We’re excited to kick off the Radiant Blockchain Hackathon, happening exclusively online from October 2 to October 22, 2024.

Join developers, creators, and innovators from around the world in shaping the future of decentralized technology on the Radiant network.

When & Where?
- Dates: October 2— October 22, 2024
- Location: Online, with the main communication hub on our Discord. https://discord.gg/radiantblockchain

You can already join the hackathon channels and start connecting!

- Hackathon-Lounge: Find a team, share tips, and brainstorm ideas! Keep your notifications on here for important updates.
-Hackathon-Projects: Once the hackathon starts, teams will document their progress and interact in their own forum-like posts.

Prizes
- Total Prize Pool: 10 million RXD

— 1st Place: 3,000,000 RXD
— 2nd Place: 2,000,000 RXD
— 3rd Place: 1,000,000 RXD

-Community Choice Award: 1,000,000 RXD- Could go to a top 3 project if so chosen, will be done by community voting

-Special Awards & Bounties: Over 3,000,000 RXD for exceptional projects and bounties completed successfully

Additional prizes include sponsored Tangem wallets to the top projects!
Big thank you to Tangem for their support of decentralized projects.

(Note: Prize distributions may be adjusted based on the quality of submissions.)

Categories & Bounties
Participants can join solo or as a team to tackle the following challenges:

  dApp Development: Build decentralized applications and push the limits of innovation on the Radiant network.

🛠️ Tooling: Create new tools to enhance Radiant’s blockchain functionality.

🔗 Interoperability: Work on connecting Radiant with other blockchain systems.

Wish list items and bounties can include:
— Enhanced indexers
— Advanced RXD/Token explorers
— Multi-GPU token mining software
— Complex tokenomics for glyphs
— P2P token and Radiant transactions using PBSTs
— Privacy coins, stable coins, and decentralized exchanges
— DEX/Atomic swaps/bridges
— Shopping/reward apps, lottery apps, storage apps, game apps
— Easy-to-use node/electrum software with a GUI and Windows support
— App development, Tooling, and Wallets

You can also propose your own ideas and bounty in the general hackathon chat!

Documentation & Proof of Concepts
Participants are encouraged to enhance or create developer documentation and build proof-of-concepts or code examples that showcase the Radiant network. Contributions should be submitted via GitHub pull requests in the relevant repositories.

Can I Join with an Existing Project?
Yes, you can join with a pre-existing project, but only the progress made during the hackathon will be considered for evaluation.

Submission Process
Once you’ve chosen your project, create a post in the Hackathon-Projects channel with your project name as the title. You’ll document your progress here and can ask for help or advice.
At the end of the hackathon, submit a link to your work via the official submission form (available in early October).

Communication Hub
For the duration of the hackathon, the main communication hub will be the Hackathon Forum on Discord. Teams will also have access to dedicated sub-channels for discussion, progress reporting, and collaboration. Ping us for a Hackathon dev role to stay involved!

Evaluation Criteria
Projects will be judged on the following:

- Implementation: Does the interaction with Radiant demonstrate quality software development?
- From Idea to Finish: Does the final output match the initial idea announced at the beginning?
- UX/Design: Is the user experience and design well thought out?
- Potential Impact:** How significant is the potential impact of the project on the Radiant ecosystem?
- Quality of Idea: How creative and unique is the project?

Hackathon Rules
- Age & Legal Requirements: Participants must be at least 18 years old or meet the age of majority in their jurisdiction.
- Adherence to Goals: Projects should align with the hackathon’s categories and Radiant’s ecosystem. If any questions about this ask in the chat.
- Progress & Development: Only work completed during the hackathon will be considered for judging.
-Agree to legal and terms as posted at Hackathon Terms

Where to Submit?
Teams will submit their projects by providing links to their code repositories. You can also include text, videos, audio, or any relevant materials to demonstrate your project.

We are thrilled to see what the brilliant minds in the Radiant community will create during this hackathon. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just getting started, this is your chance to make a lasting impact on the future of decentralized technology. We look forward to your innovative submissions and can’t wait to witness the exciting projects that will help shape the Radiant ecosystem.

Let’s build something amazing together!
Discord- https://discord.gg/radiantblockchain
Project Website- https://radiantblockchain.xyz/
Foundation Website- https://radiantfoundation.org/

There is a new website for RXD, created by one of our wonderful community members. https://radiantblockchain.xyz/ It has all the latest info in a modern format, all the details about minting and mining the new L1 Glyph tokens, how to launch your own token on Radiant, upcoming events, and all the links you could want. Be sure to check it out!

