We are happy to announce the finale of the 1st Mastercoin Hackathon ever – World Premiere!

It was an incredible weekend with lots of excitement and collaboration .

Dear Master Hackers , thank you for delivering  excellent results – Great Projects – We are all so very proud of you.

 

 

Here is a short summary of the winning projects:

 

1st place – Trust-Trade

Submitted by Master Hackers: Shaul Kfir – Bits of Gold, www.bitsofgold.co.il and Nadav Ivgi – Bitrated, www.bitrated.com

Description:

Trust-Trade is a centralized platform for High-Frequency off-chain trading of digital assets.

Trust-Trade allows peers to trade numerous times in a p2p manner without being bound by blockchain fees and and block creation time, while keeping the trading parties in control of their assets.

The proof-of-concept Trust-Trade implementation successfully conducted multiple rapid trades between the bitcoin-testnet and bitcoin (mainnet) blockchains.

Presentation:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TP7iQzrIUWC-zJdDQ7TWLHckRS3xn3JYcctaX99v0hs/edit#slide=id.p

Code can be found here:  www.trusttrade.info andhttps://github.com/shesek/trust-trade

Website:  www.trusttrade.info

 

2nd place – la’Zooz

Submitted by Master Hackers: Zeev Zohar, Oren Sokolovsky, Ilana Stein, Shai Zluf, Eitan Katchka, Hanoch Bar Nitzan, Ilan Doron, Matan Field, Yehonatan Natan, and Yehonatan Levi.

Description:

La’ZooZ is a decentralised, real-time ride-sharing app, that is using the cryptocurrency technology for establishing, coordinating and growing its community of users, developers, and promoters alike.

Presentation: http://lazooz.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/LaZooZ_Msc_Hackathon.pdf

Code can be found inhttps://github.com/iride/mastercoin-hackaton

Website:http://lazooz.org/

 

3rd place – ChessCoin

Submitted by Master Hacker: Zvika Rap

Description:

It is a distributed chess league which will allow both professional and hobbyist chess player to participate.

Players will play against each other or against a chess AI, and will earn chess coins, which are a dedicated crypto currency based on the Master protocol.

Additional future directions may be:

– Storing every game played on the blockchain,  which can be used as a distributed chess play history database.

– Developing a fully distributed chess protocol which doesn’t require a central server.

– Potential for various commercial, educational and entertainment directions.

 

Presentation/Site: http://chesscoins.com

Code can be found here:https://github.com/zvikara/chess-coins

Another interesting project :

BitBrother

Submitted by Master Hackers: Shabtai Dvir and Nitzan Raber

Description:

This project is a betting platform without a trusted third party, where users can watch their bets on the Mastercoin explorer.
Everything is exposed and there is no cheating and fraud.

 

Presentation: http://app.emaze.com/424056/untitled#slidenum=1
Website: http://alt.center

 

We would like to express our gratitude to our dear sponsors:

BitAngels, Crypto Currency Platform, eToro,Havelock Investments, Seedcoin  and Appcoin for making this event possible.

The Mastercoin Team