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https://devpost.com/software/faefolk

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Faefolk was inspired by Stardew Valley, a pixel-style, slice of life game that has been enjoyed by gamers for over 10 years. We wanted to bring this experience to the blockchain, and the Internet Computer was the most effective path to bring the vision to life. What it does: - In its current iteration, Faefolk allows users to farm, craft and build in a multiplayer, procedurally generated, persistent world. While much of what it will be is not yet built, the internet computer offers a unique opportunity to enhance game play loops by incorporating blockchain technology into the user experience. The current demo will demonstrate the minting of real NFTs by harvesting trees and stone, along with a procedurally generated world that users can play in with their friends. How we built it: - We built Faefolk using the Godot game engine, GDscript, Rust, and Motoko. We use web sockets and a centralized server for multiplayer communication, and NFTs are minted and persisted on the Motoko canisters. Godot is a particularly great match for the Internet Computer given its open source nature and its ability to use any programming language. Challenges we ran into: - To say that a month was not enough time to build this project is an understatement. Games take quite a while to actually bring to production. That being said, some of the challenges we faced were communication with the Internet Computer. Because we do not want our game to run exclusively on the web, we could not just build an HTML5 export, so we had to use Rust libraries to communicate with the Internet Computer. This is a problem because the Rust HD wallet library could not digest 12 word phrases from popular wallets like Plug, so user Principles could not be imported from web wallets like Plug. For the demo, we have hard coded principles, so we can demonstrate the minting of NFTs across the game and in our own NFT marketplace. Another challenge we faced was multiplayer. Outside of turn-based games, no blockchain is fast enough to handle real time multiplayer, so we had to settle for a Web2 solution to handle multiplayer communication. Godot has a fabulous, high-level multiplayer API that is not compatible with HTML5, so at a future point in development, we will have to build our own communication protocol so we can export an HTML5 version of the game that can be hosted on the IC. On the personnel front, our artist disappeared midway through, and the artist we hired to replace her lives in the Ukraine and has been unavailable for obvious reasons. Also, two developers of the four developer team have not been able to commit time to the project for personal reasons, so the remaining two were challenged with completing a project that was scoped for four developers. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - This is the first real gaming project the team has worked on. From what I have heard from other game developers, the fact that our game is enjoyable with this level of technological complexity is impressive. We are proud of our Rust implementation. While Godot allows you to use any language, it’s easier said than done. Rust allows us to bring the IC in all its utility to any platform that Godot can compile for. Yes, this means consoles, which may be a first for the blockchain. What we learned: - We learned what Rust could and could not do. We also learned the limitations of Godot, from its finicky tile mapping system to how picky its HTML5 export is and how it handles multiple threads and asynchronous communication. We also learned how great of an engine Godot is on top of all this. The node system makes things very modular and maintainable, and its community shares a lot of synergy with the IC community. What's next for FaeFolk: - Every great journey starts with the first step, and when it’s all said and done, Faefolk will not just be known as a great blockchain game but as a great game. We have already started conversations with experts in tokenomics and economies in RPG-based games, accelerator programs, and that crazy guy at the bar that told us about his artist friend who could be a useful replacement for those we left behind. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/hls-nzcdmt

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Biggest inspiration is our personal experience in the education sector and connecting it with new technology What it does: - Providing individual and unbiased feedback. Being one part of an ecosystem of services, for your education and career journey. How we built it: - With the native motoko language, builded with a connected canister management. Astro and React for the frontend part. UI Testing Canister for testing quick changes live on the main canister. Challenges we ran into: - Canister allocation and frontend calls. Making a good UX for web and mobile were really important to us. Time management by debuging errors were really stressful. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Working with real users and building an application which is close to the needs of our target group. What we learned: - Writing motoko, understanding the dfx service better, communicaton inside of the team and work structures where eveyone is happy with What's next for helios: - launching the closed alpha, building community services through plattform, email discord. technical implementation of token standards and soulbound nfts, plagiarism database.Looking forward to launch more services wich contributes to our goal to build a education metaverse. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/ic-map-collector

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Maps are needed everywhere, for leisure, for research and for information exchange. Large tech companies recognized the value of maps long ago and earn money with them. Many maps are available as opendata and can be used freely. It's time for maps to be truly free. Time that maps can be made available as a Web3 Dapp and offered as a scalable, decentralized map server on the Internet computer. - Maps can be used to clearly visualize many facts that are important for society. That is why maps have been an important means of communication since time immemorial. It is therefore all the more important that maps can also be offered with Web3 and are thus free from censorship and privatization. - In order to show that Web3 can contribute a lot to Public Good, special examples for natural hazards and climate change were set up with ICMaps. Further very useful examples will surely follow through the community. What it does: - With ICMaps you can create your own map servers and thus integrate map layers into Web3 Dapps, Web2 applications and even desktop GIS. ICMaps is on the one hand the software that can be installed on own canisters and enables a decentralized, scalable map server that is fully compatible with the standard WMTS. On the other hand, the ICMaps.org frontend provides a user-friendly interface to create custom map servers and load map tiles from existing maps into the blockchain. This allows maps to be created with just a few clicks. Many examples show the potential of Web3 maps. One example impressively shows the effects of climate change by directly comparing two glacier levels. How we built it: - The first step was to write the WMTS software. Can a canister support the WMTS specifications. For this, all WMTS requests had to be implemented. Additionally, a decentralized image storage was implemented based on the open source project Motoko-CDN. When the first Web3 map could be displayed it was clear that ICMaps will close an important gap in Internet computing. - Afterwards the frontend was developed. Based on the Motoko Svelte Starter project and the open source Notus Svelte template a functional and professional frontend was developed, which allows to create map servers and to upload map data in a user friendly way. On the one hand, XYZ map layers like Open Street Map or existing WMTS map servers can be parsed and map tiles can be seeded.As a last step, examples were provided to show the potential of the maps. Challenges we ran into: - In order for the map server to support all requirements of the OGC standard, various Http requests had to be supported. The Mini BigMap project was integrated so that the maps can be stored in a scalable way. So as many maps can be stored as Cycles are available. - The frontend had to understand existing map sources like XYZ Server or WMTS Server and had to be presented in a user-friendly interface. - To keep the map data under control of the creator, the idea of the Managed Canister was invented: The user provides the canister and ICMaps makes sure that the right software is installed on it. This way the user always has the rights to the canister and the associated map data, but always has the latest software available. Accomplishments that we're proud of: What we learned: What's next for ICMaps: First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/kontribute

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Kontribute was inspired by the idea of wanting to give everyone a use case for their NFTs as well as giving creative writers a platform on web 3 to write on and benefit from. We decided to combine both of these ideas to bring NFTs to storytelling. Readers can support their favorite authors by purchasing their NFTs, giving authors an incentive to write good stories and make good NFTs. What it does: - Kontribute allows readers, writers, and web 3 enthusiasts, to write and read stories, or sell and trade NFTs from their stories all within our dapp. To achieve this we have integrated a creative writing feature, a story section, and an ICP wallet in the dapp - users can directly hold their NFTs and ICP all within Kontribute. Kontribute gives writers a place to share their stories with a community and a way for them to sell NFTs from their stories. Readers may want to support an author's story by purchasing their NFTs. - Larger projects with large stories and a large collection of NFTs can also launch stories and NFTs on the dapp via our launchpad. How we built it: - Kontribute is fully decentralized and built on top of the ICP blockchain from frontend to backend and we take advantage of the many tools that it provides including Internet Identity, DFX, and Motoko. - Our frontend is made with React.js and uses lots of modern react techniques such as functional components with hooks, dynamic components, and React-Redux for state management. We have multiple frontend integrations via npm packages that let us call other smart contracts on the ICP blockchain most notably NFT Anvil smart contracts(also written in Motoko) - which power our NFT integration and ICP Wallet. For our UI and design, we use Chakra UI which allows us to build fast and responsive UI's that look nice on desktops and mobile alike. - Our backend has two main smart contracts launched by us. One for our initial token offering or ito.mo which powers our NFT launchpad and lets us launch our Bonsai Warrior NFT collection. We also have story.mo which is the smart contract that powers our story section of the dapp which lets us store all user stories on the chain, to be called dynamically to our frontend. All of this makes Kontribute a multi-canister dapp. - For a more detailed description of the development of our dapp and our code design decisions, you can read our GitHub README. All of our code is open-sourced and available for the community to look at and/or learn from. Challenges we ran into: - Building an app on ICP is much different than normal app development and there was a learning curve to figure all the new tools out. We found once we understood the idea of canisters, principals, and how to launch our front-end on-chain - things started to flow. Building out smart contracts in Motoko turned out to be a challenge as there were new concepts for us such as orthogonal persistence and the actor-based model. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - So far we are very happy with the success we have had thus far. What we learned: - We found ourselves thinking a lot about dapp architecture and how to create dynamic frontend components that interact with our Motoko backend. The async nature of the smart contracts also meant we had to think about how to properly display the information to our front-end and how we can notify the user of what's happening. We have learned and are still learning many new features of Motoko as a smart contract language. Building out this project and growing a community around it turned about to be a new sort of challenge for us as well. We know we have a niche audience that we can attract and we feel we have a product-market fit, So we have had to figure out how to grow an audience and keep them engaged all while we develop our dapp and launch new features. What's next for Kontribute: - We have about 5 other larger ICP NFT projects wanting to launch on our platform, as-well-as many writers who cant wait to get on board. - We have many features lined up for improvements for the stories and marketplace sections of our dapp some of which that are currently being worked on are: - We also have plans to add extra use cases for our Bonsai Warrior NFTs including claiming airdrops and using them to access the content. We want to scale the dapp out now as much as possible and try to cater to as many web 2 writers as we can and bring them over to web 3. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/fish-tank

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - The earliest version was started during the Motoko Bootcamp for the core project. The project was to create an NFT minter, using some royalty free art. I went with the fish art and was inspired on how I could make them look unique by modifying their colors in the SVG art file. What it does: - Fish Tank is a way to collectively display and customize Fish NFT's you've minted or adopted in a community facing Display tank. It lets the user: How we built it: - During the Bootcamp I built a simplistic NFT minter with a basic front end showing the fish swimming in a user's tank after minting. For the supernova hackathon I took my initial concept and blueskyed the possible areas I could expand on. After coming up with a plan I redesigned a large portion of the original project to expand into a more interactive and community involved project. Challenges we ran into: - Not enough time to implement all of the features I have planned. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - That I have some working version to present for the hackathon. What we learned: - A lot about the Motoko language, including its features, quirks and limitations. What's next for Fish Tank: - I still have a lot of exciting features that I want to implement in Fish Tank: First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/tingram

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Develop a secure social dating and communication application that will be implemented using Web 3.0 technologies and managed via Social-Fi. Provide users with the ability to monetize their content and activity within the application. What it does: - The TINGRAM application will allow you to cover the most significant aspects of social life, such as dating, personal relationships, business communication, charity, environment. Will provide an opportunity for participants to earn inside the application, through unique communication, individual creativity in the NFT industry and useful content for society. The application will be managed and developed through the DAO model. How we built it: - We were attracted by the idea of IC accessibility and security, we decided to use the Internet Identity system and store all data decentralized in the IC blockchain. To create our application, we used the new programming language Motoko Challenges we ran into: - We faced the problem of creating our own token in the IC network, at the moment there is no such possibility. There are also no bridges with other blockchains, which does not allow scaling our application. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Achieved fast video loading and sending messages in IC blockchain technology, and developed a unique model for rewarding users for activity within the application using a complex mathematical model built on tokens and NFT What we learned: - We studied the Motoko programming language, figured out the IC blockchain technology, learned how to connect blockchain wallets What's next for Tingram: - Attracting investments from large funds, to create liquidity and launch a closed beta version of the Tingram application, to test the functions and validate the mathematical model. Our task is to develop a really useful WEB3 application for the society, the life of which would exist for decades and be controlled through DAO tools. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/planzapp

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - How cool would it be to have a dApp that helps you create plans with friends and family, manage the plan: including discovery of experiences, planning, RSVP and payments ? Many people struggle with planning things with other people, the more people - the more complicated the process gets. Getting everyone on the same page, time and place is not easy. Moreover, paying for experiences is another set of complex problems that many groups face on a daily basis. What it does: - planzApp allows you to make smart plans with friends and family seamlessly using smart contracts on the Internet Computer. How we built it: - Our mobile dapp is built using flutter and connected using Agent_dart. We used Motoko for the backend and we wrote code for a Web interface using reactjs Challenges we ran into: Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We were able to solidify the user experiences that we want our future users to have and the value that we can add to our users by building on the Internet computer. What we learned: - We learned a lot about the Internet computer: What's next for planzApp: - One of our success metrics is payments on the Internet Computer. Payments on the IC are still evolving and we are excited and will continue to build and refine our dApp and add some of the features that we want users to experience. We are part of the community and looking forward to learn and help build out solutions for payments and Marketplaces on the Internet Computer. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/meta-yield-liquid-staking-crowdfunding-platform-for-icp

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - After we had participated in several launchpads and a couple of initial distribution offerings (IDO) of project tokens. We felt that it was a zero sum game and that market conditions sentiment dictated much of the success or failure of projects. - We believe that in order for projects to launch successfully on any decentralized platform through a crowdfunding platform it needs to put ICP token holders front and center of it. Driving value to them is a critical part of enabling them to back projects. - Value proposition user: - Value proposition for the project: What it does: - A crowdfunding platform for ICP using staking. Projects that need to fund their product can request an amount of Neurons that they need to launch their product/app. Users stake ICP and all the Neurons rewards from staking go to the project and the users get the native token from the project.Users get a receipt for their ICP staked, so they can claim it after the project has earned all their rewards.Important: Users need to lock their staking tokens, so they guarantee the funding to the project through the staking rewards. - One aspect that is crucial is that the project sets the amount they want to crowdfund and if that goal is not met, all tokens staked are returned to the backers and this includes the neuron rewards. The project receives the same amount of tokens that it placed on Meta Yield to be traded for the neuron rewards, so they can get another opportunity at proposing another campaign in favorable market conditions. How we built it: - Building on ICP was a new experience for our development team, we reviewed some tutorials and had some great support from the DEVREL team to understand the fundamentals of the protocol. - Our team had previous RUST experience, so getting familiar with the Motoko SDK was the first thing to tackle. - The backend is using Motoko and the frontend is built on Next JS. Challenges we ran into: - Manage token transfers with a call back function on the receiver address was something we had to learn from scratch. - Error handling had an interesting learning curve for us, but we managed to learn a ton from the feedback of the DFinity dev team and also found their Discord helpful to collaborate with other members of the community. - For our crowdfunding platform it is important to initialize the balance on a canister and to make the deposit of the custom DIP20 token to it. We ran into some issues and we are currently investigating them. - The client side canister does not allow pre-rendering and server-side rendering, we had to manage Next Js application to be exported as static HTML assets. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - In 6 weeks we manage to get our team to learn Motoko and we are really excited on what ICP can offer developers to build on a decentralized protocol. - Deliver a simple version of the crowdfunding platform, with deposit of ICP tokens and distribution of a project token to the backers. What we learned: - There are some key takeaways from the Office Hours with the ICP team: What's next for Meta Yield - liquid staking crowdfunding platform for ICP.: - Launching it on mainnet for September of 2022, we think this platform will allow new projects to be onboarded into ICP and de risking the process of crowdfunding them through the native staking mechanism of DFinity. - Roll out new products based on staking ICP tokens. - Really excited to continue engaging with the DFinity team and the community. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/4everland

