2020 SimpleChain Black Hole Developer Challenge

Introduction

With the rapid development of blockchain technology, more and more industries are adopting blockchain technology to solve their business problems. With goals to attract blockchain talents, support high-quality blockchain projects, and launch blockchain applications for various business scenarios, the SimpleChain Foundation initiated this developer challenge.

The 2020 SimpleChain Black Hole Developer Challenge is calling all developers around the world to build solutions based on SimpleChain for these key business scenarios: digital asset business, supply chain finance, charity, medicine, IoT, track and trace, copyright protection, decentralized asset exchange platform, or improvement of the underlying blockchain technology.

Register at https://forms.gle/CEFY7FbH3MKMub2M9

Highlights

1. Exposure from top-tier blockchain media

2. Long-term technical support for high-quality projects

3. Mentorship and incubation for teams

4. Opportunity to become partners of the SimpleChain technical community

5. Cash prizes to continue taking your project to the next level

Organizers & Partners

Initiated by: SimpleChain Foundation

Organized by: SIPC.VIP

Co-organized by:

China Blockchain Application Research Center

Zhejiang Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute Hangzhou Branch

Zhejiang Blockchain Technology Application Association

School of Information Science and Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University

Hangzhou Blockchain Technology and Application Association

DataQin Technology Research Institute

Polish Blockchain Technology Accelerator

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Media Partners：

8BTC

Jinse Finance

Huoxing Finance

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Judges

Leo Yu

Core Council member of SimpleChain Foundation

Moro Zhang

Founding member of Technical Steering Committee of SimpleChain Foundation

Krzysztof Piech

Council Member of SimpleChain Foundation

Member of International Decentralized Association of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain

Mehdi Ghane

Council member of SimpleChain Foundation

Fintech and DEFI consultant

Edozie Izebgu

Member of Fintech Association of Nigeria

Blockchain Consultant for the Bahamas Government

Song Xue

Founder of DxPool

Yu Xiong

Member of Expert Board, All Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain, UK

President, UK International Innovation Centre, London

Asscociate Dean International(China), Chair of Business Analytics, University of Surrey

Timeline

July 30-Sept 1: Registration.

August 15: Registration deadline for one-on-one tracking. Teams that register before this date will receive one-on-one development tracking and mentorship.

Sept 1–24: Mentorship. All teams will receive technical support and mentorship from blockchain experts.

Sept 25–29: Judges review all submissions and come to a final result.

Sept 30: Announcement of winners.

Sept 30-Oct 8: Announcement of partners of the SimpleChain technical community.

Registration

This developer challenge is open to the global developer community. We welcome all individuals, education entities, research institutes, companies and developer teams to build on SimpleChain.

You can participate as an individual or as a team. We recommend joining with teammates to achieve more comprehensive products.

You can decide whether to have the project open source. If not, you need to deploy the application and commit to long-term maintenance.

Project Submission

Submitted projects must be deployed and ready for use. Upon the approval of the SimpleChain tech community, you can upload source codes to GitHub. At the same time, you must include full instructions on deployment and usage in README.md.

If it is a project that needs to be packaged such as Android APK, Google Play package or exe. installation package on PC, make sure that you finish packaging and upload to application marketplace.

Your project description should state the functions of your project and corresponding use cases, as well as information of the developers and long-term development plan based on SimpleChain. You can also submit marketing materials for your project, including articles, videos, and tutorials (optional).

Judging Criteria

Innovation (15%): No similar products or models in the market, or distinguishing features to differentiate from existing products or models.

Completion (30%): Complete processes and logic to realize certain functions in the product.

Blockchain compatibility (20%): Compatibility with SimpleChain technology and ecosystem.

Value (15%): Application value and market value.

User-friendliness (10%): Easy-to-use product with a nice UI and complete documentation.

Technical difficulty (5%): Technology and its depth behind the product functions.

Community governance (5%): Community governance and open source.

Prizes

First Prize (1 project): 15000 SIPC + media exposure + project incubation

Second Prize (2 projects): 10000 SIPC + media exposure + project incubation

Third Prize (3 projects): 5000 SIPC + media exposure + project incubation

Fourth Prize (4 projects): 2000 SIPC

Participation Prize (Every participant): SimpleChain mascot goodies and blockchain education package ChainBox

The prizes will be distributed through different stages. After results are announced, you need to complete documentation and upload source codes to GitHub. After that, you will need to run the project on your servers for 2 months before moving it to servers of the SimpleChain tech community.

Progress and % of prizes distributed

Complete documentation and upload source codes: 60%

Deploy project and start running: 80%

Complete two months of running project: 90%

Migration to SimpleChain servers: 100%

About SimpleChain

The mission of SimpleChain is to simplify the blockchain for business.

SimpleChain is a PoW main chain with flexible sub-chains. Different sub-chains can adopt different kinds of consensus and block data structure as needed, to enable a variety of applications and use cases on blockchain. Sharding is also implemented to improve performance. This double-layered structure of one main chain and multiple sub-chains can fuel various applications while ensuring the consistency of the network.

Built on VeraxChain, SimpleChain’s first sub-chain, Baoquan.com provides record keeping services which serves to keep records of online data and authenticate electronic evidence. In June 2018, Hangzhou Internet Court of China judged a case of copyright dispute based on data stored on Baoquan.com. For the first time in China, the legal effect of the electronic data stored on blockchain is recognized in the judicial system. (News link: https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-can-legally-authenticate-evidence-chinese-judge-rules)

Find SimpleChain at:

— -Overview — -

Website: www.simplechain.com
Whitepaper: www.simplechain.com/ims/chain/download?spm=1922.1381.010729.122&language=english
Github: www.github.com/simplechain-org
Blockchain Explorer: www.explorer.simplechain.com/

— Community — -
Twitter: www.twitter.com/SimpleChain
Telegram: www.t.me/SimpleChainEN
Medium: www.medium.com/SimpleChain
Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/SimpleChain
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SimpleChainOfficial

— -SIPC Wallet, Mining & Trading — -
Mobile Wallet-SIPC.VIP: download available at https://www.sipc.vip/?lang=en

Mobile Wallet-Chainbox: download available at www.simplechain.com

Browser Plug-In Wallet-SimPlug: guide available at https://medium.com/simplechain/simplug-guide-sipc-wallet-in-your-browser-c2440843decb

Mining Client on PC-SimpleNode (can also act as a wallet): download available at www.simplechain.com

Mining Pools
1. SimPool (Chinese only): www.simpool.vip
2. MATPool (Chinese only): www.matpool.io/
3. DXPool (English & Chinese): www.dxpool.com/
Mining Guide with DXPool: https://www.dxpool.com/help/en/sipc-mining-tutorial

Mining Machine: SimpleNode X1 USB mining machine: 2M hashrate, 5W power use. Please contact @Laurenxy on Telegram if interested.

Trading

SIMPLE/USDT: www.coinex.com

SIPC/CNT: www.ztb.com

(Both SIMPLE and SIPC represent SimpleChain’s native digital asset.)