Building programs is fun, but you know what makes it more fun? Challenges. Competitions. Proving you can solve problems that other people couldn’t.

We’re working on the Challenge Hub - a gamified layer on top of CryptoBlocks where you can solve coding puzzles, earn points, and climb leaderboards.

Here’s the idea: you open the Challenge Hub and see a list of challenges sorted by difficulty. Maybe one challenge asks you to build a program that reverses a string. Another asks you to calculate Fibonacci numbers. Another asks you to fetch data from an API and filter it based on certain criteria.

You build your solution using blocks, just like always. When you think you’ve got it, you submit. The system tests your program against hidden test cases. If it passes, you earn points and unlock the next challenge. If it fails, you see what went wrong and try again.

We’re tracking your progress, showing you how you rank against other builders, and highlighting which categories you’ve mastered versus which ones you need to practice.

This isn’t just grinding for points. The challenges are designed to teach specific concepts. You’ll start with basics - variables and loops - then gradually move into more complex territory like recursion, async operations, and data structures.

The Challenge Hub will also pull from our origin story. Remember, CryptoBlocks started as a CTF framework. Some challenges will have a hacking theme - decode this message, break this cipher, exploit this logic flaw. Programming is problem-solving. Let’s make it feel like a game.

Launch date coming soon. Start practicing.