We’re excited to announce a monthly series of contests where developers can learn blockchain engineering through the intuitive Cadence smart contract language, while winning exciting prizes. This Flow sponsored initiative is hosted by Emerald City.
Every month, for about 2 weeks, there will be a new “season”. Each season will consist of the following:
Cadence competitions are a great way to not only showcase your skills with the language, but learn about the focused topic for that season.
The September Season takes place between September 14th and September 29th.
Listed below is the workshop schedule for this season. You can review, or also add, the Google Calendar here where you can find the meeting links for the sessions below.
As you can see, there are a ton of drop-in sessions for developers to ask any questions they have about Cadence or their idea. Some drop-ins will also feature small presentations about specific patterns or insights on the Cadence language.
The topic in focus this month is Composability. That is, taking existing smart contracts and building on top of them by adding new features or making existing features even better. A particular strength of Cadence is that contracts can call other contracts directly, and delegated contracts can even be resolved dynamically at runtime if borrowing a contract via its interface. These powerful capabilities make composing other contracts in your own application very intuitive and easy and we're excited to see what contest submissions you can come up with!
There are a few ways you can go about uncovering composability use-cases including reaching out to projects / developers on platforms like Twitter and identifying new features that are desirable to the community. You may also try coming up with your own unique idea building on existing projects (FLOAT, NBATopShot, Flovatar, Find Labs, Flowty, etc)
Listed below are some additional examples for reference:
There are a few judging criteria listed below, each on a 1-5 scale. Winners will be decided based on their added total score across all criteria.
There are a total of 26,000 $FLOW tokens up for grabs with each season.
The specifics are simple:
In addition, there will be a 1,000 $FLOW prize to the individual who engages the most with the competition. This means:
This winner will be announced by Jacob Tucker (me!) who will be hosting all of the workshops and actively browsing Discord / Twitter for engagement.