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - With the development of technology and network infrastructure, the Internet, which started with Web 1.0 era of reading and writing, has managed to make a huge revolutionary leap with a transition to Web 2.0 era of content creation. - Today's Internet generates and distributes unprecedented amount of data every day. Centralized institutions serve as gatekeepers to provide services to a large number of users . There is no doubt that they make too much money from the value created by users and developers. However, due to the situation today, various centers of Web2 faced a series of problems ralevent with the unfairness, deceit, and censorship problems exposed by the design are increasing seriously. - That's why we need to move forward into the next generation of the Internet - Web.3.0. - 4EVERLAND is a Web.3.0 cloud computing platform. We integrate excellent blockchain protocols and network underlying capabilities to make it easier for developers to develop on the blockchain with Web3 network and technology. Under the complete development supporting provided by 4EVERLAND, everyone can enjoy working in Web.3.0 with the fun of development. - Now developers can complete the front-end deployment of IPFS and complete file hosting and access based on IPFS or Arweave through 4EVERLAND. At the same time, 4EVERLAND provides developers with a one-stop global acceleration gateway compatible with Web2. - Dfinity, as a network with powerful decentralized storage, network and computing capabilities, 4EVERLAND will integrate Dfinity to provide users with comprehensive Web.3.0 cloud computing services. - Thanks to SuperNova, offer us this opportunity to stand on the stage, we glad to demonstrate the first step of our integration of Dfinity—“IC-hosting”.\ud83d\ude4f What it does: - 4EVERLAND provides users with one-stop website deployment and access services in Dfinity. Users can directly host the front-end on the Dfinity network through github authorization or local Cli on 4EVERLAND. - At the same time, in order to motivate our users to migrate the front-end from the centralized server to Dfinity, 4EVERLAND will provide users with the free version of the basic service, and allows all the developers hosted on IPFS through 4EVERLAND to sync the front end to Dfinity. How we built it: - Our server will call the Dfinity interface to create a container for the project. - When the project is packaged and constructed in Hosting, it will transfer the packaged files to the corresponding container of Dfinity. - When it finish, Dfinity will back for us with corresponding project hash, we will use the IC public gateway to access this hash to realize the whole process of construction, deployment and access. - Allow projects quickly deploy to Dfinity through 4EVERLAND Hosting service with "One-Click". Challenges we ran into: - Through the Dfinity's detailed documentation, we haven't found too many challenges at this stage, but we will face many challenges in the future: - We will start the development of Dfinity's dedicated gateway as soon as possible after the integration. We try to find various sloutions in specific way. - For instance, how to make the gateway's global acceleration experience better? How to return container ownership to the user? How to provide users with more payment methods? Meanwhile, we have integrated IPFS and Arweave. How to connect and empower Dfinity with IPFS or Arweave? These all will face challenges. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - With the development of 4EVERLAND today, we have more than 35K DApps which choose to use 4EVERLAND to host websites or data in a decentralized network, among which there are many well-known DeFI projects such as Uniswap community and FstSwap.；We also become the ecological infrastructure of Polygon, zkSync, Near and other ecosystems due to our excellent functions and service experience; - We have many advanced innovations, such as the first storage aggregator compatible with both IPFS and Arweave, the only provider of SNS (Solana Name Service) IPFS public gateway; We believe that integrating Dfinity will be an important milestone for us to become "the best solution" on the market; - 4EVERLAND has a strong community and developer base today, and we believe that in the future we will be very much proud that we have helped countless developers to enjoy the experience of developing in Dfinity through 4EVERLAND. What we learned: - We have fully understood how to integrate Dfinity in front-end deployment to provide users with convenient and stable hosting services. - Furthermore, we have been exploring Dfinity as the underlying architecture in an all-round way . We are thinking about how to expand and establish available Web3 PaaS and SaaS services, and link with more protocols on the chain and off the chain to achieve data storage, network and computing capabilities, which will help us serve users in the future and providing comprehensive Web.3.0 cloud computing services has laid the foundation. What's next for 4EVERLAND: - For the integration of Dfinity, we will take IC hosting as our first step, and we will ebhance the development of the following integrated Dfinity in the future; First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/icx

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Even though I have hundreds of bookmarks, no more than 20 of them are really useful at the same time.And I was tired of manage bookmarks from browser to browser. I think my way managing links may not effective enough.Thus I tried to develop a distributed and erasable bookmarking tool for multi-person collaboration. What it does: - The ICX is regard as a tool or station, where users can manage bookmarks via Internet Computer. - # The node-data hierarchy is designed as three levels.App Node / Collection Node / Bookmark Node - There are two types of data: - Square Data 100% Open to All - Data is stored in the ICX-Canister. Edit access to data is open to all inludes modify & delete. - Data will be cleared regularly, to avoid that, users need a successfull vote for each node data. - User Data Only for User - Data is encrypted and stored permanently in the user's Canister.Only userself has access to modify them. - The cost of creating the Canister is borne by the user. Features: What's next for ICX: How we built it: - Start with a figma draft of this product, develop backend in motoko and then develop frontend in vue. Challenges we ran into: - The identity is hard to get started, luckily I reference to many open source projects and examples. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Product - Not Bad UI : ) What we learned: First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/cetoswap-ihysuo

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - As Web3.0 continues to evolve, the launch of Dfinity in May, 2021 has offered more possibilities in the entire ecosystem. The innovative network not only supports storage and computing but also provides the front-end and back-end operating environment, which is not available in development on other public chains, meanwhile ensuring the true decentralization from the underlying facilities. In addition, its anti-Gas-fee mechanism and MPC multi-party computation encryption protocol are leading innovations in the industry, better guaranteeing data and practicality.As illustrated above, we believe that it’s a good opportunity for Ceto to well participate in the IC ecosystem and become an important member in the trading sector, so we are determined to build the first decentralized order book trading platform on IC.Different from existed platforms built on other chains, all data of Ceto is kept on IC network, which is completely decentralized and can achieve a second-level feedback. What it does: - Fungible Token Tradings：Order Book—Limit, Market Order (upcoming)Fractionalization of Crypto Assets: Fractionalize the non-fungible token into several fungible tokens representing partial ownership of the original asset - In general, Ceto supports transactions through multiple wallets and a variety of standards, providing users with unlimited trading options; at the same time, it also presents the trading interface in the form of an order book, offering users a more intuitive display of data. Our ultimate goal is to create a decentralized, secure, transparent and unlimited trading platform for all users. How we built it: - We are a dynamic startup team and our core developers all have extensive project development experience and have been involved in the blockchain industry since early on. Ceto is our first Dex project on the IC platform. - We use motoko and rust in back-end development, JavaScript and React Architecture in front-end development. - Current Standard Supported:1) Fungible Token Standard Supported: DIP 20, ICP Standard, IS20(under development), more to come in near future;2) Order Book Trading: FCE/WICP, BON/WICP, ckBTC/WICP(upcoming), XTC/WICP, more to arrive in near future;3) F-NFT: Fractionalization of NFT4) NFT Standard Supported: C3 Standard, DIP 721, more to arrive in near future;5) Wallet Supported: Internet Identity, Stoic, Plug, Infinity Wallet Challenges we ran into: - It takes us a long time to understand IC ecological features, such as chain-key technology, Internet Identity Authentication System, canister, NNS governance, motoko, etc. Other obstacles we encountered are as follows: - Atomicity Problem: IC network lacks some partial atomicity due to its own characteristics, and we ended up borrowing the Web2 solution to fix this sort of problems. - Storage Problem: Based on the characteristics of IC canister, the runtime memory is separated from the stable memory, we developed a rust version of the bucket package according to the system api, which can be more convenient to use the large-capacity stable memory in the canister. - Order Book Transactions Problems: Canister upgrade data security issues, canister user hierarchical management, log storage issues, etc. - Transaction Speed Issues: Due to the consensus mechanism of the IC network, the completion of a transaction may lead to several times of across-canister calls, each call will consume a certain amount of time which makes the overall transaction TPS lower. - Token Standard Problems: As a DEX on IC, we are a bit confused about the token standards in the ecosystem since the standards vary, eg., DIP20, IS20, etc. It wil be better to see a offcial standard on IC avoiding inconvenience. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Ceto is the only order book trading platform that enables front-end and back-end deployed fully on chain among the the entire ecosystem. - FCE/WICP TradingEver since the launch on Feb.21, 2022, Ceto has accumulated over ＄400,000 trading volume, 15+ partners, 20k+ community members and awarded 5k grant by Dfinity. - Our Team has been actively engaging in the development of IC ecosystem and reported a critical Cycle Balance Underflow Incident. What we learned: - 1) Deployment and management of canisters on the IC network2) Authentication mechanism, NNS, etc. 3) Development process of DeFi projects on IC network What's next for Ceto: - 1) Enrich trading pairs 2) Access to ckBTC and ETH token3) Listing other valuable tokens on IC: XTC, OGY, etc.4) NFT fragmentation service5) Staking service 6) Explore DAO governance - Overall, in a foreseeable future, Ceto will develop a wallet integration process to facilitate smooth integration to all new wallets, and also specify token listing procedure so that the listing can be done independently by the project without much involvement of Ceto team. More importantly, all codes will be open-source. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/icescrow

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - How can I safely make a payment for hiring someone to do a job? buy or sell a NFT to someone directly? How can I trust a marketplace for trading, especially some new platform? What it does: - It's a delegated escrow service, which allow any dApp to build solutions on top. For example, a job market for freelancer, a alternative ebay for p2p trading, a contract for salary payment... How we built it: - The core is escrow smart contract canister we build, and build a common UI for managing P2P orders. Challenges we ran into: - Dispute, how to handle the dispute since there is no middleman except of smart contract. The possible solutions are: 1. adding credit/reputation system to help stop bad behaviour. 2 forming a DAO/council to handle the dispute like a court. 3. escrow service take the trading item ownership(e.g NFT) temporarily to make sure delivery successfully. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - By leveraging escrow service, we provide interface to allow user to trading NFT ticket on ICEvent, no marketplace needed, and we also enhance our TODO feature to be a Bounty, which anyone can hire somebody to help a small job by paying bounty using escrow service. There also a simple interface, which anyone can just create a P2P order for trading (e.g NFT...) What we learned: - how to use technology to solve trust problem. What's next for ICEscrow: - get more scenarios implemented. design reputation system. collaborate with social platform to implement social purchasing - source code First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/iwhistle-whistleblowing

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - We come from Kenya, which is not big in terms of people who are whistleblowers and independent speakers. So I saw this as an opportunity for people to speak up in terms of polls and unfair decisions that may take place. What it does: - It is a whistleblowing system that helps one to report anonymously in case one comes face to face with such a situation that one feels that they might need to report What's next for iWhistle Whistleblowing: - We plan to expand the platform so that it may get to everyones reach such that they may be able to report in case of an injustice that they may feel secure that they are doing so with the best security. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/minerium

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - The development of blockchain technology is very rapid, providing changes in all aspects of life. This of course requires a lot of special research and also creates other supporting technologies, so that it will be able to provide many benefits. What it does: - Ontics is the authoritative source of release images of all blockchain technologies. Whether you are building a blockchain product or are simply interested in learning more about the technology, Ontics is here to provide you with an easy-to-use and trustworthy source of data. The Ontics team has been working diligently to develop a comprehensive list of all blockchain-related software, services, and user interfaces. Our goal is to provide an easy way for users to find images related to their projects, allowing them to quickly and easily add new images that are relevant to their work. How we built: - Ontics: The Go-To Image Source for All Blockchain Technologies: Images have the power to drive action. We provide an effective and simple way to deliver relevant images to the right audience, through Ontics. Created by the team at Ontology, Ontics provides a comprehensive image database of blockchains and cryptocurrency technologies to enable the next generation of digital businesses. Available on both mobile and desktop, Ontics enables seamless browsing of its collection of images while also giving users the ability to filter based on different categories, tags, types and more. it Challenges we ran into: - To build an authoritative, interactive and brand-centric software solution for the cryptocurrency community. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - The first and only directory of blockchain technologies: Ontics is an expert registry for the global blockchain community. It provides a comprehensive catalog of companies and smart contract codes in response to the growing demand for reliable standards and wide-scale blockchain adoption. The Ontics platform includes a rich set of features supporting end-to-end transaction lifecycle management, which is fundamental in establishing trust and transparency in the emerging decentralized world. What we learned: - Blockchain Technology Images, Blockchain Technology Releases, Ontics Images, Blockchain Technology Release Images, Ontics Release Images: Ontics is the first and only provider of blockchain technology images. Our mission is to help Knowledge Economy to revolutionize their business model using visualized images that depict how each blockchain product and technology is designed. Detailed release images enable companies to improve understanding of complex technology, cut IT development costs by more than 15% and accelerate go-to-market time from three months to three weeks. What's next for Ontics: - Our vision is to make it easy for users to find what they need in order for their projects to succeed. We believe this will enable us to help individuals and companies alike achieve success with their projects by providing a simple solution that allows them to access the information they need quickly and easily. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/dmail-network

