AVIT(X)T

Accountable Verifiable Immutable Transparent X Tracker - X is for any competitive event such as school admissions, hackathons, and job applications where judges score applicants.

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Inspiration

I am currently a high school student applying to college. With the recent controversies regarding bribery and discrimination in university admissions, I found the process to be flawed and unaccountable. I also didn’t know where I stood among other applicants or how my application would be judged. These concerns led to the idea of AVIT(X)T - Accountable Verifiable Immutable Transparent (any competitive event) Tracker.

What it does

With the goal of making my college admission process more accountable and transparent, AVIT(X)T allows for the creation, submission, judging, funding, and analysis of all parties involved. Because the submissions, scoring rubrics, scoring breakdowns, and judges’ histories are public, applicants are able to better understand the judging criteria, where they stand, and whether judges are being biased.

AVITXT College Admission

Since developing this idea, we have generalized the system to be used for any competitive event involving judges.

AVITXT Parties

How we built it

The Dapp is currently deployed on Kovan, Polygon Mumbai, BSC Test Net, and uses Moralis for web hosting, event processing, and database. Chainlink is used to fetch external data from Data Authorities to be put back onto the blockchain. We also used Filecoin IPFS and Alchemy for chain operations, and Hardhat, Scaffold-Eth and Vue for development.

AVITXT Current Tech Stack

Challenges we ran into

Learning Solidity was incredibly easy with Remix remotely and Scaffold-Eth locally. However, when we tried integrating Scaffold-Eth with Moralis, we hit some roadblocks and switched to building the web app from scratch using Vue and Vuetify, but still retaining all the other parts of Scaffold-Eth. We also planned to use Chainlink Keepers to automatically fetch external data when a competition ends. But we hit some Solidity compiling errors at the last minute and took out the integration with Chainlink Keepers.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Because of the relevance of this Dapp to my college admission process and its wide application to other spaces, we feel AVIT(X)T can change the world for any competitive event involving judges. We are not trying to take power away from the organizers or judges. Rather, we want them to be held accountable for their power. Its immediate benefits are for the applicants, but in the long run, AVIT(X)T will improve the whole ecosystem as it eliminates the issues that were previously mentioned.

What we learned

This is our first time doing any blockchain development, and my first time (not my dad's first) participating in a hackathon. We learned how blockchain can make all parties, states, and transactions Accountable, Verifiable, Immutable, and Transparent. Chainlink, Moralis and all these tools in this ecosystem make it so easy to explore this space.

What's next for AVIT(X)T

We plan to improve AVIT(X)T by adding privacy settings for both organizers and applicants, in-depth analysis of judges' and applicants' history, NFT for badging/achievements, tokens for transactions, develop a standardized way of working with off-chain data authorities, and allowing third parties to perform audits on data. We also want to deploy on other blockchains like Avalanche, Solana and bridging between them.

AVITXT Future Tech Stack

How to use AVIT(X)T

Judges! You can use our AVIT(X)T dapp to judge this hackathon. We scraped the hackathon project gallery page and put all entries into the our dapp.

  1. Go to https://pubuxbhouojn.usemoralis.com/#/list
  2. Login to Polygon Mumbai.
  3. Click "Chainlink Fall Hackathon 2021", and then Submissions to see all 287 projects. Give it a sec or two to load.

Please let us know if you want to use it for judging; we can transfer ownership of that contract to you so you can change scoring rubrics and add judges. Happy judging!

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Judges! You can use our AVIT(X)T dapp to judge this hackathon. We scraped the hackathon project gallery page and put all entries into the our dapp.

  1. Go to https://pubuxbhouojn.usemoralis.com/#/list
  2. Login to Polygon Mumbai.
  3. Click "Chainlink Fall Hackathon 2021", and then Submissions to see all 287 projects. Give it a sec or two to load.

Please let us know if you want to use it for judging; we can transfer ownership of that contract to you so you can change scoring rubrics and add judges. Happy judging!

AVIT(X)T records the scores, and makes the break-down of those scores, as well as the ranking, public. As the results come out, all teams can get a better idea of where we stand, how we did on each judging criteria, so we can improve on those areas next time. We came up with this idea for fighting against college admission scandals like bribery and getting in using connections. But we thought this could be used for any competitive event involving judges, like this hackathon. Not that we think this hackathon has the same issues as college admissions, but the transparency can help all participants do better at the next hackathon.

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