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Tracks & Challenge Statements 👾


TRACK 1 - Filecoin/IPFS x Flow 🚀

Integrating Filecoin and Flow's decentralized storage technology with NFTs

Challenge Statement #1: Best Combined Use of Filecoin x Flow Projects that will have the best combined use of Filecoin/IPFS and Flow. E.g. Unlock a decentralized storage option for NFT creation, provide the ability of backing up/moving NFT metadata to Filecoin, generative art NFT marketplace which stores to and loads from Filecoin

Challenge Statement #2: Best Filecoin x Flow for Artists & Creators General best use of Filecoin/IPFS and Flow to empower the artists and creators community. E.g. A YouTube Premium like service that allows creators to monetize their video without giving up ownership rights

Challenge Statement #3: Best Filecoin/IPFS x Flow for NFT Value Store How you can tokenize Filecoin storage power into NFTs which is tradable and also eligible for FIL loan.

Challenge Statement #4: Best Filecoin/IPFS x Flow for Browser Integration Look at integrating Flow and Filecoin into a browser extension that lets you right click on images and save to web3.storage and publish as new NFT.

Challenge Statement #5: Best Filecoin x Flow for NFT Badge Generator Creating mechanism for earning NFTs that prove storage of different amounts or types of data on Filecoin, earning NFTs for Filecoin wallet address activity or earning NFTs by storing known NFT assets and metadata on Filecoin.

Challenge Statement #6: Best use of Filecoin/IPFS x Flow for NFTs as Video Game Assets Think of how you can allow for video game assets to be represented as NFTs that can be traded or earned between players.

TRACK 2 - Filecoin/IPFS 🚀

The best use for Filecoin and/or IPFS and/or the following decentralized storage services: web3.storage, Estuary, Slate or nft.storage

Challenge Statement #1: Best use of Filecoin and/or IPFS or any technology building on top of (nft.storage, web3.storage, estuary, etc)

TRACK 3 - Flow 🚀

Best implementation of blockchain-enabled applications built on Flow, across consumer facing NFT dapps, creator-oriented services, crypto primitives with Decentology tools and more.

Challenge Statement #1: Best use of NFTs as collateral Create a lending platform that takes NFTs as collateral.

Challenge Statement #2: Best use of Fractional NFTs Think of a platform that allows communities around individual NFTs to take fractional ownership E.g. You have a rare Steph Curry TopShot and you want to share the ownership experience with you friends

Challenge Statement #3: Best use of Composable Smart Contracts on Flow Explore creating an OpenSea like marketplace for Flow native NFTs that can be utilized by multiple dApps, subscription composable contract that is used as a utility by dApps for purchasing, handling access control & granting content, etc or utility smart contracts that handles computation, retrieval and interval behaviour of time.

Challenge Statement #4: Best implementation of Cadence Language Pillars To promote smart contracts that are using new features Cadence brings to smart contracts, as well as doing it in a semantically correct way.

Challenge Statement #5: Best use of DappStarter Flow Foundation Give a thought to develop on top of the Pack NFT Module to create your own version of an app similar to NBA TopShot. You can take the Kitty Items Module and integrating fighting capabilities, breeding aspects, etc for this track.

Challenge Statement #6: Best NFT Distribution Mechanism Solving poor distribution which creates bad incentives and upset the community. How can you provide the most equity and fairness using Flow?

Challenge Statement #7: Best use of Non-Custodial Marketplace Design a marketplace to handle the buying and selling of goods/NFTs

💡 Need ideas? Head over to the resources section for some inspiration!