The problem Museum Artifact Marketplace solves

We know that archaeology has an extremely important role in connecting the current generation and the ever changing world to its origin, tracing back its evolution and even unlocking the mysteries of the ancient time, their cultures and practices too. But in this ever changing time, people focus on gaining wealth and popularity on the exploitation and expense of others, hence, influencing the current organizations to benefit them, taking the advantage of being on a wealthier archaelogist and exploiting the budding ones. So, to protect the authentic discoverer of the artifacts, we have built a museum marketplace.

Based on blockchain, it decentralizes and brings transparency between the discoverer and the masses (people) to recognize the real person behind the finding, getting his finding registered in the official document so that it cannot be tampered with and hence motivating him to persue his job with diligence and perseverence. It even incentivizes the archaeologist as well as the museum based on crowdfunding, hence encouraging the archaeologist as well as the museum to preserve the invaluable artifacts too.

Also, it provides an initial experience of Augmented Reality with the help of Echo3D models by which people from anywhere in the world can get the real time experience of the artifacts as if they are physically present there.

Challenges we ran into

During the development of this project, we have faced several challenges like Integrating hardhat and deployment of contract. Tweaking the smart contract with hardhat and remix ide and multiple testing to make sure that our contract works as per the requirements. As it was our first time experiencing the Augmented Reality stuff, but we still overcame the difficulties by reading via documentation and continuous testing too. We also had to manage the time effectively and with proper work distribution so as to integrate various technologies within the time period of 24hr duration.