Future of Blockchain 2: Algorand Winners
As chronicled here, the Future of Blockchain University Competition final took place yesterday (Mon 27th April 2020) online. It could not have happened without the amazing support of our partners, particularly Algorand, who were one of our Gold Partners.
About the Future of Blockchain University Competition
For those who aren’t already aware, Future of Blockchain is a long-form competition for those at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, London, Berlin and others to build a blockchain project over 3 months. We attract students, researchers, alumni and leading developers. This year, we also received participants from outside our core universities, with submissions from the Universities of ETH Zurich, Rome, Stirling, Waterloo, Cape Town and Paris.
Universities
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How does it work?
Participants had 3 months to either (November 2019 to March 2020).
More details can be found here.
A. Build their own project (General Challenge).
B. Answer a Sponsor Challenge (Partner Challenges).
Launch Events
Everything started with 4 Launch Events, in each of Oxford, Cambridge, London and Berlin.
Algorand’s Jason Weatherby was an incredibly enthusiastic representative, captivating students with his passion and introduction of Algorand’s technology.
Workshops
During the competition, we help the participants every few weeks with workshops. In December, Algorand came to King’s College London to give an awesome technical deep-dive.
The Algorand Challenges
The Algorand team set three challenges to test the participant’s ability, creativity and help them learn more about Algorand’s awesome tech.
Winners
The Overall Winner was Decentralised Robinson List. This is a Professor-Led Team from University of Rome Sapienza and team from the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni and University of Roma Trewho have built an opt-out list for marketing transmissions in Italy using Algorand. The project is already in calibration with the Italian Government and we are very excited about its future. Here is the presentation.
Watch the Final
Learn more about Algorand
For more on Algorand, go to www.developer.algorand.org
Questions
For Algorand: contact@algorand.com
For Future of Blockchain: anthony@encode.club
