“We believe Web 3.0 is going to create huge value in the years, by enabling users to utilize their personal data to improve their web experience,” team member Chris Konkon said. “We have been contemplating questions such as: what projects will be adopted by the mainstream, beyond DeFi and NFTs? What will it take for the average user to crypto protocols in a way similar to web 2.0 protocols like http?”.

Only relevant crypto news please

The team zeroed in on a problem that has been bothering them for a while – getting an overview of developments in the crypto space without the distractions or time wastages from irrelevant ads or other content. Kontext is a news aggregator that addresses this by filtering and sorting all crypto News, using a personalization algorithm that is open to anyone to plug into and customize.

Kontext does this by first breaking down the data silos of individual web 2.0 platforms, allowing users to save their full personal online identities into self-sovereign storages. It then allows them to share their data on a common data layer, with developers. These developers then plug into the data to train personalization algorithms, to improve users’ browsing experience.

According to Chris the framework developed and used by Kontext can be used for other Web3 protocols as well.

He said: “This creates an open ecosystem, in which users benefit from an improved experience, and developers get rewarded for their contribution – creating a self-reinforcing loop. This way, the Kontext ecosystem will unlock a fully personalized internet.”

Chris says that ads will be more personalized compared to web 2.0 advertisements.

The prototype for Kontext was built in two months, after they heard about Web 3.0 Hackathon challenge.

** Road ahead**

Encouraged by the validation for their project, team Kontext now extend the personalization features, as well as promote adoption. Chris elaborates: “We are building a feature that will allow users to log in with their Twitter account, to personalize their own lists. This way, they can build lists for topics like #DeFi #NFT or $BTC and $ETH.”

To foster adoption, Team Kontext is also creating an airdrop for customized reputation NFTs. They intend to reward users with these NFTs, representing their influence in the crypto Twitter sphere. Eventually there could also be a token that aligns the ecosystem around a common strategy.

Thanks to Web 3.0 SEA Alliance

The team is grateful to the organizers of Web 3.0 Hackathon for providing a platform for their idea. Chris said: “Web 3.0 Hackathon allowed us to showcase our first prototype and gave us confidence in continuing to build our product.”

“The team supported us very closely and continued to be helpful whenever we had questions. We also like that the organization was fully transparent, using Github and Discord. This matches with our vision of the future internet we want to create.”

He added: “Our vision is a free internet that automatically personalizes any user’s browsing experience, while protecting their privacy. From recommendations in e-commerce (Amazon, Jindong), entertainment (Netflix, Douban), to search (Google) and personalized advertisement, Web 3.0 will improve accuracy of personalization all over the web.”

Core members of Team Kontext

• Feifei Konkon

• Lana Konkon

• Mochi

“Volumetric data such as a higher number of data points or a higher sampling rate used to be key,” he explains. “But that has changed in recent times. The value of data and data veracity are becoming increasingly important for stakeholders. I think blockchain has a unique proposition here.”

His project – Quartz – addresses the issue of data veracity for the fast-growing IoT industry, where a significant portion of data verification is still performed manually. Quartz incorporates a wide range of technologies – edge computing, device management, containerization, and smart contracts – to deliver an end-to-end solution for IoT data delivery. The solution introduces efficacy in some of the most data sensitive domains such as regulatory compliance and certification, facilitating investor confidence as well.

Wide applicability

Team Quartz believes that their solution can be applicable to any IoT usage or situation. “Yes, that is the plan, and we are confident of achieving it. IoT and big data will always be horizontally spread across multiple domains.”

Team Quartz’s experience with various verticals – smart buildings, utilities, transportation and maritime – bolsters their confidence in the wide applicability of their solution. “While each industry has its own sets of unique issues, we have identified common core features relevant across the board,” he says.

He adds: “For example, when it comes to green financing, being able to autonomously influence the trust factor of a particular deployment has immediate monetary impact, both to the lender and borrower. This is surely a step in the right direction, and I believe this will, to a huge extent, accelerate the process of loan reviews and encourage more asset digitalization.”

