With the launch of our new trading and ticker APIs, we’re happy to announce that we will also be holding an API Development Contest from 25th July to 31st October with a grand total of 1,000,000 SWTH up for grabs!

We hope this contest will encourage developers to share the use of our API and foster a strong development community around Switcheo Exchange. We also welcome any feedback that may possibly help us to improve our documentation in the future.

So if you are a developer in our community, this is your chance to contribute to Switcheo directly! Some suggestions you can consider are:

API SDKs or wrapper libraries for your favorite language

Trading or arbitrage bots

Statistic dashboards

Integration of our API into existing trading bot libraries (e.g. https://github.com/ccxt/ccxt)

Anything cool!

Switcheo API Documentation can be found here:

https://docs.switcheo.network

Before starting, you should join our Switcheo Network Developer Slack channel! There you can discuss your ideas with other participants, so that you can improve your submissions and reduce the chance of having similar submissions as others. On top of that, the Slack channel will be a good source of help, and you may be able to find members of the Switcheo engineering team there to get insight into our development process.

Selection Criteria:

The Switcheo engineering team will be selecting 10 winners based on the following criteria:

General:

Clarity of code

For SDK & Libraries:

Clarity and extensiveness of documentation

Developer user-friendliness

Completeness & robustness of APIs supported

Handling and management of error responses

Number of GitHub stars

For Bots, Others:

Innovativeness

Effectiveness of API usage (e.g. correct and careful use, does not exceed rate limits, does not abuse API, does not use APIs wrongly or unnecessarily

Completeness of app (e.g. production readiness, comprehensiveness)

User interface design

Number of APIs used (e.g. scope of APIs used, extent of integration)

Contestants should build using Switcheo’s Exchange TestNet to prevent the loss of funds.

Prizes:

1st: 500,000 SWTH + 1 Customised Ledger + 1 Switcheo Pullover

2nd: 250,000 SWTH + 1 Customised Ledger + 1 Switcheo Pullover

3rd: 150,000 SWTH +1 Customised Ledger + 1 Switcheo Pullover

4th-10th: Shared pool of 100,000 SWTH + 1 Customised Ledger + 1 Switcheo Pullover each.

How to Participate:

Step 1: Register your interest with this sign-up form:

https://goo.gl/forms/SvmfI1qEBg4eYAyh2

Step 2: Submit your code on GitHub

Code must be open sourced

(MIT or Apache 2 license) must be attached as a LICENSE file in the root of the project repository

Step 3: Email your Github link to contest@switcheo.network

Please include the following statements in the application email:

I, <FULL NAME>, fully own the code which I submitted, and guarantee that there are no license or copyright restriction(s) violated. I further acknowledge and agree that the code I submitted will be shown on a public domain. Anyone can access, copy, modify and initiate other work from it.

Entries from participants who did not register will not be considered.

Switcheo Network reserves the right to cancel or amend the competition and competition rules at our sole discretion.

We look forward to your participation!