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title: "FooHack"
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# FooHack

<Infobox>
| **Hackathon Event** |
| FooHack |
| [History](/contents/history) |
| Completed |
| 14 June 2022 |
| RDX Works in collaboration with musician RedFoo |
| [YouTube Video](https://youtu.be/EtRAt3_CHks) ·
      [Radix Blog Post](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/scrypto-is-as-smooth-as-vegan-butter) |
</Infobox>

**FooHack** was a three-day hackathon hosted in June 2022 by the multi-platinum musician [RedFoo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redfoo) at his "Party Rock Mansion" in the Malibu mountains, organised in collaboration with [RDX Works](https://www.radixdlt.com). It was fuelled, in RDX Works' telling, by vegan food and raw cacao.

## Background

RedFoo — a Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum artist — had by 2022 become a Web3 coder and enthusiast for [Scrypto](/contents/tech/core-protocols/scrypto-programming-language), Radix's asset-oriented smart-contract language, despite having been coding for only around three months. For FooHack he handpicked a group of competition-winning programmers, dubbed the **FooCrew**, most of whom had never met before the event.

## What Was Built

Over three days the FooCrew built a **chess engine that runs on a public ledger**: it enforced the full rules of chess, supported player-versus-player games, and minted each final board state as an [on-ledger asset](/contents/tech/core-concepts/asset-oriented-programming) — an NFT put up for auction. The same "chess on the ledger" idea had first appeared as an internal experiment at the [Radix Team Hackathon](/contents/history/radix-team-hackathon) in 2019.

## Scrypto Significance

RedFoo praised the Rust-based, asset-oriented language, coining the line that gave the accompanying blog post its title: ["Coding in Scrypto is as smooth as vegan butter."](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/scrypto-is-as-smooth-as-vegan-butter) RDX Works contrasted the FooCrew's three-day build against reports of university students spending an entire semester building a chess game in Solidity on Ethereum — attributing the difference to Scrypto's [buckets-and-vaults model](/contents/tech/core-concepts/asset-oriented-programming) for handling resources natively. FooHack sat alongside the [Scrypto Developer Event](/contents/history/scrypto-developer-event) and [Scrypto DeFi Challenge](/contents/history/scrypto-defi-challenge) in Radix's push to grow the Scrypto developer community.

## Media

[https://youtu.be/EtRAt3_CHks](https://youtu.be/EtRAt3_CHks)

![](https://j9ytchrzkvqpcul7.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/c303802b-c9c4-4e52-b43f-f67e96fd581c.png)

![](https://j9ytchrzkvqpcul7.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/ff643e1a-6d5c-41ff-a3eb-71c6abd77619.png)

[https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/scrypto-is-as-smooth-as-vegan-butter](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/scrypto-is-as-smooth-as-vegan-butter)