​​Everscale Gitcoin Elysium Hackathon: announcing the winners

Everscale community 👋

Today, we are excited to announce the winners of the Elysium Hackathon, which was hosted by the Everscale and Broxus teams with the support of Qamon and Ylide, and in partnership with Gitcoin!

From November 1 to 28, more than 121 participants took part in the hackathon on the Gitcoin.com platform to prove themselves in GameFi, Onchain composability, Ylide wallet-to-wallet communication, and decentralized cross-chain applications bounties with a shared prize pool of $43,000. 

By the end of the hackathon, there were 46 started and 35 submitted works, and a total of six workshops and six bounties hosted. 

Time to announce the winners! 🏆

Everscale / Everscale GameFi bounty
- 1st place, $5,000: Clash of Hex. GitHub, Demo, Video. A GameFi app on Everscale that allows players to compete to capture the most cells on an endless battlefield.
- 2nd place, $4,000: Zombax. GitHub, Demo, Video. Zombie-smashing game with upgradable NFT vehicles.
- 3rd place, $3,000: SBF trust. GitHub, Demo, Video. A simulation of the investment fund "Sam Bankman-Fried Trust."

Broxus / Onchain Composability bounty
- 1st place, $5,000: Strategy Builder. GitHub, Demo. A strategy builder that allows you to build an arbitrary pipeline of token transactions: swap, transfer, deposit liquidity, and putting tokens into a farm pool.
- 2nd place, $4,000: Gasless Wallet. GitHub, Video. A wallet which consumes gas from the Treasury and is free for the user.
- 3rd place, $3,000: Everscale bet rates. GitHub, Demo. Guessing a rate in a pair. The person who guesses closest to the rate wins the bet. The solution includes both contracts and dApp.

Broxus / Octus Bridge Deployment in Everscale Devnet / Ethereum Testnet
- 1st place, $1,000: OctusBridge deployment guide. Github. Scripts and tools to deploy OctusBridge on Everscale and EVM test networks.

Ylide / Ylide Wallet-to-Wallet communication
- 1st place, $5,000: Electron Ylide chat. GitHub, Video. Web3 messaging app as a desktop application for MacOS.
- 2nd place, $4,000: Ylide pass. GitHub, Video. Secure password manager on Everscale with the ability to store passwords on any of the networks supported by Ylide and secure team access functionality for a single set of passwords.
- 3rd place, $1,500: Splytlide. GitHub, Video. Bill-splitting and invoicing application – you can send an invoice and split it with friends, and request a refund (like Splitwise).
- Notable mention, $500: Ylide messenger. GitHub. A simple blockchain messaging app on Everscale/Fantom. 

Ylide / Mini-products and utilities
- $250: Add Calendar Events in emails. GitHub. Allows users to add events to emails. Compatible with all known calendar apps.
- $150: Ylide-QR code. GitHub, Demo, Video. QR-code generation for address: write an email or add to a contact list.
- $150: Feature/Account QR code. GitHub. Generating a QR code for an address within Ylide Mail.
- $50: YlideConnect. GitHub. Demo. A multichain registered token holder generator.

Additional information:
- Thanks to all participants for submitting their work!
- NB: Some entries did not meet formal quality requirements so they may have received less than the announced prize. For the same reason, there are no winners in the Quadratic Funding Protocol bounty. 
- You can discuss your work in the Everscale Discord server in the appropriate section.
- Our team will contact the winners shortly to send their payments.

Thanks again to all participants! Stay tuned! 🎉

#Everscale #Elysium #Hackathon #Winners

Broxus Bounty Winners in Everscale Elysium

Hey, squad! Did you know that we were one of the sponsors of the recently ended hackathon? We designed two tracks at the event, each with generous bounties.

Onchain Composability Bounty

1st place, $5000: DeFi Strategy Builder – GitHub | Demo
A tool that allows you to create a DeFi strategy using operations like transfer, swap, deposit, farm, etc.

2nd place, $4000: Gasless Wallet – GitHub | Video
A wallet that doesn’t require users to pay EVERs to make transactions.

3rd place, $3000: Everscale Bet Rates — GitHub | Demo
A game in which players can bet on the WEVER rate in FlatQube's WEVER/USDT pool.