Rollout plans

Team Quartz plans to roll out the solution in an agile manner, through industry-specific iterations. Starting with a closed beta test in Q3 of this 2022, they aim to go to market by Q1 of 2023, with all or most of its core features in place.

Jasper says that the most important validation will come from actual users. As such, he is looking forward to the live, on-the-ground feedback that he is expecting to receive during the beta tests. The team has already received interest from some partners who are ready to a trial run in their environment, to evaluate the solution.

However, given that it’s still early days, Jasper is also tempering his optimism: “There are many intricacies and difficulties, especially with a significant portion of inputs that is near impossible to digitalize and track. Hence, I would not pretend that the solution would be a miracle pill to the issues at hand.”

On Web 3.0 Hackathon

Jasper believes that events such as Web 3.0 Hackathon, go a long way in encouraging innovation. “I am a firm believer that ideas and talents are nurtured through empowerment,” he said. “It is important to give people with aspirations the opportunity, support and freedom to showcase themselves and learn from the experience.”

He added: “The openness of this event especially, has allowed a lot of room for innovation and creative thinking amongst all the builders. I would like to give a huge shoutout to the rest of the participants as well – I saw tons of interesting ideas during their presentations, and it was an eye-opening experience to me in terms of the possibilities of Web 3.0.”

Core Members of Team Quartz:

• Jasper Tan Jian Ming – Team leader, solution architect

• John Nguyen Ahn Chuan – Backend and embedded system designer

• Li Chenxi – Smart contract developer

However, one drawback of DFINITY’s Internet Computer is that it is currently not designed with a native built-in event logs system. To circumvent this, developers often have had to implement their own event logs canister. But this would have its own shortcomings: there would be no interface to browse event logs; they will not be uniform, nor will they be trusted by users.

Holistic solution

ICES (Internet Computer Event System) is a solution developed by ICFans Labs. It addresses all these pain points head-on. With ICES, developers no longer need to develop their own event log canister. Developers can easily view event logs through ICES’ explorer function.

Product manager and full stack developer of ICES, Lee.C, further elaborates: “While canister developers can store their event logs in their own defined canisters, if the standards defined by each person are not uniform, it will limit the DFINITY Lego ecosystem formation.”

He adds: “ICES is a complete solution for event logs. It is completely open source, free to use, simple to integrate, and provides a permanent data storage, plus a developer-friendly API and explorer function.”

An additional value-add of the system is that it provides data metrics for analysis.

Besides picking up the second prize of US$15,000 at Web 3.0 Hackathon, ICES also won the Community Award and the DFINITY Ecological Bounty. The Community Award of US$3,000 and US$300 in Alibaba Cloud Credits Coupons is given to the most popular project, based on comments, retweets, and likes. ICES received 377 comments, 374 retweets and 375 likes in total.

The core development members of the project come from a wide range of fields – public chain, fintech, big data, information communication and other related industries. All the team members each have more than eight years of development experience. They have rich experience in the crypto field and have participated in DeFi, blockchain browser, cross-chain bridge, and their underlying infrastructures.

Next Steps

The team plans to add more advanced features to ICES to make the data on it more transparent.

“We will continue to polish ICES, making it more usable, Lee said. “Our goal is to make ICES an essential infrastructure for the IC ecosystem. To achieve this vision, the active participation of the whole community is very important. The future of ICES will be decided by the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization).

Core Team Members

• Lee C, Product – Manager & Full Stack Developer

• Youkers – Backend & Smart Contract Developer

• Key – Frontend Developer

Web 3.0 Hackathon, organized by the Web 3.0 SEA Alliance, attracted attention from more than 4,200 participants, with some real-world relevant projects surrounding blockchain technology in a range of different areas – web3 tools, protocols, gaming, NFT, socialFi and IoT.