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - The first message the Internet sent was “L” and “O”. At 10:30 pm, Oct. 29, 1969, Kleinrock, in Los Angeles, A message was sent to Bill Duval at Stanford University. This was a five-letter word: Login. After entering\xa0 “L”, the system broke down. The instrument showed that the transmission system collapsed. Therefore communication was forced to stop. The world's first communication test through the Internet only transmitted two letters, which were “O”, marking the creation of the rudiment of the Internet based on information transmission. What it does: - The transmission of a string of words opened the door to the Internet, thus beginning the booming development of the Internet. In the Crypto World, we also hope to take information transmission as a starting point and promote a leapfrog development of applications in the blockchain ecosystem. Therefore, we established a decentralized version of NFT mail application called “Dmail”. - Based on features of Web3.0 and Dfinity (Internet computer) technology, with mail application as the entrance, Dmail lowers the threshold for users and developers to participate in the Crypto World by enabling smooth transmission of information between traditional mail and blockchain mail, users hereby can use blockchain as if they use the Internet. We hope that Dmail serves as a basic portal to the blockchain world and a gateway to the real world in the future. - Meanwhile, Dmail will also be the first mailbox that is 100% developed by Web 3 technologyy. Dmail will be an entrance to the blockchain universe and a gateway for Web 2.0 users to experience convenient blockchain services. In the future, Dmail is expected to become a decentralized identity to Web 3.0 and a linkage between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 users, as Dmail is committed to work on\xa0 allowing 4 billion email accounts around the world to possess a Dmail address. How we built it: - To solve problems of interaction, communication and information sharing between on-chain and off-chain users, we developed a distributed application called Dmail. - Dmail is the first mail application based on Web3.0 and Dfinity technology that integrates NFT and distributed storage functions, and is dedicated to building a bridge between the traditional world and the parallel world. Compared with traditional mail, Dmail gives rights of control back to users. Users can manage and access data with their private keys, and can also determine the future trend of the product through community Governance. Dmail is committed to providing users with a permanent service without a centralized server, and meanwhile ensuringe the ownership and privacy of data. - Dmail is the foundation of communication, information sharing and collaboration of on-chain and off-chain users in the future. Specifically, it will serve as the basic communication and cooperation tool of the blockchain world, and the gateway for information exchange between the blockchain world and the real world. As an information interaction gateway in the new era, it will help users connect the whole blockchain world and the real world, and help users, developers, institutions and assets to build reliable interactive connection and build an information storage space that will never be lost in the blockchain world. In this way, we believe that it can better serve the blockchain world and the real world, and enables everyone an access to an equal access to different worlds. Challenges we ran into: - Every startup you know faces a variety of difficulties, which include funding, partners, technology, consensus, environment, etc. Dmail was started after Dfinity Foundation announced Grant because we saw the direction, but due to Motoko, Rust's language was not popular, technical documentation was not perfect, Canister We did face more difficulties and adjustments at the beginning of the venture due to issues such as Motoko, Rust's language not being popular, technical documentation not being perfect, and Canister not being stable. In addition, funding is also a big threshold for an emerging ecology that is not sought after by capital, which also leads to all kinds of problems at the financing level, but the good thing is that the Dmail team has persevered with its own funds, and has been recognized by more and more capital, users and communities. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Oct 18, 2021, Demo Test Launched.Oct 31, 2021, Dfinity Hackathon Winner.Nov. 30, 2021, Seed funding closed.Dec. 4, 2021, NFT account pre-sale.Dec. 24, 2021, Showcase on Dfinity website.Feb. 1, 2022, Brand upgrade.Feb. 8, 2022, Strategic funding closed.Feb. 11, 2022, $25,000 grant from Dfinity foundation($5,000 before).Mar 21, 2022, Presale holders break 11,000+. Apr 2, 2022, Selected to IC Bootcamp.May 18, 2022, 3D Crystal NFTs Launched.June 1, 2022, Beta Network Launched. What we learned: - Dmail is one year old, and in the process, our team has expanded from 3 to over 20 people, including people in technology, product, operations, marketing, design, and finance, which is great to give back, and of course we have dozens of Mods and Ambassadors around the world.Then Dmail got 2 rounds of funding, 30,000+ Twitter and Discord users, which is the result of the team's efforts and our honor. Thank you to everyone who supported DMAIL. - By the way, Dmail and IC ecological more than ten projects reached a cooperation, mutual willingness to provide technical, product, marketing and other support, which will help promote the development of Dmail and IC, I hope more users attention to. What's next for Dmail Network: - Dmail has just launched on the beta network, which is a great start. Next, the team will focus on product feature iteration and performance optimization, and then work towards multi-login, access to Web 2.0 mailboxes, plug-in wallets, protocol layers, collaboration tools and decentralized identity. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/dev-pouch

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - DevPouch is a sample desktop app built on top of the Tauri framework. What it does: - The app itself is a very minimal implementation of a wallet on the IC network, based on the identity that dfx uses to deploy canisters. How we built it: - DevPouch is built with React on the "front-end", and it is a very simple one page app. It does not use the agent-js library for communicating with the IC ecosystem, all the calls are being routed through the rust "backend" Challenges we ran into: - While Tauri is an awesome project with a ton of strong points, it is still young compared to Electron. I've prototyped some functionality that ended up being dropped due to platform glitches (e.g. the file drag & drop is buggy on Linux). Another pain point was that the automated github build for Windows errored out due to some SSL configuration on the build VM, so I had to chose only Linux and MacOS for the moment. What we learned: - Rust rocks?! - One of the key advantages of using Tauri, and the reason why I wanted to explore the ecosystem, is that we can reuse code very easily. The JS code can be written with zero knowledge about IC, crypto, web3, etc. With a React custom hook for example, the front-end developers have a straightforward experience, similar to using the Fetch API. What's next for Dev-Pouch: - I think there are a lot of cool things that can be developed on top of Tauri. I initially envisioned DevPouch as a GUI companion to dfx, and some potential features include: First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/dfinity-ddos-defender

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - When we see the reverse gas model in Dfinity, we think it will keep consuming Canister's cycles balance if it suffers malicious calls from attackers. So based on this thought, we consider developers have the need to monitor Cycles balance and prevent from DDoS attack. Inspired by this, we decided to develop the product. What it does: - The purpose of this product is to protect developers from DDoS attacks and notify them when DDoS attack happened. How we built it: - A DDoS attack's feature is that a rapid decrease in the cycle balance of the canister. If this feature is detected, we will trigger improve diffculty of target canister, and then request have to do prove of work to enter that canister. User can import rust library to build prove of work part. - IC provides the [canister_inspect_message] C interface, which will let the request do some judgment before entering the canister, accepting the request into the canister if it meets the conditions, discarding the request if it does not, which not consuming the cycle. we generate a random number on chain, user generate a random number off chain, and then we require Hash(random_on_chain,random_off_chain) to meet certain conditions. Once they meet the conditoin, [canister_inspect_message] will accept this request. otherwise, it will discard it. Challenges we ran into: - It is hard to distinguish between users and attackers when DDoS attacks occur, the developer's front-end should also implement the logic to produce random numbers to request again when the call fails, otherwise it will reduce the user experience to let users request the front-end interface multiple times. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We are glad to find out the solution that establish the connection between DDoS attack and prove of work. What we learned: - By participating in the hackathon, we learned the advantages of IC's blockchain architecture over previous generations of blockchains. It makes us more confident to build new projects on IC. What's next for Dfinity DDoS Defender: - We will integrate our notification service with Dmail. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/eimolad

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: Internet Computer is the only blockchain on which it is possible to build an on-chain MMORPG NFT Game. I do not know of any such project: What it does: We make fun profitable: How I built it: Still developing: Challenges I ran into: problems with canisters with large files, the speed is still not high enough: Accomplishments that I'm proud of: What I learned: We have been studying Motoko since the beginning of 2022. You can see our progress here What's next for Eimolad: We want to launch MVP by the end of 2022: First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/ic-dinos-gen2-dinos-and-portal

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: What it does: - IC Dinos is an NFT project of 8888 NFT's which are minted initially as dinosaur eggs - all of them being totally unique. - Every dinosaur egg is able to be hatched and turned into a random dinosaur species, along with a certain rarity of dinosaur assigned to it. Every dinosaur and rarity will have different statistics that are going to be used in the P2E game that we are building for the project. Users will win DINO tokens within the P2E game which will allow them to purchase items on the store and other NFT's in the Dino Eco-System. - We have our own live dino portal launched at - This portal is live and allows users to manage their dinosaur NFT's - it pulls through the eggs/items/dinos that users actually own on the blockchain and has a ton of features. - We actually created a simple version of this specifically for the hackathon which you can generate the egg NFT's for free (as many as you want and hatch them) to have a look at how it all works without having to purchase a proper NFT from our collection. - You can find that here: - The logic behind this free demo panel submitted is as follows: Inspiration: - We have been working on the IC Dinos project for over 6 months now full time - with a team of talented developers, illustrators, animators, UI/UX designers and social media marketers. - With the initial success in minting our GEN1 eggs - we decided to submit our dino portal and example of our GEN2 'hatchable' dinosaur egg NFT's to the Supernova DFINITY hackathon. - We were inspired by Tamagotchi, Netopets, and Pokemon for this project - and we know that people have a universal love for dinosaurs too. How we built it: - We built it using Vue and Quasar framework and deployed on the IC - can provide more technical information if required. - We also have our own admin panel available that allows us to over-see our project as well and statistics etc which is helpful - but in the purpose of this hackathon we have submitted for the DINO PORTAL and the GEN2 eggs and hatching. Challenges we ran into: - Some of the challenges for us was to get everything styled perfectly and working how we want it - we are very specific on how we want things to look, so worked very hard on getting all of the little bits perfect. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We have had incredible feedback on the portal and the GEN2 eggs - with hard work from our UI/UX designers, developers, illustrators, and blockchain developers. - We feel that our portal is very clean and easy to use - and we have paid a lot of attention to fine details. - We love the idea of the hatching the NFT's and changing the layers - and being on ICP allows us to do many cool things with our NFT collection.. What we learned: - Our developers have learned more about Motoko and developing on the Internet Computer and we have continued to improve our skills for building a successful web3 NFT project and we will be moving forward to the game development after all of this. - We have learned how to manage and build a successful community for our project - and we have around 1380 holders for our project and the community are excited and waiting as we progress through our roadmap towards the P2E game. What's next for IC Dinos: - NEXT UP ON ROADMAP - We also built an avatar builder - where users can add their URL of their NFT and it allows them to save it with a border, and our logo and then use it on social media etc Other Information: - We have also built a custom admin panel for managing our whole NFT project - we have shown some examples of this in the files attached. - Some of the things that can be done in our admin panel: Play 2 Earn Game "Dino Survivor": - We have an exciting game that is going to be launched in Q3 of 2022 - which we have yet to give much information about. But in this game users will place their dinosaur NFT's on their map - and be able to choose the best location for their dinosaurs - and then the dinos will have to 'survive' against certain random events! - The events are going to include natural disasters such as "Hurricanes, Tornados, Volcanic Eruptions, Famines, Floods, Tsunamis and more!". - Every event will have different effects against different types of dinosaurs, and depending on where the dinosaurs are located the dinosaurs will be affected differently. - The main aim of the game is to stop your dinosaurs from going extinct and survive against the random coming disaster! - We will be putting together a white-paper for this game and how it all works soon. - Dino Tokens will be won in the game, and also users will be able to use these Dino Tokens for other items, NFT's, add-on powers in the game and so forth. - Each age of the dinosaur will also have meaning and effects within the game too. - Will your dinosaurs survive the up and coming event? Final Words: - We have a lot more planned as well as you can see on our roadmap at www.icdinos.io. - We are grateful for any grants or prizes we win for our hard work up to date. - All dino species illustrated by us with three different ages + all of the eggs and backgrounds. - PS. Please note we submitted code only for our DEMO portal - which is not the live collection but can see the code and we have made ability to create as many eggs, and hatch etc and test functionality, but for a 100% accurate on-chain version please visit - - Link to frontend demo portal: - Canister address in IC network: gt272-xyaaa-aaaai-qnfya-cai First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/union-4n6cbj

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Important: - Our demo video is 40+ mins long, so for those who are in hurry - here is a text version of this video. - The following text is just a brief description of our project. For further info, watch the video or read the text linked above! Inspiration: - We wanted to make a platform, that would let us build our own IT-startup organization, but in a self-sovereign way. Traditional DAOs are cool, but they are way too limited. We wanted our organization to be able to interact with other web-services and other organizations; we wanted better decision making algorithms (more powerful votings and delegations); we wanted our organization to be able to have the same (or better) level of subject-ness as real organization have. And we wanted our organization to be able to scale with our needs. What it does: - It allows you to do exactly what is written above and many more. Please, see the video or read the linked text. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We have a full working prototype and we understand how to make it into release. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/crowdeats

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: What Is It?: - crowdEats is a web3 reimagining of how we find, curate, moderate, evaluate, and more generally interact with local businesses on the internet. It leverages tokenization and community juries to create a scalable, decentralized review moderation mechanism. On top of that, it offers users a food-based social media running entirely on the blockchain, which unlocks new ways to curate and monetize content that aren't possible in web2. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/openchan

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: What is openchan?: - Openchan is the first decentralized imageboard built on the blockchain. It is a transparent, privacy respecting, and decentralized social platform where users can create, share, and find content that is censorship-free. Openchan is a safe place where users can share their opinions, thoughts, and ideas. Openchan is a platform that respects its users and their privacy where users can express themselves freely, build a community together, and share what they feel is important. - Openchan is completely decentralized, with no central server or headquarters and is not governed by any company. Openchan uses the latest blockchain technology to provide a platform that is fast, secure, and private. Openchan is one of the first major social platforms to be built on the Internet Computer blockchain, a new decentralized blockchain network that is designed for the Web3 age. Internet Computer is able to process large amounts of data, which will allow for users to upload large amounts of content and pictures with no issues. - Current imageboards and other online discussion services enable censorship, limit speech on the basis of viewpoint and association, and violate users’ fundamental right to free speech. In order to have a well functioning platform, openchan will implement a number of measures to prevent only illegal and spam content from being posted. Users will be able to report content they find inappropriate by decentralized voting. Upcoming integration with Service Nervous System will use smart contracts to remove content if sufficient number of users vote to remove it. Openchan will also implement a decentralized governance system where the community can vote for the platform’s policies and make decisions about the platform. This will ensure that openchan remains committed to user’s rights and freedom of speech. - Openchan’s backend canister is built using Motoko programming language and the frontend is in Svelte. Openchan’s backend canister is designed to be fast, secure, and highly customizable. Openchan is one of the first decentralized social platforms to use the Motoko programming language, which will allow openchan to easily integrate with other services and platforms. Additionally, openchan uses Internet Identity by Internet Computer to provide private and secure authentication. Users are able to sign in using their Internet Identity instead of needing to use their email or phone number. Internet Identity stores the users’ private keys on their device and provides a secure way for users to sign in. This allows users to have complete control over their data and how they sign in. - Openchan is the next evolution of imageboards, the next step in online discussion, and a truly decentralized online platform made available by the Internet Computer. With openchan, users have a safe, secure, and private place for free speech and expression. Openchan will bring together users from all over the world to build a free speech platform that is truly decentralized, secure, and uncensored. The openchan ecosystem will be governed by the users and for the users. The community will have a say in the rules and will be able to vote on how to build the platform together. Users will be able to dictate their own rules and tailor the platform to their needs, wants, and desires. The community will be able to decide the future of the openchan together. - See the following links to learn more: First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/rightsdao

