Celebrating Our SmartCon 2024 Speedhack Winners & Developer Community
The Chainlink SmartCon 2024 Conference was an exciting time, as the development team at Openmesh got to show off their decentralized cloud products. We had Web3 developers gathered around our Openmesh “Decentralization is Being Compromised” Booth to participate in our Speed Hack hackathon. With several ~$3,500 USD worth of DVM cloud credits up for grabs, talented developers showcased their skills by submitting novel application templates through our Web3 Open R&D task bounty platform.
Speed Hack Winners and their Hackathon Submissions
Our “Speed Hack” hackathon yielded great results, with three standout developers who transformed our Xnode NextJS Base Template into specialized templates that will benefit the entire Openmesh ecosystem. Why is this special? It means that anyone in the world can deploy an app or website with a couple of clicks in minutes, on top of the decentralized immutable cloud, without KYC, and pay for it with crypto!
The winning submissions were able to get a working demo running on top of the Openmesh decentralized cloud within the second day of the SmartCon conference.
The successful developer submissions include:
- Arturou — Linktree Template — DVM Winner
- Elbarroca — Notion Template — DVM Winner
- Gabriel — Xnode Golang Template — DVM Winner
Notable mentions include:
- Arkgast — Chainlink Price Feed Dashboard V2
- Kenty — Node-as-a-Service Templates
- Joseph — Computation work via blockchain distributed nodes
Developer Submission — Arturou — Linktree Template
Arturou built a very useful Xnode NextJS Linktree Template that practically all new startups use and many online brands need. His Linktree template can be deployed from Xnode Studio using the Advanced Template Getting Started Guide. Once you deploy the template, you can quickly edit the source code to achieve your social media and website link aggregator and make it super easy for followers and users to be aware of your online presence.
Github Source Code: https://github.com/Arturou/xnode-nextjs-linktree
Developer Submission — Elbarroca — Notion Template
Elbarroca shipped some winning code using the Xnode NextJS Notion Template, bringing collaborative documentation to the Openmesh ecosystem. This template reimagines team knowledge sharing with an intuitive interface and powerful features. You can deploy this following our Advanced Xnode Template Getting Started Guide.
Github Source Code: https://github.com/elbarroca/OpenMesh__Blog_Speedaton
Developer Submission — Gabriel — Xnode Golang Template
Instead of building a NextJS Template application, Gabriel thought outside the box and built the beginnings of a new language framework for Xnode applications, the Xnode Golang Template!
Github Source Code: https://github.com/vash-knives/xnode-golang-template
Notable Mentions
We have several high quality developers who didn’t make the SmartCon deadline in submitting their work to the Open R&D Speed Hack submission portal. However, they still get an honorable mention!
Notable Mention — Arkgast — Chainlink Price Feed Dashboard V2
Arkgast spent his afternoon building out an improved version of our Chainlink Price Feed & CCIP app template adding dynamic graphs and sweeter UX.
Notable Mention — Kenty — Node-as-a-Service Templates
Kenty is busy building out Node-as-a-service (NaaS) validator templates that enable people to run their favorite Layer 1 & infrastructure nodes. He is also working on benchmarking Xnode deployments and is looking into building a hyperledger fabric NaaS template.
Notable Mention — Joseph — Computation work via blockchain distributed nodes
Deploying on the Openmesh decentralized cloud, this open source high-performance computing (HPC) system uses blockchain technology and Chainlink oracles to orchestrate distributed computation. The architecture combines Ethereum smart contracts for job distribution, IPFS for storage, and specialized services for execution and ML inference, enabling secure and verifiable processing of resource-intensive tasks across a decentralized network.
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Github Source Code: https://github.com/joequant/blockchain-hpc
What did our Speed Hack contributors win?
Our lucky winners took home a Decentralized Virtual Machine (DVM), an NFT-controlled access mechanism to bare metal computing resources. It enables access to 12 months of high performance cloud computing worth ~$3,500 USD.
Build & Earn with our Open R&D platform!
You can view all our developer & community bounties at our Open R&D website site! It is an open source bounty task management system where tasks, escrow rewards, applicant submissions and winners are all onchain. Visit the Open R&D website and check out the tasks. Want to learn more read more info from our Open R&D documentation.
Openmesh Developer Updates
At the Chainlink Hacker House, we presented Xnode Studio v4, the Openmesh dashboard that lets you deploy your favorite apps directly onto bare metal service providers all around the world! There is no KYC, no credit cards, just connect your Web3 wallet! It is fully open source and there is no middle man, with some apps deployable in < 5 minutes! Read our Xnode Studio documentation for more information.
For those lucky to win or earn a Xnode Decentralized Virtual Machine (DVM), we walked through how to redeem the NFT and deploy various applications from our App Store. The DVM’s rewarded to early adopters was worth ~$3500 USD as you get a 12-month bare metal server to play with! We also deployed a Minecraft app template to the applause of the crowd.
Deploy anything with Xnode!
Soon you will be able to deploy validators/RPC’s on Xnode to support your favorite blockchain with our Node-as-a-Service templates. This expands our service offerings, from not just deploying app templates but also deploying node’s for Ethereum EVM-compatible blockchains & others.
It is now possible to not only deploy with your DVM cloud credits, you can now create an account with Hivelocity and add your API key directly! This achievement aligns to our path to a fully decentralized Openmesh Cloud. We are not the middle man and you can deploy with supported cloud providers right now.
Each Xnode deployed contributes to the decentralization of our Openmesh Cloud. The next phase of the Openmesh journey aggregates a percentage and unused capacity of the deployed Xnode compute & storage to form the Openmesh Cloud!
Join Our Thriving Developer Community
The success of our SmartCon events was just the beginning. We’re witnessing the emergence of a vibrant, collaborative developer community that’s pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with decentralized infrastructure. Whether you’re an experienced developer or just starting your journey, there’s never been a better time to join the Openmesh ecosystem.
Are you a developer interested in building on Openmesh?
Connect with us through our various community channels to stay updated on future hackathons, bounties, and opportunities to start contributing to our open source decentralized cloud vision:
GitHub: https://github.com/Openmesh-Network
Developer Documentation: documentation site
Open R&D Bounty Platform: Open R&D platform
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/openmesh > Developer chat @ dev-chat channel
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenmeshNetwork > Developer X Community https://x.com/i/communities/1844577110045950312
Telegram: https://t.me/openmesh > Developer Announcements https://t.me/OpenmeshDevs
Circle: https://circle.openmesh.network/
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