2019 Blockchain Award Goes to Meditect
The Alliance Program, in partnership with Startup Columbia, is pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural 2019 Blockchain Innovation Challenge!
A big congratulations to all of our finalists who represented their respective institutions with distinction.
As the winner of the competition, Meditect has been awarded the Blockchain Innovation Challenge Prize of $30,000 to support the development of their project. Each runner up team has been awarded a prize of $5,000.
A special thank you to our judging panel and all of those who participated in the competition.
Unchain my Art has the ambition to enhance art exhibitions globally. Nowadays, numerous art pieces are in the hands of private collectors all around the world, while more exhibitions encounter large-scale public success. The need to connect both is pressing and would benefit all, but as collectors want to stay anonymous, museums can hardly connect with them. To solve this problem and enable exchange in a trustworthy environment we imagined a collective blockchain-based platform that can certify ownership while ensuring anonymity. Our project will help museums in their mission and make culture accessible to all.
Moon is a browser extension that allows you to shop with cryptocurrency anywhere online instantly, securely and without fees. Link your Coinbase account or use the wallet of your choice to make purchases using Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether, and others. Unlike other cryptocurrency payment products, our solution does not require a direct integration with merchants. For example, users in the US can shop directly on Amazon.com with their crypto. Just install Moon and you can shop on Amazon.com with Bitcoin.
Each year, more than 1 million people in the world die because of counterfeit medicines.
With Meditect, patients and health professionals can scan their box of medicine to verify its authenticity and benefit from several information such as posology in different languages.
Using Blockchain technology, Meditect and pharmaceutical companies empower patients and health professionals and strengthen public health in developing regions.
The Meditect app is designed for pharmaceutical companies, pharmacists and patients and is currently deployed in West Africa.Ash is a platform on which each actor is able to sell its digital creations without any intermediary. For instance, it is possible to directly publish an ebook and send it to readers, raise funds for a new episode of a web series or share the development costs of a software plug-in between interested customers.
In practice, encrypted offers transit freely without any entity to control or influence the user. The peer-to-peer encryption protocol used by Ash ensures the privacy of personal data thanks to cutting-edge technology.