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Question and Answer, All for One, One for All, When you have a problem, you always want to find a place where you can solve it. What it does: - RightsDao is a decentralized application platform built on the Internet Computer (IC), based on the IC network, with knowledge as the core, and through a social approach. - Users interact on RightsDao without any threshold, including but not limited to spreading knowledge, asking questions, solving others' problems, etc. Because of the special nature of IC, users do not need to pay any fees. If needed, professional assistance and financial support can be obtained from the platform through the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) proposal. - All contributions made by users in RightsDao will accumulate and gain a reputation value exclusively for themselves, and a journey of growth for each individual. As all participants continue to grow, RightsDao will also grow from everyone's contributions, and eventually feed everyone, help everyone, and achieve mutual success. - Right To Earn - Rightsdao's goal is to enable active users who help others to obtain tokens by doing good such as solving other people's problems, so as to achieve the goal of obtaining tokens by doing good.There are currently a number of actions that users can take to obtain Reputation. Challenges we ran into: - Building on IC faces numerous challenges primarily due to rapidly evolving standards, technology stacks, and changing business scenarios. In developing our solutions, we face a unique set of challenges. Some of these are: Problems with existing social media: - There are now many social media platforms and they serve us well, but we should also agree that there are still many problems. What RightsDao has done: What we learned: - Based on the powerful Internet Computer technology stack, we can build the front and back ends and data stores running on the blockchain on top of it with one click, which is certainly a very powerful feature.We have learned that people are passionate about helping others. In order to achieve practical applications, we had to pay more attention to the UI and UX aspects of the product. The user experience in all RightsDao needs to be prioritized, such as usability and convenience. What's next for RightsDao: - 2022 Q2Deploy RightsDao on IC for testing and optimization.2022 Q3We will expand the team staff, improve the functions of RightsDao, perform mobile adaptation, build DAO, improve related pages, and introduce the fund pooling system.2022 Q4Launch Rights DAO to issue token, hold boot camps for knowledge dissemination, and use RightsDao Reputation as an airdrop basis for governance token that can be used to manage our DAO, such as ecosystem, NFT, meta-governance, etc.2023Collaborate with related teams to introduce AI to identify answers and tag user content to help DAO identify faster and fairer, good content worth recommending or bad content that should be removed.We will create a special section with RightsDao in the field of education, especially family education, and create our own business by providing specialized coaching and practical training camps for user groups in need. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/messity

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Messity originated from another project that we are building on the Internet Computer called dbox. Dbox is a decentralized mailbox that primarily aims to provide dapp-to-user communication over the Internet Computer blockchain. When building dbox, we quickly realized the potential of an open messaging protocol for any dapp to utilize. Hence, we extracted the core of dbox to a separate protocol that we call Messity. - We believe that people's messages should not be routed through the hands of centralized service providers. Even when using state-of-the-art encryption of messages, there are many drawbacks of centralized messaging services in terms of privacy and security. By taking advantage of the cutting-edge technology of the Internet Computer blockchain, Messity may be the first viable no-compromise approach to a decentralized messaging protocol. What it does: - The objective of Messity is to provide an open communication layer on the Internet Computer. It is designed to be unopinionated to allow for arbitrary messaging between any entity. Messity not only provides a standardized way to send and receive messages but also stores them securely on-chain. Developers do not need to worry about the security and scalability of message storage when using Messity. - Our vision with Messity is to empower applications with user-owned and user-governed decentralized messaging. Whether an application needs notifications, instant messaging (IM), email-like services, or something completely different, it can easily be implemented using Messity. How we built it: - Messity is written in Motoko. It consists of one "main" canister smart contract and multiple "box" canisters. Each interaction with the protocol starts at the main canister. This way, users of the protocol only need to know one canister principal to use Messity. - Messity is built to support infinite storage of messages. We utilize a so-called factory pattern, where the main canister dynamically installs box canisters that stores the messages. Users are decoupled from the messages in such a way that a user's messages may be distributed among many canisters. Thus, users do not have to worry about running out of storage capacity. - The protocol is designed to avoid current limitations regarding inter-canister query calls on the Internet Computer. By having the main canister return the principals of the box canister where a user's messages are stored, users may fetch their messages only using query calls for near-instant message retrieval. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We are proud of the architecture of Messity that allows for infinite scalability. Scalability has shown to often become a problem when developing blockchain-based dapps. Through the use of Messity, dapp developers do not need to worry about the scalability of messages. Another exceptional property of the architecture behind the protocol is that a message with multiple recipients is only stored once. This means that a message can be sent to millions of users for minimal costs. - We have carried out an extensive evaluation of the protocol. Thorough measurements and calculations have been performed to evaluate Messity in terms of time complexity, response time, and operating cost. The estimation of operating cost, i.e. cycle consumption, will be published in the official Internet Computer documentation to help other developers in the community. Furthermore, this work has been summarized in a 100+ pages long paper along with a review of competitors in decentralized messaging, a problem statement, and an analysis of the technology behind the Internet Computer protocol. What we learned: - We have done lots of research on the Internet Computer in order to build Messity and get the details right. There are some limitations of the blockchain that have made an impact on the design of Messity, mainly being the absence of inter-canister query calls and HTTPS requests. However, we have plans to change the architecture of the protocol as DFINITY have proposed to fix the previously mentioned limitations. What's next for Messity: - While the current implementation of Messity has proved to be very useful and efficient, we have many plans for future work. Some of the major planned milestones involve: - When the Internet Computer allows for it, Messity will become tokenized and a user-owned and user-governed protocol by utilizing the Service Nervous System (SNS). We will also implement end-to-end encryption and will research the possibility of using the popular Signal protocol to possibly become the first decentralized messaging service using Signal. - Currently, the costs to run the protocol are covered by us. The vision is to make the protocol self-sustainable either by having each message being paid for (ultimately covered by the front-end dapp) or by having the most frequent senders, i.e. dapps, pay enough to cover the costs for less frequent senders, i.e. everyday users. We will continue our research on cycle consumption and tokenomics to see which approach is most viable and desired by the community. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/love-in-cyber

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - In the past, the love records left by users on various traditional social software would disappear with the platform. LIC aims to record the proof of love on chain, leaving precious memories that can be remembered forever. In this way, we hope to return the social data to the users and let them truly own and display the data on web3.0. What it does: - Love.in.cyber is an on-chain love witness thingy based on Web3.0. It supports - It is also an interactive and manageable decentralized relationship proof, bringing a user-friendly social experience and helping users explore web3.0 easily. How we built it: - By icp networks.Details refer to "tech framework" : Challenges we ran into: Accomplishments that we're proud of: What we learned: What's next for Love.in.cyber: - Details refer to "roadmap" : First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/glue

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - For Ethereum NFT communities it is the most normal thing in the world to verify the holder status of members via collab.land. collab.land is an integral part of the infrastructure and enables many interesting use-cases like token gated communities or token gated raffles. On the Internet computer, there are so far only specialized solutions that work exclusively with the respective projects and were developed specifically for this purpose. Not every project can and not every project should develop its own solution. So what has been missing so far is glue - an easy to use solution for community leaders and members to perform holder verification. What it does: - glue allows projects on the IC that are built using the EXT or DIP721 standards to add holder verification to their discord server. How we built it: - We have four components that make up this project: - server (web2) - backend canister (web3) - frontend canister (web3) - discord bot (web2) Challenges we ran into: - The hardest thing was fiddling with Cookies. As the frontend is hosted in an asset canister on the IC, the backend and the frontend cannot live on the same server. Cookies can't really be shared cross domains, thus we call an endpoint on our server from the frontend that exposes the SameSite=None and Secure attributes for Set-Cookie Headers. The Secure attribute needs an https context, but because we're serving our API using an nginx reverse proxy and the connection inside the server is http, the cookie was never set. What made this very hard to debug is that this restriction doesn't occur when serving/accessing from localhost and was first experienced when deploying to production. After narrowing the issue down, we finally found relief in a 6 year old closed GitHub issue and everything works as expected :) Accomplishments that we're proud of: What we learned: What's next for glue: First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/openbisea-vw4hsc

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - This year a crypto investment to NFT gained a lot of interest for non-IT and non-crypto geeks. In 2021 Bitcoin and other crypto tokens has a new all time high price and people like to invest in space. This is a driver to growth NFT follow them.Influencers, license companies, brands - all of them like to publish and sell own NFTs.But most products on the market can’t provide a clear simple user experience. Complicated user flow growth a scary of investors and stop them to invest. Influencers, license companies, brands can't grow in NFT space now for same reasons. What it does: - OpenBiSea is First easiest place to invest and manage your NFTSimple, step-by-step guided solution to buy NFT, sell auction-based purchased NFT and receive simple, investor’s friendly reports. You can set price in any erc20 tokens or main coin and we didn't required to buy OBS token to sell or buy. You can buy with credit card even. How we built it: - A first front end solution for OpenBiSea is a mobile app and web UI app, where investors, influencers, license companies, brands can purchase or sell some NFT with tokens in wallet or credit card. Purchases have two types — auctions or direct sales. You 100% control wallet and ownership with easy to use flow, no need to become a crypto specialist. Challenges we ran into: - Growth and new users Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Great simple UI, full build smart contracts What we learned: - API and RPC What's next for OpenBiSea: - become top-10 NFT marketplaces worldwide First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/d-changes

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Our inspiration was helping people change the world they live in. Be it a campaign targeted at tens of million users or just changing something that has to be fixed on their school, Metamob can help them accomplish their plans and dreams! What it does: - Metamob is a decentralized web3 app, running on the Internet Computer, that lets any user start mobilizations by creating campaigns of four different kinds: donations, votes, signatures and fundraising. - Using metamob users can create campaigns to face real world problems like climate change, wars, oppression, inequality, or even to fix specific issues on his school or his condo, for example. - Thanks to the Internet Computer and its 100% on-chain apps, metamob doesn’t depend on web hosts and can’t be controlled or censured by governments. - In later stages, the app will be released as open-source and a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) will be created to decide how its treasury will be allocated, who should be the moderators, etc. No single individual should own the app. How we built it: - The backend is 100% Motoko and depends on the Internet Identity and Ledger canisters. It also support querying canisters that implement the DIP20 and DIP721 interfaces. - The front-end was developed in Typescript with React 18, SASS, Bulma, YUP and the React components React Context, react-router, react-query, react-markdown, react-globe.gl, etc. Challenges we ran into: - To be able to do free searches and complex ordering and filtering on the data stored, I had to implement a B+tree and Suffix tree algorithms in pure Motoko. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Authentication & authorizationUsers only have to authenticate on the Internet Identity to have full access to the appThere are three user roles: administrator, moderator and ordinary userMultiple kinds of campaignsFour kind of campaigns are supported: signatures, donations, votes and fundraisingDonations and fundraising will automatically transfer funds to the creator’s wallet. Vote campaigns can invoke external canister methods, allowing them to be used by DAO’sUser defined places/spacesUsers can create their own places to better organize campaignsPlaces can be restricted by email lists, DIP20 (tokens) and DIP721 (NFT) balancesRewardsUsers that help moderating abusive content are rewarded with the metamob token (MMT)The internal DB (called mo-table) Implemented using B+Tree and Suffix tree to allow complex queries with fast retrievingSource-code at: What we learned: - Motoko in general and its core libraries.How to use the Internet Identity, both on localhost and in production. How to transfer ICP's and DIP20 tokens between users.How to interact with DIP20 (tokens) and DIP721 (NFT's) interfaces. What has been done: - UsersUsers can sign in, log in, logout, edit their profiles, see the lists of campaigns, places, signatures, donations, votes and fundings they createdUser roles are checked on every update action on entitiesUpdate actions on places/spaces are checked when there is a restriction like email lists, DIP20 or DIP721 balancesCampaignsUsers can search (by partial name, by category, by place or any combination of them), sort by what is hot or by date, create, edit and delete campaignsUsers can create, update and delete updates to their campaigns, closing them manually if desiredCampaigns that reach goals are automatically finished and, depending on the kind, the funds are transferred to the creator or an external canister method is invokedExpired campaigns are automatically closed and the users are refunded when the goal is not reachedUsers can promote campaigns, boosting them with ICP'sPlaces/spacesUsers can search (by partial name, by kind or by both), sort by name or be date, create, edit and delete placesVotes, signatures, donations and fundingsUsers can create, edit and delete their votes, signatures, donations and fundingsAdministration/moderationAdmins and moderators can ban users, view and assign reports, edit any campaign, place, vote, signature, donation, funding and update reported by usersAdmins can create, edit and delete categories and places What's next for metamob: - DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)Assign all control to a DAO that will decide how the treasury will be allocated, who will be the moderators, etcUsers will have to stake the metamob token (MMT) to be able to voteAll propositions will be posted on the DAO’s place created in metamobToken rewardsModerators, creators and users should be rewarded too with MMT’s depending on their participationPOAP NFT (Proof of Attendance Protocol)Users that participated on a campaign should receive a POAP NFT when it finishedMultiple languagesThe app should support multiple languages to allow users from non English-speaking countries to participateLogsLogs of any update action done by any user should be stored for at least 30 days to allow auditsImage uploadingUsers should be able to upload images to be used as avatars and as campaign coversPlaces treePlaces should be organized as a tree, allowing fast retrieving of all campaigns created on child placesMissing pagesCreate the missing pages, including the Categories page and the ones displayed at the footer sectionTestsCreate integration and unit tests - Please try it out: First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/dear-diary-l36uqx

