San Francisco, USA/California, July 15, 2024, Chainwire
The doors are now open for Web3 and Web2 developers to take advantage of Constellation Network’s long-awaited Hypergraph distributed ledger technology, in development for the past several years under various contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense.
Constellation’s Global Metagraph Hackathon is a free-to-enter, fully virtual event running from July 15 to September 9, 2024. A total of $100,000 USD equivalent in $DAG (the Constellation Network cryptocurrency) will be distributed among the winners of several categories spanning Metagraph development and on-chain tools, with the largest prize of $25,000 USD awarded to the most successful Metagraph.
With its Hackathon, Constellation is officially introducing its “metagraph” application layer technology running on top of its Hypergraph global consensus layer to a worldwide audience. A metagraph can be any type of layer-1 decentralized application (dApp) network or legacy Web2 network with its own internal business logic. Other blockchains can even be metagraphs on top of Constellation’s Hypergraph.
“Constellation’s Hypergraph is the blockchain of blockchains,” says Ben Jorgensen, CEO of Constellation Network. “The best way forward with Web3 and blockchain technology for all of us is interoperability and collaboration across chains and communities. There are many of us individually building these networks that can support things like decentralized AI, tokenized assets, IoT edge computing, decentralized finance, and many other Web3 creations that seem to be popping up everywhere.”
“But the hypergraph?” Ben continues, “this technology can link them all together, make everything interoperable, give them an underlying infrastructure that can protect their networks and validate their data flows.”
Panasonic (OTC:) and IBM (NYSE:) have partnered with Constellation, along with SIMBA Chain, cryptocurrency onboarding service C14, Stardust Collective, and National DigiFoundry, led by members of the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Space Force, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, to support the development of innovative new metagraph technologies that interoperate in ways we have not yet seen in space.
Constellation’s fast, zero-fee Hypergraph network is uniquely designed with DAG-based infrastructure and microservices to create a flexible underlying digital transfer layer and application network overlay (metagraph). This enables interoperability and composability across legacy Web3 and Web2 networks, delivering the network security, data validation, scalability, and simplified integration that enterprises and governments need for adoption.
“Interoperability” is a buzzword in the Web3 space, it can be explained as all networks that need to communicate with other networks, such as a smart factory or city where multiple networks of IoT devices communicate and share data, each with its own unique metagraph network communicating through the underlying Hypergraph.
“I’ve been looking forward to this year since we started the company. It’s always been our vision to have easy-to-use, openly available blockchain tools for the masses. This hackathon marks the beginning of many expressions that metagraphs has to offer and it seems like there’s no limit to the vast list of use cases. I’m grateful to the team that made this possible, as well as the partners who stepped up and helped make this a reality.”
– Benjamin Diggles, Chief Strategy Officer
Constellation Metagraphs can work with any type of data, interact directly with external data sources, accept existing Scala or Java libraries, provide full control over validation and consensus logic within the network, and scale to the level that applications need through a multi-tier microservices architecture.
“With technology approved by the rigorous standards of the U.S. Department of Defense and in collaboration with industry giants like Panasonic and IBM, this hackathon is more than a competition; it’s an invitation for developers around the world to pioneer the next generation of decentralized applications and revolutionize the digital landscape.”
-Altif Brown, Global Community Architect
Judging
Hackathon submissions will be judged between September 16 and September 23, 2024, with winners announced on or around September 30. The hackathon judges are:
- Alan Boeme, former CTO of H&M, Coca-Cola (NYSE:) and Procter & Gamble
- David Beck, division chief for the U.S. Space Force's space industrial base and supply chain.
- Kevin Jackson, Vice President, Forward Edge AI, Digital Assets
- Dr. Dragan Boscovic, Clinical Professor, Director of AZ Blockchain Applied Research Center
- Ben Jorgensen, Co-Founder and CEO of Constellation Network
- Benjamin Diggles, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Constellation Network
- Altif Brown, co-founder of Constellation Network and president of Stardust Collective
- Alex Brandes, CTO of Constellation Network
- João Carvalho, Technical Product Manager, Constellation Network
- Dagnum PI, Marketing Director, Stardust Collective
- Andrea Mullaney, Ecosystem Marketing, Stardust Collective, Web3 Advisor
- Martien Van Loo, ecosystem advisor at Stardust Collective, CEO and co-founder of Bundle It and mentor at Tech Stars
Users can visit Constellation Metagraph Hackathon Site to register and find full event details and supporting materials.
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