aeternity has created a challenge as a part of Hack.Summit(“Blockchain”) — a global, virtual hackathon hosted by Deconet and Hack VC that will take place from July 6th-8th, 2018.

æternity is a scalable blockchain platform that enables high-speed transacting, purely-functional smart contracts, and decentralized oracles. At aeternity, they believe that it should be native to access that functionality right from the smart contract language.

Therefore, they are developing a new smart contract language called Sophia. Sophia focuses on security by providing a more testable programming language.

Challenge

Check out aeternity’s full challenge description here (create an account in Deconet to view it). Additional resources and judging criteria are also provided.

aeternity’s challenge has 2 parts:

Part 1 — “Primary” : work through the tutorial and demonstrate a simple æpp that facilitates as many different working features of Sophia as possible. The æpp should demonstrate aeternity’s functionality triggered by a user through a simple web-front end.

Part 2 — “Secondary”: tackle a business challenge which is solving the “proof of me” problem. Today, if someone gets access to your private key, that person could pretend to be you (for example by signing a message with your private key). What additional security could æpp developers add in order to prevent such a misuse and how would it theoretically be implemented (technically and user stories)?

Prize

5,000 CHF paid in AE tokens

Stay in the loop:

Sign up for the hackathon here: https://hacksummit.org/hackathon

Introduce yourself and find teammates on the hack.summit Slack channel.

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