Distributed Networks Institute (DNI) aims to help infrastructure resilience and financial health of distributed networks through scientific, engineering, and educational efforts. We are a part of a 501(c)3 non-profit incubator in Washington, DC called BlockShop. Constantly on the lookout for talent, we encourage anyone to contribute code, market analysis, and engineering expertise to one of our active projects. Multiple research grants and code bounties are available.
🏆 Challenge Program
We maintain a list of real-world problems we work on to give interested individuals a chance to prove themselves, learn a bit about us, and boost their GitHub profiles in the process. The challenge program was so successful for some teams, that they made solving a challenge a hard requirement for joining them. Our challenges are extremely independent and will require you to manage your own time and work process. Check out the success stories of the challenge winners.
General rules
- Anyone can participate in a challenge. You do not need anyone's approval to start working or to submit your results.
- Some challenges are paid and have bounties attached to them. When you complete a bounty task, please message bounty-payout@dn.institute with a link to your merged pull request and a Bitcoin or an altcoin address to get paid. We pay all bounties at the end of each month and close tasks as soon as we get enough good quality submissions that fulfill all the requirements.
- By participating in the Challenge Program, you agree to let challenge creators use any and all work submitted for any internal or external purposes.
Navigating and Working with the Tasks
- In the issue list, you'll find a list of tasks that are currently available.
- You are free to start working on any open challenge issue whenever you want.
- For highly complex tasks, we are willing to lock individual issues for qualified candidates to make sure no one else is working on it. For that, please comment in the issue and email challenge@blockshop.org with your CV/profile. We'll review your request and assign the issue exclusively to you.
- To be alerted whenever we create new tasks, please click "👁 Watch" and "☆ Star" in the upper right corner.
🌱 Giving Back
🧑🎓 Training
We are happy to train anyone willing to learn our tools. Show initiative by contributing to one of the open issues and mention in your pull request that you want to be considered for any training opportunities they might have available.
🎖️ Veterans
Our diverse community includes military veterans from a wide variety of backgrounds. If you are in the process of getting out of the U.S. military, check out our SkillBridge program. Whether you qualify as eligible U.S. military personnel, or served in the armed forces of another country, solve one of the challenges and/or reach out to @jhirschkorn.