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - My inspiration is to keep my personal diaries private while they are stored on the web, my reference is the chrome extension My Diary What it does: - This submission\xa0Phase-One displays a complete CRUD function where a user can create, read, update and delete diaries, with a clean minimalistic UI. How I built it: - I build it with the Internet Computer .dfx SDK, Motoko back-end language, React.js for the front-end and IPad procreate for the landing page graphics. Challenges I ran into: - I learned about the blockchain technology while building Dear Diary, I wish I have more time to submit a complete concept, but I will continue developing this application untill I meet my target. Accomplishments that I' am proud of: - This application is very personal for me. I love my diary, I created many diaries through the years, my main challenge with diaries was either I lose them or I run out of pages and I have to start a new one. Until I found the chrome extension My Diary, typing a diary online has a different feeling to it, especially thinking how hackable the cloud is?!! With the new Web3 decentralized system, I can rest assured that my diaries are kept safe and private, until I am ready to share them or even sell them. What I learned: - I have never heard of Web3 or the decentralized data system before. I read about blockchain on the news but never spent time understanding the technology behind it. As a software engineer, This hackathon allowed me to learn new tech skills while building Dear Diary on Web3 with the Internet Computer, .dfx SDK, and Motoko back-end language. What's next for Dear Diary: - My main strategy is to create a marketplace for users to sell online diaries as NFTs. This submission\xa0Phase-One displays a complete CRUD function where a user can create, read, update and delete. Next, connect the actual marketplace metaverse where\xa0users can discover other users' minted diaries as NFTs while allowing them to create, mint and list a diary of their choice as an NFT for sale. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/signals

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - I was inspired to build Signals after moving to a new city and finding it hard to connect with new people. It occurred to me that I pass the same strangers every day who share my interests and hobbies - we live in the same building, go to the same gym, enjoy the same cafes or play the same sports. Despite an epidemic of loneliness, crowded cities and all of us carrying devices which constantly broadcast our location to private companies... it seems harder than ever to connect with one another in meaningful ways. Signals presents an opportunity to re-think social media to put connection at the heart. What it does: - Signals is built as a DAO, meaning that its users control how it operates and are incentivised through the Signals Token to interact with the map and maintain the quality of the data. Currently it supports leaving three types of signals - Chats, Trades and Events. Any user with sufficient tokens can see the state of the system, and make proposals on how Signals should be run. - Some ideas of how to use the Chat Signal: - Signals also supports the Event Signal. You can use this to broadcast an event taking place - maybe a talk, meetup, party, book launch or anything really! There's also the option to make the event ticketed and to set the number of available tickets. - With the Trade Signal you can list goods and services for sale, the way you would on Gumtree or Wallapop. Perhaps you're looking for a cleaner, nanny or teacher, leaving a trade signal is the perfect way to find someone. It also encourages people to buy second hand, which is good for the planet. How I built it: - I decided to build this in Rust, as I really wanted to learn and improve in this language. I also used React, Typescript and Leaflet.js for the front-end. I knew there would be so many features I wanted to add, so I spent a good proportion of time in the planning stage, coming up with and MVP and using wireframes to know where to focus my efforts. I also used Kyle Peacock's Webpack starter kit which was sooo useful <3 Challenges I ran into: - It was a challenge just to get the whole thing finished in time, and to not let the scope creep too much that it wouldn't be useable or finished. I was also very aware that communicating the idea and the necessity of it was vital, so working on the branding, marketing and copy was new to me. Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - I'm proud that I finished it, and did everything myself. I even managed to squeeze in a few extra features like ticketed events (buying and checking tickets) and searches (both searching signals and functionality to search for places on the map itself)! I've built something that I'd actually use, and that when I speak to people I hear they are missing something like this in their lives - so I'm proud of the idea as much as the code! What I learned: - I've learned so much about Rust, working with maps, and of course the Internet Computer. I really loved developing something completely decentralized. I've learned a lot about the ICP ecosystem <3 What's next for Signals: - I'd like to integrate a DAO Launcher into the app, to allow users who have discovered each other to easily launch templated DAOs to govern their communities, spaces or projects. But I have many many other ideas for it, which you can see over on the Github Page. - I'd love the opportunity to develop these ideas further, and implement a production ready version of this app. I've loved building on the ICP and have felt very inspired by the idea of building a completely decentralized application. Thanks so much for reading if you made it this far. I'm always very happy to hear feedback and of course - to make new connections - so feel free to reach out. - Who am I? I'm a full stack developer, I've worked helping to build a 3D graphics library, a blockchain and most recently building backend and payment systems for millions of users at Sketch. I'm really passionate about trying to use blockchain to solve real world problems, and building beautiful products which benefit people. I'm currently in the process of turning my ideas into something more concrete, I hope to find a path to be able to sustain myself building in this space... so, if you know of any, or want to link up, let me know. You can find me on any of these links. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/octan-finance

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Inspired by ICP's Bitcoin Integration based on Chain-key cryptography and threshold ECDSA signature scheme, we aim to build the integrations (or bridges) from UTXO platforms, like Litecoin-LTC, Cardano-ADA, Dogecoin - DOGE, Bitcoin Cash - BCH, etc, to ICP. Furthermore, we will utilize ICP as a payment and DeFi platform for those crypto-currencies based on decentralized custody protocol (DCP). It is clear that DeFi application on the UTXO platforms is very poor, even zero, although their total market-capitalization is tens of billions USD. What it does: - The project aims to integrate Litecoin, Cardano, Dogecoin, Bitcoin Cash into the ICP system. Then, we will bring LTC, ADA, DOGE, BCH holders to a secure, scalable DeFi space based on ICP canisters, which they haven't ever experienced before, for example: How we built it: - We use Bitcoin integration as a framework, take advances of threshold ECDSA, Bitcoin adapter implementations, then modify for new UTXO-chains.Firstly, we want to share knowledge about Bitcoin integration on ICP.This is a brief from major features of Bitcoin integration: - The components: - From this knowledge we're trying to make an integration for the Litecoin network. Almost all of the core features were written in Rust language.We would like to share some examples of the working process to integrate Litecoin into ICP Challenges we ran into: Accomplishments that we're proud of: What we learned: What's next for Octan Finance: First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/gobazzinga-moderation

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Initially, we started working on a platform to enable faster monetization for the creators. However, we realised that the problem is significantly bigger when we consider the entire social media ecosystem. More than 98% of users in the ecosystem are unable to monetize their time and effort on social media. - One of the major challenges while building GoBazzinga was content moderation. How do we filter explicit content on the platform to maintain the sanctity of content on the platform? Hence, as a part of the Supernova Hackathon, we decided to build a user-driven prediction market for decentralised content moderation. We also realised that this type of content moderation system can be utilised for any kind of user-generated content and hence we decided to create an open-source solution which can benefit the community as well. What it does: - GoBazzinga is a short-video social media platform on blockchain, which not only provides the fun and excitement of social media but also enables the users to earn rewards for creating content, engaging with it or sharing it with their friends and family (Think TikTok on Internet Computer!) - The content moderation system filters flagged content based on the votes by the users. This gives the control to the community and creates a decentralised content moderation platform. There are 2 layers of moderation - an AI-based layer which scans the video and text content for explicit content and a user-driven reporting mechanism for reporting explicit content on the platform. - If a video is flagged by the first layer, it is not uploaded on the platform till it is corrected by the creator. If the video is reported by users, it is then moved to a moderation feed for approval/rejection of the content by the users. The users then vote for approval/rejection while staking their tokens for the same. Please note that the staking of tokens has no bearing on the votes. Every vote is counted as a single vote irrespective of the number of tokens staked by the respective user. - Once the voting window (usually 24 hours) expires, the video is then approved/rejected based on the number of votes. If the video is approved, it is put back in the home feed, else it is removed from the platform. The staked tokens by the losing side are distributed amongst the voters on the winning side proportionally according to the number of tokens staked by each voter on the winning side. How we built it: Challenges we ran into: Accomplishments that we're proud of: What we learned: What's next for GoBazzinga: - The content moderation would now be incorporated in the GoBazzinga platform to enable moderation of the various videos being uploaded on the platform by the users. Further, the platform would be open-sourced and made available for other projects in the community to customise and deploy as per their specific requirements. - For GoBazzinga, having launched the first version of DApp and on-boarded initial users, the focus over the next 5-6 months is to consolidate and improve the platform. This would entail overhauling and enhancing both the front-end and back-end of the application. While improving the front-end would enhance the user experience, the overhauling of the backend is necessary for enhancing the scalability of the platform. In addition, content moderation and personalised recommendation feeds would also be incorporated in the platform First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/crowdfund-nft

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: CrowdFund NFT: - We are CrowdFund NFT - an alternative to Kickstarter, Go Fund Me, and other traditional crowdfunding platforms. Our unique approach? We run entirely on the Internet Computer blockchain, and use NFTs to provide fundraisers with ‘proof of participation’ in the projects they back. This allows us to create a safer, cheaper and global crowdfunding service. Inspiration: - We were inspired to build CrowdFund NFT for two reasons. - First, after months spent exploring the IC Blockchain and ecosystem, we found that new projects built on the IC are often run by part time developer teams, who need funding to take their projects to the next level. Building a rewards based crowdfunding service for the IC ecosystem would help project creators get access to non dilutive funding, so that they can go full time and focus their attention on building and promoting their products / services. - Secondly, we realised that blockchain technology can revolutionise crowdfunding forever, by making it: Safer, Cheaper and Global. This could improve crowdfunding far beyond the IC ecosystem. 1 - Safer: - Crowdfunding is safer on blockchain. We have implemented a 'controller less' (or blackhole) canister system - where all parts of funds collection, management and disbursements are run on open source & verifiable smart contract canisters. This serves to make our crowdfunding service tamperproof. - We saw a scandal with GoFundMe earlier this year, where they were heavily criticised for commandeering $9M worth of funds that were sent to support protesting truck drivers in Canada. This would not happen on our platform, because our escrow canister - which is controller less, open source and verifiable - prevents any team or person from tampering with the smart contract to alter disbursements and commandeer funds, this includes the CrowdFund NFT team. 2 - Cheaper & more value for participants: - With NFTs, crowdfunding can be made cheaper, and provide more value to both fundraisers and project creators. - We are a rewards based crowdfunding service, where project creators commit to delivering a set of rewards in exchange for participation in a crowdfunding round. These rewards might be: airdrops, access to whitelists / premium products - or use case specific rewards, such as 'in game benefits' for gaming projects. - Rewards based crowdfunding platforms already exists, but we have added a twist: a new NFT model. With each crowdfunding round, a set of NFTs are distributed to participants - the NFT serves as their 'access token' to redeem rewards. The benefit of tying rewards to NFTs is that: access to rewards can now be traded on secondary marketplaces. Participants in successful crowdfunding rounds can trade their NFTs - and access to rewards are traded with it. - There is also a benefit for project creators. With every NFT resale, a 2.5% fee for project creators is charged. This enables long term funding for project creators, so that the crowdfunding round helps to support the project even after it is over! :) - The NFT model also means that crowdfunding on the blockchain can be made cheaper. Traditional crowdfunding platforms will charge anywhere between 10-25% of the amount raised for successful projects. We can charge 5%, because we make the extra revenue on a 2.5% charge on all NFT resales. To make the pricing structure clear: we only charge 5% of the amount raised for successfully funded projects, unsuccessful projects are not charged. For every NFT resale, a 2.5% fee goes to the project creator, and a 2.5% fee goes to CrowdFund NFT. We also charge 1 ICP to submit a project for review on CrowdFund NFT. 3 - Global: - Blockchain technology allows for global crowdfunding - which substantially opens up the market for available participants in a crowdfunding round. - On traditional crowdfunding platforms, project creators are restricted by their geography - as they can only make their crowdfunding round available to participants in their local Fiat currency. - On the Internet Computer, project creators can make their round available worldwide, as the entire network uses ICP tokens all over the world. - By opening the crowdfunding round to a global audience, project creators can raise more! :) Canister architecture: - Our canister architecture revolves around our escrow management system. We focus on making sure that our funds management is tamperproof, that reimbursements are simple, and that the possibility of system failure is minimised with the creation of sub accounts for each crowdfunding participant, controlled by tamperproof smart contract escrow canisters. Our system architecture is as follows: - Accomplishments: What's next for CrowdFund NFT: - 1 - Growth within the IC - 2 - Growth with the Web3 Ecosystem - 3 - Become the standard for crowdfunding First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/landlord

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - As a landlord, I know the hassle involved in trying to buy or sell a real-estate asset, especially with the risk of real-estate scam. This is a scam whereby an individual claims false ownership of a property and or sells it to multiple people. My father being a realtor, combined with the stories of how people are driven to suicide after being a victim of a real-estate scam created a great nudging to come up with a solution, but was hindered by the limitations of web2. But with the emergence of web3, blockchain technology, the internet computer and the possibilities they provided, "landlord" became a possibility. What it does: - Landlord provides a safe heaven/platform where users can trade and invest in real-estate easily and securely. It also reduces/eliminates the hassle involved in procuring a property in the sense that; a user can purchase/sell a property on their phones, right from the comfort of their home. It achieves this making making real estate assets into NFTs so they can be easily and securely traded and invested in. How we built it: - We built it by first researching and coming up with mockups/screen designs in Figma, then we began developing the frontend in React.js and the backend in Motoko, whilst also learning about the internet computer, it's features, capabilities and possibilities. Challenges we ran into: - Being that it was our first time working with the Internet Computer, we had a lot to learn and so little time. We realized that the 2 seconds delay for update methods on the internet computer could make payment of share holders quite time consuming. Also, we came across hardware issues that made it difficult to use the Internet Computer's Internet Identity (on a PC without inbuilt biometric software) even though we had initially implemented it (hence the reason why it is not in demo). We created separate repos to prevent us from tripping over each other during development, only to realize during merging that tailwind wasn't working properly, we spent days trying to make it work because starting all over again with a different library didn't seem feasible. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We were able to fix the tailwindcss issue! and we somehow managed to record the demo in end. But most of all, we are proud to have completed the hackathon with a functional MVP! (a challenge indeed) What we learned: - We learned how to build dApps on the IC, how write code in motoko, how to create a market place, how to better work as a team and how to persevere. We are thankful to dfinity for that. What's next for Landlord: - We plan to keep on improving the application till we make it into the safe heaven we envision it to be. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/decentralized-sme-lending

