Genesis Data Contest

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Genesis Data Competition

Calling our amazing community!!! The Mainnet Genesis Data Contest is a groundbreaking opportunity to collectively shape our blockchain! This isn’t just any data – it’s the seed data that will be forever etched into our network.

Seed data is crucial for jump-starting a robust blockchain ecosystem. By participating in this contest and proposing data to add to the genesis seed data, you’re breathing life into our network and ensuring its vitality from day one! Think of it as a digital time capsule that future generations will look back on.

Contest Guidelines

1. Data Specifications:

   • The data should be between 1KiB and 1 GiB in size.
   • Ensure the data is legal, non-offensive, and respects privacy and intellectual property rights. We reserve the right to delete any data that does not follow this guideline.

2. Submission Process:

   • Create a new forum post thread in our *#genesis-seed-data channel.*

   • Each proposal should include a detailed description of the data to be seeded.

   • Explain the significance and relevance of the data to our community and the broader ecosystem.

   • Please include the file or preview of the file itself.

     

3. Submission Deadline

   • Start: 2024-09-11 Community Call, 5 PM UTC
   • End: 2024-10-04 23:59:59 UTC

4. Community Voting:

   • After the submission deadline 10/4, the community will have the opportunity to review and vote on the proposals.
   • Voting will be open until 2024-10-09 23:59:59 UTC.
   • Community Favorite will be decided by the number of Autonomys Logo Reactions on the proposal.

5. Rewards

   1. After voting is complete, 3 full Autonomys merchandise packages will be distributed to the
      • Community Favorite
      • Team Favorite
      • Ambassador Favorite
   2. Everyone has a chance to be immortalized in the Autonomys blockchain genesis seed data.

6. Evaluation Criteria:

   • Relevance and significance of the data to the community.
   • Creativity and originality of the proposal.

7. Terms and Conditions

   • Please group related items together in a single entry. For example, a series of 100 related images should be submitted as one cohesive entry rather than 100 separate submissions.
   • Each entry should represent a distinct idea or dataset. Submissions that are overly similar or repetitive may be consolidated at the teams’ discretion.
   • A individual can win no more than one award.
   • Residents of Burma, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Crimea Region, Bangladesh, Sudan, Ecuador, Egypt, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Russia, Namibia, other jurisdictions subject to U.S. trade sanctions, embargoes, or other applicable restrictions are not eligible to participate in the Initiative.
   • https://subspace.network/subspace-community-initiative-terms-and-conditions
   • Please note that the merchandise prizes are subject to the restrictions of the worldwide shipping offered by our vendors. We are unable to ship to Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk regions in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Ecuador, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria
   • Note that we have a target amount of seed data in mind so there is a potential limit (especially on larger files/datasets) to the amount of entries we will be able to include in the mainnet seed data package.

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Genesis Data Competition - Winners Announcement!

We’re thrilled to announce the results of our Genesis Data Contest! This historic competition gave our community the unique opportunity to shape the very foundation of the Autonomys blockchain, creating a digital time capsule that will be eternally preserved in our network’s genesis block.

Our Champions

Community Favorite

Congratulations to BingBang for his submission of a symbolic scene where Frank Rosenblatt, the pioneer of artificial intelligence and creator of the perceptron, a type of artifical neurla network, is seen passing the torch of knowledge to Autonomys.

Staff Favorite

Congratulations to Inoutik. This collage includes 100 photos selected from the ⁠hardware channel. They all represent the most prominent farmers and their various equipment, which together make up the Autonomys Network. The honeycombing symbolizes the common effort and the unifying philosophy, a symbol of commitment to the project and its future.

Ambassador Favorite

Congratulations to Tradershort for his submission representing the quote: “Today, we plant the seed of limitless innovation, where every voice shapes the future—this is the beginning of Autonomys.”

Legacy Impact

Every single submission is now permanently etched into the Autonomys blockchain genesis seed data. This unprecedented level of community inclusion means that each participant has helped create the foundation that will influence our network for generations to come.