At the Blockstack Signature Fund event held in Berlin over the last 3/4 days, Blockstack growth team member – Clint Nelson, organized a Hackathon for building dApps for the Blockstack ecosystem.  Over ninety (90) engineers, coders, hackers, enthusiasts… converged to compete, logged in, tuned in and built/hacked out some amazing dApps for Blockstack.

Please find below a brief overview of the top three dApps built for the Blockstack ecosystem in thirty-six (36) hours from concept to build.  Wow, what a feat!

Blockstagram (instagram alternative)

A decentralized peer-to-peer encrypted alternative to Instagram that has been built for Blockstack

dApp Raffle

dApp Raffle is an Ethereum smart contract that enables a unique form of crowdfunding disguised as a contest.  In dApp Raffle, participants buy tickets to participate and the smart contract randomly picks a winner and then distributes the funds to the provider of the prize.

Content Block

A content standardization layer on top of Blockstack’s Gaia Storage that makes it easy for dApps to read and write content such as photos and notes in the same format.

As the dApps shown above are taken from beta versions to live dApps that are available on the Blockstack ecosystem, we will try and provide a brief overview of each dApp.  What a great job to everyone involved in the Blockstack Berlin Hackathon.  Go Blockstack!

Blockstack’s Browser

Blockstack harnesses all of the power of the traditional internet and then adds the Blockstack Browser on top. The Blockstack Browser opens the window to a new internet, a decentralized internet that puts the power back in the hand of the users.  To begin your journey into the new decentralized internet designed by Blockstack, you will need to install the Blockstack Browser. The Blockstack Browser is your window/portal into the new decentralized internet for decentralized applications (dApps).

Download the Blockstack Browser

For help on installing and using the Blockstack Browser, please visit this link Getting started with the Blockstack Browser.

For a more in depth look into the Blockstack Browser, please visit these links – Inside the Blockstack Browser and Blockstack Browser: It does that?

Now that you have the browser installed, visit the Blockstack Browser homepage and try out some of the active decentralized applications – e.g., investment portfolio management, messaging, word processing… More decentralized applications are being added as developed.

Resources re: Blockstack and dApps

• Blockstack
• @blockstack
  • @blockstackapps
• Developers
  • Introduction
    • Papers
    • Videos
    • Tutorials
      • (e.g., todo and multi-player storage)
    • Installation
    • Github
      • Javascript
      • Core API
• Blog
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Blockstack Meetups

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Learning Session

The Blockstack learning session is a not miss event for developers interested in building on the Blockstack ecosystem.  The learning session will be held on Thursday, March 1, 2018 and will include the following:

• introduction to Blockstack
• Blockstack Identity
• Blockstack;s storage protocol – Gaia
• Blockstack’s Javascript – blockstack.js storage strategies
• Authentication in a dApp
• Blockstack’s Atlas network overview
• Developed dApps
• Much more…

• Thursday, March 1, 2018 (Axica)*
  Blockstack Learning Sessions 11am – 2:00pm Blockstack Learning Sessions will be TECH HEAVY Sessions.
• Please email shannon@blockstack.com with any questions and to register to attend.

 

Hackathon

In addition to the learning session, Blockstack Berlin is also hosting a hackathon.  The scheduled hackathon starts the evening of Friday, March 2 and ends Sunday, March 4, 2018. 

Friday, March 2 (Evening) – Sunday, March 4, 2018 (Betahaus Berlin)

• Hackathon
• Register here

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The event is a who’s who of decentralized internet thinkers from Nick Szabo, George Gilder, Elizabeth Stark, Juan Benet, Edward Snowden… just to name a few.  The entire lineup of speakers is top notch.  Let take a quick peek of the aforementioned speakers:

Nick Szabo – is a computer scientist, lawyer and cryptographer known for his research in digital contracts and digital currency. He is credited with “bitgold”, a precursor to bitcoin and developed the concept of “smart contracts”.  Please find a blog by Mr. Szabo here – http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/

George Gilder – information theorist, investor, writer, economist, techno-utopian advocate, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute.

Juan Benet – creator of IPFS and Filecoin, founder of Protocol Labs.   He is the inventor of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a new protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open, and Filecoin, a cryptocurrency incentivized storage network.

Elizabeth Stark – Ceo and Co-founder of Lightning.  Lightning is an open protocol layer that leverages the power of blockchains and smart contracts to make cheap, fast, private transactions available to anyone around the world.  The lightning protocol dramatically improves the scalabilty of blockchain currencies like Bitcoin.

