Foliate

Landing page
Connect Binance Account
Profile Page
Leaderboard
New Landing Page

Inspiration

It can be hard and awkward to ask how your friends and family are financially invested in different asset classes: whether equities, futures, cryptocurrencies, etc. Yet it is common to learn about different investment vehicles through suggestions of friends, online communities and family members.

What it does

We propose a social platform for traders and investors to learn about each other’s alternative investments and compete in weekly & monthly portfolio performance tournaments.

How we built it

Our proof of concept is built around cryptocurrency assets. We connected to Binance's API (World's largest cryptocurrency exchange). Web development is built with angular.js. There is a global and community (for friends to compete) leaderboard

Challenges we ran into

We wanted to connect to APIs of exchanges for all assets including equities (common stock), indices (S&P 500), Commodities, Bonds and forex but found the API buildout very challenging. We also wished we had time to make the platform more social and interactive.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Binance API Key, Homepage, leaderboard, profile, idea generation

What we learned

Exchanges do not have easy to work with APIs.

What's next for Foliate

Allow people to connect with their friend and families' portfolio by connecting with Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. Creating better widgets and charts to visualize portfolio performances and diversification.

Built With

Submitted to

HackPSU Fall 2018
- Winner Capital One - Best Financial Hack

Created by

Focused on creating the backend for the website by importing user data from Binance's API, a crypto exchange. Also supported frontend on ideas to implement. Issues with the API included multiple authorization keys needed to pull user data, but I have learned the awesome abilities API's can offer.

Waleed Elsakka
I worked on collecting the HTML files into Angularjs while also making the cite interactive. Dealing with the bugs were somewhat of a pain, but it was also a great learning experience. I also learned that creating a backend framework is an arduous process and learning to make and create one would require more than one day.

Jonathan Augustin
I helped with the frontend, mainly focusing on building the website with Josh. It was my first hackathon event and I learned a lot as a freshmen and as a beginner in the programming world.

JaredCao
Josh Han
building a nondiscriminatory global financial system that inevitably raises the poverty floor & encourages effective altruism.

Updates

Josh Han started this project — Oct 07, 2018 01:52 PM EDT

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