Winners announced! #shyftHACK Blockchain Hackathon
Over 50 developers and UX/UI pros gathered to participate in #shyftHACK, the very first Shyft Network blockchain hackathon that took place at Rotman School of Management’s Creative Destruction Lab, organized with support from The Blockchain Society.
We’ve had solid teams of 3–6 coding for hours to build gamer score infrastructure incorporating Shyft’s creditability score and attestation layer, and #shyftHACK’s judges announced the two top winners.
Huge thank you to our judges and mentors:
- Chris Forrester — CTO, Shyft Network
- Greg Markou — Head of Development, ChainSafe Systems
- Stu Peters — CTO, ChainSafe Systems
- Bardia and Jack Wu — Blockgeeks
- Jerry Qian — Blockchain technical advisor, Bitcoin Bay
- Angela Y. Lee — Blockchain Team Lead, Nobul
- Chinmay Patel — CEO, BlockX Labs
Congrats to #shyftHACK Winners
Winners were selected based on creativity of the idea (is app really innovative or a simply a twist on existing?); design and usability (is it easy to use and intuitive?); technicality (does it work); and interoperability.
First prize Winners: FlowerPower!
Congratulations to #shyftHACK’s first place team, FlowerPower! Team that took home the top prize: great work, Rikard Saye, Vishanth Thangavelautham, Flawnson Tong, Nikhil Budathoki, Agosh Saini, Ramy Zhang and Antoine De Vuyst.
What did they build? FlowerPower built an online betting platform awarding users in Ether and ERC721 tokens. The team created a system where “gardeners” earned ERC721 tokens as winnings and collected digital flowers they could show off to a community with the goal of increasing their worldwide FlowerPower leader board rankings. On the gardener’s route to building their flower garden, users were also rewarded Ether and could unlock rare collectables. Flower Power’s marketing slogan was to “take tulip mania to the next level.”
The prize: For their impressive project and initiative, FlowerPower won $1,500 in ETH, 500 SHYFT Tokens and two-years of access to Blockgeeks.
Second prize winners: BLIM Labs!
Second place honours went to Lori Kong, Barry Pratt, Ivan Svirid and Malcolm MacKay of BLIM Labs.
What did they build? The team created a system using Shyft to verify and aggregate gamers’ success and rare badges/artifacts from several Gaming TA’s, allowing the display of that aggregation of achievement in one “view” by and under the gamer’s control.
The prize: BLIM Labs won $500 in ETH and 500 SHYFT Tokens for their impressive project and presentation.
1,000 SHYFT tokens were also at stake for all participants during the event.
In Pictures: #shyftHACK
In Pictures: #shyftHACK
We can’t wait to see everyone again at Shyft’s next hackathon! Until then, we’ll let some of the images taken during #shyftHACK do all the talking.
Missed #shyftHACK? Worry not, we will be hosting more hackathons, bootcamps and community events in the coming months. Meanwhile, and especially if you’re a developer, please join Shyft’s Community Slack channel.
Thank you to all #shyftHACK participants and community partners for an incredible and fun time of rethinking games and gaming scores with Shyft.
Blockchain Executive Conference
To kick off #shyftHACK, investors, regulators, corporate executives, community organizers, and entrepreneurs gathered for The Blockchain Executive Conference hosted at Rotman School of Management.
Speakers included Juan Aja, Shyft; Suzanne Ennis, Shyft; Andrew Romans, 7BC.VC; Jim Orlando, OMERS Ventures; Rob Richards, Plaza Ventures, Aliza Lakhani, Northeastern University Toronto; Jamie Rosenblatt, Golden Ventures; Rob Segal, HyperBlock; Robert Young, Canaccord Genuity; Eric So, Globalive; Graham Marjoribanks, BDO Canada; Justin Hartzman, CoinSmart; and Genia Mikhalchenko, TMX Group.
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