Edward Snowden – is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, and former contractor for the United States government.

And, don’t forget, the co-founders of Blockstack (Muneeb Ali and Ryan Shea) are on the line-up too.  A complete listing of all of the speakers scheduled to speak this Friday can be found at this link here.  Check out the Blockstack Berlin video here as well as past Blockstack event videos here.

These people know the decentralized internet like it was the back of their hand.  All of these people have what I call [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”hover”]The Expanding Mind^TM[/sg_popup].  If you have any interest in this stuff and want to be enlightened about decentralization of the internet, make sure you join everyone at Blockstack Berlin.

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Along with all of the scheduled speakers, Blockstack Berlin has also invited some dApp developers to debut/demonstrate their new and exciting decentralized application(s) at the Blockstack Berlin event. The dApps to be presented at the Blockstack Berlin event have either been built or are being built for use on the Blockstack ecosystem.  We have attached – for your convenience – a list of dApp developers scheduled to present at Blockstack Berlin.

This is the second installment of our series of profiles on the dApps (developers too) to be presented at Blockstack Berlin.  Our second dApp profile is on Coins.

Coins

The first decentralized encrypted cryptocurrency portfolio management tool created on top of Blockstack.

Developer (s):

• Thomas Osmonson (profile picture no. 6) – Independent designer, developer, and street photographer. Does a lot of work for @plotlygraphs, and maker of @usecoins.
  
• Chase Wackerfuss (profile picture no. 6) – Web Developer & UI Designer, Musician & recent new hire at Blockstack
  

Version No. 1 was a joint development (live on Blockstack)

Version No. 2 (coming soon) will be developed solely by Thomas Osmonson  (Note: We heard from Mr. Osmonson that Mr. Wackerfuss has gone to work* with Blockstack – wonderful job to both of you.)

Social:

• @aulneau_ (https://twitter.com/aulneau_)
• @vackerfoos (https://twitter.com/vockerfoos)

Website: Coins (Coins)

Social: @usecoins (Coins)

Other:

Thomas Osmonson (An independent designer, developer, and creative director.) for Ineffable.co.

The purpose of Coins is to allow the user to manage the user’s token or coin portfolio in a secure and decentralized way.

Basically, Coins uses the power of Blockstack to bring us a token and coin management application platform that:

• is decentralized, secure and encrypted
• supports multiple currencies, tokens and coins
• provides a powerful metrics UX (user interface)

Coins is the token/coin portfolio management solution – decentralized, secure and encrypted, supports multiple currencies, tokens and coins with a powerful metrics platform and user interface (UX). 

For more on Coins, please visit this link here. For a more personal and close-up look at Coins, please visit with Mr. Osmonson at Blockstack Berlin – go Blockstack Berlin.

So, when you amass a stack of tokens, don’t reach for the piggy bank, think COINS – the secure environment in which to manage those assets. 

Visit the Blockstack Berlin site here.

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A great place to find information about these Blockstack Meetups is by visiting the Blockstack site and clicking on the meetup link at the bottom of the page (middle column, line 4) and/or going directly to the Meetups Blockstack site.  The Blockstack Meetup meetings are happening in various locations, both in the U.S. and other countries.  For example, see the following active Blockstack Meetups:

• Blockstack NYC

• Blockstack SF (San Francisco) (see Screenshot Blockstack Meetup SF)

• Blockstack Berlin

• Blockstack Portland

• Blockstack Chicago

On the links above, you will find information about the various Blockstack Meetups and a sign-up link for that particular Blockstack Meetup.  In addition, an upcoming event will take place in Berlin in March 2018.  Please visit this link for more information – Blockstack Berlin.

Other helpful links for more information on Blockstack include:

Blockstack – the new decentralized application platform and ecosystem for the decentralized/re-decentralized internet (dApp, dApps, and Web 3.0)

Blockstack’s Forum

@Blockstack

Note: If you do not have the Blockstack browser, please see this link (note – to enable the full functionality of any dApp built for the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g., building a new internet, a decentralized internet, re-decentralizing the internet) you need to use the Blockstack browser).

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Visit the Blockstack Berlin site here.

1.30.2018 – UPDATE:  The Stack Cafe just heard that the developer of the multi-player storage dApp Graphite will be joining the Blockstack team in Berlin to exhibit the Graphite dApp during the show.  Great news for Graphite and Blockstack. 

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