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The Minima Innovation Challenge is a month-long competition designed to find brilliant and unique applications for the protocol, outside of what has already been conceived. Now is your chance to shine!
The Minima Innovation Challenge is designed to support and encourage individuals and teams to create innovative solutions using the Minima Protocol. The challenge will be split into two phases.
Dates and Timings
Submission Period: 13/07/22 to 02/08/22
Phase 1 Ideation: 18/07/22 to 05/08/22
Phase 2 Coding: 09/08/22 to 30/08/22
Judging/Voting Period: 31/08/22 to 06/09/22
Winners Announced: 15/09/22
Distribution of Prizes: Soon after “Winners Announced”. Dates and timings are subject to change. All changes will be communicated to participants.
Phase 1: Ideation
Over the course of three weeks, teams will have access to educational resources and office hours with the Minima and EdenBase teams to brainstorm and ask questions.
At the end of the three weeks, teams will not need to deliver any code yet, however you will need to share a brief presentation of the idea accompanied by a written description. This includes a discussion of market fit, why the idea is uniquely suited for the Minima Protocol, and what the competitive landscape looks like.
From the Ideation phase, the top 10 projects will receive $1000 each of Minima token and be invited to Phase 2.
Phase 2: Coding
These 10 teams will then build their solutions using Minima, and provide at least a Proof of Concept (PoC) at the end of the sprint.
From the projects that submitted a PoC, the top 5 will be invited to a week-long series of feedback and mentorship sessions that will provide them with further technical support and business support in developing the MiniDapp use case and code.
The judges will then choose the top 3 teams, who will be awarded a financial prize, and teams that show more long-term thinking, including ideas around how to productize their idea, will have a higher chance of winning.
Below are the most popular topics suggested by the Minima community.
- Social Impact
- Healthcare
- Education
- Sustainability
- NFTs
- P2P Payments
- Crime prevention
- Censorship resistance
- Integrity and provenance of data/media
- Gig economy
- Gaming
- Cross Border usage in underprivileged countries
- De-demonization of DeFi to regulators
- Self Sovereign Identity
- Energy efficiency
- Tech for migrants
- P2P Communication
- Enterprise applications
- DeFi Borrowing and lending
- DEXs
- Decentralised Social Media ...and others that we haven't thought of!
The submissions will be evaluated based on the following criteria.
Concessions may be made if an idea is amazing, even if the deployment of it still requires extra support.
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Innovation – is this a novel idea?
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Application of Minima Protocol – is this project utilizing Minima correctly? Does it embrace Minima’s full potential?
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Market fit – is this something that is needed on the market? Was the productization strategy presented?
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Quality of presentation – was the pitch convincing? Does the team want to move this to the next level?
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Quality of code – is the project coded in a professional way?
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Roadmap – are the next steps clear and actionable?
Concessions may be made if an idea is amazing, even if the deployment of it still requires extra support.
The total prize pool is USD $40,000 in Minima Tokens.
The Top 10 teams from the Ideation Phase will receive USD $1,000 worth of Minima Tokens and will move on to the Coding Phase of the Innovation Challenge.
The 2 runners-up in Phase 2 will receive USD $5,000 in Minima Tokens each.
The overall winners will receive USD $20,000 in Minima Tokens.
To Enter the competition, follow this link and complete the form by 2nd August 2022.
The Top 10 teams from the Ideation Phase will build their solutions using Minima, and provide at least a Proof of Concept (PoC) at the end of the sprint.
From the projects that submitted a PoC, the top 5 will be invited to feedback and mentorship sessions that will provide them with further technical and business support in developing the dApp use case and code.
We are looking our for outstanding submissions. Teams that show more long-term thinking, including ideas around how to productize their idea, will have a higher chance of winning.
Please visit the Learn section of our Docs website to learn about the Protocol
Please visit the Build section of our Docs website to learn how to:
- Start a private test node
- Write a MiniDapp
- Write Scripts and Smart Contracts
Before submitting, you must have entered the competition by completing this form before the 2nd August 2022. Submissions without entries will NOT be valid.
To complete a submission, follow the steps below:
Phase 1 Entries
- Open a New Issue for your submission using a team member's GitHub Account
- Complete the Issue template, providing information required for Phase 1
- Submit the Issue
- Congratulations, your Phase 1 submission is complete!
Phase 2 Entries
- Upload your code to a GitHub repository (or other publicly accessible internet location)
- Find your Phase 1 submission issue here and edit it
- Complete the Issue template, providing information required for Phase 2
- Save the Issue
- Congratulations, your Phase 2 submission is complete!
Note:
- The Issue template should be strictly followed. Submissions not following the template will NOT be valid.
- Only a single issue has to be made for each individual project, multiple submissions will NOT be valid.
Please ensure you read and agree to the following rules and regulations https://innovation.minima.global/rules-regulations
https://docs.minima.global/docs/minimaprivacypolicy/
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