Aspecta Supports Stanford’s Premier Hackathon TreeHacks As Exclusive Tech Partner
“Those who rule data will rule the entire world. That’s what people of the future will say.” — Masayoshi Son
Standing at the crossroads of Web2 and Web3, we witness and enable unparalleled growth of technology with our knowledge, perception, and most importantly, innovation. In this relentless journey of pushing forward the development of human society, builders and developers are at the core of this critical mission.
At Aspecta, we truly believe in helping these voyagers to 360 ° portray their innovative souls by documenting the on-chain and off-chain footprints and showcasing their technical skills to form a next-generation digital identity including personal webpage, soul-bound token, metaverse twins.
Ultimately, we aim to connect pioneering builders with one another as well as the broader world through the Aspecta ecosystem.
Redefining Hackathon Experiences with Aspecta ID
About TreeHacks
In February 2023, Aspecta proudly partnered with TreeHacks, Stanford University’s premier hackathon, also one of the world’s largest hackthons, as the exclusive technology partner. TreeHacks brings together 1600+ top-notch hackers from 12+ countries, 40+ companies, 300+projects to build for the future in 36 hours.
This year, hackers delivered ideas in trending fields, including Web 3.0 & Fintech, Healthcare, Sustainability, New Frontiers, Education, and Privacy & Safety etc. As one of the biggest hubs of future innovators worldwide, TreeHacks attracted industry leading companies, such as Open AI, Aptos, NEAR Team, Citadel, Sequoia, Y Combinator and InterSystems, as sponsors. With the Silicon Valley right next door, Aspecta worked alongside TreeHacks builders to flesh out their creative ideas to make their wildest thoughts realities.
Aspecta x TreeHacks Parntership Press Release
About Aspecta
With the mission of revolutionizing data potential, Aspecta transforms Web2 & Web3 footprints into AI-generated identity, Aspecta ID, for builders and beyond to demonstrate, document and explore.
By linking accounts across Web2 and Web3 spaces, such as GitHub, Twitter, and wallet addresses, the Aspecta ID pack offers an AI-generated webpage, soul-bound token, and metaverse twins.
With Aspecta ID, Aspecta ID holders are able to demonstrate insights regarding 8000+ skills aspects and hundreds of experience spotlights while documenting their achievements in third-party applications with Aspecta login. Meanwhile, Aspecta ID holders could connect with like-minded peers globally and explore more opportunities, ecosystems, and applications across Web2 & Web3.
Starting from Aspecta ID, Aspecta envisions an interactive identity ecosystem for individuals and third-parties to store, transfer and utilize data both on and off-chain.
Aspecta is founded by serial entrepreneurs from Yale University, UC Berkeley and Tsinghua University under the leadership of former Chief Scientist at Tinder, Dr. Steve Liu.
Selected TreeHacks Award-winning Projects
Artificial intelligence and Web3 were undoubtedly two of the keywords not only at TreeHacks but also in the global market this year. We’re excited to see innovations in these fields and push forward the development of AI & Web3 alongside these hackers in the near future! Below are a few award-winning projects at a glance.
Artificial Intelligence & Web3 Projects
Fluent.ly
Fluently’s main purpose is to provide equitable education worldwide. By providing a user customized curriculum and linguistic practice, students can further develop their understanding of their language. It can help students focus on areas where they need the most improvement to make progress at their own pace and feel more confident in their language skills while also practicing comprehension skills. By using artificial intelligence to analyze pronunciation, this site provides feedback that is both personalized and objective.
Aquashot
Users pay using Aptos for a water turret to spray water at somebody’s face. The user interacts with the website we made, which has integration for Aptos’ Petra wallet, as well as a livestream showing what a creator is doing. We mounted a separate webcam on a turret, which uses facial recognition to track people, and aims the water nozzle at their face. When someone donates through the site, the pump activates, and a recording of the moment is made into an NFT and sent back to the user’s wallet. Overall, the interaction between our hardware and software (Web3 integration, CV, motor controls) is what drives the user experience.
CityGO
A tool that helps urban planners understand their region’s walkability scores down to the granular street intersection level and instantly visualize what a street would look like if it was actually walkable using Open AI’s CLIP and DALL-E image generation tools (e.g. “What would the street in front of Painted Ladies look like if there were 2 bike lanes installed?)”
Zazu: AI Teaching Assistant
Zazu is a video call platform designed for teachers and students. It allows students to have access to an AI TA right in their video call so that they can ask questions to the TA while not disturbing the teacher and the flow of the lecture. The teacher can also use a slew of AI powered features, such as generating quiz questions on demand to ask the students to check engagement.
Apto-check
The biggest question asked in the resale of any item of value used to be about condition, functionality, and other tangibles. In a world where counterfeits are so hard to spot and brand value reigns supreme, the single most important question has become “is it real?” Apto-check is a protocol built on the Aptos blockchain that backs verifiably legitimate physical assets with NFTs. The hope is that in the sneaker resale market, Apto-check NFTs will be used as an undeniable standard of authenticity.
Vapor Protocol
Vapor Protocol aims to solve one of the most core problems experienced by native and non-native Crypto users. Needing native gas to process transactions on a new chain is a nightmare to acquire and necessitates a centralized exchange that the user can interact with (with all the pain points of CEXs like KYC and delays). Vapor Protocol uses Zetachain’s cross-chain swaps to be able to send gas to any chain as long as users have some tokens on one chain without having to route through CEX and acquire gas without touching a custodial actor.
Proactive Refresh
Threshold signatures secure billions in assets across crypto and traditional finance. Signature shares are stagnant, so adversaries can target the T parties over the course of months, eventually resulting in a hack regardless of the threshold parameter. Proactive Refresh serves as a way to renew signature shares every 30 seconds; it satisfied many challenging requirements, namely: 1) having no central point of failure 2) preserving the original vault, and 3) tracing back to signers.
Control DB
Control DB is a developer toolkit that aims to bridge the gap between cost and performance, allowing developers to use exponentially cheaper IPFS distributed file storage, while circumventing much of the complexity and limitations that normally come with it. It provides a decentralized database as a service where users can use its endpoints as well as NoCode tool where they can upload their data in a decentralized manner.
A.L.D.I. — Automaton Language-based Dynamic Interpretor
A developer tool for translating natural language 📖 into automata routines.
We want to be able to conduct long-horizon automaton tasks based off natural language, even in the absense of formal APIs and documentation. Imagine a search-and-rescue team telling the drone to “search for a person wearing red, and around 1.6m in the 100 meters paramter” and the drone being able to search immediately without code! To do so, we can define a couple basic function primitives, and task LLMs with decomposing our more complex tasks into a series of primitive function calls.
Origin
Origin uses state-of-the-art natural language processing to identify personalized, smart workspaces. Each workspace is centered around a topic comprised of related tabs from your browsing history, and Origin provides your most recently visited tabs pertaining to that workspace and related future ones, a generated textual summary of those websites from all their text, and a fine-tuned ChatBot trained on data about that topic and ready to answer specific user questions with citations and maintaining history of a conversation.
Looking Into the Future
TreeHacks collaboration is a solid step towards Aspecta’s mission of empowering various developer communities worldwide with the plan of expanding into other diverse fields very soon.
In 2023, Aspecta will be working closely with leading protocols, middle wares, and all kinds of applications through various events and collaborations. We are looking forward to documenting every inspiring moment of yours!
