Challenge

Welcome to the Cryptocurrency Cyber Challenge, a unique contest to develop methods for attack and defense of cryptocurrency systems. Build and secure new applications using testnet tokens in a red-team blue-team environment while competing with neighbor teams. Depending on sponsor fundraising, we may be able to award prizes for the best achievements.

GENERAL CONDITIONS

To participate free of charge in the Cryptocurrency Cyber Challenge as an individual or team, register your (pseudo)name to receive confirmation and detailed instructions. Each member of a team must register. On site registration may be available at the event, but once contest seats fill the Cryptocurrency Cyber Challenge will close to new participants. Awarding of monetary prizes and other rewards is not guaranteed and may depend on the opinions and moods of sloppy judges. Your physical presence is required. Good luck!

CONTEST RULES

Levels

Level 1

To win this level, discuss and demonstrate on your own system the correct way(s) to backup mnemonic seeds and keys for your wallet.

Level 2

To win this level, track down a tx (that will be sent to a series of addresses in advance) and determine the ending address of the funds.

Level 3

To win this level, search for and find a specific emoji on Nostr that has encoded a steganographic bitcoin testnet private key hidden in it.

Level 4

To win this level, set up a multisig wallet (at least 2 of 2) and perform a testnet transfer into and out of the wallet.

Level 5

To win this level, demonstrate a complete privacy suite (i.e. Tor, Veracrypt/Age encryption, Simplex Chat, cryptocurrency wallet, Keepass, CryptPad.)

Level 6

To win this level, perform an atomic swap between two coins and explain output from block explorers.

Level 7

To win this level, break the privacy of any privacy coin (Monero, Firo, Zcash) that is utilizing its full privacy capabilities by tracking a transaction.

Adversaries Everywhere

Through creative use of challenge resources we may have planted secret adversaries in your team, so double check your solutions.

Win a Prize

Try hard enough and you might convince a Cryptocurrency Challenge judge to award a prize (if available) for your solution to defend users from attacks on an application or network.