Future of Blockchain 2: Tezos 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 the Tezos Foundation, 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.
Workshops
During the competition, we help the participants every few weeks with workshops. In February, Pietro Abate from Nomadic Labs came to King’s College London to give an awesome technical deep-dive.
The Tezos Challenges
The Tezos team set three challenges to test the participant’s ability, creativity and to educate them about Tezos’ technology.
- Build a dAPP
- Build tools for Tezos
- Contribute to the Tezos codebase.
The Winners
1st Prize: Chain of Insight — A zero-knowledge encryption oracle and dApp.— 8000 Tez.
2nd Prize: dAirbnb — A Professor from Stirling University, a Senior Lecturer at University of Strathclyde and PhD from the University Ibn Tofail in Morocco who have built a decentralised property marketplace.— 4000 Tez.
3rd Prizes:
DeepVerse- A team of 3 Cambridge PhDs who have built a platform to train AI models collaboratively.
Q-Vote — A quadratic voting platform from a team of KCL students.
Tezos Care — IOT device that sends your GPS location to your entourage in an emergency.
TZ-Factor — Decentralised factoring for supply chains
2000 Tez each.
4th Prize: Tezos ETL — publically queryable blockchain explorer— 1000 Tez.
5th Prize: Tezmania — a Tezos javascript library — 500 Tez.
Consolation prizes: Bricks on Blocks, MimicStream, Oaten, JSECoin, Sprytech , Stream Harbour— all 250 Tez.
Watch the Final
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