Good deal, we needed a dex. I haven't used them before but i looks forward to trying them out.

 It uses induction proofs on L1 to achieve the speed and scaling of the account model on a more traditional UTXO chain. I guess the ledger is a type of DAG but the blocks are processed linearly, not in parallel.

The potential here is huge. No vc, premine bs. Completely community driven. Extremely efficient algo, very low power draw on my gpus. Solves the back to genesis and brings the perks of the account model to a utxo chain. This coin is a dream!

I can seem to download the OS image from the OP, it starts to load the page but never finishes. id there another location for the file?

All of our bounties are still up and running! Don't miss out on this great chance to get free HLS! Grow your rewards even more by running a node with 5X rewards!

A super easy bounty for anyone! Create a funny meme that involves Helios Protocol. As long as it doesn’t make Helios Protocol look bad, you will get the bounty. We have a good sense of humor, come up with whatever you think is funny. Then post it somewhere on a prominent social media platform, and into the meme channel in our discord. https://discord.gg/2j74ShC

Bounties available: 150 HLS for the first meme, 75 HLS for each additional meme. Limit of 1 new meme per day, per person.

Don't forget to swap your tokens for mainnet coins! While we haven't set a deadline yet, we will at some point!

We just sent out airdrop and bounty rewards to over 700 people! Congrats to all the participants! We are leaving the airdrops and bounties open indefinitely. So keep on participating for even more HLS! Let your friends know! We will be sending out all payments in weekly batches, even for the daily bounties.

**Please note the BitcoinTalk bounty has been revised to ensure compliance with the forum rules.**

Create a video about Helios Protocol, and post it to one of the major online video hosting services such as Youtube, Vimeo, Twitch etc… The topic can be anything positive about Helios Protocol. Some examples: review of the Helios Protocol platform, an explainer video about how a certain aspect of the platform works (consensus mechanism, staking rewards, decentralization, speed, latency, DApp VM etc…), an video about a DApp use case on the platform etc… Get creative!

Bounties available: 500 HLS, 2500 HLS, 7500 HLS, 15000 HLS, 50000 HLS. The amount you will receive is judged by the length of the video, how well/researched it is, how accurate it is, and most the size of the audience viewing it it (number of followers or subscribers).

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5164649
I have a thread running the bounties section, for all those who want earn some extra HLS!

Contribute to the open source Helios Protocol code in any way you want, and get some HLS bounty! You can contribute on the main node codebase, or you can add some tool or DApp that uses Helios protocol, or whatever you want! Some examples: Any mobile app, any web based application (wallet, block explorer, paper wallet etc…), any DApp that runs on helios. Get creative! We will reward anything useful that has anything to do with Helios Protocol. It is pretty wide open.

Bounties available: From 250 HLS up to 500,000 HLS depending on the size of the project. We will judge on a case by case basis which will be mostly determined by the importance and usefulness of the project, and how much time and resources the developer put into it.

Today I would like to showcase our Article Bounty. Write an article about Helios Protocol. The topic can be anything positive about Helios Protocol. Some examples: review of the Helios Protocol platform, an explainer article about how a certain aspect of the platform works (consensus mechanism, staking rewards, decentralization, speed, latency, DApp VM etc…), an article about a DApp use case on the platform etc… Get creative! Find form and full details here:
https://heliosprotocol.io/airdrops_bounties.php?bounty=article_bounty
Bounties available: 500 HLS, 1000 HLS, 2500 HLS, 6000 HLS, 10,000 HLS. The amount you will receive is judged by the length of the article, how well/researched it is, how accurate it is, and the size of the audience reading it (number of followers or readers).

No ICO, presale, or anything like that. We are an entirely self funded project so far, over a year of development has gone into our recent mainnet launch, with distribution taking place mainly through airdrops and bounties.

