Congrats to the Winners of the ParaState Hackathon

3 min readJan 12, 2022

ParaState has completed the two-month hackathon, which ran from Oct.16th 21: 00 ET to Dec.15th 21: 00 ET. This event is co-organized with DoraHacks and received online submissions from projects all over the globe.

Winners

Jury Reward

The top-rated project wins a prize of 15,000 USD worth of USDC or STATE.

Itheum Data DEX

1) Try it out for yourself here: https://datadex.itheum.com/

2) All source code is “open source” here — https://github.com/Itheum (Data-Dex and ItheumCore repos)

3) Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFroeLHPtuU (We also did some promotion of Parastate in it at the beginning…)

Project Description:

Itheum empowers data ownership in the Metaverse and brings new market value to your data. It enables this by providing “decentralized data brokerage” technology. It’s a suite of tools that enable high-value data to be bridged from Web2 to Web3 and then traded via peer-to-peer sales. It also allows for “viral adoption” via our innovative NFMe, Data NFT and Data Coalition DAO tech.

The runner-ups — 2 winners win a prize of 5,000 USD worth of USDC or STATE.

Bwitter

GitHub: https://github.com/bwitterdev/contract

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBquKCA_9Ss

Bwitter is a platform owned by its users. Bitcoin is decentralizing money, Bwitter is decentralizing social media. On Bwitter, users can buy and sell “creator coins”, based on peoples‘ reputations. Users can also post short-form writings and photos and award money to posts they particularly like by clicking a “reward” button. Users can also create and sell NFTs.

CryptoBank Africa

Demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ll60qkDem4sruV1EaVjUnJ4PI6hBwmJw/view

Description: CryptoBank Africa is the first digital payment gateway that gives e-commerce/private business owners the power to accept digital currencies from customers while receiving their local fiat currency in return.

The following 7 judges gave their ratings of the 3 projects that entered the Jury Reward competition, based on the projects’ code and demo review.

Jehan Chu, Founder of Kenetic Capital
Mike Tang Senior Rust Engineer, Founder of Rust CC Community
Li Yuan, Rust contributor, Stdarch maintainer, Huawei Developer
Chen Shuo, Rust contributor, Stdarch maintainer, Huawei Developer
Antonio Yang, Senior Rust Engineer with ParaState Foundation
Wistar7, Top ParaState Spartan
@MALITH123, Top ParaState Citizen

Quadratic Voting Reward pool

The initial bonus pool will be allocated proportionally based on the finalists’ votes. The foundation has excluded projects that failed to submit their code to the GitHub url and demo.

https://hackerlink.io/zh/grant/parastate/top

Workshops Revisited

Watch the replay of the 4 workshops held online by Antonio Yang, the Senior Rust Engineer of ParaState Foundation:

More information about ParaState

Known as Ethereum on steroids, ParaState is a multi-chain smart contract platform bridging the application and developer ecosystem between Polkadot, Substrate and Ethereum, as well as other chains wanting to provide Ethereum compatibility. While supporting the EVM pallet to provide seamless compatibility with all existing Ethereum applications, ParaState also provides developers with a next-gen smart contract implementation environment, Ethereum-flavored WebAssembly. These two infrastructures are ensured to talk to each other and share the same account system on ParaState.

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