The Auctus Development Team is based in Brazil and we were more than happy when we heard about ETHBuenosAires (with representatives from several high-quality projects and initiatives attending as hackers, speakers and judges) taking place in a neighbor country.

Because Buenos Aires is the birth city of many blockchain projects and Web 3.0 developers, including Zeppelin Solutions and Decentraland, we were expecting the ETHBuenosAires Hackathon to be very challenging, exciting and productive. However, what we’ve found in the South was even above our high expectations.

ETHBuenosAires

About

The event was a conference and hackathon which was held from May 25th through May 27th and which is part of ETHGlobal. The main sponsors were Zeppelin and Aragon and several of the core team members from both projects were there, along with other teams and sponsors including MakerDAO, RCN, Toshi, Status, Decentraland, SpankChain, Gnosis, Consensys, the Ethereum Foundation and many others.

Ariny spotted!

Around 300 developers got together at ETHBuenosAires. During the first day (Friday, May 25th) there were a lot of talks before the hacking began, including presentations about different aspects about Solidity and dApps, scaling, state channels, upgradability, announcements from some of the projects (AragonOS and ZeppelinOS on mainnet) and much more.

Hacking

Hacking started on Friday at 10 PM and went on for 36 hours straight, ending on Sunday at 10 AM. The hackathon is a place to brainstorm, make friends, work on new ideas, see what other teams are building and learn more about Ethereum and its applications. You are not supposed to work on anything that you started coding before the hackathon, so our team spent time working on a more generalist application of smart contracts that could help mainstream adoptance of the network and that is not related to our main platform. We also used this opportunity to hack some tools and contracts of other projects that we intend to integrate in the Auctus Lab, using DAI stable coin from MakerDAO and the RCN Loan System in our solution. I was hackin by myself working on an Aragon app.

Presenting our solution to RCN team

What’s next?

🔥 Beta launch

Our beta is being developed in full speed and the launch date is expected to be in July! Prior to that we will send specific tasks to our Beta Testers in order to interact with the platform and provide feedback.

🔥 Ethfinex listing

We are taking part in the Ethfinex listing this round! We’ve listened to our community and we’ve decided to go forward with this, but we need your help! If you are a NEC token holder you can use your voting tokens to vote for Auctus in the Nectar Community website. If you have any doubts regarding the vote please join our trading telegram chat.

🔥 Biweekly updates

You’ve spoken, we’ve listened! From now we will have Community Updates every 2 weeks!

🔥 New community and marketing manager

Our community is growing, as well as our team! That’s right, we will soon announce a new community and marketing manager to help with our growth and to spread the word about the project. We will announce the new team member along with a full interview as soon as we finish the negotiation. Remember to give a nice welcome to him/her (no spoilers 😉).