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- 冠军将获得50万美元的奖金
- 全球共有19个队伍参加决赛
- 其中有三支来自非洲的队伍
2018年12月3日，开普敦讯：本周，突破性的EOSIO区块链协议的发行方Block.one将在开普敦举行EOS全球黑客马拉松决赛。公司的风投部门（EOS VC）将在12月7日给冠军队伍提供50万美元的奖金。
今年EOS黑客马拉松已经在世界上五块大陆上举办了比赛，共有1724人次参赛，开普敦这场是这系列比赛的决赛。决赛之后，EOS VC将为这系列比赛颁发共计150万美元的奖金。
本周，前面几次比赛的19支冠军队伍将参加决赛，其中有3支非洲队伍—他们都来自肯尼亚—这三支队伍是上个月Block.one非洲虚拟黑客马拉松的获奖队伍。
决赛以孵化周的形式进行，这个期间选手们要参加一个七天的密集活动：他们要参加专家会谈、参与研讨，学习重要的商业和区块链话题。
- 孵化周每天的主题不同：
- 第一天—商业评论
- 第二天—消费者分析
- 第三天—区块链/代币
- 第四天—评价标准
- 第六天—投资人关系
- 第七天—Demo和颁奖
具体的研讨话题包括：了解你的客户、代币生态系统、财务模、投资人策略等。Block.one还会派出导师传授关于产品开发和形成融资pitch，每天他们上完课会收到导师的反馈。
比赛的高潮是展示日，当天，参赛者要展示他们这个期间制作出来的基于区块链的应用。
总冠军会由国际评委团选出，这个裁判团还包括全球科技和区块链的领军人物。
冠军应该满足以下标准：是否是可持续的商业模式，其规模是否可以随外界投资增长而增长；是否有足够大的市场；是否能够成为规模化的区块链商业模式；展示的pitch和demo的质量、实际应用能力以及解决现有问题的能力。
“我们相信区块链能够重新定义网络和社会，”Block.one的主席Rob Jesudason说。“EOSIO创造的系统能够让生意变得更加安全、安稳和透明，为大规模采用区块链技术铺平道路。它在改变现在商业和通讯方面中心化模式的潜力非常巨大。”
决赛评委名单
- Rob Jesudason, Block.one 总裁
- Dan Larimer, Block.one CTO
- Nichole Yembra, Venture Garden 集团CFO
- Mark Levitt, Trixta CEO, Gyft.com前联合创始人
- Chris Folayan, Mall for Africa CEO和创始人
- Alan Cloete,德意志银行亚洲分行前CEO
- Titi Odunfa Adeoye, Sankore Investments创始人和总经理
- James Hedley, Quicket创始人和经理
Demo和颁奖仪式都会在12月7日举行，但是6号参赛者可以离开会场，参加Block.one赞助的植树活动。
植树活动体现了Block.one对环保事业的热情，它也符合Block.one在开发EOSIO区块链协议的方针，这个协议因为使用的委托权益证明（DPoS）机制且不需要挖矿获得代币，所以它比同类区块链技术更节能。
非洲虚拟赛事获奖团队
- Africonnect — 点对点的区块链平台，借助这个平台，中小型企业可以兼并到大企业中
- B-TAX — 这个项目旨在建立一个新的经济生态系统，利用区块链达到税收系统的透明化，从而消灭腐败问题
- Ubuntu Energy Ledger — 去中心化的能源数据贸易平台，非洲小型太阳能发电厂和产能过剩的发电厂可以更好地发展
旧金山赛事获奖团队
- NouGit — 以赏金为基础的去中心化git repo，即用来追踪和协调文件和软件源代码变化的系统
- Pollinate — 利用区块链达到最后一英里的快递服务，其内置奖励机制
- Six Degrees — 基于奖励的项目，通过这个项目人们借助个人和工作的联系人推荐工作
- EOS EBT Food Stamps — 去中心化的能源交换项目，项目能够减少能源支出，让依靠食品补助券生活的人能够利用食品补助券网上购物
伦敦赛事获奖团队
- EOShield — 该应用借助区块链技术实现验证和黑名单功能，从而保护消费者不受恶意软件侵害。
- Chestnut — 智能银行账户项目，其目的是保护银行资金不被网络罪犯窃取
- On The Block — 通过移除第三方，这个区块链应用简化信用检查过程
- Geneos — 这个项目的目标是鼓励个人通过安全、匿名的方式捐赠基因数据，从而推动阿尔茨海默病的研究
悉尼赛事获奖团队
- SmartPress — EOSIO上的应用，通过该应用，用户不需要编写代码就可以建立和部署智能合约
- TrueOrigin — 这款区块链应用把农业数据去中心化了，这样保证了供应链中应用的是有道德的、可持续的方法
- TokenTree — 这款游戏主题是种树和记录树木生长环境，以此鼓励00后参与抗争澳大利亚的森林砍伐问题
- Jarmbi — 通过奖励机制，EOSIO这个游戏有助于保护濒危动物
香港赛区获奖团队
- IDPASS — 这个项目会提供去中心化的区块链自主身份解决方案，并且把这些身份储存在硬件卡中，卡片需通过扫描视网膜读取
- BlockFlare — 众包、去中心化的反DDoS平台，这个平台不再依靠工作量证明和Tor线路，转而利用新的协议保证DDoS缓解服务
- Ducatur — 这个项目建立了第一个去中心化、同时支持EOS和以太币的交易平台，其速度和幣安的一样
- Smart City Steroids — 这个项目旨在针对印度的智慧城市，希望达成其公共招投标系统的透明和问责机制
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- Top prize of US$500,000 to be awarded to winner
- 19 finalists from across the globe to compete
- Three African teams among finalist
Cape Town, 3 December, 2018 — Block.one, publisher of the ground-breaking EOSIO blockchain protocol, kicked off the Grand Finale of its EOS Global Hackathon series in Cape Town this week, with its EOS Venture Capital (EOS VC) business unit set to award US$500,000 to one winning team on December 7.
