Working over the past two weeks of March, the EVE Frontier and Sui hackathon supplied a snapshot of builder curiosity, each by way of CCP’s in-development area survival MMOG and Mysten Labs’ blockchain.
In complete, there have been 123 submissions to the hackathon, which is backed by a $80,000 prize pool.
Working the information, over 150 people have been concerned, with 108 initiatives submitted by people, and the remainder from teams of as much as 5.
A minimum of 25 international locations have been represented, however that quantity is probably going greater as submitting geographic knowledge was voluntary.
The highest reported international locations have been the US and China, with the UK, Taiwan, Spain, Vietnam, Nigeria and Germany additionally properly represented.
By way of the kind of initiatives submitted, it wasn’t a shock to see knowledge and group as the important thing classes. In spite of everything EVE Frontier is a blockchain-based MMOG, producing huge quantities of knowledge, and requiring robust collaboration between gamers.
Different traditional EVE-esque classes included initiatives resembling kill bouties, buying and selling and insurance coverage. There have been additionally quite a lot of initiatives based mostly round charging tolls to journey via gates, and three prediction markets have been submitted.
It’s additionally price noting that as a public hackathon, the standard of submissions was different.
A minimum of six of the entries appeared to not have been associated to EVE Frontier, as an alternative being general-purpose Sui ecosystem initiatives, whereas one other 25 submissions have been of low or questionable high quality.
Nonetheless, with voting for the most effective initiatives ending on fifteenth April, it seems to be like the primary EVE Frontier x Sui hackathon has kickstarted a group of builders and attracted some stable efforts.
You may vote for the most effective initiatives right here and take a look at extra of the information right here.
