You can contact an admin on Telegram, they may be able to assist you in regards to the submissions. https://t.me/CartesiProject

This is a technical demo, but yes in the full release there will be a help menu with explanations. We appreciate your feedback!




500usd is the total prize pool, in CTSI, after 2 weeks of the exchange listing. So each map, there's roughly a $167 per winner. Only 1 winner per map for the highest score submission.

You can only ever submit 1 highscore for all maps, so be careful when you submit.

This high-score contest will take place from February 1st to February 9th and will award the top participating users in assisting us during this debugging phase. For the sake of our first contest, a traditional client-server version of Creepts is being used. By engaging and following the rules, you will provide our tech team valuable information while being rewarded with CTSI by displaying your gaming skills.

These efforts will aid us in debugging this early version of Creepts and important data will be used for our soon to be released fully decentralized tournament infrastructure later this month!

You will compete for prizes totalling $500 US in CTSI tokens. The contest will have 3 map rotations, lasting 2-days each. The player who follows the rules and submits the highest score, for each map, will be awarded the prize allocated. The contest release schedule is below:

Map 1: February 1, 2020 — February 3, 2020

Map 2: February 4, 2020 — February 6, 2020

Map 3: February 7, 2020 — February 9, 2020




Step-By-Step Instructions:

1) Play a game of Creepts within a contest period: https://demo.creepts.cartesi.io/

2) Achieve the highest score that you can get.

3) Retrieve your highest score gameplay log (it will be downloaded automatically after you finish the game).

4) Submit your Gameplay File, ETH Address and other info to: https://forms.gle/mr4VJ8u3dMeVptBT8



Rules:

1) (1) Total submissions per person. Only 1 unique individual will be awarded the contest prize per map rotation.

2) You must download (after the game is completed) and submit your high score gameplay log file to the Google Form.

3) The contest will have 3 map rotations between February 1, 2020 — February 9, 2020. After the contest is over, the winners in each contest period will be announced within Cartesi’s outlets.

4) Distribution of CTSI will occur within 2 weeks of CTSI Exchange listing.

5) If you encounter any technical problems, feel free to engage with Cartesi’s technical team on Discord: https://discord.gg/Pt2NrnS

Cartesi's first blockchain implementation is on Ethereum. But it can work on top of any public blockchain supporting smart contracts. It is blockchain-agnostic. In fact, it’s also agnostic to the consensus mechanism, being able to rely on Proof of Work, Proof of Stake, some BFT variant or some kind of quorum.

Our objective is to provide a much better computational layer for DApps. In that sense, the computation is moved off-chain, outside of the consensus layer. The latter being only used to guarantee consensus and security.

Cartesi is a platform for decentralized computation. In that sense, looking at Cartesi as a computer, the correct metric should be “Instructions per Second” (in the same way we would measure the power of CPU’s). The processing throughput (instructions per second) allowed by Cartesi is orders of magnitude of what can be emulated on-chain, allowing for an experience much closer to what we have on Web2.0 while preserving decentralization.

(That being said, any improvement on TPS on the base layer helps Cartesi to perform even better). Finally, as Cartesi can connect to different blockchains it will be a powerful tool for interoperability and securely transferring data and value across chains.

For example, a way in which Cartesi can enhance the power of Ethereum is to give future contracts the ability to read any data on the current state of the blockchain. It is currently not possible for a smart contract to read the balance of another account, or to read the storage of another contract (unless explicitly exposed on interfaces created by their developers).

1) Cartesi will be built ontop of Ethereum's Network, acting as a infrastructure or protocol.
2) All development of DApps is built and interacted off-chain, in their native Linux enviroment. This is what we call Cartesi Nodes. So essentially the off-chain component of Cartesi enables anyone to build on Cartesi, while utilizing an OS they are familiar with.

Through the Cartesi Core, it reduces and removes the processing load entirely from the consensus layer, while preserving the security and advantages of blockchain.


The Advantages of Cartesi nodes, it essentially gives developers and DApp creators enhanced computational limits on DApps, scalability, transnational costs and data availability.

If you have further questions on the tech of Cartesi, the team is more than happy to give you a more in-depth and specific response on Telegram: https://t.me/CartesiProject

If we do conduct a public sale, it will not be on these exchanges. We're on the same page with the community and exchanges as such are not what we're looking into at the current time.

The health of Cartesi and possible exchanges to be listed on, are of great importance to us and the future of Cartesi as a whole. We carefully plan each stage and how individuals will respond to such moves.


I highly recommend following: https://t.me/CartesiAnnouncements for all the latest pieces of news and updates.

We understand there's a desire to open up international communities and the team will continue to analyze metrics of traffic and reception within the main group. A big problem with international communities is that often there's low activity and engagement, we want to make sure that whatever we're putting out that we're devoting our full-effort into those markets.

There will be a future announced program to expand on this idea; the concept and execution is being discussed internally.

We fully understand and have been discussing this internally. Cartesi is entering a new phase, as we've been on-boarding some experienced individuals to aid us on the marketing and public relations end.

We will be announcing who's been funding the project from here on out, most of the backers are already publicly displayed on the partners section of the website (and this ANN).

This will also help give an indirect hint to our community in where we currently stand; along with added transparency.

We're preparing more transparent and concrete information around Cartesi's token economics, which include price. We're also going to start announcing private investors who've been on-boarded and give our community a clearer understanding on where we currently stand.

One major piece of content that we'll be writing, is about Cartesi's CTSI Utility token and what the primary functions it serves within the Cartesi ecosystem.

Yes, it's a very limited bounty campaign. This was by design, we do not plan to increase the allocations at this time, only potentially restrict users from joining.

Stas and Boris are both just advisors to the project and have little to do with day-to-day operations within Cartesi. Stas supports on the business side with introductions in the crypto space. Boris supports on the technical side by auditing smart contracts when necessary.

As far as their involvement is concerned and their affiliated backgrounds, experience in the field and skills that complement the team's existing talents, is something we strive heavily for.

Thanks for the concerns! We have actually also implemented what is specified in our techpaper (without the DAG) at the moment and it can be found open source via Github here: https://github.com/cartesi.

Keep a watch this quarter for our first DApp to be released and thanks for following along.