AplaBlockchainHack hackathon took place in Moscow on the 13th to 15th of April 2018. More than 20 developer teams registered as participants in the event. 14 of them made it to the final project presentation. The best teams received not only monetary prizes, but also the opportunity to work with the hackathon partners: Russian Federal Agency for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks, GazpromNeft Corporation, Rybakov-Fund Charitable Organization, and the IPChain Association.
The hackathon was brought together by Actum – a company that aims towards the development of an entrepreneur community with professional relations between young entrepreneurs and established businesses. The hackathon's technological partner – Apla – has developed their own blockchain platform. Accordingly, the main task for the development teams was to implement business-cases, provided by the hackathon partners, using Apla Blockchain as a platform. Both Apla and Actum are partners of the IPELab for development of the entrepreneur community.
Overall, the hackathon awards totaled in 1.5 million Rubles. This amount was contested by 15 projects delivered by 14 teams. Apla's main awards were given to four teams.
- First place with an award of 200,000 Rubles was taken by the "No Name" team, which presented a project that modeled the regulation of the process for obtaining the rights to buy and use a car in Singapore.
- Second place with an award of 160,000 Rubles was taken by the Facepalm team for a very profound solution to the task from GazpromNeft.
- Two prizes of 20,000 Rubles each were taken by Aple and Solitude teams. The Aple team designed an analytical system for monitoring and evaluation of the quality of products grown in high-technology grow-rooms. The Solitude team demonstrated the use of blockchain technology in the sale of real estate and land plots.
Before the hackathon, all teams were given a qualifying task. This was done to allow the teams to the opportunity to get acquainted with the platform and deploy the environment for development at the hackathon.
The qualification task was as follows:
- Study the following materials: https://genesiskernel.readthedocs.io
- Download the Quick Start build of the platform (https://github.com/GenesisKernel/quick-start) and install it on a local computer. Find smart contracts, interfaces, and tables.
- Study the application structure and approaches to programming using the source code of the demo applications available in the Quick Start platform build.
- Create an interface page with a form to enter comments and a list of approved comments.
- Create a table to save comments.
- Create a contract to save comments in the table.
- Create a comment moderation page that shows a list of comments and a button to approve comments.
- Export the developed table, pages and contracts into a file.
The hackathon participants could choose from a number of tasks given by the hackathon partners.
- Task #1 from Apla: Testing the platform and bug-hunting
- Task #2 from Apla: Providing the best development solution on the platform
- Task from Rybakov-Fund: Use of blockchain in the non-commercial sector
- Task from Gazprom-Neft: Use of blockchain in oil production operations
- Task #1 from the Russian Federal Agency for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks: Use of blockchain to register developments and inventions
- Task #2 from the Russian Federal Agency for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks: Blockchain platform for technology transfer
The total prize fund amounted to 1,500,000 Rubles. The participants competed for prizes in the following nominations:
- Solving tasks from Apla - 2 prizes, 200,000 Rubles each
- Finding bugs on the Apla platform - 2 prizes, 100,000 Rubles each
- Task from the Russian Federal Agency for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks - 1 prize, 200,000 Rubles
- Task from Rybakov Fund - 1 prize, 200,000 Rubles
- Tasks from GazpromNeft – 3 nominations:
- Best Design - 65,000 Rubles
- Best Business Analysis - 65,000 Rubles
- Best Solution - 70,000 Rubles
- Prize provided by IPChain for the best solution - 300,000 Rubles.