Inaugural Future of Blockchain Pitch Day Finale: The Finalists
The Future of Blockchain competition has taken place over the last 3 months in Oxford, Cambridge and London across six universities (Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, LSE, UCL, KCL). We partnered with eight leading blockchain companies [Gnosis, Kyber, Liquidity Network, MakerDao, Nucypher, Santiment, Thunder and Zilliqa]. We worked with over 30 university societies and organisations. We’ve had over 160 teams and 500 students participate. We’ve run 9 workshops over the three cities. We’ve even been the subject of a Forbes article.
Now, this Tuesday 19th March at 7pm at Kings College London, the inaugural competition will come to a close with a Pitch Night finale.
The twelve finalists will compete for the top £20,000 prize (this is an all cash prize, not an investment). They will do this by pitching and demoing what they have built to a panel of leading judges including StakeZero Ventures (Organiser), Consensys, and Eight Roads.
Competition Structure
For the competition, teams had the opportunity to build on one of the eight partner platforms [Platform Challenges] or build their own idea [Creator Challenge].
In the final are the eight best projects from each Platform Challenge and the four best projects from the Creator Challenge.
Across our twelve finalists, seven include PhD’s or more senior academics in their teams.
Our Platform Challenge Sponsors
The Finalists
Representing Gnosis: DxInteracts
Built by a team of three KCL Computer Scientists, DxInteracts is an open-source layer running on top of Gnosis’ DutchX decentralised exchange, easing user interaction.
Team: Frederico Lacs,[Undergraduate, Computer Science, KCL], Jardin Omidvaran [Undergraduate, Computer Science, KCL], Sebastian-Stefan Raba [Graduate, Computer Science, KCL]
Representing Kyber: Mimicstream
Built by a team of two from Oxford who met at one of the FoB Launch events, Mimicstream is a ‘decentralised Twitch’ that uses the Kyber Network to allow users to tip content creators and live stream directly without any centralised service fees.
Team: Min Yao [DPhil, Thermofluids, Oxford], Nick Ruck [MA, Finance, Peking University Business School]
Representing Liquidity Network: Liquidity Stream
Built by a team of four from Imperial, Liquidity Stream uses Liquidity Network’s NOCUST protocol for pay-as-you-watch-video-on-demand.
Team: Lawrence Tse [Postdoc, Mechnical Engineering, Imperial], David Wong [Software Developer], Alexander Mason [PhD, Mechnical Engineering, Imperial]
Representing MakerDao: Commit-Me
Built by a team of six, Commit-Me was formed when the group met at an Alan Turing Institute workshop. It is a platform for tracking social impact commitments and is currently being piloted at Oxford University. The platform uses Dai for funding pledges.
Team: Eli Mitchell-Larson [MsC, Environmental Change and Management, Oxford], Matthew Linares [Technical Manager, opendemocracy.net], Alistair Blackwell [Lead Lecturer, National College for Digital Skills], Ophelia Cai [Blackrock, FBG, BA Graduate, Economics and Management, Oxford], Odysseas Sclavounis [PhD, Internet Institute, Oxford], Lewis Gudgeon [PhD, Computing, Imperial]
Representing Nucypher: Hypervault
Built by a team of three from Cambridge, Hypervault is a flexible, decentralised, platform-agnositic file access-control system powered by a permissioned blockchain. The platform uses Nucypher as the fundamental cryptographic scheme to encrypt private keys.
Team: Li Xi [Undergraduate, Maths, Cambridge], Robert Martin [Undergraduate, Natural Sciences, Cambridge], Andrew Ramsay [MBA, Cambridge]
Representing Santiment: Comparethemarketcap
Built by an individual, Comparethemarketcap uses Santiment’s data for an interactive web application that lets you compare metrics of a large selection of digital assets.
Team: Amin Ahmed [BSc Graduate, Physics, Queen Mary’s]
Representing Thunder: Trusource
Built by a team of two from Imperial, Trusource is an oracle platform enabling data providers to operate their own oracle on numerous blockchains using ThunderCore to speed up transaction times.
Team: Bastien Moyroud [MSc Graduate, Computer Science, Imperial], Mohammed Hussan [MSc Graduate, Computer Science, Imperial]
Representing Zilliqa: dMapp
Built by one of Professor Ross Anderson’s PhD candidates, dMapp is a privacy respecting, decentralised, incentivised navigation and mapping service. It is especially aimed at the first world where routing in slums, favelas and small villages is rudimentary. DMapp uses Zilliqa for micropayments and as a trusted store for integrity checks.
Team: Mansoor Ahmed [PhD, Security, Cambridge]
Creator Challenge Representative: Block Scholes
Built by a team of four from Imperial with a trading background, Block Scholes offers on-chain derivatives for individuals to hedge their digital assets to eliminate counterparty risk.
Team: Alfonso Delgado [PhD, Computer Science, Imperial], Eamonn Gashier [Finance Researcher], Darren O’Rourke [MSc Graduate, Finance, Imperial], Dallas Johnston [CEO, Credify.one]
Creator Challenge Representative: DConsent
Built by a team of four from Oxford including a cancer doctor, Dconsent uses Thundercore to manage individual’s consent to the use of their data online on the blockchain in real-time.
Team: Paolo Polzella [Medical Doctor, DPhil Graduate, Clinical Medicine and Academic Clinical Fellow in Haematology, Oxford], Cristiano Padovani [MBA, Oxford and PhD, Materials, Birmingham], Cristian Chirivi [Full Stack Developer], Francesco Polzella [Senior Software Engineer]
Creator Challenge Representative: ParityGame
Built by a team of two from Cambridge, ParityGame is a platform for buying NFT accessory items for games. Through a Thundercore integration, the platform provides game users with a more efficient game asset trading.
Team: Fredrik Liu [PhD, Theoretical Physics, Cambridge]
Creator Challenge Representative: TrustlessLabs
Built by a team of two from Oxford and Thailand respectively, Trustless Labs is a Lightning Network and Ethereum Plasma wallet for multiple coins allowing coins to be swapped with other users via atomic or cross-chain swaps.
Team: Edward Fricker [MBA, Oxford], Charkid Thanhachartyothin [Experienced Software Developer]
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