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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• twitter
• @blockstack
• @Blockstackapps
• Blockstack’s Forum
• Blockstack’s Slack channel
• checking with eventbrite
• try reaching out to support@blockstack.org (as a last resort)
• UPDATE from inside the community – another avenue might be craigslist:berlin.

Not sure these will help but it might be worth a quick review.  Good Luck!

Blockstack Berlin: A Signature Fund event at Axica. Blockstack Berlin is bringing together top experts on data privacy, blockchain, information theory, cryptography, and the decentralized community at large to imagine, learn about, and create decentralized applications. Some keynote speakers include Edward Snowden and Nick Szabo.  Check out the Blockstack Berlin video here as well as past Blockstack event videos here.

Learning Session: March 1, 2018

Hackathon: March 2 (evening) – March 4, 2018

Date and Time

Location

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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

Date and Time

Location

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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 beginning of our series of profiles on the dApps to be presented at Blockstack Berlin.  Our first dApp profile is on Graphite.

Graphite: Create and Write Something New Without Giving Up Your Privacy

Developer: Justin Hunter (profile picture no. 9)

Social: @jehunter5811 (https://twitter.com/jehunter5811)

Website: Graphite (http://www.graphitedocs.com/)

Social: @graphitedocs (https://twitter.com/graphitedocs)

The purpose of Graphite is to allow the user of the application on the blockstack internet architecture to create, store and share any document or sheet in a secure and decentralized way.

Graphite firmly believes that when you create something, the creator:

• should own it
• should be able to store it where the creator wants
• should be able to access it when the creator wants to
• should be able to use it how the creator wants to use it
• should be able to share it (control access).

And, when you use Graphite in connection with the Blockstack browser (which provides the platform for encrypting (saving) and decrypting the data (loading it)), neither Graphite (nor Blockstack):

• has access to your information (data is encrypted only for the user to see or share…)
• store your data (this is done on the storage platform the user selected via blockstack browser and is secure/encrytped)

Create something new without giving up your privacy or ownership – go Graphite.  For more on Graphite, please visit here.  For a more personal and close-up look at Graphite, please visit with Mr. Hunter at Blockstack Berlin – go Blockstack Berlin.

Visit the Blockstack Berlin site here.

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