Octus Bridge Deployment In Everscale Devnet / Ethereum Testnet

1st place, $1000: Octus Bridge Deployment
Scripts and tools to deploy Octus Bridge in Everscale and Ethereum testnets.

The prizes will be sent on December 23rd. Continue to upgrade your skills for more opportunities to win down the line!

For more info about the winners, check out our article HERE

What is Wrapped EVER (WEVER)?

WEVER is a token that is fully backed by EVER, Everscale's native coin, and serves as its token equivalent.

WEVER is utilized in other blockchains like Ethereum where EVER can't be transferred directly, as well as in some DeFi activities like swapping or farming due to its great compatibility with other tokens.

WEVER can only be minted in Everscale and only via a smart contract that accepts and locks EVER, then produces WEVER in a 1:1 ratio. If you then need to exchange WEVER for EVER, this smart contract will burn WEVER to unlock EVER. You may check this by comparing the balance of the smart contract in EVER to the entire supply of WEVER.

The easiest way to get WEVER is by using FlatQube or this website.

#Education

❕ Improvements incoming

FlatQube is undergoing planned technical maintenance and an update that will take a few hours.

We will make an additional announcement once the platform is up and running again.

Thank you for being so patient!

❕ FlatQube is now operational

You are welcome to return to FlatQube after the planned technical maintenance and update.

Thank you for your patience!

🎅📝 The Broxus team was able to get its hands on Santa's "Naughty or Nice" list and — despite some expectations to the contrary — this year Everscale devs seem to be firmly in the good graces of Saint Nick. To celebrate another year in the best ecosystem in DeFi and kick off the holiday season, we've got a special early present for you... a new T-Sol plugin for IntelliJ Idea, Webstorm and other JetBrains IDEs!

T-Sol (short for Threaded Solidity), which is designed to make writing TVM-based smart contracts more comfortable and faster, is based on Sergey Tselovalnikov's original Solidity plugin and includes syntax prompts, autofilling capabilities and other features. The plugin is also open-source and was released under the MIT license.

The plugin works with files with the .tsol extension and recommends T-Sol as the new name for the TVM-based Solidity in order to avoid confusion between the original Solidity and TVM-based Solidity.

To get the plugin to recognize your existing files and projects, simply rename them to .tsol and refactor the imports. By the way, the ever-solidity compiler works perfectly with these types of files.

To learn more about the T-Sol plugin, install it and get started BUIDLing, visit JetBrains Marketplace 👈

Rate the plugin and leave a review, and we'll add your name to the additional list of Santa's cookie recipients 😉

Tis the season to be jolly so we prepared a Christmas event for you!

Let's collect 50 🎉 and we will publish it!

🎅 Ho-ho-ho, aren't you sick of our Christmas gifts?

We're launching a contest, in which we want you to tell us about your first interaction with Broxus platforms.

What platform was it? Where did you find out about it? What was your initial impression? What surprised you? What issues did you encounter? What issues were resolved? Which weren't?

🤝 Try to be as honest as possible and tell us a fascinating story!

Post your story on Twitter with the hashtag #crypto and mention one of the Broxus accounts like twitter.com/Broxus, twitter.com/OctusBridge, twitter.com/FlatQube or twitter.com/EVERWallet_en. Or you can post your story in our Discord server.

The contest is open until January 15, 2023. The results will be compiled by the Broxus team and announced on January 20, 2023. The authors of the top three most interesting stories will each receive the equivalent of $100 in $QUBE!

The Broxus Ecosystem | Octus Bridge | FlatQube | EVER Wallet | EVER Scan | EVER Pools

🌉 Holidays are coming! Oh, I mean updates!

Octus Bridge is undergoing planned technical maintenance work and an update that will take a few hours.

One of the features that will be affected by the update is the "Missing EVERs to pay gas fees?" feature. If you use this feature when transferring USDT from Ethereum to Everscale, for example, it will take a small portion of your USDTs and give you some EVERs in Everscale to pay for gas. After the update is complete, the feature will attach some ETH from your wallet to your transfer and use it to give you some EVERs on the Everscale side, ensuring that you receive the exact amount of USDT requested. Remember that the feature works when transferring tokens from EVM to Everscale.

Services that use this feature will need to refactor their frontend by the beginning of next week to ensure the feature continues to work properly. Following the update, all the relevant guides and source codes will be published.

