VIA Labs Zealy Sprint Results

The VIA Labs Sprint has officially wrapped, and the leaderboard is final!

Huge congratulations to our winners, who each took on private invoicing in USDM in a different way.

:1st_place_medal: 1st @ChApS Built Midnight Private Invoices. Invoices live on-chain only as commitments and settle with a zero-knowledge proof, so the amount and payer are never stored. GitHub - CjDabrow/midnight-private-invoices: Private invoices on Midnight: amounts and counterparties stay private, settlement is public. USDM payments. · GitHub

:2nd_place_medal: 2nd @Tminus1.sec Built Privoice, private invoices with tamper-evident settlement. Issuers can’t alter an invoice, and only the named payer can acknowledge it. GitHub - tomiin/privoice: Private invoices on Midnight. Only a hash of the invoice goes on chain, so the amount and the counterparty stay private while settlement stays publicly verifiable. USDM moves at the application layer — contract custody is rejected by the node today, and the repo includes the experiment that proves it. · GitHub

:3rd_place_medal: 3rd @OnHighCloud Built a USDM Invoice Relay, a Compact contract that takes the exact payment before @OnHighCloudxpiry and forwards it to the merchant. GitHub - pawsitivegames/midnight-usdm-invoice-relay · GitHub

Prizes are $300, $200, and $100 in USDM on Midnight mainnet, and 1st place also gets a featured example in the VIA Labs developer docs.

Thank you to everyone who took part, and to VIA Labs for partnering with us. In our first cross-chain sprint, 37 builders took part, 12 moved USDM from Cardano to Midnight, and five shipped payment DApps.

:trophy: Winners: DM me your unshielded Midnight wallet address, and I’ll connect you with VIA Labs to claim your prize.

:warning: Important: I will never DM you first. Anyone messaging you claiming to be the team or me is a scam.

We’re taking a short break from partner sprints while we refresh the format. More soon.