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Data DAO Hackathon
00:00 AM August 15th - 10:00 PM September 11th, 2022 EDT
Start Date
00:00 AM August 15th, 2022 EDT
Office Hour
01:30-03:00 PM EDT every Monday and Thursday
Mentor Week
09:00 AM August 15th - 06:00 PM August 19th, 2022 EDT
Submission Due Date
10:00 PM September 11th, 2022 EDT
Award Ceremony
11:00 AM September 18th, 2022 EDT
Tracks
Network drive - Best use of IPFS/Filecoin for file storage - $12,500
The Interplanetary Filesystem (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer network and protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open. IPFS upgrades the web to work in a decentralized manner, addressing data by what it is instead of where it’s located on the network or who is hosting it.
Filecoin, the world’s largest decentralized storage network, allows users to store, request, and transfer data via a verifiable marketplace. Filecoin is an entirely open-source alternative to costly cloud storage, where a blockchain network offers efficiently priced and geographically decentralized storage that ensures the persistence of user’s data.
Requirements
- A IPFS/Filecoin based network drive
- It should contain user upload/delete and modified function
- Support MCS is a plus
Resources
- How to start with Filecoin and IPFS: https://ecosystem-wg.notion.site/Getting-Started-With-IPFS-Filecoin-c00526cf97ba4087ba5c3ad5f5337a58
- Filecoin doc.: https://docs.filecoin.io/
- How Filecoin works (concept video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P28aNAdZDi4
- IPFS doc.: https://docs.ipfs.io/
- How IPFS works (concept video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IGzEYixJHk
Judging Criteria
- Novelty/Creativity: Does it have unique and novel features or combine features of other products or services in a unique and novel way? Does it solve a new problem? Is it creative and puts a smile on people’s faces?
- Potential Impact: Does it fill a gap in the universe, and have the potential to be used frequently by a large, growing and diverse audience or market? Is it
- Technical Accomplishment: Is the code elegant, clean, and technically interesting? Is the project complete?
- Filecoin & IPFS Implementation: Does the project interact with IPFS/Filecoin under-the-hood (i.e., more than simply retrieving a CID from a gateway)? Does it use MCS, NFT.Storage, Web3.Storage, or other storage helpers?
- Design: How is the UX/UI/DX? Is it easy to use? If targeting developers, is the experience smooth and intuitive? Does the visual design delight you?
- MCS Implementation: Does the project interact with any feature or tool of MCS? It would be an advantage to implement MCS into the project.
Examples of qualifying TOOLS
| Dev Tool | High-level description | May usage of tool in isolation be enough to qualify? | Level of difficulty |
| Filecoin SDKs and libs | Persistent data storage protocol | Yes | High |
| Libp2p SDKs and libs | p2p networking protocol | Yes | Moderate |
| IPFS SDKs and client libs | Content-addressed file network | Yes | Easy - moderate (see proto.school for tips) |
| OrbitDB | Decentralized database | Yes | Moderate |
| Textile (i.e., Powergate, ETH.storage Bridge, Buckets, Tableland) | Toolkit to connect and extend Libp2p, IPFS, and Filecoin | Yes | Moderate |
| Ceramic | Decentralized data network with multiple applications | Yes | Moderate |
| Chainsafe Storage | Decentralized storage service | Yes | Moderate |
| MCS | Decentralized storage service | Only if storing and retrieving from code (i.e., uploading or retrieving file to the website by UI is not sufficient) | Moderate |
| Other storage solutions (e.g., Filebase) | Easy-to-use data storage services | Only if storing and retrieving to IPFS and/or Filecoin from code (i.e., uploading to the website alone is not sufficient) | |
| Moralis IPFS API | Decentralized storage and retrieval service | Only if ‘saveIPFS’ -function is called (i.e., retrieval via http-gateway alone is not sufficient) | Easy |
| Pinning services (e.g., Pinata, Infura, Temporal) | IPFS pinning services | Only if storing and retrieving to IPFS from code (retrieval only does not qualify) | As per IPFS SDKs |
| Livepeer | Video streaming and encoding | Only if the project’s assets are exported to IPFS | As per IPFS SDKs |
| Fleek | Website hosting | Only if using the Fleek js-client lib/sdk (”Space SDK”) to upload objects to IPFS (deployment only does not qualify - though is encouraged!) | As per IPFS SDKs |
| Others (e.g., Spheron) | Other tools may qualify. If you’re unsure about whether your solution qualifies, please contact the Filecoin/IPFS mentors in the relevant support channels. |
Multi-Chain Storage with FilSwan Network - $20,000
Multi-Chain Storage (MCS: https://mcs.filswan.com) is a smart-contract-based cross-chain storage gateway that is integrated with Oracle technology. It accelerates the mass adoption of decentralized storage by bridging multiple blockchain networks.
