If you’re active in the Lightning Network community, now’s your chance to show off your skills and knowledge to help move adoption forward. In this virtual hackathon, developers and Lightning experts alike can compete to build an app or create quality content. And if you win, you’ll receive a cash prize from RADAR ION!
STRIKE gives you the chance to compete in two ways:
BUILD
Your mission: build Lightning related applications! (Bitcoin Lightning Network only)
Hardware and software app submissions are welcome.
To qualify, projects must: Utilize Bitcoin Lightning technology
BUILD Prize (3)
The top three submissions will share a prize pool of $3000.
Plus, there's a special RADAR bounty (1) of $500:
Build on the Lightning Network with helpful support from RADAR developer tools. Utilizing our SDK, APIs, and/or repo will help make your project easier to complete and will also qualify you for an additional $500 if your project places among the winners. To participate in the Bounty the project must fall under the Build Track.
RADAR bounty tools:
REDSHIFT SDK - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@radar/redshift.js
REDSHIFT Documentation - https://github.com/RadarTech/redshift-monorepo/tree/master/packages/redshift.js
ION App Store API - https://ion.radar.tech/apps/docs
RadarTech/ln-api-boilerplate — A boilerplate example project for creating lightning-enabled applications on top of LND - https://github.com/RadarTech/ln-api-boilerplate
SHARE
Create original educational content (text) about one of the following topics:
- Node setup
- Atomic Swaps
- Channel Liquidity
- Lightning User Experience
Top three submissions will share a prize pool of $1500.
SLACK channel: http://bit.ly/joinstrikeslack
Eligibility
Individuals who are at least the age of majority where they reside as of the time of entry are eligible to submit a project. Individual, Team, and Organization submissions will be accepted for each Track.
Requirements
Create or build a project across one (or more) of the following categories:
- BUILD Track
- SHARE Track
- Bounties
BUILD Track
- Any Documentation & Submission Form
- Access. A way to access your codebase, as well as your working project where applicable.
SHARE Track
- Document (link, pdf, or other formats) to the content you’ve written
*All materials must be submitted on the Devpost website BEFORE Nov 18, 2019 (11:45:00pm Central Time, USA)
See BOUNTY tab for a full list of bounties.
Prizes
$6,698 in prizes
BUILD Prize
(3)
Top 3 projects will share a prize pool of $3000. Qualification: Projects must utilize Bitcoin Lightning Network technology.
CONTENT Prize
(3)
Top 3 projects will share a prize pool of $1500.
Qualification: Original educational content (text) about one of the following topics:
• Node setup
• Atomic Swaps
• Channel Liquidity
• Lightning User Experience
RADAR Bounty
Prize (1) $500 worth of BTC
Qualification: Build on the Lightning Network with helpful support from RADAR developer tools. Utilizing our SDK, APIs, and/or repo will help make your project easier to complete and will also qualify you for an additional $500 if your project places among the winners. To participate in the Bounty the project must fall under the Build Track.
Resources:
REDSHIFT SDK - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@radar/redshift.js
REDSHIFT Documentation - https://github.com/RadarTech/redshift-monorepo/tree/master/packages/redshift.js
ION App Store API - https://ion.radar.tech/apps/docs
RadarTech/ln-api-boilerplate — A boilerplate example project for creating lightning-enabled applications on top of LND - https://github.com/RadarTech/ln-api-boilerplate
Judge: RADAR Team
Circular Economy Bounty - Bitrefill
Prize: (1) $500 worth of BTC
Qualification: In addition to the standard tools, we’ll give special attention to people being #reckless by using tech like turbo channels, LNURL, fat channels, and other Lightning “hacks.”
Details: https://blog.bitrefill.com/bitrefill-500-circular-economy-bonus-prize-strike-hackathon-2fa10c92b75f
Judge: Justin Camarena, Lightning Lead and John Carvalho, CCO at Bitrefill
SatoshisGames Bounty
Prize: (1) $500 worth of BTC
Qualification: Submission must be a game and uploaded to http://elixir.app
Details: https://twitter.com/SatoshisGames/status/1192161498807906304
Judge: Carlos Roldan, CEO of SatoshisGames
Casa Node
Prize: (1) Casa Gold membership
Qualification: Any solo project could win this prize!
Judge: Casa Team
myNode
Prize: (1) Physical myNode device, 1 product key to myNode premium software
Qualification: Help add Samurai Dojo, BTC Pay Server, JoinMarket, Liquid, or other improvements to myNode
Details: myNode software is open source. Anyone can contribute and add features. It's available on GitHub at https://github.com/mynodebtc/mynode
Judge: Taylor H., myNode
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Rachel Rybarczyk
Software Engineer
Stacie Waleyko
Developer/Casa
John Carvalho
CCO/Bitrefill
João Almeida
CTO/OpenNode
Kevin Mulcrone
RADAR/Software Engineer
Cavan Flynn
RADAR/Engineering Manager
Beatrice
RADAR/Product Manager
Justin Camarena
Lightning Lead Developer/Bitrefill
Taylor Helsper
Founder/myNode
Carlos Roldan
CEO/Satoshis Games
Judging Criteria
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Build Track
You will be judged on the project’s - Product Usability - Business Viability - Technical Design and Implementation - Application of Bitcoin Lightning technology -
Share Track
Your content will be judged on being - Original - On Topic • Atomic Swaps • Channel Liquidity • Lightning User Experience • Node setup - Digestible - Accurate - Educational/informative -
Bounty
See bounty page for criteria
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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