Created on 6th July 2022
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BlockOverflow allows users to get their rewards in real-time. It is used to drive its users to show work and contributions as they go and participate on the platform with a new concept of winning. The payments are done in streams in real-time according to the event rules programmed to generate dynamic leaderboards. Leaderboards are generated based on such rules and stream endpoints change throughout the event with it.
For any such events BlockOverflow is different from others as it doesn’t put a full stop to your chance of winning or improvement, its dynamic nature allows constant improvement. This can be applied to virtual and IRL events where a leaderboard is maintained. Some examples are team projects in private orgs, open-source work, hackathons, games, etc.
Faced some challenges with developing logic for updating and creating streams to give rewards in streams. Dealing with bugs on Superfluid stream transactions and tokens. There was a bug due to which the contract was not able to determine the gas amount and the transactions failed. These issues were resolved by getting in touch with the Superfluid team on their discord server.
The project uses the looping streams logic to initially start and maintain the streams. This is an issue as streams were looping for a long time unless some events trigger them to switch endpoints. In the new feature, from the Superfluid docs, we can make an Access Control List which allows an account to initiate streams for some other account. This was discussed with the team and is helpful.
Technologies used
Cheering for a project means supporting a project you like with as little as 0.0025 ETH. Right now, you can Cheer using ETH on Arbitrum, Optimism and Base.