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2019 Burst Summer Hackathon

The Burst Alliance is proud to host the 2019 Burst Summer Hackathon! Join fellow Burst enthusiasts, developers, and entrepreneurs in an event that will sharpen your skills, challenge your creativity, and you could even earn some coin.

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Contest Details:

• Prize Pool: 1,003,470.08 BURST (and rising)
• Submissions accepted until August 31, 2019, 12:00AM PT (GMT-8).
• 3 winners will split the balance of the Prize Pool as follows:
  • 1st place: 75%
  • 2nd place: 20%
  • 3rd place: 5%
• No limits on team sizes. Entrants may be on multiple teams.
• Anyone (except Judges) is eligible to participate.
• Multiple entries are allowed.

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Judging Criteria:

• Extra points may be awarded for using community projects and libraries like BlockTalk, BurstJS, Burstkit4j, etc.
• Extra points may be awarded for projects falling into one or more of these categories:
  • Smart contracts
  • Hardware integrations
  • Exchange support / compatibility
  • E-commerce
  • Retail adoption
• Extra points may be awarded to projects releasing their code under a permissive open source license like GPL, MIT, or Apache.
• Three judges: nixops, blankey1337, and frank_the_tank will announce the winners one week after the submission deadline.

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How to Submit An Entry:

• Submit entries to (1) Burstcoin Reddit, and (2) via email to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) (cc: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])) by the deadline, including these materials:
  • A written summary of your project.
  • A showcase of your project in one or more of these formats:
    • Video (links to YouTube are preferred)
    • Working Example / Demo
    • Proof / Whitepaper
    • Source Materials
    • Design Documents
  • A link to view the source code (optional, but preferred).
  • An 800x600 px graphic/artwork to go with your project.
  • Please indicate if you would prefer to opt out of your project from being listed on a Burst Hackathon showcase web site.

If you have any immediate questions or comments, feel free to leave them here. We look forward to building awesome stuff together!

This is a community-funded event. We want to give a HUGE thanks to everyone who has donated to make this possible, but let’s not stop there. Please show your support and donate to the prize pool today:

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Yours truly,

The Burst Alliance