The1st prize was won by Team Quartz, for their project, “Quartz”, a platform that leverages the immutable nature of blockchain technology to make IOT data gathering more transparent, accurate and cost-effective.

Efficiency in IOT data gathering

Quartz addresses a key issue for the IoT industry, which is growing exponentially – a significant portion of data verification is still performed manually. The project incorporates a wide range of technologies – edge computing, device management, containerization, and smart contracts – to deliver an end-to-end solution for IoT data delivery. Quartz introduces efficacy in some of the most data sensitive domains such as regulatory compliance and certification, facilitating investor confidence as well.

“Data veracity is becoming increasingly important for stakeholders,” representative from Team Quartz, Jasper Tan Jian Ming, said. “I think blockchain has a unique proposition here and thus the idea of integrating the two came to mind.”

He commented on his next steps: “This project brings together players in various verticals and my immediate plan moving forward would be to launch a beta test involving them, to get live, on-the-ground feedback. Fortunately, we do have some partners who are keen to give us a trial run in their environment, so that we can further evaluate our solution.”

There were two second prizes – awarded to ICES, a canister customer event log storage and analysis service for DFINITY network, and to Kontext, a news service that enhances personalization.

Enabling public queries of canister’s interaction records

ICES addresses the issue of how currently canister’s interaction records cannot be publicly queried . With this innovation, any canister can access ICES without permission, store its interactive data permanently, and query it through the public API and dashboard provided by ICES. All smart contracts that need to record event logs and statistics indefinitely and want to make the data public are the target users of ICES.

ICES also picked up two other awards – the Dfinity Ecological Bounty Award and the Community Award. The Ecological Bounty Award is given to a project that best applies the Internet Computer Stack during development. The US$7,000 prize was sponsored by ICPort, DMail and IC Naming, representatives of which companies also evaluated the projects.

The Community Award of US$3,000 and US$300 in Alibaba Cloud Credits Coupons is given for the most popular project, based on comments, retweets and likes. ICES received 377 comments, 374 retweets and 375 likes in total.

The next step in news personalization

Kontext addresses an all-too-familiar issue – time wasted on endless ads and irrelevant content when looking for something that we need. Kontext facilitates superior personalization by hosting a shared data layer and implementing reward mechanisms to present to users the most relevant news per day, in a matter of minutes.

Among the demo projects, Team MetapoLabs had the best score for their project, which involved a fair exposure social network content infrastructure, in which you voted for posts with stablecoin.  The quadratic voting algorithm makes the exposure no longer exclusive to KOLs, but to the quality of the content itself. MetapoLabs allows DAPPs Lego such as Web3BBS, Web3Twitter, Web3Reddit to be created.

The aim of the Web 3.0 Hackathon was to provide an opportunity for developers for mutual communication and skill learning. In the long term, it is expected that Web 3.0 will subvert the existing pattern of the Internet industry and even the social order. Decentralization, data privatization, transferable value, and trust will become core concepts of Web 3.0. Users who create network information and data will also share its value. Monopolistic internet giants will be replaced by open source and open smart contract protocol platforms.

Lucas Liu, research director at Huobi Incubator and one of the judges at Web 3.0 Hackathon, said: “This event created an environment filled with hacker spirit and provided an opportunity for teams to learn new things and meet new friends. We were thrilled to see projects and people full of creativity and passion for Web 3.0 coming out of this event, and we look forward to seeing more of it in future events organized by the Web 3.0 SEA Alliance.”

Check the winners and demo teams here:

https://github.com/WEB3-ALLIANCE/Web3Hackathon2022/issues

Web 3.0 will be an evolutionary leap forward for the Internet. Powered by blockchain, it promises to broaden the boundaries on what is possible.

From AI to 3D to the Internet of Things, the semantic web and spatial web, Web 3.0 will soon be all around us, dictating our everyday lives. Web 3.0 Hackathon will focus on encouraging new projects and tools in Web 3.0 related spaces, including DeFi, gaming, web 3.0 tools & protocols, NFT and DAO.