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Emerging markets have a shortage of agro processing capacity. While developed economies can make dried mangos or tomato sauce when there is a bumper crop, emerging markets often don’t have the capacity to process locally and thus produce rots. This is because Agro processing requires factories and factories require capital. And capital typically runs at 15-30% interest in emerging markets. - Affordable loans can unlock the potential of more than 1 billion people. - Meanwhile, cryptocurrency holders are looking for yield, especially yield that is uncorrelated with the rest of the crypto market. Right now, in the bear market, yield is down. - Investing in emerging markets is a great way to get 10-30% yield on assets uncorrelated with the crypto-economy. - Prior Art inspiration: Goldfinch does something similar for Consumer Finance companies in emerging markets. Using the Eth network, Goldfinch provides USDC loans to consumer finance companies like JoyPay in Mexico to provide financing for phones, TVs, etc. Goldfinch has raised over $120m. FarmDAO is analogous to Goldfinch but for SME finance on the ICP blockchain. - One of our team members (Kyle Schutter) has raised millions of dollars for agri processors in Africa over the last 10 years as owner of the the company thegrant.co. He knows the challenges of raising capital for this market intimately. What it does: - With FarmDAO, Agro processors like tomato sauce canneries or sunflower oil producers can now access capital faster and at affordable rates. The loan can be collateralized by machinery, land, invoices, purchase orders or personal guarantee. In addition to collateral, borrowers have other incentives to repay: reputational risk, reporting to local credit bureaus and no longer being able to borrow on our FarmDAO platform. Lenders are split into two tranches: Senior Debt at ~8% interest which is repaid first and Junior Debt at ~18% interest which is repaid last. This blended financing enables higher yield for those willing to take more risk.The Junior Debt backers have to do their due diligence and vet the opportunity because their money is on the line.If the Junior Debt backers approve the loan, they will fund 20% of the loan as the first-loss money or junior debt. They are taking more risk so backers receive a higher interest rate–let’s say 18%Backer-approved loans are then available for Senior Debt to fund the remaining 80% of the loan. The Senior Debt will have a lower interest rate because they are taking less risk.The combined interest rate will be 10% which is a good deal in emerging markets. - Once installed, the factory produces shelf-stable agricultural products which are exported or consumed locally. With this new revenue stream, the factory can repay the loan and then Senior Debt and finally backers are repaid automatically through the smart contract. This is vastly better than the current situation where liquidity providers often have their repayment disbursements delayed by processing issues. How we built it: - The frontend was built with ReactJS. The smart contracts were programmed in Motoko. The backend API and database was built using NestJS and PostgreSQL, respectively. We used class-validator for API request validation and the application is hosted on Heroku. Challenges we ran into: Accomplishments that we're proud of: What we learned: What's next for Decentralized SME lending: Team: First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/nifties

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - The evolution of Web3 is happening, it changes itself every day, every hour, and every minute.Even ERC 721 standard is changing. Everything is evolving in this world.Web3 is turning itself upside down, it can and will change the world into a better place.Everyone wants to build something and leave his/her legacy in this new world and this is their Web3 dream. Wake up in the morning, what do you remember? Everybody has a dream, but not everybody has the courage to chase them. Nifties is not just about NFT it's about the people who want to achieve their WEB 3 dreams. A place for the ones who dream. A place where they called 'home' when they're climbing the hill and reaching for the heights. A place to help them chase all the lights and shine. What it does: - Nifties is a place where an artist can achieve his/her Web3 dream. Therefore this platform offers the features below: Hackathon: a place for art hackathons, users can hold or joint hold art hackathons for NFT artists Muse: a place for education, dreamers can learn how to become a blockchain artist in one-stop Promotion: a place for SNS account management, dreamers can manage their SNS account in one-stop, featuring data analysis, and multi-platform sync Grants: a place for crowdfunding, dreamers are human beings too, kids gotta eat Agora: a place for information, where users can check the recent events such as whitelist, mint, etc. Bounties(coming soon): a place for bounty hunters. anyone can post their demands and pay the bill so that the bounty hunter will take care of the rest. Workshop(coming soon): a place for dreamers to call 'home', they can store as much as possible amount of information and artwork as they want to introduce themselves to the world. Thumbs-up(coming soon): a place where users can communicate, dreamers and viewers can show their appreciation for each other. How we built it: - Frontend: Typescript, ReactBackend: Rust, RocketContract: RUST, Crowdfunding, and NFT mintingDB: Mysql Challenges we ran into: - Actually, time is not on our side, we were working against the clock. Cooperating and communicating is one of the most important things for a newly assembled hackathon team. We have not known each other before, but now we are a team and a real team. we are pretty sure that we will unite as a team to quest more adventures. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We finally did it, most of the features are online, and we learned a lot about the ICP, we even learned how to build a prosperous community. What we learned: - We learned to communicate with each other in a proficient way, and we know how ICP works. we also did some research on how to build a community for creators, customers, and big companies that are going to support the money for the dreamers. What's next for Nifties: - First, we are going to finish and polish the feature we planned before, and also focus on the 3 things below: Community Build: Attract more creators that happened to be a dreamer and more people who are interested in fine art. Twitter Discord Telegram account up and online. Held art hackathon and event for the dreamers on the platform. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/candb

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - CanScale is an initiative to build scalable distributed infrastructure for the Internet Computer (IC) blockchain. CanScale’s first project, CanDB, is non-relational, performant, and horizontally scalable multi-canister database. CanDB provides a familiar and flexible NoSQL API that abstracts and automates multi-canister spin up & auto-scaling, data partitioning, and data persistence and stability. This enables developers to focus more on application development and less on IC specific distributed data storage design. - At Genesis launch, the IC was not released with a pre-built data-storage solution allowing developers to seamlessly scale storage past a single 4GB canister. For most simple applications, 4GB of canister memory is sufficient. However, developers who later need to scale past that limit will soon find great difficulty refactoring and appropriately partitioning their initial data model and data structures while ensuring that partitioned data is persisted and stable across canister upgrades. Without a readily available scalable storage solution such as CanDB, data storage on the IC becomes a major roadblock for development and consequently slows IC adoption by developers and entrepreneurs. By building CanDB, the CanScale initiative aims to empower creators by removing these barriers, acting as a catalyst to increase the rate of development on the IC. What is this demo: - The demo video is almost 16 minutes, and covers the following topics: - The live on-chain demo application showcases a completely on-chain demo application backed by CanDB that can flexibly query 4 million comments from Reddit. - The backend application is holding roughly 8GB of comment data split amongst a cluster of 149 canisters. How can I interact with the application?: - Great question, the "Comments" and "Monitoring" tabs at the top point to different applications that demonstrate how a developer might both utilize CanDB to build an application for their users, as well as monitor that application. - End-User persona ("Comments" tab) - You can query the comments by: - You can also change the date range to filter the comments received. - Use the "Next Page" button to query the next page of results (which under the hood uses the nextKey directly below this button as the Sort Key for the upper bound of the next query request). - Engineer persona ("Monitoring" tab) - Navigate to the "Monitoring" tab, and query your fleet of canisters. Use column ordering to see which canisters have scaled, as well as other metrics such as other canister metrics like entities (rows) inserted, heap size, and cycles remaining. How it was built: - The code for the demo is publicly available at The demo has a Motoko backend, and a TypeScript + React frontend. The backend utilizes the CanDB Motoko library, and the frontend utilizes the candb-client-typescript TypeScript library. - For those without repository access, you can view the publicly available documentation: - Data for the demo comes from the publicly available Kaggle Reddit Covid Dataset, which contains 12.65GB of comment data mentioning Covid-19 up until October 25th, 2021 (10-25-21). This demo uses 2.85GB of that data, in comments ranging from 7-14-21 to 10-25-21. On the backend, CanDB's equivalent of local secondary indexes are used to replicate the data in order to support different data access patterns, resulting in roughly 8GB of data storage across > 100 canisters. - The data was preprocessed and chunked into 500 comment row csv file chunks all grouped by the comment date using Python. - A series NodeJS backfill scripts included with the submitted assets in supernova-candb-demo/backfill was assembled using the candb-client-typescript library to interact with the CanDB index canister and batch update calls to the appropriate backend CanDB storage partitions. Additional upgrade and delete scripts (using the candb-client-typescript and CanDB index canister backend) were used as well to perform rolling canister upgrades and targeted canister deletion in case it was needed during the backfill process. Challenges faced: - The IC has a 2MB upload limit, so data needed to be pre-processed into small update chunks, which greatly slowed down the backfill process. Luckily, by parallelizing the backfill process job, I was able to speed up the data backfill significantly. In fact, I was impressed by the IC and my subnet's ability to handle the sustained load ~1300 transactions per second I was giving it (see attached screenshots). - Several errors and performance issues cropped up when testing on the main network that I was unable to reproduce locally. Debugging production errors on the IC can be difficult, and while I was able to work around these issues one of the top priorities for the CanDB project going forward will be to stress test the IC and CanDB, in order to further improve performance and provide developers with predictable cost and performance metrics. Is there more to CanDB than what was shown in the Demo Video?: - Yes! What was shown in the demo video is just a brief snippet of the features that CanDB currently provides. For example: - Performant and Rich CRUD + scan APIs (not just scans like shown in the demo). Here is the endpoint that was used to backfill millions of comments into the demo application via a CanDB data structure on the Comment ActorCanister cluster management features:a. Support for rolling upgrades Code from the demo application deployed to the main netb. Support for targeted canister deletion by partition key Code from the demo application deployed to the main netAbstracted and easy to set-up auto-scalinga. Set user-defined auto-scaling limits for your canisters, but don't fear the responsibility, as CanDB will eventually auto-scale for you if your limits are too high. b. Use the [createAdditionalCanisterForPK hook] in your canister responsible for auto-scaling to scale out your canisters when they fill up.Stable and persistent data through upgrades - CanDB keeps you safe by providing a flexible range of stable data types to store as attributesAn easy-to-use typescript client sdk - Set up client interactions with your Index Canister, your Actor Canisters, and then performing query and targeted update calls to the specific canister where the update should take place. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Just during the time period of the hackathon, entire multi-canister CanDB backend, the frontend client, and the demo were built - turning what was previously Single Canister POC and a design into a full-fledged working multi-canister solution with a working demo. - As of this demo, CanDB is the first scalable NoSQL database on the IC. What we learned: - Too many things...if you want to follow my herd of questions on the developer forums, you can find me @icme on forum.dfinity.org. You can also reach out to me with any questions @can_scale on Twitter or @CanScale#1607 on the DFINITY developer discord. What's next for CanDB: - Q2-Q3 2022 (Closed Alpha) - Q3-Q4 2022 (Open Beta) First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/decium

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Being a team of persons, building decentralized innovation that grants unrestricted access to anyone around the world has been our focus. Coming from EVM background, we knew it might be challenging to learn a new programming language entirely within a short time, but after we got to know about Dfinity, we are determined to show the world how the internet computer can scale decentralized applications that practically not suited for machines like the EVM. As the developer, my goal has been to create an unrestricted self-governed platform. I got this inspiration long ago when I saw much quality contents go unnoticed, and again content makers do not earn reward commensurate to the value they give. What it does: - Decium is a content management and marketplace platform where anyone can simply log in using the internet identity sign method to publish and/or trade content such as tutorials, solutions, professional materials, and so on. Decium is permissionless. We only require sign-in using the IID so that each user will be unique from another and can quickly initiate and sign transactions from their wallet. - Content makers who are either occasionally or specialize in creating consumable content can leverage Decium to expand their reach by simply uploading or creating new content using a section dedicated for it. Consumers of these contents are able to access them by first purchase them using ICP. Afterwards, they can access the content (s) either from the platform or be routed to an approved content location. - Bloggers are able to mint copyrights presented in NFT forms which are transferable and can be listed on the Decium content marketplace for sale. How we built it: - We started with the idea formulation, then to the problem definition with a series of brainstorming section. After two rounds of meeting, we concluded on what to build. The designer got to work, released the mockup design after a few days, then the final design. - I began working on the from afterwards even though we had not find any frontend developer. I initiated a repository, instantiated with Nextjs framework, but we have adopted MaterialUI style since it is faster to build with it than having to start from the scratch. Challenges we ran into: - The major challenge is getting a frontend developer to join our team, and learning new language within a short period of time. A guy joined us but never show up after some days. We tried to reach out to him severally, but he often ignores us. Again, we got two Indian dudes who, after having calls with them did not show up again. But then, we have to keep moving. - We were left with just three people: a designer (lady), admin and myself. Although we entered the hackathon late, I spent couple of days to build the frontend then moving to learn motoko was challenging for me. There was not enough time to really study the documentation as that is my style of learning. Perhaps I had given up submission yesterday when I was struggling to run the motoko code until today I saw the deadline was extended by 24 more hours. I was elated. Even if I could not win in this hackathon, I am very much happy for been able to submit. I am dedicated to pursuing this project. I will continue with the motoko doc to perfect my knowledge of it. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We are able to write some motoko code, even though not complete and there are some bugs that would not make it run successfully. This was one of the coolest accomplishment for us plus the privilege to submit our works. What we learned: - Team work and encouragement. The admin guy is very encouraging and supportive. The design lady is fast to work and deliver. Above all, giving up at a difficult time is not the best. You've got to re-strategize and keep moving. It is not finish until it is finished. What's next for Decium: - Decium is a cool and exceptional project we believe is introducing a new paradigm in the world of content management and consumption. It will bring much popularity to Dfinity platform. It will also encourage the usage of the platform and her currency. We are committed to keep building. Mainnet and long-term running is our target. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/kinic

