XDC Ecosystem together with Plugin that is Decentralized Oracle Network managed to conduct a very successful Hackathon Event in Dubai on 27th March 2022 that was hybrid and run a 14 hours zoom to serve the blockchain community around the world.
The Ultimate T2T Hybrid Hackathon March 2022 Dubai Event, Powered By PLI & XDC which had been organized at Hotel Hyatt Regency, Healthcare City, Dubai on 27th of March has been a huge success with a total of 50 Blockchain Developers participating online as well as onsite. The participants were given the opportunity to register as team or as an individual.
The aim for organizing such Hybrid Hackathon by PLUGIN, a part of XDC network, was to create unique opportunities for Blockchain Developers, across the globe, who intend to convert their Dreams into Reality. The participants came up with different innovative use cases which would play a major role in reducing the global warming and enhance the lives of commoners across the globe. The Hackathon was live streamed on Zoom meeting for continuous 14 hours.
Participants got an opportunity to listen and had live interaction with a number of well known Blockchain Penalists such as Vijaya Marisetty - Professor of Fintech and Financial Analytics, University of Twente and University of Hyderabad; Murthy Chitlur - Technologist, Author, DeFi, Fintech, New Street Technologies Pvt Ltd; Mr. Manohara K - Founder & CEO at Unmarshal; Vinay Krishna - Founder & CEO at LedgerFi IT Solutions; Dr. Baljeet Malhotra - Founder & CEO at TeejLab Inc along with Dr. Holger Bartel - CEO at DigiOptions DeFi. The panelists were hosted by Mr. Srinivas Mahankali - Chief Business Officer-Blockchain (APAC) at SecureKloud Technologies who made the session more lively with his crisp Blockchain bytes.
The hackathon was attended by XDC Ecosystem partners such as LedgerFi, Unmarshal, XDSea NFT, StorX Network and FlovTec. The participants and Ecosystem Partners were welcomed by Mr. Vinod Khurana - CEO, Suvik Group of Companies and Co-Founder, PLUGIN, a Secure, Scalable Decentralized Oracle Platform; who gave a welcome speech and shared insight on the importance of Blockchain in their daily life which includes improving healthcare, better banking transactions, smarter supply chains etc.
There were more than 30 use cases of different domains up for the participants to work upon. These included sectors such as Finance, DeFi, Insurance, HealthCare, NFT, Environment, Supply chain to name a few. Hackathon participants had a whole day full of fun, coding, and hacking, competing for a total prize of USD 10,000 worth of XDC tokens. As they say, Participation is the Key, in addition each of the participating developer being awarded PLI tokens worth USD 100 along with the Certificate of Participation and other goodies.
About Plugin : Plugin: Decentralized Oracle Network https://www.goplugin.co/ Plugin (PLI), a Secure, Scalable Decentralized Oracle Platform, provides cost-effective solutions to any smart contract, which runs on XDC Network. Pugin enables smart contract to connect with the real-time world and the data that it receives from the data feed partners, is trustable by maintaining a high degree of security. Off-chain computation takes care of receiving a feed from multiple providers and aggregates the same.
