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    A prize for humanity that extends far beyond the US$6,000,000 profit-share payout.
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    Profit-share for builders. Community bounty for the places that raised you.

Build The Future With Us

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The future of intelligence is at a crossroads. The current path, dominated by centralized models, threatens the very diversity of thought that makes us human. mypaloma is our answer: a Humane Intelligence™ built by the people, for the people. But a mission this big cannot be built by a traditional company, it must be built by a global movement, from the ground up.

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The HI-5 Grand Challenge is the spark for that movement. This is not a competition; it is an invitation for unification. We have intentionally engineered this challenge as a positive-sum game where everyone wins. We can promise this because every single team retains 100% ownership of their Intellectual Property. You are not working for us; forcesyou are building with us. Whatever you create is yours.

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​Our US$6,000,000 prize pool deepens this partnership. It isn't a simple cash payout; it's a long-term profit-sharing agreement. This single mechanic is our most powerful tool: it transforms every participant, their families, and their universities into a global network of passionate evangelists, all with a direct stake in our shared success. The founders of mypaloma have invested everything to get to this point, and believe that together, we can make it all the way.

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Below, you will find the full technical specifications and everything you need to give you the best chance of success. And there will be technical experts standing by to provide assistance when you need it most. But be patient; they are few and you are many. Remember that this is your chance to co-create the foundations for a new digital world, one that is responsible, and share in its inevitable success.


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Competition Structure & Categories

The HI-5 Grand Challenge is an open invitation to the world's most passionate and visionary creators. We are calling on the brightest minds in universities, the most curious self-starters, driven freelancers, and the greater development community to join us in building the foundational pillars of the mypaloma™ ecosystem.

Eligibility
The challenge is open globally to anyone. University and school students, independent operators, and small businesses are all encouraged to apply. Medium and large organisations (more than 10 employees) are not invited to participate in the challenge. Youth under 18 required explicit consent from their parent/guardian and must be accompanied by their guardian at all times. ->Read all Terms & Conditions here

Team Composition
To foster collaboration and a diversity of skills, all entries must be submitted by teams of three or more members. 

Multi-Category Entry
Teams are encouraged to compete in multiple categories to showcase the breadth of their talent and vision or demonstrate their ability to both internally and externally collaborate with other teams.

Giving Back

This challenge doesn’t just reward the teams who build it.
It can return real value to the communities that raised you.

Storyteller teams nominate a Community Project.

 Excess crowdfunding revenue can support your project with up to US$1,000,000.


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    ​​Category 1: Storyteller

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    As a Storyteller you are the voice of mypaloma. You document and broadcast the human drama of the HI-5 Grand Challenge and help promote the birth of this project. Create more reach and engagement by embedding with one or more technical teams (from Categories 2, 3, 4, or 5) and produce compelling "reality TV"-style content that captures their journey.
    Storyteller teams are encouraged to form partnerships with development teams that are within easy travel distance to allow for frequent in-person filming. Your core objective is to use your unique voice and skills to build a large, engaged audience and mobilize them to support our official Kickstarter campaigns and your nominated community project.


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    Category 2: Simulation

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    You create the "digital womb" of the mypaloma ecosystem. This web application will be a visually stunning, interactive, and data-rich simulation of the Sprite swarm, serving as a critical research tool to validate a diverse-rich emergent behaviour, a positively growing and sustainable ecosystem, and a captivating public-facing demonstration of mypaloma in action.


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    Category 3: Protocol

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    You design the nervous system of the mypaloma swarm. This is a purely technical challenge to architect and document a P2P communication protocol that is secure, efficient, and philosophically aligned with mypaloma's decentralized ethos.


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    Category 4: Mobile Apps

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    You craft the primary gateway to the mypaloma ecosystem. This is the application that will live on millions of users' devices, acting as the home for their Sprite and their personal portal to a new world of Humane Intelligence.


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    Category 5: Desktop Apps

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    You bring the full power of mypaloma to desktop and laptop environments, leveraging the greater computational resources to support more powerful Sprites and advanced functionalities.


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    Category 6: Bonuses

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    These are special categories to reward the teams who embody the collaborative, innovative, and humane spirit of the challenge itself. These prizes are open only to entrants from the five main categories.


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    The "Merger Challenge"
    Consolidate or Separate?

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    A challenge this ambitious deserves a finale to match. We’re not interested in a dry, academic review. We have engineered the entire judging process to be a crucible of human drama, strategy, and suspense. This is where the technical community becomes the star of a "reality TV" finale, and it all culminates in a high-stakes moment we call "The Merger Twist".