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Did you know web2 Search makes around $12 per user / per year? These massive profits mostly come from Ads. Reworded: this revenue comes from your data being packaged and utilized for secondary sale to advertisers. Most of the time we are completely unaware of this exchange in value. These products seem to be 'free' to use. But of course there is no such thing as a free lunch. - Do any of these profits go to the content providers that you find? Sometimes.. Do you get a kickback if your search data results in more sales or insights for an advertiser? Almost never. Does it go into a pool to help promote apps and content that you enjoy? No. - 'Search' can be done better with web3! It can be used for discovery and insights, spotlighting new applications, and aligning economic incentives that match the values of individual users. - A quick look into what web3 is all about will have the reader amazed at the potential. But in summary, web1 was all about browsing and reading content. Web2 is about writing and sharing. Web3 is all of web1 and web2, plus ownership. The very content and data that you share or produce can be protected and monetized like never before. Indeed, web3 has many advantages for end-users and companies: better privacy, security and direct-to-user business models to name a few. What is web3? Web3 is ownership. - Unfortunately web3 is still young! And like many other new technologies there exist a few barriers to entry that prevent a full and immediate transition. One major barrier being discoverability. Which leaves many saying: "I made my cool thing on web3. Now what?". - Kinic is my answer to the problem of discoverability for web3 apps and content. I was inspired to build it because I was seeing content being made but having little chance of being discovered. Not because of quality, or variety of the content, but by the systems' of centralized gatekeepers. These systems are in the interest of the status-quo. The gatekeepers do not mind to care. - "Nothing is more expensive than a closed mind, and a missed opportunity". - H. Jackson Brown, Jr - Rather than trying to play the web2 'SEO game' with transcribers at boundary nodes or landing sites, we should create and support web3 specific SEO. 'Search' that can only be done with an advanced blockchain powering it. 'Search' that can help incentivize and power the very things people are searching for. - In stark contrast to maintaining the "status-quo", we are inspired to build by the forward, positive progress, which we can now all discover in the new decentralized internet. - - Kinic has a high level of technicality and runs on the revolutionary Internet Computer blockchain. We deep dived into how this blockchain works to make content search possible, powerful, and concise. Moreover, we have Motoko code that allows for bidding and site claiming directly on-chain. - In short, this submission represents lots of hacking and loads of fun /s \ud83d\udcbb❤️ . - We decided on May 13th to build Kinic in public. We did this to help inspire others and bring some spice to SUPERNOVA. (I strongly encourage others to do the same in future!) - That's right! We had just an idea with a way to get it done, a badly designed MVP page, 0 followers and no traction at the start of SUPERNOVA. I wanted a full blown product-to-market match making experiment and I definitely got one with this 30 day sprint - Slept like 20 hours week-one out of excitement \ud83e\udddf\u200d♂️ - Kinic now has 1000+ followers, revenue #s and other strong KPIs, much better design and branding, and a more polished MVP. What it does: - Allows for content search on frontend canisters. A user can input text, categories or canister IDs to discover relevant content hosted on the IC. How we built it: - Search: - We used traits of the IC discovered in the Rust source code to gather all canister IDs on subnets. By using other 'smart-code' we identify keywords for each app and app type. We then prioritize 'claimed sites' over WIP or staging sites, creating a new basis for web3 SEO. - Frontend: - The app is built using Vue.js. We A/B tested a few variants to find a simple and sleek design. Take a look at our images on Twitter to see the evolution. - The name Kinic comes from the word kin from kinship, and IC from the Internet Computer. It is also an onomatopoeia for a click noise. Our design and logo have been derived from this using AI term matching and other methods. - Ad Bids and Site Claiming: - We use Motoko \ud83d\udc7b ❤️ - We used the Ledger canister to allow for bidding on Ad categories. The highest bidder cannot revoke their bid. Other bidders can reclaim their bid, and bid again if they desire. After the auction closes (time based), the highest bid is decided as the winner and gets a two-week ad spot. - The ads appear on category pages on the right side. They can be images, videos, or gifs and have links. - Claiming sites is done by comparing the canister owner principal ID by what is given to us in a DFX command. Motoko does not have an 'info' method call yet, so we are forced to do this comparison with DFX for now. ( Challenges we ran into: - Oh boy. A lot of technical challenges like how do we iterate through canisters? What to do with all of these Wallet canisters? How to differentiate between phishing and other bad content vs legitimate apps? Accomplishments that we're proud of: - The community likes Kinic! We hope they love it as we build it out further :) - Many established teams Tweeted the first week of launch showing support. ✌️ - Unsolicited demo video made for Kinic: - ICOS uses Kinic as default search: - We tried a CrowdFund NFT and were the fastest sell out of all time. Our NFT is focused on providing visibility to new projects on the IC; if they use the perk of the NFT they get an SEO boost in their chosen category for one day. - We are very proud to have made a useful product that is being enjoyed daily. What we learned: - I am a serial entrepreneur and technical founder. The first stage of product building, for me, is all about validating an idea. Kinic exceeded all of my expectations in this. - We have learned the exact content deployed on the IC and have visualized the boundary line of the IC-verse. Now we are very keen to build Kinic and help web3 expand: with more features to incentives good content and apps on the IC! - Kinic is like an ever increasing repulsive pressure, behaving as an opposite of gravity. A bit like nuclear fission in a ________ \ud83d\udca5 \ud83d\ude09 What's next for Kinic?: - We have plans to index the inner contents of backend canisters. We are in a discussion with Nuance first.. but will create an automated way to get this done. We are building ways to incentives content on the IC! Why build, write, or upload, on web2 when you can profit more on web3? Help Dfinity Foundation beat the baddies, with an API to track malicious content or phishing sites on the IC; Comms channel already opened with relevant team. - We have a blue sky of options but will focus our efforts on demonstrating web3's competitive advantages. - (#1 Technically this could also be possible for NFTs or other backend canisters; Rather than asking "submit your app and code" we can index the public functions and assume the NFT standard used. NFT canister owners can then verify their code and get a "Verified" tag. This is in contrast to existing methods that require someone to pre-approve an NFT before listing.) - Our WIP mantra: No more competitive advantages for web2. Or "Got web3 content?" - ** Product video is unsolicited from the community. It does not contain code for auction or claiming sites. We are doing a thorough review of that code before pushing it to production. It can be viewed in our Github repository. ** First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/viewar-by-wearfits-ar-footwear-try-on

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Digitization of assets and 3D scanning (creation of digital twins of physical items) is getting easier and simpler. But the Metaverse ecosystem is still missing a solution for a few problems, which ViewAR will solve by: - We specialize in development for the fashion industry which is struggling with the problem of high return rates due to a mismatch in size or look. Solving this problem was initially the main goal of WEARFITS. We are now looking at other industries more broadly as well, and we are also taking a step forward from Web2 to Web3. - We believe that Metaverse and AR will be the next big thing, so we focus on solutions for XR/AR utilising deep tech like machine learning and blockchain. What it does: - ViewAR allows for AR visualization of any 3D asset with digital rights and ownership secured. There is also an additional feature for the fashion industry that allows for displaying 3D models of shoes in a virtual try-on. We help in getting to the Metaverse :) - How it works: - For 3D objects representing footwear, ViewAR creates a virtual try-on link, allowing to try on shoes in front of the real mirror and on your own feet, just with the use of a smartphone or laptop camera (without any additional app). - The solution has huge social and ecommerce potential and solves a real world problem with contactless purchases (as well online as offline - you can also try-on shoes in physical stores virtually). The MVP is limited (e.g. storage) but fully usable. It utilizes core IC functionalities which protect publishers. We are going to commercialize it and add more functionalities (e.g. simple creation of NFTs, automatic creation of 3D models from photographs, the most accurate shoe-foot size fitting). How we've built it: - We have made an MVP implementing the Internet Identity and persistent file storage on the canister. Most of the computing job (like file conversion, machine learning) is done on the client's side to optimize speed and the usage of cycles. We have a module responsible for conversion and optimization of 3D files and publishing it via URL or QR-code. For the shoe try-on, we have trained our own ML model with over 15,000 hand-annotated foot images, which allows us to position and visualize the 3D model of the shoe in real time. Challenges we've ran into: - Training the ML model with more than 15K images. Optimization for real time use through a web browser. Poor and limited persistent storage functionality of the ICP. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - The results of implementation on the ICP are quite satisfying. Our ML model is very accurate. And the solution works quite well :) What we've learned: - We have learned a lot about the Internet Computer and ICP. We are also using machine learning much more intensively. The project proved to us that using Internet Computer for Web3 makes sense and it has a chance to be the future of it. What's next: - For the production release of ViewAR we should: - ViewAR is useless without 3D models. Therefore, we have also developed a technology that automatically creates 3D models of shoes from photos. It will allow us to sell it on a large scale. We'd like to integrate it with IC as well to offer a complex solution for Web3. - In the next few days we'll launch a shoes try-on for a large customer. - Currently we are working on a footwear size fitting solution using our ML model to calculate accurate measurements of feet. We plan to release it in the following months. - This year we'd like to raise a seed round for sales and marketing activities as well as for further development of our virtual try-on and size fitting solutions for the fashion industry (both - apparel and footwear) and ViewAR. - We'd like to develop our new solutions parallely for both Web2 and Web3. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/mops

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - When I started depeloping on IC using Motoko I felt a strong lack of a convenient package manager. - In my opinion, a powerful package manager is a "must have" for modern programming languages. How we built it: - Steadily with struggle. Challenges we ran into: - Canister scalability. - Pitch recording. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We have created a complete set of good package manager: CLI/registry/explorer. - Infinitely scalable file storage on IC. What we learned: - Internet Computer. Motoko. What's next for MOPS: - Is it already working?: - Yes! You can install and publish packages! Is it open source?: - Yes! MOPS is completely open source! First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/nuance

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Fair monetisation for authors is a key differentiator between blogging platforms of web2 vs web3. With our beta launched (nuance.xyz) we want to start building the monetisation capabilities of Nuance. Supernova has provided us the perfect opportunity to deliver our first steps toward this. What it does: - Readers can applaud (clap) articles which transfers Nuance credits from the reader to the author. Essentially the reader tipping the author. Nuance credits are for testing purposes only and have no monetary value. How we built it: - First we had to decide what was the 'best' thing on our immediate roadmap to deliver as part of Supernova, then we had to carve out which part of the thing we could deliver within a few weeks. We needed to cut scope to the bone to make sure that we would deliver. Challenges we ran into: - Securing the transaction. Making sure authors couldn't tip themselves. Figuring out how to seed the initial tokens (since we are yet to mint our own token). - Nuance is built fully on-chain from multiple canisters, written in Motoko and typescript. - Due to our multi-canister architecture, we had to create functions that would interact with each other but wouldn't expose any security concerns from being public. To ensure the functions remained secure, we programmed much of the interface to take place from the post itself. Then the operation falls in the hands of the user profiles canister, which checks to ensure it interacts with trusted canisters each time it executes a function. - We consider this the precursor to tokenization; once presented with a standard we feel is dependable enough to be adopted by our community, we will implement real tokens for applause, so we had to make this feature with that in mind. To start, we ensured that users could not applaud their articles to game applause, and we also protected them from 0 balance applause.. meaning if the users have 0 credits, they cannot applaud. These features required call and response from multiple canisters. - To kick off our credit launch we needed to write yet another secure function that allows a trusted nuance developer to spawn credits for users to spend and we also created a UI/UX on the front end in which users can see their credit balance, the applause they've received in total and the applause they've received per article. - The Nuance team has recently implemented Stoic wallet into the platform, meaning users can log in with a wallet provider and will have the ability to carry assets in said wallet. Our next steps in the monetization path will be selecting a robust standard and integrating it into our architecture with some of the controls we've created for the credits. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Over the past months, we have delivered many things of which we are proud. Our integration with ModClub helps us build trust with our authors and readers. This is a world first. The world's first blogging platform built entirely on-chain with content moderated by the world's first moderation as a service entirely on-chain. - For Supernova we are proud to be delivering the first part of a capability which differentiates web3 from web2 blogging. A capability that will enable fair rewards for authors. What we learned: - Carving out a small piece of the larger capability whilst still providing value to users and incentivising the "right" behaviour. What's next for Nuance: - We will keep building out the monetisation capability to ensure that we deliver one of our most important promises - fair monetisation for authors. We have more features to build into this capability and we are only just getting started. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/icp-squad-nft

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration & Vision: - The NFT industry is full of projects with capped supplies that exclude users and assets which only benefit the dev team of a single dapp. We wanted to create something which changed this completely: an NFT project that is accessible to everyone and focused on gamifying the entire Internet Computer ecosystem. - Anyone can join dSquad by minting a personalized Avatar for a low flat rate of 1 ICP, and as long as they keep this NFT in their wallet it gives them a chance to earn prizes in monthly airdrops (both with prizes from our collection and partnering projects) as they use the Internet Computer. They can complete "missions" on various dapps across the ecosystem and engage with other projects to increase their rank on a leaderboard and improve their odds for winning prizes. - Our goal is to welcome new users to the Internet Computer ecosystem and directly incentivize them to explore all the exciting things it has to offer! Getting Started with dSquad: - 1) Create : Design your own avatar, which you'll be able to use for completing missions and earning tokens and NFTs. You will be able to customize all physical attributes of your avatar. - 2) Accessories : Wanna show your own style to the squad ? Collect materials and assemble them through recipes to create accessories. Equip the accessories on your own avatar to earn more, gain bonus and indeed... show off! - 3) Engage and earn : Discover a new wave of decentralized applications and get rewarded as you explore the Internet Computer ecosystem. - 4) Events and legends : Participate in events and contests with the community and make your way to becoming one of the legends and earning special prizes! - 5) Projects : Are you an ICP project looking for more user engagement ?We can incentivize our users to join your community, follow your social media accounts, and regularly engage with your app. Grow your community and educate people about your application through missions by integrating with our reward system. How we built it: - We built the backend using Motoko and using the technologies and best practices of the ecosystem (integration with Entrepot, using CAP to record history of transactions, EXT standard for the NFT, integration with wallets) - We built the frontend using Svelte. - We are using Canistergeek to monitor our canister fleet and we used the Invoice canister from Dfinity as an huge inspiration for our own payment system. Challenges we ran into: - The most challenging part of our project has been assembling the artwork elements to create a dynamic rendering engine for avatars. - We had to make sure that for every combination of avatar properties (hair, clothes, body, nose, mouth...) & accessories the result was clean and conformed to the artist intentions. - This led to several rounds of discussion between the developers side and the artist. For instance we had to ask our artist to create special hairstyles that would automatically replace the default one if an avatar is equipped with a hat, that way the quality of the final design is improved. - The gameplay we are building is already pushing the limits in term of the current possibilities of the IC (cycle limit execution per round, canister storage, delay with Intercanister-calls..). - It requires a proper design, we need to gather information across many canisters (some of them we don't have control over because they are owned by external dApps). We are currently creating a standard for other apps to easily plug into our ecosystem. - We also need to solve problems related to the identity providers used by our users and make sure we can respect privacy but gather enough information on our users so that we can truly rewards the most involved members. - Finally, we had a huge challenge with processing payments on the IC due to the lack of notify interface into the ICP ledger canister. Fortunately, after several trials and with the help of the invoice canister we now have a custom system for processing fees (during avatar minting and accessory minting) that is very reliable and acceptable in terms of user experience and speed. We also keep track of all the information related to payments attempts so even in the very rare scenario where a payment doesn't go through we have everything available to process to fast refunds for impacted users. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - The quality of our artwork, and our dynamic & multi-layers rendering engine for avatars & accessories. We have created branded accessories in partnerships with two famous NFT projects on the IC (ICPunks & Cronics). - The design of those branded accessories has been made in the spirit of each project. Those accessories will require special materials that can be earned trough Cronic game and ICPunk (now Gigaverse) marketplace. - The gameplay we have designed and how it uses the properties of the IC to create a game that has never been possible before. Our engagement mechanisms would be very complicated to build on a platform where the transactions and activity of dapps is not happening on-chain. We need to be able to trust the recorded informations and access it directly on-chain. Also having a standardized API (through the system of canister) help to build a mental model around inter-dapp communication. - We are also very proud of the community we have built and the diversity of initiatives we are creating. We hosted a few months ago the first bootcamp for the Internet Computer: the Motoko Bootcamp.During one week we released resources and exorcises for students, and with the help of experienced members of the dev community we organized lectures and workshops on how to build on the IC. - At the end of the event, we used our NFT project to reward contributors. 1) The students that validated the final test have been airdropped special accessories they can equip on their avatar and earn rewards with! 2) The mentors have been rewarded by special Legendary Avatars made especially for them with the help of our artist. - We want to keep going into this direction and make sure the project is used to connect people and create value trough events (education, hackathon, presence on social media). What we learned: - A lot of lessons have been learned on the technology needed to build on the Internet Computer and the best design practices (canister architecture, security practices, standards, and libraries). - Obviously we also learned a lot on the artwork side (we used SVG) and how to properly communicate between artists and developers. It is important for both parties to understand how the other one is working and what are the aspects each one can act on so as to make the work easier and reduce the amount of time spent adapting the technology to the artwork (or the other way around). - We also gathered important insights on how to properly design a digital economy, how to make sure that we create engagement and excitement around it. Each accessory requires materials to be created. Materials are the raw pieces of our economy and will be airdropped monthly as rewards. We need to make sure that the proportion of airdropped materials compared to the number of active players stay in an acceptable range to avoid hyperinflation or intense deflation that would hurt the economy. - We are still learning, our community, the platform and the tech is moving fast and improving on a daily basics. What was built during the Supernova Hackathon: - Before the Hackathon we released only 9 accessories, 6 types of materials, basic Avatar minting, and functions for Accessory minting (though this feature didn't have a UI and wasn't public). This was just the most basic artwork, most basic minting, and a landing page with a bit of information. - During the dates of the Hackathon we:1) Defined and determined the Accessory Minting recipes, as well as the reward algorithm and other economy balancing mechanisms.2) Implemented the features of the leaderboard, the monthly contests, the points system, the user profiles, missions, economy statistics, CAP activity tracking, as well as started work on the SDK.3) Created a completely new website, a new brand (renamed the project), and filled the new website with information. This Also included building UIs for all the new features, as well as enhanced UIs and workflows for Avatar minting, equiping/unequiping/previewing accessories, and minting accessories.4) We refined and polished the payment processing process.5) We released 20 pages worth of documentation organized within an easy to navigate Gitbook covering every aspect of the project so users can dive right in. - This work completes our MVP, with all external onboarding materials polished and gameplay features ready to be used! What's next for dSquad ?: First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/anvil-ldmazb

