Win ENG for creating the best infographic about our project and protocol

Hello to the Enigma community. The team has been hard at work on protocol and Catalyst development, and we’ve recently announced a number of new hires to help us keep our fast pace.

If you’re unfamiliar with Enigma, here’s the quick summary. We are building a second-layer protocol that solves scalability and privacy for blockchains. Enigma is an off-chain peer-to-peer network that enables different parties to jointly store and run computations on data while keeping data completely private through the use of “secret contracts.” The Enigma whitepaper — downloaded over 100,000 times — is based on a groundbreaking thesis from Guy Zyskind, our CEO and former MIT blockchain researcher.

We will have more news to share on this blog very soon on our development progress and hiring. Today, we’re excited to announce our first Enigma Community Contest — Infographics! Read on for details about our contest and how you can win ENG for your creativity and effort.

How Do I Participate?

An example of a pretty good infographic.

An infographic is “a visual image such as a chart or diagram used to represent information or data.” The idea is to be both visual and creative as well as informative.

We’ve written a lot about our project recently. We’ve talked about how Enigma’s privacy protocol is essential to a decentralized future. We’ve also written about the future of our data marketplace.

We’ve also created some videos to help explain Enigma, including project explainers as well as our developer video updates.

We want to work with you, the community, to develop infographics that combine the power of visual communication with great information about the Enigma project and our vision.

Here are the rules:

1) Submissions are made via Twitter. You must tag @EnigmaMPC and include $ENG and #ENGraphic in your tweet. Please attach your infographic as a picture.

Example: “Here is my infographic for the @EnigmaMPC contest! This is the best project ever! $ENG #ENGraphic”

Your tweet must be made by Friday, February 16th, 11:59PM Pacific. You may submit up to two infographics.

2) The Enigma team will collect all submissions and select up to ten of our favorites to be finalists. This will be based on creativity, effort, quality, and best portrayal of our project and its potential. We will also take into account the number of retweets and likes on the submission tweet and where else the graphic has been widely shared (Reddit, etc.) — that counts towards effort!

3) We will then contact finalists and announce a voting round where community members can vote for their favorite of all the finalists. More details on this will follow.

4) Please keep focus on the project — our team, our products, our potential. Do not make mention of token prices, market caps, or availability on exchanges — this will mean disqualification.

5) Now the good stuff! Prizes will be awarded as follows:

First place: 300 ENG Second place: 200 ENG Third place: 100 ENG All other finalists: 30 ENG

Our advice is: be concise, but be informative. Try to include images that work with the text to help explain Enigma — don’t only include text. And please feel free to get creative! There is no size restriction or preference, but nothing so large that it could not be embedded easily into a webpage or Medium post.

If you need high-quality Enigma logo or wordmark assets, please contact our Head of Marketing and Growth Tor Bair via email: <tor @ enigma.co>.

How Do I Make an Infographic?

You might think that you need to know how to use Photoshop or some other advanced tool to participate in this contest. But that’s not the case!

We know that not everyone is a naturally talented artist (ourselves included). Even so, we know our community is passionate about our project, and we want to help.

Here are some great tools you can use to create infographics. These include:

Canva — free and easy to use.

Piktochart — also free and quick to pick up.

Infogram — free, great for data visualization.

If you are an experienced graphic designer, even better! We welcome your participation and look forward to your creative designs.

You can get great information on Enigma from our website and blog. For even more info, be sure to also check out our whitepapers and join our active communities — see links below.

So are you ready? The Enigma infographic contest starts… NOW!