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title: "FooHack"
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# FooHack

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| **Hackathon Event** |  |
| Name | FooHack |
| Category | [History](/contents/history) |
| Status | Completed |
| Date | 14 June 2022 |
| Organizers | RDX Works in collaboration with musician RedFoo |
| Media | ["Smooth as Vegan Butter" – The FooHack Documentary](https://youtu.be/EtRAt3_CHks) · [Radix Blog Post](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/scrypto-is-as-smooth-as-vegan-butter) |

**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 an enthusiast for [Scrypto](/contents/tech/core-protocols/scrypto-programming-language), Radix's asset-oriented smart-contract language. He had been introduced to Scrypto [only three months before the hackathon](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/scrypto-is-as-smooth-as-vegan-butter), which RDX Works presented as the point of the exercise: a beginner in the language climbing the learning curve in public. For FooHack he handpicked three competition-winning programmers, and the four of them — dubbed the **FooCrew** — had, on RDX Works' account, been strangers the week before.

## 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 work was split into five streams — the front end, the chess engine, the auction components, NFT minting, and one person to stitch the pieces together — with RedFoo himself taking the auction components. 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, though that build enforced the rules through board and move Particles on the pre-Babylon ledger and had no resource model with which to mint the result.

## 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 a student project at the [Technical University of Berlin](https://www.tu.berlin/en/), which it said had spent an entire semester attempting a chess game in Solidity on Ethereum without finishing it – 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/1b53df37-fe89-4aff-94ba-a1dc10f64657.webp)

![](https://j9ytchrzkvqpcul7.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/59b7afa2-b355-4a64-a52d-dd02417733f0.webp)

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