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# Babylon 2021 - Filecoin Instructions

Hey :wave: all, I'm Sydney Lai and thanks for joining my Ceremony Welcome

[@sydneylai](https://twitter.com/sydneylai) DMs are open for support :)

# Instructions

1. Use any Filecoin or IPFS
https://docs.filecoin.io/
https://ipfs.io/#install
https://estuary.tech/
https://nft.storage/

2. Submit your build

3. Winners will be contacted and gifted prizes

# Submission Rules

We will awarded:

1st: $4k
2nd: $2k
3rd: $1k
Prize pool in FIL

Submitting the project with the best use of IPFS and/or Filecoin (or service that use either such as nft.storage, web3.storage or others)! We’re excited to get to know you, answer your questions and see what you will build.

Judging Approach: Our judges grade submissions across five equally-weighted categories:
1) Design,
2) Novelty/Originality,
3) Technical Accomplishment,
4) Potential Impact,
5) Creativity/Fun.

Submissions will be rated with decimal numbers between 1 (worst) - 5 (best) per category (max score: 25) by each judge. The final score is the average of all voting judges

**Design:** Is it easy to use? Does the visual design delight you? If targeting developers, is the experience smooth and intuitive?

**Novelty/Originality:** Does it have unique and novel features or combine features of other products or services in a unique and novel way?

**Technical Accomplishment:** Is the code elegant, clean, and technically interesting? Is the project complete? Does the project interact with IPFS/Filecoin under-the-hood (i.e., more than simply retrieve a CID from a gateway)?

**Potential Impact:** Does it fill a gap in the universe, and have the potential to be used frequently by a large, growing and diverse audience or market

**Creativity/Fun:** Is it creative and put a smile on people’s faces?

## Submission guidelines:
At a minimum submissions for prizes should include the following items:

**1. Project Description**

The name and summary of the project
Names/pseudonyms of team members and contact info (e.g., GitHub handle, email address, or other)
How the project uses to IPFS and/or Filecoin and/or decentralized storage services that build on top of either with example links to where in code those technologies are used.

**2. Link to the publicly visible source code repository**

Provide comprehensive README, incl. a clear description of the work and mention of how our tech is used in the Technologies Used section of README.
Include a link to the working demo or provide a testing guide

**3. Showcase**

2-3 minute video that presents the idea, including a brief demo that demonstrates the use of IPFS and/or Filecoin or anything that builds on top of them
If applicable, select the appropriate track when submitting the project.

**NOTE:**

Submitting the same projects across multiple hackathons will lead to disqualification
Only projects or features (preferably in separate branch) built specifically for the respective hackathon will be considered for prizes
Broken links may disqualify the project from the judging process.
Using an IPFS HTTP gateway doesn’t count as building on top of IPFS. Exclusively basing your submission on that does not make you eligible for prizes.