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)

$1,000

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
SHARE Prize (3) $500
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:

  1. BUILD Track
  2. SHARE Track
  3. 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. 

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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 

https://ion.radar.tech/ 

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

https://www.bitrefill.com/ 

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

https://satoshis.games/ 

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

https://mynodebtc.com/ 

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Rachel Rybarczyk

Rachel Rybarczyk
Software Engineer

Stacie Waleyko

Stacie Waleyko
Developer/Casa

John Carvalho

John Carvalho
CCO/Bitrefill

João Almeida

João Almeida
CTO/OpenNode

Kevin Mulcrone
RADAR/Software Engineer

Cavan Flynn
RADAR/Engineering Manager

Beatrice

Beatrice
RADAR/Product Manager

Justin Camarena

Justin Camarena
Lightning Lead Developer/Bitrefill

Taylor Helsper
Founder/myNode

Carlos Roldan

Carlos Roldan
CEO/Satoshis Games

Judging Criteria

  • 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

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