PartiHack Winners Claim Awards!
After months of lead-up, the inaugural PartiHack contest finished up on Saturday, December 3, 2022. Approximately 25 teams submitted proposals and five teams received awards for their efforts, totaling $350,000 of cash and MPC Tokens. Project teams focused on developing proposals for projects that would build on the Partisia Blockchain to address significant challenges and the judges noted the great difficulty they had in choosing among many worthy proposals. The event was, by all accounts, a rousing success and bodes extremely well for building a fast-growing ecosystem of applications leveraging the singular zero-knowledge technologies of the Partisia Blockchain.
The biggest award of the event was the $100,000 eponymous Ivan Damgård award, which is named after Partisia’s Chief Cryptographer and scion of multi-party computation technology and was presented to the eTrusty team, for their project aimed at using Partisia Blockchain’s multi-party computation (MPC) privacy tools and bring-your-own-coin (BYOC) interoperability to combat corruption in public procurement markets.
Second place prizes of $75,000 each were awarded to two teams. Thousand Faces is a community-driven investment platform where anyone, anywhere in the world can become an investor in projects that they want to support by buying NFTs and Weezi.io which is using the Partisia Blockchain to automate the secondary market for SAFTs (Simple Agreements for Future Tokens) sales through blockchain-based private auctions.
Third place was once again a tie between two deserving projects, Muwpay, which is building a multi asset utility wallet and payment platform that will use Partisia Blockchain’s privacy and interoperability to allow users to efficiently aggregate cross-chain swaps of multiple tokens and a joint team between Blocxs and SDG Monitor which will provide a platform for organizations to submit SDG results privately through MPC.
The Partisia team is amazed at the results of our first ever PartiHack and thankful for the efforts of all the teams who participated. We’ll be reaching out to all the teams we’ve met so far to help bring their projects to life and we are already thinking about next year’s event. We hope to see you there!
