The
Blockchain Oscar has officially wrapped up, therefore it is a good time to reflect on the highlights of this amazing competition as part of
BlockShow Europe 2017 organized by your beloved Cointelegraph Events, educating and connecting people in the Blockchain industry, Humaniq, building and providing an innovative model of banking for unbanked, and
WINGS, a Blockchain platform for launching, backing and promotion of new project proposals through a fluid organizational model referred to as DAO.
How it all started
The first round of the competition kicked off in March with a series of webinars. Where participants were pitching their
Blockchain-based projects and had a chance to shoot questions to experts and members of the jury board, which included
Richard Kastelein, CMO at Humaniq, Tawanda Kembo, technical advisor at Humaniq, Anish Mohammed, lead security architect at Lloyds Banking Group, Dominik Zynis, head of communications at WINGS Foundation and advisor at Wings.ai, and Jamie Burke, founder of Blockchain Angels and CEO at Outlier Ventures.
After thorough evaluation, they
have chosen six startups who pitched their ideas in front of the hundreds of guests at the stage of Blockshow Europe 2017 in Munich. The competition has never been so tight, as the list of finalists was comprised of passionate teams pushing forward truly innovative projects:
- SolarChange
- Status.im
- Shelf.Network
- Etherisc
- Blockchain First
- CoinDash