MCS enables users to pay for Filecoin storage with stable coins and other tokens while maintaining data security. Users will also obtain the payment transaction and IPFS information with Filecoin deal ID for future reference.
Introduction
- What’s MCS: https://docs.filswan.com/multi-chain-storage/overview
- How to use MCS: https://docs.filswan.com/multi-chain-storage/mcp-user-guide
- What’s MCS SDK: https://docs.filswan.com/multi-chain-storage/developer-quickstart/sdk
- How to use JavaScript MCS SDK: https://docs.filswan.com/multi-chain-storage/developer-quickstart/sdk/js-mcs-sdk/get-started
- How to use Python MCS SDK: https://docs.filswan.com/multi-chain-storage/developer-quickstart/sdk/python-mcs-sdk/get-started
- How to use MCS & SDK: (Tutorial Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLBLwkEy__o
Requirements ＆ Judging Criteria
- You must use MCS as the primary storage tools,e.g. MCS IPFS
Resources
- MCS SDK Developer Tutorial: https://docs.filswan.com/multi-chain-storage/developer-quickstart/sdk/js-mcs-sdk/get-started
- MCS JavaScript SDK: https://github.com/filswan/js-mcs-sdk
- MCS Python SDK: https://github.com/filswan/python-mcs-sdk
Computing Over Data - $15,000
Computing over data is the key scenario of IPFS/Filecoin Network. This track is to encourage developers to develop apps based on data stored on Filecoin. Some example ideas can be climate data analysis, New York subway data, health data or other scientific data.
You can find the Monkey Classification from resource a sample scientific research example
Requirements & Judging Criteria
- You need to store the data on IPFS/Filecoin network.
- Retrieval data to local instance by code.
- You can run different programming languages for computing.
- Having a GUI is a plus.
Forest - $500 CAD
Forest is the rust node for the Filecoin network. The Forest team has put together some good first issues as bounties for the hackers at FILToronto. In order to solve these bugs/bounties you will need to have an understanding of the Filecoin protocol, some level of proficiency in rust programming language, and be able to install, run and debug with the Forest client.This hackathon prize is for the individual(s) who solves the most bounties/bugs correctly. This will be submitted directly to the Forest repository as draft PRs.
Requirements & Judging Criteria
- Install Forest dependencies. Compile and run Forest.
- Solve the bug, and test your solution works on your local machine.
- Submit Draft PRs to the Forest repository.
Resources
- Forest repo: https://github.com/ChainSafe/forest
- Run Forest with docker: https://github.com/ChainSafe/forest#run-with-docker
- Forest discussion board for questions: https://github.com/ChainSafe/forest/discussions
Community Choice - $2,500
The Twitter community will be able to share their favourite submissions in the hackathon! Community Track aims to judge projects based on community engagement and project quality.
To be eligible for Community Track:
- A builder must tweet as you decide the project name and a short intro. Project video, design, and project link could be optional.
- Must tag @0xFilSwan community.
