Blockchain takes the spotlight at Matheson hackathon
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Blockchain hackathon dcu online second edition of the Blockchain Hackathon was just amazing from the organization perspective, here you will find some personal thoughts I'm writing down from the Startup Lisboa incubator as I took a plane straight after the hackathon to start exploring the idea of a lab in Portugal This was really a great sign of the quality of the event and knowledge of the participants.
A handful of participants were there for the prize only it seems, or as we believe they might have been chasing a bonus from their companies if they had won. We are quite sad about this, an event like this is supposed to be for people who want to learn or have a passion, not for employees paid to be here.
We will take rigorous steps next time to make sure this does not happen. The products built by the participants were really impressive: I believe many teams will continue and get some serious blockchain hackathon dcu online Our sponsors, - Fidelity Investments and Labs for the highest level of sponsorship for the second year.
Guys, we love you. Our volunteers who were there to help no matter what too many I cannot list them all, but blockchain hackathon dcu online thanks to Said, Kraken and Mael. I also cannot thank Deloitte enough for the many helpers they provided. DCU Alpha, providing us the venue, thanks to Terrence and Ronan specifically, but also the receptionists and security people who had to deal with us all the time!
Marie Lando and Paul Condron for the amazing job on photography. All our suppliers for the weekend. Teams This year we had 12 teams again: Platform for the academia to record proof of existance, prior work, and comments in an immutable manner Cartrek: Tamper-resistant mileage record for cars, and transparency blockchain hackathon dcu online car maintenance Chainge Me: Self-improvement app allowing you to "put your money where your mouth is", betting money against yourself if you don't respect your goals Tradeaid: Trade history traceability to know who the best traders are, for investors to invest in Skychain: Censorship-resistant database for torrent trackers Voting on the blockchain: ZK-Snark based anonymous voting system, using Zcash.
Executing smart-contract from any social media platform Weatherchain: Weather insurance on the blockchain specifically targeted at emerging and 3rd world countries, where anybody individual or fund can participate to blockchain hackathon dcu online weather insurance fund in the world.
I'll link their individual debriefs when they are ready!
