Status: CLOSED.

Accepted Languages:

• English

Start time: 6 PM ET, Thursday
End Time: 6 PM ET, Sunday

This is a call to all great Steemit writers! Gladius has sponsored a writing contest!

Prizes: 150 STEEM

• 1st Place: 60 STEEM
• 2nd Place: 40 STEEM
• 3rd Place: 25 STEEM
• 4th Place: 15 STEEM
• 5th Place: 10 STEEM

Deadline: 72 Hours

All articles must be submitted within 72 hours of this post to be considered!

What is Gladius?

DDoS attacks are becoming more and more commonplace with the growth of online businesses, as well as traditional businesses with an increased online presence. Businesses are paying an average of over $5000 a month to protect themselves from such attacks even if they never get attacked. On the other hand, much of the world's computing power and bandwidth is unused. This situation inspired a solution by Gladius.

Gladius makes websites faster and protects them using the Ethereum blockchain. Using a computer’s spare bandwidth, anyone can join a protection pool and start making money by filtering and accelerating traffic. Websites can purchase the services of these pools through a marketplace that creates intense competition creating the best performance at the best prices.

Current Industry

Currently, CDN and DDoS protection is dominated by a few big companies. These companies charge enterprises large sums of money for protection that is often disproportionate to what they need.

With Gladius, users can utilize their unused bandwidth to be a part of a CDN and DDoS protection network. Users would earn, while companies will save.

Check out this video for a brief introduction:

More Information & Resources:

• Gladius
• Gladius WhitePaper
• Gladius Twitter
• Gladius BTCTalk

Rules & Submission

• Write an article about how Gladius will change CDN and DDoS protection. How will utilizing decentralization benefit protection? How is it better than the traditional protection services offered by the big companies today. Feel free to come up with use cases! Do you own a website that would use this service? Do you have unused bandwidth that you would like to capitalize on? As always, the contest is open-ended, and creativity is always recommended!

• Feel free to use images and media from their website. You can even make your own video and have it in your submission!

• The article must be 200 to 600 words in length.

• To submit please do the following:

1. Add the word "gladius2017" (without the quotes) at the very end of your article.
2. Link this post in your submission.
3. Post the link to your article as a reply to this post.
4. Resteem this contest post.

How the winners are decided

The submissions will be passed along to the team at Gladius , and they will decide the best articles.

More information & recommendations:

• Pay attention to spelling and grammar!
• Feel free to use informal language such as "I would, etc"
• Use information and resources above to learn more about Gladius!
• If you copy something, use quotes. This is an @OriginalWorks contest after all :)

After writing an article, within a few minutes you should get one of these as a response to your article post:

If you don't get one, let me know by adding a quick message after you submit your link as a reply here and I will look into it.

Early bird bonus!!! First 15 submissions get 2 STEEM each. The article must meet the contest conditions such as word length and a level of quality.

Disclaimer: @OriginalWorks makes no claims as to the legitimacy or operating procedures of contest topics. @OriginalWorks does guarantee prize payout.

Good luck to all the contestants!

Welcome to the @OriginalWorks sponsored writing contest!