Past Winners - Blockchain for Social Impact

Some of our past winners…

We are so thrilled about the past winners of the Decentralized Impact Incubator. Each of these projects has submitted their deliverables to the highest standard, and stood out from a pool of 100s of teams, 1000s of participants spanning more than 55 countries.

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Val Denay Mack (L), Gael Gundin (R)
#Democracy Challenge 1st place: Popchain demonstrating a decentralized open census protocol that was created to put the voices of under-represented and under-counted communities at the center.
Billy Garrison (L), Philipp Beer (R)
#Agriculture Challenge 1st place GreenBlocks demonstrating decentralized, community-driven marketplace connecting urban farmers, landowners and consumers.
Trevor Campbell (L), Todd Schultz (R)
#Refugees Challenge 1st place unCHAINed demonstrating digital identity and resource allocation system that empowers refugees and displaced persons with self sovereignty, while making the aid distribution process faster, more effective, and more efficient.

#Democracy 1st Place >

Popchain – A decentralized open census protocol that was created to put the voices of under-represented and under-counted communities at the center.

Team members: Val Denay Mack (@thevaleriemack), Gael Gundin (@GaelGuGu)

Twitter: @Popchain_us

Website: popchain.us

< #Agriculture 1st Place (tie)

GreenBlocks – A decentralized, community-driven marketplace connecting urban farmers, landowners and consumers.

Team members: Philipp Beer (@Philipp_Beer), Lewis Daly (@lewdaly), Billy Garrison(@BlockchainBilly)

Twitter: @Greenblocks_net

Website: https://greenblocks.network/

#Agriculture 1st Place (tie) >

Thor – A decentralized weather data system that uses blockchain to store and distribute raw weather data.

Team members: Ylli Vllasolli (@Yvllasolli), Charlotte Stephens (@charlotteweb18), Bayo Akins (@BayoAkins), Erica Sundberg (@elliica), Stephen Jackson (@_stevejaxon)

Twitter: @ThorWeather

Website: https://www.thor-weather.io/

< #Refugees 1st Place

unCHAINed – A digital identity and resource allocation system that empowers refugees and displaced persons with self sovereignty, while making the aid distribution process faster, more effective, and more efficient.

Team members: Trevor Campbell, Sam Blumenthal, Gurmeet Budhraja, Madhu Machavarapu, Urja Pawar, Todd Schultz

Twitter: @unCHAINed_ID

Website: http://www.unchained.id/

#Hardware 1st Place >

Kidner Project – A decentralized protocol to facilitate kidney paired donation while preserving privacy and confidentiality.

Team members: Sajida Zouarhi, Maroussia Arnault, Amelia Lintern-Smith, Noah Basri, Clément Massonnaud, Mathieu Vincens

Twitter: @KidnerProject

Website: http://www.kidner-project.com/

< #Democracy 2nd Place

Akshar – A platform that incentivize teachers based on the student performance and provide transparency of funds to donors.

Team members: Rahul Bansal, Siddharth Swarnkar, Sundari Narayan Swami, Bhavyaa Rastogi, Carlos Rojas Noverón, Dr. Hugh Gosnell

#Refugees 2nd Place >

Arcadia – A suite of software tools and services that enable NGOs to provide cash transfer services to refugees.

Team members: Elisa Pasquali, Anca Zamfir, Ioana Stanescu

Twitter: @ArcadiaBlkchn

Website: http://www.arcadiablockchain.com/

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Aphetor – A new consensus mechanism for asserting and verifying the identity and reputation of charging stations, EVs, and drones, and automating the exchange of energy and payments between distributed charging stations and battery-electric machines.

Team members: Alexander S. Blum, Meredith Finkelstein, Seth Weiner, Chris Jaroszewski, Peter Lyons

The Decentralized Impact Incubator is a 6-week program to ideate and prototype blockchain-based solutions to global social and environmental challenges. During the period, participants from around the world gather to form teams, design business models, draft proposals and code. Teams need to pass through weekly checkpoints and are guided by mentors throughout the process. Winning projects will receive grants to support continued development.

The scope of these challenges includes early-stage ideas for a product/solution, innovative business models, a timeline for sustained development, and if possible, a prototype, but not continuations of projects that are already beyond testing phase.

Decentralized Impact Incubator is supported by members of the Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition (BSIC). BSIC is a community of impact-focused entrepreneurs, investors, and humanitarians who convene to share resources, knowledge and cutting-edge blockchain technology to address global social and environmental issues.

JOIN AS A PARTICIPANT

Work in a small team to solve a challenge of your choice. Your goal is to demo a deployable blockchain-based solution.

BE A SPONSOR

Get involved as a Sponsor by contributing capital to teams’ continuing development of solutions after the Incubator period ends.

BE A MENTOR

Share your business, technical, and subject matter expertise to guide teams through weekly checkpoints. Typical commitment is 3-5 hrs per week.

BE A JUDGE

Review teams’ submissions given set rubrics. Judges are experts experienced in designing and deploying impact solutions in the challenge category.

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