Uport, An Ethereum Based Identity Project Wins the Blockchain Competition
The biggest competition of its kind, Demo Day, hosted by ChainB during the International Blockchain Week, featured 17 ethereum based projects, out of 31, with the overall winner Uport, an Ethereum based blockchain identity project. Speaking to CCN, Uport’s co-founder Rouven Heck, stated: We are very excited about the great feedback for uPort over the last days at DevCon2. Winning the demo day event is a great endorsement from the community that we are building something valuable for the ecosystem. We are looking forward to integrating with some of the exciting projects we have seen over....
Related News
What is a decentralized identity, and why does it matter? In this guide, we break it down for you. Decentralized identity protocolsSeveral identity protocols, from crypto startups to big tech solutions, deal with decentralized identification, and each has its specifics and features.Though the decentralized identity technology is fairly new, initiatives and players in the decentralized identity space, software for implementing decentralized identity wallets and supporting services are plentiful. They range from the Hyperledger open-source developing community, through a range of....
A Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company developing identity solutions for blockchain-based systems won $15,000 at a startup competition hosted by the venture arm of Spanish banking group Banco Santander yesterday. Announced in November, the Distributed Ledger Challenge was organized by Santander InnoVentures, the $100m FinTech venture fund created by Banco Santander in 2014, and Onevest, a venture capital network based in New York. The Amazon Web Services Pop-up Lofts, a working space located in Manhattan, hosted the event. Cambridge Blockchain, which won the event, was one of five....
If you had $1 million to invest in Bitcoin and Ethereum, how would you buy, and why? This is the premise behind a new case study competition from Kraken, who partnered with The Economist to launch the program. Kraken, a leading bitcoin exchange, has launched a new competition aimed at students, challenging them to create digital asset investment....
A startup building an ethereum-based platform for IoT applications has won $100,000 at a blockchain hackathon in Dubai. Project Oaken was awarded the top prize during a presentation at the World Government Summit, a Dubai government-sponsored event focused on smart governance held this week in Dubai. Unveiled in late November, the Blockchain Virtual GovHack was aimed at promoting blockchain-based solutions for advancing smart city applications. The initiative was organized by AngelHack, with support on the technology side from ethereum startup ConsenSys. Project Oaken was one of three....
Ethereum will begin to demonstrate its power as less effort is required on the protocol (given the successful version 1.0 release on 31st July, 2015), and more development is focused on decentralized applications. Moreover, Ethereum browsers like Meta Mask and Mist and the uPort wallet and self-sovereign Identity portal will be usable by the 99.5% of the world who aren’t computer programmers, so the average user will not have to access Ethereum via command-line. The price of Ether will be over $1.15 by 29th February, 2016. Ethereum will establish itself as the clear leader in this regard.....