We are Clearmatics, a London based startup designing, building and deploying -based peer-to-peer platforms for financial market participants to transact seamlessly and securely without unnecessary intermediaries.
We’re combining cryptography, consensus protocols and economic mechanism design to push towards a future state of dFMI (distributed Financial Market Infrastructure).
We call our approach “decentralised automation”. Central to this is Ion, our platform-agnostic interoperability framework. We’re currently implementing use cases such as payment-versus-payment, delivery-versus-payment and beyond, and we need your help at ETHDenver 2019!
Ion is a system and function-agnostic framework for building cross-interacting smart contracts between blockchains and/or systems. It does not restrict itself to certain methods of interoperation and is not opinionated on what specific functions it should be built for and, as such, it is an open protocol.
Atomic swaps and decentralised exchanges can be built on Ion and facilitate the free movement of value across different blockchains. These are just two of the possible use-cases that can be developed on top of the Ion framework.
is for it to evolve into becoming a library of tools that developers can use on any system to build cross-chain smart contracts to interoperate with any other system.
This year we’re working on a bunch of projects that we hope we can #buidl with you all at ETHDenver. Specifically, there are two at the top of our list that we hope you can contribute to:
We have 3 reward categories where you can demonstrate your creativity and technical expertise, with a total of $5,000 in cash up for grabs. You can submit to as many categories as you like — in fact, we’d love you to participate in all three!
1. $2,000 Bounty — #BUIDL The Ion Protocol
With this bounty, we want to see how you, the ETHDenver community, can evolve, enhance and further develop the Ion interoperability protocol.
To do this we need to write a lot of code, and we can’t do it alone. Suggestions include the development of new validation contracts for different consensus mechanisms and system-specific storage contracts not just for based platforms but for many different blockchains and DLTs.
Additionally, we want to improve the Ion we already have and would love to see more general enhancements to the framework in areas such as efficiency or privacy.
2. $1,000 Bounty — #BUIDL with Ion — dApp Category
We want you to use Ion for any cross-chain use case. Whether it’s creating a decentralised exchange, a simple atomic-swap or getting oracle data on-chain the possibilities endless. You could also use Ion and our client, Autonity, to relay computationally expensive procedures on a side chain. Come up with your own use cases using Ion.
Here are some suggestions for Use Cases:
- DEX
- Atomic-Swap
- Sidechain for scalability (Clearmatics’ Autonity client can be used)
- Oracle
- Dapp for state transfer visualisation
3. $500 Bounty — #WOW-Ion — Simply, WOW us
The Ion Interoperability framework allows the transfer of state between systems. The generality allows for many different potential use cases. With this bounty, we want you to amaze and surprise us in the way you’ve utilised the framework.
There are 4 prizes of $500, totalling $2,000.
Documentation and resources
Below we’ve provided all the documentation you need to get started:
Requirements
- Link to the open source code
- Short Readme/Explanation of Bounty Submission
Judging Criteria
We will judge bounty submissions based on used at ETHSF (Technical, Original, Ambitious, Design/UX) on a scale of not very to very.
Don’t forget to say hello!
We can’t wait to discover what ETHDenver has to offer. We heard so many great things about last year that we can’t wait for it to kick off.
We’d love to meet you while we’re in Colorado and hear what you’re working on! We’re also on hand to answer any questions regarding the ION framework, Autonity and dFMI.
Our CTO, George Ornbo has flown out from London to attend, along with some of our engineers, Youssef Azzaoui, Duarte Aragao, Chris Chung, Max Grabner and Andrés Monteoliva. We also have our product strategist, Sara Feenan, along with me, Christophe MacIntosh, communications and community lead here at Clearmatics in Denver.
So drop by our booth and let’s talk!
Cheers,
Christophe
Christophe MacIntosh, , Community & Communications Lead, Clearmatics
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Published at Thu, 14 Feb 2019 23:48:32 +0000