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiratiowern: - wer What it does: How I built it: Challenges I ran into: Accomplishments that I'm proud of: What I learned: What's next for Some: First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/chain-cloud

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - When we built enterprise-level applications on ICP, we found that there is currently a lack of efficient multi-canister management systems on the market, which requires us to manually manage many smart contracts, which becomes inconvenient as the scale of the project expands, so the original intention is to provide one-stop contract hosting, collaboration, integration, and monitoring services for enterprise-level users, so that developers can focus on the development of business logic without getting caught in the whirlpool of various environments and configurations.When we researched various Dapps on ICP, we found that at this stage, various projects are blooming, good and bad. Among them, there are many valuable and promising projects, and they are also full of many experimental short-sighted ideas. Different, providing great uncertainty for the decision-making of institutions and individual investors, so the idea of providing a judgment system jointly maintained by senior technical personnel, large institutions, and representative community KOLs came to our minds , lingering. What it does: - Decentralized code hosting platform, we rely on the storage canister on ICP to realize the decentralized storage of code files, in order to realize the code hosting service in the era of web3.0 corresponding to Github, which is a trustless forever and continued smart contract code to provide escrow servicesTeam collaboration management platform, we provide convenient and fast team collaboration management tools based on groups, projects, and users, explore the way of working in the web3.0 era, and aim to create trustworthy and efficient team collaboration toolsSmart contract compilation, deployment and visualization platform, we provide a set of efficient integrated compilation services, allowing developers to focus on business development without configuring a complex compilation environmentDapp-DAO is based on the governance function of the community, allowing qualified ecological participants to make multi-dimensional judgments on projects they are familiar with, making good projects stand out, and greatly improving the activity of the community, so that everyone can Provide support for project construction also receive moderate incentives How we built it: - Most of the functions of the platform are developed based on cansiter, which makes chain-cloud naturally decentralized and 100% on-chain. - Code hosting service, based on ICP, an infinitely scalable storage protocol developed by motoko, which can easily and quickly submit code and pull code.The contract compilation platform, an efficient contract compilation service developed based on go and rust, can compile canister for multiple users at the same time, which is fast, convenient and efficient.Web code editor, a highly customized web code editor based on monaco-editor, allows developers to easily edit code online, supports code highlighting and automatic completion.Decentralized Dapp-DAO organization, the dapp-dao mechanism based on the proposal-scoring-voting model allows the community to interact with the project side efficiently, so that the fluid democratic mechanism that ICP has always implemented can show its power in the field of dapp judgment. Challenges we ran into: - Since we don't have a data center node running the ICP blockchain, we can't get some data. This makes us have to find another way to let users upload some data by referring to our buried hook in their canister, which actually causes a certain amount of damage to users. level of inconvenience, although we will only collect non-sensitive data. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We have developed a set of web code editors that enable developers to edit code online and quickly deploy to the ICP network by clicking triggers.We have developed a decentralized code hosting service based on the ICP network, which enables everyone to trust the authenticity of the code.We have introduced a decentralized governance method to evaluate projects, including project value evaluation, project team member research, project development progress tracking, project economic model analysis, project code auditing, etc. to comprehensively consider the project and help the project While growing up, you can also enjoy the rewards of project development What we learned: - The whole process and technical ability of project development based on ICP and canister.The basic elements of the code hosting service and its working methods, and the technical path for decentralization.The technical realization of the canister compilation method, and the realization of the monitoring of various indicators when the canister is running.How to design and implement a DAO mechanism. What's next for chain-cloud: - Fully implement and continuously optimize the above functions.Conduct media publicity and community promotion.Negotiate investment matters.Decide whether to issue tokens according to the policy situation. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/cosmicrafts-f1l7r6

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Since 2016 we’ve been building Cosmicrafts, started as a 2D spaceship game for mobile and after 5 iterations we finally got into the blockchain. - Our team is made by a group of friends that met playing online multiplayer games, we love what we do and are motivated to create games as good as the ones we play. Cosmicrafts inspiration comes originally from Starcraft with fresh and new elements from other games such as League of Legends, Clash Royale and World of Warcraft. - Our main focus is to build a community around the Internet Computer and Cosmicrafts with a fun gameplay and long-term scope by including social features through NFTs and Tokens. Such social features include but not limited to Multiplayer, Esports, Guilds, Tech Support, DeFi and Governance. What is Cosmicrafts: - A new hope for life has emerged as the universe collapses into the Dark Rift, the remnants of ancient civilizations and astonishing forms of life are still fighting for supremacy. - Cosmicrafts is a futuristic real-time strategy game where you command your own fleet by sending NFTs into a battleground to destroy your opponent's base. - Users can log-in with their Internet Computer and other web3 wallets to play for free, no need to have crypto to get started. Earn NFTs and Tokens through missions, events, and different game modes by playing against Artificial Intelligence or other players through our cross-chain multiplayer. - There is a wide variety of Game NFTs, from Spaceships, Turrets, Artifacts and Space Stations to Characters, Passive Skills, Skins and Avatars, all usable in-game. Players can improve their NFTs by stacking them and pay tokens to merge them into a new a more powerful game asset. In this process the NFTs used for the upgrade will be burned from the total supply. - Cosmicrafts XP Token is made for players to level up and earn special rewards, the system automatically sends your final score as tokens to your Internet Computer wallet. - We are developing an expanding campaign for players to have new and fresh content, currently working on the Spirats (Space Pirates) where the leaders of the faction have gathered to invade the Cosmic Cons and release their comrades from prison. How we built it: - With so much love, dedication and perseverance... - The game is fully built on blockchain, and we have developed the technology to have cross-chain players to join our decentralized servers built on the Internet Computer. Meaning a player from Ethereum can play for free with another player from the Internet Computer for example. - Unity is our game engine, natively uses C# and JavaScript but there is wide variety of SDKs to port our code to other languages. Current version of the game is playable through WebGL, meaning you can play from your browser by using your web3 wallet of choice and in the future, we will expand to iOS, Android, and Windows versions. Challenges we ran into: - Porting our game to the Internet Computer was a big challenge, but so far, we have overcome all difficulties, our developers are one of a kind and very passionate about it. - We had to redesign the whole structure of the game in this last iteration, by creating a modular system that is independent from each other. Each module was designed to be ported to the blockchain as smart contracts.Integrations with other projects such as NFT Marketplaces, DeFi protocols and social dApps are now a possibility by adding their backend to the game. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We are proud to have developed real-time servers on blockchain for the first time ever, with our expertise we designed and developed from scratch this technology and we will make it available for other developers in the future. - We have an awesome community on Twitter and Discord and growing exponentially by having Airdrops, posting new content and constantly having interactions. - Our team is also growing, with over 30 people between developers, artists, community management, marketing, and business advisors. - Last March 15th we sold out 300 Artwork NFTs within minutes, at an average price of 150 USD each. - We’re generating momentum and after years of development we are ready to deliver a unique and awesome AAA Game Fi. What we learned: - How to port our game assets in a language that the IC can understand, as we are using scripts and prefabs that are natively to Unity but not readable on blockchain as they were. - As alternatives to web2 services and centralized servers such as AWS and Google Cloud, we developed our servers with features like game rooms, game servers, matchmaking, player records, achievements, match history and asset ownership are safely recorded and stored cryptographically on the Internet Computer. - And finally, learned and still learning how to integrate our modules to IC like Tokens, NFTs, Rewards, Staking and so forth. What's next for Cosmicrafts: - Our primarily focus is to keep growing our community, having a platform for them to interact, and building for the long term. - By using the Internet Computer as our home for decentralized services we are able to deliver the first free to play game that you can play on any other blockchain. - To constantly deliver new content through our ever-expanding Campaign, with the upcoming unique factions and cinematics to inspire our community. - Improving ourselves and our smart contracts to make then evolving and scalable through time.Integrating and collaborating with other projects to strengthen our partnerships and help the ecosystem to grow. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/ic-metamask

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiraasdtion: - it is a signer, composability of permissions. What it does: - Users use signatures, certificates, delegation, etc. to indicate their identity. After the canister verifies its authority, it will use ECDSA to generate a new signature as required. How we built it: - we built by Rust canister, using ecdsa. Challenges we ran into: - Secure permissions management can be a bit of a hassle Accomplishments that we're proud of: - For example, a user can fully participate in the IC ecosystem with only metamask, and he/she does not need to install plug-ins such as plugs again, and does not need to register II. MetaMask has tens of millions of users What we learned: - ECDSA of cansiter What's next for IC metamask: - IC Signer! First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/icapps

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: About the project: - icApps is a directory of applications and projects built on the Internet Computer network. The main purpose of the web-app is to simplify the search and provide information about the projects that run on the IC network. What it does: - The main goal the project is to be a common place to explore projects on the IC, along with providing information about the current NFT collections, upcoming NFT sales and other events. Who this project is for: - Basically this project is for everyone interested in the IC, those who don't know much about it yet, devs who would like to see what has been already built. Inspiration: - There are many sources of inspiration and references for the icApps. I initially was inspired by the design and idea of the rawg.io, it is a large game database. Conceptually icApps is in some ways similar to dappradar.com, dap.ps, ethereum.org/en/dapps. How we built it: - Initially it was a simple one-page site in the earliest days of the Internet Computer Genesis launch. Since then it has developed into a full-fledged web-app with a large community of followers. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - There has been a lot of positive feedback from the community. The website is updated daily & many people use website to track new apps and upcoming NFT collections. What's next for icApps: - There are a lot of modules that can be added to the platform. Currently icApps uses web2 services to manage CRUD operations and host database. The next step is to develop the backend logic & and manage database from the canister. Contact: - ♾️ First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/matj

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - We need a light and easy touch platform to finish scientific computing What it does: - We develop a js math library MatJ, a web SaaS , compatible with some matlab / javascript / numpy syntax How we built it: - Input MatJ code, automatic transfer to javascript code Challenges we ran into: - The most challenges is mathematical method, for example: roots Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We finished almost all the linear algebra function What we learned: - Ignoring fear and authority, We can do it ! What's next for MatJ: - symbolic mathhelp documentSocial cooperation First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]

https://devpost.com/software/ip-nft

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Scientists face many barriers in today's world when it comes to funding and translating their research to commercial applications. They often find that the existing avenues to bring their critical research data to the world are filled with time-wasting activities, like spending up to 50% of their time seeking government grants, instead of using that time on conducting their actual research. We've found that the following combined effects have resulted in reduced trust in science and slowed movement of science out of the lab and into real life: - We are on a mission to solve these problems and increase the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of life sciences research "from lab to life" with decentralized applications built entirely on the Internet Computer, and believe that solving funding through decentralized and democratic crowdfunding opportunities is the first step. What it does: - The SciFi dapp currently allows for users to create accounts, organizations for grouping up with other users for joint funding or research collaboration, and projects that will soon allow for fundraising. How we built it: - We built our dapp using NextJs, Typescript, Motoko, React, and Rust. Challenges we ran into: - We ran into some challenges with the strictness of Motoko when developing our elastic search canister, in that the strict type expectations of Motoko prevented us from truly decoupling our implementation from our application. Also, utilizing dynamic routing in NextJs is not supported by IC asset canisters, as asset canisters do not auto-map .html files to routes in a URL. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We’re proud of where elastic search is at this moment. Although it's an alpha stage software, it’s incredibly fast and performant. What we learned: - We learned that deadlines are conducive to progress and that asset canisters on IC do not automap routes to corresponding .html files on load. What's next for SciFi: - Up next for SciFi consists of completing our UI, finalizing the development of our DeFi smart contracts that allow for fundraising to take place on the platform, and adding a marketplace to the dapp that allows for users to trade their science-based NFTs and fungible tokens. After we finish SciFi, we will begin working on our 100% completely decentralized research and development application with the goal of storing all research data on-chain. First, provide your answers in the following format: Novelty: [score], Usefulness: [score] After providing the scores, include your rationale in a separate section: Rationale: [text]