The Concept
Future of is a 3-month hackathon to build ideas involving . It is aimed at researchers, students and alumni from the leading universities in the UK like Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, LSE, UCL, KCL and Queen Mary’s.
Participants could choose between a Partner Challenge or doing their own idea (Creator Challenge).
For the Partner Challenge, participants could build on one of 8 sponsor platforms: Gnosis, Kyber, Liquidity Network, MakerDao, Nucypher, Santiment, Zilliqa and ThunderCore.
By the end of the competition, the Future of received submissions from 160 teams and over 600 students participant, and only 12 were selected to enter the finale pitch event. ThunderCore was the most well-represented sponsor of the finale event, and most widely chosen by the participants: with 3 teams out of the 12 finalists building their demo/prototype/MVP on ThunderCore!
TruSource
Built by a team of two from Imperial, Trusource is an oracle platform enabling data providers to operate their own oracle on numerous blockchains using ThunderCore as the infrastructure to speed up transaction times.
Team: [MSc Graduate, Computer Science, Imperial], [MSc Graduate, Computer Science, Imperial]
ParityGame
Built by a team of two from Cambridge, ParityGame is a game studio and platform for buying NFT accessory items for games. ParityGames is using ThunderCore as the infrastructure layer to provide game users with a more efficient, fair, and transparent game asset experience.
Team: [PhD, Theoretical Physics, Cambridge], Jimin Li [Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge]
DConsent
Team: [Medical Doctor, DPhil Graduate, Clinical Medicine and Academic Clinical Fellow in Haematology, Oxford], [MBA, Oxford and PhD, Materials, Birmingham], [Full Stack Developer], [Senior Software Engineer]
The Results
The winner of the night was a team of four from Imperial offering on-chain derivatives for individuals to hedge their digital assets to eliminate counterparty risk. However, we were so impressed by the excellence of the ideas and the quality of the prototypes from the 3 teams that built on ThunderCore that we decided to award each of the 3 teams with £2,000 prize!
We will continue supporting community projects that leverage the benefits of ThunderCore’s high-performance, scalable public platform. If you have great ideas and even prototypes available, do reach out to us and we would love to see how we can help that grow big!
Published at Mon, 08 Apr 2019 23:06:37 +0000
