Building (on) Blockfrost
Blockfrost is an instant, public and freely accessible API that removes infrastructure obstacles for developers so that everyone can start building (d)apps on Cardano. With Blockfrost, developers can start doing what they love ❤️, without the need for running and maintaining additional infrastructure and tooling themselves. At the moment, we have more than 10,000 developers already onboarded in our Blockfrost.io hosted platform.
We are also working on open-sourcing Blockfrost API backend, making it possible for the community to further build and provide the service.
This challenge is set to create a thriving developer ecosystem around Blockfrost, encouraging not only more developers to build on Blockfrost but also build the Blockfrost ecosystem as well.
Guiding questions:
- How can we drive new developers to Cardano with Blockfrost?
- Can we acquire already existing developers from the Crypto space?
- How can we make Blockfrost more decentralized and robust?
- Can we provide guidance to existing developers on how to build more secure applications on Cardano?
Possible directions:
- Development of new frameworks
- Research of new concepts
- Educational material
- Contributing to blockfrost.dev documentation portal
- Blog posts, articles and tutorials
- SDKs for NFT minting and NFT management
- Dashboard and UI alternatives
- Auditing of existing code base
- Incentive schemes for developers and providers
- Collaboration to improve interoperability within existing tools in the ecosystem
- Hackathons
Open-source solutions are strongly preferred.
The Blockfrost team will provide technical support and guidance as well as free developer subscriptions to all winners of this challenge.
Why is it important?
It is important to create a thriving developer ecosystem around critical infrastructure components such as Blockfrost.
How does success looks like?
Different open-source initiatives building an active ecosystem around Blockfrost, from tooling to frameworks.
##Key Metrics to measure
We suggest the following metrics for the submitted proposals:
- Number of developers and/or users
- Number of newly acquired developers and/or users (new to the ecosystem)
- Number of forks, downloads or stars on GitHub
- Number of contributors
Watch Wallet for Cardano
Solution: * Easy access and track your balance and tokens prices any time, anywhere
- Security and safe with a non-custodial wallet
- A beautiful home for all your NFTs
- Staking and Earning ADA with a couple of clicks
Unreal Engine Integration
Solution: Develop a Professional, Community Driven, & Easy to Use Unreal Engine Plugin powered by Blockfrost.
Tutorial on Building a wallet
Solution: We are currently building a cardano wallet on blockfrost, and we would make a live tutorial of all our activities to help people understadn how easy it is to use Blockfrost
MLabs - CTL Blockfrost Backend Quick Pitch
Solution: MLabs has been working with IOG to build the Cardano Transaction Library (CTL), a framework for building Cardano transactions. We propose adding Blockfrost as an available query layer within CTL.
Google Search Blockfrost
Solution: Producing SEO-optimized content with keywords searched by devs creates opportunities to introduce them to Blockfrost and to invite them to get onboard.
Digital Twin platform
Solution: We develop a webplatform that generate item-level digital twins based on tokens for end-to-end traceability, free to use take only a few minutes to set up and is open source.
Cardano Script Explorer 🔎📜
Solution: I want to use the Blockfrost api to set up a simple UI to browse script data.
CardanoPress, A Plugin for Builders Quick Pitch
Solution: We've built a plugin for WordPress called CardanoPress. It removes technical knowledge needed for APIs, Cardano wallet integrations, and transaction writing allowing anyone to develop a Cardano DApp.
A Verify and Pay System
Solution: Using API keys and Policy ID's a system where x token/coin is paid to anonymous user for providing the website authentic work base don x, y, and z adjustable factors must be created.