- Get community engagement in terms of retweets. (Highest RT with quality project wins)
Industry leading minds
- Juan Benet, Founder & CEO, Protocol Labs
- Charles Cao, founder, FilSwan
- Peter Huo, Executive Director, Binance Labs
- Alvin Reyes, Software Engineer, Protocol Labs
- Michael Robinson, Product Marketing Manager, Chainlink Labs
- Dirk, Engineer,Bedrock at Protocol Labs
- Swaroop Hegde, Co-Founder, PowerLoom
- Brenda, Product Manager, Protocol Labs
- Ricky Yuen, Blockchain Engineer, FilSwan
- Geneviève Lin Rui, Account Manager, NBFS
- Ehsan Shariati, COO, Functionland
- Erin O’Connor, Grant Coordinator, Filecoin Foundation
- Jefferson Chu, Blockchain Engineer, Origin Storage
- David Aronchick, Protocol Labs
- Baiciao Ren, VP, Origin Storage
- Boqian, Project Lead, NBFS
- Jennifer Wang, Technical project manager,Lotus
- Raúl Kripalani, FVM Lead
- Karim Agha, FVM Engineer
- Joss, Venus
- Raghav Rmadya, Protocol Labs
- Corinne Bernett, PM Estuary, Protocol Labs
- magik, Lotus Engineer
- Ed Strong, Director, Web 3.0 Storage, Seagate
- David Ansermino, VP Engineering, ChainSafe
- Lee Raj, Project Manager, Forest, ChainSafe
- Aayush Rajasekaran, Lotus Engineer, Protocol Labs
- Elizabeth Binks, Engineering Lead, ChainSafe
- Ryan Baumann, Protocol Labs
- Boris Mann, Co-Founder, Fission
- Marc Johnson, Filecoin Green
- Gary, FBG Capital
Judging Criteria For All Projects
Accuracy of the solution
Number of bounties/bugs solved
Quality of the PRs
Creativity
Submission Guidelines
At a minimum submission for prizes should include the following items:
- The name and summary of the project.
- Names/pseudonyms of team members and contact info. (e.g., GitHub handle, email address, or other)
- How the project uses to IPFS and/or Filecoin and/or MCS and/or decentralized storage services that build on top of either with explicit links to files & functions in code where these technologies are used.
- Provide comprehensive README, incl. a clear description of the project and mention of how the tech is used.
- Include a link to the working demo or provide a testing guide.
- To ensure the judges don’t miss it, include an explicit link to the file + functions where Filecoin / IPFS / MCS other tools are used in your codebase.
- 5-10 minute video that presents the idea, including a brief demo that demonstrates the use.
- Select the appropriate track when submitting the project.
Rule for Prizes
- Submitting the same project across multiple hackathons will lead to disqualification
- Only projects or features (preferably in separate branch) built specifically for the respective hackathon will be considered for prizes
- Broken links may disqualify the project from the judging process
Event replays
FIL TORONTO Day 1
FIL TORONTO DAY 2
FIL TORONTO DAY3
Partners
FAQ
Most frequent questions and answers
The event will be held from 00:00 AM August 15th to 10:00 PM September 11th, 2022 EDT
Anyone from anywhere in the world can participate. However, participants that break the Rules may be expelled.
Nothing, attendance is free.
As soon as the hackathon opens. To keep the playing field fair, we don’t allow teams to begin building prior to the start of the hackathon. If your project is an upgrade to an existing project, please check with us beforehand.
This event takes place online. The hackathon chat/support happens on Discord, and projects are submitted through Dorahacks.
You can find a team on our Hackathon discord. Here is the find-a-team discord channel: https://discord.gg/5AZcxku4bS
Yes. You can update your project content before submission due date, 10:00 PM September 11th, 2022 EDT. We collect the final code by the due date. The revision after the due date won’t be counted.
Yes, you can.
You can submit to multiple tracks and multiple projects(BUIDL) with different content.
Please notice, if you would like to submit the same project across multiple tracks, only the first submission will be valid. We allow you to update your BUIDL project before the due date, 10:00 PM September 11th, 2022 EDT.
You can participate alone or with any number of teammates.
You should register on our official website, Data DAO Hackathon Registration Form, and should submit your project(BUIDL) on Dorahacks website.
FIL Toronto Summit will be a collaborative three-day event collectively hosted by Filecoin Foundation, Filecoin Orbit, and FilSwan.
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