Winners of the Ocean Protocol Holiday Build-A-Thon
This hackathon-like competition started before the December holidays. It ran through mid-January, providing participants a one-month window to submit proposals for leveraging Ocean Protocol technology in business applications. Here are the top 3:
A Brief Synopsis
Using Ocean Protocol Technology, the Holiday Build-A-Thon offered a unique chance for data enthusiasts, developers, and imaginative scientists to collaborate and pioneer data economy-inspired products and services.
Results
In December, thirty-two teams registered, but only three emerged victorious. Each of these three teams demonstrated exemplary execution, as evaluated by our scoring committee. The primary goal was to explore the participants ability to think innovatively and apply creativity in devising fresh and engaging ideas for new projects using Ocean technology.
Top 3
1st Place— Marco Rodrigues
Marco impressed the review committee with his innovative web application, Post3 Engine. Post3 is designed to extract and analyze data from Web3 media platforms. The Post3 platform addresses a recurring demand for searchability and data analysis in Web3 news, alerts, and digital media. Content that is easy to digest and understand, and offers insights to trends and business intelligence. This proposition underscores the potential of leveraging Web3 technologies to increase digital content ownership and permanency. Congratulations to Marco on his award-winning proposal!
Check out Marco’s Proof of Concept Website:
The repository related to the website platform above is below:
Marco's project summary and building experience, written himself:
2nd Place — Stigma
This proposal aims to improve how delivery and ride-sharing services plan their routes. Congratulations to this fantastic idea for winning second place! It targets making food delivery and ride-sharing more efficient by focusing on better route planning. To explain the goal, here’s a video summary:
Stigma proposed an idea to shift the focus away from big companies like Uber and DoorDash and give more control to businesses and consumers themselves. The project introduces a Route Optimization app that cuts out the middleman in delivery services. Using Streamlit, Stigma developed a user-friendly web tool that improves how delivery routes are planned and managed. It is built with a focus on ease of use.
This application comes packaged with various functionalities like distance matrix calculations, data encryption, route plotting, and transferring of data using Ocean Protocol Technology.
A Route Optimization demonstration was built in a simple Streamlit app, and includes easy-to-follow steps:
3rd Place — Mohammad Jamali
In the video below, Mohammad Jamali personally describes how he created an app that blends an NFT marketplace, a wallpaper manager, and a virtual 3D gallery to make the user experience more engaging and give artists a new way to display and monetize their art. He shares the motivation behind the app, the challenges faced, including technical hurdles with blockchain technology, and the unique features that distinguish it, such as real-time wallpaper updates from favorite artists.
Objectives & Outcomes:
Before: This was for individuals or teams to create their own business proposal that has real-life applicability. Areas like automation, data processing, and predictive analytics were potential fields to explore for solutions. Teams submitted their proposals when they signed up for the Build-A-Thon, making sure to address key items in the evaluation criteria
- Innovation
- Technology Implementation
- Social & Business Impact
After: The 3 best submissions included a data-driven statistics newsletter, advanced privacy and customization data tooling, and technology disruption in the delivery services industry; each podium finisher uses Ocean Technology to improve an existing workflow or demonstrates a use case in practical, real-world examples.
Congratulations to all 3 award-winning teams mentioned above. The teams followed an agenda given these key dates:
Timeline:
Launch Date: Monday, December 7, 2023
Registration Deadline: Thursday, December 14, 2023, 11:59 PM
Final Entry Deadline: Friday, January 12, 2024 (last day for registered teams to submit their entry)
Conclusion: Monday, February 12, 2024
Next Steps
The 3 podium finishers were invited to explore further collaboration with Ocean through the Shipyard grants program, and the 2024 data challenge championship.
Collaboration & Benefits of participation in data challenges and hackathon-style events include opportunities in grant and fundraising rounds, expanding networking opportunities, sponsored research, and co-marketing/communication initiatives.
Opportunities to Partake in the Ocean Ecosystem
Future experimental business applications, scientific research, bi-weekly data science intensive competitions, and hypothesis testing can be found through Ocean Protocol Data Challenges.
Development & User Guidelines on Ocean Technology can be found in our docs: https://docs.oceanprotocol.com/
About Ocean Protocol
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