Ruud Seegers for ARK blog:

We started the day fresh, setting up the booth, providing the hackers with the necessary stickers and official ARK IoT t-shirts (as can be seen on the photos). We did not know what level of blockchain expertise we could expect, but after a short time the ARK booth was swarming with people asking questions about what ARK does and how ARK could help them building applications and services on the blockchain. In general, the hackers’ reaction to one of ARK’s goals of making blockchain development easier by providing a ready-to-use-blockchain was received with enthusiasm.

After the collection of swag, there were two teams interested in building their application on ARK’s technology. We were very proud to say they could start coding immediately, since ARK just released their ARK deployer. One team (the winner for the ARK sponsor competition) was implementing IPFS for a private medical blockchain where doctors could place the immutable, permanent IPFS links into a blockchain transaction.



More about their project can be read here: https://devpost.com/software/medicalblockchain

The second team was combining facial recognition with blockchain to open smartlocks and therefore creating a two factor authentication.



More about it can be read here: https://devpost.com/software/hack-cambridge-2018



We told them that if they would have any questions, they could always join the official Slack channel where the best community in crypto was keen to help them (they confirmed this after the hackathon).

Both teams mentioned they liked working with ARK tech and were eager to continue their projects after a well deserved rest. So make sure to give them a warm welcome when you see them around.