portalnetwork/hackathon

Portal Network Hackathon

Portal Network Hackathon

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Portal Network is honored to be inviting our partners to Hackathon Korea. We welcome everyone to participate and solve challenges by using different decentralized technologies.

Hackthon Summary

Introduction of Portal Network

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This is a guide to let you know more about Portal Network. You can use our tools to build a decentralized website/application that is hosted on blockchain name service.

What is this Hackathon about?

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology have definitely become one of the top trending topics last year. However, more than 90% of the people in this industry are traders and investors. It seems that most of the people are ignoring the technology behind that made bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies possible. Portal Network values the technology behind the scene, so in order to foster this decentralized technology, Portal Network and its partners welcome anyone to join this Hackathon.

Participants will solve the challenges by utilizing different technologies provided in the event. People who have been in blockchain might have noticed that decentralized technology still has lots of challenges to overcome, such as scalability, security and so on. This Hackathon will be the time to try and test its limit.

*By participating the Hackathon Korea by Portal Network, you are agreeing to all the terms and rules stated below.

Rules

During the hackathon, 3 technologies will be used:

1. Portal Network - decentralized domain name service and web builder
2. Bluzelle - decentralized database
3. NOIA Network - decentralized content delivery network (CDN)

Additionally, 3 different smart contract platforms will be used:

1. Ethereum
2. Ethereum Classic
3. Wanchain

Participants will have a challenge to solve by applying the relevant blockchain technology. At the end of the event, each team will have to prepare a pitch on stage to demonstrate their idea or product, which will be scored by the judges (please see Judging section below for more information).

Participants can work as an individual (team of 1 person) or in a group (team of 2 - 5 people). Pitching time is to be decided on the day depending on the number of participants.

Technology

Portal Network includes several technologies into our ecosystem.

Technology	Project
Domain Name Service	Portal Network
Content Delivery Network	NOIA Network
File Storage	IPFS
Database	Bluzelle
Blockchain	Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Wanchain

Portal Network

Portal Network connects ENS, ECNS and WNS, and provides distributed, open, and extensible naming system based on smart contract platforms.

NOIA Network

NOIA is a decentralized content delivery network for the new internet.

Links

• SDK NPM
• SDK GitHub
• SDK Examples

IPFS

IPFS is a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol that makes the web faster, safer, and transparent.

Bluzelle

Bluzelle brings together the sharing economy and token economy. Bluzelle enables people to rent out their computer storage space to earn a token while dApp developers pay tokens in return.

Hackathon Challenge Description

Portal Network Hackathon Challenge contains two requirements: technical, and an adaptable business model.

1. Technical Requirement

Participants should utilize the technologies provided

Challenge Detail

Portal Network provides the modern dApp framwework which contains the decentralized technology that includes NOIA, Bluzelle, and IPFS.

Teams may use the dApp framework to implement their own ideas, and deploy it onto Portal Network's system. You'll get the corresponding IPFS link and the wanchain name service.

Here is the guide:

• Use our react-truffle-metamask framework, or choose your favorite dapp framework

  • The repo link : https://github.com/PortalNetwork/react-truffle-metamask
  • This frameworks contain the following integrations :
    1. React & Redux
    2. Truffle
    3. Bluzelle
    4. Web3
    5. MetaMask

• Use our hackathon uploader to deploy your project: http://h2.portal.network

• Access your decentralized website/application by using our browser extension: Link

2. Business Model Requirement

This Hackathon is not only about the blockchain technology, but also about implementing it into real application. Thus, ideas established on a workable business model will be the second requirement for this Hacakthon.

Judging Criteria

1. Utilization of the Blockchain technology provided (25%) :

   How well suited is the product or concept for the Blockchain technology? Is Blockchain and token really needed for this concept?

2. The originality of the concept (25%) :

   How innovative is the concept in solving this challenge? Is the concept unique?

3. The business model and marketing strategy (blockchain crowdfunding) (20%) :

   Is the business model suited for this idea? How much impact will this marketing strategy bring?

4. Pitch / Presentation (20%) :

   Presentation style and design.

5. Participants’ votes (10%) :

   Each participating team will have a vote for their favorite project (cannot vote for themselves).

Judges

TBD

Licence and Property Rights

All posted solutions will be available for others to download or use. You agree that any original content (that is, content created by you for the Challenge) is freely available without restriction or is licensed as open source under the MIT license.