Bytom Global Online Dev Competition
Tags: blockchain, bytom, devcon, prize
Published: 2019-07-01 22:39:51

4th June 2019, San Francisco, USA – <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bytom/">Bytom</a> public blockchain announced its launch of 2019 Bytom Global Dev Competition during the New York Blockchain Week this May. Since the announcement, teams from the US, India, Venezuela, Zambia, Taiwan have registered. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bytom-blockchain-global-devcon-tickets-63913041628?aff=Sean">Sign up</a> will continue until August 2nd, 2019.  

Sign Up Here: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bytom-blockchain-global-devcon-tickets-63913041628?aff=Sean">Eventbrite page
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The 2019 Bytom Global Dev Competition final will be held in San Francisco, this August. This dev competition aims at finding more technology talents, strengthening Bytom’s development capability, and enhancing Bytom’s sustainable open-source ecosystem. We also want to attract more excellent devs to participate in Bytom dev community through this competition.
 
To incentivize brilliant developers across the globe to participate, 2019 Bytom Devcon is offering a prize pool of almost 100,000 USD, as well as support in fundraising, incubation, technical development, and media exposure. Teams entering the final round will compete for one first prize, two, second place prizes and three third prizes. The award for the first prize winning team is as high as $30,000 USD equivalent in BTM tokens.
 
Meanwhile, excellent projects can acquire media exposure as well as business incubation to accelerate blockchain application.
 
##*Timeline

Registration: May 14th to August 2nd
Preliminary: August 3rd to August 7th
Final and roadshow: August 24th
 
 
##*Awards

First Prize * 1: 30,000 USD equivalent BTM
Second Prize * 2: 15,000 USD equivalent BTM
Third Prize * 3: 10,000 USD equivalent BTM
Recognition Award * 10: 3,000 USD equivalent BTM
 
##*Requirements

For the individual's category, the code should be open-source and the team members should not exceed five people. For the enterprise category, open-source is not required but the final product must be more complete. The competition guidelines are as follows:

1. Each participant group should include no more than 5 members. Individual participants can team up freely, but everyone can only join one group and cannot enter the competition repeatedly.

2. Entries must be completed independently. No cheating or infringement of intellectual property is allowed. Entrants failing in doing so will be disqualified.

3. Projects must be built on Bytom ecosystem or Bytom smart contract.

4. Entrants must submit projects developed based on Bytom. After being reviewed by the Organizing Committee, it will be selected to enter the competition for further improvement.

5. Before a submission is closed, entrants can keep improving their projects, but cannot change the topic. The final entry should be based on the latest version submitted before the submission deadline. (If there are important reasons that cannot be submitted before the deadline, please contact the office in advance, but no later than August 8th, so as not to affect the official final list.)

6. Entries must be submitted in the prescribed form. Otherwise, they will be phased out directly. Please upload your codes on GitHub.

7. Anyone belonging to the organizers of the event and members of judgment cannot take part in the competition.
 
##*Judging Criteria

Blockchain Value, projects must
  ·Be based on Bytom API or Bytom smart contract
  ·Utilize the advantage of blockchain technology
  ·Showcase the indispensability of blockchain technology

Technology
  ·Have proper coding and good functioning
  ·Work stably and efficiently
  ·Have security design

Commercial Value
 ·Have a high commercial value
 ·Be applicable to commercial adoption

Creativity
 ·Be more creative than industry average projects
 ·Have higher performance than industry average projects

Design
 ·Good UI
 ·Easy to use

##*Project Submission

GitHubhttps://github.com/；
GitLabhttps://gitlab.com/；
Giteehttps://gitee.com/；
Bitbucket：https://bitbucket.org/；