Helios Protocol is proud to introduce our bounty and airdrop page, where you can find all of our current giveaways, airdrops, bounties! In celebration, we have listed a total of 8 new bounties, with individual prize's up to 500,000 HLS!

https://heliosprotocol.io/airdrops_bounties.php


Bounties are not available to citizens of the USA and Canada. For more information on Helios Protocol and the ground breaking technology behind this platform, be sure to check out our blog and website.
https://www.heliosprotocol.io
https://heliosprotocol.io/blog/?p=107

Helios Protocol is a new smart contract & dApp platform that has been in development for a year and strives to maintain the ideals of traditional decentralized blockchain while solving some main shortcomings. Using Python, JavaScript & C, the blockchain architecture incorporates a DAG+MagPoS+Solidity, which yields a decentralized network of parallel chains that allow for near instant transactions, sustainable high transaction throughput, low fees, inherent scalability, & utilization of the most widespread smart contract language for blockchain technology. This unique tech combination could be viewed as the love child of ETH and NANO. The growing community around this project is very welcoming, interactive, & an all around quality group of crypto enthusiasts. Below are some of the key points in the creation of this platform.
1. Sub second transaction latency has been achieved largely due to the parrallel nature of the blockchains. There is no longer a queue that transactions have to wait in for getting on the main blockchain. They can be instantly added to their own blockchain. The rewards for nodes are are designed to provide incentives for scaling which maintains this speed as the network grows
2. MagPoS consensus is built from scratch to mimic magnetic dipole alignment in nature. It is a combination of PoS and magnetism. As for the magnetism side of things: A network of nodes is analagous to a grid of dipoles interacting with each other via quantum mechanical exchange coupling. In this analogy, when the dipoles are aligned, they are in consensus, and if they are misaligned, they are in conflict with each other. In the absence of anisotropy, exchange coupling will always cause the dipoles to align with each other in time. This leads to a system that will always cause the nodes to come in to consensus when a conflict is present. PoS comes in by weighting the quantum mechanical exchange coupling by the stake of each node.
3. Solidity is the smart contract language of Helios Protocol, which provides easy interaction with other Turing programs & facilitates a smooth transition for existing dApp projects. This also allows for many future developers to utilize this protocol as the Solidity user base is rapidly growing & the language is relatively easy to learn.
4. DAG architecture allow for many parallel blockchains to exist & interact. Every address has its own chain. Blocks are only added to the sending & receiving blockchains involved in a transaction. As users are able to create blocks at will & sign the block as well as transactions within, there are no wait times or competition for a txn to be added to the next block. This design allows each wallet to have a personal blockchain with the speed & benefits of traditional blockchains, while the network as a whole can handle greater magnitudes of txns than is currently available & the capacity will scale as the network size grows. We expect well over 1000 txn/sec at launch & believe 50000 is achievable as the network grows, while maintaining transaction latency of under 1 second.  
5.  A substantial part of the initial supply of Helios Protocol has been dedicated to a dApp incubator program, which will help cover the developmental & computational costs of dApps & other projects on the Helios Protocol network over the next few years.  

The mainnet is expected to launch in mid 2019. There is a live testnet in the final stage, complete with nodes, wallets, block explorer, API, faucet, & community participation. This serves as a proof of concept and functionality. HLS erc-20 token is currently available on ECEX and ForkDelta, as well as several other Dex exchanges. This token will be swapped 1:1 when the mainnet launches in the summer of 2019. The current price is roughly 6 cents USD on the sell side at this time. There is a clear opportunity for growth in value as the project moves forward and marketing begins  Of course, please do your own research and make your own decisions about your investment. The open source code can be found on our GitHub. The white paper(soon to be updated), public and transparent team & much more information can be found on our website.

Main Community- https://discord.gg/2nDxKme
Github- https://github.com/Helios-Protocol
Website with whitepaper and exchanges- www.heliosprotocol.io
Main ANN- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4317054.0
Masternode Thread- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5146216.0

Updated the OP with more info. Our testnet is in the final stages of before mainnet, this is likely the version we will launch with, pending any further bugs found. We are still looking for more testers run nodes and host nodes at mainnet launch.

Here are some stats for the kind of staking rewards you guys can expect if you run a node on helios protocol.  The amount of staking reward you receive is based on 1) The percentage of uptime of your node, 2) the number of failed requests, 3) The transaction latency of your node. These plots show the relationship between those three variables and the percentage of the maximum staking reward you will receive. This incentive structure is designed to keep nodes processing power within the range needed to maintain sub-second transactions across the entire network.

If you took the time to scroll down and actually read the roadmap, you would see a "Current" marker on that bright white line showing the project is indeed on track. Also there is a big difference between roadmap and whitepaper, you seem to use the 2 interchangeably