The IOTA Foundation will be supporting a number of challenges at the hackathon by providing technical support to teams before, during and after the event. We’ve chosen these challenges due to their compatibility of the IOTA protocol to solve them. The tracks the IOTA Foundation is choosing to support are as follows:

Please Note: We have chosen to support these challenges given their suitability for the IOTA protocol. This does not indicate any endorsement from the affiliation companies/organisations.

CREATING A MOBILE VIRTUAL POWER PLANT

Vattenfall is looking to transition to a more sustainable energy system through the expansion of renewable production and climate-smart energy solutions for their customers. They have posed the Vehicle to Grid (V2G) challenge. They want to see Electric Vehicles used as mobile assets to provide electricity grid flexibility.

We believe that IOTA is in a unique position to support this challenge given the suitability of our technology and the prior work of Elaad NL & Enexis with their charging solutions.

BUILD THE UNIMAGINABLE

Nature 2.0 is challenging teams to build a digital commons using distributed ledgers & AI. They are looking for teams to build ownerless systems that provide a net benefit back to the communities they operate in. While a daunting task, these types of systems can fundamentally change how our future communities operate.

We believe that this challenge is one worth tackling. It proposes we build a future with autonomous agents: machines, humans and software, interacting to benefit of everyone. IOTA can offer a protocol for these machines to communicate and create value within.

PROTOCOL FOR REGISTERING

AND COMMUNICATING DIGITAL PERMISSIONS

The Ministry of Justice and Security in the Netherlands is challenging teams to build an open-source protocol for requesting and approving consent in a standardised and immutable manner. This would be a crucial building block for e-commerce, medical systems and many other uses.

Given IOTA’s unique properties among other distributed ledgers, we believe that the protocol would useful tool in architecting a solution for this challenge

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The IOTA Foundation excited to see the solutions that the hackers create during the event. We encourage interested individuals and teams to sign up now!

Registrations close on the 25th of February. Follow the link to sign up to the hackathon: here