Compared to other hackathon events, which place limitations on innovation, Web 3.0 Hackathon will not. Developers are free to choose whichever blockchain they prefer to deploy for projects. The aim of Web 3.0 Hackathon is to unleash builders’ innovation.

If you are an indie developer who is keen to make your mark on this exciting future, this event is for you. The decision you make today may be your most important one.

Minted NFTs for completed projects

The organizers of Web 3.0 Hackathon are also offering Web3Builder minted NFTs as rewards to all participants who successfully conceive, design, and submit product ideas. Click here to find out about the process and requirements for claiming the NFTs.

The Graph Workshop

Web 3.0 Hackathon will also feature workshops and webinars by blockchain experts. One of these is the Graph workshop which will be conducted by Pranav Maheshwari, a popular speaker at blockchain conferences and an active promoter and adviser on web 3.0 projects.

The Graph is an indexing protocol for querying networks like Ethereum and IPFS. It allows anyone to build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, making data easily accessible. Before the Graph, teams had to develop and operate proprietary indexing servers, which required significant engineering and hardware resources, and also hindered important security properties required for decentralization.

Ecological bounty

A US$7,000 Ecological Bounty Award is also given to the project that best applies the Internet Computer Stack during development.

There is a top prize of US$25,000. In total US$92,000 in prizes will be given away.

Register now for Web 3.0 Hackathon!

Useful Info: Challenge Categories & Guidance Prizes About this event NFTs when you register| Who are the judges? Judging Criteria Event schedule Community Support Discord

• Topic: DeFi, gaming, Web 3.0 tools & protocols, NFT and DAO

Web 3.0 Hackathon will focus on encouraging new projects and tools in Web 3.0 related spaces, including DeFi, gaming, web 3.0 tools & protocols, NFT and DAO. Builders will have opportunities to attend talks, workshops and to meet and interact with mentors and top judges in the industry, with a view to potentially gaining funding from leading venture capitals and industry veterans.

• No limitations on what blockchain to deploy

There are no limitations on which blockchain to deploy for projects. The aim of Web 3.0 Hackathon is to unleash builders’ innovation. Do contact us if you have questions or need mentoring when building.

• NFT gifts  for registered participants

We have also prepared NFT gifts  for registered participants —- the Web 3.0 Hackathon 2022 Registration NFT is the first official NFT collection from Web 3.0 SEA Alliance. All successful registered participants are eligible to claim one NFT on Project Galaxy.

Happy coding!

Join our Discord community group to stay tuned on the talks, workshops and information on the judges.

About Web 3.0 Hackathon

Web 3.0 SEA Alliance is a joint initiative of Web3 Scholarship, ABGA, FBG Capital, Sanctor Capital and Spark Digital Capital. The event aims to gather the developers who are enthusiastic about Web 3.0, the decentralized, private, censorship-resistant internet that is coming our way. Web 3.0 Hackathon will be a platform to connect, communicate, inspire, and collaborate with each other, and to nurture cutting edge dApps, tools, protocols, and infrastructure for Web 3.0.

Programme:
Registration:
Now till 15th March
Online team-up & Hacking: Feb 16th - March 24th
Demo Day: March 25th

Prizes: Total Award Pool Size: US$92,000 Top Winner: US$25,000 (1 slot) Second Tier Winners : US$15,000, (2 slots) Third Tier Winners: US$8,000 (3 slots) Community Award: US$3,000 (1 slot)

Alibaba Cloud Credits Coupon: Top Winner: US$2,000 (1 slot) Second Tier Winners: US$1,000 (2 slots) Third Tier Winners: US$600 (3 slots) Community Award: US$300 (1 slot)

Learn more: https://web3-hackathon.com/

• US$92,000 in prizes in total; top prize of US$25,000

• Opportunity to influence the course of Internet history

The Web 3.0 SEA Alliance, an initiative by Web3 Scholarship, ABGA, FBG Capital, Sanctor Capital and Spark Digital Capital, is calling all indie developers and teams to throw their hat in to the Web 3.0 Hackathon challenge.

