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Meet the Winners: Can’t Be Evil Contest Part 3

Thank you to everyone that participated in the third Can’t Be Evil contest and built apps that can’t abuse their users. It’s our honor to introduce the winners of Part 3 below.

A reminder that 1st Prize Winners are receiving $5,000 in cash, plus other prizes and experiences. 2nd Prize Winners receive $500 in cash, plus other prizes and experiences. 3rd Prize Winners receive $100 in cash, plus other prizes and experiences. All participants that registered for the contest and completed their App Mining submission will also continue receiving monthly payouts as part of the program.

Once again, thank you so much to our judges, Dani Grant, Larry Salibra, and Jeff Domke.

The Most Fun

1st Prize – Elixir

The ultimate standard for playing lightning games. Earning bitcoin playing games now is possible with LN, but there are some issues – ELIXIR.APP provides a unique standard to make it extremely seamless.

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2nd Prize – LOLHunt

Daily top chart for funny Youtube clips. Anyone can simply share and upvote videos, and user data is stored privately via Blockstack.

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3rd Prize – Apollos

Zero gravity space shooter!

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Best Use of Lightning

1st Prize – Loopbomb

Loopbomb is a dynamically evolving artwork, an art mixing engine cycling through visual elements pulled from an ever-expanding image bank. It’s a game of luck, taste & timing where players can freeze & claim a temporal, unique digital collectible.

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2nd Prize – Smalltalk

Blockstack based encrypted chat and video app with twilio API as network layer and lighting app for video call credits

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3rd Prize – Lightzing.me

Follow users and post shared expenses. Split expenses instantly over the lightning network.

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Best Use of Twilio

1st Prize – Reclaim

Reclaim your data from online services and data brokers. Download, opt-out, and delete your data across the web with one private, secure, and user-driven tool.

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2nd Prize – Yaver

Yaver makes your phone calls and connects them to you. If he fails at first, he will keep trying!

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3rd Prize – Safeguard

Blockchain-based password manager.

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Congratulations to all the teams that participated and to the winners!

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Xan Ditkoff

Xan Ditkoff

Xan came to Blockstack with backgrounds in private equity, investment banking, and the military. He is passionate about driving the creation, growth, and expansion of application ecosystems through his growth role and with the Signature Fund.