This year has tested us, but we haven't given up and neither have you.

Thank you for your support and for being with us through it all. Broxus has been, is and will continue to be the beating heart at the center of the Everscale ecosystem.

We wish you all the best Christmas!

ICYMI, we have an ongoing Christmas event — participate for the chance to win a great gift 🎁

The Broxus Ecosystem | Octus Bridge | FlatQube | EVER Wallet | EVER Scan | EVER Pools

❗️It has come to our attention that phishing links to our products have started appearing in search results.

Note that app.octusbridge.io uses only the .io domain, not .com or .net!
Also note that everwallet.net uses only the .net domain, not .io or .com!

👀 Be careful — only use the links listed in this post and add them to your browser bookmarks.

#Education
What is EVER? 🪙

EVER is Everscale's native coin and primary asset. It is the lifeblood of the network and is used to pay small fees to make transactions and interact with smart contracts (sending tokens, swapping and farming on FlatQube, etc.). Validators receive EVER as a reward for helping to keep the network running.

Everscale, unlike other blockchains, has a feature that allows it to have multiple native coins, but this feature is not yet widely used.

😎 You can use EVER Wallet to manage your EVER and all Everscale-based assets.


The Broxus Ecosystem | Octus Bridge | FlatQube | EVER Wallet | EVER Scan | EVER Pools

EVER Wallet, the native wallet for the Everscale blockchain, has been updated for mobile devices. Check out the details HERE 👈

If you want to contribute to the app, rate it and leave a review on the app's Google Play or AppStore page.


The Broxus Ecosystem | Octus Bridge | FlatQube | EVER Wallet | EVER Scan | EVER Pools

Knowledge = Power 🎓

We invite you to refresh your memory and re-read our latest educational posts. If this is your first time seeing them, this is a good opportunity to gain new knowledge 🤓

🔹 Coin vs Token
🔹 What is WEVER?
🔹 What is EVER?

You can find all our educational posts by using the #education hashtag.


The Broxus Ecosystem | Octus Bridge | FlatQube | EVER Wallet | EVER Scan | EVER Pools

Have you taken part in our $300 prize pool contest yet? No? Well get a move on, it's ending in 6 days! 🏃‍♂️🏁

In the "How I discovered the Broxus ecosystem" contest, we want you to tell us about your first interaction with our Broxus platforms like Octus Bridge, FlatQube, EVER Wallet, EVER Scan, EVER Pools and more.

🤔 Perhaps you noted how easy it was to interact with Octus Bridge for the first time? Or were you impressed by the UX/UI of FlatQube? Tell us all the details, we want to know everything!

Contest details are HERE 👈

Broxus Quiz Series: December 2022 ❄️

Bear market got you down in the dumps? Let's have some fun and learn about the Broxus ecosystem at the same time! 🤓

In the Broxus Quiz Series, each quiz will focus on the content (articles, announcements, educational posts, videos, etc.) that we published on all our social media channels during a specific month.

So, the December quiz, based on the content we published in December 2022, will be held tomorrow (January 13) at 12:00 UTC on the Broxus Discord, with a 100 $BRIDGE prize pool.

See you there! Be sure to come prepared — explore the content we published in December on all our social media channels listed in this post 👈

#Community

We are starting in an hour!

👉 To participate in the quiz, join our Discord server 😎✅

Sergey Shashev goes deep on the true value of CBDCs in Entrepreneur

Leading business publication Entrepreneur has published a deep-dive article on the purpose and potential of CBDCs written by Broxus founder Sergey Shashev.

"With CBDCs, the value is in the here and now. The utility of these digital currencies is something real, something that addresses shortcomings that are palpable around the world right now. I believe that the framework in which we discuss CBDCs needs to change so that ongoing efforts to integrate this technology into the fabric of the world economy may come to fruition," says Shashev.

Drawing on sociological and economic studies, Shashev makes the case for the tech as a means of opening up access to banking services for over a billion people, as well as Everscale's collaboration with DA5 and CBDC privacy concerns.

Read the full article on Entrepreneur 👈

Itez, a provider of simple cryptocurrency purchases with bank cards, has prepared instructions on creating a wallet for storing USDT with the TIP-3 standard developed by @Broxus.

Check it out here: How to create a USDT TIP-3 wallet? 👈