Block Hack Global 2020 Wraps Up & Congratulations to Winning Teams
Block Hack Global 2020 (running from Oct 5th ~ Nov 14th) included nearly 312 attendees, 122 participating hackers, 24 projects, and 30 workshops. A first-ever hackathon that stresses building businesses in the blockchain ecosystem as well as encouraging teams to continue to build post-hackathon.
Additionally, we have 50+ hours of recordings of the Block Hack Global workshops available for viewing at https://www.crowdcast.io/bitcoinbay. During the hackathon, there were people tuning in from 6 continents, 60 countries and 245 cities. 😍
After the hacking period concluded, each team prepared a 5-minute presentation to demonstrate their app and solution to the judges. The judging panel included people from Sora Ventures, SLP Foundation, Harmony, HashKey Group, Rotter Family Trust and EDGE196.
We would also like to thank our Exposure & Ecosystem partners for helping to make Block Hack Global 2020 a success — Polkadot, Harmony, MDB Labs, Blockchain Center, Untraceable, Hackmania, Satoshi’s Angels, BlockchainWire, and Cointelegraph.
A very big thank you to our education partners for hosting 27 phenomenal technical and business workshops. Our education partners made our vision possible, to build stronger viable businesses.
Shout out to:
- George Brown College
- BEworks
- ICTC
- York University of Continuing Studies
- Blockchain Education Network,
- Blockchain.lab
- Rema Synergy
- Chainsafe
- Crypto Chicks
Now onto the top teams at the Block Hack Global. Here were the top Winners of the bounty challenges issued by SLP Foundation and Harmony.
SLP — Economic Freedom Challenge (2 Teams)
Paytaca enables offline Bitcoin cash and SLP payments between people and businesses in the developing world where the internet is often unreliable.
Github: https://github.com/paytaca
Pitch / Demo: https://youtu.be/FAyRtecOdFU
ZHware is a brand new SLP protocol to negotiate and barter deals over the blockchain trustlessly.
Github: https://github.com/zh/bhg2020
Pitch / Demo:
https://www.loom.com/share/d1e1628a3f4a40058a88fc32ff0405f9
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SLP — Technological Freedom Challenge (2 Teams)
Telr is an exchange that uses smart contracts for creating an entirely trustless, noncustodial atomic dex, across different cryptocurrencies and SLP. Bridging users from other PoW blockchains to the Bitcoin Cash community.
Github: https://github.com/modenero/telr.exchange
SLPEC is for employing cutting edge technology like SLP’s Post Office Protocol, BIP 70, Bitcoin.com’s Link and even smart contracts to create a fully functional trustless DAPP with no gas fees.
Github: https://github.com/BCHDEVCON3/SLPEscrowCash
Pitch / Demo:
https://youtu.be/tWj8Q6P9s7M
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SLP — Collaborative Freedom Challenge
SLPEC is awarded again, for creating a full functioning user-friendly trustless jobs escrow application that works on SLP. Making it easy to onboard new Bitcoin Cash and SLP users. Increasing decentralized collaboration.
Github: https://github.com/BCHDEVCON3/SLPEscrowCash
Pitch / Demo:
https://youtu.be/tWj8Q6P9s7M
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SLP — Bonus Challenge
Telr was awarded again for the $1000USD atomic swap bounty, for successfully achieving atomic swaps between Ethereum, BCH and SLP and presenting it on a decentralized exchange as well as open-source code to do it.
Github: https://github.com/modenero/telr.exchange
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Harmony — Best Business Proposal (2 teams)
Bit.Country https://bit.country/ Create your own country and community. Attract more people to join using the rules and policies you can set by your will. Grow your country and monetize your community in multiple ways without any intermediaries. Create a currency for your country, and incentivize the people who contribute to your community. As your community grows, your currency will gain value on the exchange. Everyone in the community will benefit from this. Countries can be auctioned, rewarding all who had a stake in it.
Plexity https://github.com/xlimpos/yello-mobile Development of a digital immuzation record. The focus would be to show the possibility of developing an electronic medical record using blockchain technology. Currently Plexity is at its Phase 1 MVP.
Pitch / Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/2ebe009f0fa44981ab88fd06060c5830
A Big Round of applause to the seed funding winner Project Sumaj!
After crunching the numbers from all of our judges, the winner of the finalist EDGE196 seed-funding prize for Block Hack Global 2020 goes to …
Keshav Mundhra and his project Samaj — which simplifies a crypto user experience by allowing users to transact on ethereum and pay gas fees with ERC20 tokens.
Follow him Here:
Instagram: @better_call_mundhra
Twitter: @_mundhrakeshav
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keshav-mundhra-94935117a
Pitch / Demo: https://youtu.be/QrJIMfxqFWc
Read on what our investor partner EDGE196 has to say about the project.
“After reviewing and deliberating on all received due diligence documents. We are excited to finally announce Keshav Mundhra as the winner of the seed-funding prize for his project that allows transaction fees on Ethereum to be paid in ERC20 Tokens by passing them through relayers and relying on decentralized oracles to get the latest price to charge users.”
— the EDGE196 Team
So, What’s Next
2020 has wrapped up for Block Hack Global; and we encourage the finalists to continue their projects and wish them the best on their Blockchain journey. We will be continuing to allow existing projects to join our events, so we encourage you all to keep building for the chance to earn seed funding at our next Block Hack Global.
We look forward to what 2021 will bring, and building the ecosystem for the possibilities of existing and emerging blockchain technology. We aim to foster connections among people and businesses to help further nurture their blockchain startups and/or ideas. Follow us on social media for announcements relating to the next Block Hack Global.
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For more information regarding Block Hack Global 2020, visit www.blockhack.ca. Video recordings of all the amazing workshops are available at https://www.crowdcast.io/bitcoinbay
