Another week and another great news for SIACOIN ($SC) fans, followers and holders.
Last week the Sia team launched Skynet, a decentralized CDN and file sharing platform for application developers. Skynet enables high speed, low cost, and superior infrastructure to serve as the storage foundation for a free Internet.
This week the Sia team announced the Skynet Hackathon - a 2 week long hackathon featuring more than 2 million SC in prizes!
Skynet provides an easy-to-use data storage and publishing mechanism on which developers can build decentralized applications. With a simple API and SDKs for popular programming languages, Skynet empowers developers to easily integrate decentralized storage into their applications. Importantly, end-users can directly access files on Skynet without needing to run full nodes or deal with cryptocurrencies.
Skynet is built on the Sia Network, Skynet delivers a 10x reduction in storage costs and a 100x reduction in bandwidth costs when compared to centralized providers, without sacrificing performance or reliability
Challenge Description
Build an application which focuses on enhancing Skynet as its fundamental purpose. This application should add a useful feature or functionality to the Skynet ecosystem, making it easy or possible to do something that was previously not easy or possible to do.
Taking an existing open source Skynet application and extending it to support new functionality or otherwise significantly improving the user experience is welcome and encouraged.
Submission Requirements
- The project must be open source
- Skynet must be a fundamental element of the application
- The app must do something that is useful and interesting
- The app will score better if it has greater appeal to a wider audience
How involved or difficult the application is will not be considered. If a very useful and interesting app can be created with very little effort, this app will still qualify for the grand prize and all other prizes.
For more informations, check the official blog post by the Sia Team
