Encode Algorand Club: Summary

We are delighted to announce the successful conclusion of our Encode Algorand Club. It’s been an amazing 10+ weeks! For those of you who aren’t aware, the Club concept is to take teams of talented students/developers/hackers and help them bridge the gap to becoming a startup.

We believe that when smart hackers finish hackathons, they have a lot of potential to keep building but are not ready for the commitment of going full-time. The club exists to get them to this next stage.

Algorand

After the success of Algorand as Gold partners in our winter hackathon (see here), we were delighted to have them as the platform teams scale on in the Club. Their technology, the brainchild of Turing-Award-winning cryptographer Silvio Micali, stands out at the forefront of the blockchain space, particularly their pure-proof-of stake protocol.

The Programme

Every week our teams would have a workshop, 1–1 session, and 24/7 technical support to assist their development. What was most important, however, was the camaraderie between the teams. Each team helped the other, provided encouragement, and made the atmosphere a constructive and supportive one. Each team also received a small grant to support their work.

We also had a great and lively Discord to keep everyone connect :)

During the Club, the workshop topics would vary from AMAs, technical deep-dives to lessons on fundraising and design. External speakers included Sean Lee, CEO of the Algorand Foundation, Shai Halevi from the Algorand Foundation, Walter and Ashish from Google talking about Google Cloud, Alberto from Purestake, and Chris, Jay, and Dan from Reach.

Video of the final presentations

The Teams (presentations are available by clicking the team name).

Algoduino (Ted Nivan) — from France, they created an infrastructure to easily build IoT applications on Algorand.

dAirbnb (Andrea Bracciali, Daniel Broby, Siham Lamssaoui, Cristian Lepore) — from the Universities of Stirling and Strathclyde, a decentralized application for the accommodation rental market.

Footium (Jordan Lord, Patrick Liu, James O’Leary)— built by Bristol graduates and an Oxford student, a football management game built on Algorand.

Isomorph (Daniel Hails) — built by an Imperial student, a 1–1 asset mapping between Algorand and Ethereum.

QVote (Edoardo Pona, Mateusz Bednarski, Oscar Hjelde, Rayhan Beebeejaun)— built by a team of KCL students, a quadratic voting platform for autonomous management in corporations.

Chikaara (Abhimanyu Shekhawat, Manank Patni, Mitrasish Mukherjee, Prashant Maurya) — built by a team of Indian students, a decentralized mapping on Algorand as an upgrade of FOAM.

Apodeixi (Sai Medury, Lalith Medury) — built by a pair of brothers from India; one a PhD from the University of Tennessee, the other an undergraduate, a digital credentials management system on Algorand.

Authentium (Phil Talbot, Jarnail Singh)— built by a team from Australia, an innovative delivery ecosystem for global food supply chains.

Eventers (Akshay Kant, Vivek Agarwal, Nishtha Kalra, Vikash Verma) — built by a team led by a Visa employee based out of Oxford, an open protocol ticket marketplace.

Thank yous

We are enormously grateful to the Algorand team, the amount of support that Jason Weathersby, Ryan Fox and Russ Fustino provided was incredible. They assisted the teams on a day by day basis, taking calls and answering questions. We are indebted to all of them and owe you each a large beverage of your choice!

Thank you also to Haichao, Shai, Fabrice and the rest of the Algorand Foundation Grant team for supporting us.

What is Encode Club

Encode is a university blockchain community helping find the best hackers to educate, support and back. For more information, see here.

Questions

Email anthony@encode.club