Swiss Blockchain Hackathon 2021
Swiss Blockchain Hackathon 2021 will take place simultaneously at the Ambassador House in Zurich, at SUPSI University in Lugano, at the University of Geneva and online.
The renowned blockchain protocols Streamr, Velas, Algorand, Casper and NEAR will come together with corporates and developers so transfer decentralized technologies to tangible applications and business models.
Roughly 500 hackers are expected to take on the given real-world challenges in teams. The 10 most promising ideas will move on to the next stage and invited to a 6 week acceleration phase.
Oct 15 – 31, 2021
| Online | Public |
| $344,000 in prizes | 35 participants |
Hackathon Challenges (provided by):
Manufacturing / Supply Chain / Sustainability
- Tracking CO2 footprint throughout the entire product life cycle (DAX listed company)
- Tracking and Recycling of building materials (large Swiss real estate developers)
- Payment system for existing automated, IOT-based re-stocking supply-on-demand processes (Swiss SME)
- Quality certificates for components in multi-stage manufacturing processes (Swiss SME)
- CO2 certificates platform based on sensor data (Swiss recycling company)
- Plastic recycling marketplace (Swiss Think Tank)
Energy:
- Electricity transaction system complying with Swiss legislator guidelines (Swiss legislator)
Government:
- City payment token to book access to museums, events, loyalty program, eID (Swiss municipal)
Capital Markets (Seba Bank):
- NFT Platform (focus on generative art)
- Backend payment gateway for crypto
- Lending platform with white-listing
Gaming
- Gaming platform for game investors, gaming competitions, NFTs
Media
- Content market place (Swiss media company)
Swiss Blockchain Hackathon 2021
PRIZES
$344,000 in prizes
1st Prize: Best solution built on Algorand
USD 8,000 in tokens
1/2 Day Sales Training (value $2,000 USD)
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
2nd Prize: Best solution built on Algorand
USD 6,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
3rd Prize: Best solution built on Algorand
USD 4,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
4th Prize: Best solution built on Algorand
USD 2,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
1st Prize: Best solution built on NEAR
USD 4,000 in cash
1/2 Day Sales Training (value $2,000 USD)
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
2nd Prize: Best solutions built on NEAR
USD 3,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
3rd Prize: Best solutions built on NEAR
USD 2,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
4th Prize: Best solutions built on NEAR
USD 1,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
1st Prize: Best solution built on Streamr
USD 4,000 in tokens
1/2 Day Sales Training (value $2,000 USD)
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
2nd Prize: Best solutions built on Streamr
USD 3,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
3rd Prize: Best solutions built on Streamr
USD 2000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
4th Prize: Best solutions built on Streamr
USD 1000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
1st Prize: Best solution built on Casper
USD 4,000 in tokens
1/2 Day Sales Training (value $2,000 USD)
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
2nd Prize: Best solutions built on Casper
USD 3,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
3rd Prize: Best solutions built on Casper
USD 2,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
4th Prize: Best solutions built on Casper
USD 1,000 in tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
1st Prize: Best solution built on Velas
USD 4,000 in cash or tokens
1/2 Day Sales Training (value $2,000 USD)
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
Access CVVC Accelerator 2021 (value $5,000 USD)
2nd Prize: Best solutions built on Velas
USD 3,000 in cash or tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
3rd Prize: Best solutions built on Velas
USD 2,000 in cash or tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
4th Prize: Best solutions built on Velas
USD 1,000 in cash or tokens
1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $3,000 USD)
Local Winner – Zurich
USD 1,000 in cash
Local Winner – Lugano
USD 1,000 in cash
Local Winner – Geneva
USD 1,000 in cash
Individual Challenge Winner
Prizes per Challenge:
1st place Bosshard Challenge: USD 1,000
Additional corporate challenge awards: coming soon
Invitation to the Swiss Blockchain Innobooster Accelerator Program (10)
In a comprehensive 6 week coaching program we help you to further develop your idea and to build a team around your project.
We connect you with corporate partners and mentors from academia who can help you take your idea to the next level.
After the Innobooster Accelerator up to 5 teams may get invited to the incubation program of our partner CV VC, which comes with the opportunity to receive up to CHF 125,000 in funding from CV VC in exchange for 10% equity.
Fast Track to the Innobooster Incubator Program powered by CV Labs
The winner will be part of the fast-track to join the Innobooster Incubator. The fast-track does not guarantee acceptance into the program
The program comes with the opportunity to receive up to CHF 125,000 in funding from CV VC in exchange for 10% equity.
Startups learn from the most successful and visionary entrepreneurs, experts and mentors in the blockchain space & beyond.
You will learn, iterate, fail, pivot, pitch, and debate in a constructive environment of international, early-stage startups, all hungry to change the world for the better.
Pitching - Perfect your pitch deck and learn how to convince investors to join you in changing the world.
Strategy - Graduate with a foolproof business plan and white paper in hand.
Product - Rapidly turn your solution into a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) or your MVP into Pilot Project/ Revenues by the end of the program.
SBHACK21 Overall Winners (1st Prize)
USD 100’000 in AWS credits
USD 5’000 in tokens (Algorand, Streamr, Velas, Casper, NEAR)
1/2 Day Sales Training (value $2,000 USD)5x 1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $15,000 USD)
SBHACK21 Overall Winners (3rd)
USD 25’000 in AWS credits
SBHACK21 Overall Winners (2nd)
USD 25’000 in AWS credits
1/2 Day Sales Training (value $2,000 USD)
5x 1 Year Access Membership Trust Square (value $15,000 USD)
Swiss Blockchain Hackathon 2021
REQUIREMENTS
- Provide a URL to your code repository for judging and testing or a link to your functioning demo.
- Include a video (about 3 minutes) that demonstrates your submission. Videos must be uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook Video and made public.
- Must include a link to their project working
- If you can not include a link to your working project, you must be able to prove your work, provide end-to-end proof with a screen recording of localhost or some other solution
- Must include a description of which challenge you solved with which protocol technology
JUDGING CRITERIA
- Quality of the Idea
Includes creativity, originality, and code quality - Potential Value
Includes the extent to which the solution can be scaled and reach significant adoption - Implementation
Includes how well the idea was executed by the developers and the extent to which technology features of the used blockchain protocols were leveraged
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