Risa presenting Team Triumph with the SwissBorg Award

Our Japan team’s Risa Suzuki was in Vietnam for two Blockchain themed events that we co-sponsored with several other big names in the Asian blockchain and fintech space. The Windsor Plaza Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City was the fabulous venue for the hackathon and the meetup.

For two exciting days, 130 engineers and programmers participated in the hackathon that hosted by two well-known companies, Framgia and Long Hash. Framgia is a Tokyo based company with more than 1000 engineers in Hanoi. Long Hash is working on multiple Blockchain based projects in media, big data, and incubation, including a card-shaped wallet device with high security that is accessed by fingerprints.

Takuya Umeda from Framgia, Risa Suzuki SwissBorg Japan PR/marketing community manager, Masahiro Yasu Founder/CEO of Alis

The hackers, all high-quality engineers adept at using the most advanced technology, were asked to create a ten-minute demo for a blockchain based app and present one of the six best theme ideas for an app. The contestants brainstormed ideas, created slides for presentations, and developed a demo application within a 48-hour time limit.

The performances were brilliant with most of the teams managing to finish a demo app within the 48-hour time limit. The top winner was Blarity, a charity blockchain. The first runner-up, Nairbmak a medical blockchain won the accounting firm, PWC’s, award. The SwissBorg award went to the second runner-up, Triumph, a Casino game blockchain.

Hackathon at Windsor Plaza Hotel

The biggest Japanese crowdfunding company, Campfire, and their engineers joined the hackathon as a team and created a platform with bitcoin as their token to participate in crowdfunding. Alis, the Japanese social media blockchain startup with a rewarding system and Infinity Blockchain Labs with the largest community, gave talks or entered their engineering team in the hackathon.

It was two days packed with interactions between enthusiasts and high-quality engineers using very advanced technology. For SwissBorg the two days in Vietnam proved to be fruitful because not only did we make new friends and solidified old ones, but we discovered a great project as a potential candidate to participate in our ICO competition. Like most of Asia, Vietnam is technologically advancing at meteoric speed, and we are happy to be in a position to tap into her wealth of intelligence and energy.