Swiss Blockchain Hackathon 2021: 347 hackers, 71 experts and 25 jurors from 31 countries
Over 400 hackers, professionals and experts committed themselves last weekend to give blockchain technology a tangible face.
How can blockchain technology be advanced in Switzerland? In considering the organizers of the second Swiss blockchain hackathon, especially through the concrete evidence of what the blockchain origins can.
Under this sail, last weekend is the final phase of the # SBHACK21 in Zurich, Geneva, Lugano and online.
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The connection of blockchain protocols such as Streamr, Velas, Algorand and Near with companies and hackers from 31 nations has led to precisely this result: companies have briefed specific tasks, 347 hackers in 69 teams have developed solutions under pressure and in the shortest possible time and provided answers to real problems and challenges via working prototypes.
Success through broad sponsorship and the participation of business
The Swiss Blockchain Hackathon 2021 was organized by a broad-based consortium made up of the Swiss Blockchain Federation, Trust Square, CVVC, CV Labs, SUPSI and HSLU as part of the NTN Innovation Booster – Blockchain Nation Switzerland program.
The challenges in the form of specific challenges and briefings came from business, for example from Bossard, City of Lugano, Dexgame, Julius Bär, NZZ, Richemont, Canton Ticino, Federal Office of Energy, Swiss Post, Casper, Seba Bank, Nomoko, ZHAW & FairRecycling and Lumas Gallery.
This relationship to the economy and to companies with specific requirements ensures that a hackathon is not limited to theoretical finger exercises, but results in practical applications. Applications that can be further developed after the hackathon and solve specific problems in the final expansion.
Who cleared?
There are no losers at a hackathon, that’s the nature of these events. But there are already outstanding blockchain-based solutions that have been awarded prizes of over CHF 350,000 by the jury.
A look at teams and solutions is interesting, especially since the range of different solutions with regard to different fields of application is extremely broad.
The summary here shows which challenges, teams and solutions were particularly noticeable at the Swiss Blockchain Hackathon 2021.