Open Track Bounty

### Open Track Bounty

### Prize Bounty
$2,000 USD (in ETC or ETH or USD)

### Challenge Description
We are looking for you to propose a feature for ETC, that would result in an improved network for network participants, particularly on a security front. These can vary wildly and we would like to see what aspects you could improve. For example, network block propagation, Kademlia improvements, state management improvements, block sealing ethash improvement analysis, fundamentally improving network connectivity, are only tangentially related to security, but can result in an improvement.

### Submission Requirements
Proposals should include:
1. Project Description
Brief description
Value to the Ethereum Classic ecosystem
2. Deliverables
An explanation of your technical solution and architecture
Imagine that an experienced software developer will evaluate your proposal
3. Milestones & Funding requested
Most projects have at least 4 milestones
Budget and estimated timeframe for each milestone
4. Team
Roles and Experience
Teams with a history of high-quality open source code repos and live applications and products are preferred.

Proposal Requirements:
Proposals should include a value proposition about how it will benefit the Ethereum Classic ecosystem, technical detail about what your team intends to build and evidence your team is capable of creating good, re-usable open source code, compelling product demos and great documentation, and a reasonable technical development plan broken down into milestones.

The deadline for proposals is December 4, 2020 at 23:59 PDT for priority consideration.

### Judging Criteria
We’d like to see a white paper of a proposal specifically for ETC that states clearly what aspect of ETC you’d like to improve, how it will affect security, and a clear description of how to implement the improvement.

Evaluation of proposals are based on:
● The quality of the proposal and near-term value to the Ethereum Classic ecosystem
● Your team’s technical experience, open source contributions and interest in diving into security issues on blockchain and specifically ETC.
● Likelihood that your team will continue to support the Ethereum Classic ecosystem long-term and commitment to maintaining your project for one year

### Winner Announcement Date
Winners will be announced on December 18th, 2020, and invited to participate in phase two of the hackathon to implement your proposal in the most efficient and effective way.