The anxiously awaited time is here! We are ready to announce the winners of the Devery Hackathon!

This year, we incorporated some learnings from our first hackathon. In our first hackathon, we organised a fairly simple set of rules with an open style of submission. The focus was on driving ideas and trying out the framework rather than completed products.

One of the key things we decided to change this round was the focus of the hackathon to one that was technically oriented. We decided to emphasise on the submission of code, and also towards building working code.

We had also made all our developers available to assist any individual or team, with our developers being online 24/7 in the chat ready to help when possible. As we have a distributed team, it was possible to do so effectively.

The resulting submissions this year were thus much better in terms of quality and application. In addition we received more submissions this year compared to last year. We would like to thank all the participants for taking the effort to design and build their submissions.

We also had some individuals and teams that chose not to submit their projects as they had not managed to complete their code. We would like to recognise their effort nonetheless.

The team also spent substantially longer this year to judge the submissions, with review on the idea, the code and demonstration (if any). There were multiple team members who provided their scores, and the scores were then compiled to produce the list of the winners.

The winners for the hackathon this year are:

Third Place — RFID Writer

This submission aimed to demonstrate a link from the digital to the physical, with the general outlook of enabling markings done on the blockchain to be implemented on physical tags. The team liked this entry as it attempted to demonstrate how a link to the physical element would look like.

Second Place — Save Sturgeon

SaveSturgeon was a general favourite amongst the team. This submission scored some big points for a real world solution to a real world problem. Sturgeons from the Caspian Sea are endangered due to over-fishing for their roes (caviar). Having a solution as proposed may help combat the incidence of illegal fishing. This submission came very close to winning the first place, missing out by only a few points.

First Place — Devery Wallet

The Devery Wallet idea was simple, with the submission losing scores in the ideas section. Instead of just being a wallet to hold tokens however, this could track ownership of products you own. What the team really liked was the polish of the submission and the overall code and it’s marketplace functionality, and it is this that edged the Devery Wallet just a few points higher than SaveSturgeon to take the first prize.

Honorable mentions

We’d like to give a shout out to the other 3 submissions. Looking at the submissions, it was obvious that there was much thought put into building a solution, with some taking the effort to detail and document the idea and the process.

We’d like to thank all the participants who participated in this hackathon. We have already reached out to the winners and will be sending over the prizes in the coming weeks.