The decentralized internet

Web 3.0 promises to be an evolutionary leap forward that the internet needs, democratizing ownership of personal data on one hand, increasing transparency of its usage by organizations on the other and yet also fortifying the protection of it.

Web 3.0 works by gathering a group of technology stacks, including blockchain infrastructure layer (P2P network stack, State Transition Machine), protocol layer (API services, data aggregation) and dApps (DeFi, GameFi, DAO, user interface).

Beyond boundaries

On top of the profound implications of its underlying infrastructure that is blockchain, there are yet other experiential empowering transformations that Web 3.0 will usher in:

• Semantic web, where web technologies decode meaning and emotions for a richer internet experience

• Artificial intelligence, where thinking machines remove all the biases of human beings to give you unfiltered results

• Spatial web and 3D, where the lines between the physical and the digital worlds are blurred

• Ubiquity, where the Internet will leave its traditional abodes to be anywhere and everywhere

There are literally no boundaries on what’s possible at Web 3.0 hackathon.

Change the world

These are all industry-transforming, and you have an opportunity to play a part in it – to accelerate the changes that are coming. Don’t let the future go by without you having your say on it.

Entry Eligibility: All indie developers and teams who are passionate about and willing to contribute to Web 3.0.

Register here

Developers can also bounce off their ideas and brainstorm further at the Web 3.0 Hackathon Discord portal.

About Web 3.0 Hackathon

Web 3.0 SEA Alliance is a joint initiative of Web3 Scholarship, ABGA, FBG Capital, Sanctor Capital and Spark Digital Capital. The event aims to gather independent developers who are enthusiastic about Web 3.0, the decentralized, private, censorship-resistant internet that is coming our way. Web 3.0 Hackathon will be a platform to connect, communicate, inspire, and collaborate with each other, and to nurture cutting edge dApps, tools, protocols, and infrastructure for Web 3.0.

Joint Organizers:

Web3 Scholarship Web3 Scholarship is a funding platform jointly initiated by Huobi Incubator and a group of blockchain veterans, venture capitals, universities, and crypto platforms. It will be committed to funding builders in the Web 3.0 field and providing support in many aspects, i.e,. funds, incubator mentorship and token listing opportunities for early-stage projects.

ABGA ABGA is a non-profit, blockchain alliance, co-sponsored by leading institutions in the gaming industry. These institutions are optimistic about blockchain games, NFTs and Metaverse, and are taking the initiative to support ABGA related activities and investments.

FBG Capital FBG Capital, founded in 2016, is Asia's leading digital asset management and investment firm.

Sanctor Capital Sanctor Capital is a sanctuary where bright minds can find the support they need to maximize their impact on the industry. With a number of in-house initiatives like Sanctor Labs and Sanctor Turbo, founders can find the guidance they need across a number of different areas like product strategy, tokenomics, communication and partnerships.

Spark Digital Capital Established in 2017, Spark Digital Capital is a New York based family office crypto fund with a remarkable tracking record in the industry.

Prizes:

Total Award Pool Size: US$92,000 Top Winner: US$25,000 (1 slot) Second Tier Winners : US$15,000, (2 slots) Third Tier Winners: US$8,000 (3 slots) Community Award: US$3,000 (1 slot)

Alibaba Cloud Credits Coupon

Top Winner: US$2,000 (1 slot) Second Tier Winners: US$1,000 (2 slots) Third Tier Winners: US$600 (3 slots) Community Award: US$300 (1 slot) Other Demo Teams: US$150 each team

Programme:

Registration: Now till 15th March Challenge announcement: 16th March Online team-up: March 16th - 20th Hacking: March 21st - 24th Demo Day: March 25th @Singapore + live connecting

• Event registration link:  https://web3hackathon.typeform.com/to/XYro0spC

• Discord portal:  https://discord.gg/9v6Uv8Kn7E