FoB 2 Launch Week!
Wow. What a week. 4 Cities. Hundreds of participants. 11 incredible of Challenge Partners! Here’s Launch Week in summary:
About Future of Blockchain
Future of Blockchain is a 3 month competition to build a blockchain project. During the competition, participants can either build a startup or answer a technical challenge. They are rewarded with numerous prizes, both monetary and non-monetary. It is open to anyone who studies/studied or currently lives in the cities of Oxford, Cambridge, London or Berlin.
How it works
Participants can enter (by 1st November) in teams of 1–6. You can participate by answering either:
- General Challenge: Building or entering a startup/project of your own design
Or
- Partner Challenges: Answering a technical challenge
Participants have 3 months (November to mid-February) to complete their project. You must register by 1st November 2019 and submit your project digitally by 16th February 2020. Register here.
Challenge Partners
These are the brilliant Challenge Partners we have this year. Read more about them and their challenges here!
Overview
Our Launch Events are intended to provide information about the competition and its challenges to interested participants in all our cities.
The format of each event was:
- A presentation about the competition
- Presentations from the Challenge Partners
- 1–1 Q&A
Berlin
For the first time in a new city, we were delighted to be joined by Jason Weathersby of Algorand, Oliver Simon of Tezos, Saiba Kataruka of Zilliqa and Arne Scherrer of SAP. We are very grateful to Le Wagon Berlin and Rich O'Grady for hosting us!
Oxford
In Oxford, we were joined by Jason again from Algorand, Simon Barducci from Tezos and Anaïs Urlichs from Near Protocol!
Thank you to the Said Business School for hosting us!
Cambridge
In Cambridge, we were delighted to be joined by Jason from Algorand, Simon from Tezos, Saiba from Zilliqa and Anais from NearProtocol
Thank you to the Judge Business School for hosting us!
London
London was our biggest event! Thank you Jason from Algorand, Simon from Tezos, Erik Trautman from NearProtocol and Camilla McFarland from ConsenSys for speaking!
Thank you Scott Trowbridge and WeWork Fintech and Blockchain Labs for hosting!
Challenges
Read more about the Competition Challenges here. You can register for the competition anytime before the submission deadline (15th March).
All Presentations
Available via this link.
Photos!
Available here via this link. Tag yourself!
Registration
Registration is now open, please do so via www.futureofblockchain.co.uk
Corporate Partners
Our Event Partners
Contact
For more information or questions, email anthony@stakezero.com