    Here’s how it works. After the submission deadline for a category, our judges will select the top three finalist teams. But we don't just send them a "congratulations" email. We ask the three teams to secretly negotiate with each other to answer a single question: “Consolidate or Separate?”.

    For the brief, intense period of the following 8 days between the shortlist announcement and the live finalist showcase, these three teams are faced with a strategic choice that will define their entire journey.

    1. They can choose to "CONSOLIDATE": The three rival teams can decide to merge. They can combine their talents, their code, and their solutions into a single "super-team." If they make this choice, they automatically win their category, but they must share the diluted prize. It's the safe bet—the ultimate act of collaboration.

    2. They can choose to "SEPARATE": They can reject the merger and decide to compete. They can "go for broke," trusting that their solution is the best. This is the path of high ambition, where they risk walking away with nothing for the chance to win the entire US$1,000,000 prize for themselves.

    The decision must be kept a total secret. The judges, the audience, and the other teams will be left completely in the dark.

    The reveal happens live on stage at the finalist showcase. In front of the global audience, we will ask the finalists to reveal their choice. Will they stand together as partners, or will they face off as rivals?

    This isn't a gimmick. This is the ultimate test of our core philosophy. It's a pressure-cooker environment that forces every finalist to confront the central question of the challenge: What is more powerful, individual ambition or collective success? This is where trust, strategy, and raw human nature collide, creating a moment of genuine, unscripted suspense.

    The "Second Chance" Challenge
    ​A Secret Ticking Clock

    Imagine this: a team wins. They’ve survived the 'Merger Twist.' They're on stage, celebrating. But the judges declare their solution "substandard"—it’s not yet robust enough for the core ecosystem. This isn't a disqualification. It’s a new starting pistol.

    This is where the real drama begins. The judges won't just send them away. They will publish a "Challenge Solution Change List"—a public, detailed roadmap revealing exactly what's needed to meet our standard of excellence. 

    And here is the masterstroke: that list is for everyone.

    For every team that didn't make the shortlist, for every developer who felt they were this close, this is your second chance. This is your Race for Redemption. You now have the exact checklist the judges want. You have the public deadline set by the winning team. But you also have a ticking clock you can't see. The moment the 'substandard' winning team resubmits their improved solution, the window slams shut for everyone else.

    This creates an incredible, high-stakes race against time. If you're the winning team, do you rush a sloppy fix just to be first and lock in your prize? Or do you take your time to perfect it, knowing that every day you wait is another day for an ambitious underdog team to steal your crown?

    The judges have the full, discretionary right to choose a new winner from any resubmission that beats that invisible clock. This is our ultimate guarantee of true meritocracy. It ensures that only the absolute best solution—not just the best presented one—becomes part of the mypaloma core.

    This is the master plan. This is how we plant the seeds for a self-sustaining, open-source movement that will last for decades. This open architecture allows the ecosystem to constantly evolve, absorbing new, more powerful AI models from the global community.

    This is how we win. We don't just build a product in eight months; we launch a movement that will innovate faster, adapt quicker, and stay more humane than any closed, centralized organization ever could.

    Life After the Challenge
    ​The "Everyone Wins" Payoff​

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    So, what happens when the confetti settles and the winners are announced? In any other competition, this is where the story ends. The "losers" go home empty-handed, their work abandoned. This is the zero-sum game we refuse to play. Our challenge is built on a fundamentally different, non-negotiable principle: Everyone Wins.

    This isn't a hollow marketing slogan. It is an engineering fact, built into the very DNA of the challenge. Every single team—winner or not—retains 100% ownership of their Intellectual Property. 

    The work you do is yours. You don't just walk away with "experience"; you walk away with a tangible, commercial-grade asset.

    We achieve this through a brilliant piece of strategic design: the "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" license. This is the key to our entire symbiotic partnership. The "NonCommercial" clause is the masterstroke. It doesn't mean you can't make money. It simply means that to commercialize your app within the mypaloma ecosystem, you partner with us. This one simple rule changes everything. It creates a powerful alliance, aligning every developer with our core mission. It stops a giant corporation from simply stealing the community's work, and it gives you a direct path to your own revenue stream.

    This is how we create a vibrant, diverse marketplace. Instead of one "official" app, we could have dozens, each offering a unique interface and experience, all plugging into the same decentralized swarm.

    ​​The Battleplan
    A Timeline For A Movement

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    This is not a schedule. It is a strategically phased, 11-month "drumbeat" designed to build a tidal wave of momentum. 

    Every date, every deadline, and every launch has been engineered to force collaboration, create proof, and grow this challenge from a simple idea into an unstoppable global movement.