Smarticle

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  Smarticle in concept, built as a web app that could be used on mobile devices.

Team Smarties' Stormhacks 2022 submission!

We wanted to create a new form of interactive learning, with a service we called Smarticle. The idea behind this was to bring prominent news articles from around the world to spread awareness of global events and issues, at no cost to the readers. Theoretically, we would source articles containing content for a broad audience, whether it was the casual consumer or an experienced academic. When using Smarticle, readers are encouraged to learn as much as possible and use their newfound knowledge to answer some questions at the end of an article. If readers answer correctly, they'll be awarded tokens that can be minted into NFTs on the Hedera blockchain. These tokens, as a currency, can then be used to donate to charities and/or funds related to the articles provided. Further, readers would be encouraged to continue reading and learning through the distribution of streak-related NFTs, to signify their passion for knowledge. This way, we can encourage everyone to learn, while also benefitting the world, one article at a time.

While working on Smarticle, we ran into difficulties with using new technologies and languages, such as Hedera blockchaining and frameworks such as React and Node.js. It was all quite new, and there was a lot of information to process. However, we were able to appreciate the usefulness and impact of such technologies and we learned that the process to working with them can feel very rewarding. Overall, we learned lots of new things and learned to work together in a team, communicating for frontend and backend developing.

NOTE: The files in the Github repo are not configured to be hosted online, but rather run from a terminal (rather, 2 terminal instances) where it uses localport:3000 on a computer.

Built With

• hedera
• json
• node.js
• react
• vscode