We are happy to announce winners of the first ever Settle Thinkathon! We actually had such a great response, we decided to award one 1st prize and four 2nd prizes. Settle is a web native operating system for the decentralized financial paradigm, and we think all of these would be really cool if they were built on Settle. Check out the demo at http://demo.settle.finance

Demo of Settle

The Settle thinkathon was a ‘hackathon’ style event, without the hacking. Anyone was able to sign up and provide their idea of what a great app would be on the new Settle platform. All you had to do was use the demo and then write up an idea for the app in order to be entered to win the prizes of$300 in ETH for first place — and now we have increased the runner-ups to have $150 ETH for 4 runner ups!

In first place, we would like to congratulate the creator of the TradeGist idea with their brilliant idea!! You have won the $300 in ETH and will be sent to your address shortly!

TradeGist

The objective of the app is to provide a platform to share knowledge and opinions in brief written, animated and voice formats on various types of finance content. The app aims to bring together blogs written by analysts, product reviewers, podcast creators, and educational content writers. The app will aim to create a finance platform similar to Fansided for sports, with a user interface such as Discord, but allow content creators and developers to be paid optimally.

Details

Professionals finance content creators often have to choose to create their own websites, but several others without the expertise are left to rely on YouTube or blogs such as BabyPips.

An opportunity exists to provide a transparent and integrated platform for people interested in financial content. One key idea differentiating factor is that the content must be in small chunks for easy consumption. Each content post should be limited to 250 words, and each podcast to 10 minutes. The content should also be arranged temporally. The differentiating factor will be to handsomely reward content in multimedia formats such as games (see cryptozombies.io for reference). The time limits on the games should be more flexible. Allowing different types of content allows creators to unleash their creativity in new forms, whether as text, voice, trading games or memes.

The app should allow content creators to create their own walled group or community. Further, the content creators should be allowed to be pseudonymous to avoid censorship. Other apps from Settle Finance should be available for the groups. For instance, charting, or portfolio management. This feature can be priced differently for the community or restricted to those who have already subscribed to the independent apps. It also prevents unnecessary duplication of effort.

Great job to the creator of TradeGist!

Next for the ideas that “tied” for second place! The following creators will receive $150 ETH to your addresses! Congratulations!

Simple Trader Language

Details

Simple Trader Language is a REST API developed to be user friendly and uniformly operate across multiple exchanges. In other words, it is built by sophisticated developers for the unsophisticated coder who wants to automate complex trading strategies. .

Why is Simple Trader Language necessary? Advanced trading strategies such as straddles, indicator based trades or multi-exchange arbitrages require two of three abilities:(1) swift execution; (2) constant monitoring; and (3)multi-step logic.

If a trader can: (a) swiftly execute trades and constantly monitor markets (for indicator-based strategies), (b) create multi-step trade strategies and execute the trades quickly when opportunities exist (for arbitrage); or © monitor markets and employ multi-step logic (for straddles), then they can successfully deploy trading strategies.