NEM Attends Australia’s Biggest Blockchain Hackathon in Sydney
On the 23rd and 25th November 2018, bitfwd hosted Australia’s biggest Blockchain Hackathon in Sydney. NEM helped sponsor the event that saw participants from all around the world participate in a crypto-epic 72hr Blockathon.
Biffwd started an experiment last year to host Australia’s Blockchain hackathon (Blockathon) to gather the community to work on decentralised solutions. It was a great outcome and since then they have run international Blockathons in Beijing, Shanghai and Lithuania with great success and have brought it back to Sydney for the second time.
Thanh Le, NEM Australia Lead, did a presentation showcasing NEM’s ground work since the formation of the foundation in late 2017, mentioning achievements and highlights such as NEM’s active community, 101 events around the world, the signing of many government MOU’s and organising and participating in various hackathons in cities like Shanghai, Bogota and Sydney.
This was then followed by detailing NEM’s many uses cases such as:
- NEM’s private chain in the food supply chain in Japan
- Partnership with Liven, where users can now pay and order food across 1000 restaurants across Australia.
- Free Market Token, who are known as the crypto of EBAY, allows consumers to buy, sell, bid and reserve items with XEMs and other cryptos.
- Supporting roles that NEM has had with the Blockchain Center’s in Melbourne and Vilnius, Lithunania.
Thanh emphasized the importance to those in attendance at the Blockathon about NEM’s main goals and road map of 2019 which was to keep growing the ecosystem across all regions around the world, assist with more community contributions in the government sector, train and support more developers to learn and implement the NEM platform, support universities on blockchain syllabus and release the Catapult public chain.
Blockathon
Projects and start up all over Australia were keen to show their proof of concept to the large crowd that attended the pitch announcement held on the last day of the event. Around 12 different teams presented their projects that had unique concepts including art authentication, music incentivisation and self executing smart contracts in real estate. With such a vast amount of creative concepts presented it was a group by the name of ZKR (Zero-Knowledge Relayers) who stole the show and won this year’s hackathon with their “proof of verification” project that allows user to vote, allocate and transfer files and assets without the need to sign up and reveal one’s identity.
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