The Cape Town event is the finale of the EOS Global Hackathon series, which has been held in five continents around the world this year, and has involved a total of 1,724 participants. Following the final event, EOS VC will have awarded US$1.5 million in prize money in the series.
A total of 19 teams from the previous EOS hackathons will be competing this week, with three African teams — all from Kenya — joining as finalists from the Block.one Africa virtual hackathon held last month.
The Grand Finale involves an Incubation Week, an intensive seven-day program in which finalists attend expert talks and sessions to learn more about important business and blockchain topics.
Each day of the Incubation Week has a theme:
- Day 1 — Business Review
- Day 2 — Customer Insight
- Day 3 — Blockchain / Token
- Day 4 — Success Metrics
- Day 6 — Investor Relations
- Day 7 — Demo Day and Awards Ceremony
Specific session topics include: know your customer, token ecosystems, financial modeling, and investor strategy, among others. Participants will also receive daily coaching and feedback from Block.one mentors on product development and how to formulate investment pitches.
The event will culminate in a Demo Day where finalists will showcase blockchain-based applications they have been working on and compete for the grand prize.
A panel of international judges, including global technology and blockchain leaders, will select the winner.
The winning project will be chosen based on the following criteria: whether it has a sustainable business model that can grow with outside investment; if it has a market large enough to succeed; the feasibility of its use as a scalable blockchain business; the quality of the presentation pitch and demo and its real-world application and the ability to solve an existing problem.
“We believe blockchain will redefine the Internet and society,” said Block.one President Rob Jesudason. “EOSIO will ease the path to adoption of blockchain technology by creating a system that makes doing business more safe, secure and transparent. The potential to change existing centralized models of commerce and communication is exponential.”
List of finale judges
- Rob Jesudason, Block.one President
- Dan Larimer, Block.one Chief Technology Officer
- Nichole Yembra, CFO of Venture Garden Group
- Mark Levitt, CEO of Trixta, Former Co-Founder of Gyft.com
- Chris Folayan, CEO and Founder of Mall for Africa
- Alan Cloete, Former CEO of Deutche Bank Asia
- Titi Odunfa Adeoye, Founder and Managing Director of Sankore Investments
- James Hedley, Founder and Director of Quicket
Ahead of the Demo Day and awards ceremony on December 7, finalists will also have the opportunity on December 6 to participate in a Block.one-sponsored off-site tree planting exercise.
The tree-planting is part of Block.one’s commitment to the environment and is in-keeping with its approach to the development of the EOSIO blockchain protocol, which is also more energy-efficient than other blockchains, due to its use of the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) consensus mechanism and the absence of digital token mining on the blockchain.
The teams competing in the finale are:
Africa virtual
- Africonnect — A peer-to-peer blockchain platform that allows SMEs to merge into larger entities
- B-TAX — Project to build a new financial ecosystem that aims to eliminate corruption by guaranteeing greater transparency in the tax system using blockchain
- Ubuntu Energy Ledger — A decentralized energy data trading platform that allows small and surplus African solar energy producers to contribute to the grid
San Francisco
- NouGit — Bounty-based decentralized version of a git repo, a system for tracking and co-ordinating changes to source-code in files and software
- Pollinate — A blockchain last-mile package delivery system with a built-in reward mechanism
- Six Degrees — Reward-based program through which people can leverage personal and professional connections to refer candidates for jobs
- EOS EBT Food Stamps — Decentralized energy exchange that lowers energy costs and allows individuals on food stamps to use them to shop online
London
- EOShield — An application that can protect consumers from malware through a blockchain-based verification and blacklisting process
- Chestnut — A smart bank account project designed to help protect funds from cyber criminals
- On The Block — A blockchain application that simplifies credit-checks by removing third-parties
- Geneos — Blockchain project that aims to incentivize individuals to donate genomics data in a secure, anonymized way to further research into Alzheimer’s disease
Sydney
- SmartPress — An application on EOSIO that allows users to build and deploy smart contracts without writing code
- TrueOrigin — Blockchain application that decentralizes agriculture data to ensure ethical and sustainable practices in supply chain
- TokenTree — Gamified app designed to empower Millennials to be more engaged in the fight against deforestation in Australia by nurturing and tracking tree life cycles
- Jarmbi — An EOSIO game that aims to help protect endangered animals through incentives
Hong Kong
- IDPASS — A decentralized blockchain self-sovereign identity solution stored on a hardware card that utilizes retina scans
- BlockFlare — Crowd-sourced, decentralized anti-DDoS platform that guarantees DDoS mitigation through a novel protocol based off of proof-of-work and Tor routing
- Ducatur — A project to build the first decentralized exchange that supports both EOS and Ether, and with the speed of Binance
- Smart City Steroids — A project to create transparency and accountability in public tender systems in smart cities in India
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