Barclays released a paper titled ‘An Illustrative Industry Architecture to Mitigate Potential Fragmentation across Central Bank Digital Currency and Commercial Bank Money’. Hackathon participants will code solutions to a series of challenges that involve connecting to a Barclays simulation of both a central bank API and commercial banks APIs, shown in the diagram below from the Barclays paper.
Event materials
The following resources were provided to the hackathon participants before and during the event:
- Pre-event exercises (distributed to participants on 13th September): Participants were provided with access to Barclays’ simulation, API specifications and a set of pre-event exercises to familiarise them with the simulation and allow them to setup their environment prior to the hackathon
- Event schedule (distributed to participants on 23rd September)
- Challenges (distributed to participants on the first day of the hackathon, 27th September): Participants were provided with a series of five challenges that increased in complexity, allowing participants to build their solutions incrementally. Participants were free to choose the final stretch challenge to demonstrate their creativity and innovation.
© Barclays Bank PLC 2022.
LDNC048596A
