Hello to the Enigma community! We’ve been hard at work on development for the past few months. If you haven’t been up to date, check out our Q1 2018 Video Update, our Enigma Solutions blog posts, and our recent business announcements such as joining the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Decentralized Identity Foundation.

If you’re unfamiliar with Enigma, here’s the quick summary: Enigma is a blockchain-based protocol that uses groundbreaking privacy technologies to enable scalable end-to-end decentralized applications. With Enigma, “smart contracts” become “secret contracts,” where input data is kept hidden from nodes in the Enigma network that execute code. Without this functionality to protect sensitive data, blockchains and smart contracts are either useless or not truly decentralized.

A couple months ago we had tremendous participation in our very first community contest — Enigma Infographics! The response was incredible, and the Enigma team was thrilled with the results. We rewarded our talented finalists with ENG and featured their work on our social channels.

We also had some submissions that didn’t quite fit the definition of “infographic”, but they were absolutely beautiful. So it got us thinking: shouldn’t we be encouraging the community to let out their creativity?

The result is our second community contest — Enigma Artwork! Read on for more details…

How Do I Participate?

Last time, we asked participants to be both visual and creative as well as informative with their infographic submissions. This time, we encourage you to be as creative as you like! The best submissions will be high-quality, artfully composed, and expressive of the power and potential of Enigma. What is it about Enigma and our vision for the future of decentralization that speaks most to you?

Your art can be hand-drawn, digitally drawn, painted, Photoshopped, collage, crayon, macaroni… anything at all! It must, however, incorporate the Enigma logo in some way. You can download high quality PNG files with our logo here.

Feel free to draw inspiration from our Infographic Contest, and let your imagination run wild.

Here are the rules:

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

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

Your tweet must be made by Friday, May 4th, 11:59PM Pacific. You may submit up to two pieces of artwork.

2) The Enigma team will collect all submissions and select up to ten of our favorites to be finalists. Our selections will be based on creativity, effort, quality, and relevance to Enigma. Hopefully, it also makes us smile. 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. Finalists will be asked to submit high-quality versions of their artwork. More details on this will follow.

4) Do not make mention of token prices, market caps, or availability on exchanges — this will mean disqualification. Also, please be tasteful — we will absolutely not select any submissions that are vulgar, inappropriate, or showing negativity towards any person, project, coin, or company.

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 creative, and keep the focus on Enigma. What can you create that feels specific to our project? How can you show Enigma creating a decentralized future, solving privacy, and building real solutions? There is no size restriction or preference for artwork, but please don’t submit anything so large that it could not be embedded easily into a webpage or Medium post.

You can get great inspiration and 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 the links below.

Are you ready? The Enigma artwork contest starts… NOW!