====

TEAM EVIFY

PROJECT NAME: EVIFY

Evify allows users in a certain entity to generate, store and verify their documents as an NFT through NFT.storage w/IPFS decentralised storage:

TEAM:

1. Annaelechukwu — Lead.
2. Kevin — Researcher.
3. Alvan — Developer.
4. Gabriel — Developer.
5. Chimmezirim — Developer.

Total points= 54

==== Submission 9 ====

Project: FILE-SCHOOL

Description: A decentralized E-learning Platform.

Team member — Wande Oki

Team: Blockgames

Total points = 70

==== Submission 10 ====

Team: Web 3 ladies.

Project: nft minting

Team members:

1. Khadijah.
2. Maureen.

Total points: 70

NAMES OF JUDGES

1. Toochukwu Okoro — CEO, Blocverse
2. Ayodeji — CEO, Web3Bridge
3. Dare — CEO, Blockbuild Africa
4. Daniel — CEO, THE DIGIT.COM
5. Akinyemi Akindele -CEO, Betdemand

==== Submission 5 ====

Team Name: SYNERGY

Project Name: Decentra Doc

Team:

1. Olusola Samuel
2. Toyosi Salami
3. Maxwell Codehouze

Total points= 82

Position: 2nd

==== Submission 6 ====

Team Name: Decentralised

Team Product: NFTMinter

Members:

1. Dauda Oladipo
2. Joseph NWADIKE
3. Femi Olah

This project allows you to mint an NFT to your wallet from a custom smart contract.

Total points = 54

==== Submission 7 ====

MEDCAN DAO

A DAO platform to manage Health Research on marijuana

Team:

1. Abimboka Adebayo
2. David Uzochukwu

Total points = 79

Position: 3rd

==== Submission 8 ====

TEAM EVIFY

PROJECT NAME: EVIFY

Evify allows users in a certain entity to generate, store and verify their documents as an NFT through NFT.storage w/IPFS decentralised storage:

TEAM: *

1. Annaelechurana Kevin — Lead.
2. Kevin — Researcher.
3. Alvan — Developer.
4. Gabriel — Developer.
5. Chimmezirim — Developer.

Total points= 54

==== Submission 9 ====

Project: FILE-SCHOOL

Description: A decentralized E-learning Platform.

Team member — Wande Oki

Team: Blockgames

Total points = 70

==== Submission 10 ====

Team: Web 3 ladies.

Project: nft minting

Team members:

1. Khadijah.
2. Maureen.

Total points: 70

NAMES OF JUDGES

1. Toochukwu Okoro — CEO, Blocverse
2. Ayodeji — CEO, Web3Bridge
3. Dare — CEO, Blockbuild Africa
4. Daniel — CEO, THE DIGIT.COM
5. Akinyemi Akindele -CEO, Betdemand

Presentation of prizes was a success and our partner Block Build Africa covered it, click to read more.

We will be hosting all winners in one of the International TV stations located in Lagos and visiting the beautiful City of Abuja for Orbit Community Meetup on the 29th and 30th April,2022.

To join us, follow our publication and twitter @EthereumNigeria